Star Wars, Clone Wars, Rebels, Oh My

finally getting into the middle of Rebels S3. This nascent insurgency sure does put a lot of sweat and treasure into hair

"you must drink it all. just like me. all of it."

forcefully enunciated this to many apprentices in my day as well

Saw Gerrera revealed as long ago, far away Bernie Bro

Thrawn forcing that suspected saboteur dude in the factory to accelerate the speeder bike until it exploded was some cold-ass shit for a kid's cartoon tbh.

In a show centered on teenage soldiers in a guerilla war you gotta take your chances to illustrate the stakes when they come, is what I thought of that bit. Ditto Hondo's cellmate although his demise was so quick I barely registered that we'd lost a dude.

Mandalore = Europe

This is one of the only planets in the SW canon universe that has more than one observed biome
Population 100% warfighters who all look alike but have very, very, deadly serious clan shit
They invented and mastered many of the deadliest combat technologies around, except for that one
THE LIGHTSABER (ps this is a metaphor for the bomb)
and they have the lightsaber now, they just call theirs the darksaber, or whatever
and it's cool and all but it's not the same, is it
no, it's not

Also in the end, they're just fighting over Mandalore, provincial as can be, and not to spoil it, but

the toughest Mandalorian is cloned into a bazillion battalions, but all are rendered moot by a whiny hippie and his chubby robot friend. This metaphor pays for its own ticket, no?

the darksaber was from clone wars, i forgot about it but it's some mandalore leadership symbol from hundreds if not thousands of years ago and was taken from a jedi they defeated in battle

I take that back, it belonged to the first mandalorian jedi and has been a status symbol: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darksaber

This is one of the only planets in the SW canon universe that has more than one observed biome

Some of those are actually different planets btw. Sabine's family/clan are on Krownest, which is in Mandalorian space.

BTW they announced at Celebration that next season is officially the final season.

I'll be vague to avoid major spoilers, but the seeing Thrawn's plan get spoiled at the last minute by the one factor he had no idea existed in the season finale was great

placeholder for how fucking awesome the death of that one guy is

DM?

slide into your DMs like obi wan, DGAF your double sabers

*sound of soda can opening*

Is Coke it?

Yes, Coke is it.

"hhhhhh"

the idea of really skilled swordplay being a matter of sizing up stances, countering, and very little actual action is good imo

-- I become a redditurd about 20 words into this so bear with me or don't --

oh it was SO GOOD

Watching the entire "canon" from CW to the prequels, and Rebels, OBK is basically the one dude who could probably whup Yoda. He didn't get lucky in EP III; he called it how he saw it, and he was right. There needs to be albums about OBK. The only other truly fearless motherfucker in that galaxy is R2-D2 and he's actually an avatar of god, so

In Revenge of the Sith, Yoda tella Kenobi he isn’t powerful enough to face Sidious, which Yoda then goes to do himself. I do not think, at least that point, if at any point, really, could Kenobi beat Yoda.

The orbital bombardment of the base by Thrawn is one of the most terrifying things I've seen in an SW movie in terms of showing actual warfare. Like you genuinely feared for the characters' lives there.

well, could Yoda have beaten Sidious? In the movie it's a draw; in the novelization he loses.

Kenobi vs Yoda is decisively the dumbest argument I have ever started in any context

Sentence mitigated by you subconsciously trying to drop responsibility by calling him OBK.

are we talking "fall of the republic" kenobi or "been meditating and seeing all the moves in advance for twenty years" kenobi

I think the best written/performed part of the Maul/Obi-wan episode isn't even the confrontation -- it's Ezra being so driven to help, and Obi-wan just calmly telling him, "You're not supposed to be here." But it doesn't seem to really bother him that this has happened, just acceptance that this is how things have flushed out.

That was the original series' idea of How a Jedi Should Be that stuck with me. Not that being a warrior makes you less of a jedi, but the monk-like existences of Ben and Yoda not simply an artifact of them being in hiding

And then him just being chill while Maul basically throws a tantrum, and finally igniting his light saber only after Maul's finally done thinking out loud

it was almost a look of resignation when Maul puzzles out why Obi-wan is there and his primary purpose -- protecting the Skywalker kid, the only thing that spurns him to combat

spurs him to combat

jesus I've mistyped that twice this week

Phil D pretty close to the mark re: orbital bombardment. Very happy to see Sabine back in the fold. Also TOM BAKER WILL THUNDER DOWN ALL YOUR AT-ATS

I had a few free hours last night and read the Ahsoka book

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― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, October 12, 2016 10:48 AM

Have you read any of the other canon novels? Has anyone dipped into any of the canon novels besides mh? I probably shouldn’t, but who knows if I end up doing it anyway.

Supposed to be a new Vader comic thing happening too?

That’s exactly what I should be doing with my life right now: finding out how he goes about building a lightsaber.

do you think they'd ever have a character with white lightsaber(s) in the movies?

the new rebels trailer feels like it reinforces my hunch that these good people are mostly going to wind up dead before long

http://www.youtube.com/embed/JtigV-biVGg

ffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtigV-biVGg

weird editing on that one

I like the idea of making the last season about going back to defeat the empire in the place they all came together

fwiw the new Thrawn book was half about Rebels

I enjoyed reading Bloodline! I tend to agree that a lot of what's in it doesn't really appear so much on screen (which is a flaw of the newer movies, mostly TFA), but it did kind of jibe with what I expected about the First Order. Paramilitary, funded by some secret extremists within the government (Hail Hydra), salvaged existing craft from the Empire, mostly lived underground (literally).

is there any place Rebels is streaming? I bought season 1 but lord do I not wanna buy each one individually.

I think you can buy a season pass subscription from Amazon or Apple or the like

It's streaming on Disney XD, if you can get the ability to sign into someone's cable streaming credentials

Of the recent stock of writers allowed to dabble in Star Wars I'd put Claudia Gray on a higher tier than the others. The writing has a character focus, the connective tissue quotient is way too high on a lot of the others, or they're given characters that seem ephemeral

just watched the ep where [redacted] confesses to the crimes they tried to frame [redacted] for and it's pretty much all the stuff that Luke says in the Last Jedi, just more use of the present tense. Clone Wars is the best Star Wars

Rebels really takes a big step up in quality between Seasons 1 and 2. I wish I had a show like this as a kid.

omg the scene where Ahsoka shows up and faces down the two Inquisitors

omg the episode with Agent Kallus and Zeb was incredible

there are some slower episodes but... you have a lot of great moments ahead

Love REBELS 4evah

they grind on Sabine’s arc a little hard but it’s a cartoon, and it pays off

New trailer for the final episodes, plus a lot of further detail (for now) from Filoni

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-final-trailer-for-star-wars-rebels-is-here-and-we-1822194377

Thrawn is so fuckin dope

and omg at Fulcrum reveal

Dave Filoni with a new animated series coming this fall: https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-resistance-set-for-fall-debut

StarWars.com is thrilled to announce that production has begun on Star Wars Resistance, an exciting new animated adventure series about Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot recruited by the Resistance and tasked with a top-secret mission to spy on the growing threat of the First Order. It will premiere this fall on Disney Channel in the U.S. and thereafter, on Disney XD and around the world.

Featuring the high-flying adventure that audiences of all ages have come to expect from Star Wars, Star Wars Resistance — set in the time prior to Star Wars: The Force Awakens — will feature the beloved droid BB-8 alongside ace pilots, colorful new characters and appearances by fan favorites including Poe Dameron and Captain Phasma, voiced by actors Oscar Isaac and Gwendoline Christie, respectively.

The series was created by renowned Lucasfilm Animation veteran Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels); executive-produced by Athena Portillo (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels), Justin Ridge (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels) and Brandon Auman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles); and art-directed by Amy Beth Christenson (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels).

“The idea for Star Wars Resistance came out of my interest in World War II aircraft and fighter pilots” said Filoni. “My grandfather was a pilot and my uncle flew and restored planes, so that’s been a big influence on me. There’s a long history of high-speed racing in Star Wars, and I think we’ve captured that sense of excitement in an anime-inspired style, which is something the entire team has been wanting to do for a long time.”

Marc Buhaj, senior vice president, Programming and general manager, Disney XD, said, “Our colleagues at Lucasfilm have created a compelling narrative for an untold moment in the Star Wars galaxy, and we are excited to partner with them again on this new original series. Star Wars Resistance will bring viewers across generations an engaging story with heart, humor and both new and familiar characters.”

In addition to Isaac and Christie, the voice cast includes actors Christopher Sean (Days of Our Lives), Suzie McGrath (East Enders), Scott Lawrence (Legion), Myrna Velasco (Elena of Avalor), Josh Brener (Silicon Valley), Donald Faison (Scrubs), Bobby Moynihan (DuckTales), Jim Rash (Community), and Rachel Butera (Tammy’s Tiny Tea Time).

did we talk about how terrible Anakin’s hair is in CW S7? My god

That's how you knew he was headed to the dark side.

The dork side

new Bad Batch episodes!

this show’s grown on me and it seems more promising now that they’re out of the origin arc. it’s like the a-team but with experimental clones (and a kid)

Ahsoka tv show trailer's out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzNZ0Mdx4I

It really does look like live action Rebels!

LIVE ACTION REBELS would so be my jam.

i'm down for this.

I keep coming back to the realization that there's a whole generation of folks for whom Clone Wars/Rebels was THEIR Star Wars, and that this must be such an exciting time for them. Like, imagine if all of the anticipation and hype leading up to The Phantom Menace had been in the service of something other than a two-hour George Lucas fart.

Love it! And Titus Pullo as a Sith!

So if they’re doing Thrawn, and they teased the line “heir to the Empire,” dare I speculate that that’s Joruus C’baoth?

Still no sign of Ezra so he's definitely dead.

they've got to hold something back for the show!

xxpost Pretty much my initial guess. (Also: given all the various breadcrumbs being laid EVERYWHERE re cloning things lately in Mandalorian, Bad Batch, etc., that would fit in as well. I've seen it argued that this is a massive Rise of Skywalker retrofit going on, which makes sense -- but I'm actually interested in how that plays out here.)

xxpost Ezra’s in the trailer ( as a hologram) around the 1:20 mark!

Be great if they went full Uncanny Valley and Ezra is the only one specifically rendered in CGI as his Rebels look without alteration. "But I've always looked like this."

I think that hologram (and the bit with Sabine in the tower) is a recreation of the end of Rebels where Ahsoka shows up

Yeah, definitely.

not sure I'm very excited by more Rey.

God it’s all so t e d i o u s

just give me 5 seasons of Andor please and nothing else

Confirmed today that Lars Mikkelsen will reprise his role as Thrawn for _Ahsoka_

So many Mikkelsen in Star Wars now

Finally finished watching Rebels after all these years, very good stuff. Obv on the whole, way more consistent than Clone Wars (though that had a lot of high points tbf) and weird since I watched Season 7 of CW and the first 2 episodes of Ahsoka before this... but yeah. Pretty worthwhile. All the characters (except maybe Zeb who they kinda stopped giving stories after season 2) got nice arcs and the last 1.5 seasons especially had great momentum

cool that they carried over the Disney/deco art style from the final Jedi Temple story into future properties - current Ahsoka credit sequence, some of the stuff we saw in Visions etc.

Am enjoying Rebels more than I thought I would. It’s a great accompaniment to painting SW Legion minis at night.

Yeah it's a solid effort in the overall canon-as-such. Tom Baker as a big plant-animal thing in tune with the Force, I'm down.

That was Tom Baker? Ha!

It was indeed!