General Star Wars Animated Series

It fits him fine. He keeps the sleeves short because his forearms are bonkers long.

Star Wars Kids, a new Youtube channel geared towards younger audiences, just launched today and revealed a new animated mini-series: Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures. Animated by the folks at Titmouse (and directed by Barry Kelly), it's going to be bite-size retellings of Movies 1-6's greatest or iconic moments.

The first 6 episodes debut this Friday, November 30th.

Looks like R1 and Solo as well, if I'm not mistaken

Be interesting to see how they depict the fight on Mustafar and the Hallway scene

Dunno where you saw Solo. There’s definitely some Episode II though.

Also...you can see how they do the Rogue One hallway scene. It’s in the trailer.

Edited by BadWolf21 on Nov 29th 2018 at 6:17:11 AM

Damn, I miss Tobias Drake's commentaries on Rebels.

Wonder if he finished it by now.

The most recent episode of Resistance was pretty good. A spy mission, a skirmish with the First Order, a dogfight and some nice back and forth between Kaz and Poe. Played a lot like an episode of Rebels, actually.

It's a really minor detail, but it also notes that Starkiller Base wasn't powered by Khyber Crystals like the Death Star, but with the same kind of volatile material used to make blasters. Which tracks, since iirc the beam from the base was more plasma-y than laser-y.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 10th 2018 at 7:28:51 AM

I don't want to think about the amount of Tibanna gas needed to power Starkiller Base's laser.

I mean, Starkiller Base just sucked up stars, then fired them out at planets. It doesn't really generate its own energy like the Death Star did, it just temporarily contained, then redirected it, so I'm not sure you'd need kyber crystals or tibanna gas.

Edited by WillKeaton on Dec 11th 2018 at 12:57:39 PM

Kyber crystals are not a power source, they’re a focusing tool.

Not according to the wiki. The wiki says they do produce energy. They can use the force, apparently, and are vaguely conscious, if not intelligent.

I always saw them as amplifiers as well as focuses: honing the energy as well as shaping it.

See, this is what happens when your most recent exposure to canon is a book that was clearly written for Legends.

(I recently started Heir to the Jedi, if anyone was wondering.)

That book is such a microcosm of Legends; R2 saves the day, an ace Rebel pilot takes out an Imperial capital ship with unorthodox tactics, we see the forgotten legacy of an Old Republic Jedi, and Luke gets a love interest who shows real potential as a character before being brutally fridged to feed Luke's manpain.

Edited by ViperMagnum357 on Dec 11th 2018 at 9:04:37 AM

Having recently finished both A New Dawn and Tarkin, it's clear that the first four canon novels (these three and Lords of the Sith) were written with the expectation that they'd be part of Legends, and canon doesn't really kick into place until Dark Disciple.

What about A New Dawn gives you that impression? I thought it was created as a tie-in to Rebels which was always a Disney product.

Primarily how quickly it came out.

Also, given the timeline of how long animated shows take to produce, I have to believe that Rebels was in the works in some form before the merger. Given that A New Dawn only features two characters from the show, a significant amount of time before it takes place, it doesn’t seem unreasonable that the bones were in place for Rebels to be part of the Old EU.

The Clone Wars had three more seasons planned though. Were the shows going to run concurrently at some point? I think if it did exist it was still in the concept phase.

I see no reason they couldn’t have been planning the shows to run concurrently. If Lucasfilm wasn’t planning on any further movies under George, expanding the animation department would be a logical step for the brand. And we’re seeing now with The Mandalorian and the Cassian Andor series that they have no problem running concurrent shows in the live action sphere.

If TCW wasn’t cancelled, and Rebels still premiered in September 2014, that would give them two seasons running together. And I would have to assume that TCW ending and a good portion of the experienced crew moving over to work on Rebels probably accelerated the process. I could see having the plan being for TCW’s final season to coincide with Rebels’ first.

And obviously none of this is to say that the show would have been exactly the same as it is now, or even remotely close. I think it ended up being way more connected to The Clone Wars than they originally intended it to be, largely due to the cancellation.

And obviously I could be completely off-base. But it’s really the only explanation I have for why we get four largely inconsequential Imperial-era novels in a row (the third of which was DEFINITELY the third Empire and Rebellion novel), followed by a BUNCH of tie-in books (The Clone Wars, Battlefront, and The Force Awakens). The next novel we get after Lords of the Sith that’s not a tie-in is Ahsoka, a year and a half later.

Tarkin I feel was probably mostly written with Legends in mind, but there are shades of the new canon here and there. Likely last-minute touch-ups if I had to guess. They're mostly in the section Tarkin visits Coruscant, in which he interacts with Commander Konstantin (a character from Rebels having a brief Early-Bird Cameo in Tarkin) and then Mars Amedda (whose personality is much closer to the canon take on him rather than the Legends one).

Konstantin is not in Tarkin. He interacts with Nils Tenant, from The Clone Wars.

And did Mas Amedda really have a characterization prior to 2014? I feel like the new canon was the first time anyone really realized his potential as a high-level Imperial.

Especially because the Empire was SO RACIST is Legends. No one really had use for a prominent, highly-placed alien character.

Edited by BadWolf21 on Dec 13th 2018 at 9:51:13 AM

Oh yeah, got them switched.

I'm not too big of an expert on Amedda, but it seemed like Legends played him as a more straitlaced Well-Intentioned Extremist figure. He's much more of a straight fascist toady dickhead in Tarkin.

I don’t know if there’s enough material to even say he has a character in Legends. He has only four post-Revenge of the Sith appearances in Legends (two issues of the Dark Times comic, Dark Lord: The Rose of Darth Vader, and a Scholastic book; all of them within a year of the movie, and I have no idea how large a role he has in any of them, just that he’s there).

Compare to canon, where he’s been in three issues of the current Vader comic, one issue of the first Lando comic, a HoloNet News piece, Tarkin, and the last two Aftermath books, as well as mentions in Lost Stars and Battlefront: Twilight Company. A timeline spanning from right after Episode III, all the way to the Battle of Jakku.

Canon has almost gone out of its way to make Amedda a big deal. Like, to the point where it’s super weird he wouldn’t arrive on the second Death Star with the Emperor in Return of the Jedi.

Edited by BadWolf21 on Dec 13th 2018 at 11:31:00 AM

Not that weird-in the EU he seems to have the same role, if not the exact same title, as Sate Pestage in Legends, so it would be much weirder if the Empire's ruler AND his appointed successor/chief administrator would be together anywhere but the seat of government.

The Star Wars Resistance Season 1 Mid-Season Trailer has dropped.

Resistance also got renewed for a second season. Good.