Palpatine’s speech in the trailer sounds like its taken directly from ROTS so it’ll be interesting to see if that’s his only appearance in this series or if McDiarmid will reprise his role like he did in Rebels.
With seeing Tarkin, I bet that we’ll get more Imperial officers than The Emperor himself.
Speaking of voices, in addition to weather or not Fennec will be an ally or antagonist in the series, I’m assuming they’ve gotten Ming-Na Wen to voice the character. Since this is a younger version they could justify another voice actress, but since she’s already on The Mandalorian I can’t imagine it’d be hard to get her to voice her here as well.
I’m sure they’ll bring her back. She’s too much of a badass not to, AND she’s a voice actress. She voiced Mulan way back when, and doesn’t sound all that different now.
Huh, I only saw the dubbed version of Mulan as a kid so I did not know that.
Yeah! She’s done a few other things here and there as well. Mulan, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and The Mandalorian are her most well-known works, at least in the US.
Shadows will not happen. Pablo Hidalgo and some of the other story gurus hate it too much. I imagine LAL will move onto The High Republic or another less-explored part of the timeline next.
Not that I expected a new Shadows of the Empire, especially since Forces of Destiny changed the lore so that Maz gave Leia the Boushh outfit instead of Guri, but just out of curiosity, do you know why Hidalgo doesn’t like it. I was always under the impressions tat Shadows of the Empire was quite well regarded. I really loved it anyway, but I’m not someone who personally needs the new canon to re-canonize specific stories. I think they’re fine just as they are, and I don’t mind dealing with two continuities.
I’m honestly with you. I consider Legends/EU to be an alternate timeline, not unlike Abrams’ Star Trek films or the various iterations of Batman on film. Their quality is… well, not all of it is good. I loved it growing up, because it’s what we had. I’m also quite glad we’re freed up from it to get new Star Wars stories that can pave their own way.
Also, who/what is LAL? Not a name/abbreviation I’m familiar with.
LAL is Lucasfilm Animation. LFL is Lucasfilm, Ltd.