Star Wars Rebels (Disney XD)

They repurposed the story of 1313 and it now has Jar Jar starring as a rough and tough bounty hunter.

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Originally Posted by alan_fatima

Hoping for Alderaanian nobility squabbling/plotting. Might as well get some use out of that setting before it goes kaboom.

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That was one of the best parts of The Old Republic.

Yeah, it really was.

they should just re-air 'Droids'

No.

Hope it's hand-drawn, or at least partially hand-drawn.

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Executive producer Greg Weisman brings with him a wealth of animation experience with credits such as Young Justice, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Gargoyles.

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Well if the pattern holds, it's going to be great, then be inexplicably thrown into a prolonged schedule-dicking purgatory in its second season, then unceremoniously canceled for a vastly inferior alternative.

I'm getting excited for this, especially this news:

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Originally Posted by IGN

McQuarrie's designed were adapted when realised on the big screen, but Filoni is proceeding as if McQuarrie was actually depicting a world set slightly before A New Hope. So everything in Rebels, from the TIE fighters to the proportions of the Stormtroopers, will adhere more closely to the style of McQuarrie's work. Filoni also name-checked the celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki as an influence in the design of characters and the way body proportions are "pushed" slightly out of scale.

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Lets hope Disney doesn't kill it too soon like Tron and Avengers.

Bunch of new characters revealed at toy show

I like the McQuarrie Chewie alien. Barbie Fett is a dumb idea, but hopefully the writers will do something worthwhile with her. Don't really like that there's a Jedi in the cast, even if he's ostensibly forsaken the Jedi ways for his own survival, but I guess the idea of a Star Wars story that focuses entirely on Rebel soldiers and/or Han-style fringe heroes with no Jedi at all is just too far outside the box. But come on, the question at this point is, who didn't survive Order 66?

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Originally Posted by Space Pirate Roberts

Who didn't survive Order 66?

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Well, the galaxy is a big fuckin place. And Jedi are whackjobs who like to head off into the bush to find enlightenment and shit. You know for a fact that 2 survived based on the original trilogy alone. It's not that shocking that a few more might be alive after the order.