The next set of rebels we visit is in the movie Rogue One. This takes place around the same year as the last season of Rebels, and immediately after the second season of Andor.
Before the title sequence, we see the start of the main character: Jyn Erso as a child, and when the Empire killed her mother and captured her father to work for them. Her dad, Galen Erso told her to run and sent word to Saw Guerra to help her out.
About 12 years later, Jyn is no longer with Saw, and we see her on an Imperial prison transport that is liberated by rebels. Cassian Andor’s squad, which includes a reprogrammed imperial droid, K-2SO. Season two of Andor shows his origins.
They take her to their base on Yavin 4, and although she uses a fake name when the Empire captures her, the rebels know who she is and what her father is doing.
Galen Erso is building something secret for the Empire, and the rebels want to find out what. They send Jyn and Andor to the planet Jedha to find evidence of where he is. We visited Jedha once before in Jedi Survivor when the Empire was just starting to take over, but now they have fully established themselves and are the leading authority on the planet.
They meet some locals: Chirrut Îmwe and Baze Malbus, a couple who one is “with the force” and the other is his strong backup in case the force won’t connect. They are a pair who are ABSOLUTELY in a relationship although there’s no direct statement in the movie.
After a firefight with the Empire, they’re found and captured by Saw’s crew and taken to him where Jyn finds a message from her father about the Death Star. She listens to it once, and then the Death Star shows up and destroys the city on Jedha.
Jyn, Andor, K2, and the small group that joined them escape and head to the planet the message was created. They find her dad right before a group of rebels fly in and bombard the facility, killing him in the destruction.
They escape back to Yavin 4 to warn everyone about the Death Star, and half the leadership either doesn’t believe it exists, or that they are powerless to stop it so they should give up.
Jyn’s father’s message said he built a fail safe to destroy the Death Star and it’s hidden in the plans. A small faction at the rebel base decided to join up to go steal the plans on the planet Scariff. Calling themselves Rogue One, they snuck on the planet aboard a stolen ship, and got in, creating a massive battle as a distraction, while others later joined in space. They eventually got the plans, but not before most of Rogue One squadron was killed.
The plans were transmitted to a nearby rebel ship, and escaped, while the Death Star itself showed up and blasted the facility, killing everyone there. Everyone dies in the end, and Darth Vader goes to pursue the escaping ship.
Characters
I want to take a moment to talk about some side characters in this movie who have had a role in the larger Star Wars universe.
Director Orson Krennic
He’s shown up briefly in other media. First we’ve seen him in the timeline was in The Bad Batch where a bunch of Imperial leaders meet to discuss various branches of the Empire’s plans. Then in Andor Season 2 he is trying to keep the discussion and idea of the Death Star a secret from anyone outside his private circle. Tarkin took over the Death Star when it was completed, and then he was killed when the Death Star fired on Scariff until Tarkin’s orders. He’s certainly one of the most fashionable Imperials with his cape.
Saw Guerrera
This is a rebel who is seen a lot during the early parts of Star Wars. First shown all the way back in the Clone Wars, he was fighting the Separatists to free his planet, while his people were being trained to fight by Obi-Wan and Anakin. His sister died during this rebellion, which seemed to break him.
We next saw him in Jedi Fallen Order where Cal meets him fighting on Kashyyk to rescue the Wookies.
In Jedi Survivor he is mentioned but not shown, where Cal says he’s been working fighting the Empire doing missions for Saw when his group broke up.
He appears in a few episodes of Rebels where he is shown to become more violent. When the Rebels crew was investigating the empty world of Geonosis, Saw was rescued in the tunnels of the planet where the rest of his team was killed. The sole survivor of the Geonosis massacre was interrogated by Saw and while he tried to explain what they were building, it didn’t translate, and Saw became more desperate to find out.
Another episode had him investigate it further, following Kyber crystal transportation the Empire was doing, he chose to abandon the scientists the Empire kidnapped to find out what they were doing.
In Andor, he is shown to be a rebel outcast, someone who fights the Empire, but whose methods are considered too extreme to be considered a reliable source. Also in season 2 it shows he likes to huff on engine fuel.
He dies in Rogue One by the Death Star. All of his conspiracies and hiding did turn out to be true, but it was almost for nothing if the Rogue Squadron didn’t escape with the knowledge.
The plans were taken however and they escaped to send it off in the next hit film Star Wars: IV A New Hope.
It’s Star Wars time once again! In this post we’ll be going over the tv show Rebels, which ran for four seasons in 2014-2018.
This was one of the first pieces of media aired after Disney bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise, and I’ll admit I didn’t really care about watching the show when it originally aired. You know how it is; I was 16 at the time and didn’t want to watch any “kid shows”.
The first time I watched this show was two or three years ago and while the first half of season one was more lighthearted and childish, I quickly ended up loving the series. It did a lot to expand the world of Star Wars.
The show introduced a lot of new planets and history, and it added a ton of new aliens and animals to the universe that made Star Wars feel more alive.
There were smaller animals like Loth-cats and the larger Loth-wolves, to the giant space traveling whales called purgill. One of the main characters in the show was also a never before seen alien.
The Characters
Ghost Crew
The main characters we follow in the show reside on a ship called The Ghost. They’re a small crew of rebels fighting against the Empire.
Ezra Bridger
A young boy who was born on the planet Lothal the day the Republic became the Empire. He was living alone for a few years in a radio tower because his parents were taken by the Empire.
Ezra’s introduction reminded me a lot like Aladdin, but he quickly became his own person, growing and learning how to stand up for himself and his friends, and learning how to become a Jedi.
Kanan Jarrus (Caleb Dume)
The first time we saw this character in the timeline was in the first episode of The Bad Batch. He was running away from the clones after his Jedi master was killed by them.
Years later Caleb changed his name to Kanan, and joined the Ghost Crew. When they met Ezra he was reluctant to train him, but they eventually became close allies and friends and Kanan sacrificed himself for his Ghost family.
Hera Syndulla
Captain of The Ghost and partner of Kanan. She was previously seen as a child in The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch fighting the separatists and later the growing Empire. She basically has never known a moment of peace since introduced. She did end up taking the role of the mom of the squad, but her most loyal friend is her droid Chopper.
Chopper (C1-10P)
I don’t believe we ever see it, but it’s explained sometime in the show that Hera found Chopper in the Clone Wars as a child. His Y-Wing ship crashed and she rescued him and fixed him up. To her, he is very loyal because of that. To enemies, he’s a menace, and to allies he’s mischief.
Garazeb “Zeb” Orrelios
The tall alien in the group. He’s one of the last of a species killed by the Empire. Roommates with Ezra and friend/prankster to Chopper, he’s the muscle of the group.
Sabine Wren
A young Mandalorian who went to the Imperial Academy and invented different equipment, but left once she learned what the equipment was being used for: as a weapon against her own people. She now focuses on art and fighting against the Empire, and lots of her artwork is seen throughout the show.
Imperial Characters/Antagonists
As this is a kid’s show, there are a lot of recurring characters in it and repeat villains. The following are some of the most memorable.
Agent Alexsandr Kallus
Remember the ISB from Andor and Jedi Survivor? Agent Kallus works for them, however we don’t really see any of the bureaucrats like the previous entries. Kallus is probably the main villain of season one and part of season two, before defecting and helping the rebels fight the Empire.
Grand Inquisitor
We briefly saw him in live action on the Obi-Wan Kenobi show. He’s the one in charge of all the other Inquisitors, and the main villain in season one. He fought Kanan in the finale, and lost. Instead of continuing to fight he decided to fall to his death warning them of what was coming (Darth Vader)
Maul
Back again from the Phantom Menace and The Clone Wars, Maul has pretty much lost everything and is hiding on a Sith planet. He is reintroduced as an old hermit who asks Ezra for help getting into the Sith temple, and quickly changes his demeanor after being discovered by Ahsoka and Kanan. During the battle at the temple, he blinds Kanan. He appears in different episodes afterwards, trying to convince Ezra to join him as his apprentice.
Grand Admiral Thrawn
After the Grand Inquisitor and Kallus, Thrawn is the main villain in the series. He’s an incredibly smart blue alien, and no other of his species have we seen. He dissects the culture of his enemies like artwork and history to study them and learn their military tactics, which makes him very valuable in the Empire’s intelligence team. He becomes focused on stopping the rebels before they grow too large, and the rebels only end up stopping him when they do something completely unexpected.
Favorite Episodes of Mine
Season One Episode 10: Path of the Jedi
Struggling with teaching Ezra, Kanan took him to a Jedi Temple hidden on Lothal. There isn’t much direct conflict in this episode, but it’s very character driven by having the Jedi master and apprentice learn how to work better with one another.
Season Two Episode 17: The Honorable Ones
This one I really love. The Ghost Crew investigates the planet Geonosis, which appears to have no life signs on it. Them investigating alerts the Empire, and after a brief fight Agent Kallus and Zeb get stuck in an escape pod and trapped on a frozen moon overnight. They put aside their differences until help arrives and Zeb goes home with his found family, and Kallus goes home to his empty room. It’s the starting point of Agent Kallus’ defection.
Season Three Episode 15: Trials of the Darksaber
Earlier in the series, Maul escaped the gang and left the Darksaber. It’s a lightsaber made by Mandalorians and used as an icon to symbolize leadership in the society. Sabine found it and this episode tracks her journey learning how to wield it. This is another character driven episode because the conflict is internal. Sabine doesn’t want the authority the blade signifies, because of the issues she has with her family. Eventually she opens up and accepts her past traumas instead of hiding them, and I think this episode has a lot of good character moments.
Season Four Episode 10: Jedi Night
RIP Kanan. This episode pretty much is the start of the finale of the series. Hera got captured by Thrawn and is being held in the capitol building in Lothal, and the Ghost Crew has to rescue her. Kanan is oddly calm throughout the episode, as if he knows what’s coming. They end up rescuing Hera and running to a fuel refinery and the Empire’s Governor shoots at them blowing up the fuel. Kanan sacrifices himself and force pushes them all away while holding the fuel’s explosion back. Just for one brief moment, he regains his eyesight and sees his family. This is a really good and sad episode.
Final thoughts
The show Rebels did a lot to expand the world of Star Wars. I have a lot of Star Wars merch on display in my apartment and surprisingly a good amount of it originates from the Rebels show. It is very kid friendly in the first season, but after the starting bumps it really found its place in the lore, and created something special.
Still wild that this was the show Disney produced after canceling The Clone Wars that originated on Cartoon Network, but they eventually finished that series too.
The next few posts will be all movies, and I want to try to finish up Return of the Jedi before the end of the year, so keep an eye out for our next topic: Rogue One.
Welcome back to another Star Wars television show. Today we’re talking about one of my personal favorite shows, Andor. It ran on Disney+ for two seasons in 2022 and 2025.
At the time of making my original timeline, season two had not been released yet, so in this post I’m only going to talk about season one. I do highly recommend watching the whole series though because it is very good television.
So without further ado, let’s get started fellow Andorians and Starwarsians.
Cassian Andor is a rebel, but he didn’t start out fighting for the rebellion against the Empire. As a young child, he was living on an isolated planet called Kenari.
At some point, the Empire invaded the planet to mine the resources out of it. A mining accident happened later, leaving all the children of the planet orphans when the Empire abandoned them.
Scrappers discovered the mining wreckage and Andor, and ended up adopting him and secretly removing any evidence he lived on the planet Kenari.
Cassian becomes anti-Imperial after his adopted father is killed, and at one point tries to find his lost sister. Two local cops confront him and try to get him to pay the “toll” for coming by, and things get heated and one of the cops is killed. In a panic, Cassian kills the other one and runs, and this is the initial plot point of the show.
Cassian Andor’s rebel path was pretty much set after that moment. Before we getinto that, I want to talk about most of the characters we see in the show. Many of them have their own stories whether it’s for or against the Empire.
They can be categorized in a few different boxes related to Andor: Friends and Family, Rebels, and Opposition.
Friends and Family
Maarva Andor
The adoptive mother of Cassian. Probably the reason for Cassian’s rebellious nature. Lives with Cassian on a mining planet called Ferrix and is very outspoken against the Empire.
Clem Andor
Killed before the plot of the show. Was trying to stop violence at a protest but was blamed by the Empire for starting it and hanged in town square.
B2EMO
The Andors’ friendly robot. A loyal droid to friends who speaks with a stutter, and often is nervous, but always follows through with helping his friends.
Bix Caleen
Cassian’s close friend and ex. Lives on Ferrix as a mechanic and is secretly in touch with a rebel radio contact who sometimes offers jobs against the Empire.
Brasso
Another close friend of Cassian. Scraps old ships on Ferrix and often volunteers to take care of Maarva when Cassian is away.
Rebels
Luthen Rael
Luthen secretly runs a communication service to supply funding and puts various rebel cells in many jobs against the Empire. He has the mindset that the goal is what matters and that there will be casualties in the war. His public persona is that of an antiques collector living in Corusant. This helps him with the cover of traveling a lot for antiquities when in reality he is traveling for a mission of some kind.
Kleya Marki
Luthen’s right hand. She runs the antique shop when Luthen is away, and also runs communication and coordination on different rebel jobs.
Mon Mothma
Probably the secondary protagonist in the show. Mon Mothma is a senator for the Empire who is very outspoken against corruption and secretly funds Luthen and other rebels. She is a mother and a wife to another senator who she married in an arranged marriage.
Her husband lives the fancy life as a partner to a rich Imperial senator while Mon stays with him just to keep up appearances.
Throughout the first season, she is struggling to come up with more money for the rebels because her current source of funds is running dry. She reached out to an old childhood friend who was a banker to help her find some money, and his solution was to introduce her and her daughter to a rich mob boss and his son who was thinking about bringing back the tradition of arranged marriage.
Opposition
Syril Karn
Syril is a hardcore Empire supporter and believes in the sanctity of the system. He initially was a local cop investigating the death of two fellow officers. His commander told him to ignore the murders. Saying they were corrupt and they probably were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Syril didn’t listen, however, and discovered it was Cassian Andor who killed them.
Syril set up a raid on Ferrix to try and capture Andor, while lying to the Empire that he has his superior’s support in order for them to send Stormtroopers. The raid was a failure, however, and Andor escaped while the Empire decided to remove all the local authorities and put themselves in charge. Syril was fired and forced to go live with his mother in Corusant.
Dedra Meero
Dedra is one of the Empire’s brightest rising stars in the ISB. As mentioned in a previous Star Wars post, the ISB is a government agency within the Empire who secretly monitors and assesses threats to the Empire. If a rebel group is forming they will step in and stop it.
Dedra is still somewhat new to the ISB but she is loyal to the Empire and seems to be willing to cut corners to find what she wants. Some of her coworkers aren’t happy with that because she is investigating planets the others are in charge of and has no interest in protocol.
She questions Syril over what happened on Ferrix and they eventually become a couple after Syril seeks her out.
Andor Season One Storylines
The show spent a few episodes each following a certain storyline for Andor’s rebellion awakening. Starting out as just a guy looking for himself to make extra money, to someone who would risk it all to stop the Empire and save who he cares about
Heist Storyline
The first job Andor took under Luthen was a heist on the planet Aldhani. Andor gave the group he joined for the heist a fake name under Luthen’s advice: Clem, the name of his adopted father.
The plan: Steal the quarterly payroll of the sector, which is over 80 million credits. Including Andor it was a team of 6 with another inside man at the Imperial base.
Soon on Aldhani is a giant meteor shower that occurs every three years. The locals go on a trek through the mountains to their sacred site to see the event, which happens to be where the Empire built their headquarters. This was easy for the heist team because the locals were escorted by troopers, so half the squad dressed as troopers while the rest went out to eliminate the communications to prevent backup being called in.
The heist went through after a few months of planning, but not without problems. Some Imperial troopers did fight back once they discovered what was happening, and while they did escape, their man inside was killed, and one of the rebel squad members was crushed by the money in the escape. He had an impact on Andor because he gave him a manifesto he wrote, and it eventually got through to Andor to fight for others instead of himself.
Before that, however, another man in the rebel squad suggested to Andor that they could both leave with the money and make their own way. Andor shoots him immediately and leaves with the money he was promised for doing the heist. If he could just go and lie to anyone, there’s no way Andor could trust him.
He goes back home and tries to convince his mom to go away together with his money, but she decides to stay on Ferrix.
Prison storyline
This one is probably my favorite arc of season one.
After leaving Ferrix, Andor went to live the private life on a vacation planet using the alias Keef Girgo. He was walking around the beach when some people getting chased by stormtroopers ran past him. After looking around him another trooper stopped him and arrested him for looking suspicious. Andor claimed he was just a tourist but he was arrested and sentenced to six years in jail on a planet called Narkina 5.
The jail was one of many built into the ocean going down multiple levels. When Andor first arrived, he was introduced to the rioting deterrent: an electric floor. If it was set up to the highest setting it could fry everyone standing on it unprotected.
His cellmates were already working, as it was a labor prison. As he learned what to do, each table was responsible for hitting a quota, and the lowest performing table is fried. The lowest performing floor as a whole is also fried so the floor lead, fellow prisoner Kino Loy, is responsible for making sure all the other prisoners fall in line.
Andor was almost immediately checking his surroundings and trying to find a way to escape, and Kino was discouraging it because he was close to the end of his sentence. During all this they were trying to finish all the work their sentence required.
One day they found out that the Empire killed an entire floor of prisoners. The reason? A prisoner who just finished his sentence was relocated and sent to another floor to do more work, meaning they were never planning on releasing anyone. The Empire is planning on working them until they die. And one person on Andor’s floor did, which empowered Kino and the floor decided that they were going to attempt to escape or die and no longer work.
During the introduction of the next prisoner onto the floor, they grabbed the guard and Andor flooded the bathroom. The guards in the other room activated the electric floor and it shorted out the power, allowing the prisoners to escape the work room and head to the warden’s office. They freed all the prisoners and opened the doors to let everyone out, but Kino froze because he couldn’t swim and the prison was in the middle of the ocean. Andor was pushed out by all the running prisoners and that’s the end of the prison arc.
Sidenote: it’s later revealed that the prisoners were building pieces of a large space station.
Revolution on Ferrix storyline
The final plot point in season one is where the citizens of Ferrix fight back against the Empire.
While Cassian Andor was in prison under the name Keef Girgo, the ISB was in search of him to question him about the recent rebel activity. Andor’s mother, Maarva was also dying.
The Empire has removed all the local authorities and taken over, and captured Bix while she was attempting to reach her rebel contacts.
Bix was held under interrogation and tortured for information. Not physically, but an Imperial scientist found audio from dying alien children who they found could work as torture to break their minds.
Luthen also spoke to his team about eliminating Andor due to being a liability and for what he knows, so everyone was coming to Ferrix, Andor included for his mother’s funeral ceremony which was a parade to the town center.
The people of Ferrix had enough of the Empire at this point and fought through the barricades. Andor used this as a distraction to get Bix back, and they all escaped to the shipyards where Andor met Luthen again, and decided to finally join the rebel cause and work for Luthen.
This concludes season one of Andor.
Final thoughts
I think this is currently one of the best Star Wars shows. To talk about the rise and fight of fascism is absolutely important these days. As I said previously, I will not be talking about season two during this marathon, but I highly encourage everyone to watch the whole show.
Tune in next time to see a group of rebels instead of focusing on one, in Star Wars: Rebels.
In this week’s episode we talk about the Obi-Wan Kenobi series which aired in 2022.
This storyline takes place just a year after the Solo film, and has absolutely nothing to do with Han Solo.
Instead, we focus on the character of Obi-Wan and his life after Revenge of the Sith. The show takes place over six episodes, which in reality seem to be cut up parts of a full length movie. I feel like if they got rid of a few scenes this could easily be a 2.5 hour movie instead because the episodes are not cut up by stories, but rather one large cut up story.
The Plot
We find Obi-Wan living in Tatooine in a meat packing factory. Keeping his head down and avoiding any kind of trouble.
He really does hide from conflict because when Inquisitors (click here for some history) come to visit hunting Jedi, he leaves behind the Jedi who is hiding from them.
Why is he hiding instead of fighting? He’s got Luke to protect!
Obi-Wan took Luke to Tatooine to be raised by his aunt and uncle and he secretly watches over him to keep him safe.
Luke’s Uncle Owen doesn’t want Kenobi near him, thinking he’s going to draw in danger, while Kenobi thinks he’s keeping him from danger.
Meanwhile…
Luke’s twin sister, Leia, is living in royalty thanks to her adopted family the Organa’s. She’s getting ready for a ceremony and decides to hide away during the boring parts. It looks like she has a bit of a rebellious personality.
She plays in the forest where some bounty hunters are waiting and they kidnap her and take her off the planet.
Bail Organa reaches out to Kenobi asking for his help in finding her, and he heads to a planet called Daiyu, full of neon lights and underground crime.
He finds Leia eventually, and reasonably she doesn’t trust him at first because would you trust a random person saying that they know your family and will take you home?
The two find a way off planet after meeting a smuggling gang, but find out that Leia was kidnapped so an inquisitor, the Third Sister, could get Obi-Wan out of hiding and take him down.
They escaped on a ship and arrived at a farming planet, where they needed to find a group called the Hidden Path. It is an underground organization that is full of Jedi and Jedi supporters who are hiding from the empire.
Darth Vader finds out that Kenobi is hiding among them and goes to the planet himself to find him. Kenobi has some ptsd after fighting with Vader in Revenge of the Sith, but after a brief encounter he escapes but Leia is captured again by the inquisitors.
Leia is taken to Fortress Inquisitorious and Kenobi has to sneak in to get her out.
Just as a reminder: Cal Kestis snuck into the fortress just 5 years earlier, and both of these jedi snuck in by swimming underneath and going in through a tunnel. You’d think after the first time they’d beef up the security.
Kenobi was able to find her before being tortured, and snuck her out using the “classic” method of hiding her in a trench coat. Seems to work.
They eventually escape with the Third Sister being blamed for it, and Vader strips her of any power with the inquisitors.
Vader goes after Kenobi while the Third Sister goes back to Tatooine to find out why Kenobi was hiding there.
Vader and Kenobi have a final duel against each other where Kenobi learns to remove his grief over losing his friend Anakin.
The Third Sister, meanwhile, has located Luke Skywalker, and his aunt and uncle have both fortified their farm to protect him.
The Third Sister gives up on the pursuit because she sees a helpless Luke who reminds her of herself when Anakin went to kill all the Jedi.
Obi Wan returns to Tatooine after the duel with Vader, and he and Luke’s adopted family reconciles with each other. The end.
Thoughts and opinions on the show
This could’ve easily been a movie instead of a six episode series.
Kenobi didn’t really do much in the show besides reacting to events he’s in, it feels like he’s just being pulled along a story instead of making his own actions. For a show with your own name in the title, I think you should be the one making most of the decisions.
Obi-Wan Kenobi was more of a secondary character in parts of this.
I did enjoy the parts with Kenobi and Vader. He clearly had ptsd from order 66, but I do think they could’ve done more on it.
Maybe we’ll see more of Kenobi later on, but that’s the end of his show for now.
Stay tuned for next time when we go over our next video game!
Hello there and welcome to another installment of the Star Wars timeline marathon. This time we’re talking about the three season television show “The Bad Batch”, which ran from 2021 to 2024.
Originally introduced in the final season of The Clone Wars, they are a crew of “defective” clones, hence the name. They aren’t built like the standard clones but they each have unique enhancements and skills that make them differ from others. The crew is Hunter as the leader, who has enhanced tracking, Tech as the tech guy, Wrecker as the muscle, Crosshair as the sniper, and Echo who was added at the end of Clone Wars as he was turned into a cyborg by the Separatists.
The show takes place soon after Revenge of the Sith and the extermination of Jedi from Order 66. In fact, the beginning scene is the crew of the Bad Batch and their perspective when it went down.
They didn’t receive the orders to kill all Jedi like the other clones, and were very surprised and confused when the clones turned after working together with the Jedi seconds before.
They didn’t participate. The Jedi master was killed, but Hunter chased after her padawan and secretly let him go. Crosshair was frustrated that they weren’t following orders.
After Order 66, the clones were ordered to return to their home planet Kamino. There they learned more about the start of the Empire, and started to see what the end of the war meant.
Enter Omega
Omega is a unique clone that takes an interest in the Bad Batch. She is also a direct unedited female clone of the original Jango Fett just like Boba Fett. She has also noticed that the place has changed since the Empire took over.
She tries to let the Bad Batch know, and when they were tasked with hunting insurgents against the Empire, they discovered that it was just civilians they were ordered to kill. Hunter refused to do it, and when they returned Crosshair reported them. This eventually makes the crew minus Crosshair to run to escape the Empire with Omega.
Most of the rest of the season has the crew trying to find their place in a post-Clone Wars world, and not get caught by the Empire since they now basically adopted Omega. The Empire is wanting to capture her for some secret cloning project the Emperor wants. I won’t spoil the rest of the series, but a majority of the episodes are its own story of them trying to survive, with a long arcing plot centered on Omega.
Favorite episodes –
Season 1
Kamino Lost: S1 E16
This is the season finale of the first episode, where the clones start to learn what the Empire has in mind for them in a post-Clone Wars universe.
This is part 2 of a 2 part storyline, in which the Empire’s Vice Admiral Rampart has just ordered his ships to fire on and destroy the cloning facilities and entire city of Kamino.
The Bad Batch and Crosshair were still in the city when the Empire opened fire, so they had to find their way out and back to their ship before they drown.
I really like this episode because it focuses a lot on what the season was building up towards. Since Crosshair and the gang split, there was a build up of confrontation between them that culminated in this episode. Crosshair admits in this episode that he stayed with the Empire because he thinks following orders, no matter what they are, will help him earn a place in the Empire and feel important. Wrecker tells him that they’d always welcome him if he decided to leave the Empire and join them.
By the end of the episode, The Bad Batch escapes on their ship, and Crosshair is left in the wreckage waiting for the Empire to find him.
Season 2
The Outpost: S2 E12
A Crosshair-focused episode. He is assigned to join a Lieutenant Nolan who hates clones to visit an icy planet to find and stop insurgents from stealing cargo their base is holding.
A clone named Mayday is holding the fort with just a couple other clones who survived the recent ambushes. Nolan reprimands him and takes charge of the base, ordering them to guard the mysterious cargo.
Crosshair and Mayday work together to repair parts of the equipment they have with the gear they can salvage. The Empire has not delivered any equipment Mayday requested.
The base got attacked and cargo was stolen. Crosshair and Mayday were ordered to go recover it. They find the base of the insurgents and discover that the cargo is new equipment and armor that Mayday could have used if the Empire cared. They get caught in an avalanche and Mayday is injured. Crosshair drags him back to base and begs for a medic to save Mayday. Nolan refuses because “clones are expendable” and they didn’t come back with the cargo.
Nolan enrages Crosshair, and he shoots Nolan before passing out due to his injuries. He wakes up in a cell in an unknown location.
I really like this episode because it humanizes a really serious character and shows the start of growth he will have in the series.
Season 3
Juggernaut: S3 E12
The final episode I will talk about in depth as a favorite of the series is Juggernaut.
A bit of background for this episode: in season two, Vice Admiral Rampart was condemned to prison because the public found out about the destruction of Kamino after saying it was a freak storm. At the end of season two, Omega was captured by the Empire and held in a secret location where a scientist was running tests on clones for the Emperor. A lot of season 3 is about The Bad Batch trying to find that secret location.
Juggernaut is a fun episode because The Bad Batch has to reluctantly break out Rampart from prison because they think he knows how to get to where Omega is being held. It’s a very action packed episode where they steal a tank and drive it into the prison as they’re escaping.
Meanwhile, Omega finally discovers what they have been testing: they have been trying to recreate clones with high midi-chlorians which are essential to using the force. Omega is a clone with the highest M-count they’ve seen. She also discovers that the lead scientist has force sensitive children being tested on in a secured vault.
I do encourage people to watch this show. The characters are very fun and the episodes are a mix of fun action and drama in a changing political landscape that is approaching fascism in the Empire. It was hard coming up with a single episode to list with each season because there were a lot of great ones.
That’s all for this Star Wars post, but tune in next time when I talk about the first video game on the list.
I finished the first show on my Star Wars timeline marathon! Young Jedi Adventures is a show for toddlers and families that released May 4 2023. Before watching this I didn’t realize this show is only a year old. The last episode released this year in February. I think that means there’s a possibility for season 2?
The show features the main 3 Jedi in the first Episode: Kai Brightstar the human, Lys the purple haired alien, and Nubs the blue teddy bear alien. In the first episode they leave the temple on Coruscant to visit the outer parts of the galaxy. They leave with a young pilot named Nash to live and train on their new temple located on Nash’s home planet: Tenoo.
The Jedi land and immediately have to save a diner from some pirates harassing and stealing supplies. This is Taborr and his crew of a robot and young alien pig. More on them later.
The Young Jedi go on many Adventures during all 25 episodes. They face many different trials and villains: Taborr and pirates, wild animals, eco-terrorists, other pirates, and some self-made conflicts.
My favorite recurring villain has to be the chicken-man alien, Raxlo (Haley Joel Osment). He appears in only three episodes, but his villainy is a joy to watch.
Raxlo first appears in episode six: “Forest Defenders”. He is seen cutting down an entire forest with a machine, becoming the opposite of the Lorax. He wanted to cut down the wood and sell it for money. The Jedi stop his machine, and Raxlo escapes to figure out a new business plan.
He then appears in episode 13: “Tree Troubles” where he blocks off water that is supporting the ecosystem of a tree, to be able to mine the hardened sap that formed underneath the tree. He was again defeated by the three Jedi.
The third and final appearance Raxlo has in the show is in episode 19 “Raxlo Strikes Back”. In this episode, he is now visiting a snow planet the Jedi frequent, to melt the snow to mine the rare gems underneath. The problem with melting the snow is that there are some space walruses who lay their eggs in the snow, and if it gets too warm the eggs will never hatch.
I really enjoy Raxlo because in this final episode he gets redeemed. He’s trying to make a profit to sell the gems in this episode, and his machine is stopped and the snow comes back, but the nice thing is that the people on the planet help him find a new place to dig for the gems. A place without space walrus eggs. After this episode I don’t think he’ll come back as a villain again.
There are redeemable villains in the show, and some who probably will be bad forever.
My least favorite episode has to be episode 11: “The Ganguls”. Nash the pilot has her new speeder stolen by a kid working for a gang of pirates. The pirates operate in a nearby town, and it is revealed that they have taken over the town and scared the residents into submission.
My problem is that the gang consists of three pirates total. I have no idea why the town of 15 or 20 shown people are afraid of three loud pirates, and that they even threw the mayor out of town.
The Jedi kids show up to town and convince the townsfolk to stand up to the pirates. I know this is a show for toddlers and creates life lessons for them, but come on..
There were some really nice episodes that I enjoyed in the series. One of them involved a recurring pirate villain Taborr. Taborr is a kid pirate who often tries to steal things from people to make a name for himself and get respect from the other pirates.
In episode 12: “Off the Rails”, Taborr and his small group of pirates try to rob a train taking logs of wood to a nearby village to build homes for them. Kai and Taborr fight and the train car they’re on disconnects from the rest, and they need to work together to not be stranded on the tracks.
I enjoyed this episode because when Taborr learned that the logs were going to help peoples’ homes, he had a change of heart and decided not to steal from the Jedi. Taborr was the first villain the young Jedi fought in the show, but in this episode it seems like there was more to him than just being a bad guy, and the Jedi learned that not everything had to be solved with fighting.
I think my absolute favorite episode of the show has to be episode 23: “The Caves of Batuu”. Kai had doubts about himself and wanting to be a perfect Jedi after failing to complete a trick with his lightsaber, and the Jedi Master he was training under took him to some nearby caves to clear his head.
This episode was done really well because there were no villains in it, just self-doubt. The Force took Kai through multiple visions in the cave to learn who he is and who he wants to be. For an episode that only runs for 11 minutes, I think this was the best was to show the mystical side of Star Wars for kids.
The show ends with episode 25 “The Prince and the Pirate”. Taborr is focused more on in this episode than the Jedi, and this episode runs the entire 30 minutes. A new space station called Starlight Beacon is officially opening the day they visit, and Taborr wants to steal the dedication plaque to make a name for himself and get respect. The young Jedi confront him, and I won’t spoil how it happens, but in the end it seems like Taborr does have a change of heart and seems to change his ways.
Starlight Beacon does open and the dedication plaque gets placed where it belongs. The group of friends watch the ceremony and are excited for what is to come in the future.
According to the Wookiepedia info on Starlight Beacon, two years after the grand opening of the station, Starlight Beacon is attacked and blown up by some terrorists to the Republic, and the space station is destroyed. Many people die, including some Jedi who help evacuate the station. I don’t actually know if there is a season 2 or 3 planned for this show, but hopefully the kids never come back to this station.
Overall, I thought the show was a good introduction for kids to get into Star Wars and learn some good life lessons along the way. If you have a kid or enjoy watching shows for toddlers, I think this would be a good selection.
I will be continuing my Star Wars timeline marathon, so be sure to check back on the main page for any updated when I finish something and write about it!
I love Star Wars. The movies, tv, and games are really fun. My favorite scene is when the big yellow star goes up against the small but incredibly bright white star. You can’t really see any action like that in other franchises.
At the time of posting this, it is May the 4th. This is usually known as a Star Wars holiday because that was the day in the movie that the main star, Mark Hamill, blew up the Death Star, and now everyone says “May the fourth be with you”.
I’ve watched all the movies and seen maybe over half of the tv shows, but one thing I have never done is watch all of them in chronological order. Today I will start doing that. I will watch every movie, every television show, and play most of the story video games all in timeline order. Once I finish one of them, I will add a post on this site to gather and express my thoughts. We’ll see how long it takes to finish it all.
Some media takes place at the same time as others. I will not be going back and forth besides one occasion. It would be too complicated for me to pause a movie to watch a single episode or play a level of a game. Whenever the first episode of a show takes place, I will watch that series until the end.
The media I will be working with are as follows:
Star Wars Young Jedi Adventures
Total SeriesRuntime: 10 hours, 47 minutes
This was made for Disney Junior audiences, AKA toddlers. However on the timeline I’m using from the Star Wars wikipedia, this takes place about 250 years before the original movie, meaning it is the earliest piece of media I’ll watch.
Each episode of this series is focused on a different character, and takes place at a different time, so the six episodes will bounce around and not be watched in series order. This is the only time I will not watch a series all at once. I won’t put down my thoughts on the series until I finish watching all of them, but I want to show which order of episodes I’ll watch on here.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode 3)
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode 1)
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Runtime: 2 hours, 17 minutes
The movie that started it all. The first movie of this marathon is celebrating its 25th year this year. It follows the story of two jedi, and the adoption of Anakin Skywalker.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode 4)
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Runtime: 2 hours, 23 minutes
In this second movie, Ewan McGregor’s Obi Wan gets a sick beard, and his adopted son Anakin gets a stupid rat tail, and they both get cloned or something and have to determine who the original one is.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star THE CLONE WARS Wars
Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
Anakin and Obi Wan get some plastic surgery it looks like, and many more clones are made and seem to work with them to fight evil. Anakin also gets his rattail cut off and adopts a daughter of his own.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode 5)
Star Wars The Clone Wars The Final Season
Total Series Runtime: 54 hours, 21 minutes
This is the piece of media that might take the longest to get through. The title is “The Final Season” but there are seven seasons of episodes about the clones and the wars they fought. 26 minute episodes, and if I watch 2 hours a day then this might take a month and a half? We’ll see.
Additional note: According to the official timeline, some later episodes happen sooner than they aired. Unlike Tales of the Jedi, I will be watching these episodes in release order, because reorganizing six episodes is a lot easier than organizing seven seasons. If you ever decide to do that, let me know how that goes.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes
This one is probably my favorite of the first three movies. Music is great, and the visuals are really impressive. We get to hear the story about Darth Plagueis the Wise as well.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode Six)
The last one! Because the jedi were all killed at the end of Episode III
Star Wars The Bad Batch
Total Series Runtime: 21 hours, 52 minutes
A girl clone named Omega gets adopted by four of her brothers, and try to figure out the world in the new Empire.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order EA
Estimated Playtime: Approximately 22 hours
The first video game on the list. I have played this one before and it’s difficult in some parts, but I really like the story. If I figure out how to stream it when I get to this time period I think that would be a fun thing to do. Either way I’ll still be writing down my thoughts.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes
Han didn’t have his last name before this movie, or the famous ship he’s known for flying. See the origins of him in this movie.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi
Total series Runtime: 4 hours, 3 minutes
How Obi-Wan came to live in a desert alone. He watches his adopted grandson Luke from afar, to keep him safe from his dad.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Jedi Survivor
Estimated Playtime: Approximately 40 hours
Another video game! This is the sequel to Fallen Order and it may take a while to play it, but I have gone through it before so hopefully I can remember where to go and what to do. The longest part I think I will go through is getting all the customizable parts to my lightsaber and outfits.
On the list I have made, this is the halfway point! I think it’s fitting since the mood of the franchise begins to change after this point.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Andor
Total Season Runtime: 8 hours, 23 minutes
This is probably one of my favorite shows listed. It’s very grounded, and the drama and suspense is very compelling.
There is another season of this show scheduled to be released at some point. At the time of this writing it is not out yet, so I haven’t taken it into account. If the entire second season is out by the time I get to this show I will edit in the runtime and add it to the list.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Rebels
Total Series Runtime: 28 hours, 26 minutes
I watched this last year for the first time and I actually really enjoyed it. There are 4 total seasons, and the first season I remember to be kind of boring, but after that it gets very intense and I really grew to love the characters. I won’t say anything else until I get to this point in the timeline
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Rogue One A Star Wars Story
Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes
The first use of the Death Star, the entire idea of why “Star Wars” is the franchise name. Andor is a main character in this film, if you remember from the show with his name as the title.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes
Some people also call this movie “A New Hope“, but I’m going off of the poster titles that I find online. This is the film most people have probably seen, but the poster is misleading because I don’t think Luke ever takes off his shirt and looks that ripped.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Squadrons EA
Estimated Playtime: Approximately 9 hours
Another video game! I have not played this one, and believe the majority is just playing online endlessly, but from what I could find there is a story mode, and that story takes place between all the original trilogy movies. As I said before, I will not be pausing levels and then watching movies and then playing another level. I think the story in this game is short enough to do in a day or two.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star The Empire Strikes Back Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes
In this movie, they visit an ice planet, a sky planet, and a swamp planet. On the swamp planet Luke Skywalker meets the love child of Kermit and Ms. Piggy: Minch Yoda.
Star Wars Return of the Jedi
Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes
Slugs! Pigs! Bears! Oh my!
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Battlefront II
Estimated Playtime: Approximately 6 hours
Another mainly online video game with a story mode. From what I could see, Battlefront 1 did not have a story mode. I believe that in this one you play as an Empire soldier, which is kinda weird to me because they lost, but we’ll see how it goes.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars The Mandalorian (Seasons 1 & 2)
Total Series Runtime: 16 hours, 39 minutes
In this show we see what happens a few years after the Rebels won and the Empire fell. The Mandalorian adopts Baby Yoda and gets into wacky adventures.
There is a season 3 to this show, but for this timeline watch I will be viewing it later on. Once I have finished all 3 seasons I will post my writing
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars The Book of Boba Fett
Total Series Runtime: 5 hours, 28 minutes
This show is why I had to split The Mandalorian up. Boba Fett didn’t die in Return of the Jedi, he decided to become an author.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars The Mandalorian (Season 3)
Star Wars Ahsoka
Total Season Runtime: 5 hours, 53 minutes
She debuted in The Clone Wars movie, starred in The Clone Wars show and Rebels. Now she is given her own show to watch
I think I heard that this show is getting another season? I’m not sure, but if that happens I’m only watching the first season for this piece.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Resistance
Total Series Runtime: 15 hours, 39 minutes
I didn’t even know this show existed before I was looking into making this series of posts. No idea who any of the characters in the poster are except BB-8. It probably has multiple seasons, and from what I think I saw this takes place in between a few of the next couple movies, but I’m just going to watch this season in full.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star The Force Awakens Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes
This is a cool looking poster. In this movie, the force was asleep and then they woke it up. Bunch of new characters are introduced with hints of the old characters.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Battlefront II: Resurrection
Estimated Playtime: 2 hours
This is DLC to the previous Battlefront II game, which from what I can tell takes place around the same time as these movies. I’ll be playing this short story here.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star The Last Jedi Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 34 minutes
Oh boy. This movie, and the next one, are some of the most controversial films in the franchise. Here we go.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star The Rise of Skywalker Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 23 minutes
If there’s one thing these movies know how to do, it’s make posters with faces on them. This is the last movie and the newest in the timeline piece of visual media.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
And that’s all of them! Going through everything will take a while, but I will be updating this page whenever I finish a project with a link to some writing about my thoughts.
Just to estimate when I finish this, if I were to start on May 4, 2024, and go non-stop through this list, it would take me approximately 11 days, 7 hours, and 49 minutes, or 271 hours and 49 minutes.
That’s obviously impossible.
I think around 3 hours a day is more reasonable. If I am successful into sticking to about 3 hours a day, it’ll take me about 91 days to complete, so roughly 3 months.
If I finish by August 2024 I’d say that’ll be a success, but whenever I do finish, I think I’ll have a good time along the way. I love writing series posts, and this will be a fun one for me.
Kristopher K. Online 