Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Rebels - S3E14 - "Warhead"

0:04 - This shot of pods coming out of the bottom of a Star Destroyer is similar to a shot of probe droids being launched from a Star Destroyer at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back:



2:49 - Zeb (annoyed by AP-5):  "I don't have to stay here and listen to this."  Put off by Han, Luke says nearly the same thing in A New Hope:  "We don't have to sit here and listen-" [49:01]

7:06 - Zeb (to Chopper, about the infiltrator droid):  "He doesn't like you."  Referring to Ponda Baba, Dr. Evazan also tells Luke this in A New Hope [46:34].

14:11 - Zeb (to AP-5, about the infiltrator droid):  "If you're right, then this droid could vaporize the entire base and us along with it."  One of Tarkin's comments to Vader about Obi-Wan in A New Hope has the same protasis:  "If you're right, he must not be allowed to escape" [1:16:56].

15:47 - Zeb (outlining his plan to AP-5):  "We let it go back to its base, but it blows before it can upload its data, maybe even take some more of these droids with it."  Lando makes a similar comment in an exchange with Admiral Ackbar in Return of the Jedi [1:43:53]:
Lando:  "Yes, I said, 'closer'!  Move as close as you can, and engage those Star Destroyers at point blank range!"
Ackbar:  "At that close range, we won't last long against those Star Destroyers."
Lando:  "We'll last longer than we will against that Death Star, and we might just take a few of them with us!"
19:35 - Zeb (starting to explain to Hera what happened):  "We, uh, we think we got it all under control."  Han makes the same claim (to Leia) in A New Hope:  "I had everything under control till you led us down here" [1:19:37].