PLEASE tell me that was Don-Wan Kihotay! =P
Interdictor cruisers and Mon Calamari inventing the B-Wing are pretty bedrock EU, btw.
– Bill
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Leoj said:
New trailer:
Ventress? Really?
No matter how many times I tried, I just couldn't get into the Clone Wars 2008 series. I'd prefer Rebels avoid dredging up stale remnants of it. I still don't like the idea of previously unheard of Inquisitors doing the dirty work Vader should be doing, either. I hope Ezra gets killed eventually.
I'll tune in and I'm sure there'll be plenty to enjoy. I'm glad that so far the story has been relatively isolated from the "big" events. But I can't help but feel that it is sort of gumming up the continuity by having all these tie-ins and Forrest Gump type encounters.
Tobar said:
PLEASE tell me that was Don-Wan Kihotay! =P
Holy shit!
But Kihotay wasn't a real Jedi knight, he was just crazy...
...or was he?
If it's Kihotay they can add Jar Jar to the main cast I don't even care it would still be the best show ever.
Hal 9000 said:
Leoj said:
New trailer:
Ventress? Really?
No matter how many times I tried, I just couldn't get into the Clone Wars 2008 series. I'd prefer Rebels avoid dredging up stale remnants of it. I still don't like the idea of previously unheard of Inquisitors doing the dirty work Vader should be doing, either. I hope Ezra gets killed eventually.
I'll tune in and I'm sure there'll be plenty to enjoy. I'm glad that so far the story has been relatively isolated from the "big" events. But I can't help but feel that it is sort of gumming up the continuity by having all these tie-ins and Forrest Gump type encounters.
But you know that's not actually Ventress, just a Ventress type. I'm like 5 seasons into TCW and it's still not really clinking (occasionally it does, only occasionally). I was never a fan of Ventress but it's no really her so maybe it'll be okay. I love Rebels way more than TCW so I do hope they don't muck things up.
It's tricky thing, the Inquisitors. Based on the films there shouldn't be any Jedi. But there is some logic to it, and it made for some good TV last season. The problem is, who can face a Jedi? Based on the films it should be Vader, but based on the films Vader should be able to eliminate them fairly early on. That does not make for good TV. Are there other types of villains that Jedi can face? Yes. But do they have lightsabers? No. It's not ideal, the Inquisitors, but I know why they're doing it so I'll let it slide.
Also, Ashoka, Kanan, and Ezra should all be dead by the show's end. Will that happen? Of course not. Should it? Absolutely.
I wouldn't have a problem with the inquisitors if they didn't all look the damn same.
I've just seen the second episode and I'm confused. So is Rebels canon? If so, does it mean that according to the current cannon the OOT stormtroopers are not clones anymore?
pittrek said:
So is Rebels canon?
Ostensibly.
If so, does it mean that according to the current cannon the OOT stormtroopers are not clones anymore?
They never were clones.
Really? I thought that since Episode 2 the OOT stormtroopers were the same clones created by the cartoon aliens.
As far as I know, only the stormtrooper who bumped his head against that door in SW was officially retconned into being a mini-Jango. All the other stormtroopers have basically remained non-clone recruits.
DuracellEnergizer said:
As far as I know, only the stormtrooper who bumped his head against that door in SW was officially retconned into being a mini-Jango.
Seriously?
– Bill
Never tell me the odds.
Hal 9000 said:
Leoj said:
New trailer:
Ventress? Really?
No matter how many times I tried, I just couldn't get into the Clone Wars 2008 series. I'd prefer Rebels avoid dredging up stale remnants of it. I still don't like the idea of previously unheard of Inquisitors doing the dirty work Vader should be doing, either. I hope Ezra gets killed eventually.
No, Seventh Sister isn't even Dathomirian. Same species as Barriss Offee, though they've been insisting that they're separate characters.
Did anyone catch that Kevin Kiner (music) did a pretty nice Jaws riff when they were chasing the sand monster? I was grinning like a six year old. I love this show!
– Bill
Never tell me the odds.
Yeah, I loved the whole Jaws homage.
Jaws homage was a little on-the-nose but fun nonetheless. This show continues to entertain.
Tallguy said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
As far as I know, only the stormtrooper who bumped his head against that door in SW was officially retconned into being a mini-Jango.
Seriously?
I'm only going off of hearsay, here, so I could be wrong, but I've heard that Lucas brought it up in one of the DVD commentaries.
Hal 9000 said:
Leoj said:
New trailer:
I still don't like the idea of previously unheard of Inquisitors doing the dirty work Vader should be doing, either. I hope Ezra gets killed eventually.
Rebels takes place 14 years after ROTS so the inquisitors are just taking out the last remnants of the Jedi Order.
The Inquisitors have been a part of the greater lore since the first WEG source books in the 80s, which were the very foundation for the galaxy outside of the films.
Lord Haseo said:
Hal 9000 said:
Leoj said:
New trailer:
I still don't like the idea of previously unheard of Inquisitors doing the dirty work Vader should be doing, either. I hope Ezra gets killed eventually.
Rebels takes place 14 years after ROTS so the inquisitors are just taking out the last remnants of the Jedi Order.
I always pictured the phrase "...helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights" as being much more what we have/are-going-to-see in Rebels, than with the Order-66 nonsense. The last Jedi being slowly eradicated, one by one across the Galaxy with the help of Vader.
So I don't have any problem (Or see any OT contradiction) with their being a number of surviving Jedi prior to ANH, or with their being Inquistors tasked with finding them.
I also liked that in Rebels the Jedi are talked about in a way that suggests they are older history, rather than recent memory. Rebels doesn't directly contradict the ludicrously small gap between the Jedis-galore!-PT-era and 2-Jedis-left-OT-era but it doesn't confirm it either (Probably that wasn't by design, just happy accident).
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Ryan McAvoy said:
I also liked that in Rebels the Jedi are talked about in a way that suggests they are older history, rather than recent memory. Rebels doesn't directly contradict the ludicrously small gap between the Jedis-galore!-PT-era and 2-Jedis-left-OT-era but it doesn't confirm it either (Probably that wasn't by design, just happy accident).
Well, Ezra was born on the day the Jedi fell and he's 15. And Kanan is a survivor of the original Jedi. So that's pretty explicit.
– Bill
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Well Ezra was born on the day the Empire was founded. They make that explicit. In ROTS it seems like the same day as Order 66 but if someone were inclined they could wave it away with some head canon.
Going strictly by Star Wars, the Jedi Knights were around when Luke was born. Or at the latest shortly before. So since 1977 it's only been twenty-ish years between Luke's father's death and Star Wars. So it's not like this was a prequel thing. If anything you might argue that the fall of the Jedi was even LATER in Luke's lifetime.
– Bill
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Tallguy said:
Going strictly by Star Wars, the Jedi Knights were around when Luke was born. Or at the latest shortly before. So since 1977 it's only been twenty-ish years between Luke's father's death and Star Wars. So it's not like this was a prequel thing. If anything you might argue that the fall of the Jedi was even LATER in Luke's lifetime.
Even if this is true, Star Wars does imply that even before the Empire started wiping out the Jedi, the Jedi rarely, if ever used The Force in public.
Ehhhhhhhh, I wouldn't go that far. At the very least it could be inferred that it was very rare to come across a Jedi and because of that their powers were questioned by the skeptical.
"For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. But nobody ever met one."
– Bill
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