Rebels is back baby and we open with a...well, not a bang, more like a simmering heat. This is Lost Commander, the Rebels are looking for more bases to establish their presence and Ahsoka informs them of an old friend of hers that will know of plenty of locations and sends the ghost crew to go find him. As it turns out it's Rex from The Clone Wars and now our main characters must convince Rex to help them out on their mission and join the rebellion.
Now the most interesting thing about this episode was Kanan's reaction to the clones. If you read the Kanan comic book (You should, it's great) he does not have the best of relationships with clones. One minute they were friends the next they killed his master and were hunting him down, forcing him to become a fugitive. What the show does really well is not make it a necessity to read the comic to understand that, they explain his past very well and get a really good performance out of Freddie Prinze Jr and the scene where he relives his tragic past is easily the best scene of the episode for me. Apart from that you could see this a bit formulaic, he doesn't like the clones and is looking for any excuse to distrust them but in the end he grows to accept them as new teammates. But what makes it work here for me are two things, one is how personalised and fleshed out his problems with the clones are and the other is that he doesn't technically like them in the end. Their relationship at the end of the episode is pretty much "I trust you won't shoot me in the back, but that's about it" and really that feels a lot more natural and we'll see their relationship grow as this season carries on.
By the way, it's great seeing Rex again, I was very curious on where he ended up after The Clone Wars seeing as his former general would become the biggest monster in the galaxy, would he still follow him after that? Was he killed? What happened? It's also very interesting to see clones outside of battle, because these are people bred for war yet Rex and his two fellow clones have abandoned the fighting life and now live a life of solitude and seeing the effect that has on them. Apart from that I don't have much else to say, apart from Kanan the rest of the ghost crew didn't really have that much to do and that was the biggest change i wanted for season two, i wanted more of the crew, i want to learn more about Sabine and Zeb and Hera, as of now it doesn't look as if we're going to get any of that. Also one of the clones who doesn't like the idea of working with the Jedi again changes his mind really quickly, "I turned them over" "you shouldn't have done that!" "you're right i'm sorry".
So in the end the episode was a fine, the stuff with Kanan was really good and it's nice to see Rex again but the supporting cast got practically nothing to do. 6/10.
-Danny
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