BEWARE SPOILERS: Just like with the previous Disney Plus series, we at Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your entertainment! Here we will post every reference, Easter egg, everything named and unnamed per episode and some fun trivia in-between that we have spotted.
Official summary: Racing to the next target, the Jedi head to a new world as they close in on a clever assassin.
Trivia
Kelnacca’s living place has yin-yang like symbols on the wall representing the light and dark side of the Force not unlike the one seen in a cave on Ahch-To in The Last Jedi where Luke meditated. The second set of symbols, when the music turns ominous, look a lot more like the spiral symbol that Mother Aniseya wore in the previous episode.
We are introduced to some new Jedi on Coruscant during a training class:
The Jedi Master that teaches the class is well-known actor Paul Bullion from The Witcher. His character is named Master Lakshay.
Daro & Rena are named in episode and most likely the two Jedi we see still standing in the room as Osha and Jecki talk.
They train using bokken sabers, as Sabine did in Rebels and Ahsoka.
The ship that Mae and Qimir use has been identified as Exile II, which seems to be its name rather than the type of ship.
The Jedi Temple situation room brings to mind the one from Revenge of the Sith, but this one is different and more a cross between that one and the Home One briefing room. The holoprojector looks similar to the one seen in Return of The Jedi, with the other screens being similar to those used by the Rebel Alliance and Resistance in OT and Sequels.
The End Credits reveal that the Cerean Jedi we see is actually a younger Ki-Adi-Mundi from the Prequels. He was played by Derek Arnold who had various roles in The Force Awakens and Rogue One and makes his return to Star Wars here.
The only other Jedi that is named from this scene is Master Holden, played by Indra Ové. This is actually Ové’s second Star Wars role. In The Rise Of Skywalker she played a First Officer who was present when Kylo Ren threw Boolio’s head on the table.
As Sol and Vernestra talk after the meeting you can spot a tentacled alien in the background. This species is unnamed, but appeared before in The Last Jedi and two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
A Tarlafar Jedi can be seen in the background as Osha and Sol talk. This species was named for the first time in The Bad Batch, in which we see the Force-sensitive Bayrn. The species itself was first seen in Solo with Wamoth, played by Warwick Davis, standing at the sabacc table for Han and Lando’s first match.
“There is still good in her” Sol pleads, like Luke and Padmé did regarding Anakin.
Among the Jedi team to extract Kelnacca is a Kel Dor Jedi. This is Ithia Paan, who was named on the official Star Wars X account.
The Jedi have help from Bazil, a Tynnan tracker. Tynnan, and their homeworld Tynna are some of the oldest created species from Star Wars. They first appeared in the (now Legends) novel Han Solo’s Revenge, published in 1979 and written by Brian Daley. The Tynnans were brought back into canon by James Luceno, who was a close friend of Daley, in the Rogue One prequel novel Catalyst.
After arriving on Khofar the Jedi speak to a local. It is possible that this is an Ongidae. But in all fairness, this is one of those “aliens that can be a match, but looks a bit different, but let’s go with this name for now or else they never get a species name” examples that the new series can be riddled with.
Yord says that the blaster Osha has taken is the property of the Jedi Order. Why do they even need to own blasters if they use lightsabers? It could be that they are there for the non-Jedi service personnel that work at the temple. Or maybe for when a Jedi needs to go on an undercover mission and cannot carry their lightsaber.
Some of the tree roots seen bring to mind Ralph McQuarrie’s concept art for Dagobah.
Creatures attached to tree are called umbramoths. And just like the moths found on Earth, they are attracted to light.
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