Spoilers Star Wars: Resistance season 2 discussion

[ALF]

Here's a series finale "Escape" preview:

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Does it feel like a series finale trailer to anyone? Seems more like a regular episode.
The bold words SERIES FINALE certainly helps with the message. Just odd that it ends on Kylo wanting to "find someone who can (deal with the heroes)." I'm sure we will see more promotion as the weekend nears.

So what are people's feelings with the fate of Tam? Should she have a change of heart and rejoin the heroes at a critical moment (most likely), get killed by The First Order for failing and or siding with the heroes (dark but possible) or stay with the First Order until the Battle of Exogol? (not super likely, if any major TROS story intersects at all). Tam's story line has potential, I hope it's handled well or at least memorably.

Any ideas on how Kaz's storyline should end?

The Colossus will no doubt find a sweet place to land, If the First Order hasn't destroyed it, I'd like to see them go back to Aeos Prime, one of the better looking and more visually unique locations of the ST.

 

[Saul]

I'm just glad the show is over. It's been a bit of a slog to get through. Next week's episode looks good but really we needed more of these type of episodes or a show about how the resistance was actually formed.

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, that certainly isn't Adam Driver doing Kylo Ren's voice. What did happen with the voices this season? During season 1 they had Oscar Isaac and Gwendoline Christie make quite a few appearances as Poe and Phasma. But in season 2 Phasma was recast when she was in the premiere, General Hux and now Kylo Ren were voiced by someone besides who played them in the movies, and Poe hasn't even been in the season. Poe I can accept has been left out for storyline reasons/not wanting to interfere with Rise of Skywalker, but why were the characters from the movies that have been featured recast?

 

[Christopher]

why were the characters from the movies that have been featured recast?

Probably one of the usual two reasons: the actors couldn't fit it into their schedule, or the show was saving money.

 

[Saul]

But in season 2 Phasma was recast when she was in the premiere,

Maybe because Gwendoline Christie wasn't coming back in the movies and they didn't need to bring her back in for just a few lines or either Gwendoline Christie didn't want to play her after finding out she wasn't coming back in the next movie?

 

[kitik]

Resistance season 2 is being added to Disney+ on Tuesday February 25.

 

[Campe]

Resistance season 2 is being added to Disney+ on Tuesday February 25.

Good. I can finally watch it.

 

[kitik]

Welp, that wrapped up everything nicely. As you'd expect, not a single one of the good guys got shot down in the battle. Even Bucket made it past some TIEs.

CB-23 clearly the true hero of the Resistance in this episode, she saved everybody.

If they wanted to, they could've easily aired that before TROS.

Raise your hand if you think we'll ever see any of these characters ever again, in any medium.

 

[ALF]

Raise your hand if you think we'll ever see any of these characters ever again, in any medium.

Yeah, beyond the already established Leia, Poe etc I wouldn't count on it. Maybe some YA books.

I enjoyed the finale for the most part. And I respect the show for being different... but I don't think I'll be rewatching this series with the love and devotion I feel for The Clone Wars or Rebels. Resistance starts slow in Season 1 and Season 2. It's incredible how slow a burn this season was. When S2 started they were looking for fuel, going on salvage missions, training exercises, etc.

The title of the show is accurate, though. They did resist.

Couple of observations:

• Too bad about Aeos Prime. I'm assuming they base delta zero'd the village to death but the entire planet survived.
• What is up with Rucklin?? What a strange character overall. Bitter and spiteful towards the heroes to the end, but too incompetent to stop them. I'd like to know what happened to him after the events of the finale.
• Was really surprised at the forgiving nature of the heroes toward Tam. Even the rowdy crowd at the bar was quick to forgive her deadly treachery. Ah well, all's well that ends well, right?

 

[Reverend]

Well...that was a thing that happened.
You know I'm starting to question whether this really was always intended to be a two seasons and done show.
I mean logically since animated shows have such a long pipeline the decision ought to have been made before the first season even aired, but on the other hand you'd think if they knew they only had one season left then they'd have made more of an effort to pick up the pace and actually tie the story back into the movies.
They don't even bother giving a throwaway line about linking back up with General Leia, or even Poe & BB-8! Something doesn't add up.

I wonder if they thought they were told they had at least three seasons at the outset, but it got truncated to two when the second season was already mostly locked in. Maybe the initial toy sales were disappointing?

I'd like to know what happened to him after the events of the finale.

Unless he made it to an escape pod; he dead.

 

[Booji]

Well, I'm glad that's over. I really liked all the characters and loved the animation, but the show did nothing to advance or add to the overall Star Wars narrative. It was just one big missed opportunity with the sequel trilogy. Oh well.

 

[Christopher]

The title of the show is accurate, though. They did resist.

Technically accurate, perhaps, but highly misleading, since it implied we'd be seeing a show about the group actually called the Resistance, but the only main character who was actually part of it was Kaz, and loosely Yeager. I mean, the leads of Star Wars Rebels actually joined the Rebel Alliance at the end of season 1, and Hera was secretly working for them all along, and the rest of Rebels was about the actual Rebel Alliance. So when they named the show Star Wars Resistance, that implied it would actually be about the Resistance, instead of just one incompetent Resistance spy hanging out on a civilian station, assigned to find a First Order spy that I don't think he ever actually found.

It really seems like the initial plan was to bring the show more directly into connection with the sequel-trilogy narrative over time, but somehow plans took a swerve and they decided to cut the show short. Maybe their plans tied into what Trevorrow was doing for Episode IX, and thus got scuttled when he left. Or maybe the show just wasn't as popular as they hoped and they changed their plans. (Though I don't know how popular it was. I just know I think it's the weakest show they've done; I don't know if that's a widely held opinion.)

 

[Shawnster]

Was really surprised at the forgiving nature of the heroes toward Tam. Even the rowdy crowd at the bar was quick to forgive her deadly treachery. Ah well, all's well that ends well, right?

Well, it was a very "young adult" target audience series, so forgiving Tam and completely welcoming her back makes sense as the kind of message they would want to send to young adults. People make mistakes and sometimes the mistakes are big, but everyone can be forgiven because we all make mistakes.

 

[Tuskin38]

Three of the ships from resistance do show up in TROS, no screen caps from the movie, but the photo real versions of the models are at the bottom of this page

https://www.starwars.com/news/buckets-list-extra-the-escape-part-2-star-wars-resistance

 

[Christopher]

Well, it was a very "young adult" target audience series, so forgiving Tam and completely welcoming her back makes sense as the kind of message they would want to send to young adults. People make mistakes and sometimes the mistakes are big, but everyone can be forgiven because we all make mistakes.

Luke forgave Vader/Anakin, and he did far, far worse things than Tam did. (Well, I haven't seen most of the season, but I assume there hasn't been an episode where Tam slaughters a bunch of schoolchildren or participates in blowing up an inhabited planet.)

 

[The Wormhole]

Well, it was a decent episode and a serviceable end to a rather mediocre series. Not really much more to add than that. I was expecting some sort of tie-in with Rise of Skywalker, even if it was just an epilogue scene explaining what happens to the character afterwards like what the Rebels finale had.

Something that's been getting to me all season, does the star destroyer not have its own command crew? It's only ever Pyre and Tierny we see giving orders, to the point that a few weeks ago when they were both off the ship we see the Tie Fighter CAG in command on the bridge. I guess they wanted to keep things streamlined, no point introducing another authority figure who just issue orders around Pyre and Tierny, but it still gets to me anyway.

And if they weren't going to get Adam Driver, couldn't they have at least found someone who sounds sort of like him to do Kylo Ren's voice?

 

[Reverend]

And if they weren't going to get Adam Driver, couldn't they have at least found someone who sounds sort of like him to do Kylo Ren's voice?

I was more weirded out that his voice sounded like it was being filtered through his mask...which he wasn't wearing.

 

[Tuskin38]

Matthew Wood (General Grevious and the Clone Wars Battle Droids among other things) voiced Kylo. He also voices the masked version of him in Battlefront 2.

 

[David cgc]

Three of the ships from resistance do show up in TROS, no screen caps from the movie, but the photo real versions of the models are at the bottom of this page

https://www.starwars.com/news/buckets-list-extra-the-escape-part-2-star-wars-resistance

The direction of that space battle was so weird. I was sure watching it that it was all reused ships from the prior four movies (even the "new" destroyers seem to be kitbashes of models from R1 and TLJ), but I keep seeing screencaps showing a bunch of stuff that had to be new models that were well-hidden in the clutter and chaos. The Dornean Gunship was more featured in RotJ than any of these easter-egg ships, and until it got its Cinderella moment being recreated for Rebels and Rogue One, the most people knew of it was a couple websites saying, "Hey, what's this one weird ship that's in a couple scenes in RotJ but isn't in any of the tech books or model kits?"

 

[Reverend]

I'm sure once the bluray is out people can go frame by frame and spot all the ship cameos.
Even seeing it twice, I wasn't able to pick out anything from 'Resistance', just the Ghost, Shadow Caster, all of the new designs from TlJ along with the classics from RO and the OT as well as a bunch of random civilian/pirate freighter type designs from CW & Rebels. I think I also saw what looked like an unused concept for Enfys Nest's mothership, at least one fang-fighter, and the wookiee gunship that people keep misidentifying as the Razorcrest.

Basically it looks like they just opened every maya spaceship folder on the LF servers, gave the cartoony ones a quick rework and just chucked them in there to fill out the frame.

But yeah, the direction of pretty much all of the ST space battles have been poorly thought through fuster clucks. TLJ's was a *little* bit better in the sense that it had an actual stratigic plan behind it...it was a bad plan, but a plan none-the-less. That said the Crait speeder battle was bafflingly pointless. Pretty to look at though.

RO's on the other hand: that was very well thought through and executed. You always knew where you were, what the objectives were and who you were looking at.