REBELS REWATCH: Season 1, Episode 10: Path of the Jedi

After Ezra exhibits a disturbing power on the asteroid during their fight with the Grand Inquisitor, Kanan feels it is time to take the next step in his training. He explains to Ezra that, in their heyday, the Jedi had many smaller temples spread across the Galaxy. On board the Phantom, he has Ezra meditate in order to allow the Force to lead him to one of these temples.



Conveniently enough, there just happens to be a temple on Lothal; you know, the planet that they're already on and live on. Kanan didn’t know about this temple until 5 minutes before Ezra did when he accessed his holocron that he’s had for 15 years. I don’t know. This is one of those way too convenient things that irked me throughout the whole series. Would it have killed them to have to go to another planet to a temple? Maybe Ossus? How cool would that have been? Of course, the Lothal temple will continue to be of importance up to the end of the series, but still. Anyway, they get to the temple; and it’s actually kind of cool.



It’s designed to appear to be a part of the environment and entrance can only be gained by using the Force. When they get in, Ezra is escared when he sees the remains of some Jedi who died waiting for their Padawans to return from their journeys into the depths of the temple. I found that to be pretty cool. Kanan, like those before him, elects to stay in the waiting room while Ezra ventures forth. What follows is a veritable Jedi mind-freak wherein Ezra hallucinates that Kanan joins him and then gets attacked and killed by the Grand Inquisitor.



Then Ezra thinks he’s back on the Ghost where he over-hears everyone talking trash about him, which let’s be honest, that was probably happening in real life even as he was having his vision. Then he’s back in the temple, realizing it is a vision, he let’s the GI attack him and finally the shrooms wear off. Then he and Kanan separately start to hear the voice of Yoda. Now, again, this is one of those things that is at the same time cool and gratuitous. Yoda gives them both some words of wisdom; and there is an implication that the reason both of them can hear him is because of Kanan’s connection to him. Like he is sort of a Force echo that is part of Kanan. That’s kind of cool. When Ezra meets back up with Kanan in the lobby Kanan sees that he has been given a kyber crystal. Returning to the Ghost, he constructs his first lightsaber.



Rewatch? Like I said, this episode has some fundamental issues that bothered me at the time I saw it and continue to today. It’s like, I understand you want to show the Rebels in their own little corner of the galaxy, but does everything have to happen on Lothal? I guess it’s an important episode, though; and both Kanan and Ezra get some good development in it; but nobody else does that’s for sure.

All four season of Rebels are currently streaming on the Disney+ service.

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