ST New Canon Material (novels, TV shows, comics, games) and TFA

He's dead Jim.

Also, I think it's all of the black series, not just the 6" line.

 

Pls no more Boba revivals.

 

I'm a fan of revision and expansion of the GFFA -- stories must grow or they risk becoming threadbare. I'm looking forward to what Rebels might add to what we think we know. The OT does not offer us an omniscient narrative, or God's eye POV, into the GFFA. So it's wrong to assume that whatever we saw there was the whole story.

And again: a force sensitive being does not = Jedi. Jedi are highly trained individuals with a highly defined ideology they follow. Ezra certainly does not fit the description of a "Jedi" yet, and neither does Kanan, who probably never passed the level of Padawan and who has lapsed from the teachings he did have. Kanan would need someone like Yoda, Luke, or Kenobi to officially declare him a Knight or Master for him to really be considered a Jedi in the sense that Yoda uses when he tells Luke that he's the last of the Jedi.

No contradiction there either.

 

Thanks for using this thread, guys.

 

Yeah, this is a huge addition to the Saga's metaphysics.

Gotta be Bane. But it just goes to show Sith have a longer shelf life than some would like. I love it!

 

I can see them sticking with the name Darth Bane since he was created by Lucas.

 

I was thinking this too. Darth Bane was mentioned in both the TPM novelization (which is where he was first named) and an interview with GL (although he wasn't named there).

 

And it's one of the better sounding Darth Names.

 

I hope it's Bane because I think he's by far the most interesting 'Darth' outside of the films.

 

In the trailer, it looks like Yoda is dueling Sidious.

 

When I first saw the trailer for the Clones Wars stuff on Netflix, I got a bad feeling about what was going to change in the "new canon".

Then I realized this:

The things Yoda does are referred to as "trials". If this is the case, the things we see him battling in the trailer are likely, or at least possibly, creations of the Force much like Luke's encounter with Vader in the cave. It starts to make a little more sense to me when you consider this is, perhaps, part of Qui-Gon's training for Yoda.

 

That's exactly what I think.

It would explain why it looks like Yoda is battling Sidious. For all we know, Yoda could end up battling a string of Sith Lords; would be a fantastic way to establish a line of Sith Lords into canon.

 

Maybe Yoda finds out the identities of all the Banite Sith except for Sidious, and decides to look into who Hego Damask was connected to.

 

Apart of me hopes the finale drops a potential hint of villain in the ST.

 

Just ruminating (a good prequel word) about the idea of who this Adam Driver might play. They keep referring to him being a villain in the vein of Darth Vader. Most people think that will mean physically but I wonder if it refers to him as a person with a rise and fall story. Looking at the character of Ezra in Rebels, makes me wonder if it will be his character that Driver will play. It will depend on how far past ROTJ it takes place, since his 14 when rebels takes place. I know big shot in the dark.

 

Seems too young to play a 40-50 year old Ezra in the ST?

 

If so, don't expect him to be the same Bane we saw in the books. This is LucasFilm we're talking about and of course, there's all of this.

 

I've always preferred the Bane in the TPM novelization, so that's the Bane I want to see if he appears.

 

Keep in mind that Ian McDiarmid was only in his 30s when he was cast as the Emperor in ROTJ (Palpatine at his oldest). So this could totally happen. Age doesn't mean much in Hollywood.

 

So you're saying Ezra will be evil and look all wrinkly? I spose that's possible.

Interesting if they turned the young hero of Rebels into the ST villain.

 

Maybe Oldman could be Ezra?

 

As unlikely as I think this is, Anakin was the hero of the clone wars and became the villain in the OT, so Ezra becoming the villain would explain the Driver villain as "in the same vein as Darth Vader"... and they have the same nose...

 

Too much time passed for an edit of the previous post...

I just read the following tweet from Leland Chee:
Leland Chee ‏@HolocronKeeper 3 Std.
Thank you @dave_filoni @MattLanter & Tom Kane for a thought provoking Q&A. People will be debating these eps for years to come. #YodaArc

Very interesting, I guess it is a sure bet that this arc and therefore Moraband, Dagobah the Sages (Whills) and maybe even Qui Gon will play a part in the ST...

 

QG makes more sense in a spinoff, but otherwise agreed.