Animated Shorts Forces of Destiny - Episode 9: Newest Recruit Discussion Thread

A nice episode. Not necessarily all that memorable, but it's hard to complain over these FOD clips that are only a few minutes long.

 

I kinda feel like this sort of story could've been done much better as an episode of Rebels, TBH. Ketsu barely gets screen time as it is despite how cool she is. Blood Sisters clearly showed us that she's not so big on helping The Rebellion and is very content with being a bounty hunter, she even says it was her dream. She was even willing to kill Sabine over that job, and would've done so without Chopper interfering.

So really it just leaves this big gap where Ketsu is suddenly not a bounty hunter anymore...so this short must have occurred in the gap between Season 2 and 3 as Sabine still has her season 2 look.

I just wanted more of her, Ketsu is awesome. I mean c'mon she's voiced by Gina Torres

 

I liked the militaristic take on the Rebel's main theme. Shades of Rogue One in there. Fun episode though, it seemed like the story of a Rebels episode which was cut and made into a short instead, which is fine by me.

 

Sooooooo....did they get any food?

 

why else do you think they saved the kid ?

 

*cute voice*

"Thank you!"

This was officially the greatest thing in the world.

 

Feels sort of like a plot idea from Rebels that was scrapped due to time issues.

 

THATS NOT A GOOD THING!!!

 

Huh? Well it's certainly a good thing that this wasn't a season 4 episode of Rebels. No room for filler like this anymore.

Also, those are the most armoured food crates ever! And are they bolted to the floor or something? The Ghost's lasers should be vaporising them, or at least send them flying. There hasn't been a single episode of FoD that hasn't made me shake my head like this. I know they are for very young children, but if Lucasfilm and Disney want these to be canon, they should be making more of an effort.

 

Act 1, Scene 1

Scene opens on a factory floor filled with Chinese Animators working on old computers with a visually outdated version of Adobe Flash. They are gagged and chained, with DISNEY taskmasters wipping the stragglers who fall behind with their rigging. Above them, DAVE FILONI, wearing his ceremonial cowboy hat, observes the work.

Enter stage left, KATHLEEN KENNEDY, wearing her executive robes.

KENNEDY: Dave, the focus groups just came in. We have to re-write the episode?

FILONI: What?! Why?

KENNEDY: It looks like kids don't care about realistic physics and comparative blaster powers. And the part where the Stormtroopers are decapitated by flying armored boxes tests poorly with parents.

FILONI: Hmph. Fine.

DAVE FILONI flicks his wrist, prompting the DISNEY taskmasters to confiscate the offending material and incinerate it, powering the computers for another day.

Scene Ends

Blackhole E Snoke

 

Interesting that Sabine instantly wanted to paint Ketsu’s armor; apparently she sees the whole world as a canvas for her to paint on (even when it’s not wanted). Also, I would've preferred seeing Sabine save the little kid instead of Ketsu.

Ketsu was out of character (which seems to be a constant of this show, but it’s still annoying). “Left-Sabine-for-dead” Ketsu is all of the sudden “I’ll-do-anything-for-a-friend” Ketsu. Mostly this Ketsu doesn’t match up with what we’ve seen at all. I get that these episodes are for young children, and that they’re basically commercials to sell the Forces of Destiny toys, which I’m okay with. What I’m not okay with is that they’re canon. I don’t see why they need to be.

 

I know what you mean. I think the best way to look at the FoD shorts is that they are a child's story telling of a canon event. So if you can imagine the same canon event depicted in a movie, it wouldn't be told in such a child friendly, everybody is happy and having fun, way. FoD is filtered canon.

I like to do the same for the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi sometimes, In my mind I can change them from being people with dwarfism dressed up as children's teddy bears, and into realistic bear like aliens that can bite and claw your face off when angry.

 

Totally agree with this. I don't know why Rebels bothered introducing Ketsu if they were just gonna give her a 180 degree change in personality.

 

This is Forces of Destiny though. If there was a Aurra Sing episode, even she would be kind and friendly.