Lit Breaking News: DARTH VADER themed TV Specials to come 2014 from Disney!

Count me in, only if Vader is the super badass like he's supposed to be, if it's dark, serious, and if not for adults only then at least leaning more on the mature side. Vader shows for kids and/or family is not cool with me.

 

You must really hate ANH / ESB then Spicer!

 

I like ANH, but love ESB (it's actually my favorite SW movie). However, I think Vader is portrayed well in all movies. What I meant in my previous post is that a Vader-centric show should be darker than the OT, since in the OT he is not the main character (or if some consider him to be, then he is not the only one in any case). IMO, the tone of these TV specials should be at least as dark (if not more) as the scenes with Vader in the OT, which I think portray him as a serious threat, not to be underestimated.

 

It's the "Vader Bunch"

 

I'm not at all interested in Darth Vader specials! I think we've had much more than enough Vader/Anikan already. I want to see SW go forward, not forever backward. I'm also not interested in shows where the villain is the main character. I like the heroic characters.

 

That's perhaps the key point - do they mean Vader or Anakin? And how do you make the plot work when the audience know Vader can't be killed? He can only be humiliated before his boss so many times after all.

 

You just need to make the boss suck as badly at it as he does.

 

They better frickin put these at least 2 years out from ROTS.

I'm sick of the 19-18BBY time period. If this is something canon, and something serious, show us Vader a few years into his career, but not as far out as Rebels. :/

 

edit: wrong thread

 

Oh God please no.



That's weird, they forgot to put the live-action series on there. Probably an oversight.

 

If Rebels is 5 BBY, I think it's safe to assume the Dark Times moratorium is officially over.

 

Why not? Lucas was against Wookiee Jedi before he wasn't anymore, or something.

 

I would expect that these specials, being launched only a few months before Rebels, are designed to lead into Rebels. Since Rebels is going to be 5 BBY, something chronicling a few broad dark times themes leading up to the situation in Rebels is likely. As a result I fully expect these to be animated and to use the same TCW/Rebels method we've seen before.

I think we might see a focus on the development of the Inquisitorious, if that group is really going to take center stage in Rebels, possibly with Vader in trainer/overseer mode.

Alternatively, these specials also offer the opportunity to clean up some lose ends from TCW - Vader killing Maul perhaps?

 

I wouldn't mind seeing Vader eliminate Darth Maul in an adaptation of the core premise of "Resurrection" in the same way that Maul's inclusion adapted the core premise of "Old Wounds," i.e. Sidious pitting Maul against a suited Vader for the role of apprentice. One idea I like that came out of Maul's survival is that Anakin has killed every movie Sith that has a definitive demise, which currently is Tyranus and Sidious, and metaphorically you might say that Anakin killed Vader. I was sort of hoping Anakin would complete the whole set on TCW, but Vader fulfilling it either in a TV special or Rebels would suffice.

 

No, just no.

 

Unless they want to save Maul for the ST.

 

Your joking right. The idea that Disney were not going to milk the most iconic villian in film history for every last Vader breathing penny, when they bought Starwars should to misquote comic book guy have been the most obvious thing ever.

The main worry is if they don't get James Earl Jones back and instead use chad Vader from the Force Unleashed games.

 

The only way for a villain to exist is with a hero, and the other way around. Villains actions establish what the heroes have to overcome, and help their character development, showing how brave they are to fight the dark side, and reject the philosophies, that the Sith can't.

I like Vader because he is wrong about everything, and to some extent aware of it. He's not a complete total villain in the sense of Darth Sidious. (Although a show about the Emperor would not be very eventful, with his manipulating days long behind him, and chair-spinning days long ahead of him.) Vader's the only one really supporting the Empire - despite corrupt officials, alien slave trade, super-weapon construction, propoganda about force users, homicidal Emperor and various things that come back to haunt him.

 

I love how Vader says that like Maul's an old buddy of his that he's surprised to see.

 

You know... if Maul's never killed on screen, Ressurection is already canon (unlike Old Wounds). Could that Maul have robotic legs underneath and per-chance be the original after all if nothing else is ever done?

I'm surprisingly okay with the idea of Vader offing him anyway.

Though Owen doing it wasn't bad either.

 

My fanon/headcanon is that Sidious used Maul like Plagueis used Venamis as an experiment subject. But instead of midi-chlorian manipulation, the experiment is essence transfer into a clone body. Thus, in "Resurrection," Sidious has successfully put Maul into a clone body, and now he's testing his apprentice since he's at the point where he's actively trying to replace Vader.

 

I had considered essence transfer as a possibility when pondering this.

Still, I'd love it if we get Vader to do this on screen. Still prefer if he's dead before ROTS (and I'd prefer Obi-wan to finish what he started), but I'll take it if Vader does the deal.

 

I meant "you'd have thought we'd have heard something about this by now" not "this is a really big surprise". Considering how much hype there is around Ep. VII and Rebels right now, the fact that there are going to be multiple TV specials apart from those projects seems like a pretty big deal, and I'm a bit surprised that it hasn't leaked before now.

And I agree, Chad Vader needs to stay away. JEJ or even Scott Lawrence would be better.