Rise of the Old Masters

[Brandon Rhea]

Most of the time, the references are too on the nose. However, I thought Yoda's line was the exception to that. Rather than just wink at the audience as if to say "Hey! Look! It's that thing you love!" they actually took a teaching from Empire​ and made it the moral of the episode.

 

[Cortan]

http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2014/1...the-luminara-twist-in-rise-of-the-old-masters

Interview with Dave Filoni on the episode. On the one hand, it is a holorecording, which does bring down the moment a bit I'd say (though you still have corpse presence), but on the other its of her execution. The one that, dejected and with no hope left, she just walked into. Christ, this episode.

He also then goes into discussing the matters of how sensing should work in Star Wars, and the continuity between the two eras.

 

[Kaeb]

It's funny that beyond vague plot elements there barely is any cohesive connectivity between the two eras, everyone is now essentially cleaning up Lucas's mess but never outright acknowledging it.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

I was hoping it was her echo. Pros and I were talking about an interesting headcanon explanation for it, so on the one hand it's kinda lame that it's just a hologram. On the other hand, it is very creepy that the Inquisitor kept a recording of her execution and has continued to play it for years.

It's funny that beyond vague plot elements there barely is any cohesive connectivity between the two eras, everyone is now essentially cleaning up Lucas's mess but never outright acknowledging it.

Similar to this point, one thing I've been impressed with for several months now is how they've used the Jedi beacon, the one that Obi-Wan used to warn Jedi away from Coruscant in Episode III. That was a throw-away plot device in Episode III. It wasn't meant to really lead anywhere, since in Lucas canon there were only two Jedi left by the next film, and served mainly as a reason to get Obi-Wan inside the Jedi Temple so he could see the hologram of Anakin killing kids. Once Obi-Wan saw it, the beacon's plot purpose was fulfilled.

But that sort of thing raises questions. It presents an element to the Jedi massacre where many of them who are not around clones are able to get the signal and run away. It allows for opportunities for more Jedi to be alive. Not only that, but Obi-Wan's signal had to have had a profound effect on certain people who saw it. Kanan is one of those people. He thought about the signal for years after Order 66, and thought about Obi-Wan frequently in A New Dawn. He even still has a hologram by the time of Spark of Rebellion (though I don't think that’s the signal that Obi-Wan recorded, but rather a follow-up).

I like how they're able to take these sort of throw away lines and make them into something deeper, something that actually adds to the mythology of the saga. Like what they did with Order 66 itself in The Clone Wars, taking a dumb line in Episode III and making a pretty good story around it for the clones.

 

[Vulpes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tyu3rrBgHk

At 3:55, they touch down a little bit on the Inquisitor's use of Luminara's ghost thing. It is a hologram, but Luminara likely died in that cell, and her Force presence remained. This explanation reminds me a lot of the Palpatine presence in Timmothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy. Much like how Leia felt the dead Emperor's presence above Yavin IV, Kanan was able to sense the remnants of Luminara's in the prison.