History Recap / StarWarsRebelsS4E08JediNight

* SpoilerTitle: Not the worst but Night is a rather common synonym for death. True to form, night comes for a Jedi. In other words, "Good night, Jedi Knight".

* MoodWhiplash: Hera spends most of the episode drugged out and saying hilariously nonsensical things, but it gets dark all of a sudden when Kanan suddenly dies.

* DyingAsYourself: As [[WordOfGod Disney XD]] titles the scene, Kanan's death scene is titled "The Death of Caleb Dume". His eyes seem to change back for a moment just to underscore this.

* BittersweetEnding: Heavily, heavily leaning towards the "bitter" side. Pryce foolishly fires on the fuel pods to kill the Spectres, destroying the fuel supply for the sector. Unfortunately, the victory she just handed the Spectres costs them Kanan, who sacrifices himself so Hela, Ezra, and Sabine can escape.

* HardWorkMontage: Team Ezra building the gliders.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: A lot of it. Kanan's dialogue with Hera, Ezra, and Sabine very much sound like parting words, hinting that he knows he's not coming back. While he duels with Rukh he loses his lightsaber over the building, calling back to the "your lightsaber is your life".

* BittersweetEnding: Heavily, heavily leaning towards the "bitter" side. Pryce foolishly destroys the fuel pods to kill the Spectres, which her troops know will derail the TIE Defender project. Unfortunately, the victory she handed the Spectres costs them Kanan, who sacrifices himself so Hela, Ezra, and Sabine can escape.

* BittersweetEnding: Pryce foolishly destroys the fuel pods to kill the Spectres, which as it turns out completely derails the TIE Defender project and hands the rebels a victory. Unfortunately, that victory costs them Kanan, who sacrifices himself so Hela, Ezra, and Sabine can escape.

* BittersweetEnding: Pryce foolishly destroys the fuel pods to kill Phoenix Squadron, completely derailing the TIE Defender project and handing the rebels a victory. Unfortunately, that victory costs them Kanan, who sacrifices himself so Hela, Ezra, and Sabine can escape.

* BittersweetEnding: Pryce foolishly destroys the fuel pods to kill the rebels, completely derailing the TIE Defender project and handing the rebels a victory. Unfortunately, that victory costs them Kanan, who sacrifices himself so Hela, Ezra, and Sabine can escape.

* KickTheDog: Pryce tortures Hera just for the sake of torturing her, not even bothering to ask questions before Thrawn has had a chance to speak to her.

* ImportantHaircut: Kanan cuts his hair short and shaves his beard. Hera lampshades that she doesn't like the new change of 'do.
* InsistentTerminology: After their glider crashes at the fuel depot, Hera insists to Kanan that she never crashes. She just has very exciting landings.

* LoveMakesYouDumb: Defied. Kanan is worried that he won't be able to think clearly due to his feelings for Hera, so he preempts the problem by putting Ezra in charge.
* MoodWhiplash: Hera spends most of the episode drugged out and saying hilariously nonsensical things, but it gets dark all of a sudden when Kanan perishes.

* ContinuityNod: Hera caressing Kanan's face while commenting on her dislike of his new hairdo is reminiscent of Satine doing the same to Obi-Wan in ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''. Ironically, while Satine had commented that she disliked Obi-wan's beard (because it hid his face) Hera says that she prefers Kanan's former beard as opposed to his clean cut.

* ContinuityNod: Hera caressing Kanan's face while commenting on her dislike of his new hairdo is reminiscent of Satine doing the same to Obi-Wan in ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Thrawn happens to desperately need to go to Coruscant and plead his case for the TIE Defenders project, ''right'' before the team begin their mission. Had he been even in the immediate vicinity of the planet, things would likely have gone very differently.

* BigDamnKiss: Kanan and Hera get a proper one on top of the fuel pod after she outright says she loves him for the first time.

* BigNo: Even though all dialogue is muted by tragic music instead, Hera is clearly seen screaming this upon witnessing Kanan's death.

* JurisdictionFriction: Between Krennic and Thrawn. Thrawn's arguing for the pragmatism of the Defenders while Krennic wants to scrap the project and devote all resources to the "Stardust" project. Tarkin isn't impressed by Krennic's project, either, as it's a costly and thus far shows no results. Shows how little he thought of it at first since "Stardust" was the codename for the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, AKA the ''DEATH STAR''.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Pryce orders the fuel depot Kanan was standing on to be fired at, when it would've been easier to hit him directly without compromising the [=TIE=] production. Well that would've worked...if Kanan weren't a Jedi.

* YouAreInCommandNow: Kanan asks Ezra to come up with the rescue plan, since he can't do it himself without [[LoveMakesYouDumb love making him dumb]].

** In the ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsKanan Kanan]]'' comic, Caleb cut off his Padawan braid and let his hair grow so that he could become Kanan, the next stage in his life. Now, Kanan cuts away his hair so that he can progress to the next stage of his life, possibly becoming Caleb once again.

* TheDayTheMusicLied: At the climax of the episode, Hera and Kana share a BigDamnKiss on top of a large fuel tank. The music swells in typical ''Rebels'' fashion, Sabine and Ezra swoop in with their hijacked Imperial transport to pick them up, and it seems like another daring escape for our heroes. But then the music cuts out as a pair of [=AT-ATs=] show up.
-->'''Pryce:''' Target that fuel tank and fire!