Star Wars Rebels Season Two (spoilers)
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Personally I'm happy for them to simply ignore all that old EU detritus and just tell new and interesting stories.
For me, the logic of having the A & B-Wings be new ships developed by the rebellion between ESB & RotJ always seems a little shaky. We didn't see the Mon Cal cruisers in ANH or ESB either, but I don't think anyone can seriously claim they were developed & built by the rebels. It's a big galaxy and the Rebel Alliance is just that: an Alliance of Rebel groups. It stands to reason that we don't see all of them fully assembled until the Battle of Endor.
So with the X-Wing I'd be just as happy to see it turn up as an older late Clone Wars model that never got a wide deployment before everything was over and the whole production line was mothballed in favour of the newer, cheaper and easier to maintain TIEs.
Now a mission to liberate that whole mothballed wing of fighters from some Imperial surplus storehouse would be a much more interesting heist episode than getting a hold of some data plans and yet another prototype, no?
For me, the logic of having the A & B-Wings be new ships developed by the rebellion between ESB & RotJ always seems a little shaky. We didn't see the Mon Cal cruisers in ANH or ESB either, but I don't think anyone can seriously claim they were developed & built by the rebels. It's a big galaxy and the Rebel Alliance is just that: an Alliance of Rebel groups. It stands to reason that we don't see all of them fully assembled until the Battle of Endor.
So with the X-Wing I'd be just as happy to see it turn up as an older late Clone Wars model that never got a wide deployment before everything was over and the whole production line was mothballed in favour of the newer, cheaper and easier to maintain TIEs.
Now a mission to liberate that whole mothballed wing of fighters from some Imperial surplus storehouse would be a much more interesting heist episode than getting a hold of some data plans and yet another prototype, no?
Plenty of action to that episode ... plus an on-screen death (or was it more than one?). And while it did seem odd that we'd see the B-Wing featured so prominently, I agree that it's better to just tell good stories independent of whatever the EU may have established.
Yeah, I noodled about Google searching for an hour or so and gave up. We'll find out eventually.
So far the new series is great but I'm hoping the best is yet to come.
Elements of EU are trickling into canon here and there. The most recent example is http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Immobilizer_418_cruiser or the Interdictor as it is known in the numerous books and graphic novels. It is featured in the upcoming Rebels episode, Stealth Strike which airs next week on the 25th. We've already seen snippets of it here and there in promos.
And then from TCW, there was the one about Korriban and Moraband....
Any possibility that the Empire captured the former Phoenix Squad commander? His A wing didn't explode.
Two more days until the first Sabine-centered story.
Definitely noticed the musical cues taking some inspiration from the main titles of "rocketeer"
Also yeah why attack from the front when space is around you?
So... this Ezra crush on Sabine thing they sorta have going on. Yea or nay? I find it a little creepy when it surfaces. It doesn't happen too often though. But I'm bringing it up because based on the scenes teased so far, Blood Sisters appears to feature an Ezra/Sabine storyline.
There is this pic of Ketsu sans bounty hunter helmet. Notice the red Mando armor?
Thanks for the links, Mr. Light. Someone at TF.net claims that FPJ apparently recently said that Rebels could go 5 seasons or more. I'm more inclined to believe the older articles over FPJ.
Never heard of Reclaimation before. Not sure if it sounds good, as a title. The idea sounds good.
There is this pic of Ketsu sans bounty hunter helmet. Notice the red Mando armor?
Thanks for the links, Mr. Light. Someone at TF.net claims that FPJ apparently recently said that Rebels could go 5 seasons or more. I'm more inclined to believe the older articles over FPJ.
Never heard of Reclaimation before. Not sure if it sounds good, as a title. The idea sounds good.
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I don't feel it's creepy - has a large age difference between articulated between the two?
According to Wookieepedia, Ezra is 14 and Sabine is 16.
I've read Ezra is 15 and Sabine is 16/17 but those may have been guesses - we know Ezra has had at least one birthday during the series so far. Otherwise, it's a little tricky to pin down the passage of time in Rebels.
EDIT: Just caught Christopher's fact-check.
The creepy-ness I felt, which I suppose I should have bothered to explain, is that despite Ezra's crush on her they still feel like a brother/sister combo to me. I dunno. Then I wonder if Sabine would ever reciprocate - she seems to find him irritating, and continues to.
Doesn't everyone?
Ezra's crush on a pretty young badass woman such as Sabine is understandable, but he has a lot o maturing to do before any kind of romance can develop between the two.
I don't think any sane young woman would ever be attracted to a whiny 11-year old brat trapped in a teenager's body. That would indeed be creepy as hell.
Apologies billcosby, but given recent real world events, I find a certain dark, ironic humor in someone with your user name talking about "creepiness" in regards relations between male and female.
(that statement is in no way meant to reflect upon yourself. I once held the man in high regard myself.)
I've always been convinced that there was just a little bit of the old Jedi mind-trick involved there, even if only unconsciously.
Hey! What if the midichlorians "chose" Padme because they needed her specifically to get to Luke and Leia? They could've manipulated the Force through Anakin and mind-tricked her into loving the snot.
You have just failed Star Wars.Hey! What if the midichlorians "chose" Padme because they needed her specifically to get to Luke and Leia? They could've manipulated the Force through Anakin and mind-tricked her into loving the snot.
I am convinced the crew behind this show are fans of the old West End Games RPG. The Black Suns, if I recall correctly - it's been 20 years, where introduced in a game supplement about criminal organizations.
Also loved the use of yet another ship design from the Art of the Empire Strikes Back in the shuttle craft they stole. It looks a lot better in 3 dimensions than I ever imagined from the sketches.
Conversely, when they went for something newly designed, Ketsu's ship, I found the design lacking. Basically a saucer with a couple of bits from a Y-Wing tacked on.
Also loved the use of yet another ship design from the Art of the Empire Strikes Back in the shuttle craft they stole. It looks a lot better in 3 dimensions than I ever imagined from the sketches.
Conversely, when they went for something newly designed, Ketsu's ship, I found the design lacking. Basically a saucer with a couple of bits from a Y-Wing tacked on.
Nice to get a Sabine focus at last, but it was odd. As I said yesterday, Wookieepedia says that Sabine's just 16 years old -- but she has a long-ago past as a bounty hunter? Huh?
(And why the hell are there so many bounty hunters in the SW universe, anyway? It seems to be one of the most common professions out there, which seems completely disproportionate.)
(And why the hell are there so many bounty hunters in the SW universe, anyway? It seems to be one of the most common professions out there, which seems completely disproportionate.)
Because Star Wars is a western.
Million or more planets in all that, there is bound to be someone with a price on there head. So you get bounty hunters
Plus it was one of the character types in the old Roleplaying Game that got its own book just because they get all the really cool toys that aren't lightsabers.
Plus it was one of the character types in the old Roleplaying Game that got its own book just because they get all the really cool toys that aren't lightsabers.
While it's certainly nice to see Sabine get an episode almost all to herself, I'm not sure I buy how they handled her friend coming around. On minute she is ready to kill her for the score and the next she's giving her a ride to Alderaan? Bit of a hard 180. I expected her to at least *try* and take the courier once they got away from the imperial cruiser.
As for the Ezra/Sabine thing:I think it's fairly harmless and pretty clear that it's just Ezra being a cocky young teen, hitting on the only female even remotely in his age range. Sabine seems to just quietly tolerate it.
Interesting tidbit this week: the new bounty hunter's design is from an unused concept made for TFA.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqqeQEENm18[/yt]
Also: Hera's ear cones confirmed. Now if only I could figure out how she put's that snoopy cap thing on...
They used the Black Sun already in TCW (Maul killed most of the leadership and took over) and while I'm not sure of WEG is the originators of the name, but it's pretty clear they were taking their queues from the 'Shadows of the Empire' book/game/comic/toy line of the late 90's.
As for the Ezra/Sabine thing:I think it's fairly harmless and pretty clear that it's just Ezra being a cocky young teen, hitting on the only female even remotely in his age range. Sabine seems to just quietly tolerate it.
Interesting tidbit this week: the new bounty hunter's design is from an unused concept made for TFA.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqqeQEENm18[/yt]
Also: Hera's ear cones confirmed. Now if only I could figure out how she put's that snoopy cap thing on...
They used the Black Sun already in TCW (Maul killed most of the leadership and took over) and while I'm not sure of WEG is the originators of the name, but it's pretty clear they were taking their queues from the 'Shadows of the Empire' book/game/comic/toy line of the late 90's.
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While "Blood Sisters" was another small scale episode, I enjoyed it a great deal because we FINALLY got a spotlight on Sabine and she was bad ass all the way through. Her backstory made me think of the child soldiers in Africa who are forced to fight for warlords as little kids and get brainwashed into the violence.
Bonus points for seeing the Star Tours shuttle and R2 again!!!
Bonus points for seeing the Star Tours shuttle and R2 again!!!
Child soldiers I can buy, because they fight in groups and they're just trying to kill the enemy, something that guns make it disturbingly easy to do. Child bounty hunters are a more questionable proposition, because bounty hunters need to capture adult criminals, often violent ones, and restrain and control them for extended periods, usually while working alone. Not to mention that the groups that "employ" child soldiers generally don't much care if they survive, while Sabine and Ketsu (sp?) obviously did survive to near-adulthood.
I suppose I could buy it if Sabine and Ketsu had been apprentices to some other bounty hunter, learning the craft rather than doing it on their own, but that wasn't the implication. And just the way they spoke about what a long time ago it was sounds incongruous when one of them is only 16 -- although I guess to a 16-year-old, two or three years could seem like a long time.
