If you juxtapose Leia and Luke in A New Hope, Leia was more mature and worldly. She seamed and acted older then Luke.
Star Wars Rebels Season Two (spoilers)
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Me, too.
On Disney XD or the original Disney Channel? I just checked TV Guide and they don't have any showings of Rebels listed between today and Feb. 4 on the original.
I don't get Disney XD, so if they don't show it on the original Disney Channel I have to wait for the DVDs/Blu-Rays.
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Interestingly Leia's character design is that of Ralph Mcquarrie's original concept
Yeah, I like that Rebels does that a lot. The TIE fighters and AT-ATs are also more like the concept art than the finished movie versions. All Star Wars is fair game, from old toys (the troop carrier) to rejected designs (the Inquisitor that was a cast-off from Episode VII) to even Star Tours...it's all good.
Have we seen anything from the Droids or Ewoks cartoons yet? Or the Holiday Special? If we haven't, they can't be far off.
Technically R2 and 3PO would be around the time of Droids in Rebels. The appearance of the A-wing in Rebels is supported by their appearance in Droids.
Unless someone goes to Endor, I don't think we'll get any references to the Ewoks cartoon, nor the two films unless there is a mention of the lost Towani family, Noa the explorer. Though if memory serves, the Towani family crashed about a year before the Battle of Endor (no Death Star seen in those films), though it is possible they will change that if ever mentioned. But they probably won't be in Rebels. Noa I think crashed on Endor before the Clone Wars started.
The Holiday Special...well, technically there are references to it already. (Boba Fett technically is from there.) But that is mostly showing Imperial procedure and cruelty on places like Lothal in a similar vibe to what was going on on Kashyyyk and the Wookiees. But who knows. Some references to things in that special might be totally missed due to how it was (bad). A character like Saun Dann (played by Art Carney) or a bartender named Ackmena (Bea Arthur) could always be put in and no one would guess today. While they probably won't touch on it, Chewbacca's family was retained for much of the EU, and I suppose could show up again in the comic when Han and Chewie got to liberate the planet.
Unless someone goes to Endor, I don't think we'll get any references to the Ewoks cartoon, nor the two films unless there is a mention of the lost Towani family, Noa the explorer. Though if memory serves, the Towani family crashed about a year before the Battle of Endor (no Death Star seen in those films), though it is possible they will change that if ever mentioned. But they probably won't be in Rebels. Noa I think crashed on Endor before the Clone Wars started.
The Holiday Special...well, technically there are references to it already. (Boba Fett technically is from there.) But that is mostly showing Imperial procedure and cruelty on places like Lothal in a similar vibe to what was going on on Kashyyyk and the Wookiees. But who knows. Some references to things in that special might be totally missed due to how it was (bad). A character like Saun Dann (played by Art Carney) or a bartender named Ackmena (Bea Arthur) could always be put in and no one would guess today. While they probably won't touch on it, Chewbacca's family was retained for much of the EU, and I suppose could show up again in the comic when Han and Chewie got to liberate the planet.
In the Leia episode, there was a shot looking up on one of the AT-ATs from below that reminded me of one of McQuarrie's paintings for TESB so much that I suspected it was an homage.
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Maybe we will see a Demolisher-class Star Destroyer from Droids. Fantasy Flight Games put one in their Wave One line up in Star Wars Armada. First time I had seem one since Droids. And that was just last year. Or course we haven't seen a Victory-class Star Destroyer on screen yet either.
KoTOR, actually. The one's in SWTOR are a bit different (the engines are more inspired by the Blockade Runner.)
Still, I get the impression that these were scaled down quite a bit from the original designs, so they're probably not meant to be *exactly* that type of ship, but something very similar.
And even more stuff straight out of the EU. Seems the show runners are determined to get certain things into canon while they have the opportunity.
I wonder if they'll do the whole Boba Fett/Journeyman Protector thing too. It could work as I can see Fett hiding out on Concord Dawn under the name Jaster Mereel after the Clone Wars. Trying to go straight before being forced back into the life of a bounty hunter.
It might be a little late in the timeline for that though. This close to ANH he'd have almost certainly already left by now.
You got that straight.
Aside from the Wookiees and some characters I don't think there were new designs for the Holiday Special outside the cartoon with Boba Fett.
Most of the stuff in Ewoks was all native to Endor, so that stuff is out for the most part. The two Ewok TV movies might have some designs show up. The "star cruiser" and the explorer ship might show up. The marauders and witch (Nightsister) have some equivalent designs around from the Clone Wars.
Droids is the only one that lends itself to have designs show up in Rebels easily. As mentioned the inclusion of A-wings in the Rebel fleet is taken from Droids having the fighters exist before Yavin. The B-wing is also a possible nod at Droids as they had something like it once before Yavin. Though of course both fighters were designed for Return of the Jedi.
Most of the stuff in Ewoks was all native to Endor, so that stuff is out for the most part. The two Ewok TV movies might have some designs show up. The "star cruiser" and the explorer ship might show up. The marauders and witch (Nightsister) have some equivalent designs around from the Clone Wars.
Droids is the only one that lends itself to have designs show up in Rebels easily. As mentioned the inclusion of A-wings in the Rebel fleet is taken from Droids having the fighters exist before Yavin. The B-wing is also a possible nod at Droids as they had something like it once before Yavin. Though of course both fighters were designed for Return of the Jedi.
There's no need for any of that. The only reason that stuff even existed in the first place was so people with the militant canon-completist mindset could pretend Attack of the Clones didn't blow Boba Fett's Tales of the Bounty Hunters backstory out of the water. But it did.
Given that the old EU is gone I don't see any particular reason to go back to that mess.
