Star Wars Rebels Season Three (spoilers)
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I wonder if they are intestinally not showing any X-wings in the trailer (letting them be a surprise), or the Rebellion just doesn't have X-wings yet. Considering just how massive the numbers of X-wings are in later films, it always seems odd not to see them, yet I know the X-wing backstory is that they were stolen along with the defecting senior design staff on Incom by the Rebel Alliance. Incom also being where the Alliance got a few U-wings. The Alliance supposedly is building X-wings which is why we see so many of them later on. But at this point in Rebels, the Alliance is forming.
I somehow think there was an adventure written for one of the Roleplaying games about the liberation of the X-wings and the Incom defectors from the Empire.
I somehow think there was an adventure written for one of the Roleplaying games about the liberation of the X-wings and the Incom defectors from the Empire.
On Incom? I always took that for the name of the manufacturer, like Lockheed or Boeing. You're saying it's a planet?
In Incom. Though the sentence works better as "...they were stolen along with the defecting senior design staff from Incom by the Rebel Alliance" even though that muddles the idea farther.
Incom is a company, they were partly responsible for the Z-95 Headhunters and ARC-170 fighters used by the Republic during the Clone Wars. They also are known to have made the T-65 X-wing and now UT-60D U-wing fighters. They also designed the T-16 Skyhopper that Luke use to fly on Tatooine.
Incom is a company, they were partly responsible for the Z-95 Headhunters and ARC-170 fighters used by the Republic during the Clone Wars. They also are known to have made the T-65 X-wing and now UT-60D U-wing fighters. They also designed the T-16 Skyhopper that Luke use to fly on Tatooine.
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I'm sure also that it was a corporation?
Ben: "Obi-Wan Kenobi... Obi-Wan. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time... Since, oh, at least two years ago."
Luke: "That's not so long."
Obi-Wan: "Well, from a certain point of view..."
And then the pizza guy rings the doorbell...
PIZZA GUY: I've got a large pepperoni for Obi-Wan Kenobi here, ohai Obi-Wan!
Man, it's just one whopper after another from old Obi-Wan. He lies as often as a politician.
Just watched the episode......great set up......hope Part 2 is a good payoff.......
He promised a wall and said he was gonna make the Sandpeople pay for it........Damn you Ben!
'Eh, but she's no Skywalker.'
For a second there, I thought they'd put Sloane in the episode, but then I remembered she's a Rear Admiral at this point. Nice to see them throw in a little diversity with the Imperials. For a while now I've been hoping they'd at least vary the skin tones of those faceless techs and bridge officers. I mean I realise those caps allow them to get away with recycling the same face over, but how hard would it be to slightly alter the model textures? Or put the odd female model in the mix.
Quite impressed by Forest Whitaker's performance in this. I know, "duh, the bloke won an oscar!" but what I mean is sometimes when screen actors do voice work they have a hard time making the performance big enough, being so used to acting to the camera instead of just the microphone. Stage actors are known to have similar trouble when transitioning to screen as they have to learn to tone it down and just perform to the camera, not a whole audience of hundreds.
He even seemed to adopt a little of 'Clone Wars' Saw's speech pattern, something that I felt didn't come across in 'Rogue One', though to be fair we probably saw more footage of younger Saw in the trailer than we did in the final film.
I was half expecting them to touch on what happened to Ahsoka, but they seemed to establish that Rex & Saw had been in touch since Rex signed up, so that's probably a conversation that's already taken place.
Curious whether or not that queen egg is meant to be that same one Vader encountered in the comics, but then I realised this is only two years out and it seems doubtful a queen can grow to full size in such a short amount of time. Seems like they're implying that with the surface poisoned, the Geonosians went *very* deep underground to survive.
Who knows, by the time of TFA they may be thriving again, though outwardly their planet may still seem deserted.
Quite impressed by Forest Whitaker's performance in this. I know, "duh, the bloke won an oscar!" but what I mean is sometimes when screen actors do voice work they have a hard time making the performance big enough, being so used to acting to the camera instead of just the microphone. Stage actors are known to have similar trouble when transitioning to screen as they have to learn to tone it down and just perform to the camera, not a whole audience of hundreds.
He even seemed to adopt a little of 'Clone Wars' Saw's speech pattern, something that I felt didn't come across in 'Rogue One', though to be fair we probably saw more footage of younger Saw in the trailer than we did in the final film.
I was half expecting them to touch on what happened to Ahsoka, but they seemed to establish that Rex & Saw had been in touch since Rex signed up, so that's probably a conversation that's already taken place.
Curious whether or not that queen egg is meant to be that same one Vader encountered in the comics, but then I realised this is only two years out and it seems doubtful a queen can grow to full size in such a short amount of time. Seems like they're implying that with the surface poisoned, the Geonosians went *very* deep underground to survive.
Who knows, by the time of TFA they may be thriving again, though outwardly their planet may still seem deserted.
She's the character from the Kanan/Hera backstory novel, right? I had the same thought at first, but it did seem this officer was too low-ranked to be her.
I dunno, I kinda like the unspoken implication that the Empire is white-supremacist as well as human-supremacist. There's something nicely subversive and socially relevant about showing a richly diverse rebellion standing against a racist government and military.
Not only that, but they all sound like Steve Blum or Dee Bradley Baker. Maybe the Empire still uses clones after all?
Actually I felt his performance was kinda weak, presumably for just that reason. His delivery didn't seem intense enough to fit the scripted situations.
By the way, when was the Ghost crew on Geonosis before? I can't remember that.
