SPOILER Rebels Season 3 Ep 13: "Warhead"

Having Thrawn making progress on the Rebel Base really made this episode a success in the end. If it did not end on that note this would have been a very weak episode.

 

I would say this was a fine episode of Rebels that had a few very important things in it. Agent Kallus is really pushing his luck helping the Rebels as Fulcrum. This implies to me that he is going to die later this season. AP-5 was pretty fun and it was nice that they were able to use McQuarrie's art for the Imperial droid. Zeb's plan for dealing with the infiltrator Recon droid also was a pleasant surprise considering he was constantly being mocked by AP-5 and Chopper for being all brawn and no brains. Finally, Thrawn's scene at the end was the most pivotal for the season as a whole as he finally made some progress on finding the Rebel Base. Initially I was hoping that Thrawn would discover it in this episode but I think it fits his character better for him to find the rebels this way through his own ability and ingenuity. Overall the Thrawn scene made it a worthwhile episode in my opinion.

 

It's likely that this episode may be categorized as a "filler episode": because no Jedi/lightsaber action.
Although the Zeb + AP5 + Chopper combination was supposed to be a recipe for comedy, I think at times it was too predictable.
The Recon droid reminded me scenes of Terminator. It was cool to see his transition from apparently-friendly droid to predator mode. Nice to see Chopper saving the day by freezing the droid's clock.

 

To me this very much had a filler episode feel.

The Mandalorian episodes cannot get here soon enough!

 

I'm surprised no one mentioned the horror movie vibes. The droid had echoes of body transformation horror and the bomb was a direct nod to "predator".

 

This was a cool episode, good plan by Zeb.

 

I'm liking Zeb more and more. He is becoming a valuable asset to the rebellion.

 

I liked this episode and I don't consider this filler because it is definitely a conversation piece episode, I blame the show writers for Zeb. He had great development from dumb muscle to Captain Orrelios former protector of the Lasan royal family. It makes sense that after all his loss when we meet him at the start of the show he wanted to live a simple life with out the responsibility of leading people or being serious. Once we got that story arc about his past we could except him as being more, but then they keep using him for comic relief so that regresses him. We are seeing a lot of new tech connected to Thrawn. I would like to see a episode of him connected to Krennic possibly explaining how they are both pushing Imperial science in weapon design and that common interest has made them allies, possibly sharing technology to their mutual benefit. Maybe Krennic gave him the design for the infiltrator droid and Thrawn gave Krennic a detachment of Death Troopers. Lastly we don't know how much was information was salvaged about the explosion from the infiltrator droid since it killed the technicians as well. It would have been a great opportunity for Kallus to blame the explosion on another build defect or possibly Govenor Pryce and leave the Rebels out of it completely. So many thoughts about this episode.

 

Not too bad!
Felt like a good ol' Saturday morning toon viewing...which (as I've previously mentioned) is the main objective for me with 'SW Rebels'. (i.e. - to feel seven or eight years old again, for twenty minutes.)

•Nice to see some touching up on Zeb, –though I still feel he's a superfluous character– I enjoyed the episode regardless.

•Caught the clear nods to 'Empire', 'Terminator' & 'Predator'.
–Appreciated.

•I also relished that the writers formed what could've been "filler" into some main story progression. –Well done.

•Ending-- "Kallus! Get outta there, buddy! ...Before it's too late!"

 

Didn't the mid season trailer give that away already.

 

I suppose. I'm not sure.

...But I "felt it" at the end of this particular episode, regardless.

 

My thoughts were that it was just ok. Not bad but not really good either. I too can't wait for the Mandalore episodes

 

Agreed the first preview clip of the Trials of the Darksaber is awesome.

 

Rebels is definitely ramping up to a good season finale!

 

Looking forward to this one!

Getting amped for season 4 now, i think it'll be the last one, leading into R1/ANH

 

OK, so mom and dad are out of town and leave big brother in charge of the kids. Some madcap hijinks ensue, but everything works out in the end . . . . . . . . . seeya next week.

EDIT: Just came across this and wasn't sure if it had been brought up in a thread before: Knobby white spider

 

I LOVE Zeb, and he working with chopper was great fun. It was a good episode for a kind of filler episode, and had a few gems in there as well. I enjoyed it.

 

If Filoni gets his way, it will go 7 seasons, and end near ROTJ.