Full Series Official Star Wars Rebels Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

13 or 14? That makes her queen material to some on here, lol. Mara Jade. One of the Empire's puppet queens.

 

If it ret-cons Zahns Mara only went after bad people and never did anything bad and who the Force made good would be a very good thing.

 

Wouldn't mind if they did use a character called Mara Jade in some form because I think that is a cool name. No point in reading any post ROTJ EU because all that stuff is going to get thrown in a creek in my opinion but Mara Jade is a cool name.

 

Has anyone seen this? And I thought that the first commercial was stupid...

 

The guys at Wookieepedia would find a way to either make it someone else using "Mara Jade" as an alias or as it being Mara in an elaborate disguise.

 

Why can there not be two people that carry the name Mara Jade?

 

Because two people in the enormous, enormous galaxy can't possibly have the same name! Except Jax Pavan. Everyone is named Jax Pavan.

 

Who have the same name, and do the same job, for the same man, with the same abilities, who look the same?

If they use her they'll use the Licensed toys, and images they have as models, for the character. With elements of the original character, but made to fit the film canon, and time period.

 

How about Shira Brie? Forget this Mara Jade business.

 

Who?
*looks her up*
****** hell there's another one!

I hope Rebels has some fresh ideas because seriously...

 

Their's a reason, the archetype keeps popping up, George Lucas Likes it, whether it was Shira, during Marvel, and Sorsha, in Willow, it will pop up again, whether named Shira, Sorsha, Mara, or someone new.

 

another example is Asajj Ventress, The archetype, is the warrior woman, assassin, spy

Whatever her character is in the books, she will be shown differently, because of Weisman, balancing out Filoni.

Plus we had the arc, in TCW, "Children of the Force", when Cad Bane stole the Holocron of Force sensitive children, and families.
Sidious would want that for potential assassins, servants, and acolytes. Hidalgo said that their were threads that would not be tied up, in TCW, Rebels is a perfect place to show what happened to those children.








also their is preceden

 

Honestly in a Rebellion, teens making it up the ranks quickly is not necessarily a shocker. You got to assume a high turnover rate so the best talent probably gets you a lot further a lot quicker.

 

If she's in, she will not have the baggage of the books, and she's not a pet character of Filoni, or Weisman, qnd I doubt any EU authors will be writing any episodes. brdifrd in TCW, we saw Jedi training, in Rebels, we might see dark side training.

 

Teenagers?

Palpatine: Look, I’m just dealing with a lot of crap right now. The Death Star blown up by a bunch of ******* teenagers, you know…

Heh, that was kind of true...

 

True. Just like in Band of Brothers the ones that managed to stay alive and able bodied enough to keep on fighting shot up the ranks because people above them kept on dying.

 

I agree–however, look at ANH. Luke and Leia were 19, Wedge was 18...the others were older, sure, but Luke and Wedge, two out of the only three surviving pilots, were both teens. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see a bunch of 16-year-olds shooting stormtrooper to shreds, but I don't think there's anything in particular wrong with having older teens, Luke and Wedge's age, as long as they're mixed in with a few adults, too.

 

True, and consider the actors in the series were mostly older than the men actually were.

 

There's a rich history of youth protest, it's a cliché that you get more conservative as you age, and some scholars even suggest a tenuous link between demographics and protest/revolution (citing similarities between the youth protest movements in Japan in the 60s, USA in the 70s and the recent Arab Spring). The commies and fascists saw the value in recruiting youngsters, religions and cults still target children. Anyone with an ideology to sell sees value in the idealism of youth.

Given the recent total war IU, with large numbers joining the post-clone military, and the increasing authoritarianism of the Empire, it might be reasonable to assume there just aren't as many revolutionary-minded grown ups kicking around as there used to be. If there are going to be Orwellian allusions in Rebels, I expect we'll see indoctrinated youngsters on the other side too.

tl;dr:
It's not unreasonable to expect teens in Rebels or the Rebel Alliance in general because history.