Boys will be boys on 'Star Wars Rebels'

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Season 1 | Episode 4 | “Fighter Flight” | Aired Oct 20, 2014

One quick note: Actress Vanessa Marshall had a birthday on Sunday, so make sure you drop by and wish her a great one. Happy birthday, Vanessa. Much love to you and Hera both!

It’s a new week, and we’re back with our favorite Rebels aboard the Ghost, where life seems to have settled into a routine of sorts.

Ezra is practicing his Jedi skills, aka lifting bowls using the Force. Chopper is not impressed. I’m pretty sure “Bhwah-bah-beh-bwah” means “Great, we can have dinner to go!” but my astromech is rusty. Ezra’s also doing what he can to flirt with Sabine. That’s going over as well as the bowl lifting.

The other thing Ezra seems to be doing routinely is reminding Zeb that he saved his life.

Great kid. Don’t get cocky.

The next thing we know, Ezra’s bunk has fallen on top of Zeb (Chopper took out the bolts) and the chase is on. Both of them tumble into the cargo bay and into the cargo until Hera shows up with that look. You know the one.

I think the crew’s been idle just a biiiit too long.

Hera has got a solution. She sends Ezra and Zeb into town on Lothal for supplies. Together? Yep. She also orders them not to return without a Meiloorun fruit. Which should be fun, considering it’s not found on Lothal. (I adore Hera.)

In the market, Ezra overhears an Imperial officer bullying a local merchant named Morad Sumar (Liam O’Brien) about selling his farm to the Empire. But it’s not long before Zeb is back with most of the supplies and the boys are bickering again, knocking things over in the process. I’ll tell ya, these two argue more than Han and Leia!

Oh look, Meilooruns. Too bad they’ve been bought by the Empire.

Oh no. The boys are plotting. They have their plotting faces on.

Ezra gets the fruit, but he’s also got an audience.

Zeb throws the supplies they were getting for Hera to create a distraction (Zeb’s really good at that). When Zeb gets caught between Imperial Stormtroopers and a TIE Fighter, the Imperials think they have him pinned down. What really happens is that Zeb jumps up onto the TIE, yoinks out the pilot, and jumps in himself.

Zeb is piloting a TIE Fighter for the first time. This should get interesting because Zeb’s trying not to fly into a wall. I hope he gets the hang of flying that thing.

Meanwhile, Ezra is jumping rooftops just ahead of more troopers and he’s running for his life.

Oh hi, Zeb!

Is it me, or has Zeb learned to fly a TIE in a way no one ever has? I mean, have you ever seen a TIE fly horizontally?

Ezra is asking Zeb to let him in, but Zeb wants to negotiate. If he helps Ezra, he’d be saving Ezra’s life, right? Ezra agrees and jumps in, but as soon as they fly away, they’re bickering again about who should fly the thing!

Back on the Ghost, Sabine has decided to get creative in Ezra’s room, and she’s painting away. Kanan and Chopper are playing a little Dejarik as Kanan muses about how quiet it is with the kids gone.

Zeb’s voice crackles on the comlink. Speak of the Lasat.

Hera and Kanan get the rundown. They had a Meiloorun, they lost it. Got it again. Oh yeah, and they stole a TIE Fighter. Kanan says to get rid of it. The boys reply, say it with me now, “Do we have to?”

Kanan facepalm.

Kanan tells Zeb and Ezra to fly straight to the rendezvous point, but you know they don’t listen, right? They have supplies and a Meiloorun to get back. So Zeb drops Ezra onto the convoy. In addition to their supplies, they find Ezra’s friend from the market. The Empire stopped by Sumar’s farm earlier, blew it up, and took him prisoner. Looks like he’s not the only one.

Calming his mind, Ezra uses the Force to unlock the prisoners, and they jump clear. That was pretty good, kid. Chopper would be impressed. But it’s not over yet. Now the Imperials are after Ezra.

When one of the troopers gets closer to him, he’s confused. “You did all this for fruit?”

Yes. Yes he did. It’s a pretty good thing that Zeb just swooped in and saved Ezra with some pretty fancy shooting.

Okay, I honestly have no idea how to describe the way Zeb just rescued Ezra. So here are the pictures.

In the end, all’s well that ends well. Zeb and Ezra crash the TIE to keep it out of enemy hands, they’re safe, they agree that they’re eternally even, and they even have new wall art, thanks to Sabine.