General Star Wars Animated Series

Awesome! Another season of my favourite show of all time!

I wonder if they'll work in more foreshadowing to Rogue One...maybe show Cassian when he was a Fulcrum agent?

At the current rate of time passage they should arrive at ANH and R1 by the end of season 5. I wonder if they'll end the show there or if they'll try to continue somehow.

Freddie Prinze Jr. actually confirmed Disney picked up the whole story, we've already been guaranteed as many seasons as Filoni & co. feel they need to complete Rebels. Any "renewal" announcements are just PR moves to drum up hype :P

edited 3rd Mar '17 4:41:19 PM by TheAirman

As most renewal announcements in general. Work on those seasons tends to be done long before, but usually hushed due to NDA until the right time to announce it.

Whether or not work has been done on a new season has no bearing on whether a show is cancelled. For example: The Clone Wars.

Looks like we are getting Imperial Pablo as a character.

edited 4th Mar '17 6:44:51 PM by ManchuCandidate

Mon Mothma AND a TIE Defender in the same episode? Yes please!

They de-uglified her. Thank god.

Some of the side characters in TCW had some straaaaaange char designs.

I thought her TCW design was fine. Perfectly in line with the art style of the show.

That was Genevieve O'Reilly voicing her, by the way.

Consistent with the rest of the characters, maybe, but deeep in the uncanny valley with those big bug-eyes. *shudders

I'm guessing every character on Rebels that also featured in a recent movie will be voiced by their film actor. It's probably trivial for Disney to pull the actors aside for a few lines for the show as part of their contracts.

And yet Phil Lamarr is still the voice of Bail Organa.

I was expecting the formation of the rebel alliance to require more networking. But perhaps that's already happened and we didn't see it.

I think it was happening offscreen in season 1. Hera had been working with them for quite some time before inducting the rest of the crew in season 2 (IIRC?). I would guess all the networking was something Bail Organa, Leia, and other politicians have already done. Now they're probably wanting larger scale recruitment. Most of what we see on the show is resource acquisition, transport, and recon.

edited 10th Mar '17 3:49:49 PM by illegalcheese

The (final?) rematch approaches...

I've said it before. If Obi-wan does end up killing Maul for good, I want him to go at least a little overboard in making sure Maul is 100% for real dead. Something like cremating Maul's remains and refusing to break eye contact with the body until it is reduced to ash is probably doable even with the show's rating.

I don't think this all ends in a duel. I guess it just doesn't... feel right, for the way the story's gone thus far. All this set up and mystique, just for Maul to do the thing we expect him to do, pick a fight with Obi-Wan and then die?

Wait, that's actually happening?? I had no idea! Sweet!

All the mystique has been to find Ben in the first place.

Like, literally everything Maul's done since coming back has been about revenge against Kenobi.

That's not mystique: that's literally the same plot Maul's always had, ever since Clone Wars. We know it's there already, and know how it would progress. If they're leading up to something with Maul, and they're keeping exactly what it is a secret, then its a waste for it to be something the audience is already totally familiar with: there's no real payoff to it.

I'd be more into the idea if it were more blatant that this was just the lead-in to a showdown, but it hasn't been presented that way. We've seen Filoni set up showdowns before: Ahsoka vs Vader, for instance. It doesn't look like this.

There's something here that we haven't learned yet. I'm sticking to the idea that there's more to Maul seeking out Obi-Wan that simply wanting to fight him a third time.

edited 10th Mar '17 7:15:59 PM by KnownUnknown

Yes, however I thought they were going to leave Obi-Wan out of Rebels besides the hologram transmission.

I think it just creates problems.

edited 10th Mar '17 7:43:47 PM by yellowturtle

I was not responding to your surprise.

Also...how?

I'm kinda sad to see that the Imperial specialists didn't make it, I thought they were very interesting villains. I loved AP-5 in this episode, though, particularly the end. Also it's really weird to see glasses in Star Wars...

Oh, my bad.

If Obi Wan meets Kanan and Ezra now, shouldn't he tell Yoda or at least look for them in A New Hope? Unless they die and he knows or he never realizes/discovers they are Jedi.

Who said he's meeting them?

Yeah, glasses are weird, gave this mauve shirt a bit of a Steve Jobs appeal. I'd have liked seeing more of him too. Another dumb filler with the comic relief characteds in the thirdseason but AP-5's Disney moment was kinda adorable. Also, did he stutter when he saw that female droid?