General Star Wars Animated Series

It's a good rule. And it means the events in the cartoons still hold weight, as once the show is over (or characters' plot lines over) the characters are going to be possibly turning up in the films or other media.

And keep in mind that TV shows run on a different timescale than films. Rebels might be over before the sequel trilogy is.

Okay, I see what you're saying. So technically, we could get characters from the TV shows if Star Wars Rebels concludes at some point in the future. But we probably won't be, say, seeing adult!Ezra show up in the anthology movies while Rebels is still on the air.

Yeah. A shame, though. I still think it would've been cool if the character Lor San Tekka in Awakens had been an elderly Ezra Bridger instead.

Max von Sydow is over 20 years older than Mark Hamill, and Ezra and Luke are almost exactly the same age to the day, so...that was never happening.

Presumably in this hypothetical situation it wouldn't be the same actor, given that Von Sydow is white and Ezra is Space Indian.

edited 22nd Jun '16 10:05:59 PM by KnownUnknown

There's just...literally no way to have made it work. Not from a development schedule standpoint, not from a narrative perspective, and certainly not in any way that wouldn't pigeonhole the Rebels creative team for Ezra's future development.

If you say so. It's not like I was arguing for it.

I mean, it'd work if Rebels got abruptly cancelled or something. The Disney higher-ups could decide they want a show that ties in more with The Force Awakens sometime in the future.

I'm fairly certain writers for any star wars work would be eager to use Rebels characters once they become available, the characters, Asoka especially, are really loved.

New Star Wars Celebration Panel. Ashoka's Untold Tales.

Ezra's graduated to lethal weaponry, I see.

Not sure about the haircut.

edited 13th Jul '16 12:34:06 PM by KnownUnknown

Oh and you guys remember this?

http://makingstarwars.net/2016/01/rumor-the-largest-cameo-in-star-wars-rebels-chistory/

• Ezra with short hair-cut: check!
• Ezra with Obi-Wan style lightsaber: check!

Now we just have a certain Chiss box to check.

edited 13th Jul '16 12:55:45 PM by ManchuCandidate

An Ugnaught got blown up by an AT-AT.

Wow.

...Whoa.

That ugnaut was hit directly by a laser in such a manner that he went flying, and it still looks like it didn't kill him. Quite suspense-killing; If you have censors, you should at least build the story so it still makes sense. And if ugnauts are just that resilient, why would he be afraid of the troopers?

edited 13th Jul '16 4:36:56 PM by Braincogs

Oh it totally killed him.

Yay Hondo! On the one hand, damn Ezra. On the other hand, not a fan of Ezra's new hair. On the other, other hand, it probably saves some of the budget that can instead be used for more important things.

Probably not as much as you'd think. You make your main character models once, so it's not like you're saving a bunch of money every episode by having him with short hair. Just whatever the initial investment on his model was.

Hence the word "some" :P

I'd also argue that nothing on an animated series is more important than your main cast.

No, hair flows around. It's incredibly expensive to animate unless you have a physics engine doing it for you, a la Merida from Brave. Even then, the physics engine is expensive, and it takes, like, two days to render twenty seconds of video.

And that was already all in place.

Also, this isn't an artstyle where hair moves a ton. More than TCW, maybe, where it rarely moved at all, but Hera's lekku probably move far more than anyone's hair does.

Yeah, but Ezra's hair has like, fifteen moving pieces. The Twileks just have the two swinging tentacle things.

Saw the latest clip.

Sick! The next season will be sick!