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Star Wars Rebels, New Animated Series coming Fall 2014
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AnathemicOne
Banned
Glad to see the female Mandalore design from TCW making a return... but that splash poster is full of shit.
New stills:
Those look like Wookie slaves. Seems like the Empire/Republic got right into that business shortly after Episode 3.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
A laser slingshot...
A LASER SLINGSHOT...
I honestly don't know how to feel about this.
A LASER SLINGSHOT...
I honestly don't know how to feel about this.
Schmo Florez
Member
Looks like Jak & Daxter.
Doctoglethorpe
Member
Its canon now. *sarcastic* Hooray!
I'm starting to get the vibe that the show is going to be focused quite a bit on that kid, that it will be even more children oriented then Clone Wars was. I was afraid of this with the Disney channel airing. Clone Wars was bad enough I felt, though it still managed to have a few decently mature arcs here and there (mainly the sith focused ones) so hopefully at least that practice will continue.
Megalosaro
Banned
what do male twileks look like?
Giolon
Member
Bib Fortuna is the only film appearance of a male Twi'lek: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bib_Fortuna
There have been many others in the (now-defunct) EU, and several do appear in Clone Wars and most aren't such ugly bastards.
RPGCrazied
Member
I'll give it a chance, but I don't know why, but some if it screams low budget.
brandonh83
Banned
Oh god. No. Oh god no. A lightsaber slingshot?
And they wonder why I only give a shit about the movies.
BattleMonkey
Member
No idea what shows you watched in the 90s, no other current tv cg cartoon looks anywhere near this.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Glad to see the female Mandalore design from TCW making a return... but that splash poster is full of shit.
This has probably been mentioned before, but the beast looking guy is a nod to this isn't it?
Wasn't that fat senator Twi'lek in the movies as well?
Calints Neos
Member
This has probably been mentioned before, but the beast looking guy is a nod to this isn't it?
Yeah Zeb is based on proto chewbacca.
I find it funny that people are complaining about this show just like they did to tcw back in the day, even though the same people are working on it.
I seriously doubt filoni and co are gonna make this show "kiddy".
a secret-boss
Banned
this is Disney Star Wars alright. happy and smirks
Calints Neos
Member
No Fun Allowed right guys
Miles Quaritch
Member
A slingshot?
Really?
Really?
BattleMonkey
Member
I'm destroying all my SW merch because of that sling shot
BattleMonkey
Member
2 cast members are smirking, it's end of the world
I really like the slingshot, if they can adequately explain it. Cause if that's a "lightsaber" slingshot then I just don't know wtf is going on... but it could be something very different, i'm hoping? Why not a slingshot? He's a teenage male... slingshots fit the feeling they are going for. we have laserswords, laserstaffs. laserguns, just about everything else... so why not
Remaining really excited still. The fact that it's confirmed as being "canon" makes it all the more interesting to me, though that's just a bonus.
Remaining really excited still. The fact that it's confirmed as being "canon" makes it all the more interesting to me, though that's just a bonus.
BattleMonkey
Member
I really like the slingshot, if they can adequately explain it. Cause if that's a "lightsaber" slingshot then I just don't know wtf is going on... but it could be something very different, i'm hoping? Why not a slingshot? He's a teenage male... slingshots fit the feeling they are going for. we have laserswords, laserstaffs. laserguns, just about everything else... so why not
Remaining really excited still. The fact that it's confirmed as being "canon" makes it all the more interesting to me, though that's just a bonus.
There was "light" bows in TCW, don't see how slingshot is any different.
Femmeworth
Banned
A fucking laser/plasma(?) slingshot. Wow. At least some of the characters get to use guns.
wookieofdoom
Member
this is Disney Star Wars alright. happy and smirks
Shoot me.
All starwars games and extended universe content is announced to no longer be canon. So no we won't
Giolon
Member
You're right. Orn Free Taa. I forget about that guy b/c they gave him 4 headtails for no good reason.
wookieofdoom
Member
I fully expect the main character kid to break out into song when he first appears on screen :
Gotta keep
One jump ahead of the breadline
One swing ahead of the sword
I steal only what I can't afford
Gotta keep
One jump ahead of the breadline
One swing ahead of the sword
I steal only what I can't afford
bigwinnerx
Member
It looks like something I could potentially watch with my 7 year old daughter.
Take that as you will, that's a huge positive for me or a horrible negative for another audience.
Take that as you will, that's a huge positive for me or a horrible negative for another audience.
DavionStriker
Member
I am with you on that. I watch Clone Wars with my (admittedly a little too young to watch) 4 year old son. He really only watches two episodes over and over (Downfall of a Droid and Duel of the Droids [those arent too violent]) but he lets me watch others every once in a while. I am frankly surprised by the adult elements in the show. It is surprisingly well done.
That being said, I do not care for the characters in the poster at all. Their look is WAY too silly. Smirks and smiles... and that beast on top looks like a Tangled character. I was actually excited for Disney. They have done a killer job with Marvel. I just hope they dont skew this too young.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
They haven't really done anything with Marvel except let them run autonomously. They're doing the same thing with Lucasfilm.
That isn't completely true. The expiration of Spectacular Spider-Man and Earth's Mightiest Heroes can be tied to a Disney desire to rebrand and air Ultimate and Assembled on Disney XD. There's also an accessibility ultimatum which limits serial storytelling and skews those shows younger. However, there is a much more liberal cross-over policy, so all Marvel characters have a chance of showing up in Agents of SMASH, Ultimate, Assembled, with the same voice talent and general design / reality.
A lot of the blame for this can be assigned to Jeph Loeb, but I suspect it's because he's more inclined to take notes from Disney and because Disney is less reverent of Marvel's animated properties. Filoni has been fairly candid that Disney does have a say, although it seems they're more respectful of the Star Wars Story Group's efforts than Loeb's management of animated Marvel (to be fair, Filoni / Weisman / etc. have proven themselves much more to justify that).
Maybe another way to put it is that Marvel can churn out two or three animateds tinkers and it'll just be another in a long line of bad animated series without canonical significance... but Star Wars having relatively few pieces of canon, Disney is more inclined to leave Star Wars to be Star Wars.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
While the laser slingshot is pretty dumb, the EU did have "lightwhips":
Giolon
Member
While the laser slingshot is pretty dumb, the EU did have "lightwhips":
NOT ANYMORE!
this is Disney Star Wars alright. happy and smirks
"Before the Dark Times, before the Empire"
chickdigger802
Banned
so grafitti chick isn't the protag, carlos is.
so first new canonical weapon is slingshot.... eh could be worse.
so first new canonical weapon is slingshot.... eh could be worse.
You should feel rage. A lot of fucking rage.
Xplatformer
Member
Yet I'd bet money the stories will be just as good, if not better than Clone Wars.
Art style may not be as good yet, but it should get better with time.
The stories...without the Clones, should be much better.
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