Star Wars Rebels theory
Jun. 14th, 2015 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmoore Last night, I was checking wikipedia to see when when Star Wars Rebels comes back (answer: June 20th! Only a week!) I ended up browsing the character listing. I...don't recommend this, as it spoils the fates of several The Clone Wars characters that I don't think has been mentioned in any promotional materials or tie-ins yet. I did notice something though, that may or may not mean anything.
Dee Bradley Baker voices Rex, Cody, Fives and all the other Clone Troopers. Ephraim Bridger is also voiced by Baker. It's not uncommon for cast members who don't play central characters to also voice minor characters, but if we take differences in animation styles into account (see: Ahsoka), Ezra and Ephraim have the same general look as the clones, and we know from TWC that at least one clone went rogue, and that the clones can father children (unless those weren't his biological kids, but I'm pretty sure they were.) There were also all those bits in the first season with Ezra and the Clone Trooper helmets, which I took at the time to be hinting at Ezra and the Dark Side, especially since Ezra ran around with other Imperial helmets at the time, not just the standard storm trooper helmet. Ezra also took really well and quickly to the training in the episode where he infiltrated the academy, and there's clearly a lot more to Ezra's parents than he or we know about.
It's a slim thread to hinge a theory on, of course, but it could be fun to think about.
Problems with the theory:
1. I'm pretty sure Kanan saw the picture of Ezra's parents, and he should have seen clones without their helmets at some point? But it's been 15 years, and he was only 12 or so at the time, so he could have forgotten.
2. Surely somewhere in the academy, Ezra ran into someone who knows what the clones look like as teenagers? Not that Ezra would look exactly like his father, but it should be a pretty strong similarity.
(Curse you, animated series voice acting trends, for putting this in my head.)
Dee Bradley Baker voices Rex, Cody, Fives and all the other Clone Troopers. Ephraim Bridger is also voiced by Baker. It's not uncommon for cast members who don't play central characters to also voice minor characters, but if we take differences in animation styles into account (see: Ahsoka), Ezra and Ephraim have the same general look as the clones, and we know from TWC that at least one clone went rogue, and that the clones can father children (unless those weren't his biological kids, but I'm pretty sure they were.) There were also all those bits in the first season with Ezra and the Clone Trooper helmets, which I took at the time to be hinting at Ezra and the Dark Side, especially since Ezra ran around with other Imperial helmets at the time, not just the standard storm trooper helmet. Ezra also took really well and quickly to the training in the episode where he infiltrated the academy, and there's clearly a lot more to Ezra's parents than he or we know about.
It's a slim thread to hinge a theory on, of course, but it could be fun to think about.
Problems with the theory:
1. I'm pretty sure Kanan saw the picture of Ezra's parents, and he should have seen clones without their helmets at some point? But it's been 15 years, and he was only 12 or so at the time, so he could have forgotten.
2. Surely somewhere in the academy, Ezra ran into someone who knows what the clones look like as teenagers? Not that Ezra would look exactly like his father, but it should be a pretty strong similarity.
(Curse you, animated series voice acting trends, for putting this in my head.)