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BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. Official summary: The heroes race to prevent Grand Admiral Thrawn's escape. Trivia The title seems to be a nod to Narnia’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardobe. Especially since both the Warlord and the Wardrobe make a connection between two worlds/galaxies. The Gift of Shadows is new. Majiks, as spelled in the subtitles, is a differently spelled form of magicks. The Witches conjure the Blade of Talzin out of ichor. This happened before in The Clone Wars 6x09 The Disappeared, Part II, in which Mother Talzin used the blade to fight Mace Windu with. There it also had green flames and it was resistant to lightsaber blades, but the hilt looked very different. It turns out that Caleb Dune, also known to us as Kanan Jarrus and Ezra’s old master, was also instructed by Huyang to build his lightsaber. Ezra wonders out loud what Huyang’s age is, which is something we know thanks to Star Wars: Timelines. The guide reveals that the droid was activated around 25.020 BBY. Which means he has been around since the very beginning of calculated history in Star Wars. Ezra builds a new lightsaber, his third one. The hilt resembles the second one a lot, but has notable differences. The most obvious of these is the new blade emitter, one that indeed resembles the one that Kanan’s lightsaber had, just as Huyang tells Ezra. He is also back to having a blue blade, like his first lightsaber had, rather than the green of the second lightsaber. Assumed but now confirmed: Sabine indeed lost her family to Moff Gideon’s purge of Mandalore. Anakin standing by Ahsoka when no one else did was especially true when she was on trial and suspected of the bombing of the Jedi Temple, as seen in The Clone Wars, and which led to her leaving the Jedi Order. When Ahsoka asks Sabine if she kept up with her training she says she tried, before correcting herself by saying “I do”. It seems somebody learned Yoda’s lesson about that there is not try. Trust in the Force was also what Lyra told young Jyn in Rogue One. Red stripes markings, on the TIE Fighter’s helmet could mean that this pilot is a Baron Of The Empire. But considering the state of the troopers of Thrawn, it could be also that he has allowed for such personifications. The End Credits erroneously list this as a TIE Defender, with its pilot performed by Casey Adams, who has been around as a stunt performer for many of the Star Wars series. Engine sputtering is the same sound effect used for the Millennium Falcon’s engines sputtering. While this may have been new for Ezra, it is not new for us viewers. The Chant of Resurrection that the Grand Mothers use to resurrect the death was seen before in The Clone Wars with old Daka using it to reanimate the dead in defense against General Grievous. One of the stormtroopers, the one that Ezra steals the armor from, is identified as LS-757. This is not the first time we have seen this stormtrooper, as he was also present in Rebels during the attack on Lothal in the final episodes of the series. While discussing themes of the various series and characters the term Ronin is often used. Now we all know that there is also an episode of Visions with that name, but it has also been seen before in canon with Sarco Plank being called a Melitto ronin in The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure. At long last, Morai appears. Baylan appears to have explored more of the planet and can be seen standing on the hands of a statue. This is the Father, with the Son appearing also as a statue next to him from the Mortis arc of The Clone Wars. It appears that the Daughter’s statue at the Father’s right side is destroyed. And talking about that Mortis arc, Baylan looks into the distance and looks at something that appears to look a lot like the Mortis Monastry… [amazon box="0744087341"]

BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. Official summary: Hera must answer to the New Republic while far, far away, a reunion takes place. Trivia The symbol on the Senate oversight committee building is the Galactic Great Seal, the emblem of the Galactic Republic's Senate. It appears in all three Prequel movies and in Prequel-era series, on the Chancellor's Podium in the Senate Rotunda, but also at the end of a staff given to the action figure of Supreme Chancellor Valorum. Aliens on the Senate oversight committee are: Sullustan, Mon Calamari, Ithorian, Ishi Tib and the unidentified species first seen in deleted scenes from The Last Jedi with the character Grayla Stindy. And a fair few of earlier seen characters return within the Senate oversight committee. We can see: Mon Mothma, Senator Xiono, Senator Mawood, First Officer Vic Hawkins and Lieutenant Beyta. Well one can never be too sure, but that Mon Calamari next to Mon Mothma is probably not Ackbar. While he is in white, the costume is different and also has a different rank badge. This is the rank badge for a general, which is an army rank, and Ackbar is an admiral, which is a navy rank. It would also not make sense for Ackbar to be there and away from Home One. They refer to the incident on Mandalore with Moff Gideon, which was seen in last episodes of season 3 of The Mandalorian. C-3PO returns, once again played by Anthony Daniels. He starts to say that he is C-3PO, but Mon Mothma cuts in by saying the 3PO part. This happened in Attack Of The Clones as well, with Anakin cutting the droid off and finishing the name. Xiono dismissing Threepio as a mere droid once again shows that droids are not being seen as actual being. This is something that echoes throughout a lot of the movies, series and other stories. It was brought to the forefront even more with L3-37 in Solo leading a short-lived droid rebellion for equal rights. Leia is mentioned to be the leader of the Defense Council. While this is newly added to the canon through this series (it was also mentioned in the first episode), there was such an organization in Legends as well. It was first mentioned in the Black Fleet Crisis novel trilogy. Anakin mentions of course movie villains like Dooku and General Grievous, but it is really nice that Ventress, who only originated in literature and animated series, to get such a nod as well. Anakin was considered to be a good master. It is nice to hear for once someone remembering Anakin in a positive light, for the man and hero he was, and not what he ultimately became. The mines are new and not a tactic we have really seen the Empire use before either. It makes total sense for the Inquisitors to have their own database on Jedi and all they know about them. Considering Thrawn’s high rank, it makes sense he always had access to such files and had copies on them onboard his Star Destroyer. As said in our previous guide, Thrawn already knew about Anakin being Ahsoka’s master. So him being surprised now is a mistake in continuity. It is mentioned that the Jedi are good at hiding due to practice. Thrawn is not wrong with this, even if he ignores that the Empire he served was the reason for the Jedi being hunted by Inquisitors after Order 66. Thrawn also has a more positive outlook on the Jedi’s abilities to hide, as the Grand Inquisitor was certain that Jedi eventually reveal themselves as they cannot help being who they are, rising up to help those in need. Sabine has told Ezra everything that has happened, and that we have seen before. Except for Zeb training recruits. Which is a new explanation to his cameo appearance in The Mandalorian - Chapter 21: The Pirate, where we saw him in a flight suit on Adelphi Base. Ezra mentions that Sabine has trained a little before, back when he was first learning. He refers to Rebels, 3x15 - Trials Of The Darksaber, where we see Sabine getting Darksaber fighting lessons from Kanan. Ahsoka contacting Sabine through the Force echoes when Luke did the same with reaching out to Leia in The Empire Strikes Back. Ezra tells one of the Noti to fire on the incoming bandits. The Noti uses a slingshot, the same kind of weapon Ezra used in the early episodes of Rebels. His however was an energy slingshot, so much more effective. Slingshots have been seen before Ezra used one also. We have seen the Ewoks use them, but also one of Hondo’s pirates in The Clone Wars, 5x05 - Tipping Points. This pirate threatens to fire on Anakin, who had just arrived in the camp. During the attack the Noti have formed a protective circle with their pods, with the bandits on their howlers circling around it. This is a classic Western movie image, and one of the few we had not yet seen before in a Star Wars movie or series despite that many of the recent series have been Western-inspired. The little droid flying out of the gunship is new, but resembles the IMG-099 Imperial Mark IV patrol droid that was added to A New Hope since the Special Editions. Holo map with projections of the forces brings to mind a similar map seen in Attack Of The Clones, with Dooku and the Geonosians tracking the battle outside. Even though that map was part of a table, and this is just a floating hologram. [amazon box="0744087341"]

BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. Official summary: The search for Grand Admiral Thrawn reaches beyond the limits of the galaxy. Trivia A staple of Star Wars returns when Huyang echoes the words seen at the start of most of the movies: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…. which is followed by the logo of the series, as the Star Wars logo would have been seen next. They all arrive at Peridea, and with it comes a bit of new interesting lore: it was the original home world of the Nightsisters before they rode the star whales and settled on Dathomir. And because of that we see many previously seen influences in the architecture return in this episode. The one we would like to point out are the screaming statues that they pass by as they travel to the surface. Statues like this were seen before like the one carved into Witches Horn, as seen in Jedi: Fallen Order. The three Great Mothers are identified in the End Credits as Aktropaw (the one saying about Sabine that she reeks of Jedi), Lakesis (who said Thrawn was coming) and Klothow (the one who welcomed them). They are named after Atropos, Lachesis and Clotho, the three Fates from Greek Mythology who were able to read and know the threads of fate and destiny. And this is not the first time that Filoni turned to this bit of Greek Mythology, as in ancient Greek the Fates are known as the Moirai, which inspired the name of Ahsoka’s feathered companion Morai. They are dressed in the same red clothing inspired by the unused concept art by Iain McCaig for The Phantom Menace, and are played by Jeryl Prescott Gallien (Swamp Thing and The Walking Dead), Jane Edwina Seymour (You and Star Trek: Picard) and Claudia Black (Farscape, Uncharted and Stargate SG-1). As they wait, Baylan and Shin talk and Baylan offers his view on how history repeats itself. And he is not wrong, as the Jedi Order fell more than once, just like the Republic, the Sith and the Empire did. And it is doomed to repeat yet again with the fall of the New Republic and the First Order rising up, only to fall as quickly again. So Baylan wanting to break that cycle, makes complete sense for someone to try and accomplish. And one does wonder how he intends to do so, what it was that the old stories spoke about that can allow for such a change. Carved into the stones around them we see circles representing the star map. These seem to be inspired by Atlantic Rock Art from the Bronze Age that are all over Europe. The ominous music playing as the Chimaera arrives is Thrawn’s Theme, with the organ fully heard when Thrawn walks among his troopers. Just like Ezra’s theme later in the episode, these are tracks originally heard in Rebels, composed by Kevin Kiner, who does the music of the entire series of Ahsoka as well. The Chimaera has been patched up, but not all the damage inflicted upon it by the purrgil in the Rebels finale has been fixed. The closed captions identifies the troopers as Night Troopers. This could just be a play on the terms Nightsisters and Nightbrothers, but there may be a double meaning to it. It could be that they are actually dead and reincarnated by Magick. A term mentioned by Thrawn and something that he says he has used before. It could be that we saw this before, with Marrok. The Night Troopers have their armor patched with gold by a Japanese technique called kintsugi. In this practice pottery is fused with pieces of gold. This was also what we saw Kylo Ren do to repair his helmet in The Rise Of Skywalker. The Night Troopers also wear red bindings that are reminiscent of the Witches, or are these bindings to keep themselves together? Also supporting the ‘Troopers are Dead’-theory is Captain Enoch, who in the Bible was described as someone “who walked the earth and then was no more, for God took him”. Which theorists explain as Enoch having entered Heaven without dying, making him someone who defied death. His golden mask is reminiscent of an ancient Roman cavalry helmet, but also of the funeral masks found in crypts at Mycenae, Greece. Enoch was played by Wes Chatham, who can be seen as Castor in the last two The Hunger Games movies. Last but not least for the theory: Thrawn mentions that his numbers have dwindled and they are loading cargo from the catacombs into the ship. Are these coffins of fallen troopers, waiting to be reanimated? Thrawn was previously voiced in Rebels by Lars Mikkelsen, the older brother to Mads who played Galen Erso in Rogue One. Now Lars plays the full live-action version of Thrawn as well. Thrawn’s uniform is no longer as pristine as it was during the days of the Empire, and eagle eyed viewers can even notice some fabric tears in it. Also seen in the hangar of the Chimaera are LAAT/le patrol gunships. Thrawn mentions Baylan not being the first Jedi who left the Order. He probably first thinks of Ahsoka, but there is also Dooku, and the others of The Lost Twenty as well that he no doubt knows about. Thrawn honors Sabine’s deal with Baylan and gives her a howler to ride out to try and find Ezra. Besides the obvious that we are once again seeing a wolf-like creature thanks to Filoni’s love for wolves, these howlers resemble the vornskrs from Legends. These creatures had their debut in Heir To The Empire, and most visual depictions are quite similar to what we see in the show. Especially the most recent of these depictions, as made by Chris Trevas for Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force come close. When Sabine rides out, and is watched by Thrawn, Elsbeth, Baylan and Shin, we see a lot of Zeffo markings on the wall behind them. There is an interesting quote among the unlockables in Jedi: Fallen Order that could be tied into this episode and the plan of Baylan. In the quote a Zeffo Sage says, after acknowledging that his people have grown corrupt and may face extinction: “I lead the remnants of my people into the Great Unknown, hoping that we finally find peace.”. Perhaps they made it as far as Peridea. And there is even more lore hidden here. When Baylan and Shin ride out we see the door fully and on the ledge we see upside-down ur-Kittât runes that spell out: “Raise Kujet ruler of all may his reign last for a…”. Raise is probably meant to be Praise. So they stand in the stronghold of someone named Kujet who was the ruler of Peridea in ancient times. And this is not the first time we heard of Kujet. Once again we turn to the game Jedi: Fallen Order, which introduced The Tomb Of Kujet as a location on Dathomir to visit. It also revealed that Kujet was a Zeffo Sage. Was it Kujet that led his people here? Or was it Kujet who led the people from Peridea back to our galaxy, only to die there? Bokken Jedi is a new term introduced in this episode, referring to any Padawans who were taken on and trained after the fall of the Jedi Order. Bokken was earlier used as a wooden bokken saber, used for lightsaber training. Ezra is now played by Eman Esfandi and Ezra spots some subtle callbacks to his Rebel’s appearances like the scars on his cheek that he has gotten in a fight with the Grand Inquisitor. And now he has a beard and longer hair he also really resembles his father Ephraim Bridger, as seen in Rebels. When Sabine finally reaches Ezra he says that he knew he could count on her and is not surprised that she managed to find him. Back in Rebels his message to her was that he was counting on her. And even Ahsoka at the beginning says Sabine was fated to make the choice of not destroying the orb so that she could find Ezra. Was this all something that the Force told Ezra as a vision, or something more deeper like him having seen this to happen in the World Between Worlds? Thrawn wants to know everything about Ahsoka, including who her master was. Which is ironic, given that Thrawn did spend time with Anakin in the novel Thrawn: Alliances and that Rebels seemed to have hinted at the fact that Thrawn realized that Darth Vader was once Anakin. In the same mentioned novel Thrawn was told about Ahsoka by Padmé, who did mention that Ahsoka is Anakin’s apprentice. [amazon box="B0785MPKB3"]

BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. Official summary: Ahsoka confronts her past, while Hera and her allies undertake a rescue mission. Trivia Ahsoka tells Anakin “I won’t fight you” to which he replies with that he has heard that before. And he did, during the duel with his son Luke in Return of the Jedi. The scanner that Hera holds is an EnhanceScan general-purpose scanner, which the Rebels on Hoth used in The Empire Strikes Back. It is nice to hear that Leia is covering for them, but also that she is using the title senator. After the Galactic Concordance, Leia returned to her role as senator, as seen in many of the follow up novels, most notable Bloodlines. We mentioned before that Jacen is Force sensitive due to him being the son of Kanan. Him being the one that notices the sound of lightsabers among the waves, is another clue to his Force sensitivity, that Huyang later confirms. When Hera starts to hear the lightsabers among the waves as well, the Force theme is playing. As stated, this battle is one of the earliest missions together of Anakin and Ahsoka, which can also be seen in some visual clues. The biggest of these being the Phase 1 Clone troopers with head fin, that were first seen in Attack of the Clones. In the background is an AT-TE, also seen in Attack of the Clones, but also featured prominently in The Clone Wars movie. Anakin is wearing his Jedi Commander armor from The Clone Wars and his hair is starting to grow longer from his Attack of the Clones Padawan cut. The novel Brotherhood made a point to mention the growing hairstyle of Anakin. And that’s Ariana Greenblatt as Young Ahsoka Tano. It is not her first time either that she was covered in paint for her character, as she was also painted green to be the young Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War. Here she is wearing the outfit to match the early seasons of The Clone Wars including the original green lightsaber While this is an unknown battle at this point, and due to the fog of war it is difficult to make out any planet features, we do see two Twi’leks talking to Anakin. So it would make sense that this is an unknown new battle as part of the Battle Of Ryloth, a longer campaign during the first year of the Clone Wars. This battle was partially seen in no less than five episodes of The Clone Wars. Next flashback, we are further into the war. In fact, those are Maul’s Mandalorians she is taking down during the Siege of Mandalore, from The Clone Wars season 7. Surrounding Ahsoka are her 501st troopers that she was given by Anakin in the same episodes. And that is live-action Rex, again voiced by Temuera Morrison, with the performance artist inside the costume being Ryan Ryusaki, who worked on The Book of Boba Fett as well. Anakin does not know this battle, and Ahsoka says they had parted ways by then. This is true from a certain point of view. By this time Ahsoka had left the Jedi Order, but as said they had met shortly before the Siege began so that Anakin could give some of his 501st troopers to Ahsoka. The Siege of Mandalore took place during Revenge of the Sith, with most of the intense fighting happening before Order 66, and with Anakin on Coruscant about to fall to the Dark Side. Anakin says “Back to the beginning” the moment he sees that Ahsoka has not learned her lesson. Now this is not an exact reference, but it does brings to mind the Tales of the Jedi episode in which Ahsoka had to repeatedly do a training exercise in which the clone troopers fired at her with stun blasts to perfect her ability to sense the intent of an enemy through the Force. Jensu and Lander, the pilots who survived last week’s episode, are the ones to pull Ahsoka from the water. Just like in Part 2, Ahsoka uses the Force to sense a Force Echo, this time that of Sabine holding the star map and her conversation with Baylan. And, as seen as she steps outside to speak to the purrgil, Ahsoka is now fully wearing white. Dave Filoni is a huge J.R.R. Tolkien fan, which is why Ahsoka followed the narrative footsteps of Gandalf the Grey into becoming the White in this episode. Anakin served as the Balrog, bringing the character close to death so that Ahsoka could be reborn into a better version of herself. The Balrog cloaks himself in shadow and flame, which is why the shadow warrior in the title refers to Anakin, who is seen multiple times to step out of the shadows. Carson is asking for identification, and while he never gets an answer, we do in the subtitles: this is Captain Girard, played by Eisa Davis. The Ishi Tib officer next to her is unnamed, but performed by Derek Diaz. Jacen “[they took them] far, far away”. Chosen on purpose to mimic the ‘A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Far Away’-line no doubt. [amazon box="B0C95D3F23"]

BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. Official summary: Hera risks her career to help her friends while Ahsoka and Sabine confront enemies. Trivia Let us begin this article about the title of the episode and the various meanings that it has. First it could refer to Baylan and the faith that he says he has lost a long time ago. This sounds like he left the Jedi Order before the Purge, and perhaps even during the Clone Wars or because of it. The latter making sense as both he and Shin are wearing armor pieces. Which the Jedi never did before the Clone Wars started and only early in the war.   Also it refers to Ahsoka who literally falls of the cliff, and the more poetic fall of Sabine siding with the bad guys. The opening titles helmet also foreshadows Sabine’s choice, with the helmet being in red, like the bad guys. And then there is Anakin, who also was a Fallen Jedi.  Fulcrum is mentioned yet again, and we explained that meaning before. However with that surprise ending of Anakin, it is worth to point out the origin of the term in-universe. It was the name of Anakin’s subspace frequency during the Clone Wars, long before Ahsoka and Rebel Alliance spies adopted it as a codename.  Used in the trailers, and a very obvious nod, is Ahsoka calling Thrawn the heir to the Empire. This was the title of the first novel in the Thrawn trilogy that Thrawn made his debut in.  Those are WESTAR-35 blaster pistol that Sabine is trying to load. The same kind that Bo-Katan uses.  On board the Home One we see a light-colored Mon Calamari, a Keteerian and a pilot in a green flight suit, which are rare to see these days with the focus on the traditional orange ones, or the newer blue uniforms.  Very difficult to spot: but there is a Kanan photograph on Hera’s dashboard in the Ghost.  It is always fun to try and understand what Chopper is saying, considering it is actual dialogue spoken by Dave Filoni. When Jacen asks Hera why he has to do what he was told, but Hera does not, you can clearly hear Chopper agreeing by saying “the kid has a point.”.   And once again we see Carson Teva, who is now more willing to rebel against the New Republic and join Hera, as he saw in the third season of The Mandalorian how inefficient the bureaucracy of the New Republic is becoming.  The other pilots have their names revealed in the End Credits:   Lieutenant Baysee, played by Michael C. Alexander.  Lieutenant Mowaat, the Rodian played by Dawn Dininger who often is a Rodian in the new series.  Lieutenant Jensu, played by Chau Naumova.  Lieutenant Lander, played by Brendan Wayne who is the grandson of famous actor John Wayne. He is also one of the actors that is actually in the armor of Din Djarin in The Mandalorian.  Later we see that Mowaat talks in Huttese, and is subtitled in the tradition that started with Greedo in 1977.  Not only is the flame underneath the Starmap globe green when it is being activated, like any kind of Magick from the Dathomir Witches is, it even reuses the same sound effect as heard during The Clone Wars and Rebels.  Back in Rebels (3x15 "Through Imperial Eyes") Thrawn had captured Kallus to find where the hidden rebel base was. Thrawn used a map of a sector, one that is not in the Imperial database but was represented in the art of an ancient people. The people of Peridea perhaps? Meaning Thrawn may have prior knowledge of wherever he and Ezra ended up.  Ahsoka is seen using Form 1, same as Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace. Her patiently waiting for an opening is typical of a samurai, but also seen in Rebels, with Obi-Wan’s final duel with Maul.  Marrok is killed he spews out green mist and his armor, but no body, falls to floor. Now there is a lot to unpack here. The most obvious is how Obi-Wan also just had his cloak fall to the floor when he was killed in A New Hope. But there is more. As seen throughout the Filoni series, green mist and vapor is seen when the Dathomir witches use their Magick. And with it they have enchanted Savage to become stronger, for Maul to heal, for Mother Talzin to return as a ghost and the dead to walk around to fight again (seen not only in The Clone Wars, but also in the first game of Cal Kestis, Jedi: Fallen Order). So Marrok probably was a Magick Spirit inhabiting a dead body, or a body kept alive through Magick. Also, this is not the first time that we see someone die with the green Magick leaving the body. The same happened with Savage in episode 5x16 “The Lawless” of The Clone Wars.  This all ties in with another wolf-connection that we held off in our previous episode guides on purpose. In Arthurian legend, Marrok is a knight who was turned into a werewolf by his wife, who had learned these skills from the witch Morgan Le Fay. Considering that names, with Morgan lending her name from Le Fay, are chosen on purpose, this may be another piece in the missing identity puzzle of Marrok.  And talking about Marrok, for some reason his helmet was also seen in blue, the good guy color in the opening titles. We wonder why and if there is not more to come yet about him.  When Ahsoka removes her cloak for the fight with Baylan, you see some runes of the map clearly. This one reads Occlusion, as in the Occlusion Zone that the Nihil claimed for their own in The High Republic.  During the duel Ahsoka raises her lightsaber, held by both hands, above her head in a similar manner as how Anakin did in Attack of the Clones.  When Ahsoka falls over cliff, Sabine utters a nice Nooo to fit in with the many Nooos we have had throughout the movies.  Baylan refers to Sabine’s parents that we have seen in Rebels. However since we had not seen them among the many Mandalorians seen since, it was vague where they are. And now we know that they died in the Night of a Thousand Tears.  So far we have yet to see Morai, but could it be her point of view from higher up in the trees when we see Huyang leave the ship at the end of the episode, unable to reach Sabine or Ahsoka?  Ahsoka has not falling down into the sea, but instead into the World Between Worlds from Rebels. This was hinted at before with subtle iconography being used. When Ezra enters the World Between Worlds he stepped into a circle with Loth-wolves walking into that circle. The same kind of circle was seen in this episode, but with purgill in the circles barrier.  Also, maybe Ahsoka’s hand getting burned is how they manage to also travel to the other galaxy, using the same trick as seen in Raiders Of The Lost Ark with Toht burning his hand with (in his case with a partial) bit of information that he needed.  [amazon box="B0C95D3F23"]

BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. Official summary: Hera tangles with New Republic politics while Ahsoka and Sabine Wren voyage to a distant planet. Trivia When we see Huyang with four arms holding lightsabers, it brings to mind General Grievous. Kee-ray, guy-kee, key-say, yo-kee, yah-tay and Zatochi are all new lightsaber training related terms and techniques. You can also spot some training remotes when Ahsoka picks out the helmet from the training supply cabinet. The helmet spots a new Jedi Order-like symbol on it. And with the helmet comes the famous lesson from A New Hope on how your eyes can deceive you. The training is done with a wooden bokken saber. The name for these sabers is new, but they have appeared once in both The Clone Wars and Rebels. In the New Republic Fleet you can spot: the new unidentified ship type debuting in this series, Sphyrna-class Hammerhead corvettes, CR90 corvettes (Rebel blockade runners), an EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate and of course the Home One. First Officer Vic Hawkinis, played by Nican Robinson, is the person escorting Hera to the Senate Committee. There we see also a new character that got named in the End Credits: Lt. Beyta, a Mon Calamari pilot played by Dawn Dinniger. Mon Mothma is of course played again by Genevieve O'Reilly, but this is the first time she plays Mothma around the time of Return of the Jedi or later, having only played her younger version during the Prequels and the early days of the Rebel Alliance. The other big cameo in the Senate Committee is that of Senator Xiono. This is Hamato Xiono, the senator of Hosnian Prime, who is the father of Kazuda from Resistance. There he was voiced by Tzi Ma, here Senator Xiono was played by Nelson Lee. Two of the other three Senators are named in End Credits: Senator Rodrigo, played by Jacqueline Antaramian, and Senator Mawood, played by Maurice Irvin. It is unknown of which planets or sectors they are the senators of. Completely unknown is the Gran Senator, who is unnamed, but one can assume he is the senator of Malastare. Mothma asked after Jacen, who is the son of Hera and Kanan as revealed in the Rebels epilogue. Later he appears, older since we are a few years later in the timeline, but still with the green hair. He wants to be a Jedi, considering he is the son of one, it is likely that he is Force-sensitive. He was played by Evan Whitten. Some previously unknowns got named in this episode. The name of the ship that the Sith attacked in the first episode is the Vesper. The shipyards seen in the previous episode are named the Santhe Shipyards, which makes this the shipyards of the Santhe Corporation, which produced the LAAT line of transports (the Republic gunships) with Rothana Heavy Engineering. TIE Factory Coronet-SFS-14 in Solo, seen during the speeder chase, was also a joint operation of Santhe with Sienar. Friends of Hera that died due to fighting Thrawn of course include Kanan, but also Gregor. Huyang speaks of historically being a few Mandalorians who became a Jedi. We only know of one so far, the first one and the inventor of the Darksaber, Tarre Vizsla. The cup wins this round, and we have all been there haven’t we? Be it with a cup or a remote that we are trying to call to us with a Force we do not have access to. They get attacked by Shin, Marrok and others using unidentified starfighters. Shin however wears a com-set with mike like the Jedi did in their Delta starfighters, or like the one seen in the Millennium Falcon turrets. Huyang guessed what we also guessed: the Eye Of Sion to be some sort of hyperspace ring. Marrok speaks for the first time, and while he was previously only listed as the Performance Artist, Paul Darnell is now fully listed to be Marrok. Glimpsed only as silhouettes in The Mandalorian Chapter 17: The Apostate, this episode had the big moment of reveal for the live-action purrgil. [amazon box="B0BHKW8HXM"]

BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. Official summary: Ahsoka and General Hera Syndulla travel to New Republic shipyards and make an unexpected discovery. Trivia The opening planet that Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati are on is Seatos, which is in the Denab System. While Seatos is new, the Denab System has been mentioned before in The Essential Atlas. There it was a reference to place the planet Denab, mentioned in the A New Hope NPR radio adaptation and the game Rebellion, on the map. Like with the ancient temple on Arcana from the previous episode, the designers seems to have tapped into the same inspirational spirit as the designers did for Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor. While different in origin, the look and feel of these places versus the meditation points that Cal Kestis uses, are similar. In fact, concept art of the temple on Arcana originally showed Zeffo markings from the first game. Later in the episode it was mentioned that “An ancient people from a different galaxy” are responsible for building the temple. There always have been dwarf galaxies to the main one where everything from Star Wars takes place in. In fact, the Rishi Maze from Attack Of The Clones is one of these dwarf galaxies. The Essential Atlas mentions that there are seven of them. They are named after the letters of the Aurebesh alphabet and include: Companion Aurek (the Rishi Maze) Companion Besh (where in Legends the Nagai and Tof came from in the classic Marvel Star Wars comics) Companion Cresh, Companion Dorn, Companion Esk, Companion Forn and Companion Grek are so far unknowns, but considering it is the furthest one, it would make sense if Companion Grek was the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy from Legends. We also like to point that an unmade story of The Clone Wars would have featured the Yuuzhan Vong and that Filoni likes to bring his original ideas back. Peridea is mentioned as a planet of myth told to Jedi Younglings. If the End Credits are an indication, the planet is very much real and the place where they find Thrawn. A Loth-cat popping up from the high grass is an image often seen in Rebels. Ahsoka sensing through the Force what has happened during the fight between Sabine and Shin is also very reminiscent of the Force Echoes from Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor. In facts this is also true for how Ahsoka managed to sense the right combination at the temple from the previous episode. Lothal always had a sea, as it was where the dome wreckage had to fall in the final episode of Rebels, this time we see it a lot more clearly from a new angle. The ship that Elsbeth flies in is a new and unidentified type. The New Republic Shipyard is on Corellia, well known to us but not seen in live-action since, or even before, Solo. Hera has flown the Phantom II to Corellia, and of course we see Chopper sitting in his usual spot. This is not Chopper’s first live-action appearance as he was also seen on Yavin Four in Rogue One. Myn Weaver is played by Peter Jacobson, who had a recurring role in the series House M.D., and while he is new, his droids are all recurring performance and voice artists from other Star Wars series. We have Shelby Young (voice of Leia and Kneesaa in Forces of Destiny & Captain Bragg in The Bad Batch) and Chris Bartlett (basically every protocol droid ever in live-action series) as C1-D1. Daniel Bohman, playing the other protocol droid, was a protocol droid before in The Mandalorian. Ignoring the Bantha in the room that Sabine never has shown Force sensitivity before, the fact that Sabine was trained by Ahsoka, and it failed, does explain Ahsoka refusing to train Grogu, as asked for by Din Djarin in The Mandalorian. The 2-1B droid removes a dressing not unlike we would have seen one do in The Empire Strikes Back. In a deleted scene we had one pulling such a dressing from Luke’s face. The hyperdrive core that Hera points out belonged to a SSD, or a Super Star Destroyer like the Executor. When she says this, the background shows the OI-CT walker that was also seen in Solo. Type of droids in the shipyard organization are: CCLs (completely new), IW-37s (pincer loader droid first seen in Revenge of The Sith) and HV-7s (originally from the RPG sourcebook Legacy Era Campaign Guide). Paul Darnell, who is the Performance Artist for Marrok, was earlier seen as the stunt double for Cobb Vanth and appeared as a Night Wind Assassin in The Book of Boba Fett. Sabine’s armor is the same color scheme as last seen in Rebel’s epilogue. The lines on the chest plate are more tighter/streamlined however. The LAAT/le patrol gunship return (animated in The Clone Wars and Rebels, with the live-action version seen already in The Mandalorian). Familiar species in this scene include a Gran worker and Sullustan New Republic officer. The scene of Sabine cutting her hair is an exact mirror of Kanan doing the same before facing his fate in Rebels. While Ahsoka is not wearing her white cloak outfit with staff, the rest of the scene of Sabine walking to the mural, touching it and then leaving with Ahsoka, is pretty much an exact live-action recreation of the scene seen in the epilogue of the last episode of Rebels. Which is a nice reverse of how Filoni recreated parts of Revenge of The Sith in animation for The Bad Batch. When the transport shuttle arrives above Seatos we see a huge ring in orbit above the planet. This is the earlier mentioned Eye of Sion and its design is like those hyperspace rings from the Prequels. In Attack Of The Clones we see that the Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor (or Jedi starfighter) had to use these to jump into hyperspace. It would make sense that to get to a distant galaxy, one would need something of a boost as well to get there. [amazon box="B0BHKW8HXM"]

BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted. Official summary: A valuable prisoner escapes New Republic custody; search for answers reunites two old friends. Trivia Added to the opening helmets for this series are a clone trooper, an HK-87 droid, Marrok and Huyang. Sabine and Chopper were seen previously in this title screen. For the first time we are getting an opening crawl with a series. Outside the Episode films, we only had opening texts with Solo. Unlike typical scrolls, the layout is different, and the color is red. Red coloring brings to mind the Maul episodes of The Clone Wars, when logo was also colored red. The crawl mentions “Evil Galactic Empire”, this is a callback to the opening crawl of A New Hope, where it was also mentioned as such. However this time it appears in bold letters. Another nod to A New Hope is how the New Republic ship enters in view like the Devastator did. The New Republic transport ship is of a new and as of yet unidentified class. The New Republic ship’s crew is seen wearing Return Of The Jedi brown uniforms with Captain Hayle sitting in the same kind of chair Ackbar sat in. Captain Hayle was played by Mark Rolston, who can also be heard as Senator Dagonet in Tales Of The Jedi. His First Officer was not named in the episode or subtitles, but the End Credits gave her name as Jensen Corbyt and was played by Shakira Barrera, who is new to Star Wars but known for Glow and Far Cry. The navigator droid is a cameo from a crewmember: The droid was voiced by Bonnie Wild, who worked on the sound production for The Last Jedi and The Mandalorian. The security detail contains a Mon Calamari named Jakris and they all wear the same blue as Matt Lanter’s character Lant Davan in The Mandalorian. The Sith are Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) and Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno). Dave Filoni’s love for wolves is seen in their names, as both Hati (Hati Hróðvitnisson) and Sköll are wolves in Norse mythology that are chasing the Moon and the Sun respectively. Ray Stevenson previous voiced Gar Saxon in The Clone Wars and Rebels. The shuttle that they use is a Eta-class shuttle, which was often seen in The Clone Wars, and making its live-action debut here. Shin Hati wears a Padawan braid, which was not part of a disguise for the opening infiltration, as she wears it during this and next episode. Aurebesh numbers show that Elsbeth is prisoner 620. Ahsoka has to fight off HK-87 droids, which she did before in The Mandalorian — Chapter 13: The Jedi, which was also the debut of Morgan Elsbeth. The Leader Droid was voiced by Helen Sadler who voiced quite a few characters before in games and other Star Wars media. She voiced Jyn Erso in Forces of Destiny and Battlefront, Rey in various LEGO productions, Havina Vonreg in the game Squadrons, Doctor Scalder in The Bad Batch and the Ishl Tib Guild Master in The Book Of Boba Fett. Also returning from The Clone Wars are Huyang and the shuttle that Ahsoka uses, which is for the first time identified as T-6 One-Nine-Seven-Four, 1974 is the birth year of Dave Filoni. Fulcrum is another returning term used by many Rebel spies, among them Ahsoka, Kallus and Cassian Andor. Aboard the Home One Ahsoka meets up with Hera, now played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who is married to Ewan McGregor. And while it was not clear in previous promotional material, she does have the white markings on her lekku like she had in animation, just more faint. But you can spot them in scenes when she is seen from the side or back, like in this scene. The briefing room from Return Of The Jedi returns There she shows Hera the star map she has found. We have seen star maps before in Knights Of The Old Republic, and such compass-like devices in the Sequels. The Mon Calamari comms officer was voiced by David W. Collins, who has worn many hats for Lucasfilm and a regular name that pops up in these episodes guides. While identified as Speaker in the subtitles, that is Ryder Azadi, the governor who lost his title due to the Empire taking over Lothal as seen in Rebels. After defeating the Empire he has regained his former position. Once again he is played by Clancy Brown who has become a veteran actor within Star Wars having also voiced Montross (Bounty Hunter), Savage Opress (The Clone Wars) and the Inquisitor from Tales of the Jedi. His other live-action role was Burg in The Mandalorian. He speaks of Commander Ezra, the title Ezra used during the last episodes of Rebels, season 4. Senator Jai Kell (played by Vinny Thomas) is maybe one of the more subtler references to Rebels. He was one of Ezra’s fellow Imperial cadets from the episode where he infiltrated the Imperial Academy and they were tested in the Well. Since then he made more cameo appearances in the series as a rebel, and by now he has grown up to become the senator of Lothal. When Sabine is speeding away from Lothal she uses a 614-AvA speeder bike, which may be the same speederbike that Ezra owned, but now with a new color scheme. She is tracked down by two E-wings. E-wings make their canon live-action debut, having been designed originally in the Expanded Universe in the third comic of the Dark Empire series. Captain Porter uses the call sign Spectre 2-1, originally in Rebels Spectre 1 was Kanan and Spectre 2 was Hera. Porter was played by Matt Law. The other pilot was named in the End Credits as Lieutenant Callahan, played by Michelle Weaver. On Sabine’s speeder helmet we see Aurebesh (reading BÆB, probably an unknown in-joke) and a Loth-cat. More Aurebesh is seen in the road sign, which is weirdly enough inverted, but reads Sector 7. Graffiti inside Sabine’s living space feature the Loth-wolf, a stormtrooper helmet with a no sign over them stylized as they appeared in Rebels, and a lot of Loth-cats. Also Sabine did keep Ezra’s helmet collection as various Imperial helmets are all over the place. Morgan Elsbeth is revealed as a witch from Dathomir, and the temple we saw Ahsoka getting the star map is a temple made by the Witches of Dathomir. While they need no introduction by this point, this is the first time we saw them establishing a stronghold outside of Dathomir. Arcana is the name of the world. The End Credits are stylized as a star map with worlds being connected by a traveling line. The words of the worlds are in a new script, but they are translatable. The worlds appear in order are: Arcana (new to the series), Ierne (new and unseen yet), _raa (partial only), Perlem(ia), Garel, Lothal (hence the Loth-wolf constellation near it), Mandalore, Agamar (classic world from Legends, but also seen in Rebels), Dathomir, Yavin, Corellia, Cato Neimodia, Duro, Pasaana, the Corellian Run, Coruscant, Seatos (with the purrgil constellation), Odyn (the half moon one - seems to be a new one), ?unna and the last one (where all lines lead to) is Peridea, which got a name drop in the next episode. Speculation, based on looking at the missing letters makes us think that ?unna is actually Junna. With a planet or moon named Odyn, probably after the Norse god Odin, it would make sense that ?unna would also be named after a mythological god, with Juno (and thus Junna) making the most sense. [amazon box="B0BHKW8HXM"]