Fortunately, all four seasons of Rebels are available streaming on Disney+. Unless you want to go cold turkey on Star Wars, jump to Star Wars Resistance, or make Forces of Destiny a priority, Star Wars Rebels is the place to go. (“Twin Suns” in Season 3 is worth checking out as well, if you’re not afraid of spoilers.)Īll of this said, Star Wars fans are also out of new Star Wars content for the time being, and The Mandalorian Season 2 may feel like a long way off. If you plan on watching Rebels, I recommend starting at the beginning and working your way up to “Twilight of the Apprentice.” If you’re still undecided about Rebels or are just a Star Wars fan, watch “Twilight of the Apprentice” anyway as a taster. Since Star Wars Rebels is more serialized than Clone Wars, dropping into “Twilight of the Apprentice” (which is comprised of the final two episodes of Season 2) will be a little more complicated than dropping into the Siege of Mandalore arc. I won’t even tease the biggest twists other than to say that it’s an event that does justice to both Rebels and Clone Wars, and delivers some of what Star Wars fans most love about the saga. If I haven’t convinced you to at least try Star Wars Rebels by this point, I’ll resort to the big guns: “Twilight of the Apprentice.” Just as I said that the Siege of Mandalore arc of The Clone Wars is something that all Star Wars fans should watch, Rebels' “Twilight of the Apprentice” two-parter is a must-see for any Clone Wars fan. Depending on what reveals come in Season 2 and beyond, it’s possible that some of the episodes from Rebels’ final season are pretty much a Mandalorian prologue! Rebels proves that the Rebellion might have been much better off with some Mandalorians while also explaining why the Mandalorians were busy elsewhere. Rebels adds to the canon about Mandalore, and some of the series’ best episodes center on a young Mandalorian’s journey. The Mandalorian arc of Rebels brings back some familiar characters and plot points from Clone Wars, and it’s difficult not to see how Rebels’ Mandalorian stories could ultimately lead to the devastation that Mando recalled in The Mandalorian.Īlso, the Mandalorian arc in Star Wars Rebels is pretty cool even independent of its potential impact on The Mandalorian. While disrupting Empire Day festivities in order to destroy a prototype TIE fighter, the crew learns a refugee has important information and must get him off-planet before the Imperials find him.
Over the course of Rebels ' serialized storytelling, the audience grew to have an intimately strong connection to Kanan, so.
Kanan's death is a culmination of intense action and a Rebellion-saving plotline that holds the weight of heavy emotions. Since Mandalorians didn’t have a key part to play in Rogue One or the original trilogy, the events of Star Wars Rebels provide the most recent relevant Mandalorian twists ahead of The Mandalorian in the Star Wars timeline. But the franchise's most heartbreaking loss is still the death of Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars Rebels.