That is the one Star Wars story I want the most. Tired of Clone War era garbage.
News Dave Filoni promoted to Executive Creative Director at Lucasfilm
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I didn't say they weren't in the know? There's this thing called "PR", it means companies and the people that work for them aren't always truthful or accurate in their public statements.
Did I claim a certainty, or express a suspicion? Kindly learn to read more carefully, or leave the strawman arguments at home. Preferably both.
That doesn't seem massively likely given that no matter how things shook out, the trilogy would be over and (presumably) the need for "resistance" would be over.
They either planned for more and were cut short, or planned for two and half-baked it because nobody really cared...or nobody cared *because* it was only two seasons.
Generally shows don't just *stop* after two seasons. They either end naturally because that's the whole story they wanted to tell (see: Gravity Falls), or get cancelled for the usual reasons. There's too much money involved for it to have ended that way purely from a lack of ideas or interest on LF's end of things.
The first season finale tied directly into TFA with the destruction of Hosnian Prime, the in the first few episodes of season two they arrive at D'Qar to find the immediate aftermath of the battle. I think that's the last point of convergence and the end of the show doesn't exactly lead into tRoS in any notable way.
LF seem to be focusing most of their attention on The High Republic on the publishing side, and their upcoming slate of movies and shows on the production side. None of which seem to even be peripherally involved with the ST era...or not depending on how one interprets some very vague statements about the Rogue Squadron movie.
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More's the pity.
Yes. Give me more half-baked, poorly thought out, badly plotted storytelling with no attention span or follow through., baking purely on blind nostalgia. Who needs interesting characters, compelling narratives and substantive themes anyway!?
I found the characters and themes interesting. Why not explore it? Sorry, I don't find clones as characters interesting and going back again and again is not substantive to me. I think the ST would be more interesting to explore.
You're confusing character with performance. The performances were interesting. The characters were all over the place.
Um, no. I am stating what I engaged with. The characters I followed along with just fine and want more of them. That's all. I'm sure Clone Wars, and Bad Batch and whatnot are all well performed pieces. I don't give two credits about them.
I also found it odd that the broadcast of the second season seemed to be rushed through compared to the first. The first season went on a mid-season break just before Christmas, came back around late January and had everything lined up so that the season ended in March, roughly the same time the seasons of Clone Wars and Rebels usually ended. Meanwhile, the second season had no midseason break, continued airing new episodes through the Christmas holidays (a rarity for any show) and even started airing multiple episodes the same week so they could have the season done by the end of January.
Next Star Wars film trilogy:
"Luke and Leia Skywalker's (with Han Solo) Multiverse of MADNESS - (OR) - How to re-do and reset the garbage that was the sequel film series...)"
"Luke and Leia Skywalker's (with Han Solo) Multiverse of MADNESS - (OR) - How to re-do and reset the garbage that was the sequel film series...)"
Cool.Next Star Wars film trilogy:
"Luke and Leia Skywalker's (with Han Solo) Multiverse of MADNESS - (OR) - How to re-do and reset the garbage that was the sequel film series...)"
All the clones have unique personalities though. They're each their own character.
Especially the Bad Batch.
Bad Batch isn't clone wars era, it's Rise of the Empire.
It's not whether they are their own character or have distinct personalities. It is whether I engage with them as character.
I don't.
Thus far is has not separated in my mind. Perhaps that will change in time.
Thus far, post OT has left me wanting. Post ST gives me more optimism. It's a thin shred of hope because after TROS most of the SW output has not been engaging, save in the superficial way.Any post-ST story would pretty much be the same as any post-OT story could have been, just with different characters.
Also note the shorter season;18 down from the first season's 21 episode order. All of which is more evidence the show was cancelled early. Like remember when Cartoon Network just dumped two whole seasons of 'The Legend of Korra' back to back in a 6 month span?
It usually pretty obvious when a network just wants a show gone, and the ignoble treatment of Resistance in it's second season was all the more obvious considering how hard they'd pushed the show the previous year.
The most reliable bellwether for this kind of thing in shows aimed at young demos is the merchandising. You can pretty reliably pinpoint the financial quarter in which Disney cancelled Rebels by when the tie-in merchandise suddenly dropped off; not necessarily even the toys, but just the colouring/activity/sticker books and the like. The stuff aimed at the very young end of the market. And wouldn't you know it, it all petered out midway through the second season, which was right around the time they were in preproduction for season 4...the last season where they show suddenly got laser focused on tying up loose ends, and again, a truncated episode order.
Oh right of course, so that's why it's now in it's seventh season is it?
Being cancelled just means the network has opted not to order a new season, which is what they did. It just so happened that they told production about this in advance so they could plan a graceful exit. Read between the lines and it's fairly apparent this was specifically at Filoni's request so they didn't have a repeat of the abrupt cut-off that TCW suffered.
Season 4's truncated episode order, time-jump and narrative gear shift all make it apparent that they could have easily spent another full season on Yavin before circling back to Lothal.
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That was my impression.
The larger point I was making though was the decision to cut it short seems to have happened midway through the broadcast of season 2 since that's when they would have been working on season 4's pre-production and when all the tie-in merch seemed to evaporate.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/15/15313366/star-wars-rebels-ending-fourth-season-trailer-watchOh right of course, so that's why it's now in it's seventh season is it?
Being cancelled just means the network has opted not to order a new season, which is what they did. It just so happened that they told production about this in advance so they could plan a graceful exit.
It was Filoni’s decision to end it at Season 4, not the ‘network’. He did it so they could go out on their own terms and on high note, and not get cut off like with Clone Wars.
So no, not cancelled. Ended earlier than intended? Maybe, he didn’t say.
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