Harmy said:
Well, that interview made me worried not only about Rebels but also about the future of the entire franchise.
Tobar said:
And why is that, pray tell?
A) They say that the Rebels may be introducing characters, whom we will meet in the new film episodes and it will be a whole intertwined universe - I don't like this idea much, because I'm beginning to have quite high hopes for the new movies but so far, I like Rebels less and less with every clip I see from it - it reminds me of those Saturday morning cartoons, which I used to like as a little kid (who also loved the Phantom Menace) but when I see them today, they are super cheesy and lame. I wasn't a huge fan of TCW but I never got that feeling of a cheap 80s or 90s cartoon from it.
B) They make a big deal about not wanting to shrink the universe, yet, just in the few clips released so far, we've already seen cameos of Obi-Wan, 3P0 and R2.
C) "I love origins stories of characters that you think you know everything about and then you learn the real story..." Does he mean like Obi-Wan, Darth Vader or Boba Fett? Urgh...
D) It seems to indicate them being seriously misguided, if they think that the show has the look of McQuarrie paintings - to me, it looks like cheap digital animation, about 15 years behind the current development, with a half-arsed attempt to imitate the Disney drawing style for the character design. TCW, while it was also not up to scratch with the latest digital animation tech, probably because the budget wouldn't allow it, made the best of the bad situation and had a unique, brush-painting like style to the textures, which they say they have here too, even supposedly imitating McQuarrie's brush techniques, but I see no trace of it in the clips they released so far. It would be so beautiful, if they actually went with (ideally 2D) animation, which would truly look like McQuarrie paintings brought to life, but alas, that is not what we seem to be getting here.
E) Apparently the favorite SW movie of the current generation of Lucasfilm employees is TPM, because "that's the one they had as kids..." Really? Really? :-(
F) The lightsabers - this could technically fall under D but I think it's worth mentioning separately - they say lightsabers are designed to look like in the original SW. Well, from what I've seen, they really don't. They maybe share some similarities with the ugly recomposited sabres from the SE, like the blade edges being too sharp and the colored-glow edges being way too sharp, instead of diffused, like in the original and the blades are way too thin - they say that this is on purpose to make the look more like Ep. IV but the sabers in SW are nowhere near this thin - not even in the SE. Plus the lightsaber fighting style seems to again be the kind of acrobatic jumping around, like in the prequels.