{"id":49605,"date":"2016-10-10T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=49605"},"modified":"2019-04-19T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T16:17:21","slug":"3-big-questions-from-star-wars-rebels-season-3-episode-4-the-antillies-extraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/3-big-questions-from-star-wars-rebels-season-3-episode-4-the-antillies-extraction\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Big Questions from Star Wars Rebels Season 3, Episode 4 \u201cThe Antillies Extraction\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This article contains spoilers for Star Wars Rebels Season 3, Episode 4<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yet more characters from the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/starwars.asp?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\"><em>Star Wars<\/em> trilogy<\/a> join the Rebellion this week.<\/p>\n<p>Wedge Antillies is the big addition\u2014he\u2019ll become the only rebel other than Luke Skywalker to survive both Death Star battles\u2014but \u201cHobbie\u201d (skeptical at Hoth of two fighters\u2019 chances against a Star Destroyer) is along for the ride too, as is the ill-fated \u201cRake,\u201d this week\u2019s <em>Star Wars<\/em> redshirt.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E0M2RC5ENLI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Antilles Extraction\u201d let <em>Rebels<\/em> animators show off just how good they\u2019ve gotten at paying homage to the original trilogy\u2019s battle action in designing their own daring space dogfight sequences.<\/p>\n<p>It also delivered a great payoff from last season\u2019s Kallus and Zeb team-up, \u201cThe Honorable Ones.\u201d And, as usual, it left some intriguing questions unanswered:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Who is the new Fulcrum?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This episode revealed that \u201cFulcrum\u201d was not a code name reserved for Ahsoka Tano alone. I felt sad right along with Ezra when he learned that any number of covert rebel operatives use that call sign. But I quickly moved on to wonder whether the Fulcrum with whom the <em>Ghost<\/em> crew now works is a <em>Star Wars <\/em>character we already know.\u00a0 Who might some likely candidates be? I briefly considered Bail Organa, but he\u2019s already worked with our heroes openly\u2014why would he revert to secrecy now? Perhaps this current Fulcrum is another member of the Antilles family, either Senator Bail Antilles (<em>Star Wars:\u00a0The Phantom Menace<\/em>) or Captain Antilles, master of the <em>Tantive IV<\/em> (<em>Star Wars:\u00a0A New Hope<\/em>)? Either one, or some Antilles we haven\u2019t met yet, would have an obvious interest in helping relative (son?) Wedge get out of Skystrike Academy. Of course, Fulcrum might be a character we\u2019ve never seen before &#8211; or, perhaps, one like Grand Admiral Thrawn, who\u2019s only been part of the \u201cLegends\u201d (Expanded Universe) until now. We don\u2019t have much evidence to go on right now (especially considering Fulcrum\u2019s voice modulation), but it\u2019s exciting to speculate about the universe-building potential in revealing his (or her? or its?) identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Did Sabine actually kill Governor Pryce?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intellectually, I understand that, in a series entitled <em>Star Wars<\/em>, people are going to die. Intellectually, I understand that the \u201cgood guys\u201d sometimes kill the \u201cbad guys.\u201d All the same, Sabine\u2019s electrocution and apparent killing of Governor Pryce caught me off-guard (just as Ezra\u2019s dispatching of the Stormtroopers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2016\/09\/28\/the-3-biggest-questions-from-star-wars-rebels-season-3-premiere\/\">season 3 premiere, \u201cSteps into Shadow,\u201d<\/a> did). When I think about Sabine Wren, I still think of her primarily as a graffiti artist who merrily causes mayhem with spray paint and glorified glitter bombs. I tend to forget she\u2019s a skilled fighter who can do serious, even lethal, damage when the rebel cause requires it. She took serious charge of the situation in Skystrike Academy (anticipating Princess Leia\u2019s similar moves on the Death Star). I wonder if her visually darker look will stick, as a sign that, from now on, we\u2019ll see her taking more direct and more often deadly action. Are her days of \u201ctie-dyeing\u201d TIE fighters gone for good?<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>How much of Ezra\u2019s restlessness was the Dark Side\u2019s doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Kanan encouraged Ezra to, in effect, pray a Jedi version of the Serenity Prayer while Sabine was extracting Wedge, Hobbie and Rake (alas, poor Rake, we hardly knew thee), I couldn\u2019t help thinking of Yoda\u2019s rebuke of Luke in <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>: \u201cAdventure! Excitement! A Jedi craves not these things.\u201d Was Ezra motivated only by concern and affection for Sabine, or was his restlessness during her mission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2016\/10\/03\/3-big-questions-from-star-wars-rebels-season-3-episode-3-the-holocrons-of-fate\/\">more evidence of residual influence from his use of the Sith holocron<\/a>? Ezra submitted to Kanan this time &#8211; but he yet again seemed a lot like impatient and impulsive Anakin Skywalker as he did so, and we all know what happened to Anakin!<\/p>\n<p><em>What did you like most about \u201cThe Antilles Extraction,\u201d and what questions did it leave with you? Let\u2019s talk in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This article contains spoilers for Star Wars Rebels Season 3, Episode 4 Yet more characters from the original Star Wars trilogy join the Rebellion this week. Wedge Antillies is the big addition\u2014he\u2019ll become the only rebel other than Luke Skywalker to survive both Death Star battles\u2014but \u201cHobbie\u201d (skeptical at Hoth of two fighters\u2019 chances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,390,389,109],"tags":[3145,112,3857,814,4612,419,165,4602],"yst_prominent_words":[37077,37074,7436,8051,10289,37078,37076,6180,6383,37081,25708,6280,37079,8613,10171,37075,5780,5779,5781,37080],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64119,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49605\/revisions\/64119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49605"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}