Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Rebels - S4E8 - "Crawler Commandeers"

1:59 - General Dodonna:  "Based upon data provided by Captain Syndulla, the TIE Defender Elite possesses speed, weapons, and shields superior to any fighter in our fleet."  There's some similarity between this and what he says about the Death Star during the briefing in A New Hope:  "An analysis of the plans provided by Princess Leia has demonstrated a weakness in the battle station" [1:40:01].

4:44 - Ezra:  "Hello there!"
Captain Seevor:  "Pirate scum!"

"Hello, there" is also Obi-Wan's greeting to General Grievous in Revenge of the Sith [57:30] and to R2-D2 in A New Hope [30:07], and insults involving scum also appear in The Phantom Menace (before the podrace, Sebulba tells Anakin in Huttese, "You won't walk away from this one, you slave scum" [57:20]), Revenge of the Sith (General Grievous calls Anakin "Jedi scum" [19:12]), The Empire Strikes Back (Admiral Piett remarks, "Bounty hunters!?  We don't need their scum." [1:05:52]), and Return of the Jedi (an Imperial officer says, "You rebel scum" [1:33:51]).

6:13 - Mining Guild HQ:  "Is this operator 94-34?"  The number 94 also appears in A New Hope; after making an agreement with Obi-Wan, Han tells him, "We'll leave as soon as you're ready.  Docking bay 94." [49:17].

12:46 - Ezra (upon finding Vizago):  "Vizago?  I don't believe it."  Luke also says, "I don't, I don't believe it" in The Empire Strikes Back, after Yoda uses the Force to get his X-wing out of the swamp [1:13:10].

14:14 - Vizago (posing as the captain of the crawler):  "This is the captain, uh, 93-94."  See above, 6:13.

14:25 - Vizago:  "Eh, we're having a maintenance issue and, uh, lost our security codes, uh, but everything is under control."  In Revenge of the Sith, a clone trooper tells Senator Organa, "Don't worry; the situation is under control" [1:24:35], and in A New Hope, Han makes the same claim twice, once to an Imperial officer ("Uh, everything's under control, situation normal" [1:15:18]) and once to Leia ("I had everything under control till you led us down here" [1:19:37]).

15:10 - Vizago (to a stormtrooper):  "I told you everything was under control."  See above, 14:25.

17:12 - Captain Seevor (to the Rebels):  "Patch me through to the Empire, or I will destroy this crawler, you pirate scum."  See above, 4:44.

17:55 - Kanan (to the comlink to Sabine):  "Ugh, I can't cut through [the refinery doors] either; they're magnetically sealed."  In A New Hope, Luke makes nearly the same comment about the egress in the trash compactor:  "It's magnetically sealed" [1:19:31].

21:02 - Sabine:  "We're receiving a transmission."  In The Phantom Menace, a Naboo crewman tells Captain Panaka nearly the same thing via comlink, "Receiving a message from home" [37:23], and in Revenge of the Sith, Captain Colton tells Senator Organa, "We're receiving a message from the Chancellor's office, sir" [1:31:44].