YMMV / Star Wars Resistance

• Accidental Innuendo: This line from "The Triple Dark":
  Grevel: You don't jerk old Grevel around! (Grevel is angry that Kaz hasn't paid him yet)
• Alas, Poor Scrappy: Even detractors of Kaz felt bad for him when he watched Hosnian Prime get decimated.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Does Tierny believe Tam is genuinely loyal to the First Order or is she intimidating her into submission because she doesn't? Or both? In the end, Tam even admits part of why she stayed with the First Order for so long was because she was afraid of crossing Tierny.
  • Did the friendship between Tam and Hype actually end, because he got full of himself, after becoming an Ace, or did relations sour between them, because Tams support of the Empire, while Hype has, with his memory of the Galactic Civl War and resulting hatred of the First Order, experienced how tyrannical it is?
• Animation Age Ghetto:
  • From the synopsis alone, "anime-inspired" quickly raised concerns that Resistance would be a downgrade in both animation and story quality. This is in spite of the fact that the previous Star Wars animated entries were also animesque (albeit not to the same extent that Resistance was due to its cel-shading), and that numerous other animesque action shows have been well-received, such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Teen Titans (2003), Wakfu, RWBY, and several others proving that taking inspiration from anime can result in quality entertainment. And of course, people interpreting "anime-inspired" as literally meaning the show will be an anime rather than inspired by anime.
  • Once again, some people have voiced strong disinterest in Resistance for its art style, animation, and tone, dismissing it as a kids' show, even though its predecessors and the movies have been pointed out to be ultimately aimed at children. According to Future of the Force's podcast interview with Brandon Auman, Dave Filoni even intentionally made it more aimed towards children to balance it out with the upcoming works aimed more towards adults like The Mandalorian.
• Awesome Art: The artstyle and choice of animation has been likened to the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. To put it shortly, they're gorgeous. It's essentially an Art Evolution from Iron Man: Armored Adventures.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Kazuda Xiono is one of the polarizing protagonists in the history of the franchise, which is really saying something. To his fans, he's one of the strongest elements of the show and a refreshing Contrasting Sequel Main Character by being an Adorkable and likeable Nice Guy since the beginning (while previous protagonists like Ahsoka, Ezra and even Luke tend to need a bit of defrosting before becoming fully heroic), enjoy the fact that he's not an immediate prodigy or The Ace, with the narrative allowing him to fail a lot and find his Character Development into becoming a true leader for the Colossus crew and becoming a more competent pilot and fighter rewarding. To his haters, he's basically a human version of Jar Jar Binks, who has way too big of a record of messing things up or acting incompetent to not be considered as The Load and felt he didn't develop enough nor had enough badass moments by the end of the series to make it up for it. Season 2 only increased the debate, as it gave him more impressive feats at the same time that it had him give some of his biggest missteps, like almost destroying an Jedi Temple.
  • Tam. Many fans see her as a sympathetic example of a person who was indoctrinated to accept a corrupt Empire and took her side in her conflict with Yeagar, seen her anger at Kazuda and Yeagar as justified. Other fans see her as a demanding jerkass who's blatantly delusional about The First Order's atrocities and blames everyone but herself for her own personal failures. A third section doesn't consider her unlikable but didn't found her character or subplot very interesting to the point they felt the dynamic of the show barely changed while she wasn't around thanks to her Face–Heel Turn.
  • Hype Fazon. He has an Ensemble Dark Horse credit for being an Small Name, Big Ego Jerk with a Heart of Gold Rodian racer who is voiced by Turk. But other viewers can't stand him for how much of a Jerkass he's towards Kazuda over minimal things (which includes giving him the nickname "Kaztastrophy"), despite how many times he has been saving his ass or supporting him. Then again, some fans like him precisely because he's a jerk to Kazuda.
• Common Knowledge: For whatever reason (presumably due to some residual feelings over Star Wars: The Clone Wars' own cancellation, heavy dislike of Star Wars Resistance throughout the Internet, YouTube's abundant amount of clickbait content focusing on negativity, and how uncommon it is to have a show that naturally lasts two seasons), word soon spread upon the release of the show's Season 2 trailer that the show had been cancelled, even though this was not confirmed by official sources and even Pablo Hidalgo hinted that it was a decision made by the crew. Indeed, interviews with the show's producers released in the week before the Season 2 premiere confirmed that ending after two seasons was the crew's decision. Despite this...
• Critical Backlash: The people watching the show after the initial backlash calmed down, tend to wonder what the big deal was, often finding it to be a decent show that simply never got the chance to fully grow his beard nor get at the same level of any of the high peaks of his predecessors shows.
• Critical Dissonance: The show received mostly positive reviews from critics, both seasons got nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program and actually won an Saturn Award for Best Animated Series on Television. You wouldn't know this from the way the fanbase reacted to the show. While it has a solid fanbase on it's own, it's considered one of the divisive Star Wars series among the larger fanbase.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Neeku reminisces about a pet he once had that reminded him of home... before it died. Then he perks right back up and says he ate it. And we learned in the previous episode that the show’s cute critter mascot, the gorgs, aren't usually kept as pets, but for food. In "Bibo", Kaz tries to cheer Neeku up after he's forced to let Bibo go by getting him a gorg for a pet, only for Neeku to immediately eat it alive (and then thanking Kaz for being so thoughtful as to buy him lunch).
• Death of the Author: Despite the show's executive producers stating that Resistance was always meant to be two seasons and that they didn't want to risk it overstaying its welcome while the rest of the Sequel Trilogy finished, many fans are convinced that they were lying as the show sets up for various plots that seem like they would've been addressed if the show had gone on longer. Furthermore, at least one crew member has apparently talked about how disappointing it was that they never got to complete the show and the voice actors feel that the show ended too soon, with Christopher Sean even claiming that the show was cancelled (though his word is questionable, as voice actors would know less about the show's production than the rest of the crew). Additionally, fans are not so trustworthy of Disney and Lucasfilm seeing as Disney's television networks are notorious for dropping their shows if they became too story-oriented, dark, and/or didn't become extremely marketable, while Lucasfilm has been very tight-lipped about the Troubled Production behind the Sequel Trilogy (and at one point, Rogue One), especially towards The Rise of Skywalker, to prevent backlash about Fan-Preferred Cut Content.
• Designated Monkey:
  • Besides Torra, Poe and Team Fireball, Kazuda gets no respect from the rest of the Colossus, often treating him like he's a completely useless guy that does nothing but ruin everything for everyone else. This was justified in the early episodes where he played The Klutz straight and he hadn't adjusted to his environment yet. But after 2 seasons of Character Development, saving the Colossus crew multiple times and getting multiple episodes where he helps people individually in the Colossus, it looks more like they are unfairly biased against the guy no matter how many times he goes out of his way to help them. Even in the Grand Finale, everyone refused to help in Kazuda and Tam's rescue for being The Klutz until they get called out into a Jerkass Realization when he tells them to run away, you will think by this point they will at least have some respect for the guy.
  • CS-515 from "The New Trooper", who receives a ton of grievous harm to his head and body for finding out about Kel and Eila and almost turning them in. While that alone would've just made him a Butt-Monkey, no one is aware that he, like many other First Order Stormtroopers, was taken by the First Order as an infant and brainwashed to believe in it. Given the way he acts while disoriented (such as being calmed down by Kel and Eila or finding Neeku "nice"), you might wonder if there was a chance for him to have a Heel–Face Turn.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Neeko it's often interpreted to be autistic among fans. Mostly for his Literal-Minded tendencies, having problems understanding social cues like sarcasm and jokes, poor social skills and a difficulty reading the room among humans but communicating well with fellow aliens and a tendecy to overtalk.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Carrying over from the movies, some Kylo Ren fans were happy to hear him get namedropped in early Season 1... and the context of said namedrop was from an orphaned girl and her brother who had survived a massacre that he led on their village all because the First Order had secret plans there. The rationalization is that Kylo let Kel and Eila go on purpose even though it would actually be out-of-character for him to demonstrate such mercy.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The gorgs, frog-piranha... things with big bulging eyes and razor-sharp teeth when it opens its mouth. It's been compared to the Hypnotoad. And then Neeku mentions that he had no problem eating his last pet after it died, which helps or does not help matters.
  • Buggles, Torra's pet voorpak for being a cute alien dog. Even more so when voorpaks appeared in Star Wars: The Bad Batch to have a cute scene with Omega.
  • Stephen Stanton's character, Griff Halloran, became this based just on the fact that he's a grumpy ex-Imperial TIE Pilot who's on the heroes' side.
  • Flix, and to a lesser extent, Orka, for being Those Two Guys with fun character designs.
  • Hugh Sion, one of Kaz's squadmates at the beginning of the show, due to his voice actor being beloved franchise veteran Sam Witwer.
  • Synara San, for being a Mirialan pirate — a never-before-seen purple and non-Force-sensitive Mirialan at that.
  • Opeepit, the janitor who appears in every Colossus episode scrubbing the floors of the station. Even more so towards the end of Season 1, where the First Order confiscates his machine and he has to scrub the floors by hand.
  • Garma, a strange old Arcona lady who seems weirdly into Kaz and is apparently not above stealing.
  • Aunt Z for being a Service Sector Stereotypes Cool Old Lady who isn't above making her opinions known, especially her opinions about the Empire and the First Order.
  • Venisa for averting the franchise's frequent use of dead mothers and being a Cool Old Lady Action Girl.
  • If the Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) modding community is any indication, Commander Pyre is rather well-liked for his cool design and voice actor (whom he shares with fellow Ensemble Darkhorse Taron Malicos).
• Epileptic Trees: Fans popularly speculate that the Rogue Squadron film, which was implied in its reveal announcement to take place after the Sequel Trilogy, would feature Resistance characters in live-action (particularly, Kaz) due to most of the characters' appearances being based on their voice actors and being a perfect opportunity to follow up on a pilot-centered show that has otherwise been dismissed by much of the fanbase.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • Commander Pyre can be considered as "what Captain Phasma is supposed to be in the Sequel Trilogy", being a faceless, ruthless, and No-Nonsense Nemesis Stormtrooper Commander.
  • To a lesser extent, Major Elrik Vonreg, thanks to his cool faceless design with red armor, wearing a red helmet that looks like a Phase II clone trooper helmet with a T-visor like the ones in Mandalorian helmet, and using red-colored TIE Fighter. His Engineered Heroics by throwing Warbird Gang under the bus is also pretty memorable. It's a shame that he's killed in Season 1 finale.
  • Likewise, Agent Tierny, who is basically if Agent Kallus stayed evil.
• Fan-Disliked Explanation: One praised aspect of the first season was that they managed to make the destruction of the Hosnian system much more impactful that in The Force Awakens by having the family of the protagonist, Kazuda dying in the incident, unlike the original movie where no one knew anyone from the system. So, many fans were quite disappointed when a later episode revealed the whole family was offworld when the Cataclysm happened.
• Fan Nickname: Given the show doesn't focus a lot on the actual Resistance, some fans prefer to call the show as "Star Wars Colossus"
• Fanon Discontinuity: Kazuda's family surviving the destruction of the Hosnian system is often ignored, as many fans prefer the bleaker alternative given it makes the event much more impactful, it helps that it is never mentioned again after the one single scene where Kazuda's dad reveals it.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Kaz's cover story is that he's a factory worker from Coruscant. Then come the concepts for The Rise of Skywalker, where it was considered revealing that Coruscant had been mysteriously abandoned and overrun by monstrous wolflike creatures, which either would've meant Kaz was a much more obvious liar or he lived a very terrible life before moving to the Colossus.
• He's Just Hiding: Fans of Commander Pyre and Agent Tierny like to believe that they survived the finale, as we don't see them die onscreen.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • There was already a famous anime-style fan animation that also focused heavily on space battles. Though it's possible that Resistance was based off of the positive reception that this fan animation received.
  • Donald Faison previously played Gary the Stormtrooper in Robot Chicken.
  • As several fans of Star Wars Rebels carried over to Resistance, many of those same fans were quick to object to Kaz saying that he'll be the best pilot in the galaxy, because that title has already been taken by the one and only General Hera Syndulla.
  • In Season 1, there's a Ship Tease joke between BB-8 and CB-23. The Poe Dameron comic also had a joke that Jessika Pava's droid, Ivee, and BB-8 were together for some time until Ivee died in a Heroic Sacrifice soon after. Looks like BB-8 is a Chick Magnet.
  • This series has very anime-influenced animation. The later-released Star Wars: Visions just straight up is an anime, even featuring animation by famed Japanese companies like Studio TRIGGER, making this show feel like some kind of missing link.
• I Knew It!:
  • After the announcement of Rebels, rumors went out that the series following Rebels would be titled Resistance. Whether or not those rumors were true or just lucky (considering that Resistance is a fairly obvious title choice given some of the other Star Wars titles) remains uncertain.
  • That based on the way he acts, Captain Doza was a former Imperial officer.
  • After "The First Order Occupation" introduced the underwater sections of the Colossus and concept art showed that the Colossus as a whole is similar in shape to Skystrike Academy, many accurately predicted that the Colossus was actually a space station or spaceship, which was confirmed in "No Escape, Part I".
• Improved Second Attempt:
  • A complaint about Rebels was the repetitive use of incidental animation models, particularly Minister Tua-lookalikes, Rodians, Gotals, and Ithorians. Resistance uses a wider variety of incidentals, from all sorts of species and looks. This also works in favor of the show's setting, which is essentially a pitstop town as opposed to Lothal being a dust bucket in the middle of nowhere.
  • Generally, the show is liked for depicting the First Order villains as completely serious and intimidating, especially for Kylo, Hux, and Phasma, who fans feel have had disappointing characterizations in the films. A common complaint in The Clone Wars and Rebels was that the Separatists (at least earlier on) and the Imperials frequently lacked seriousness and intimidating personalities.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: A common criticism of the show is that it has a Slow-Paced Beginning and plenty of Saturday morning-esque padding, but the show ends abruptly with only two seasons before it could grow out of it like its predecessor shows had, seemingly leaving the show Left Hanging. Fans speculate that the show's sudden end was due to Disney wanting to move on from the Sequel Trilogy in light of the release of The Rise of Skywalker and/or that they didn't want to invoke the Overtook the Manga trope due to the film's Troubled Production/Writing by the Seat of Your Pants.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!:
  • Some feel that Kazuda looks and acts a bit too similar to Ezra. He does develop into his own character as the show goes on though.
  • Bucket being described as a gadfly and an old mismatched astromech belonging to an Ace Pilot in a group sounds too on the spot for Chopper. In the show, though, Bucket appears to be on the quieter and snarkier of things akin to an old cat rather than being a trolling prankster that Chopper often was.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: So far, Kazuda has been shipped with Torra, Tam, Neeku, Rucklin, and Synara, who are just about the only characters on the show that are his age.
• LGBT Fanbase: LGBT+ fans were pleased to hear that Christopher Sean, an actor known for playing an openly gay character in Days of Our Lives, with a sizable LGBT Fanbase of his own, would be playing the main character. And like The Clone Wars and Rebels before it, it appears popular to headcanon the main characters as LGBT+. A popular ship has been Tam/Synara.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Killing off Kazuda's father when he's voiced by a prominent actor and was not even physically present for his sole scene in Season 1. Come the Season 2 trailer and it turns out he's alive.
• Memetic Molester: Garma, the elderly blue Arcona who invites Kaz to come stay with her in "Fuel for the Fire" in the creepiest possible tone. Some have called her the Star Wars version of Herbert.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The gorgs are Hypnotoads.
  • Kaz can’t be the best pilot in the galaxy because that epithet belongs to Hera.
  • Kaz's air-pumped "Yes!" from the first episode is used as a reaction image/gif.
  • A shot from the expanded trailer showing Poe panicking as he's getting sucked out into the vacuum of space being compared to a rabid dog (particularly the "He don't bite!" "Yes, he do!" meme).
  • Yeager took his family to Disneyland.^note Detail-oriented viewers noticed that the background of Yeager's family photo seen in "Fuel for the Fire" matches up with an image of Batuu, where Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at some Disneyland Resorts takes place in.
  • Asking if Hype is going to do the infamous Fortnite default dance, which is based on a dance that his voice actor, Donald Faison, did in Scrubs.
  • That Kaz has a one-sided crush on Poe.
  • Kaz and Yeager with wet hair after being drenched in water while wearing short sleeves while on a mission in "Descent" seems to be building up to be on the same level as Obi-Wan and Kallus's loose locks of hair after getting beaten up. It's gotten comparisons to an emo bang or even Shiro's hair.
  • "Why don't we take the Colossus... and PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE?!", for when Kaz proposes that they sink the Colossus (and later, fly the Colossus) near the end of Season 1.
  • The appearance of Super Battle Droids in the Season 2 trailer resulted in a predictable barrage of "Watch out for those wrist rockets!" jokes in every YouTube comments section.
• Moral Event Horizon: Go here.
• Not Badass Enough for Fans: Due to Kaz's never-ending Butt-Monkey and The Klutz traits for nearly the entire series, many detractors regard him as human version of Jar Jar Binks at worst. Some even unfavourably compare him to Ahsoka Tano and Ezra Bridger who had better Character Development in their respective series.
• Older Than They Think: Not the first time Star Wars cartoon show was released while the current trilogy was still going; Star Wars: Clone Wars was released in between the releases of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, with the last third of the show leading up to the latter film.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Sidon Ithano, also known as the Crimson Corsair, appears only in the Cold Opening of "The Mutiny".
  • Kylo Ren's two scenes in the finale, where it's re-established exactly why he's feared.
• Portmanteau Couple Name:
  • Neekaz, for Kaz/Neeku.
  • Tamnara, for Tam/Synara.
  • Kaznara, for Kaz/Synara.
  • Yeagerdoza or Yoza, for Yeager/Doza.
  • Pyreny/Pyerny, for Pyre/Tierny.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Kaz was disliked among many fans for being clumsy, goofy, and naive, but his growing capability and maturity bears fruit in the final episodes of Season 1, which seems to have won over a large chunk of his detractors.
• Retroactive Recognition: Keaton John (Marcus) is Hordak.
• Ron the Death Eater: With Tam having a Face–Heel Turn, some came to negatively view her and hope that she dies horribly, even though the point of her descent is to show that good and ordinary people can be misguided and that this isn't unlike every other redemption arc in Star Wars should Tam's story follow that path as well.
• Salvaged Story:
  • The show uses more familiar alien species and a more vibrant usage of color, as some common complaints regarding the Sequel Trilogy were that the minimum amount of aliens seen were boring and uncreative, and that the overabundance of earthly colors didn't make the films feel like they were in alien environments. Even better is that one of the main cast is a Nikto, an already established species who is however a very rarely seen in the franchise. Even the Prequel Trilogy species of Aleena, Kel Dor, Nautolans, and Neimoidians can be seen.
  • Some fans have lamented the fact that most of the spaceships in the Sequel Trilogy films are, with a few exceptions, mostly just variations on designs we've already seen before. Here, almost all of the main characters (and even some of the one-off characters) have a unique and colorful Cool Ship of their own.
  • Ironically, the Lighter and Softer, more upbeat tone for which it was initially so heavily criticized online has been noted by some people as an unexpected asset. Some fans felt turned off by the Sequel Trilogy because it seemingly showed all the victories of the original trilogy had been undone and all that struggle was for nothing. While the personal story of the Skywalker family and the Jedi has still turned tragic, Resistance shows that the rest of the New Republic is nevertheless a relatively clean, happy, and orderly place to live, even on an "outlaw town" like the Colossus, and the galaxy has enjoyed thirty years of unprecedented peace and prosperity thanks to the heroic efforts of the Rebel Aliance.
  • The Last Jedi was criticized for hitting General Hux with what many felt was significant Villain Decay from his chillingly unhinged portrayal in The Force Awakens. This show does a lot to repair his image by establishing him as a Knight of Cerebus placing his speech at the destruction of Hosnian Prime front and center, reminding us that while he's small fry compared to dark side wielders like Snoke and Kylo Ren, to the rest of the galaxy (and non-Force Users in general), Hux is nevertheless a murderous authoritarian fanatic who is indirectly responsible for the deaths of billions of people.
  • One of the criticisms involving Starkiller Base in The Force Awakens was that the destruction of the Hosnian system lacked emotional resonance due to the audience not getting any time to really know the New Republic or any of the characters having personal connections to it. In Resistance, the lead character, Kazuda, is from Hosnian Prime, so when he witnesses the event, it's much more personal and emotional for him in the vein of Leia witnessing Alderaan's destruction.
  • On that note, Leia's apparent total lack of angst at having been tortured and Forced to Watch her home planet get destroyed is a common criticism of A New Hope, and one that the Star Wars: Princess Leia comic had previously tried to address. Kazuda's reaction to watching his home get destroyed is considerably more emotional.
• Second Season Downfall: The show only had two seasons definitively planned, although Word of God says that a Post-Script Season 3 that would've connected with the live-action Sequel Trilogy films was considered if the show was a success. Unfortunately, a variety of factors hampered this. Season 2 is widely considered to be weaker compared to Season 1; while Season 1 slowly built up to the events of The Force Awakens, many feel that Season 2 doesn't carry the momentum, with the characters no longer having a tangent end goal and not being allowed to further connect with the films due to the writers not knowing how the Sequel Trilogy was going to end. As such, fans pin Season 2's weaker writing on the films rather than through any fault of the show's staff. Combined with the aforementioned Troubled Production, a late Sunday night timeslot on the dying Disney XD block while also being released in the midst of Disney's transition to streaming, being widely dismissed by the general fanbase for being a Force-less, more children-oriented cartoon set during the divisive Sequel Trilogy era, and being overshadowed by the revival of the more widely acclaimed Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Resistance hardly stood a chance.
• Signature Scene: Kylo Ren threatening to kill Agent Tierny and Commander Pyre if they fail him one last time, and to a lesser extent, Kylo killing Tierny, due to these two scenes being his only scenes in the show and yet they're generally agreed to have re-established how terrifying he is after his Villain Decay in the films, in addition to his unique method of how he may off the show's villains.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: The show felt Saturday morning-esque for its first season, up until the last half or last quarter of the season, where it starts to bear the fruit of Character Development that came from seemingly filler episodes, becoming more action-focused and similar in tone to Rebels, and gaining Cerebus Syndrome with its subtle political themes.
• So Okay, It's Average: The general opinion of the show in the years following its end. It's not bad in any sense of the word and has a lot of bright spots, but ultimately just never quite meets the shocking, boundary-pushing highs of other Star Wars shows. The fact that it ended after a mere two seasons also prevented it from really reaching its full potential, and its self-contained nature rather than contributing to the "saga" makes it very easy to ignore.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The title fanfare sounds like the theme heard in the title cards for Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) (also composed by Michael Tavera).
• Tainted by the Preview: The first few videos related to the series were massively downvoted on YouTube^note For reference, in the like-dislike ratio for the first trailer, the dislike ratio immediately outbalanced the likes — in four days, it got nearly a million views... but 9.4K likes against 50K dislikes. For the record, early promotional material for Rebels had a like-dislike ratio that was 50/50 when they were first released. for the same reasons as with Star Wars Rebels: An apparent childish tone/humor and an unfamiliar new art style. Despite this, other people have positively acknowledged the similarities in reactions to the two series and have pointed out that Star Wars: The Clone Wars went through the same reaction phase, after all. This seems to have come true as of the mid-season trailer, which received far more approval as the show seemed to be getting into darker territory.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • Even after the conclusion of Rebels, there were still people that complained upon the announcement of Resistance simply because it wasn't a The Clone Wars continuation. At least until Disney announced an official The Clone Wars continuation.
  • One of the most consistent criticisms upon seeing the trailer is that the new art style is just too different from The Clone Wars or Rebels and looks incredibly cheap and undetailed in comparison.
  • Michael Tavera replaces Kevin Kiner as the music composer due to the latter working on The Clone Wars Season 7. However, it's commonly agreed that Tavera's music isn't as standout and iconic as Kiner's, especially since he doesn’t use a live orchestra.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • B1, the battle droid Neeku befriends, was set up to be a recurring character who led the Super Battle Droid security force on the Colossus and could have participated in the final battle with the First Order. He ends up getting destroyed in the very next episode without much fare, with B1 himself apparently aware of this as he remarks how unfair it is. That said, nothing is said that Neeku can't repair the droids, but the show ends before we can see if this is possible.
  • Sidon Ithano appearing in a shot in the Season 2 trailer quickly sprouted speculation that Kix would also show up, but ultimately, Ithano is a One-Scene Wonder and appears without his crew, with only his connection to Kix being hinted at. Resistance could have been the perfect place to set up Ithano being with the Resistance at the end of The Rise of Skywalker (especially since the show greatly emphasizes Neutral No Longer) as well as bringing Kix back to provide commentary on a story that has spanned over five decades.
  • Nena's subplot is your typical The Mole Becoming the Mask episodic plot and ends with its standard Sequel Hook that she may return and have a Heel–Face Turn. Surprisingly, this is never followed up.
  • With the parallels to the Finn/Phasma fight from the climax of The Last Jedi, a handful of viewers were expecting Kaz to knock Pyre's helmet off during their fight in the finale. Sadly, Pyre is Killed Offscreen after their fight, eliminating the possibility of Team Colossus ever seeing him without his helmet.
  • Commander Pyre and Agent Tierny don't get physical combat scenes, despite Pyre being Captain Phasma's Number Two and Tierny being an Agent Kallus expy. At best, Pyre tries fighting Kaz with a laser ax and nearly does him in, except CB uses her grappling rope to pull it away and Kaz knocks him out while he's distracted, which is probably not an actual measure of his fighting skills.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Some feel that Kaz joining the Resistance simply because Poe decided to recruit this kid he just met seems rather convenient, and that a better backstory would have been if Kaz had been washed out from the naval academy for a severe screw-up, considering his determination to prove himself despite his clumsiness is a Fatal Flaw he struggles with throughout Season 1.
  • In "Secrets and Holograms", it is revealed that Captain Doza is a former Imperial. Like Kaz, the audience is left in the dark as to who exactly Captain Doza is and what his past was... unless you watch the tie-in Resistance Rewind webshow episode, "Doza's Deal", where the writers are up front about him having deserted after realizing the Empire was evil.
  • When the show is called Resistance, you'd think the show would focus more on the actual Resistance, but they appear very little throughout the series, especially in Season 2. Fans speculate that this was due to not wanting to conflict with the already problematic writing production of The Rise of Skywalker at the time rather than through any fault of the show's writers.
  • At the end of Season 1, Kaz's homeworld of Hosnian Prime is blown up and presumably takes everyone he knows, including his family, down with it. It seems to serve as a motivation to make Kaz's stand against the First Order more personal... until early Season 2 reveals that Kaz's family just happened to be off world at the time. This never comes up again nor is Kaz's possible personal grudge against the First Order ever really addressed again either, so this part of his character arc seems for naught.
  • The apparently intentional decision by the crew to end the show at Season 2 seems rather strange, given the amount of plot threads Left Hanging by the end and the opportunity for the show to tie in with The Rise of Skywalker. Though given the show's production was concurrent with the Writing by the Seat of Your Pants Troubled Production of The Rise of Skywalker, it's possible the show's abrupt ending came about from not wanting to create complications with then-unknown territory.
• Ugly Cute: First introduced in The Phantom Menace, the art style of Resistance has turned the gorgs into this by making them more colorful, giving them bulging eyes and piranha-like teeth. Kaz even thinks they are this, wondering why they're considered a delicacy before one bites his finger.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Yeager comes off as this especially after Tam finds out that he and Kaz are helping the Resistance and keeping it from her. On one hand, Yeager has gone through considerable loss and tragedy from being a veteran of the Galactic Civil War and his wife and daughter in a racing incident. However, it's hard to deny that several of the things he's done with respect to Tam end up being insensitive in hindsight; when he tells Tamara that he always believed in her and that she's capable of great things, in several ways it falls flat because Tam has been stuck at that dead-end job for years with no progress and Yeager did little to support her dream of being a racer. The way Yeager was being lenient to Kaz regarding the Fireball and somewhat tolerant of his antics later on looks as if he's playing Kaz as his favorite, since it was supposed to be Tam's ship and is thus doing a disservice to the work she put towards it. When Tam feels like she's been betrayed, Yeager was set on getting Tam to see reason, he only ends up hurting her further by not stopping to think about how she feels at that point. That being said, it's difficult to sympathize with him in light of Tam's accusations of him.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?:
  • The Beautiful Slave Girl trope seen in Return of the Jedi and The Clone Wars is alluded to when Captain Doza gets especially angry about the possibility of Torra being stuck with working for a Hutt, and when Nena says she was kidnapped and sold to the Hutts as a child.
  • The Season 2 trailer shows Kylo Ren forcing Agent Tierny to pull out her blaster, implying he's going to make her shoot herself. In the show proper, he also has Commander Pyre do the same and has them point their blasters at each other. In the end, he just resorts to Force-choking Tierny to death.