63: Droids in Distress, Fighter Flight, and Rise of the Old Masters (Rebels 03 - 05)

A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast

A More Civilized Age

Scifi, After Shows, Theclonewars, Sith, Tv & Film, Leisure, Starwars, Animation & Manga, Animation, Jedi

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Dedicated television watchers know that you can only learn so much from a show's pilot episode. Performances might not be dialed all the way in yet. The show's style of composition, blocking, editing, and other cinematic elements is still under construction. Hell, even the tone and attitude might be up in the air.

But by episode 5, all that wet cement has started to set into a more final shape. And it is exactly here, at episode 5 of Rebels, that we learn just how hard this show is going to go...

Show Notes

Hosted by Rob Zacny (@RobZacny)

Featuring Alicia Acampora (@ali_west), Austin Walker (@austin_walker), and Natalie Watson (@nataliewatson)

Produced by Ricardo Contreras (@a_cado_appears)

Music by Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal)

Cover art by Xeecee (@xeeceevevo)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Let us return once more to a more civilized age, a Star Wars podcast I'm Rob Zachary, joined
0:13.0	by Alia Campora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.
0:16.2	Today we have a trifecta of rapil's episodes that explore the relationships among the crew
0:21.1	of the ghost and advance Ezra's Jedi training to matriculation.
0:26.2	It begins.
0:27.2	He starts doing some Jedi training.
0:29.0	After some fall starts, but here's the thing of the new world we're in.
0:35.2	There's less through lines than there were in the old show.
0:39.2	This is three episodes.
0:41.2	There's stuff that's happened.
0:43.0	What we knew that this wasn't going to be an arc because we ploughed the season out
0:46.0	that way.
0:47.0	But there are, I want to say, there are also more through lines in other different ways.
0:53.4	Yes.
0:54.4	It's doing the serialized episodic thing a little more.
0:57.1	Exactly.
0:58.1	It is referencing other things that have already happened, even in a sort of innocuous
1:05.3	way, like a very casual way, which makes it feel even more like we're in a world even
1:12.2	though we're kind of doing disconnected things.
1:14.9	These characters still have experienced that thing and are now slightly forward in time.
1:19.2	With the exception of really big stuff in Clone Wars, no one ever talked about what they
1:25.8	did the previous episode.
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