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New Star Wars animated show "Rebels" coming fall 2014

I like those new posters a lot. I posted one on my Facebook page yesterday.
 
Seems we'll be seeing some Rebels prior to the premiere of the actual series.

we’re introducing Star Wars Rebels to television audiences this summer with a movie and a series of shorts on Disney Channel, followed by a continuing series on Disney XD.

TheForce.net


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I always remember what a friend said during the course of the Prequels and about the destruction of both Vader and the Emperor at the end of Jedi. I paraphrase: "Wait, doesn't bring balance to something mean that both sides are equal? If the dark side are eliminated and all that's left is the good, then how's that any kind of balance? Sure, it's a good thing, but how's that balance? It doesn't make sense." :)

All right I'll take a stab at it... perhaps it was that during the entire 6 SW films now complete, the entire time the light side of The Force was way weaker than the dark side which had grown in power through the years? And by defeating both Vader and the Emperor, Anakin had at least tipped the scales again. Or a reset... for a little while. Maybe?

I'm not well versed in the KOTOR era.

Anyhoosies, We should be super duper really pumped to have some Rebels love this summer. A Clone Wars half season 6 six this spring, premiere film of Rebels in the summer and the first season in the fall. That is a YT-1300 light freighter's hold full of new SW content. Maybe this Disney shit won't be so bad after all.
 
billcosby said:
I'm not well versed in the KOTOR era.

The earlier eras don't appear to address the question of the balance of the Force ( of course, some of that content was created in the 90s before Lucas had coined the term ). I haven't played TOR but I would assume it's the same there. One exception would be fleeting mention in the Bane books that the power of the dark side has waxed and waned over the years.
 
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Seems we'll be seeing some Rebels prior to the premiere of the actual series.

we’re introducing Star Wars Rebels to television audiences this summer with a movie and a series of shorts on Disney Channel, followed by a continuing series on Disney XD.
TheForce.net


:techman:
This is just cruel for those of us who get Disney Channel, but not Disney XD.
 
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Tell me about it. They're really limiting their audience numbers by putting the series on XD.
 
But XD skews to an older and more male audience than The Disney Channel, I think. It's where they put their action and superhero shows, so it's a logical place to put a Star Wars show. If cable services don't make DXD as readily available as TDC, that seems like something to take up with the cable services.
 
We get Disney Channel in HD and Disney XD in HD as well but Disney Junior is only in SD. I've have Disney XD for a while. (Comcast Chicago suburbs)
 
But XD skews to an older and more male audience than The Disney Channel, I think. It's where they put their action and superhero shows, so it's a logical place to put a Star Wars show. If cable services don't make DXD as readily available as TDC, that seems like something to take up with the cable services.
I understand why they're doing it that way. I just can't afford to get digital cable ATM.
All of this is purely me, I don't blame Disney or Lucasfilm Animation for any of it.
 
Freddie Prinze Jr. cast as Kanan, a human Jedi.

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Since then, Kanan has been on the down-low, too. He keeps his lightsaber under lock and key and brandishes a blaster instead to avoid the attention of the Empire, especially the Inquisitor (a Sith villain) and his Stormtroopers. But Kanan gets his Force-ful groove back with his crew on the spaceship The Ghost and fights back against the imperial menace.

"He's been forced to shove a massive part of his life under the bed, so to speak," Prinze says. "Is he living a lie? At a certain point, the lie kind of becomes the reality. And to suddenly be forced back into your Jedi ways, it'd be a bit of a challenge for him. And pretty awesome, too, when you can see what a Jedi can actually do."

Executive producer Dave Filoni describes Kanan as a "cowboy Jedi." And unlike the stoic knights of his order in the Star Wars mythos, his banter is as sharp as his blue lightsaber strokes.

There is some melancholy, too. Kanan lived through the attempted extinction of an entire culture when Order 66 came down during his formative years, and he's massively affected by it, says Prinze.

"He definitely has seen more than what a young man should see. And what he had to see was pretty much the worst thing you would have to witness."
USA Today

There's a video at the link, but it's not on Youtube yet so I can't embed it.
 
I thought the animation style was supposed to be different from Clone Wars? Looks the same to me. That's not a complaint, just an observation. I liked the visuals of Clone Wars.

As for the character, I'm relieved to find out the star is a disgraced former Jedi. Though I suppose it was a safe assumption that it was going to be so... I can't imagine any Star Wars series without some hot lightsaber on lightsaber action.
 
Since then, Kanan has been on the down-low, too. He keeps his lightsaber under lock and key and brandishes a blaster instead to avoid the attention of the Empire, especially the Inquisitor (a Sith villain) and his Stormtroopers. But Kanan gets his Force-ful groove back

Reminds me of Jedi Twilight...

Just like when TCW killed Even Piell...
 
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