I could see it turning into a series in-joke, easily. Bendu is, in reality, a Time Lord! 
Star Wars Rebels Season Three (spoilers)
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Let's see, Tennant, Baker... Are you counting Peter Cushing? His "Dr. Who" was human, not Time Lord.
Technically Peter Cushing's character is suppose to be the First Doctor, recast. I tend to treat him as either an alternative for the First Doctor, or what the half-human "Handy" regeneration of the Tenth Doctor (what could be considered the Eleventh Doctor, yet not because it is a different person, yet the same) eventually became after many years living in another universe's Earth with Rose. He eventually build or grows a new TARDIS. Though that would mean that Tennant eventually ages into looking like Cushing. Or he can somewhat regenerate...it was never explored, nor are their tales for it.
I was referring to if they cast Peter Davison in Rebels to play the Bendu after Thrawn "kills" him. That was the third, Davison.
Time Lords look a lot weider than I thought they would. They're bigger on the inside, I guess.I could see it turning into a series in-joke, easily. Bendu is, in reality, a Time Lord!
He really isn't. His movies are remakes of two First Doctor serials, yes, but he's rewritten to be a 20th-century human inventor named Dr. Who (as opposed to "the Doctor") who created the time machine named Tardis (as opposed to "the TARDIS") in his backyard in London, and who has granddaughters named Barbara and Susan and a niece named Louise. They reinterpreted the main characters to simplify their origins for the movie.
Sorry, but that's a Star Wars in-joke, not Who. In the 1975 second draft of the original film, the Jedi were called the Jedi Bendu Knights. In the same draft, by the way, the light side of the Force was called Ashla, which was the alias Ahsoka Tano used in the novel Ahsoka. The dark side (or paraforce) was called "Bogan" -- I don't recall if that name has been used somewhere. Other names originating in that draft and reused in later productions include Sith, Padawan, Kyber crystal, Utapau, and Valorum.
(EDIT: I checked, and apparently there was a Dawn of the Jedi video game, in "Legends" continuity, which featured a planet whose twin moons were named Ashla and Bogan. There's also a Biggs Bogan in a now-apocryphal Clone Wars-era novel about a Republic MASH unit. There doesn't seem to be a currently canonical use of "Bogan," though.)
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It's not just its sound, but also the V-wing's silhouette seems to deliberately foreshadow TIEs.I still think the TIEs are out varianting the walkers though, especially if we give the V-Wing honorary TIE status by dint of sound effects.
If the V-wing gets honorary TIE status, then perhaps, on account of its solar panels, the Imperial patrol transport should, too.
Well played!
Going with that logic, the Jedi Starfighters in Episode 3 should as well. They also have very TIE looking forward cockpits windows.
The best former Doctor voice for the Bendu after Tom Baker would have been John Hurt, sadly he is not with us anymore. Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy also have pretty unique voices, though Sylvester's would be better for a more quirky character (like he did in the Hobbit movies).
I think Peter Davison has a pretty terrific voice at his current age, now that it's developed more texture than it had in his Doctor years. (What's amazing about Tom Baker's voice is that he's 83 but his voice hardly sounds any different than it did four decades ago.)
Hell, for that matter, Darth Maul's personal ship also had a very proto-TIE feel to it as far back as Ep I.
Absolutely.
I thought that was the idea. That the Sith had very specific designs they liked to employ in their ship designs.
Subject enlargement is welcome by me, but I had originally been focusing on OT-era craft. The Imperial patrol transport that I mentioned was first seen in TCW, but it also appeared in Rebels, which is actually why I mentioned it. Perhaps it, and the other PT-TIE-like craft are more properly TIE-forerunners instead of "honorary" TIEs. I agree about the Jedi Starfighter, too. Not only did it's cockpit resemble a TIE's, but I would swear that I could hear the TIE roar in the sound mix for its engines.
Probably a good thing it wasn't used.
Bogan is used in Australia as an adjective in a similar manner to how "trailer trash" is used in the U.S.
But it was the Republic fighters in Episode III that had TIE-like cockpit windows. After all, the Sith are a small group, not large enough to have a whole military fleet of their own. The Empire's military was based mainly on the Grand Army of the Republic, which used the antecedents of Star Destroyers, AT-ATs, Stormtrooper armor, and the like. Maul's Scimitar may have been a custom design, but it was a modification of a Republic-built Star Courier, according to Wookieepedia.
I just wonder how much of that was Sidious' influence, given that he and Dooku took over the commission of the GAR.