Animated Shorts Official Star Wars: Forces of Destiny Discussion Thread

I am aware men will appear. It would be weird if not a single male is seen in the show.

But it is true that none of the shorts will have a man be the spotlight character.

 

Yess!!! I am more than happy (not only because now I know Hera survives till ROTJ) with this announcement. I love the animation and I really like the idea behind this series.
Although I do wish they added Asajj as well...

 

Oh noes!! men are not in the spotlight?! pfft....pleeeeeease. It's the 21st Century. Get over it.

Back to the real topic at hand - it's quite smart to use a short episodes to fill in on the canon, without having to repeatedly pump out new books and comics. I'm guessing Ahsoka episode(s) will finally fill in the missing gaps from TCW?

 

It's 16 shorts, it's hard to know what characters will and won't show up. The list of the people mentioned are Ahsoka, Padmé, Anakin, Sabine, Ketsu, Chopper, Hera, Jyn, Leia, Han and Maz. It's possible Asajj will get to show up in one of these.

Hoping to see Aphra tho, that would be cool.

And I am always up for animated stuff, so I am excited for the microseries.

 

With the likes of Han and Anakin thrown into the mix, with Maz too, these are probably going to be 'lore' episodes. Again, I think this is very smart by Disney - especially since not every fan is going to bury themselves in a mountain of books and comics to learn more about their favourite character.

Come, let us light great fires and worship The Great Mouse and all His glory.

 

Needless to say I am beyond excited by this news. Animation is similar to Tangled the animated series which started last month but from what I've seen I like it so far. As for the crossover between eras, I suppose they meant Hera/Leia on Endor, probably Sabine or Hera meeting Jyn on Yavin and Maz/everyone since she's the narrator of the story. For Ahsoka, we just saw her with her TCW costume but if we see her in her Rebels costume we may see her adventures between TCW and Rebels or with Sabine and Hera, maybe even show in details what happened to her after the season 2 finale.

 

I was thinking Maz might be the narrator as well.

Did they give how long this project will be - in terms of seasons?

 

There will be a sneak peak during the Heroines of Star Wars panel on Friday, hopefully they'll tell us there.

 

So just female focused? Kind of a waste of potential IMO

Still having said that I am excited for this, hope we get a dvd release when the shorts are complete. Also they can't forget the single best female character in star wars for these shorts- Rae Sloane!

All I have to do is suck up my misogynist pride and accept that I won't be see MY role models (Obi Wan, Luke, Kanan) doing anything worthwhile in these shorts. If I was ten years old I might be inclined to think men are the weaker sex (Joke)

 

If they made a micro series that only had male heroes in the spotlight, I would be complaining about the lack of women.

You would also be making a strong point that lack of female spotlight in a micro series sucks.

Im not a fan of the decision to focus on just women because it is lost potential for storytelling.

 

Well said TCF-1138

 

One really good thing about the 2d style is that it's cheap therefore we won't be seeing the EXCAT same imperial officer drawing replicated a dozen times over with only an over large hat to fool us.

One thing I am curious about is whether we'll get multiple shorts for certain characters like Rey, Leia or they're just going for a one story per character every "season" design?

Also, Who else wants an academy short focussing on Ciena Ree with a cameo by Thane?

 

Looks good! It will be nice to see Padme again. Hopefully it's a success so it can run for another season and introduce some of the lesser known female characters like Duchess Satine, or dare I hope Princess Kneesaa and Kea Moll.

 

I have a funny feeling that if these shorts get a "second season" fan backlash (us males still adjusting to the sudden prominence of strong female leads ) will cause Lucasfilm to make at least a few male led short stories to go with the female ones.

Though obviously they'll dress it up by saying that "It was always their intention to foucs on the females first before branching off into the whole universe's cast"

 

*sighs*

There will not be a backlash; Forces of Destiny is not aimed at mature fans.

 

Hey, I can't argue with more Sabine. The animation looks simple but neat.

 

Disney is unlikely to blow the animation budget on a online animated series.

 

You'd think that between 7 feature films, 3 animated series, comics galore, video games galore, books galore all with very male centric plots, people wouldnt get so bent out of shape over a series of very short shorts that focuses on already well established female characters....But hey! Some people can't quite catch on that not everything is for them.

This is primarily for young girls. That is the goal of this series and line of products: to engage young girls into the star wars universe with stories and heroines they can relate to. The next step is for them to watch the rest of this still super male centric franchise and relate to and engage with the male heroes because Star Wars is awesome.

15 years down the line you're going to start seeing women and men at Celebration who got hooked on star wars because of this show. That's what this is all about and I'm glad they're taking small steps to balance the scales a bit more.

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This was the very last type of project I expected to be announced. What a treat to be surprised with something with this much potential. This is going to be fun.

 

I'm really excited for this. It looks pretty good. I guess Padme is going to be in it too?

 

Yeah, she is.

 

It's great to see a focus on the female heroes, I'm in the group that thinks Ventress should be included from the Dark Disciple novel. I'd also like to see Talzin included from the Son of Dathomir comics when she went up against Sidious, Dooku, and Grievous to save her son.

 

Some food for thought..

Spoiler

If Hera is set appear and in the RoTJ timeline, then surely Rebels is ending soon? I know Rogue One already noted she was still alive, but still.