General Star Wars Animated Series

Meanwhile, The Pit is sad.

Plus a but of wistful writing a happy ending to historical tragedy.

Aau's Song is a gorgeous and really interesting. There's another existing Jedi - one in canon - whose thing is connecting to the Force through sound and music, right?

Edited by KnownUnknown on May 28th 2023 at 12:33:36 PM

Yes Avar Kriss from The High Republic.

Okay her thing is more viewing Force as music rather than using it to comment to it.

Edited by EmperorGeode on May 28th 2023 at 4:09:22 AM

I originally thought that the Banshee was a discarded apprentice, since it fit with the Unseelie legends of taking children away and returning them to their home old and decrepit, while little time has passed until I came across this analysis of Screechers Reach, which paints a different picture.

https://www.tumblr.com/sepublic/718510433991081984/ive-seen-some-people-interpret-the-cycle-of

Edited by Avenger09 on Jun 14th 2023 at 1:12:00 PM

Just finished up the Visions 2 collection myself! I'll collect my thoughts if anyone's interested.

Except in Screecher's Reach it's framed like a test set by The Fair Folk, which endangers the child to see if their worthy. Which really does make it the Sith version of Jedi adoption.

I think my favourite was "I am your Mother" the mother daughter family race, just because it was so different. I also really liked "Screecher's Reach" the one with the kids going into the cave to see the ghost, and "The Spy Dancer" with the spy, who was also a dancer.

The opening text of "Aau's Song," the stuff about the Sith poisoning a specific vein of kyber crystal. Is that canon?

Edited by WillKeaton on Jun 22nd 2023 at 6:06:50 AM

None of it is canon.

None of it's canon, but I feel like that helps it feel more exciting, honestly. Especially with the mainline series going into fractal spinoffs about the woman who shot the guy who lived upstairs from the person who sewed Han's vest, it's nice to have a property that doesn't feel constrained to the chains of canon and can embrace the (nebulous, subjective) "spirit" of Star Wars. I'm also thinking of shorts like "The Village Bride" and "The Ninth Jedi" here, alongside "Sith" and "Aau's Song" from series 2.

It's all canon! From a certain point of view....

Oh yeah, not being constrained to fitting canon is great for Visions. It lets each studio establish its own tone, and when that lands, it leaves a fucking crater (*cough The Spy Dancer cough*).

There’s still lots of room for stories in canon, though. Don’t know why that’s catching snark.

No. I get the joke, but that’s not how canon works, and it’s not a productive way to answer a genuine question.

Edited by BadWolf21 on Jun 23rd 2023 at 8:31:59 AM

With Bad Batch ending next season, what's the next Star Ward cartoon we want after?

Personally I'm tempted by a Mandalorian Civil War series. We get to see fresh padawaan Obi-Wan under the tutelage of Qui-gon Jin and Jedi Master Dooku. In addition to seeing oragins of The Armourer and Foundling Jango Fett. But it's a premise with a limited remit so perhaps better suited to a live action limited series, if they're willing to recast characters ten years younger than they are in Phantom Menace.

But what really has me hooked is the idea of series with Leia, Luke, Lando Han and teenaged Ben dealing with the three simultaneous threats of all the Palpatine clones Thrawn's lot has made (including Rey's dad), the Sith Eternal cult who turn up out of no where to steal some of those clones, and the First Order who end up having the Eternal's puppet Snoke supplanting their leadership.

It's crazy to me that Luke, Han and Leia are the central trio of the films that made this saga but haven't appeared together in watchable Media since.

However such a project would have to be put on hold until like the Mandoverse movie has been completed to ensure it doesn't step on the toes of on going plot threads. Maybe that's the correct time scale for a new animated show's pre production, maybe not.

Edited by Whowho on Jun 28th 2023 at 2:11:10 AM

I think whenever it’s set, it’s not going to be focused on the existing major characters in that era. It’ll be a new cast, with appearances from characters we’re familiar with, like all the animated shows past The Clone Wars have been.

EDIT: I do keep coming back to the fact that Lucasfilm put The Old Republic on their recent official publishing eras timeline, with absolutely nothing announced to be set then (unless the currently-in-limbo KOTOR remake is supposed to be canon). That’s an era with a lot of potential for Jedi vs. Sith adventures that you can’t get in other time periods.

Edited by BadWolf21 on Jun 28th 2023 at 4:35:18 AM

Hopefully High Republic something or other. Star Wars is trying to flesh this out as a thing, and it'd be nice to get some media for it that isn't just a bunch of novels that no one reads.

Geez, High Republic catching strays…

This thread is not the target audience, but Young Jedi Adventures is out there right now. For something geared less toward the pre-K crowd, The Acolyte is coming sometime in the next 18 months, and Jedi: Survivor had heavy High Republic influences in its story.

Feels weird to criticize something that explicitly started as a publishing initiative for being primarily featured in books…

Edited by BadWolf21 on Jun 28th 2023 at 4:41:14 AM

Yeah, and Star Wars was just supposed to be three movies about this guy named Luke and nothing else.

No reason to be hostile to expanding beyond the original scope.

You're right it'll probably be a cast of original characters (and for me that was the best part of Rebels) but then that raises the question of when in the timeline you set it and about what characters.

The High Republic is an interesting idea, but I expect The Acolyte is tasked with debuting that era to watchable media. Or at least I don't want to be hyped for The High Republic until after I've seen that property.

Edit: sure, and I've really enjoyed the expanded setting, but that doesn't mean I no longer enjoy the original premise of Star Wars wouldn't wouldn't like to revisit it at some point given there's so much Star Ward being made now.

Edited by Whowho on Jun 28th 2023 at 2:56:01 AM

Are you ok? Maybe take a step back and a deep breath. No one’s being hostile. I was pointing out that they are expanding the scope.

The Acolyte is coming well before The Bad Batch finishes up. A new animated series wouldn’t be interfering with it at all.

Edited by BadWolf21 on Jun 28th 2023 at 4:57:26 AM

Wasn’t it originally going to be nine? Then it became three, then six, then nine again!

Actually I think it was originaly suposed to be 12 movies!

Yeah if I had to choose next animated series High Republic (though yeah Young Jedi Adventures are already a thing) or closer to Sequel era than Mandoverse would be my primary choices.

Basically anything between The Clone Wars and a handful of years after the mando verse is 30 year stretch I don't want any new properties announced for, for at least a little while.

Lando, Ashoka, future seasons of Mandalorian and Boba Fett and Andor have that era pretty much sorted.

I'm sure some of the tales of the Jedi shorts will dip into that era, and those will be great, but there's more to be done outside of it.

I wouldn’t be shocked though if the next show transitioned from The Bad Batch into something immediately following it, the same way the first Bad Batch episode literally had the Clone Wars title card morph into the new one.

Edited by BadWolf21 on Jun 29th 2023 at 6:30:58 AM

Well to be fair, good deal of age of Empire is relatively unexplored in canon as well. I think Charles Soule’s Vader comic and Obi-Wan Kenobi are only major works that go more than a few years into Empire’s reight and more than five before A New Hope.

The Jedi video games also cover that period if I recall. Also tbh I hope the next show isn't set in the Empire era. I'm sick of it. Give us something new

Also, Solo, and all of its tie-in material.

Edited by BadWolf21 on Jun 29th 2023 at 7:20:27 AM

The Lando series would likely take place in that era too.

I feel like I have a pretty strong understanding of how the Empire worked and what it was like to live in it, and I don’t really have any glaring questions about it left. Same with the clone wars immediately before it. I still have some questions about the decade immediately after the empire, but the Mandoverse is likely to fill in those holes soon.

Meanwhile the two decades prior to the sequel films I’m almost entirely blank on (and a lot of stuff during the sequel films too), and likewise anything before Phantom Menace is largely an interesting mystery to me.

It’s true that there’s seven years or so between Bad Batch and Kenobi/Solo where we haven’t seen much, but we can still infer a lot about that time and I’d imagine we’re less likely to be surprised.

Don’t get me wrong I like the Empire Era it’s a great status quo for story telling, it’s just loosing it’s ability to feel new.