New /Film interview:
/Film: Without spoilers, can we safely say this band of characters is beginning of a growing thing that’ll lead to Princess Leia and the creation of the Death Star? Is this the beginning of the snowball effect?
Dave Filoni: I think the way to look at it, Simon said this beautifully. He described the American Revolution as if this was a show that was about five guys that were locked up in a farmhouse somewhere fighting against the local British military and without any real knowledge of the larger political movements or what’s going on. I think that that’s really how you look at the truth of it with the Rebels. How do you get all these people together? We’re looking at one little small group that’s trying to stand on their own and how does that hook up to what you know is a rebel alliance in A New Hope? I think that’s one of the things that we’re gonna reveal as this story moves forward.
Although I don't care for the look of this show, this is a good way to approach prequel writing in general. I was using this method to construct a prequel storyline at one point. It allows for the audience to care about the characters while understanding that history as a whole cannot be changed by them. That was a big problem with the Lucas Prequels, they thought galactically instead of locally. So props to Filoni on this.