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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] So, someone somewhere thought there was enough incentive to explore the imperial interim period, and with the Star Wars Live Action series dead until there are "advances in technology and reduction in costs", according to Lucas, this is what we get before Episode VII rolls out. The [URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5YN3LAGw4]trailer[/URL] struck me as potentially bolder than the old "Clone Wars" show, with potentially less restraint and narrative limits (although I won't hold my breath for any show content with a shred of the balls of the Mos Eisley bar fight). There are a lot of things the makers can get right with this show if they really want to, try to reconnect to the dangerous and alluring wonder of the very first 1977-movie, unless they are really going for middle-road Nickelodeon entertainment and don't want to ruffle any feathers, just cash a check every month for the coming five years. Jason Isaacs voicing the main antagonist is a good choice, even if a new Sith is harder to explain away than ever. He has Naziesque imperial riding pants and Sith regalia, an interesting mix, although [URL=http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/screencrush.com/files/2014/01/inquisitor_figure_1.jpg]his lightsaber is the most absurdly impractical design ever to grace the canon.[/URL] I would have taken a [URL=http://www.toonbarn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/LEGO-Darth-Maul-Lightsaber-e1348454988398.jpg]lightfork[/URL] over that, the previous most-likely-to-kill-the-wielder design. The main ship, [URL=http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/uploads/monthly_07_2013/post-2028-0-91493000-1375121148.jpg]the Ghost,[/URL] seems promising to me at the face of it, despite not carrying almost any visible tell-tale of being built by Corellian Engineering Corp. Its layout is 50% as well-built as the [URL=http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080415141803/starwars/images/b/b1/YT-2000.jpg]Corellian YT-2000[/URL] from the 1999 space-combat sim "X-Wing Alliance", save for the [URL=http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140215201047/starwars/images/a/ab/Ghost.png]hastily chopped-off and flat nose section,[/URL] and the decision to put the gunner ahead of the pilot in a non-octagonal ball turret in the very front, to manually fire at targets. That will be "cool" the first two times, before becoming rote. I have no specific comment on any of the show characters, all are so incredibly stereotypical Star Wars characters with stereotypical gender adherence it's almost farcical. They might well manage to get the characters to grow beyond their colored armor and cyberpunk crap ([URL=http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140221021642/es.starwars/images/d/d5/Hera_Syndulla.jpg]welder-goggles. In 2014.)[/URL], that is for the future to prove. I feel the detail level of both the ships and the characters in the trailer and Comic-Con snippet look decidedly lower-grade than in the last season of "Clone Wars", very plastic and too brightly lit up, I hope this won't be par for the course. In CW, the capital ships were almost interchangeable with the actual live-action CGI battleships of ROTS, while "Rebels" is two steps closer to LEGO. Anyone sitting on any other edifying info, outside of the [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Rebels]wikipage?[/URL] Please contrib! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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