Review: Star Wars Rebels – “Legends of the Lasat”

Ezra, for some reason, has decided to take the lead on a rescue mission. Another mystery is the strange communicator Chopper has. No matter. There is a group of Stormtroopers guarding the transport anyway. When the prisoners are escorted out of the transport, the Rebels find out that they are rescuing a pair of Lasat. Zeb is not the last of his people.

Of course, the Rebels easily defeat the Stormtroopers. That is when the rest of the group finds out that Ezra’s contact is none other than Hondo Ohnaka. The crew of the Ghost take the two Lasat back to the ship, leaving Hondo behind. A big mistake. Shortly after they leave, another Stormtrooper arrives. Hondo tells him that the Rebels just left, which ends up in Hondo captured by the Empire.

On the Ghost, Chava, the older female Lasat, tells the group about a prophecy. Three people will lead them to their new homeworld, Lirasan. The fool, the warrior, and the child. Zeb stubbornly refuses to believe in the prophecy because he failed his people. He was supposed to protect them. Eventually, Ezra convinces him to help. When Zeb assumes that he is the warrior, Chava tells him that the prophecy is talking about a child of Lasan. Zeb uses his bo-rifle in conjunction with Chava’s walking stick and Chopper’s map to show the location of the new planet. Unfortunately, it is in uncharted territory.

At the same time, Hondo tells Agent Kallus that he planted a tracker on the the communicator Chopper carries. The Empire easily tracks down the Ghost and follows them.

Hera is forced to take the Ghost out of hyperspace due to an imploded star cluster blocking the way. Before they can give up, Chava tells Zeb that everyone is the fool, the child, and the warrior at different points in their life. Zeb, finally understanding the lesson, uses the power from his bo-rifle (and a little help from Kanan and Ezra) to guide the Ghost safely through the cluster. During their journey, everyone is knocked unconscious. When they awake, they realize that they have found Lirasan. When they drop Chava and Gron on the planet, Zeb announces that there are other Lasat on the planet. This is where his people originated. He vows to guide any other Lasat to Lirasan.

It’s about time that we learned a bit more about Zeb and his people. The parallels drawn between the Force and the Lasat prophecy was quite interesting. There wasn’t a ton of action but we didn’t really need it. The story alone was enough to keep the episode going. I do wonder what will happen with Hondo in the future though…