Full Series Official Rebels Discussion Thread >>>[NO SPOILERS Allowed]<<<

Hi all. We're a few months away from the Rebels pilot episode and with the new trailers out, more likely to come soon, plus Star Wars Weekends and the San Diego Comic-Con, spoilers are imminent.

This thread is for those of us who want to keep speculating awhile longer and leave the details for after we see the episodes.

Here I give you the Star Wars TV Spoiler Policy that Seerow posted in TCW Season 5 Spoiler-Free thread.

I'd also ask that all information in this thread from episode trailers be spoiler-tagged. I watch the trailers but I know that some members do not.

Thanks, and bring on the discussion.

 

I haven't read those and maybe I should before Dark Horse loses its license.

Disney seems to be trying to get back to the feel of the OT, the straightforward adventure story with heroes and villains, since they bought Star Wars. That type of story has been sorely missed over the past several years.

Hoping to see that here, along with some good witty banter between characters. I'm reading the X-Wing series now and Stackpole and Allston knew how to write interactions between the pilots.

 

I was fine with no clear-cut bad guy, given that I knew going into it that Palpatine was the real bad guy and I found it creepy how easily he manipulated everyone.

My issue with the PT, as I've said several times in that forum, is that Lucas forgot how to have fun, decided he was too good to make a so-called "popcorn flick" and wanted to make the kind of film that is dissected to death in fancy art lounges.

And in doing so, he forgot what the hell he did in writing the OT, thus the inconsistencies with those films.

Sort of reminds me of those guys who pour a little wine into a glass and will sit around smelling it and swirling it for 15 minutes while talking about its "bouquet" and "transparency". Who cares, shut up and drink.

TCW, in some episodes particularly in later seasons, tried to get swirled around in a glass and have its "bouquet" and "transparency" discussed as well. But it did have its fun moments.

Disney seems to be trying to put the fun back in Star Wars, and I hope they succeed with both this show and the ST.

This show will be off to a good start if it has snarky dialogue and stormtroopers hitting their heads in doorframes.

 

Any thoughts on this show being aired on iTunes or the Disney XD website?

Hoping to buy an iTunes season pass this time myself.

 

You're welcome.

Four months, people.

Who wants to market an "I survived a really long-ass summer in LACWAC" T-shirt?

 

You mean three people can't keep a thread at the top of the forum?

(I don't care, I've got to hide somewhere once the first episode airs outside the US and somebody posts "ZOMG EVERYBODY DIED!" in the regular thread.)

 

I wasn't planning to read this one anyway, but it's coming out in October and talks about "episodes from season one." Whaaaa?

https://mobile.twitter.com/BlueJaigEyes/status/472751661669429248/photo/1

Thanks credar for the link in the other thread.

 

I don't know what thread that was but...yeah.

Warning: rant ahead.

Why the hell does the industry, media, etc. think that this **** is in any way OK? Are they really assuming that every fan is following every Twitter feed from every "reliable source" so they can piece together the entire damn plot of the first season of a show, or a year before a movie comes out?

In the PT days I picked up a lot of magazines with SW news; every article with spoilers in it was well labelled. These days radio hosts, etc. use the term "spoiler alert" as a punch line and obviously have no idea what the hell it means. Skye used it in a very "LOL wut?" way in the season finale of AoS.

Of course there was the "Qui-Gon's funeral" track on the TPM soundtrack and the novels always came out before the movie. But now, I wish I had five dollars for every time someone posted about how evil JJ Abrams is because he just won't share.

And then there's journalistic ethics--these gossip entertainment mags reveal information from anonymous "insider sources" who would, of course, get fired if they revealed their identities. And this type of journalism is considered acceptable because apparently, hiding information about a movie or TV show is now the equivalent of covering up ***** ****ing Watergate.

 

Ladies, gentleman, other types, and socks that I make so I can talk to myself:

Just bumping this one because A New Dawn is being released September 2 and the pre-release copies are at SDCC.

I'm pre-ordering the Kindle edition but I don't know if I'll read it right at release or finish the X-Wing books first. I want to read it before the show starts just in case it adds something to the characters in the way of background knowledge. I'm guessing it's supposed to add something but it's not necessary to follow the show?

Also, now I'm hearing October for the show premiere. Not sure if that means early or closer to Halloween.

 

I heard this month, so I'm wondering that as well. Or are they waiting for A New Dawn to be released?

Off to Google.

I'm sticking to this thread and bailing on the other Rebels thread until that premier. I decided not to watch the 7-minute preview.

 

I think the Vader special got cancelled, and according to Wook, the one-hour pilot airs in October. Still no date.

Meanwhile I found this. The first few trailers are included but not described if you don't want to watch them, so it's only spoilerific if you don't want to know character names.

Five non-spoiler things to be excited for in the Rebels pilot episode

 

Oh, you'll get it, just with the rest of the episode. I want to absorb it all at once.