General Star Wars Animated Series

Wait, didn't Ahsoka quit the Jedi Order? Is she still General even though she left? I guess it's possible the clones and other military personnel wouldn't care that she had left the order.

Potential spoilers, because season 7 is coming out and covering this, but since we were told about these events by Word of God years ago...

Ahsoka doesn’t rejoin the Order, but she gets on better terms with them by the end of the war. Anakin and Obi-Wan leave her on Mandalore with Rex and her own contingent of clones when Grievous abducts Palpatine, leading into the beginning of Episode III.

We'll also apparently get better insight to how the galaxy turned on the Jedi so quickly, even if it's just the dumb "Durhurhur the Jedi started the war" bullshit.

Yeah, I've always wondered why the galaxy was so quick to turn on the Jedi despite the fact most people know them as the ones fighting the separatists.

The story Palpatine feeds the Empire is that the Jedi attempted to assassinate him and take over the Republic. Combined with the subtle throughline of TCW where we see him seeding distrust of the Jedi, I can see how it could happen.

Palpatine is a smart man living in a corrupt, incompetent elite society where corporations get representation over actual people. It's not surprising he manages to turn the galaxy against the Jedi so easily.

Also, I'm not surprised about the Resistance season ending with only two seasons. ST is not exactly world building friendly thanks to the crunched timeline that TFA and TLJ occupied. Compare that to the Clone Wars and Rebels era where you had plenty of years to explore stories of your characters.

I've also heard that while Sam Witwer will still voice Darth Maul, Ray Park will return too to provide motion-capture performance for Maul for the latest season of The Clone Wars.

Edited by Andrei_Bondoc on Aug 24th 2019 at 1:53:54 PM

There is no motion capture in The Clone Wars.

He might be doing reference footage, but this isn’t a mocap series.

I know that. BTW, here's the link.

Do I have to watch the micro-series before I watch the animated movie?

Not necessarily, since Genndy's Clone Wars isn't canon.^note And do not say "WHYY?! It was the best!". If this is canonized, it would lead to a ton of Continuity Snarls But I recommend watching it anyway.

Huh, you want the full micro-series? Here:

The micro-series & the full series are actually disconnected. You don't need to watch the former to understand the latter.

Helps that the former isn't actually canon.

CW and TCW both happen in the Legendsverse (there's a big timeskip toward the end of CW into which TCW fits), but only TCW in the new canon.

In Legends, TCW is a higher tier of canon that SWCW, so any discrepancy is overridden by the newer show.

CW and TCW are mutually exclusive due to circumstances concerning Ventress

The micro-series can work as Tall Tales of what happened during the Clone Wars. It doesn't give canonical events, but an idea of how the AOTC characters became TCW characters in spirit. The micro-series showcases how Ventress entered into the scene of the Clone Wars, how Anakin got Knighted as a Jedi, and how Grevious gained his reputation as a Jedi Killer.

Those are pretty much the events you need to see out of the micro series as TCW will not offer how Ventress entered into the Clone Wars, how Anakin went from Padawan to Jedi Knight, and how Grevious made his debut.

Resistance started airing its second season last night.

That First Order droid is now my new favorite villain. I'm only half joking. I want it to keep showing up, obsessively chasing the heroes in random locations, having survived time and again with no explanation, presumably replacing bits of itself with more and more ludicrous weaponry. Also an eyepatch.

Also, like we didn't already know that Tam was an asshole.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 7th 2019 at 9:32:43 AM

Star Wars Resistance was always planned as a two-season series.

Figured as much. I hope they do a Blu-Ray release of both seasons once it’s done. For some reason, Season 1 only got a DVD.

So it seems that Ian McDiarmid has replaced Sam Witwer in the Siege of Lothal. Give enough time, he'll likely replace Tim Curry's voice work for the Disney+ Clone Wars series.

That's cool. Sam's a good voice actor and his Sidious impression is good. But Ian is so great!

It's been pointed out that piloting a TIE would be a big pain for the pilot, since the only viewport is directly in front of that pilot, and there is no way to look out to the left, or right, or up, thus leaving the pilot with a very limited field of vision. I got to wondering, is it possible that the helmet a TIE pilot wears mitigates this by way of a heads-up display, and thus with the helmet the pilot can see all around?

No.

The Empire doesn’t do quality of life upgrades.