Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Rebels - S1E3 - "Fighter Flight"

0:30 - Ezra (to Chopper):  "Come back here, you rolling junk pile."  C-3PO similarly insults R2-D2 in A New Hope:  "Go that way.  You'll be malfunctioning within a day, you near-sighted scrap pile" [9:53].

5:03 - Zeb (to Ezra):  "So what's the plan, kid?"  Han has a similar line in A New Hope when he asks Luke, "What's your plan?" [1:11:56]

7:31 - Stormtrooper (to Zeb):  "Hands up!"  A stormtrooper also says, "Hands up!" to Han and Leia in Return of the Jedi [1:48:07].  In The Phantom Menace, a battle droid says, "Hands up!" to Jar Jar and Captain Tarpals [2:00:19], and in Revenge of the Sith, one says "Hands up, Jedi!" to Anakin [10:22].

9:37 - Zeb (after fruit splatters the cockpit of the TIE fighter he stole):  "Can't see a thing!"  Obi-Wan says the same thing in Revenge of the Sith, after the cockpit of his starfighter fogs over ("I can't see a thing" [6:11]), and Luke says the same thing in A New Hope about his stormtrooper disguise ("I can't see a thing in this helmet!" [1:13:17]) and in The Empire Strikes Back while entering Dagobah's atmosphere in his X-wing ("All the scopes are dead; I can't see a thing" [41:09]).

14:59 - Zeb (to Supply Master Lyste, who's suspicious about the stolen TIE fighter):  "That's not the TIE you're looking for."  This has the same structure as Obi-Wan's line "These aren't the droids you're looking for" in A New Hope [43:40].

15:48 - Mr. Sumar (to Ezra, as he's reaching down to the control panel to release the Imperial prisoners):  "It's too dangerous!"  In A New Hope, Obi-Wan gives this same warning to Luke as he rushes back to the farm [39:52].

17:58 - Ezra sticks a wrench into the barrel of the turret so that when it fires, the turret explodes, which is basically the same thing that Indiana Jones does with a rock and a turret on a tank in The Last Crusade [1:30:22].