Star Wars Rebels is an upcoming CGI animated series that will be produced by Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation. It will takes place five years prior to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, in which the Galactic Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy and hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights as a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking form.
Today I didn't even need to use my AK. I gotta say it was a good day. (c) - Ice Cube
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Imagine all other fantastic ways they could have gone about it. For example I'd like to see a Star Wars show that has a style that reminds the viewer of concept art, you know the various high-detail sketches artists do pre-model phase. There are different variants, and some really impressive done digitally.
Leaning more towards this, a more gritty look maybe?
There isn't any "Woah! Thats cool!" to this plain, boring style they chose for this. So unimaginative. Probably because they want to be able to spew it out quickly, and for video game adaptions and children's toy productions to adopt the style easily.
I like the look of 80's cartoons better than this sub-par cgi that kids are getting these days. Sadly this is far better than what they usually get on TV, but still looks worse than what I used to watch as a kid.
Well, they made a fresh start with everything, so there's no surprise about them scrapping Clone Wars. Rebels is supposed to give some background to the new movies and there's some good talent behind it too (anyone still remembering Gargoyles?). It really might not be that bad.
As for the style... I initially hated it in Clone Wars, but it grew on me. Characters look funny, but the animation is beautiful and, all in all, there were some really cool visuals in that show. And not just visuals either - hell, kids show or not, parts of Clone Wars were way better than 1-3 movie trilogy story-wise (although, truth be told, other parts were atrocious, boring and childish beyond belief).
Well, they made a fresh start with everything, so there's no surprise about them scrapping Clone Wars. Rebels is supposed to give some background to the new movies and there's some good talent behind it too (anyone still remembering Gargoyles?). It really might not be that bad.
As for the style... I initially hated it in Clone Wars, but it grew on me. Characters look funny, but the animation is beautiful and, all in all, there were some really cool visuals in that show. And not just visuals either - hell, kids show or not, parts of Clone Wars were way better than 1-3 movie trilogy story-wise (although, truth be told, other parts were atrocious, boring and childish beyond belief).
I agree with every word. Story and character wise CW for me is on par with Avatar, which also only seems childish.
Today I didn't even need to use my AK. I gotta say it was a good day. (c) - Ice Cube
Well, they made a fresh start with everything, so there's no surprise about them scrapping Clone Wars. Rebels is supposed to give some background to the new movies and there's some good talent behind it too (anyone still remembering Gargoyles?). It really might not be that bad.
As for the style... I initially hated it in Clone Wars, but it grew on me. Characters look funny, but the animation is beautiful and, all in all, there were some really cool visuals in that show. And not just visuals either - hell, kids show or not, parts of Clone Wars were way better than 1-3 movie trilogy story-wise (although, truth be told, other parts were atrocious, boring and childish beyond belief).
I agree with every word. Story and character wise CW for me is on par with Avatar, which also only seems childish.
Funny you should compare the story to avatar as avatar probably has nothing original.
No token asian, black, old or fat person. Actually all of their races looks hard to define, they're some sort of mix of course to blur lines and not be racist. Everyone's so skinny though. There haven't been an important character in Star Wars with some meat on him? Doesn't seem very interesting just by looking at them, I agree. You don't instantly get the 'I'd like to know that person better' with regards to their backstories etc, but maybe it can still surprise us.
Girl to the left is wielding two pistols like the smugglers in SWTOR so of course she's the female version of Han Solo. That's my guess.
The kid next to her is probably the rookie jedi. Probably reckless but can't do anything wrong.
Arab looking guy is a Jedi Knight. Guessing the typical wise-caring-control freak Jedi type.
Looking at the twilek she's wearing some sort of goggles so she's a mechanic or pilot or something.
The thing to the right is probably just a combat dude. "Meesa kill this, Meesa kill that".
.. I was correct in all my assumptions; still I'm embarrassed to say I enjoyed watching Episode 1. The new Star War movies can't come soon enough for me apparently.
it's not too bad. Also i'm not sure of this is really meant for young children lol. Surely not 6-9 year olds. Considering that several people in the show got killed on screen . Ok, mainly troopers, but quite a bunch of them.
This really wasn't that bad actually, certainly better than I was expecting. It's a little too fast paced, bouncing from scene to scene to scene, and things happen far too quickly like they were trying too hard to condense everything into a single episode ... but overall? I think I'll keep watching, it certainly has potential and I want to see where it goes.
Went in expecting the worst, wasnt as terrible as I had thought.
What did stand out to me were alot of 'stock' reused sounds from ep 2/3 (for example the speeder blasters during the chase, same sound as jango fett shooting obi in the asteroid ring in ep 2)
Felt really Disney. Aladdin in the beginning. Then bits and pieces of a lost prince from an era that time forgot finding out who he really is.
As I was watching it I was doing a VoiceOver... You're really special, you don't know it yet, but you feel it. You feel it deep inside. You're not like the others. No. You're special! You're a... Oh shit he's a Jedi.
I liked it quite a bit, actually It's certainly full of cliches, but all things considered, originality really isn't what I need in my Star Wars. And they even managed not to make the Jedi look completely god-like! To be honest, I think I liked it better than the Clone Wars pilot and considering I actually grew to love that show in the end, I'm quite hopeful. It's got potential, that's for sure. One thing I'm wondering now, is wheter all episodes will be hour-long, or was it just for the pilot.
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It's certainly full of cliches, but all things considered, originality really isn't what I need in my Star Wars. And they even managed not to make the Jedi look completely god-like! To be honest, I think I liked it better than the Clone Wars pilot and considering I actually grew to love that show in the end, I'm quite hopeful. It's got potential, that's for sure. One thing I'm wondering now, is wheter all episodes will be hour-long, or was it just for the pilot.
