Star Wars Rebels Review: S01 E04 “Breaking Ranks”.
Disney has released the next episode of Star Wars Rebels: “Breaking Ranks” on their Disney XD app. Read our review after the jump…
Here’s a small excerpt from the review:
I know not everyone has been won over by the show, but I need to remind those doubters out there that the Clone Wars took at least a full season to really hit it’s stride and figure out where it’s strengths and weaknesses were. I feel Rebels is just starting to hit it’s stride and if that’s the case…then we are in for treat for the rest of the season! IMO, Rebels has been able to recover from the bumps in the road that EVERY new show/cartoon faces in it’s opening episodes. This is a great sign of things to come!
So does “Breaking Ranks” manage follow up the same way the amazing previous episode had hit all the marks that it needed to hit? SCROLL DOWN! TO FIND OUT!!!!
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I don’t like Young cadets being prepared to be stormtroppers.
First i thought probably were the rest of the clones, but when they took off their helmets i thought it’s a bad idea to show how to fight to Young children.
Unnecessary.
then you obviously dont know the story of Han rescuing Chewie…han Solo was an imperial cadet.and you obviously dont know the imagination of children, or remember being one..they love that shit
Is that story canon or legacy now?
Hunger Games, stormtrooper style!
It’s technically Legends (Legacy is a completely different series that is now classified as Legends material), but I don’t think they’d abandon it for the Canon. It’s a more compelling story for Han and Chewie than to just say “Han was always a smuggler and he ran into Chewie at one point”.
The Han Solo rescuing Chewie From the Spice mines of Kessel while he was in the Imperial Academy, leading Chewie to owe Han a life debt is a back story George Lucas created. I am sure they wont stray away from that. i can see them doing it much differently than the books, but the scenerio will probably stay in place, just not the story. I am sure we will eventually find out when/if they do a Han Solo movie or something.Episode 1 of Rebels kind of hints that this may even happen in this show….if not, it definately stole elements of the Han/Chewie Backstory i think…..just MY opinion.
I can know the story of Han (silly story by the way) and at the same time disagree with recruiting children, smartass. You obviously don’t know me, or my two children, or my imagination what is capable off. Or even you obviously don’t know me because i’m 37 and every day i look the children inside me and laugh with opinions like yours.
Bye sir, i have to play with my children.
Which planet are you from?
wow..weirdo. smoke Meth much? i HIGHLY DOUBT you know the story. please refresh everyones memory on this story (In understandable ENGLISH to please)…what happens? and why it is silly. because as far as i know. the reasons Chewie Owes Han Solo a life debt are not “silly”… you dont know wtf your talking about.
Jesus, kids. Not this shit again.
but YET…i BET anything that you had no problem with them training children to become Jedi…and i can bet the farm that your children probably have toy Lightsabers…..gtfo of here with that hypocritical BS lady.
Mr. Filloni already made it clear in a ‘Rebels Recon’ webisode that stormtroopers are not clonetroopers; the clones are too old for military service due to their advanced aging process.
Genetically altered Clones were created to serve one purpose: Sidious’ War.
“After the fall of the Galactic Republic and the formation of Emperor Palpatine’s New Order, the Republic Grand Army’s clone troopers were re-designated as stormtroopers. Throughout the early years of Palpatine’s reign, the Empire continued to utilize the Jango Fett template, but later commissioned the creation of new troopers from different genetic sources. Cloning remained essential to the Imperial Military, although the introduction of birth-born recruits into the ranks of the Stormtrooper Corps gradually reduced clone soldiers to a minority status”
14 years after clone wars it’s normal recruiting other people (kids or whatever…)because clones are too old…or whatever.
But if Mr. Filloni said that he has no idea about the story of stormtroopers.
I still can’t get over the art direction in this show. How horrendous looking. How horribly stupid and conical. The clone wars looks like avatar compared to this shit.
no doubt..if they were gonna Disneyfy it all up like this..i would rather they actually did illistrated animation rather than this garbage.its like they set computer animation back 20 years in this.. even my 8 year old son thinks it looks dumb. he was belly laughing at how bad the Wookies looked, and hasnt wanted to watch it since.I have watched it purely for the story..but he is completely uninterested.last time i told him it was on, he replied ” nah….that show is dumb”…he dislikes it soley on the fact that the animation is horrible.lol…shame
After the brilliant “Rise of the Old Masters,” Rebels is back to its immature, nonsensical, canon-wrecking havoc. Kid Stormtroopers?!? Really, what is this, Kamino?
Absolutely agree!
nah…there has always been an imperial Academy training children to serve the Empire..it is not a new concept or story
Right. A story that by the way follows feal life history. Google Hitler’s youth.
So what do you call all the military schools located thoughout the United States? You know, the bording schools where kids learn how to be in the military.
Silly Schools (SS)?
Rise of the Old Masters was brilliant? On what scale?
This show is more stupid with every new episode.
Did you watch it, or are you just angry at the concept of starting training and indoctrinating young (you know, like has happened plenty of times in the history of Earth)? I actually thought it was a solid episode. Not sure what “canon-wrecking” it did.
This series is pretty much another heartless yawnfest in the same vein as Clone Wars. All of the characters are about as interesting as a fly on my window sill. Sorry.
I mentioned it in the cantina thread for this episode. But you can see Ezra s lightsaber if you Google it the pic is from online costume store but can be seen in Star wars rebels source book
So we’ve got a confirmed picture of the villain’s “broad-saber” from EpVII and now Ezra’s rapier-saber. What’s next, a scimitar? gladius? scythe?
Hey! This is animated series – it´s cartoon! It´s ment to be for kids! If you want to enjoy cartoons, you have to find the kid inside you. And if canon/non canon BS bothers you with this show – ignore what Disney says what´s canon and what´s not and choose your own canon – to me, for example, the only canon were, are and will be the movies. And I enjoy more Clone Wars and Rebels, because this way I really don´t have problem with anything in it 🙂
No problems whatsoever with the story decision to show children being indoctrinated into the Imperial military. If anything, it just emphasizes how twisted and evil the regime is. Also, it reinforces the notion that the Imperial military is loosely inspired by the Nazis, who had their own “Hitler Youth” program.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007820
…I find it odd that the idea of the Imperials recruiting adolescents is causing such a stir here, and yet nobody seems to mind that the Jedi Order in its heyday was basically stealing babies and brainwashing them before they could even choose for themselves!
Agreed!!
But the Force was with them (force sensitive youth) and it was at the pinnacle of the galactic Democracy. These young “Force” users needed guidance or else they could be a serious threat to the SW Universe, using their power for their own ends or becoming disciples of rogue Bad Force users. They ultimately had a choice as the Jedi emphasized “choosing” the correct path. Though dogmatic in their approach, the Jedi were careful in the training (PT) and did not aggressively force them to do anything but to facilitate how to choose their own destiny. A huge difference in my opinion.Many Jedi flirted with the bad side and free to leave the order: Dooku, Anakin, etc.
@ DarthDisney:
Nah, I thought Jedi being trained from childhood on was bad as well, especially since Ben waited until Luke was a young man. Why did he wait so long?
The way the PT Jedi behaved, Ben should’ve raised Luke himself.
LOL why is everyone so mad about kids being cadets? Every army in the world has a version of kid cadets.
People bitching about a series then don’t f’ing watch and don’t f’ing post in the rebels articles!
Is this episode taking place in the MiiVerse? Those helmets look ridiculous.
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I like how they have incorporated the bad guy twirling moustache into the face of the helmets. Do they come with a mutley stormtrooper dog?
The Clones were trained when kids too, and no one bashed about it.
These are Natural born children unlike the Clones who were created and programed for the sole purpose of being soldiers and/or tools for aggression and defense. These “regular” children are more akin to us and should be much more relateable to audiences since they are nat genetically altered. This also shows the parallels to AOTC (in training of clones and training of Jedi kids). It also clearly alludes the process of historic indoctrination of youths into a political cause or national ideology. Ex. Hitler’s Youth etc.
I think that every society has a way of indoctrinating youths to a broader Social/political Program, family, tribe, nation, culture etc.. From the most primitive societies to the most modern and complex ones, teaching the youth to get with the program is universal theme throughout mankind’s history. In our society children are bombarded daily with symbols, language, values, beliefs, and religion that is in accordance to the views and expectations of that host society. Cartoons, video games, movies, and the newer forms of communicative media also serve and operate to disseminate certain “views” in youths in a given society. They teach us what is right and wrong, what we should aspire to be and may even be used to carry out a national goal or agenda (good or bad). In some cases, bigotry/racism, sexism, chauvinism (male or general), and violence are the underlying messages in these societies. This is not new.
And the budget of the series is much lower than that of The Clone Wars.
Xisor,Grand Admiral Thrawn,The Noghri,Rouge sqaudron,there was alot of good stuff,some crap too but still…the storys of what happened between the original trilogies has been told,it makes me sick how disney is milking this bloated cash cow…use this money and time and talent to tell new stories…not what happened between a new hope and empire for the 1000 time ok
If you actually watched the show….too. you would have noticed that no children were threatened and the only one to shoot at or use a weapon towards a child was the other cadet way past a point that Ezra and comp. Had gotten away. Some people seem way…way too touchy on this……all the ‘Anon’ people making comments….sometimes I just dont understand the way some silly people think…….ps…my mother and grand parents lived in Norway when they were invaded by Hitler and the Nazi’s and my mom as a child was directly effected by a Nazi officer as a small child that could have meant her life and still bears the scar. And BTW this women was not all oh wooo is me….theyre training kids….oh the sky is falling.
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I don’t really understand all this complaning about children being trained as soldiers. Even democratic states like the United States or European countries have this kind of military academies for children.