Still, the Rebels Rukh seems more aggressive and more of a wild card, back-talking Pryce and doggedly pursuing Ezra and Jai well after the other Imperials have given up. The boxes of a pebble-gray skinned alien with inhuman agility and speed match the physical description well enough, but those are not exactly difficult shoes for Rebels to have a character fill. So at what point does Rukh stop being Rukh? LetвЂ™s be real here, Rukh in the books did not get much of a personality he was stoic, he was loyal (for the most part), he was efficient and he was deadly. Rukh from the books was a personal bodyguard of the Grand Admiral who never left his side, while this Rukh (from what weвЂ™ve seen so far) is more of a freelance assassin and tracker, the sort of troubleshooter that someone in ThrawnвЂ™s position might use to do the dirty work he canвЂ™t put on the books. Gone, for instance, is their comic book-level ability to smell all the way back through peopleвЂ™s bloodlines just by sniffing their hand, replaced with a heightened sense that is believable but still alien. For one thing, the Noghri are a very different race in the show than they are on paper. Now, letвЂ™s make one thing clear from the outset: the Rukh from Rebels is not the same as the Rukh from the Thrawn trilogy of books.

Ladies and gentlemen, from stage left and voiced by the fan-favorite Warwick Davis, please welcome Rukh to the spotlight. We see this most blatantly with ThrawnвЂ™s inclusion, but once Thrawn is in the mix itвЂ™s only a matter of time before other elements of his trilogy begin to creep their way into the show as well. The creative team is made up of people who grew up watching and reading about Star Wars rather than creating it themselves, so of course they try to slip in references both direct and indirect to stories and characters that they grew up with but, until now, havenвЂ™t been elevated to the same level as the film canon. Star Wars Rebels is an odd show from a creative standpoint. So, in lieu of doing a deep dive into Kanan and HeraвЂ™s ever-evolving relationship or how the Loth-wolves represent the same mystical elements of the Force that the Bendu did last season, weвЂ™re going to talk about something everyone loves to debate: whether the homages within these last two episodes are valuable, or just creative ripoffs used to get old-school fans to sit up and take notice. The breadth of Star Wars material is so vast, that it can successfully draw from other places within the multimedia empire to lend inspiration, or just pirate ideas wholesale. As time has gone on, those homages have expanded to include Star Wars material itself. From whole plots, to character archetypes, to vehicle designs and dialogue, you can see the collage of homages built into Star WarsвЂ™ DNA right from the first frames of the first movie. Call it a reference, call it stealing, or lazy, or being вЂњinspired byвЂќ, one fact cannot be denied: Star Wars loves its homages.

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