Star Wars Rebels

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Star Wars Rebels
Genre Science fiction
Drama
Created by
Based on Star Wars 
by George Lucas
Voices of
Composer(s) Kevin Kiner
(Based on themes by John Williams)
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 37 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Producer(s)
  • Kiri Hart
  • Athena Yvette Portillo
Running time Approx. 22 minutes
Production company(s)
Distributor Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network Disney XD
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release October 3, 2014 (2014-10-03) – present
Chronology
Preceded by Star Wars: The Clone Wars
External links
Official website
Production website

Star Wars Rebels is an American 3D CGI animated television series produced by Lucasfilm Animation. Set fourteen years after Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and five years before Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Rebels takes place during an era when the Galactic Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy. Imperial forces are hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights while a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking form. The visual style of Star Wars Rebels is inspired by the original Star Wars trilogy concept art by Ralph McQuarrie.[1]

It premiered as a 44-minute film, Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion, on October 3, 2014 on Disney Channel prior to the premiere of the series on October 13 on Disney XD.[2][3] Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg and Greg Weisman served as executive producers of season one. Kinberg stated that the first season would contain 16 episodes (released as four shorts, a film, and 13 episodes) and that the series will feature new characters along with ones from the original trilogy.[4][5] Weisman left the show after season one.[6]

Plans for an upcoming third season were announced on November 30, 2015.[7]

Premise

Fourteen years after the fall of the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,[8] a motley group of rebels unite aboard a freighter starship called the Ghost, and conduct operations against the Imperial garrison on and around the planet Lothal.

Characters

From left to right: Sabine Wren, Hera Syndulla, Ezra Bridger, Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, and Kanan Jarrus.

Crew of the Ghost

A 14-year-old human street urchin and con-artist with Force abilities, whose parents were imprisoned by Imperial forces. He arms himself with an energy slingshot and later a lightsaber with a built-in stun blaster, though the latter is eventually destroyed by Darth Vader. On his character, Gray stated: "He's a pickpocket, he's a little thief. But he's doing it all because he needs to survive". Executive producer Greg Weisman said: "We see this whole series very much through Ezra's eyes. As his eyes get opened to what the Empire's capable of, his eyes are opened to the fact that there are people who care, who are trying to fight the good fight, and he becomes one of them."[9] In the second season episode "Legacy", he discovers the fate of his parents. In "Twilight of the Apprentice" Ezra is drawn towards the dark side by the former Sith Lord Maul, something that has been feared by his master Kanan for some time.
A human Jedi survivor of Order 66, former student of Depa Billaba, and the de facto leader of the Ghost crew, armed with a two-piece dual-phase lightsaber and DL-18 blaster. His real name is Caleb Dume. Executive producer Dave Filoni describes the character as a "cowboy Jedi". Animation supervisor Keith Kellogg said: "He is a Jedi but he's not a Jedi in the traditional sense that we've had before on the show. He's a little more rough around the edges. He's kept his lightsaber locked away, so he hasn't used it in a long time."[10] In "Legacy", it is revealed that Kanan never knew his parents. In "Shroud of Darkness", Kanan was promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight. In "Twilight of the Apprentice", Kanan is blinded in a battle with Maul on the planet Malachor.
The Twi'lek owner and pilot of the Ghost. Filoni said: "She is a very strong-minded character, kind of the heart of the group, keeps everyone together when they would otherwise fall apart".[11] She is the daughter of Cham Syndulla, who appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.[12] She and Kanan share a strong connection. In "Wings of the Master", Hera was promoted to Captain of the Phoenix Squadron by Kanan's recommendation.
A 16-year-old Mandalorian graffiti artist, Imperial Academy dropout and former bounty hunter with expert knowledge of weapons and explosives. CG supervisor of lighting and FX Joel Aron said, "She's adding something that we haven't really seen before in the Star Wars universe. You have a character that is expressively creative through art—whether it's the color of her hair or what she's done to her armor. In "The Protector of Concord Dawn", she is revealed to come from House Visla, thus leading her to be related with Death Watch, a Mandalorian terrorist group in The Clone Wars.[13]
A Lasat honor guard, whose people were one of the first species to rise up against the Empire in its early days, which responded by massacre at the hands of Agent Kallus. This near-extinction has left him with a gruff demeanor, but he has remained loyal to the struggle against the Empire, eventually to discover that his fellow Lasat still exist as a culture, in the episode Legends of the Lasat. His physical appearance is based on Ralph McQuarrie's original conceptual artwork for Chewbacca. Art director Kilian Plunkett said: "Zeb actually is very articulate and witty and funny, and that's sort of juxtaposed with what he looks like, makes for an interesting character".[14]

Additionally, C1-10P (aka "Chopper" and credited as "Himself"), is an irritable and irascible astromech droid built and owned by Hera, who recovered him after he crashed on Ryloth during the Clone Wars. His design is heavily modeled on the original conceptual artwork for R2-D2. Describing the character, Filoni said, "He likes to do things the way that he wants, not necessarily the way the crew wants or as fast as the crew would like, but he gets the job done. He's incredibly loyal". He also summarized as, "If R2-D2 is your favorite dog, Chopper is the cat".[15]

Galactic Empire

The Emperor of the Galactic Empire and Darth Vader's Sith Master.[16] After learning from Vader that Ahsoka Tano is among the rebel forces, Palpatine orders Vader to capture her, intending to use her to uncover more surviving Jedi.
The Imperial army's cyborg Sith commander and a former Jedi corrupted by Emperor Palpatine. He first appeared in the extended cold opening scene that was added to ABC's broadcast of Spark of Rebellion on October 26, 2014, where he orders the Grand Inquisitor through a communications hologram to hunt down the remaining Jedi and try to lure any Force-sensitive children they take as their Padawans. Filoni stated: "We wanted to do something special for the ABC broadcast. We've added a scene which gives audiences insight into the Inquisitor and includes a cameo by Darth Vader, voiced by the distinguished actor James Earl Jones."[17][18] Vader later appears in "Fire Across the Galaxy" where he appears before Grand Moff Tarkin and Agent Kallus sometime after the Grand Inquisitor's death. He appears in the Season 2 premiere movie The Siege of Lothal, after Tarkin requests assistance. Vader then wipes out most of the rebel cell in the Lothal system, injures half the Ghost crew, destroys Ezra's home and a community of displaced people on Lothal, and has Minister Tua murdered with the rebels blamed for the crime. After learning Ahsoka Tano - his former Jedi apprentice - is among the rebels, Vader is ordered by the Emperor to dispatch another Inquistor to go after her in hopes of using her to find the remaining Jedi. Ahsoka later learns of Vader's identity through a vision in a Jedi temple on Lothal, which Vader arrives at after it is claimed by the Inquisitors. He then journeys to Malachor and attempts to claim the ancient Sith weapon there, only to face Ahsoka in battle after claiming to have destroyed Anakin. He later emerges alone from the ruins.
The Imperial Governor of the Outer Rim Territories, within which Lothal is located. When Kanan and his group become too powerful for Kallus and the Grand Inquisitor to control, he comes to Lothal to personally take charge, eventually bringing in Darth Vader after the Grand Inquisitor is killed.
A high-ranking agent of the Imperial Security Bureau and skilled rebel hunter serving under Darth Vader and working with the Inquisitors. More often than not, he is able to recognize rebel traps and set his own, which nearly succeed in capturing the Lothal rebels. Kallus was present when the Empire massacred the Lasat homeworld of Lasan (Zeb's species) and even personally gave the order to use soon-after banned disruptor weapons in the assault. It is later revealed that his hatred of Lasats stems from a harrowing encounter with a Lasat mercenary in his early ISB years, and was the sole survivor of his unit. Despite his dislike for the Lasats, Kallus respects them as warriors and bears a degree of remorse over the fact that genocide was used to conquer Lasan. He is also a highly trained hand-to-hand combatant and carries a rare Lasat bo-rifle which was given to him by a Lasat Honor Guard he defeated in single combat when their homeworld fell to the Galactic Empire.[19][20] Kallus becomes one of Vader's enforcers in Season 2 and was the one who set up Minister Maketh Tua's murder on Vader's orders by rigging her shuttle to explode.
An Imperial Navy officer in charge of the Imperial blockade on Lothal and later assisting in the Empire's rebellion pursuit.
An Imperial officer stationed on Lothal as Imperial Supply Master of Capital City.[21]
An Imperial Commandant and Taskmaster, respectively, that are stationed on the planet Lothal. In "Call to Action", the Grand Inquisitor beheaded them off-screen under the orders of Grand Moff Tarkin, for their persistent failures to capture the Lothal rebels.[21]
A Lothal native and minister for the Galactic Empire. She was a graduate of the Imperial Academy. With Planetary Governor Pryce frequently absent conducting business on Coruscant itself, Minister Tua is in charge of the Imperial bureaucracy which runs the day-to-day government on Lothal. Her major tasks include the ongoing efforts to centralize commerce and production on the planet under Imperial control and promoting development of the planet's new TIE fighter factory, to meet the economic goals set by Tarkin's Five Year Plan. After Kanan's escape from Tarkin at Mustafar during the Season 1 finale, Minister Tua fears she will be blamed for failing to apprehend the other Lothal rebels and tries to defect to the Rebel forces. She is killed when Agent Kallus blows up her shuttle on the orders of Darth Vader, who then frames the Rebels for her death.
An exiled Senator who has the courage to speak out publicly against the Empire[22] by occasionally hacking into holonet news broadcasts. In "Vision of Hope," it was revealed that he was actually in league with the Empire and he attempted to lure the Ghost crew into a trap. In the same episode, it was revealed that Gall Trayvis knew Ezra's parents.

Additionally, the Stormtroopers (Various Voices) are the foot soldiers of the Galactic Empire.

Inquisitors

The Inquisitors are Force-sensitive agents of the Galactic Empire, armed with gyroscopic double-bladed lightsabers, used by Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine to hunt down the remaining Jedi. The Inquisitors' unique lightsaber designs were based on an unused concept from The Force Unleashed video game.[23]

A Pau'an Inquisitor. He first appeared in the extended cold opening of "Spark of Rebellion", where he is ordered by Darth Vader to hunt down any Jedi who survived Order 66 and try to either lure any Force-sensitive children the Jedi in question take as their Padawans to the dark side or destroy them if they refuse. The Grand Inquisitor saw the opportunity to do so when called by Agent Kallus to help him hunt down the rebels when Kanan is revealed to be a Jedi. After being defeated by Kanan in "Fire Across the Galaxy," he committed suicide by falling into an exploding reactor core; it is implied he did this because he was more afraid of facing Vader's punishment for his failure. As The Seventh Sister revealed in "Always Two There Are", the Grand Inquisitor's death has left an opening for the other Inquistors to compete with each other to take his place. In "Shroud of Darkness," it is revealed that he was once a member of the Temple Guard and thus, a fallen Jedi Knight, when his spirit appears to Kanan in the temple on Lothal. After testing Kanan and helping him realize that he cannot protect Ezra from everything, he reveals that he was a former Jedi and dubs Kanan a Jedi Knight before calling upon other illusory Temple Guards to delay the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister in their pursuit of Kanan, Ezra, and Ahsoka.
An Inquisitor of an unknown species and the partner of the Seventh Sister. After "The Siege of Lothal", he is sent by Darth Vader under Emperor Palpatine's orders to hunt the rebels down after Ahsoka is discovered among them. He first appeared in "Relics of the Old Republic", where he meets with Admiral Konstantine telling him that he will finish the job that Admiral Konstantine and Agent Kallus had failed at. In "Always Two There Are", The Fifth Brother and The Seventh Sister attack Ezra, Sabine, Zeb, and Chopper during their visit to an old base that was used during the Clone Wars. In "Twilight of the Apprentice," the Fifth Brother later accompanies the Seventh Sister and the Eighth Brother into following Ezra, Kanan, and Ahsoka to Malachor. He is later killed by Maul.
A Mirialan Inquisitor in a metal mask that covers her entire face-though the faceplate can be retracted-and the partner of the Fifth Brother, accompanied by miniature Probe Droids. She first appeared in "Always Two There Are", acting on her own to capture the crew of the Ghost with The Fifth Brother assisting her. In "Twilight of the Apprentice," the Seventh Sister accompanies the Fifth Brother and the Eighth Brother into following Ezra, Kanan, and Ahsoka to Malachor. She is later killed by Maul.
The fourth Inquisitor introduced in the series, a masked Terellian Jango Jumper who trailed the former Sith Lord Darth Maul to the planet Malachor. After briefly engaging Ahsoka Tano and Kanan Jarrus, he was captured but managed to signal the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister, who came to his aid only for all three to be driven off when Maul teamed up with the Jedi. The three later attacked the Jedi and Maul again during their bid to reach the top of a Sith temple with a Holocron that would activate its superweapon mode, with the Eight Brother demonstrating a new saw feature built into the Inquisitor lightsaber. However, the Eighth Brother's lightsaber was damaged during his battle with the Jedi. During his attempt to escape by using it like helicopter rotors, it failed and he fell to his apparent death.

Recurring

The Togruta Padawan of Anakin Skywalker. She appeared several times during Season 1 using the codename "Fulcrum", as a secret informant on Imperial activities and supplies. Her real identity was revealed to the Lothal rebels (and the audience) in the Season 1 finale "Fire Across the Galaxy". Though she left the Jedi Order, she still commands the Force and carries a pair of white lightsabers. Her rebel cell—Phoenix Squadron—is nearly extinguished by Darth Vader in "The Siege of Lothal"; whereafter she and her remaining followers join the Ghost. In "Shroud of Darkness", she is forced to accept Darth Vader is her corrupted former master. In "Twilight of the Apprentice", Ahsoka takes Ezra and Kanan to Malachor to search for Sith knowledge. She later sacrifices herself to buy Ezra and Kanan some time to get away from Darth Vader, forcing him to fight her as a temple collapses on top of them. She is seen stumbling through the ruins of the temple after the collapse.
A Clone trooper captain who served under Anakin in the Clone Wars. After the Clone Wars subsided, being one of the few to have not participate in Order 66, Rex and his fellow clones made their home in exile in the Outer Rim's planet Seelos, prior to their discovery by the Lothal Rebels and agreeing to aid the Rebel forces.
The leader of the Phoenix Squadron rebel cell.
The Senator of planet Alderaan and current owner of C-3PO and R2-D2, and secretly one of the leaders organizing the Rebel Alliance. After discreetly using the droids to inspect the Lothal rebel cell in the first episode "Droids in Distress", he sends a small fleet of frigates to aid the escape of the Lothal rebels in the Season 1 finale.
A gambling smuggler who wins Chopper in a game of Sabacc against Zeb, but returns him when the Ghost crew smuggled him and his puffer pig past the Imperial blockade. He later aids the Ghost crew in their escape from Darth Vader's forces on Lothal in exchange for stolen Imperial goods.
A Devaronian crime lord who the Ghost crew occasionally runs errands and smuggles goods for in exchange for credits and information.
A Jablogian crime lord and business partner of Vizago's. In his first appearance in "Idiot's Array", he was tricked by Lando Calrissian into giving the entrepreneur a mining-purposed puffer pig and trading it for Hera, who then outsmarted Azmorigan and escaped from his ship, the Merchant One, to Calrissian and the Ghost crew. Azmorigan cornered them at Vizago's mining estate, but was defeated there.
A clone commando who aids the Rebel forces. Served under Jedi Master Plo-Koon during the Clone Wars, Wolffe is physically notable for his maimed right eye. In "The Lost Commanders", motivated to protect his fellow clones, he betrayed the Ghost crew and told the Empire their location; but returned to rescue them.
A clone commando who aids the Rebel forces; a survivor of the Foxtrot Group, who was promoted to commander after his near-death ordeal on Abafar while helping Meebur Gascon on his mission. Sometime after the Clone Wars, Gregor suffered brain damage and suffers from brief moments of mild insanity.
The Ithorian owner of Old Jho's Pit Stop, a popular cantina on Lothal, who uses a voice synthesizer to communicate with non-Ithorians.
A journalist working as a broadcaster on HoloNet News on Lothal.[21]
The 800 year old Jedi Master, who went into exile on the Dagobah following the Jedi Purge. Appears only as a disembodied voice in "Path of the Jedi". Filoni stated: "I felt personally to keep Yoda as this disembodied thing it would confuse the audience less. I didn't want you to think Yoda could be teleporting from planet to planet". In "Shroud of Darkness," Yoda appears before Ezra in a vision of a starfield and instructs him to find Malachor.

Guest

Darth Vader's former Jedi Master, who broadcast a message declaring the fall of the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order after Order 66. Kenobi broadcasts this warning off-screen in Revenge of the Sith, but it is shown in the first episode of Rebels. A holocron bearing Kenobi's message is amongst Kanan's possessions; getting the holocron to work is used by Kanan as a test for Ezra's Force potential in "Spark of Rebellion".
An astromech droid, best friend to C-3PO, and formerly owned by the late Padmé Amidala. He is currently owned by Bail Organa who has tasked him with secret missions to undermine Imperial activities.
A protocol droid built by Anakin Skywalker and formerly owned by Padmé Amidala. C-3PO is under the ownership of Amidala's old friend, Bail Organa.
A Lothal farmer and friend of Ezra's parents.
A cadet at the Imperial Academy, where his sister Dhara disappeared. He stays in the Academy as a spy in order to find her, as well as to feed information to the rebels.
A former cadet at the Imperial Academy, Jai was a part of the Galactic Empire before meeting Ezra and is forced into hiding away from the Empire, with his mother.
A Rodian friend of Ezra's parents who is wanted by the Empire for uploading half their secrets into the Imperial cybernetic digital implant fused into his brain.
Ezra's father and Mira's husband who went missing 7 years after Ezra's birth. According to the family friend Ryder Azadi, Ephraim and Mira were killed during the mass prison break.
Ezra's mother and Ephraim's wife who went missing 7 years after Ezra's birth. According to the family friend Ryder Azadi, Ephraim and Mira were killed during the mass prison break.
A Weequay who led the Onaka Gang (a group of space pirates that operated on the Outer Rim) during the Clone Wars until he lost his crew to the Galactic Empire. Ezra and Chopper met Hondo in "Brothers of the Broken Horn" when they answered his distress signal and learned that he had won Cikatro Vizago's ship. Following a fight with Azmorigan, Ezra learned that Hondo actually took over Vizago's ship and locked him up aboard it. After Vizago is freed, Hondo escaped from Vizago's ship only to fly back to the Ghost. Hondo allows the crew of the Ghost to keep the generators that Commander Sato needed and takes his leave.
A Mon Calamari engineer living on the planet Shantipole. He built the prototype B-wing, the Blade Wing, which was gifted to Hera in "Wings of the Master", and later oversaw the secret construction of more B-wings for the Rebel Alliance at Senator Organa's request. He is named after Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie.[24]
A Mandalorian Bounty Hunter who is an old friend of Sabine Wren. She and Sabine broke out of the Imperial academy on Mandalore together. But when Ketsu left Sabine for dead, she joined the Black Sun while Sabine joined the crew of the Ghost. They met up again in "Blood Sisters" and were initially enemies, but ended up as friends once again after fighting off some Imperial soldiers. Ketsu later assisted the rebels in "The Forgotten Droid" when it comes to finding a star system that isn't occupied by the Galactic Empire.
The former Governor of Lothal and a family friend to Ephraim and Mira Bridger. He secretly assisted them in their campaign against the Galactic Empire. Ryder escaped prison, but his friends did not and assumed that they perished during his first encounter with Ezra and Kanan.
The princess of the planet Alderaan: Bail Organa's adopted daughter and Darth Vader's biological daughter. Filoni stated: "One of the complex challenges of depicting Leia in Rebels is that we have to remind the audience that at this point she is part of the Empire. She doesn’t believe in the Empire, but she is acting the part, almost a double agent."[25]
The hero of the Clone Wars, Ahsoka's former Jedi master, and the true identity of Darth Vader. He appears as his former self in "Shroud of Darkness" as both a vision to Ahsoka and a holographic recording providing lightsaber instructions, found within Kanan's holocron. Skywalker's voice is also heard briefly in a duel between Vader and Ahsoka in "Twilight of the Apprentice" after Ahsoka slices Vader's helmet open.
A former analyst droid during the Clone Wars who was reduced to being an inventory droid on Cargo Transport 241. He sides with the Rebels and assists them in finding a suitable base, developing an unlikely friendship with Chopper.
A former Sith Lord who encounters Ezra as they both explore the ruins of a Sith temple deep beneath the surface of the planet Malachor and was being hunted by the Eighth Brother.[26] Hating the Sith for the pain they have caused him throughout his life yet still practicing their teachings, Maul hates the Empire and is willing to fight alongside the Jedi to help bring them down. However, he eventually reveals that his intentions are to use the temple to take revenge on his enemies and to make Ezra his new apprentice. Maul was responsible for beheading the Seventh Sister, cutting down the Fifth Brother and blinding Kanan Jarrus before being knocked off the temple by Kanan in the resulting battle. He ultimately escapes Malachor in one of the Inquisitor's TIE Fighters after the temple is destroyed.
The Presence is housed inside a Sith Holocron used to gain access to an Ancient Sith Temple found on Malachor. The voice of the holocron tries to convince Ezra to use the Temple to gain absolute power to use against his enemies. During Ahsoka's battle with Vader, Kanan and Ezra work together to remove the holocron from its base, destabilizing the entire temple in the process as the collected energy releases explosively and collapses the structure. The holocron housing the Presence was last seen on board the Ghost.

Episodes

Season Episodes Originally aired
First aired Last aired
Shorts 4 August 11, 2014 (2014-08-11) September 1, 2014 (2014-09-01)
1 15 October 3, 2014 (2014-10-03) March 2, 2015 (2015-03-02)
2 22 June 20, 2015 (2015-06-20) March 30, 2016 (2016-03-30)

Release

Broadcast

Spark of Rebellion premiered on October 3, 2014 on Disney Channels worldwide and on Family Channel in Canada.[27]

In Australia, the series premiered on October 17 on Disney XD.[28] The Siege of Lothal premiered on June 28, 2015[29] and the second season debuted on October 18.[30]

In Canada, the series premiered on October 19 on the DHX-owned Disney XD.[31] However, due to DHX Media losing the rights to Disney content, the show was later moved to Disney Channel.[32] The second season premiered on November 7 and it was moved to the Corus-owned Disney XD channel on December 1.[33][34]

In the Middle East and Africa, Spark of Rebellion premiered on October 11 and the series debuted on October 18 on Disney XD.[35] Siege of Lothal premiered on October 10, followed the official season premiere on October 17.[36]

In Southeast Asia, Spark of Rebellion premiered on Disney XD on October 4 and the series officially started on November 29.[37][38] Siege of Lothal premiered on October 3 on Disney XD and Disney Channel and the second season was released on October 24.[39][40][41][42]

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the series debuted on October 16 on Disney XD.[43] Siege of Lothal premiered on July 18, 2015[44] followed by the second season debut on October 17.[45]

Home media

DVD/Blu-ray name Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
Spark of Rebellion (DVD only) October 14, 2014 October 13, 2014 November 5, 2014[46]
Season 1 (DVD & Blu-ray) September 1, 2015 September 14, 2015 September 16, 2015[47]

Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on DVD in the US at all retailers on October 14, 2014. DVD bonus features include character shorts, a 3D model kit of the Ghost ship, and a preview of season 1.[48]

The complete first season of Star Wars Rebels was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray on September 1, 2015 in America,[49] and in Germany on September 10, 2015. The Season 1 collection contains the expanded version of Spark of Rebellion with the Darth Vader/Grand Inquisitor prologue shown on ABC-TV.

Reception

Ratings

In the United States, the one hour special garnered 2.74 million viewers on Disney Channel[50] and 2.40 million viewers on ABC.[51] Worldwide, it delivered a total of 6.5 million viewers.[52] On Disney Channel, the first and second episodes delivered 2.33 million and 1.92 million viewers, respectively.[53] The third and fourth episodes garnered 2.32 million and 1.84 million, respectively.[54] The fifth, sixth, and seventh episodes were watched by 1.43 million, 1.30 million, and 1.60 million viewers, respectively.[55] The eighth and ninth episodes got 1.92 and 1.44 million viewers, respectively.[56]

In Canada, the second episode was watched by 274,500 viewers, making it the most-watched broadcast ever on the network.[57] In the United Kingdom, the film was the highest-rated broadcast that week, with 81,000 viewers.[58]

Season Timeslot (ET) Episodes Premiered Ended Viewers
(in millions)
Date Premiere viewers
(in millions)		 Date Finale viewers
(in millions)
1
Monday 9:00 p.m.
 13
October 13, 2014 (Columbus day)
 1.03[59]
March 2, 2015
 0.72[60] 0.68
2
Wednesday 9:30 p.m.
 22
October 14, 2015
 0.46[61]
March 30, 2016
 0.69 0.81

Critical response

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the series has received an average score of 78, based on 4 reviews indicating "generally favorable reviews".[62] IGN and Variety in particular had strong praise for the pilot film, Spark of Rebellion, with their only real criticism being the appearance of the Wookiees in the film, being cited as not all that impressive compared to the rest of the animation.[63]

Accolades

Award Category Recipient Result
2015 Teen Choice Awards Choice TV: Animated Show Star Wars Rebels Nominated
42nd Annie Awards Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Nathaniel Villanueva & Douglas Lovelace Nominated
5th Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Animated Series Star Wars Rebels Nominated
2014 BTVA Awards Best Male Lead Vocal Performance in a Television Series - Action/Drama Steve Blum as Zeb Orrelios Nominated
Best Female Lead Vocal Performance in a Television Series - Action/Drama Tiya Sircar as Sabine Wren Nominated
Vanessa Marshall as Hera Syndulla Nominated
Best Male Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Supporting Role - Action/Drama Jason Isaacs as Inquisitor Won
Best Female Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Supporting Role - Action/Drama Kath Soucie as Maketh Tua Nominated
Best Male Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Guest Role - Action/Drama Frank Oz as Yoda Nominated
James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi Nominated
James Earl Jones as Darth Vader Won
Best Vocal Ensemble in a New Television Series Star Wars Rebels Nominated
6th Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Animated Series Star Wars Rebels Nominated

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