General Star Wars Animated Series

Then once again, Disney XD Canada is giving us the shaft and making us wait for episodes, because it's not schedules for the 14th here.

Ah. I should have noticed different am/pm.

Do you guys have a date yet?

edited 5th Oct '15 2:35:25 PM by yellowturtle

I haven't looked ahead yet. It's probably a week or two later. That's what it was last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1cutGYAuXs

This interview has a new clip starting at 3:50

Holy crap, Seventh Sister. Please stop flirting with and threatening to dismember the blueberry.

i'm still convinced that Seventh Sister is Barriss.

I must have missed something. Recently I've seen people here and over on the Jedi Council forums calling Ezra a blueberry. Is it the hair?

I actually thought it got darker over season one. At least it wasn't trying to find it's way back to the ocean.

edited 6th Oct '15 12:03:16 PM by yellowturtle

Pretty much.

Can I say "No Yay"?

/co/ is claiming /ss/

Got a hold of a copy of Star Wars Rebels Visual Guide: Epic Battles and guess what? There is some interesting tidbits there:

• Colonel Yularen is Kallus's direct superior and Kallus reports directly to him. Odds of Yularn showing up? High.
• The Phantom is getting a hyperdrive upgrade.
• Raith Sienar is the lead designer of the TIE series in the new canon.
• AT-ATs are relatively new weapon by the time of the show. Only been in production for a year or so.
• We are going to see the birth of the B-Wing.
• The planet the clones are on is called Seelos.
• Onderon is mentioned as being a rebel stronghold.

edited 6th Oct '15 1:01:50 PM by ManchuCandidate

Ooh, Onderon!

And didn't we already know about the B-wings? Cause I think Hera pilots them in the Season 2 trailer. Or is that an A-wing?

edited 6th Oct '15 1:45:27 PM by higherbrainpattern

There's a big difference between B-wings and A-wings.

B-wings are the big ones that have one long wing with two perpendicular wings that fold out. A-wings are small starfighters that are vaguely triangle shaped.

Not remembering specifically what you're talking about, it's probably an A-wing, since I remember Filoni mentioning that it would be the "standard" starfighter of the group of rebels we'll be spending time with, compared to the X-wings that were more common in the faction Luke was with.

Yeah, I checked, and Hera is piloting an B-wing in the Season 2 trailer.

To this day I'm still unsure if Disney treats those as canon. Tarkin makes a handful of references about Trench but oddly Tarkin never makes any mention to his fate (you'd expect him to say "The departed Admiral Trench" or "Admiral Trench, killed in 19 BBY" or somesuch) which is weird. Wookieepedia, amusingly, seems to mostly sidestep them.

Kalani bites the dust in the unproduced arcs as well, but like I said, I'm unsure.

Still, it'd be a pretty damn cool arc to show Separatist holdouts in the Empire. Some faraway, isolated HQ with droids and generals, keeping up with their fight to split off in their own state. The Rebels finding them would be pretty cool to have them reflect on how times changes, on the faults of the Republic and the mending of old wounds (Like the rebels bickering with the CIS remnants over past grievances until they realize they are Not So Different and have a bigger fish to fry and all).

In fact, Mar Tuuk would be a perfect character for that sort of thing. While Kalani was utterly ruthless (attacking the civilian population and all), Trench less-so but still pretty ruthless ("I AM YOUR DOOM!" and all), Mar Tuuk was, while antagonistic and perhaps arrogant, more or less decent. Unlike most separatist commanders, he's never seen comitting any war crimes and treats Anakin with some semblance of respect. And he's the only one who's definetely alive.

The Umbarans would be even better for this role, though I would like to see a Nemodian be a positive character for a change, maybe a prince in rags, I can't imagine the Empire was kind to the various Separatist leading species.

Maybe Umbara could be their hideout and the "capital" of the New CIS.

In a way, Mar Tuuk is kind of a different Neimoidian because, as observed behind the scenes, he has a more military bend to him rather than the aristocratic archetype of the species. He has potential, I must admit.

What I really want to see is a good Geonosian. Besides the Geonosians lacking any portrayal that's not either a mindless insect or Poggle the Lesser, there's the fact the Empire has conducted a planet-wide ethnic cleansing on Geonosis. I want to see a remnant of the species swearing revenge and trying to rebuild.

The unfinished episodes are considered canon as part of The Clone Wars Legacy project.

... and need to be animated. I mean, come on! The voices are done, the sounds are done! I want those GREAT episodes to get properly finished.

The animation is the expensive part, though.

Personally, given the choice between animatics and not having them at all, I'll take the animatics. When I was watching them, I forgot they weren't finished, really.

It's like N64 or PS1 graphics. You forget how bad they actually are, and remember them as masterpieces.

edited 6th Oct '15 8:55:44 PM by BadWolf21

Ah, so they are. Then a lot of Wookieepedia are outdated (Kalani's and Trench's don't mention their demises in the lost episodes). Though I do find a pity, I really wanted to see them again.

Still on Mar Tuuk, I was rewatching his episode ("Storm Over Ryloth") a brief note is Mar Tuuk only loses because Anakin says he's surrendering when he, in fact, isn't. Mar Tuuk only loses because he's a Horrible Judge of Character by assuming the best of Anakin rather than a fake surrender (which is a war crime in our world).

Fancy that.

edited 6th Oct '15 9:26:56 PM by Gaon

I mean, Anakin did give him the ship. :P

I still think those episodes will get animated properly.

Star Wars fans will complain until it happens, and give Disney/Lucasfilm all their money when it does.

I sincerely doubt it. And if it does, it won't be for a very long time.

Are there any more animatics they haven't shown? I could see them finishing them up as a bonus feature on some future collection.

I think there's supposed to be one more? I can't remember where I heard that, though.