How Star Wars Rebels Saved My Life
I've talked about it for some time now, off and on, and I've decided my first real blog post will be how Star Wars Rebels saved my life and got me out of a pit of terrible depression and despair...
When Star Wars: Rebels started being shown in the UK, I was feeling completely down, my partner had left me for a former friend of mine, I felt depressed and feeling worthless - to sum it up, I was feeling suicidal and I am not ashamed to admit that... Watching episodes of the first season, I thought it was just a bunch of people who got together to fight the Empire and so I ignored the show (I wrote it off as a bad job) and became depressed more and more until I saw #AhsokaLives trending on twitter. By that point, I was suicidal and had tried taking my own life but the return of somebody, albeit fictional, that I cared for very deeply suddenly gave me a bright spot in my life. I went back and watched all of that season again and again - trying to find what I had missed before.
Finding out that there was going to be a second season, it gave me a purpose in life to get behind the series, be more involved and get to know other fans. Through the power and wonder of Twitter, I got to know people connected with the series such as Freddie Prinze Jr, Stephen Stanton, Andi Gutierrez and Pablo Hidalgo to name a few of the wonderful and talented people that bring the show to life. My first contact was to Pablo who was very kind to answer a politely worded tweet regarding a character from the Clone Wars series. The one I talk to most is Stephen who is a real gentlemen and it was one of his little give-aways in the midst of Season 2 where I won a Kylo Ren t-shirt as well as two signed photos of one of his many Star Wars roles - Tarkin in this case. So much I had become invested in the hype that I arranged with a friend to skype every week just so I could watch it the same day each episode was broadcast in the US - so desperate was I. When the finale for the season was on, I cried at the end at the thought of Ahsoka possibly dying - who knows what will happen to her in the Star Wars universe! In the off season, I traded banter with some of the cast and crew of the show and my day was made ever so happier whenever one of them would either reply or like a comment I made - for a person that finds it hard to make friends at all, this meant a lot to me.
Season 3 kept me going with twists and turns that nobody could have expected. I speculated with the rest of the community as to what certain themes and plots could mean - was Ahsoka in hiding somehow. The revelation that Kallus was now spying for the Rebels was an eye opener - let alone the fact he was the new "Fulcrum". Like many others, I laughed and cried my way through the second half with Sabine leaving the crew to rejoin her family but then coming back with Ezra when Thrawn arrived with the fleet to destroy the Rebel Alliance.
With news that Season 4 is going to be the last one for Rebels, and knowing that I am not that good at writing down my thoughts and feelings, I just want to say this... Thank you for giving me a reason to live, thank you for the laughs, thank you for the tears, thank you for the drama and, above all, a MASSIVE thank you for inviting me along to join you all on the rollercoaster of a journey that has been Star Wars Rebels... It has given me new reasons to live and opened up my world to people that, although I might never meet them for a long time, I am proud to call friends
May The Force be With You
When Star Wars: Rebels started being shown in the UK, I was feeling completely down, my partner had left me for a former friend of mine, I felt depressed and feeling worthless - to sum it up, I was feeling suicidal and I am not ashamed to admit that... Watching episodes of the first season, I thought it was just a bunch of people who got together to fight the Empire and so I ignored the show (I wrote it off as a bad job) and became depressed more and more until I saw #AhsokaLives trending on twitter. By that point, I was suicidal and had tried taking my own life but the return of somebody, albeit fictional, that I cared for very deeply suddenly gave me a bright spot in my life. I went back and watched all of that season again and again - trying to find what I had missed before.
Finding out that there was going to be a second season, it gave me a purpose in life to get behind the series, be more involved and get to know other fans. Through the power and wonder of Twitter, I got to know people connected with the series such as Freddie Prinze Jr, Stephen Stanton, Andi Gutierrez and Pablo Hidalgo to name a few of the wonderful and talented people that bring the show to life. My first contact was to Pablo who was very kind to answer a politely worded tweet regarding a character from the Clone Wars series. The one I talk to most is Stephen who is a real gentlemen and it was one of his little give-aways in the midst of Season 2 where I won a Kylo Ren t-shirt as well as two signed photos of one of his many Star Wars roles - Tarkin in this case. So much I had become invested in the hype that I arranged with a friend to skype every week just so I could watch it the same day each episode was broadcast in the US - so desperate was I. When the finale for the season was on, I cried at the end at the thought of Ahsoka possibly dying - who knows what will happen to her in the Star Wars universe! In the off season, I traded banter with some of the cast and crew of the show and my day was made ever so happier whenever one of them would either reply or like a comment I made - for a person that finds it hard to make friends at all, this meant a lot to me.
Season 3 kept me going with twists and turns that nobody could have expected. I speculated with the rest of the community as to what certain themes and plots could mean - was Ahsoka in hiding somehow. The revelation that Kallus was now spying for the Rebels was an eye opener - let alone the fact he was the new "Fulcrum". Like many others, I laughed and cried my way through the second half with Sabine leaving the crew to rejoin her family but then coming back with Ezra when Thrawn arrived with the fleet to destroy the Rebel Alliance.
With news that Season 4 is going to be the last one for Rebels, and knowing that I am not that good at writing down my thoughts and feelings, I just want to say this... Thank you for giving me a reason to live, thank you for the laughs, thank you for the tears, thank you for the drama and, above all, a MASSIVE thank you for inviting me along to join you all on the rollercoaster of a journey that has been Star Wars Rebels... It has given me new reasons to live and opened up my world to people that, although I might never meet them for a long time, I am proud to call friends
May The Force be With You
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