Reactions: Dark Side Secrets— Visions and Voices Preview

I don't know how many of you have seen this clip. It's on the official Star Wars youtube channel, and is a preview for the next episode of Rebels.

There are a couple of beautiful and amazing things about this.

Let's first, of course, take off our hats to Maul and Sam Witwer's performance. I cannot wait for more of that character. His mental instability is glorious.

Next, there's the fact that the darksaber makes an appearance. So. Awesome.

And... it's on Dathomir. I know, I know.

With those three things, how could I find something more? If those alone had been present, I'd be talking ninety-miles-an-hour nonstop and completely, absolutely delighted for this episode.

But the in-real-life Rebels team went above and beyond.

The blood-scrawled name Kenobi in Mando'a on the wall. The fact Maul kneels before it, surrounded by candles. Is that a personal ritual? Come home, kneel before that name, then make dinner?

What stole my breath and kicked my heart was that picture. Satine. The picture. Now stained, torn. From a distance, it looks like her eyes are bleeding black. Think of all of that wonderful black fluid that would spill from mouths and ears and noses in Teen Wolf, and now apply that to that painting. You know, that TV show has some wonderful visual elements. Moving on.

The music. Oh. Satine's theme is... so beautiful, all on its own. To include it here, warped? All it took was that first signature note, and my heart was in my throat. And from there I was completely lost. So beautiful.

And then the camera pans down and we see...

The weapon that killed her. On a stand. Beneath her portrait. Surrounded by candles.

Sweet mother of Palpatine.

The shrine he built, basically of her death— the knowledge that Kenobi will suffer from that as long as his heart beats...

“He lives!”

Even if Obi-Wan and Satine are never mentioned in this episode...

This alone is enough. More than enough. I thought that moment of He Lives couldn't be trumped this season, even by Thrawn, who is absolutely spectacular.

I'm afraid this moment outdoes even He Lives.

Go ahead, tell me I'm crazy.

I'll just be here, kneeling at the weird shrine to Satine's death, and glorying in the fact that Maul learned Mando'a.

Someday...

I hope Obi-Wan sees this place. Not this episode. But someday.