Of course I enjoy the Ralph McQuarrie inspired designs for everything in this series but wished the aspect ratio mirrored THE CLONE WARS, and most especially OT & PT. Y’know, 2.35:1/2.40:1.
I sometimes wonder what Rebels would have looked like in the letterbox aspect ratio. I think it was purely for budgetary reasons they had to make it 16:9 - less to render and all that. Still, I kind of prefer that for TV since it fills the whole screen.
I prefer OAR. When I get the legit BDs from Bull Moose, gotta be patient to buy Season 4 later, I’ll finally watch the bonus features.
Maybe 1.78:1 was chosen to mirror Ralph McQuarrie’s concept artwork inspiration for the show? I’m randomly guessing.