Revisiting Star Wars Rebels: Season 4

Caitlin and Charlotte close out their series revisiting Star Wars Rebels with the final season! Join them for this last discussion where they talk about the season’s highs and lows, their favorite moments, and more. They revisit episodes and past discussions on the season, and discuss how their feelings on themes like sacrifice, duty, and motive have changed over the years since Season 4 first aired. We hope you’ve enjoyed revisiting Star Wars Rebels the past few months with us! Click here to download the episode directly.

Revisiting Star Wars Rebels: Season 2

Caitlin and Charlotte return to in their rewatch of Star Wars Rebels with the 22 episode season 2. First, we contextualize the era of season 2: Where were we when this aired? Has our opinion of this season changed? What were some reviews of season 2 like? Then, we talk about the themes of trust, identity, and collectivism. Finally, we talk through some episodes individually and their impact on the story overall. *Please note, this episode considers all Rebels episodes fair game for spoilers (season 4 is mentioned!). All this and more on this episode of Skytalkers! Click here to download the episode directly.

Revisiting Star Wars Rebels: Season 1

Caitlin and Charlotte are rewatching Star Wars Rebels, starting with season 1! We revisit the Ghost crew and analyze the season as a whole. In part 1, we contextualize this season and take us back to 2014 — fandom, new Disney acquisition, the nostalgia in the first episode, and more. In part 2, we discuss the key themes, some more obvious and some less than others, throughout season 1. Plus, we talk parallels with season 4 that blew our minds. In part 3, we talk about our favorite episodes of the season, highlights, and lowlights. All this and more on this episode of Skytalkers! Click here to download the episode directly.

Vanessa Marshall on The Bad Batch: Roundtable Interview

We got to attend a roundtable interview with Hera Syndulla herself, Vanessa Marshall! We and several other outlets talk to Vanessa about seeing young Hera in The Bad Batch, her perspectives on Hera, the metaphor of flying, what she learned from Cham and Gobi, the role of mother + daughter, and so much more. Thank you to Lucasfilm for making this happen and letting us be a part of it. 

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Outlets:
Dan from Coffee with Kenobi
David from Endor Express
James from Jedi News Network
Mark from Fantha Tracks
James from Star Wars News Net
Sandra & Teresa from Fangirls Going Rogue
Aaron from Star Wars Book Worms
and, of course, us, Charlotte & Caitlin from Skytalkers

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The Bad Batch: “Devil’s Deal” Discussion

Caitlin and Charlotte discuss the latest episode of The Bad Batch, season 1, “Devil’s Deal.” This episode gives us the origin story we didn’t know we needed, a small-scale resistance and political drama, and much more. There’s so much to discuss! All this and more on this episode on Skytalkers.

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Discussing Rebels’ “Twin Suns”

Caitlin and Charlotte deep dive into some specific aspects about Star Wars Rebels’ excellent episode “Twin Suns” — they discuss their initial impressions of the episode, fan reactions, and then compare it to Hitchcock’s masterpiece “North by Northwest” by exploring the concepts of moral relativism, mistaken identity, and the episode’s visual language. Then, they speculate about how we will view this episode after the upcoming Kenobi series.

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Further reading:
An incredible Twin Suns deep dive.

Hitchcock on the “cropduster” scene in North by Northwest.

Some links on moral relativism: 1, 2

Read the episode transcript after the jump.

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