To Forgotten above me ^, at first I thought the slingshot was dumb. But you know what? It has some serious kick. I got over it, perhaps you will too? I imagine if we see a season 3 out of this Ezra will be wielding a blaster by then at the latest, he will be getting older as the show progresses, much as Ashoka did.

I rather hope by season 3, Ezra has constructed his own lightsaber.

I know, I know, "Jedi are extinct", yaddayadda. But, c'mon, EVERY SINGLE video game set during the 'Rebellion Era' had the good sense to know the fans wanted to play a 'force sensitive' character, and anything remotely first- or third- person had you wielding a light saber by the end, because it's Just So Dang Iconic.

(But maybe they'll wait a bit more - after all, the series is set 5 years before the Battle of Yavin. I can't imagine that's a coincidence - that gives us 5 seasons before the show would naturally "end" by the heroes finally joining up with the proper Rebellion that they were a part of inspiring. So...season 5, then?)

This is a great point you bring up, and I'm surprised there isn't more controversy and/or excitement around the prospect of not one, but THREE Episode IV era Force wielders that are not Luke, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Vader, or the Emperor. We will soon discover if the Inquisitor is a single operative or part of a collective of Dark Side trained assassins. Everything published, filmed, or designed in a game from here on out is canon, and this is the very first time in nearly 40 years that we will start to have official insight into exactly how many Jedi may have survived the purge, and what actually happened to Force user's who may have cropped up during the reign of the Empire.

I can't even hazard a guess as to the fate of Ezra and Kanan. Honestly when Ahsoka popped up in Clone Wars, I was certain she would die by the end of it since she was never mentioned in Episode III and the loss of his padawan would make sense to drive Anakin further towards the Dark Side. But she lived. And just sort of vanished without a trace.

We find ourselves in a similar situation with Ezra and Kanan. How on earth would Luke, Han, and Leia not know about two more Jedi running around with the Alliance? The fact that Kanan has not outed himself as a Jedi Knight who in the Imperial's eyes at this point is training a padawan of his own should create some red flags that will end up on the Emperor's desk in his office on Coruscant. If the Inquisitor fails (as I assume he will) to hunt down these rogue Jedi, Vader would have to show up eventually to take care of business himself.

Or will he? They're writing the future, we're just along for the ride. Everything we've come to accept as 'canon' over the years is now Legend. It's exciting to know we'll have definitive answers, whether we agree with them or not, to questions that have been asked for going on half a CENTURY of Star Wars.

Man we're nerds. XD

I'd really love to, but poor so I can't really afford Disney XD.

I'll wait until it's out on Netflix. No way I'm paying as much as it'd cost to get cable plus whatever crazy package they'd want you to get for Disney XD.

Did anyone notice that the two droids with the black market guy were base on concept art for IG88, and the non-stromtroopers' helmets were from Snowtrooper concept art. I thought that was really cool. Zeb is based off of an early Chewbacca design too.

yup that was all nifty stuff..

*sigh*

I can't do anything with that information. Their site requires things I just don't have.

I actually hate jedi playable characters. On any game setted up on age of rebellion. What i find awesome about that time is that the force is really rare, and every game that includes it dillutes that feeling and the heroism of what Luke did, as he was almost completely alone on his quest to vanquish the dark side..

Yeah, when I GM'd the WEG star wars rpg in the 90's I didn't allow any force users. The PCs were all bounty hunters and mercs, it was basically Edge of the Empire 20 year before FFG made it.

I actually hate jedi playable characters. On any game setted up on age of rebellion. What i find awesome about that time is that the force is really rare, and every game that includes it dillutes that feeling and the heroism of what Luke did, as he was almost completely alone on his quest to vanquish the dark side..

This. Although for me (and most everyone I know) it it more because it is much cooler to be playing a Han Solo type character than a Luke type one.

Nope, I dig playing Jedi, or Sith.. I have played both and they are too cool.

I'm playing a non force Wookie online right now.. not the FFG rules, but will be starting one of their possibly soon..

I like both sides of the game, the force PCs can be fun, but when there are mostly non force users then the force user tends to stand out for all the cool stuff they can do.

in non force games then everyoone has to go it without the force style help, which is fine of course.. I think I prefer a force sensative character though.

Luke was a wussy jedi, Qui-Gon and Obi Wan showed that in the first 15 minutes of Episode 1.. The Force is a powerful ally, help you it can, save you it will...

The Han Solo and Boba Fett type characters were always my favorite part of star wars.

There was a force sensitive jawa bounty hunter in the last EOTE campaign I ran, it worked ok because it wasn't a full on Jedi. Otherwise I'd just run all jedi or no jedi in a campaign.

My boys and I just watched it on Youtube. They loved it, especially the Wookiee kid. I personally would have preferred that the crew of the Ghost were just a rag tag bunch of misfits without the Jedi angle. Will give it a chance.

I think that they keep changing the scale of the Ghost. One minute it seems to be the same size of a Corellian Corvette (see when it is next to the Star Destroyer), next minute it is about the size of the Millennium Falcon.

I watched it and as others have mentioned it makes the empire seem like the bad guys from the old A-Team show..lol also don't really like the doe eyed Disney style. and really hate the recurring Disney infomercials!! Think i like the old animated series slightly better. but when nothing else is on its something to watch...

As far as playable characters go, I like being the run of the mill soldiers. In Battlefront and battlefront II, I really only ever played Trooper (Pilot in II, but that's a given.). Just felt right.

Not EVERY SINGLE game, Shadows and XWA didn't.

We all know Mandalorians and Mon Calamari on the best ethnic groups/races in the Star Wars Universe. Now imagine a Mon Calamari Mandalorian. He screams it's a trap, then proceeds to kill everyone. I would watch/play a show/game with that

We all know Mandalorians and Mon Calamari on the best ethnic groups/races in the Star Wars Universe. Now imagine a Mon Calamari Mandalorian. He screams it's a trap, then proceeds to kill everyone. I would watch/play a show/game with that

My god why are we not friends this is hilarious

I didn't think it was particularly good. Very tropey, but I guess I cannot expect more from a kids show.

BTW, this is now on iTunes for anyone who *hasn't* seen it, yet. $8 to buy it in HD, but, honestly, that's lunch money and it's worth it to see in HD for that.

Is it 'Clone Wars'? No - it lacks the 'shadows in the corners' of that series (the underlying darkness of Anakin's continual conflicts with the 'Jedi way of doing things', not to mention entirely manufactured war and downright evil that advances it), and comes off as a more simplified "good vs evil". But that's really a lot more what the OT was vs the prequels - the prequel series had those sort of 'shadow forces' at play throughout...there was never really any good guys or bad guys IN the prequels. (I mean, really, who could you argue was "good"? The manufactured 'Separatist' cause? The moribund Galactic Republic? The fossilized Jedi council who couldn't see a Sith Lord they sat in the same room with and blindly followed the government into war??) Whereas the OT played it much more straight - the Rebellion was Good, the Empire was Evil, done! And that's what this series does.

And honestly, from the tone of the series, to the setting, the way the characters (named and NPCs) acted...heck, from the TYPE of characters present (Imperial Security Bureau? Imperial Inquisitors??), it pretty much felt like a page straight out of West End Games's Star Wars RPG!

also the "Kid" looks and acts and sounds to much like Aladdin!! lol

The entire first episode is on YouTube fwiw

Was a fun watch for what it was. I expected them to do a slow reveal over the season with the Jedi stuff, but meh, no biggie.

-Cal

The Gozanti Cruiser looks pretty good.

BTW, this is now on iTunes for anyone who *hasn't* seen it, yet. $8 to buy it in HD, but, honestly, that's lunch money and it's worth it to see in HD for that.

Is it 'Clone Wars'? No - it lacks the 'shadows in the corners' of that series (the underlying darkness of Anakin's continual conflicts with the 'Jedi way of doing things', not to mention entirely manufactured war and downright evil that advances it), and comes off as a more simplified "good vs evil". But that's really a lot more what the OT was vs the prequels - the prequel series had those sort of 'shadow forces' at play throughout...there was never really any good guys or bad guys IN the prequels. (I mean, really, who could you argue was "good"? The manufactured 'Separatist' cause? The moribund Galactic Republic? The fossilized Jedi council who couldn't see a Sith Lord they sat in the same room with and blindly followed the government into war??) Whereas the OT played it much more straight - the Rebellion was Good, the Empire was Evil, done! And that's what this series does.

And honestly, from the tone of the series, to the setting, the way the characters (named and NPCs) acted...heck, from the TYPE of characters present (Imperial Security Bureau? Imperial Inquisitors??), it pretty much felt like a page straight out of West End Games's Star Wars RPG!

Actually, this is what I dislike the most! Haha. Though, I see nothing wrong with someone else liking it.

I'm kinda done with the whole, GOOD and EVIL, easy division. It's just so not-real. Its so fabricated. ITs so American. ITs so hopeful that "Hey! We're the cool, awesome, differentiable, competent, oppressed, minority, good guys without a doubt, and they're the totally evil, absolutely unfathomably unreasonable, incompetent, bad guys.

It's almost as if it was a show about Star Wa... Wait a minute...

The Gozanti Cruiser looks pretty good.

Yeah, and apparently they thought so too because it was prominently displayed. Often.

They've already ordered a second season so apparently enough people enjoyed it, including myself. I went in looking to be entertained. I didn't have to pay extra for it. So despite some flaws *I* feel it might have, it's good for what it is. Star Wars themed entertainment.

-Cal

My 5 months old daughter seemed to enjoy it at first... but then she fell asleep. So, all in all it was meh.