Star Wars Rebels Season One (spoilers)
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I was wondering about those troop transports. I recognized the toy from old catalogs and ads (I never owned any Star Wars toys aside from a solitary R5-D4), but I wasn't sure if it was ever in the movies or not.
I think the biggest difference was the toys didn't have gun turrets on the front. Just the one on top.
Yeah as much as I loved the previous episode, this latest one just fell completely flat for me. After the bit of growth and development we saw from Zeb and Ezra before, in this they were right back to being just a couple of typical, slap-sticky cartoon characters. With their antics being more annoying than truly funny.
And the Imperials came off looking even more incompetent than usual (I don't mind the Stormtroopers being bad shots, but when they can't even shoot someone standing two feet in front of them, it definitely strains credibility).
The only worthwhile parts were getting to see the Troop Transports (even if it was not exactly my favorite SW toy as a kid), and getting an extended, up close look at a TIE Fighter.
And the Imperials came off looking even more incompetent than usual (I don't mind the Stormtroopers being bad shots, but when they can't even shoot someone standing two feet in front of them, it definitely strains credibility).
The only worthwhile parts were getting to see the Troop Transports (even if it was not exactly my favorite SW toy as a kid), and getting an extended, up close look at a TIE Fighter.
I was going to post exactly that. 
It's a style, and I've gotten used to it. Perhaps it could be toned down a bit, but I always thought the CW style was almost too fluid at times - and depending on the episode, it could be distractingly so.
Watched 103 this morning, and despite the wacky stuff this seemed to be a necessary "buddy" episode that was pretty much guaranteed. It was really fun having the pair play with a TIE fighter in a way no one has, ever, and it also developed their most frequent home planet a little more.
I'm wondering how deliberate Ezra's force development has been thus far, and how consistent it'll be in the future. He was shown able to do some of the typical aerobatics in the opener, and now he can press a button in addition to some precognitive ability. Parlor tricks perhaps, but we haven't (yet) seen all the work that SHOULD go into this sort of thing, if the PT is any indication.
Mark
It's a style, and I've gotten used to it. Perhaps it could be toned down a bit, but I always thought the CW style was almost too fluid at times - and depending on the episode, it could be distractingly so.Watched 103 this morning, and despite the wacky stuff this seemed to be a necessary "buddy" episode that was pretty much guaranteed. It was really fun having the pair play with a TIE fighter in a way no one has, ever, and it also developed their most frequent home planet a little more.
I'm wondering how deliberate Ezra's force development has been thus far, and how consistent it'll be in the future. He was shown able to do some of the typical aerobatics in the opener, and now he can press a button in addition to some precognitive ability. Parlor tricks perhaps, but we haven't (yet) seen all the work that SHOULD go into this sort of thing, if the PT is any indication.
Mark
"The Ways of the Force are mysterious."
I always kind of viewed it that some people are more sensitive to the Force than others. There may even have been potential Force-wielders whose powers never awakened, IMO.
Is this the Luminara episode?
If anything, I kinda wish they would downplay Ezra's force abilities a bit. Luke was around 19 when we first see him in ANH and the most he could do was... vaguely sense things.
We're only three episodes into Rebels and already Ezri has demonstrated more force ability (lifting heavy objects, pushing people into walls, etc) than Luke did as a full Jedi. And watching him attempt to lift up cereal bowls or use the force in the middle of every action sequence risks trivializing it a bit as well I think.
We're only three episodes into Rebels and already Ezri has demonstrated more force ability (lifting heavy objects, pushing people into walls, etc) than Luke did as a full Jedi. And watching him attempt to lift up cereal bowls or use the force in the middle of every action sequence risks trivializing it a bit as well I think.
It kinda makes sense though. Ezri has an actual teacher, while Luke had to work it all out on his own.
Let me also add that that droid is a dick.
And the front doors opened out like a typical car, not up and in.
I, too, was geeking out over the Troop Transport. I think that might have been the second vehicle toy I had (right after the landspeeder).
Between this and the Star Tours shuttle from last week, I wonder what other toys we'll see come to "life."
In the old EU, the Troop Transport vehicle was seen in Marvel's "Return to Tatooine" arc (issues 31-34) by Goodwin and Infantino.
That has actually already been established in the novel A New Dawn.
Watching "Fighter Flight" again (it's not as bad the second time lol), it occurs to me that I'm really glad this is going to be a more traditional series of a single cast of characters in single episodes. Much as I loved Clone Wars, the 4 episode arc anthology format really got on my nerves sometimes. If the story wasn't interesting having to suffer through 4 segments of it was incredibly tedious. And often they would run stories far too long; it would feel over in 3 and then you learn there's yet another segment to it...
Two arcs I recall that were kinda iffy were the ones involving Jar Jar Binks and droids. (Actually, there was a third involving 'younglings').
^The droids arc should've been 0 episodes.
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