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When we decided that season four would be the last season, it gave us an incredible amount of focus and purpose and intention with the story we were about to tell with Ezra and Sabine on this journey together to take up the mantle of leadership. Sabine’s pairing with Ezra, as almost this dual hero,  makes it better, makes it a little more unique. They really need each other in the end. And when you think about it in the very beginning, in the first episode, she is the one that gives him a chance, because she lands on that crate, she can take him out right there, and she doesn’t. It just became really clear that there was this kind of sibling relationship that was emerging between them that was really natural and kind of beautiful, and that they were both learning things together about what it meant to fight for something. And now he’s really counting on her.

Carrie Beck and Dave Filoni, on Ezra and Sabine, “Ghosts of Legend” Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Blu-ray

Zeb for me was always a family member. He came in he was introduced as a warrior but I saw him at the family member and he had a very specific place in this family. I saw him first as an antagonistic big brother to Ezra. that’s how that’s how a relationship began, but I feel like as the series evolved, his relationship with Ezra evolved into less of an antagonistic thing and more of a protractor and crewmate and almost a father figure in some sense too.

Steve Blum, on Zeb and Ezra, “Ghosts of Legend” Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Blu-ray

There was a big challenge with Ezra in the episode. The easy thing to do would be to have his kind of mocking and barbing of Sabine become something that’s, uh, you know, way overplayed in making fun of her. And when Taylor, we were performing this, you know, he did several versions, and I think between me and Tiya and the cast, we could sit there and kind of say, “Okay he’s trying to tease her, but he’s not trying to belittle her. He doesn’t want to be mean.” For Ezra it’s hard to understand, where it’s been difficult for him to learn to lightsaber fight and use the Force, how can Sabine learn this without even having the ability to use the Force? But you don’t even want to come across that Ezra is saying these things and mocking her basically because she’s a girl. “You can’t do this because you’re a girl.” That’s just not relevant here whatsoever. She’s easily as good a warrior as he is. This is just a warrior that needs to use a different tool. And that type of learning can apply to any scenario, whether it’s about fighting with weapons or learning some other skill.

Dave Filoni, Trials of the Darksaber audio commentary, on Ezra and Sabine