A/V STAR WARS REBELS (show's over, spoilers allowed)

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If, as he claims, Rex never kept count of the battle droids he took down, I shudder to think what the tally marks on his helmet are for.

 

Like I said when TCW was good it was good but when it was bad it was bad.So no It was certainly not nostalgia. In fact one issue TCW did have but is ALSO on Rebels, is having a scene/moment but not caring how you set up that scene to get to it. That's more a Filoni problem rather than a show one though.

Also I don't feel that saying "Oh but this show did it too" is a good rebuttal either. It's not cancelling the other out, merely saying both have a problem. Also even the Sepratists had different levels of competency, the Empire is just simply written as incompetent.

 

When comparing the shows, I´ve seen many fans and some reviews ignore the fact that the same problems affecting Rebels were present in TCW. That was my point, not saying "oh but this show did it too". I wasn´t rebutting anything, just pointing that fact. Like I said, I just found interesting the conversation because you gave arguments to explain your opinion that made sense to me, so I was curious about the comparison I was making and the different readings both shows sometimes get, that´s all.

 

I bet Imperial history just calls him a "senator from Naboo" and all official art depicts him as a human.

 

Argh I get you. I'd misunderstood the post. Well in regards Anakin, even though we knew what would happen, It gave the opportunity to tell something that hadn't been told in the PT, The good man etc.Rebels isn't adding to the story, it's merely contradicting it while trying to show it up.

Regards Ahsoka though we genuinely didn't know if she would be killed off. Particularly as that was Lucas original plan with Filoni arguing against it. So I don't think it was that cut and dried. Compare that to the Rebels crew which seem so untouchable you don't feel any tension in any scene they are in. Hell they have busted in and out Imperial complexes the show even made a joke about last season.

 

Bu-bu-bu-but what do you mean 2 weeks from now? Why are we skipping a week? If it was mentioned in the video I must've missed it. This is an outrage! A travesty. What will I do while I have breakfast Sunday morning? Read? Like some filthy Outer Run commoner?

 

Bu-bu-bu-but what do you mean 2 weeks from now? Why are we skipping a week? If it was mentioned in the video I must've missed it. This is an outrage! A travesty. What will I do while I have breakfast Sunday morning? Read? Like some filthy Outer Rim commoner?

 

Bit disappointed by the question they chose to answer this time... Yeah, there are three Antilles. But everyone knows that, right? I'm pretty sure there were more interesting questions than that...

 

Yes. A good one would be: when will you at last canonize the two Ewok movies and the cartoon?

 

The movies are canon. Don't question it.


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I wish they were, believe me.

 

To say nothing of all the people asking where the Bothans were at in Rogue One...

 

You assume the general audience for the show are message board crawlers and readers of All The Things. For someone who just watched the movies, the TV shows, and then picked up Ahsoka as their first SW book because of Rebels ... how would they have known?

 

Yeah, every once in a while the Recon question is basically "get off our case about this"--like the Rey one last season.

 

I know, I know. We're not representative of the fanbase in general. But the Antilles question can be solved by reading the new Character Encylopedia or... you know, for free, the Databank. That's why I think Rebel Recon should answer questions that have no answer anywhere else.

 

As for the Empire and a "third side" in the Clone War:

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I actually read that as evidence that Ezra hasn't put it all together quite yet, as a few in this thread have lamented.

 

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Yet nobody bothered to tell him: "Er... Ezra, you know that the Empire actually is the direct and legal continuation of the Republic, right?"

 

Not gonna lie... this episode didn't really do it for me. The scale & scope of the last few episodes has been off. I get that each episode can/does lay seeds for the future, but after the season opener, the Y-wing episode, and the Wedge episode, things have slowed down a bit. I'm interested to see the Databank entries today, as I'm pretty sure Agamar is not the same as EU Agamar.

The idea of Kalani serving the Rebellion one day... not sure how I feel about that. Good & bad, I suppose.

--Adm. Nick

 

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Well no, I think everyone knows that - I think the exact mechanism for how the war started and who the players were is still a mystery. From a certain point of view, Ezra is right...the people engineering the rise of the Empire deceived the Republic and the Separatists. Unfortunately, it's more complex than that.

 

That's... actually a fair point. Ah, well... They should have used the first name Raymus in the novel (you know which one I mean), that would have spared us the trouble.

 

Does this still need spoiler tags?

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They DO mention, in this very episode, that the Republic became the Empire. In fact, it's the conclusion of the conversation between Ezra and Kalani that converts the droid to their side.

I think Ezra's point was more how the loyal soldiers of the Republic, and the loyal soldiers of the Separatists, were both betrayed, when he was talking about who benefitted from / "won" the war. I agree it would have been clearer if Ezra said "the Emperor" instead of "the Empire," but I don't think even Kanan and Ezra know the full truth about Palpatine yet.