General Star Wars Animated Series

Wasn't there supposed to be another season of Clone Wars?

Yep. Comes out on the streaming service.

Which doesn’t launch til the fall. And Clone Wars may not even be part of the launch for it.

Next week is the season one finale for Resistance. Anyone got any theories for what will happen?

Tam joins the First Order, then only realizes Kaz was right once it is too late to escape her decision.

Kaz wrestles with the urge to revenge himself upon the First Order vs stay with the plan of prioritizing saving everyone, eventually settling on the latter.

Yeager either stays on the Colossus when Kaz inevitably leaves to join the Resistance, or dies.

Torra, meanwhile, leaves the Colossus to also join the Resistance when Kaz does so.

Pyre dies. Tierny becomes Big Bad next season.

The only wild card is Neeku. I guess he'll be Kaz' copilot?

Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 12th 2019 at 6:00:02 AM

Pyre is heavily implied by a leaked action figure set to be a part of the storyline at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in the Disney parks. Since the storyline there is set between Episodes VIII and IX, I don’t think he’ll be dying just yet.

Well that was idiotic. When it comes time for Kaz and Yeager to convince Tam that they're the good guys and the First Order are the bad guys, they somehow forget that not an hour ago the First Order blew up a star system, killing billions. They never think to mention this to Tam to sway her opinion.

Given the stuff the First Order had already shown her it's likely she wouldn't believe them, or if she did believe them she might say "They must have had a good reason" again.

Yeah, this is the girl who, when two innocent orphans told her that the First Order slaughtered their people, asked them what they did to deserve it. The orphans were innocent enough to miss the implication, but she's definitely an apologist who will find an excuse. Still should have come up, though.

I like that the one Ace in the black ship who looks like a Neo-Imperial (he even has an Imperial tattoo) is actually just as heroic as everyone else. Books and covers and all that.

Something I wish the Sequel Trilogy would explore more is the fact that, as far as we've been told, the official Imperial Remnant is actually not down with the First Order at all.

Granted, most of the old leaders jumped ship to the First Order anyway, so the people running it now aren't really similar to the old Empire anyway.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 18th 2019 at 2:40:55 AM

Um...pretty sure there is no official imperial remnant in canon.

In the current canon, the Empire was left Coruscant and basically runs out as a puppet nation under the authority of the Republic. Mas Amedda ruled it until his death.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 18th 2019 at 2:42:47 AM

It's fairly easy to see why most former imperials would dislike the First Order, the First Order's troops are mostly made up of brainwashed drones and the leadership primarily consists of fanatics while the Empire's troops consisted mostly of Punch-Clock Villains and it's leaders were typically more cold and business-like.

So I'm behind the times here, but I just got around to starting Resistance. I've watched the first six episodes (up through Synara's first appearance), and I'm.... not really impressed so far? I'm not exactly expecting high art here, but the writing has been more misses than hits in general. I can see what they're going for with most of the characters, but they haven't quite been able to stick the landing on any of them.

With Kaz they seem to be trying for "enthusiastic and well-meaning but immature so keeps screwing up the follow-through and getting karmically punished for it", but most of the time the follow-through gets screwed up because he's a pilot, not a mechanic or a spy, and no one is teaching him how to be a mechanic or a spy, they're just telling him to do it and then berating him for being bad at it.

Neeku is the comic relief sidekick, but is mostly annoying rather than funny and serves mainly to cause problems for Kaz. Tam could work as the surly hardass of the group, but so far there's nothing more to her than that, which just makes her unlikable. Yeager is better at being a surly hardass, because he's also at least shown hints of giving a damn about Kaz (and there was one offhanded remark that implied Tam was another charity case that he took in).

Mostly I've just found the writing frustrating. Kaz gets the slapstick treatment a lot, but it doesn't work because slapstick is only funny when the victim brings it on themselves, and Kaz generally doesn't. Actually, that's 90% of the problem with the writing — it generally falls into "Kaz does his best, but gets subjected to indignities and abuse that he doesn't deserve". That's... basically been the summary of five of the six episodes I've watched so far. (The exception being the one with the kids the First Order are after.)

I really enjoyed Rebels, and its first season was easily its weakest, so I've been trying to give Resistance a shot and hope that it improves over time, but half a dozen episodes in and it's still doing the same basic thing every episode. Can anyone tell me if it gets better, or should I just drop it here?

I can’t speak to quality yet, as I have not started it. But the season ends with the firing of Starkiller Base, so...at the very least, it follows the Star Wars series pattern of ramping up the stakes and drama at the end of the first season.

Both Kaz and Nikko start out really stupid. They eventually grow out of it, but neither Rebels nor Clone Wars ever had a character that was as straight up dumb as either of those two.

Excuse you. Jar Jar was in Clone Wars.

I have no idea why you would answer the question "I didn't like the first handful of episodes, does it get better?" with "I don't know, I haven't seen it, but here have a spoiler".

As long as they get better, that's good enough for me. What worried me was the fear that they wouldn't.

Edited by NativeJovian on Mar 19th 2019 at 10:44:05 AM

Because it’s...not really a spoiler for the show? It’s a spoiler for TFA, I suppose, but that movie is over three years old. The fact that the season would line up with the events of the movie was pretty heavily publicized. I’m sorry if you didn’t know.

Also, it’s being pretty openly discussed just a few posts above yours.

Edited by BadWolf21 on Mar 19th 2019 at 9:48:40 AM

That the series ends with it happening is, indeed, a spoiler for the series. It doesn't become apparent that the series is happening concurrent to TFA until well past the halfway point of the season.

The first season does start out a bit weak but it does end very strong. A lot of things that are set up in the early season do pay off in the backend of the season.

The characters also do get a better. They all get development that like the story does pay off by the end of the season.

So apparently TCW has officially been taken off of Netflix. Assuming your country had it to begin with.

And so begins the wait until Disney+ launches.

Ugh, I forgot about that.

I mean, competition is good and all that, but there has to be a better way than to have dozens of different subscription services. They should probably do something more like what tv does, where the channels are bundled together for more reasonable prices. If Netflix and Disney+ and Youtube Red are all fifteen bucks a month, you would be able to get access to all of them for thirty bucks. Or less, hopefully, but you get my point.

So turn into cable, basically.

I wouldn’t be shocked if Disney offered some kind of special pricing for Disney+ and Hulu though.

Bob Iger has gone on record saying Disney+ will be cheaper than Netflix, for what its worth. And with the Fox acquisition, the only things of value that will be left on Netflix to me are Eva, Stranger Things, Series of Unfortunate Events, and the Bebop and At LA shows when they come out. Oh, and Firef-

Oh. Karabast.

I only just now realized that the Mouse has Firefly.

Edited by TheAirman on Apr 7th 2019 at 10:34:47 AM