Star Wars, Clone Wars, Rebels, Oh My

The whole thing on Mortis, with the Force Wielders? Never not gonna be weird.

“Hey Mr Filoni, what if we throw some random stuff late in the season that’s a lot like the endgame from a JRPG?”

“Sure”

I remember the little arc about the Mon Calamari / Quarren civil war being a lot more boring and confusing than this time around.

Maybe I give more fucks this time around since both races got recent screentime on The Mandalorian?

It was pretty involved! And the shark asshole died too quickly.

I think that guy was probably the actual ugliest character not named Hutt in the entire series.

almost done with Rebels. loving it. I do like that it and Mandalorian really dig into the fascistic tendencies of the Empire, rather than the morality play it was depicted as in the films.

depicts civilian life in the Empire on many worlds, how the Empire uses virulent language about the rebellion to paint them as the violent ones and put a target on their backs (much like....ehh, too easy), allegories for the cold war....and hell some really nice scenery throughout each ep

RIP Kanan

Closing in on the end of Clone Wars S5 on my rewatch and really starting to realize how fucking amazing this show looks on my new 4K QLED.

Some of the textures are just so PAINTED

Yeah there's a ton of art across the years of animation that's stellar. This from Rebels of a Sith temple is the ultimate prog-metal cover, really:

https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/malachor-sith-temple_1bc752c9.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1560%2C878&width=768

The other thing you learn from watching all of Clone Wars is that the Jedi spend a LOT of time in the gym

Somewhere in the galaxy is a whole other club of force users who huff and puff after five minutes on the track and would really rather just have a cold space beer while they use their powers to detect when the coals have gotten the space pig to exactly the right internal temperature

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!