1/12/2024 0 Comments Sabine wren the mandalorian![]() “Welcome home, little Mandalorian,” taunts the Imperial Lothal Governor Arihnda Pryce, who represents a cautionary tale for the younger Imperialized Sabine, when a daughter perverts their own homeworld with Imperialized mentality. Jarringly, when she goes undercover as an Imperial student in “The Antilles Extraction,” the episode does little to develop the emotional discomfort Sabine would feel to be back in academic Imperial spaces, though the ironic homecoming is noted. The Sabine of Rebels is a heroine with a temper, but the Sabine of the past was a borderline anti-heroine who once endangered her own homeworld, as revealed in her cathartic confession in “Trials.” The brunt of Sabine’s Imperial past has yet to be fully fleshed out. ![]() With Sabine brandishing a weapon of manifold symbols and chaotic history, there was no better way to externalize Sabine’s cognitive dissonance with her cultural and family origins and the new values provided by her adoptive Ghost family.įrom being raised by a Mandalorian warrior-countess, to Imperial cadet, to bounty hunter, to rebel crewmember of the Ghost, Sabine lived a multi-layered life. “The Trials of the Darksaber” marked the most nuanced episode of Rebels, illuminating the cultural and spiritual dynamics of a non-Force-sensitive Mandalorian wielding a Jedi and Mandalorian relic, which has a history that rotates around Jedi philosophy, peacekeeping, extremist violence, and necessary defense. Once fate placed the Darksaber weapon into her hand, Sabine became the center of hands-down some of the best on-screen Star Wars drama. The Mandalore arc left by the canceled Clone Wars series provided a plethora of thematic opportunities for Sabine. She has a complicated tale of heritage and allegiance. “Protectors of Concord Dawn” also showed her enacting an impromptu compromise between pacifism and aggressive war. In “Out of Darkness,” she clashed with her Captain Hera Syndulla over mission secrecy and trust. ![]() As a result, Sabine’s artistic proclivities unfortunately came off as gimmicky in the eyes of many fans.įortunately, when Sabine was not an arbitrary team player who shot and threw explosives, her input had weight in the grand scheme of the ethics of missions. When Sabine was a supporting character, she was not quite given breathing space to develop into a rounded character. She began a bit one-note, a pink-armored Mandalorian teen with a penchant for explosive, pro-Republic graffiti and snark. (Wishful speculation: Lucasfilm and Marvel must be saving something for both Sabine and Hera.)Ī weapons expert in the rag-tag Ghost crew, Sabine has gone through a turbulent journey. Like the contents of the Kanan comic miniseries, Sabine’s origin story does not seem to fit into Rebels‘ flashback-free televised form. Now, considering Sabine Wren’s overdue prominence in Rebels, I’ve waited for an announcement of a Sabine Marvel series. I brought up before that Captain Hera Syndulla has a cultural and war-filled background rife with narrative opportunities for comics. As Rebels strives for a flashback-free narrative, it was natural that his spoken origin story had to be showcased elsewhere in comics, although other Ghost members have backstories only dispensed through onscreen dialogue, spoken about rather than shown. To date, Jedi Kanan Jarrus is the only Ghost crewmember to star in his own Marvel series. ![]() In Star Wars Rebels, Mandalorian Sabine Wren (voiced by Tiya Sircar) is an Asian-coded heroine in the Star Wars Universe. As we await the debut of Kelly Marie Tran as Rose in The Last Jedi, another onscreen Asian woman heroine needs her due.
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