SPOILER Rebels Season 3 Ep 9: An Inside Man

I liked the episode a fair bit. As said, the Kallus/Fulcrum thing was obvious, but still fun to see. And then Trawn had menace and malice in equal measure which was great.

If I had one complaint, it would be that while the TIE Defender was cool, I was like almost positive that they were going to do a Rogue One tie-in with the TIE Striker and I kinda wish that they did.

 

Great episode and (obviously) far better than the last two. That dude's death was really shocking.

 

I'm just really intrigued with that "mandalorian" sith painting in that grouping of holograms at which Thrawn was looking. If you notice, all of the other art pieces had specifically to do with Ezra or Hera, etc. I'm wondering what the connection is there, if any.

 

Very cool episode, quite a Fulcrum spoiler I didn't expect, Thrawn sure was a ruthless as this episode & books revealed.

 

1st ep I've enjoyed enough to not feel disappointed in seeing it for a little while.

 

Yeah- THIS was much more along the lines of what I wanted from 'Rebels'.

Great stuff.

It was about time for Thrawn's character to demonstrate some ruthlessness– that was "nice" to see. ...Really though.

The TIE-Defender concept caught me off guard. ...And if it's actually a concept forwarded by Thrawn, it (may) play a strong role in his downfall or separation from Palpatine's Empire. (From everything I remember, the Defender is an outrageously perfect starfighter, -ideal in ALL respects, --except for production time and expense.) Palps seems to be a big fan of quantity over quality— and I imagine Thrawn would be in hard opposition to that perspective.

I have more to say, but I've got a family Sunday to relish.

Later! ❤️

 

From what I am reading online some viewers are not realising Thrawn is a tactician not a brute force operator,he will deliver a blow when he feels it makes the most impact and not a moment before.

 

I think its the fact that there hasnt been the factor of thrawn's ability. you just dont let someone go to find out there weakness. I dont kno awhole lot about Thrawn but I dont think he would be a strong figure in Rebels. Like I said before to me I think hes plays the role like Julius Ceasar in spartacus.

 

I could kind of see it coming.

 

The only thing that was good about the episode is that it leads you into the next episode, hopefully. if the next episode doesnt somewhat continue from this one then it was a filler and the storyline for season 3 is off. I kno that they are having a 2 part storyarc but if it doesnt tie in then inside man doesnt factor in. I thought the secret plan was the death star.

 

They made it seem like Kallus was worried about being caught but lets not forget he is a ISB agent for a reason and he was portrayed as having a great deal of guile before he needed to start losing to the rebels for story reasons so it makes sense that he will be fine as soon as he frames Governor Pryce as the mole.

 

I think it wold be interesting to have Agent Kallus defect to the Rebels (officially) and have him eventually become Crix Madine. Not sure if Crix Madine has a Disney Canon backstory?

 

I enjoyed seeing the Rebels back in Lothal, as well as Kanan and Ezra pairing up again like in old times.

Agree, the death of the fellow was sad, but unfortunately as we go forward with the Season I have the bad feeling we will have this kind of losses more frequently.

Finding out Kallus = Fulcrum was something we were speculating for a while, but I had the impression Fulcrum was an identity taken by several individuals. (Lol and I was hoping one of those individuals was Cassian Andor, just for another Rebel cell.)

Good point. Yeah I have the impression Sabine will play an important part of the episodes to follow.

Yeah we know how old Palps rolls.

 

Kallus will need to watch himself, Thrawn's definitely on to him.

 

The article from eleven-thirtyeight:

http://eleven-thirtyeight.com/2016/12/rebels-revisited-the-turning-of-coats/

 

I would not be surprised if Thrawn already (or soon) knows who Sabine's mother is and he somehow will use her mother to set a trap for Sabine and the rest of the Rebels (who he knows will help Sabine).

 

Hey there- despite the poor quality images, is there anyone out there inclined to help me out with this second image... *attached* -it's one of the images Thrawn had on display, in this episode– at first I'd thought it was a group of "blurrg-riding" Twi'lek, and while it could easily be depicting Twi'lek riders, they're surely not blurrg, as they're drawn much more wolf-like than the flat-faced blurrg. Hmm? All of Thrawn's other images are quite easy to comprehend- but I find this one confusing. ...I've heard Filoni is a fan of wolves, but... (?)

As an admittedly HUGE stretch, I remember (at some recent point) reading something about the concept of Ahsoka & Rex riding some wolf-like creatures off into the sunset...somewhere(?)

Odds are I've just forgotten about an occurrence/happening in some other episode.
But can someone please set me straight here? I'm curious.