Tag: star wars rebels

ezra’s seen enough holovids to know you HAVE TO make your enemy drink the dangerous possibly poisoned potion first. but if he’s REALLY smart he’s gotta make maul switch goblets before drinking!!

kanan’s spot on. just goes to show how well they know each other.

ezra’s willing to go to ridiculous lengths if it means he can protect his friends AND learn how to stop the sith. he doesn’t trust maul, but he knows he can count on the fact that maul wants HIM alive. as long as maul sees him as his best and only chance for an apprentice, and genuinely believes he can turn ezra to the dark side, ezra is “safe.” it’s no guarantee, but when the only other option is letting maul expose all of his friends to the wrath of the empire, it will have to be enough.

for kanan’s part, he doesn’t follow them because he doesn’t trust ezra to take care of himself and be cautious around maul. he follows ezra because maul’s would-be apprentice or not you just DO NOT face that guy without back up. every time they’ve dealt with maul before he put ezra in extremely dangerous situations and damn near killed all his friends. and bottom line is, maul defeated a very powerful jedi master. he took down one of mandalore’s finest warriors. if maul DOES decide ezra’s expendible, ezra probably doesn’t stand a chance against him alone.

i love how somewhere between sabine activating the darksaber and the second cap tristan took off his helmet like he had to make sure his eyes weren’t deceiving him and IS THAT REALLY THE DARKSABER??!

it’s an interesting touch that maul says the nightsisters were killed because they were “a threat to the EMPIRE,” considering that happened well before the empire came into being.

this is partially an appeal to ezra’s feelings (see the next line), but it’s also a nice reminder that maul knows more about the truth of how the empire came to be than just about anyone. it might be more accurate to say they were massacred because they were a threat to count dooku and darth sidious. but in the end, a threat to them and a threat to the empire is really the same thing, with different names.