The fury in her eyes when Ezra lands right in front of her is almost enough characterization to satisfy me for the entire episode, but I still want a bit more about how she feels about Lothal’s favored son returning to the fold in such dramatic fashion. In contrast, Pryce shows a lot more emotion and doesn’t have as much to do as Thrawn does. At first I thought he was standing out in front of it because he knew the pilots didn’t know what they were doing, but it sounds like he just had that much moxie. Several times he indicates that he can tell who’s flying just by their skill level, and that the ship itself is compensating for the pilots’ inexperience. I especially liked Thrawn’s utter calmness, even when faced with the TIE Defender itself. The presence of Thrawn and Pryce adds tension to the mission, which would have quickly gown downhill without them and becomes almost humorously disastrous with. The fields further outside the city seem to be doing better, but I imagine Ezra is worried about those too.
The previous episode, “The Occupation,” showed the environmental wreckage of Lothal, gray smoke piling up in front of a sickly orange sun. Questions remain: Is the wolf some Force-transformed version of or avatar of Ahsoka, as the fan theories claim? I don’t think so, but the wolf does seem to have a connection to both Kanan and Ezra, if the subtitles clarifying “Dume” out of “doom” are any indication. The loth-cats had my roommate and I laughing out loud, especially since there’s no suggestion that the stormtroopers have an interest in being nice to them - it’s just time for the loth-cats to take down some Imperials.Įzra naturally works well with animals, and it was very cool to see Lothal represented in this respect by both the roly-poly cats and the majestic wolf, which patiently endures its smaller friends. The actual core of the story starts when Sabine decides, pretty sensibly, that the easiest way to transport the physical data disks on the experimental TIE Defender is to steal the entire hyperdrive-equipped ship out of the yard just as Grand Admiral Thrawn and Governor Pryce arrive for a tour. In this case, that means it’s full of joy and wonderfully self-indulgent animals. From an opening in which exposition is smoothed out by the presence of a pack of loth-cats, “Flight of the Defender” barrels along with mostly satisfying contributions from Thrawn and Pryce and an ending that’s bound to leave a lot of questions. “Flight of the Defender” was a very mystical episode, adding some of the less definable aspects of the Force to a fun, high-energy adventure. This Star Wars Rebels review contains spoilers.
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