Star Wars Rebels Season Three (spoilers)
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It has already formed. We're only seeing one cell of it in Rebels, they've mentioned the others.
According to the Rogue One Visual Guide
Saw has respirtory problems from breathing in Geonosian insecticide while on a mission to the planet, it must be that episode
Most likely it'll be Kishino somewhat imitating Whitaker's performance as a sort of middle ground between what he was as a young man in TCW and the wreck we see him as in RO.
I'd be astonished if they got Whitaker to do it. I don't think he's ever done voice work so far as I'm aware of and cartoons are a little below his pay grade. He'd have to *really* want to do it and be willing to work for scale.
Windu killed Jango, not Kenobi.
Saw seemed less busted up when we see him at the beginning of the film, so whoever plays him in Rebels would surely be playing it between that state and the wreck he is for the main action of Rogue One. (?)
It's not just the physicality of it, his whole character and demeanour is changed. He's a lot more twitchy, bordering on paranoid. Certainly more introspective than when we saw him last and Whitaker seems to have effected some accent that I can't quite place, but it's different from Saw's TCW incarnation. So yeah, I think some of that would need to be taken on board to bridge the gap.
According to IMDb, he's done a few voice roles. He's narrated a few things (and was the host of the UPN Twilight Zone revival, though that was partly on-camera), and he's done voice acting in several movies, though the only well-known one is Where The Wild Things Are. He's also done a few episodes of American Dad, so he has worked in TV animation.
From what I understand, what we are seeing is not quite the Rebel Alliance just yet. It is almost there. What were are seeing is Rebel cells starting to work together, but the formal Alliance to Restore the Republic hasn't yet been formed under Mon Mothma. It should be happening later this season or during the next season if they follow the timeline of about two years before Yavin. Though if they have a major victory over Thrawn, before the Rebel Alliance is officially formed, than the battle mentioned in the scroll of A New Hope (the one in Rogue One) would still be the first major victory for the Rebel Alliance, officially.
I don't think the opening crawl specified that it was the Alliance's first major victory. IIRC it just says "rebel space ships striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire"
I suppose it all really hinges on how one defines "major victory" but whatever goes down with Thrawn, I doubt it'll be able to top what they pulled off over Scarif.
I wonder if the "accent" will be caused by some incident in the the Geonosis episodes.
Wheezing: possibly. Accent: no, because that's not how that works.
Rogue One takes place around twenty years after Saw's Clone Wars storyline, that's plenty of time for his accent to change naturally, likely as a result of relocating somewhere else permanently or semi-permanently. Hell, in the real world a person changing gaining a new accent can happen in much less time.
My grandmother and her sister from England both married Americans who were in the military during WW2. They both came over from England together and settled in the United States. My grandmother completely lost her English accent, no way you would have thought she was from England. My Aunt on the other hand, kept her English accent. It was funny when they were in a room together. Very similar speaking voices, but one with an accent and one without one.
^I had a textiles teacher in school and it wasn't until after several years of being taught by her that we found out she was an American who'd married a Brit. We made her recite the pledge of allegiance as proof as you'd never tell by the accent.
In an odd instance I even found myself picking up a very slight Australian twang after my cousin from Sydney visited for a few weeks.
So yes, it's certainly possible even for an adult to change their accent, even unknowingly. My contention is that I doubt Saw acquired his new accent by going to Geonosis.
In an odd instance I even found myself picking up a very slight Australian twang after my cousin from Sydney visited for a few weeks.
So yes, it's certainly possible even for an adult to change their accent, even unknowingly. My contention is that I doubt Saw acquired his new accent by going to Geonosis.
Don't think so.
Bodhi was a "local boy" had his accent sounded nothing like Saw. Neither does Baze & Chirrut's who had presumably spent way more time there than Saw, that's even assuming they're not also from Jedah, which for all we know they may be.
No, from what was said in Catalyst it seems he's spent most of the last 20 years roaming the galaxy, going from planet to planet, helping local rebels as the Jedi once helped Onderon. So if that's the cause of his strange new mode of speech it's not from spending too much time in one place, it's exposure to dozens, if not hundreds of other cultures and languages. This seems to be borne out by his fighters being a very diverse group, species-wise. Like he's been collecting these fighters from all over the galaxy, whereas the Alliance seems to be mostly human.
Side note: I wonder if part of the reason Saw splits from the Alliance is because Ahsoka is no longer Fulcrum? It's interesting that she is the common thread that would connect him with the likes of Bail, Mon Mothma and the Mon Cala. Without her running Rebel Intelligence, he may not trust them as much and/or there's nobody left to reign in his extremist tendencies.
Side note of a side note: whatever happened to Lux? Still in the Imperial Senate, or executed by the Empire?
No, from what was said in Catalyst it seems he's spent most of the last 20 years roaming the galaxy, going from planet to planet, helping local rebels as the Jedi once helped Onderon. So if that's the cause of his strange new mode of speech it's not from spending too much time in one place, it's exposure to dozens, if not hundreds of other cultures and languages. This seems to be borne out by his fighters being a very diverse group, species-wise. Like he's been collecting these fighters from all over the galaxy, whereas the Alliance seems to be mostly human.
Side note: I wonder if part of the reason Saw splits from the Alliance is because Ahsoka is no longer Fulcrum? It's interesting that she is the common thread that would connect him with the likes of Bail, Mon Mothma and the Mon Cala. Without her running Rebel Intelligence, he may not trust them as much and/or there's nobody left to reign in his extremist tendencies.
Side note of a side note: whatever happened to Lux? Still in the Imperial Senate, or executed by the Empire?
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Oh, certainly not. While his wheezing could be related to whatever happens to him on Geonosis, that wouldn't have changed his accent.
Not quite what I meant. I don't think it's an accent in the movie. I think it's a side effect of the wheezing cause.
We're talking about an actual accent he's speaking with, not just the fact that he's clearly having trouble breathing. It's how he pronounces words, how he constructs sentences. His very choice of words. The pace and cadence of his speech. It's all entirely distinct from Andrew Kishino's performance, even taking into account the age and heath issues.
So yeah, a visit to Geonosis may have screwed up his lungs, but it's not going to change how he actually speaks and acts short of also causing brain damage.
Why can't it just be different actors interpreting the character differently? Like how Jason Wingreen's Boba Fett had an American accent but Temueira Morrison's had a New Zealand accent, even in different editions of the same movie.