star wars: rebels

[Grugz]

with all the hype for the new film I wondered why no one was seemingly paying any love to rebels

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/08/12/star-wars-rebels-short-the-machine-in-the-ghost/

  got an r2 a jedi a ralph mcquarrie wookie stormtroopers and tie fighters !!!

I'm liking the slightly changed look to clone wars...almost a pixary feel ?
   

[CrazyFoxMachine]

I'm in two minds about it - it just looks quite ... well hackneyed I guess without meaning to sound ridiculous.

I personally thought the CG Clone Wars (not the amazing Genndy Tartakovsky 2D masterpiece) was a bit of a mess - it just... went on for ages and kept different versions of the same dull trope stories over and over - here's the noir episode, here's the prisoner escape episode, here's the blah blah. Finally we're free of that chokingly convoluted period and into somewhere interesting and we've got like... a misfit team and a blah and etc.

Could win me 'round though - the guys making it seem quite enthused in a genuine way. Hopefully if it starts shallow it'll level out into something more interesting.

If you're a Star Wars fan though there ain't no such sweet thing as solid continuity cake ... something else will always come along and piss all over the lore.

[TordelBack]

First ten minutes:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZn_TrwbPN8

It's hard to know.  I like the design (obviously), the comfortable setup has potential, but the timing is disastrous: the show will have no time to find its feet before Episode VII rolls around and swamps it, and I still think everyone would have been better employed finishing out TCW properly (distribution issues aside).  This would have been a great idea a few years back, maybe in tandem with TCW, but it's difficult to see how it will find that young  audience largely made up of Prequelers and Sequelers.  My impression is that it will sink without a trace after 1 or maybe 2 seasons, but I hope I'm wrong.

Initial problems such as the non-threat of skittle-like Stormtroopers and TIEs (undermining any sense that the victories of the heroes of the OT were anything special) and the yawn-inducing familiarity of the main villain may prove hard to resolve.  It's also going to be heavily reliant on snappy dialogue, without recourse to the arch formalism that TCW could fall back on, and getting that right without making it sound like an episode of Supah Ninjas will be huge job.  The team obviously have a real love for their product, and I'd be very happy to see it overcome these issues and succeed.  The Lego sets alone may make it worthwhile.