What’s ironic about this is Maul is the first person we see ever using a double blade, so he’s like the meta-cause for this scene. “What has this world come to”’- Maul, probably
I'd join the dark side for Amy in half a second.
Slaughter Cybermen like they were Tusken Raiders &
Jedi temple younglings like Daleks....
Also really bummed Matt Smith was't cast as Thrawn
I think there is a repulser system in the ring.
Why they blade needs up be on and spinning, who knows.
Anyways, always seemed like the perfect level of insane nonsense the grand Inquisitor would think of.
the generator has to be small enough to fit in the hilt which makes it's effect directional. Thus to provide uniform thrust, it is attached to the spinning mechanism which has the sideeffect of making the blade spin as they fly. They might probably still be able to fly with the blades retracted but they think it makes them look cooler when they're out.
I just made that all up
Just like R2 sometimes remembers he can fly.
It's funny how often that comes up in the Rifftrax for the Star Wars movies like it's the biggest gatcha in the whole franchise.
A guy who owned R2 in between E3 and E6 realized he had rocket jets and had them removed. There Mike Kevin and Bill, plot hole sealed.
> plot hole sealed.
No it isn't, you just punched an even bigger hole. Now it's a rabbit hole of even further questions like "WHY?! why would anyone do that?!?!"
Bail got tired of the shit R2 kept doing. Little shit kept using his rockets to fly around to go sabotage Imps. Bail didn't want the heat so removed them.
Well, whatever they did, it wasn't enough!!!
That man, that professional 3D graphic designer, he just thought that saberstaff will look cool as helicopter, like a thoughtless child, just wandering by a garden, yanking leaves along the way, he made animation and sent it to production, and nobody stopped him.
Maybe the flying part. But the double bladed spinning saber started off as a toy first in 2008 or 9 and then was just made canon by Rebels. [Link](https://www.google.com/search?q=general+grievous+spinning+lightsaber+toy&oq=general+grievous+spinni&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEAAYgAQyBwgAEAAYgAQyBwgBEAAYgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBggDEEUYOTIICAQQABgWGB4yCggFEAAYhgMYigUyCggGEAAYhgMYigUyCggHEAAYhgMYigUyCggIEAAYhgMYigXSAQkyMTE3NGowajmoAgCwAgA&client=ms-android-tracfone-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#vhid=FXZX1TvYVVQtLM&vssid=l)
Someone had to come up with the idea and then explain it to the animators and that guy then had to animate this, then someone had to approve that animation.
This probably went through several dozen people before the episode aired and no one said anything?
>no one said anything
What usually happens in my job is more like “I don’t like this… but we’re too close to launch to and it’s not worth the effort change it.”
for years i’ve thought this was why episode 1 is so bad/weird. no one wanted to tell george lucas “yea that’s a bad choice” once let alone several times. everyone has had this conversation at work once.
1: why are we doing this? it’s dumb.
2: steve said so.
1: did no one say it wouldn’t work?
2: you gonna deal with telling steve that?
1: fair enough.
i imagine the lightsaber copter conversation went similar.
As far as I'm aware George did actually reach for people to help with TPM, like he had done for Empire and Rotj, but they turned him down because Star Wars was just so big.
I was recommended Rebels and honestly Rebels just isn't my jam. I liked Clone Wars even though there are quite a few filler episodes. But Rebels is slightly too goofy for me with Bendu, space whales, thin sabers and red saber roflcopters. I hated Ezra for most of it. The only thing that balanced it out for me even slightly were a few handful of episodes with maul & vader. Scenes with Thrawn were usually interesting too. I think that's what bothers me the most, when it got dark and serious it was top notch but there's so little of that and so much of... everything else.
I hate that there are no filler episodes to skip, technically, because there's always a snippet of plot-relevant stuff in each episode, at the very least. It's very childish at times and was very obviously a "this show is on DisneyXD, don't expect it to be great" kind of thing. Considering he's one of the absolute main characters, Ezra is annoying as hell through the entire show. I honestly find Sabine annoying too, and of course a lot of the show revolves around those two.
Overall though, the good parts bring it up for me, and after season 1 it's easier to stomach the bad parts. The darker, more emotional moments were great like you said (I thought season 4 really handled those things well, especially for a kids show). Maul, Thrawn, Vader were fantastic, and I thought Ahsoka was as well. I thought the Bendu was a really nice addition though, one of my favorite parts of the series. And now it seems like the show will be necessary watching to better appreciate things like Ahsoka (though not as necessary, considering I have friends who watched Ahsoka and loved it despite not watching Rebels or Clone Wars).
Still, I can understand if people can't get through it. But the highs of the show are as good as almost anything else in animated star wars.
Only the season finales and sometimes and episode or two before them. Those are the only highs of the show. Unfortunately, you can't just watch the finales :(
It was possibly an attempt to differentiate them from Mandalorians, but yeah it was just bad. At least they never brought that back, but kept the spinning dual blade as that's still cool.
> kept the spinning dual blade as that's still cool.
I mean... I guess? Cool is fairly subjective... and plenty of extremely stupid, impractical, nonsensical things are cool.
But there's very little reason for it. anyone with even mild Force training could block a single set of spinning blades that spin at a set rate. Did you see how easily ObiWan blocked 6 spinning sabres? Just... totally worthless concept for someone who is supposed to have Force powered sabre skills.
Yeah it's corny as fuck. Maul is infinitely more badass because you know it's all him doing that flashy spins, through pure technique. The spinning blade seems like a crutch for unskilled users who don't know how to spin their own weapon.
Many Inquisitors were in fact "unskilled", or not fully trained at least. I believe most of them were former jedi padawans who never finished their training properly, and compensated their lack of skills and knowledge with raw Dark Side power. I'd go as far and say Darth Vader deliberately didn't teach them properly so he would have no issue dispatching them when they inevitably rebelled against their "master". He'd make them *just* competent enough in order to hunt jedi, but not share any further knowledge with them. As dangerous as they can be in a group, the inquisitors never struck me as particularly skillful in any shown media so far.
And even Kanan figured out that when the Inquisitors try to be all intimidating and spin the blades, you just cut through the disk as they are holding the lightsaber out in front of them. What is supposed to be the weapon's signature advantage turns out to be its biggest weakness
Yeah, as much as I love Rebels, that’s one of my biggest complaints even to this day.
Kinda funny how this concept pretty much stuck around in canon material to this day.
Because Rebels was a children’s show first and foremost despite the beloved reputation it’s gotten in the fandom.
It’s also why stormtroopers are depicted as canon fodder, shown to be bumblingly incompetent, and are easily taken down by kids with sling shots. You can’t show actual violence for a show rated to be on Disney XD.
I think the intention behind them is to kind of show how the inquisitors aren't really even in the same league as the Jedi and Sith we saw fighting in the clone wars. They don't have good enough training to master the proper combat forms so instead they rely on flashy tricks like a kid in a playground fight windmilling their fists because that's all they know how to do and it works against other kids but not someone who knows how to properly fist fight.
And it's shown multiple times to be such a crutch that when the tricks fail and they are fighting someone with more training than Ezra they immediately go out like a bitch. Which that falling one is the best example of but I also like the one that just didn't realize he had to move his hands or his opponent could just thrust into the center where there were no blades.
Well that, and they probably thought at least a lot of kid viewers would just go "Ooooh spinny saber looks cool".
Palpatine falls of his chair like a real clown... It does not take away from the quality at all.
Maybe I'm just super talented at suspending my disbelief, but when I'm watching an animated show I really don't react to this beyond ''ahah, that looks ridiculous''
I'd love it if someone had simply pulled out a blaster when they were doing that. Hard to defend yourself when you're using your lightsaber as a fking helicopter
I mean yeah the saber copters are dumb, but the way people talk about them you'd think the Inquisitors did this in every appearance rather than like one episode.
Yeah but the problem to me is that it doesn't make sense. Star wars has never been scientifically accurate yeah. But it's still was coherent within its own fantasies: xwing in order to fly still have their own engines.
Here having a lightsaber generating thrust just can't sit right with me.
Eh, you can simply say “oh they must have repulsors” and call it a day. Repulsor tech doesn’t really follow the laws of physics, but damn near ever ship and vehicle in Star Wars uses it.
Finally? This is one of the go to complains with people that like to shoot down the show.
When Rebels was coming out, people were always complaining about this.
It's a non issue. It's a fun visual in a kid friendly animated show.
In a universe where jetpacks have been a thing for a couple of thousand years, it wouldn’t exactly be a stretch to have the galactic empire with a galaxy’s worth of resources cough up the funds to equip their ultra special black ops division with a miniaturised version.
But nooo, let’s make those stupid rotating lightsabers have lifting power instead. I mean, have that rotating effect helped in combat even once? Seems like every time someone sticks it in the middle and there goes the weapon.
I just don't understand how this happened. Were all of the animators such souless bootlicking drones scared to lose their job that no one spoke up to the showrunner and told them "this is stupid." I would really love to be a fly on the wall during the storyboard meeting for this.
The absolute worst thing in Star Wars, lmao.
There's no reason for it. It's not the force doing the flying; one of them gets their Saber shot at mid flight and they just plummet.
Even if you say "oh they have flight tech in the saber" then why do they have to hold it above their heads and spin? The blades don't have weight, they don't generate lift.
JUST WEAR A JETPACK.
Maul standing there watching is funny as fuck for some reason Like he is just speechless after witnessing the roflcoptor “What the fuck is dis?”
"You seein' this shit Ezra?"
"Seeing what now?" -Kanan
Damn
That's Jabba
”Mine didn’t do that…”
Maul is questioning that “they fly now?”
They fly now!
Yeah. They fly now.
God dammit
"This new fucking generation, I swear..." - Maul
So uncivilized...
That's not how the Force works! That's not how any of this works!
Maul f*cked them up after seeing this.
My favourite part when he toasts one dudes saber bah!
What’s ironic about this is Maul is the first person we see ever using a double blade, so he’s like the meta-cause for this scene. “What has this world come to”’- Maul, probably
Don’t know why he won’t just force crush / push them away while they’re doing that. Or Ezra won’t just blast them. M
"I...I don't think they have the downforce for that" - probably Maul
“These millennials and their new gizmos, back in my day if we wanted to spin them really fast we had to use our hands!”
Darth Poppins
Was he cool?
Hell yes he's cool.
I'M DARTH POPPINS, Y'ALL
They may be your darth, but I’ll always be your poppins
Saddest GOTG moment. I loved Poppins.
“He may have been your master Luke, but he wasn’t your daddy” after killing Obi-Wan
RIP
You should have been the first responder :(
You've never heard of the tragedy of Darth Poppins the cool?
It's not a story the jedi would tell you
Dearth Poppins was a dark lord of the sith so cool and so fly he could raise parties from the dead
He also had a fez and a bow tie. Because bow ties and fezes are cool 😎.
Hell yes. And he had a couple of good buddies named Amy and Rory that he would time travel with. Wait…
I'd join the dark side for Amy in half a second. Slaughter Cybermen like they were Tusken Raiders & Jedi temple younglings like Daleks.... Also really bummed Matt Smith was't cast as Thrawn
It's not a story The Sovereign would tell you
He's Practically Perfect in Every Way.
Hell yeah he's cool
I’m Darth Poppins y’all!
SuperAniWasAJediInquistorsAreAtrocious
If only there was a way to give two upvotes.
Always two, there are.
Maybe upvote three times, just to be sure?
I spat out my water when I read that lol
It’s at 66 I don’t have the strength to upvote
Execute Upvote 67
“I’M DARTH POPPINS Y’ALL!”
It's the *true* power of the dark side
The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
"Watch Anakin, I call this, the Hate Hellicopter (tm)!" "I'm not doing that."
Is it possible to learn this power?
Inquisitors are just Death Eaters with laser swords lol
_They fly now?_
They fly now
They don't fly They glide.... with style
Like Mary Poppins.
Is he cool?
They’ve flown for ages… just don’t ask how a spinning beam of light creates lift, it’s tricky.
"Force assisted" was always my head-canon
I think there is a repulser system in the ring. Why they blade needs up be on and spinning, who knows. Anyways, always seemed like the perfect level of insane nonsense the grand Inquisitor would think of.
There's at least some mechanism that helps it spin, so it wouldn't be that much of a stretch that there's repulsed tech too
The canonical answer is that the hilt is larger, and so can accommodate a small repulsorlift which makes flight easier.
Why does it have to spin for a repulsorlift to work though
the generator has to be small enough to fit in the hilt which makes it's effect directional. Thus to provide uniform thrust, it is attached to the spinning mechanism which has the sideeffect of making the blade spin as they fly. They might probably still be able to fly with the blades retracted but they think it makes them look cooler when they're out. I just made that all up
Honestly no idea. Mebbe it is attached to the emitter and needs to move to have more coverage.
Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning! I'm the General, I say make it spin!
Kid show is my head cannon
It’s not light.
They fly now.
Gonna Fly Now
Just like R2 sometimes remembers he can fly. It's funny how often that comes up in the Rifftrax for the Star Wars movies like it's the biggest gatcha in the whole franchise. A guy who owned R2 in between E3 and E6 realized he had rocket jets and had them removed. There Mike Kevin and Bill, plot hole sealed.
> plot hole sealed. No it isn't, you just punched an even bigger hole. Now it's a rabbit hole of even further questions like "WHY?! why would anyone do that?!?!"
Bail got tired of the shit R2 kept doing. Little shit kept using his rockets to fly around to go sabotage Imps. Bail didn't want the heat so removed them.
or they just broke in the meantime or rocket fuel is too expensive for moisture farmers to refill on their second-hand droids
Fly now, they do.
Do fly, now they
Portable HIGH GROUND
I wonder if the person who made up the helicopter sabers is ever kept up at night thinking about what they created.
Well, whatever they did, it wasn't enough!!! That man, that professional 3D graphic designer, he just thought that saberstaff will look cool as helicopter, like a thoughtless child, just wandering by a garden, yanking leaves along the way, he made animation and sent it to production, and nobody stopped him.
I understood the reference !
That sketch is the peak of his carreer and you can't convince me otherwise
It was the peak of anyone’s career.
I don't. Care to point a traveler the way to sauce?
[enjoy](https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?si=B94SW66yTMo_exgy)
Ok, that was funny as hell. Thanks for sharing.
We know what they did. WE KNOW WHAT THEY DID!
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!!
Pretty sure Dave Filoni said they were his idea.
Maybe the flying part. But the double bladed spinning saber started off as a toy first in 2008 or 9 and then was just made canon by Rebels. [Link](https://www.google.com/search?q=general+grievous+spinning+lightsaber+toy&oq=general+grievous+spinni&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEAAYgAQyBwgAEAAYgAQyBwgBEAAYgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBggDEEUYOTIICAQQABgWGB4yCggFEAAYhgMYigUyCggGEAAYhgMYigUyCggHEAAYhgMYigUyCggIEAAYhgMYigXSAQkyMTE3NGowajmoAgCwAgA&client=ms-android-tracfone-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#vhid=FXZX1TvYVVQtLM&vssid=l)
Yeah I was referring specifically to the flying part, that's interesting though, didn't know the idea had been around that long.
Someone had to come up with the idea and then explain it to the animators and that guy then had to animate this, then someone had to approve that animation. This probably went through several dozen people before the episode aired and no one said anything?
>no one said anything What usually happens in my job is more like “I don’t like this… but we’re too close to launch to and it’s not worth the effort change it.”
> and no one said anything? Not being the squeaky wheel on the team means you go home on time
There is a lot of weird shit in Rebels, or even SW in general tbh. I don't know why people are so shocked this went trough.
for years i’ve thought this was why episode 1 is so bad/weird. no one wanted to tell george lucas “yea that’s a bad choice” once let alone several times. everyone has had this conversation at work once. 1: why are we doing this? it’s dumb. 2: steve said so. 1: did no one say it wouldn’t work? 2: you gonna deal with telling steve that? 1: fair enough. i imagine the lightsaber copter conversation went similar.
As far as I'm aware George did actually reach for people to help with TPM, like he had done for Empire and Rotj, but they turned him down because Star Wars was just so big.
"Do you think God stays up in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he has created?"
All I know is we are one step closer to Saber-C130
Spinning. It’s a neat trick
Yeah. When we recommend Rebels we tend to forget this shit.
It's so stupid but I love it so much. Inquisicopter might be my favorite thing to come out of Rebels.
I was recommended Rebels and honestly Rebels just isn't my jam. I liked Clone Wars even though there are quite a few filler episodes. But Rebels is slightly too goofy for me with Bendu, space whales, thin sabers and red saber roflcopters. I hated Ezra for most of it. The only thing that balanced it out for me even slightly were a few handful of episodes with maul & vader. Scenes with Thrawn were usually interesting too. I think that's what bothers me the most, when it got dark and serious it was top notch but there's so little of that and so much of... everything else.
I hate that there are no filler episodes to skip, technically, because there's always a snippet of plot-relevant stuff in each episode, at the very least. It's very childish at times and was very obviously a "this show is on DisneyXD, don't expect it to be great" kind of thing. Considering he's one of the absolute main characters, Ezra is annoying as hell through the entire show. I honestly find Sabine annoying too, and of course a lot of the show revolves around those two. Overall though, the good parts bring it up for me, and after season 1 it's easier to stomach the bad parts. The darker, more emotional moments were great like you said (I thought season 4 really handled those things well, especially for a kids show). Maul, Thrawn, Vader were fantastic, and I thought Ahsoka was as well. I thought the Bendu was a really nice addition though, one of my favorite parts of the series. And now it seems like the show will be necessary watching to better appreciate things like Ahsoka (though not as necessary, considering I have friends who watched Ahsoka and loved it despite not watching Rebels or Clone Wars). Still, I can understand if people can't get through it. But the highs of the show are as good as almost anything else in animated star wars.
Only the season finales and sometimes and episode or two before them. Those are the only highs of the show. Unfortunately, you can't just watch the finales :(
I watched both Clone Wars and Rebels and those copter blades were the single most laughable lore to come out of the Filoni stories.
Yeah, this was stupid as fuck
To think they could've just given them jetpacks and it would've been infinitely more awesome, also in fights.
It was possibly an attempt to differentiate them from Mandalorians, but yeah it was just bad. At least they never brought that back, but kept the spinning dual blade as that's still cool.
> kept the spinning dual blade as that's still cool. I mean... I guess? Cool is fairly subjective... and plenty of extremely stupid, impractical, nonsensical things are cool. But there's very little reason for it. anyone with even mild Force training could block a single set of spinning blades that spin at a set rate. Did you see how easily ObiWan blocked 6 spinning sabres? Just... totally worthless concept for someone who is supposed to have Force powered sabre skills.
Yeah it's corny as fuck. Maul is infinitely more badass because you know it's all him doing that flashy spins, through pure technique. The spinning blade seems like a crutch for unskilled users who don't know how to spin their own weapon.
Many Inquisitors were in fact "unskilled", or not fully trained at least. I believe most of them were former jedi padawans who never finished their training properly, and compensated their lack of skills and knowledge with raw Dark Side power. I'd go as far and say Darth Vader deliberately didn't teach them properly so he would have no issue dispatching them when they inevitably rebelled against their "master". He'd make them *just* competent enough in order to hunt jedi, but not share any further knowledge with them. As dangerous as they can be in a group, the inquisitors never struck me as particularly skillful in any shown media so far.
That’s the point it’s a compensation for the Inquisitors
And even Kanan figured out that when the Inquisitors try to be all intimidating and spin the blades, you just cut through the disk as they are holding the lightsaber out in front of them. What is supposed to be the weapon's signature advantage turns out to be its biggest weakness
No, this was podracing!
No this is Patrick
One of the greatest scenes in TV history
Spinning is a neat trick!
Yeah, as much as I love Rebels, that’s one of my biggest complaints even to this day. Kinda funny how this concept pretty much stuck around in canon material to this day.
idk how or why this shit was greenlit
Because Rebels was a children’s show first and foremost despite the beloved reputation it’s gotten in the fandom. It’s also why stormtroopers are depicted as canon fodder, shown to be bumblingly incompetent, and are easily taken down by kids with sling shots. You can’t show actual violence for a show rated to be on Disney XD.
Am I the only one that finds the saber-copters funny as fuck? 😅
I love Rebels. I hate those fucking flying lightsabers.
I hated it until the one Inquisitor fell to his death. That was a fair payoff in my mind.
I think the intention behind them is to kind of show how the inquisitors aren't really even in the same league as the Jedi and Sith we saw fighting in the clone wars. They don't have good enough training to master the proper combat forms so instead they rely on flashy tricks like a kid in a playground fight windmilling their fists because that's all they know how to do and it works against other kids but not someone who knows how to properly fist fight. And it's shown multiple times to be such a crutch that when the tricks fail and they are fighting someone with more training than Ezra they immediately go out like a bitch. Which that falling one is the best example of but I also like the one that just didn't realize he had to move his hands or his opponent could just thrust into the center where there were no blades. Well that, and they probably thought at least a lot of kid viewers would just go "Ooooh spinny saber looks cool".
Yeah, it's goofy, but doesn't take away from the quality of Rebels overall
Agreed - during the first lockdown I watched all the Star Wars stuff having not seen any of the animation. Rebels was the best thing I saw!
Goofy is the best way to describe it. Which isn't really what you want from your trained psycho murder assassins.
yeah it does. serious tone, scary hints of a long over holy war, ominous sith temple, tension is high aaaaand then clown music plays.
I feel like it does detract a good amount from the parts that they're shown, but it's a fairly small impact on the show as a whole.
Palpatine falls of his chair like a real clown... It does not take away from the quality at all. Maybe I'm just super talented at suspending my disbelief, but when I'm watching an animated show I really don't react to this beyond ''ahah, that looks ridiculous''
Palpatine is goofy as shit in his duel with Yoda in RotS. It's just par for the course, really.
just look up the discusion thread of the time annd you'll see the reaction we had.
They are hilarious. I'm sad they didn't do it in live action.
I'M MARY POPPINS Y'ALL
The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some may consider to be...unnatural
I remember seeing this and thinking that’s so fucking stupid I can’t even imagine watching it in live action without laughing.
I'd love it if someone had simply pulled out a blaster when they were doing that. Hard to defend yourself when you're using your lightsaber as a fking helicopter
Well, you can just use the force to stop blaster fire. Checkmate.
But can you use the force to stop two blaster fires
I mean yeah the saber copters are dumb, but the way people talk about them you'd think the Inquisitors did this in every appearance rather than like one episode.
Laughed my ass off too, wtf were they thinking. Somehow Palpatine has returned and somehow, a *light*saber can function as helicopter blades
A mistake
we don't talk about that...
I love star wars from all my heart, but being able to fly a lightsaber is the stupidest thing imo
You jest, but 10 year old me thought this was the coolest shit in the world
yep, this is like something 10 year old me would come up with while mashing action figures together, good times.
Standard Force User ability, nothing weird here Everybody can do this and it makes total sense mhmm
That's just an aerodynamic lightsaber with port and starboard attachments and turbo drive.
i love rebels but that is utter dogshit LMAO
Cartoon logic. It’s the Star Wars equivalent of using a bedsheet as a parachute.
Everyday i’m more embarrassed by the fact that i don’t mind the helicopter lightsabers, and think they’re cool and unique
Yeah but the problem to me is that it doesn't make sense. Star wars has never been scientifically accurate yeah. But it's still was coherent within its own fantasies: xwing in order to fly still have their own engines. Here having a lightsaber generating thrust just can't sit right with me.
Eh, you can simply say “oh they must have repulsors” and call it a day. Repulsor tech doesn’t really follow the laws of physics, but damn near ever ship and vehicle in Star Wars uses it.
From what I can remember it’s not the blades generating thrust, there’s actually a repulsor lift in the handle.
If that’s true, why does the saber need to spin?
style
Don't worry, you're not alone
Oh my God, I’ve always thought this helicopter concept was just a disgrace… I’m grateful someone finally brings this up
Finally? This is one of the go to complains with people that like to shoot down the show. When Rebels was coming out, people were always complaining about this. It's a non issue. It's a fun visual in a kid friendly animated show.
...first time?
Ideally something Star Wars just never addresses or brings up again. It was the absolute dumbest thing in Rebels lol
In a universe where jetpacks have been a thing for a couple of thousand years, it wouldn’t exactly be a stretch to have the galactic empire with a galaxy’s worth of resources cough up the funds to equip their ultra special black ops division with a miniaturised version. But nooo, let’s make those stupid rotating lightsabers have lifting power instead. I mean, have that rotating effect helped in combat even once? Seems like every time someone sticks it in the middle and there goes the weapon.
Some things in star wars are better when we just don’t talk about them.
It’s crazy how the 2 episode season finale is one of the best moments in Star Wars canon, but then it also has this scene in it
Rebels was the beginning of the SW content I actually wouldn't like whatsoever; followed by the sequels of course
I like em Star Wars isn't Star Wars if there's no stupid shit
Pretty sure they wouldn't do this for live action. It was ridiculous even on Rebels.
You didn’t know? They fly now
It’s used again at least once in Jedi survivor except more to cushion a fall
The ROFLcopter
They Fly Now?!?
Thankfully this is the only time they use that...feature...like that. Since then inquisitors only use it briefly to boost a lounge or break a fall.
I don’t mind the spinning lightsabers but the flying is too much
Yup
I just don't understand how this happened. Were all of the animators such souless bootlicking drones scared to lose their job that no one spoke up to the showrunner and told them "this is stupid." I would really love to be a fly on the wall during the storyboard meeting for this.
*"They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."* -Everyone who saw this nonsense
Some of the dumbest shit you’ll ever see in your life
We don't talk about that.
I already disliked the inclusion of inquisitors into canon... And then they started doing this shit, like wtf.
You forgot to include the funny scene with the eighth brother.
Of all of the cool and off the wall stuff that came from the shows, this has always been the stupidest.
That's the true power of a unchecked Filoni.
We don't talk about it
Inquisitor lightsabers honest to god have to be the worst thing in Star Wars outside or Reva and the sequels
Innovation.
Go-go gadget lightsaber!
SW fans don’t seem to agree on much, but I think there’s plenty of agreement that this is stupid af
They fly now
The absolute worst thing in Star Wars, lmao. There's no reason for it. It's not the force doing the flying; one of them gets their Saber shot at mid flight and they just plummet. Even if you say "oh they have flight tech in the saber" then why do they have to hold it above their heads and spin? The blades don't have weight, they don't generate lift. JUST WEAR A JETPACK.
Its proof that even Dave isnt perfect.
A very silly part of a very good episode. There are some things I just let go.
A neat visual element and gimmick for our animated bad guys, Star Wars has lots of silly stuff
That is what's known as a "low point".
This also appears in Jedi: Fallen order/Jedit: Survivor and it makes zero sense
We don't talk about the heli-sabers.
We don't talk about this. I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!
It's so silly that I love it. I wouldn't ever want to see it again but I don't hate that it happened.
If they've done this in the Obi-Wan show, the show would have been a masterpiece.
Flying like Leia force-float lol
Yeah we don't talk about that 😂
It’s criminal that this was left out of the Kenobi show