Uhmm... it is a kids show. If you want a Game of Thrones style Star Wars this just isn't going to be it. Sure Storm Troopers suck, but is that any change from the OT.
Has anyone else noticed...
Yeah, Rebels is noticeably "Disney-ified" from the episodes I've seen so far. The most recent episode I saw ("Fight or Flight") was disappointing in comparison to the prior episodes. Very kid-oriented, the Stormtroopers were on Jar Jr Binks level. Although, I'm still impressed with the acting, graphics and entertainment value for what it's worth!
On another note, has anyone felt a disturbance in the force with the name they chose for the main character? Ezra is a pretty common and profound Hebrew name, and I don't recall Star Wars ever using real world religious names for their characters such as Abraham, Jesus, Christian or Mohammed. I feel like the religious context of his name, be it intentional or unintentional, makes it feel even less like Star Wars and more like some kind of calculated Disney concoction.
He really only comes off as Aladdin in the Spark of Rebellion "movie." After that he seems to be his own character.
I wouldn't call it Disney-fied. Disney isn't trying to make Star Wars into Disney. It's letting Lucasfilm do it's thing and reaping the profits. Like they do with Marvel.
The show is fantastic and I hope it doesn't get canned because of low ratings numbers.
I loved The Clone Wars but it was never funny. Rebels actually makes me laugh which is cool. Chopper is the best.
Yeah but the Clone Wars animated were still written as a children story for older children who can understand a little more about violence and why it is not the best solution, yes. But it wasn't intended for the same audience as the movies and even the prequels were intended for a general audience to include adults and their families.
You can find the name "Endor" or a word that would be pronounced like "Jedi" in Abrahamic text that was written in Greek and translated to English..
"Jedi" comes from the Japanese word jidaigeki, which means a type of historical drama featuring samurai. Kurosawa films, especially The Hidden Fortress, informed a lot of Episode IV.
IM not sure about that. Considering the fact he came from a strong Protestant family, and is still protestant with some budo practices, I think its more likely anything in his universe that looks or sounds likes its from a Abrahamic source is probably from a Abrahamic source.
Lots of Hebrew sounds from names like YOD are spoken with J sound in english. The word I mentioned above is "Yadai." This word can mean "A man of knowledge." Didnt Yoda say they use the Force for knoweledge and defence, never for attack?
Then theres the word "Yeda" its similar too Yoda, its in the wisdom books, means knowledge.
Lastly you got the name "Jedidiah" the name given too King Solomon by Nathan by Gods command. Jedi Means friend while Diah means God. Together its Friend of God. Solomon was given the gift of wisdom.
The way the Force is described and how it works in the SW universe has a High resemblance, but not perfect, to how our God works.
All that being IT could be possible that he chose words that can have multi meanings.
I know this is a movie as well but...
The Stormtroopers make the ones in ANH seem elite. They couldn't hit the sky with their blasters. It kind of takes away from there being any sense of peril for the heroes.
Did any one see the docudrama Black Hawk Down? The actor Tom Sizemore (McKnight) is simple standing around while fire is coming from all sides.
The difference is kinda of reversed thought. McKinght is the trained one wearing body armor and the Somali's firing are untrained. In Star Wars and Rebels it's turned around. The Storm Trooper are training wearing body armor and can't seem to defend themselves or hit anything. Heck in the last Star Wars - RotJ there is a scene where the body armor ladened imperial troopers armed with blasters are on the run from a band of fur balls throwing rocks.
You dont see Stormys running from Ewoks. Ewoks are heavily underestimated in universe and out universe. There cutting weapons are volcanic rock. Obsidian is 6 times sharper than surgical steel, heck flint knives knives can be sharper than the steel counter parts, and etherway if its Obsidian or flint if it fragments in a target they are still as good as dead even if they escape.
I just find it funny you're trying to defend the primitives that beat the most elite military force in Star Wars BKL
Edit: Yes Storm Troopers are bad shots but what can the best marksman do when he is confronted with plot armor.
The Ewoks didnt beat the Imperial ground forces. They did a good amount of damage BUT if the Ewoks had been alone they would have been destroyed by the Empire. That being said, they have alot of advantages that make them lethel even too none SW forces. Even though they dont know what the force is they have acces to it just like its been shown in the Ewok movies and show.
Without doubt they used a force stealth power granted by Logrey / Lowgrey... To get close to the Imperial forces like they did without being detected. The Walkers were constantly on lookout, and they have a very high pov, even if you argued that they have zero sensor equipment just from the hight they driver and gunner are at you cant get a large army close to them, WITH artillery, without being detected.
If you had no armor your very screwed because not only are Ewoks using Obsidian, there arrow heads are covered in a neurotoxin. ref SW TEGTW.
No he's right Jedi came from the references to the hidden fortress and movies of that genre.
For anyone worrying about the ratings apparently Rebels is the highest viewed show on Disney XD period, still hate the name of the channel. With the premiere getting 6.5 million views.
Site where I got that figure:
http://www.endorexpress.net/2014/10/star-wars-rebels-delivers-6-5-million-viewers-in-its-premieres/
But yea I highly doubt they will get rid of their most viewed show, especially after toy sells start trickling in.
Fun Ewok read:
Don't forget, they were also about to eat HAN before 3po became a "god". Eat him. Like walking dead style.
The slow derailing of this thread makes me want a dedicated thread to BS justifying ewoks. Must be sincerely written and in-keeping with the movie. lol.
"You see, ewok religious beliefs at the time were predicated on an intense hatred of the color white and recent struggles with a native bipedal that lead them to distrust humans. While Leia was initially perceived as a threat since she was a bipedal as well, the Rebel tendency to wear natural colors -- combined with her diplomatic decision to offer food representative of interspecies friendship, resulted in their being trusted. Stormtroopers, however, were doomed not only by their uniforms but by ewok physiology. Ewoks perceive white through the UV spectrum as a kind of intense itching. (Hence the slang term "Ewok Eyeball" for seasonal allergies found throughout the Alliance armed forces post-Endor.) This is why the Imperials kept their white uniforms, finding a delicious irony in their uniform proving both emotionally and physically traumatizing. (Later experiments by Imperial Remnant forces on plastoid armor sought to make the unique UV signature of "stormtrooper white" have a similar physiological effect on a greater band of alien species. This was inspired by TK381's first encounter with ewoks and the near disabling effect it had.) Furthermore, Han's instruction to 3PO to tell the story of the Galactic Civil War from the point of Chokta: a long lost ewok elder of legend foretold to send representatives from the stars to enlist his descendents in a final battle between good and evil only biased the ewoks in favor of the Rebellion all the more."
Wow. I have a lot of imagination.