New Animated Series: Star Wars Rebels.

Turtyturd

http://collider.com/star-wars-rebels-animated-series-disney-xd/


This was announced this morning, and apparently will take place in the time period between the end of the prequels and the beginning of the originals. I think The Clone Wars series has outstayed it's welcome so will be interesting to see the reaction to this as it is most likely the first step in a constant bombardment of Star Wars material over to next few years.


Always thought the third prequel should have covered this period, with Sith being the second movie, and combination of TPM and ATOTC being the first.

ziedth

The development team are behind some very good films sad o I'd be interested to see this.

I gave up on clone wars years ago but I'd chance it to see.

Gbear

ziedth wrote: »

The development team are behind some very good films sad o I'd be interested to see this.

I gave up on clone wars years ago but I'd chance it to see.

If you skip the ones with the droids in it there's a fair few decent episodes right up until it got cancelled.

corkie

Anyone else watch the first episode? And what did you think?

Jerichoholic

corkie wrote: »

Anyone else watch the first episode? And what did you think?

Thought it was pretty damn good, will keep watching for sure.

karaokeman

corkie wrote: »

Anyone else watch the first episode? And what did you think?

I saw it. Was a pretty solid episode, really OT feel.

Jerichoholic

The second episode couldn't have been more of a generic kids action cartoon.

Absolam

The first episode drew heavily on the Episode IV movie to make it's connection I thought (but that wasn't a terrible idea), the second episode was definitely 'meh'....

the_syco

What did they do with the

TIE fighter

in the end of episode three?

Roar

Another voice to add to the consensus - thought the first episode was great (could have done with a slightly longer back story for Ezra), second episode not so much. And I groaned when I saw

R2 and C3PO, really shrinks the universe

Will give it another episode or two.

Mr. K

If you'd like to experience each episode vicariously through me, I'm recapping them for the New York Daily News:

Shorts

Spark of Rebellion

Episode 2

Episode 1

Episode 3

I'm enjoying it so far, but the first and second normal-length episodes were a little generic. But the third episode was great! As for the fourth, you'll have to wait until Monday!

Gbear

I've got into this of late.

It's a decent show. The kiddy element isn't too bad - not as bad as the first couple of seasons of TCW at any rate.

Gbear

SQUEEE!!!

AHSOKA!!

Season 1 has finished. It turned into a nice little show by the end.

It spent a fair bit of time building characters and doing kid-friendly low effort episodes but the final arc of the last 3 or 4 episodes was really good.

Looking forward to season 2 now.

Varik

Gbear wrote: »

SQUEEE!!!

AHSOKA!!

Season 1 has finished. It turned into a nice little show by the end.

It spent a fair bit of time building characters and doing kid-friendly low effort episodes but the final arc of the last 3 or 4 episodes was really good.

Looking forward to season 2 now.

Agree with that. I was watching for the same reason I've read a lot of bad eu books as It's still star wars in the end, but now I'm actual looking forward to season 2.

Gbear

HOT ****ING DAMN!!!

Preview of season 2.
Contains spoiler for season 1.

Looks awesome!

corkie

Season 2 Episode 1 Now available!


About to watch it!

Gbear

The new episode was class.

The score was particularly stellar.

Asoka passing out was a bit hokey but other than that I thought they got everything spot on.
I was worried how they were going to deal with Asoka and Vader's reveal to one another, but I'm happy to see that they didn't muck about with it. It wouldn't have made sense for there to be a mystery between them when it's been well established that master and padawan have a special bond.

It's going to be interesting to see what effect her not revealing who he was is going to have - when they first come face to face it could be seriously epic.

Vader was suitably terrifying and having read Lords of the Sith it was cool to see him flying with the same amount of panache on screen.

Pity the season proper doesn't start til autumn. This really has me excited for it.

Gbear

Sweeeettt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfeWNZqVYsE

Interdictors, B-Wings, Ackbar?, Rex, Sabine is a Viszla, Bo Katan?

Yes please.

corkie

Season 2 Episode 2 The Lost Commanders now available

Gbear

This show is a bit irritating in a way.

A 23 minute episode just isn't enough for me anymore.

Decent stuff to start with after the proper season opener, but because of the running time nothing really happened.

Gbear

This show is a bit irritating in a way.

A 23 minute episode just isn't enough for me anymore.

Decent stuff to start with after the proper season opener, but because of the running time nothing really happened.

Gbear

Hmm.

6 episodes into season 2 now.

Can't say I've been terribly impressed on the whole.
The first preview episode released during the summer really set a high level that's been pretty comprehensively missed by everything since.

While you can enjoy a show aimed at pre-teens so long as it's pretty good in general, at times it feels like the target audience of this is 4 year olds.

Episodes are too short for self-contained episodes, so things are rushed, the tone is a bit inconsistent, with decapitations one week and telegraphing what's going on to such a degree that you'd wonder are they not just aiming it at children, but also possibly dogs or other barely sentient life.

I can't imagine not consuming all available Star Wars media as it comes out, but I get so little from this show that there may well come a time where compulsive Star Wars fandom isn't enough.

Gbear

So the last episode of the first half of the season finished on a fairly high note.

This is the teaser for the second half, starting from January 20th, I believe (this may contain some spoilers for the show - certain characters appear and events happen you might not want to have heard about. It doesn't actually spoil any major plot developments though):

This has me pretty pumped.
Last season they did a lot of fluff first half before veering into more interesting territory. I hope that's what we're going to get this time around as well.
If this teaser is anything to go by, we just might be.

Slydice

BEST EPISODE EVER!!!!!!!!!!


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*deep breath*



!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gbear

The 2nd half of the season was absolute pants up until the finale, which was excellent.

Top stuff.
There's enough to be getting on with for next season.

Except the helicopter lightsaber bull****. **** that noise.

Slydice

One word:

Thrawn!

OH YEAH!

https://twitter.com/starwars/status/754345498434166784

Gbear

Last season's trailers were the nuts as well but then there was about 3 good episodes.

That does look pretty sweet though.

Rael

Did I hear Tom Baker's voice in there too as the one who describes himself as being between the Dark & the Light Sides?

Update: Little bit of Google-Fu shows it is him in there

Twigster

Was lucky enough to be in London for this, including screening of first two episodes, lots of potential there for this year, eventually it'll have to lead into Rogue One, and there was already mention of the greater rebellion, interesting to see if anyone makes an appearance in the film.

Venom

Season 3 has started and can be found in the usual places