Razgriz-Specter
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Seeing guys in the classic helmets and orange flightsuits is oddly satisfying for such a minor thing.
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Star Wars Rebels Season 3 |OT| Dark Forces Rising
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Not true. Star Wars had a dead period up until 1987 when West End Games released the tabletop rpg. A lot of the EU started there. Rolling Stone had a great article about it published back in December.
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IlGialloMondadori
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Yep. But yeah, the WEG RPG got things rolling, but it wasn't huge. WEG, Dark Horse's comics, Lucas Arts Star Wars games, and the Zahn novels were the defibrillators to Star Wars. It always had life left, it just needed to be revived. Fans carried the torch, and super nerds flocked to WEG's RPG.
I still have my copies of the original WEG RPG and some sourcebooks. Killer game. Clear influence on everything that followed, including a big influence on the Lucas Arts games.
DarkJediKnight
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Just got around to watching the new episode, loved it, the space battles in this show are really well done. Visually, it's on another level. One of the most beautiful single shots in a CG cartoon I've ever seen.
The show is getting better visually, even though I dislike the art direction.
I always wondered what was the tipping point when everyone came together and decided to form the rebel alliance. Now it's Canon.
Although it should have been handled better. It looks like as soon as Mon Mothma's speech ended, ships were ready to go. Odd and not realistic at all.
BrokenFiction
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Holy crap, that scream at the end. :O
(Preview of Maul vs. Obi-Wan on Rebels next week)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv09z2o4UXM
(Preview of Maul vs. Obi-Wan on Rebels next week)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv09z2o4UXM
GeorgioCostanzaX
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Pretty decent filler episode this week. I've kinda grown to like episodes that flesh out certain niche functions of the imperial military:
Writing, tone, and animation are on point this season.
I'm thinking the data spike and spy ship might actually be the final Data point that allows Thrawn to narrow down the location of the base even if it's not obvious or showing a scene with Thrawn and his galaxy map in a coda at the end like they've done before. Using the mystery box storytelling method, it seems like the writers have finally gotten down a way to do multipart story arcs without necessarily having them back to back like Clone Wars
BrokenFiction
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Was...was that the first canonical bathroom visit?
Already happened in the books.
CrimsonSquall
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Which books
Star Wars: Luke Goes to the Shitter
I've seen very little of Rebels but I am sure as fuck not missing this. Who is the va for old Kenobi, or are they getting his TCW VA back?
But yes, that fucking scream is so good.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Stephen Stanton.
https://youtu.be/9LJGjPz2RFc?t=3m43s
he rite
This was a filler and pretty uninteresting.
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Next episode will be fucking awesome, though. The big tenpole episodes never disappoint.
he rite
This was a filler and pretty uninteresting.
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Next episode will be fucking awesome, though. The big tenpole episodes never disappoint.
Heir to the Jedi
Lifejumper
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They are really hyping up the Maul episode. I wonder if he will survive his encounter with Kenobi.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
I hope not, its time for his story to end.
LordOfChaos
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Well, at least the logic behind data transfer and computers always never made sense in Star Wars.
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Well, at least the logic behind data transfer and computers always never made sense in Star Wars.
Twilight Gap
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nothing in star wars makes sense, so in a way everything makes sense
Yeah that part was really dumb. I am choosing to believe that Hera just flooded the band with a ton of junk data really fast that overloaded all of the systems trying to process it. The alternative, that Chopper can literally transfer electrical power through a data stream is too absurd to contemplate.
Poodlestrike
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Can't violate canon rules if they never made any sense to begin with.
*Guy tapping head meme goes here*
Hellwarden
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This was pretty stupid, established rules or not.
Sam's going out with a bang. Can't wait so see the episode.
Yeah he's really grown on me. Great addition to the cast.
The guy who voiced him in Battlefront 2 is voicing him in Rebels. Judging by the trailer line he does a amazing job.
SteveMeister
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Yeah this was definitely the worst episode of Rebels, for me. 1/10, would not recommend.
The Elite
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Will wait for Revenge of the Shitter.
LordOfChaos
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I can't even mentally justify it that way, if you overload say a satellite with more data than it can handle...It obviously doesn't explode, it just shunts away overflow data and reports data loss...
And these people have FTL travel...
Ah well. They also did have to carry a firehose through a battlefield to send a data file in Rogue One, lol.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-disk-formats-of-star-wars-rogue-one-spoilers
BrokenFiction
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In the grasping for straws mentality, I tried to think of it in terms of the way Tesla would fling electricity around and his plan for the transmission towers.
We see a lot of energy flowing haphazardly around the SW universe too
So maybe...it could be a thing...?
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We see a lot of energy flowing haphazardly around the SW universe too
So maybe...it could be a thing...?
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Sailor Stevenson
hated the data surge explosion
I like the dynamic between Chopper and AP-5, but more in small doses.
As for this week's episode, I'm also curious if this will be the end of Maul. It makes sense that they'd chose to end it here: the final fight between two long time rivals has been a long time coming. I know Ahsoka was supposed to take him on in the planned TCW finale, but they of course never got that chance (I know it's brought up in the Ahsoka novel, which I'm reading right now), and with the way things are they can't have Maul running around forever.
But it feels kind of anti-climactic. Maul's been in like three episodes this season including this week's episode. I feel like they were originally positioning him to be a bigger threat to the Ghost Crew. This was the Season 3 banner, after all:
I'm just disappointed with how this has turned out. I felt like they were going to play up the Ezra-Maul dynamic, as well as Ezra's temptation to the dark side; both of which are plotlines that seem to have been dropped.
As for this week's episode, I'm also curious if this will be the end of Maul. It makes sense that they'd chose to end it here: the final fight between two long time rivals has been a long time coming. I know Ahsoka was supposed to take him on in the planned TCW finale, but they of course never got that chance (I know it's brought up in the Ahsoka novel, which I'm reading right now), and with the way things are they can't have Maul running around forever.
But it feels kind of anti-climactic. Maul's been in like three episodes this season including this week's episode. I feel like they were originally positioning him to be a bigger threat to the Ghost Crew. This was the Season 3 banner, after all:
I'm just disappointed with how this has turned out. I felt like they were going to play up the Ezra-Maul dynamic, as well as Ezra's temptation to the dark side; both of which are plotlines that seem to have been dropped.
As the timeline gets closer to a new hope, it sorta makes sense to focus more on the rebellion and less on the Jedi plotline.
I don't disagree, it's just that the writers are moving through these story beats rather quickly.
Lifejumper
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Looks like thrawn is gonna fuck shit up in the finale: https://mobile.twitter.com/geekgirldiva/status/841416203201523713
EDIT: Woops its about this weeks episode.
EDIT: Woops its about this weeks episode.
I wonder if we will finally get a character death.
Twilight Gap
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The only people they can actually kill are Kanaan and Rex. Nobody cares about Zeb, Sabine has apparenetly been written off for the time being, and Ezra still has his whole dark side thing going on.
Lifejumper
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I think Kallus and Sato(?) are goners.
Isn't Twin Suns the next one? (Maul v Kenobi)
Finale is the (double) one after that.
Lifejumper
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Yup. They apparantly screened the finale to some people already.
Twilight Gap
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Kallus will definitely be unfortunate but not to that extent.
That's referring to Kenobi v. Maul.
I believe that tweet though. Say what you will about the filler episodes, on the important episodes, Filoni and his team consistently knock it out of the park.
KeyBladerXIII
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Goddamit I can't watch the episode when it airs and for at least a few days.
I'm going on total lockdown. I don't think I'm ready to possibly say goodbye to Maul, that fucking cockroach grew on me when he grew a personality.
I'm going on total lockdown. I don't think I'm ready to possibly say goodbye to Maul, that fucking cockroach grew on me when he grew a personality.
Probably, but what I mean is that tweet has no connection to the finale.
Good thing they just started a new comic series about Maul.
Curiously, an "origins" thing. (Well, more like early days, pre-slice, working for Sidious) A nice parallel if his end is coming.
Bobby Roberts
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I'm gonna suggest people ratchet down expectations. I haven't seen the episode. I don't know any spoilers. But I know Rebels, I know Ezra, and I know that Ezra is going to play a much more significant part in this episode than I think a lot of people are envisioning.
It seems a lot more plausible to me this is going to be an Ezra-focused episode for the most part (Ezra and Chopper, even) and that whatever confrontation Maul & Kenobi have is going to be pretty brief, and very close to the end - and that Ezra will likely be the person who decides it.
I think people are imagining a one-on-one duel and I'm feeling like you guys better get ready for Hot Rod to jump inbetween Megatron and Optimus Prime.
(it won't end the way that did, obviously, but that's the comparison point I keep landing on)
Also, dunno how comfy you guys are with the idea of Ezra and Ben shooting the shit, but I bet that happens, too. AND I wouldn't be surprised if Maul's end is shot to be as ambiguous as possible for the sake of people arguing over whether or not he's actually alive for the next year or so (see: Ahsoka)
It seems a lot more plausible to me this is going to be an Ezra-focused episode for the most part (Ezra and Chopper, even) and that whatever confrontation Maul & Kenobi have is going to be pretty brief, and very close to the end - and that Ezra will likely be the person who decides it.
I think people are imagining a one-on-one duel and I'm feeling like you guys better get ready for Hot Rod to jump inbetween Megatron and Optimus Prime.
(it won't end the way that did, obviously, but that's the comparison point I keep landing on)
Also, dunno how comfy you guys are with the idea of Ezra and Ben shooting the shit, but I bet that happens, too. AND I wouldn't be surprised if Maul's end is shot to be as ambiguous as possible for the sake of people arguing over whether or not he's actually alive for the next year or so (see: Ahsoka)
BrokenFiction
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I kind of imagine it's going to be Kenobi who breaks the bad news to him. Should be interesting how he reacts.
Lifejumper
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