Man people really get up in arms that Sabine doesn't wear black and red.

Heaven forbid a character enjoy a wider array of colors than drabs and dirts.

Not to forget that on desert planets, pink is a very good camo colour

I like Star Wars: Rebels even though I hate it.

I've watched a lot of the first season and a few episodes in season 2. It really came down to me reading the summaries online just so I know what is part of the new canon. The show itself wasn't really my thing (nor was Clone Wars). I'm not a huge fan of CGI cartoons and the villains really were not engaging enough. Tack on the clear pre-teen messages and I was like meh.

Which was the exact same reason I love it. My first movie in theaters was the digitally remastered New Hope. I loved it. I was too young to get why my dad was upset with a specific scene in the cantina. I just saw a kickass movie. Now here I am playing X-wing, talking Star Wars with people. Star Wars is one of the reasons I m an engineer.

Star Wars Rebels is a great way to introduce new folks into the franchise. It's great that a movie made in 1977 has made this big of an impact and is still amazing today. I want more people to like Star Wars because it's a great fandom to be in.

So bring on the SW: Rebel Ships, my unadulterated XXX squadrons will be more than a match for them (Probably not but man does it feel great to fly with Rogue Squadron)

Your dad is a cool guy. I like him already.

Honestly it all comes down to personal taste - no right or wrong there.

Truth is Rebels has been successful. I enjoy it. I grew to love The Clone Wars: the initial movie was sub-par and the first seasons rough but it found it's stride.

I've been a SW fan for almost 40 years. First film I saw was Ep IV in the cinema.

The new stuff: Ep VIII, Rebels is great stuff in my books.

Enjoy or do not enjoy.

I like Star Wars: Rebels even though I hate it.

I've watched a lot of the first season and a few episodes in season 2. It really came down to me reading the summaries online just so I know what is part of the new canon. The show itself wasn't really my thing (nor was Clone Wars). I'm not a huge fan of CGI cartoons and the villains really were not engaging enough . Tack on the clear pre-teen messages and I was like meh.

This was why I love the season 2 finale; it features a more interesting villain in Maul (Yes, that Maul. He's come a long way since The Phantom Menace).

I especially love Maul's interactions with Ezra. With so many obvious villains in Star Wars, it's refreshing to see one who actually tries to foster trust and friendship... As a form of manipulation. And the best part is that some of it is probably genuine, but there's no way of knowing how much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT30aSjELyI

Hopefully we'll see more of the guy in season 3.

Rebels is great. It captures the light-hearted struggle against evil and learning to co-operate with people that is the core of Star Wars.

Also the episode where Chopper makes friends with that Protocol Droid is fantastic. Would recommend.

I actually had a discussion with a guy about Sabine's armor when the preview with her came out. Considering she focuses on being quick and carrying a lot of bombs the bare minimum armor makes sense. I also don't mind the color of her armor. It shows that not all mandalorians are purely warriors (also the new canons mandalorians are more like the original legends version, before they become Jedi haters pretty much). Also, Clone Wars went through the same growing pains Rebels has.

I actually had a discussion with a guy about Sabine's armor when the preview with her came out. Considering she focuses on being quick and carrying a lot of bombs the bare minimum armor makes sense. I also don't mind the color of her armor. It shows that not all mandalorians are purely warriors (also the new canons mandalorians are more like the original legends version, before they become Jedi haters pretty much). Also, Clone Wars went through the same growing pains Rebels has.

The color of Sabine's armor has less to do with Mandalorian culture and more with Sabine just painting anything in arm's reach. Remember her TIE Fighter?

I really wish there was a Sabine TIE Fighter in this game on the Rebel side with her Attack Shuttle Pilot Ability. It would be hilarious.

Until the very end of season two the characters never felt in danger. They get away with too much, and the villains are too incompetent. Characters will literally stand in front of a fireteam of stormtroopers, and none of them will shoot. All the villains feel like cardboard stands just waiting to be knocked over.

I actually had a discussion with a guy about Sabine's armor when the preview with her came out. Considering she focuses on being quick and carrying a lot of bombs the bare minimum armor makes sense. I also don't mind the color of her armor. It shows that not all mandalorians are purely warriors (also the new canons mandalorians are more like the original legends version, before they become Jedi haters pretty much). Also, Clone Wars went through the same growing pains Rebels has.

The color of Sabine's armor has less to do with Mandalorian culture and more with Sabine just painting anything in arm's reach. Remember her TIE Fighter?

Even though I'm not exactly a 'fan' of rebels, I don't mind the ships being in the game. I can recognize the ships as 'being in Star Wars', so to me that's good enough.

I've really struggled with this for a long time. Can someone explain why there is so much hate for ships taken from Star Wars Rebels for being a "children's cartoon" when all of my memories of Expanded Universe books were fellow nerd kids reading books while waiting for the bus in fourth grade? How one gets dismissed as less-than and childish while the other as "adult" and "more worthy" blows my mind.

Also, have you WATCHED Rebels? Other than the obligatory whiney teen (reminder that Luke was this role in ANH) and the weird obsession with impractical light sabers that Lucasfilm has been obsessed with since Darth Maul's was such a hit (The spinning helicopter sabers have got to go) the show is actually very entertaining with very few "filler episodes" which seemed to plague The Clone Wars. Kanan's comic series is also one of the stronger ones of the new line and a great companion piece.

Plus the majority of the art-design is off of the original Ralph Mcquarrie concept art with the more rapier-styled lightsabers and stylized Darth Vader mask which is a fun look at what Star Wars could have looked like. (Zeb is even an early concept design for what Wookies would become)

And the space battles are fun with some great A-wing love. (Featuring the new Fang Fighters)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgpRqinEvIk

I'm not saying you have to love it, but the majority of the people rolling their eyes at ships taken from SW: Rebels seem to have dismissed it has not worth their time having never given it a chance.

I don't hate Rebels it's just not my thing. It's too kiddy. I understand that it's meant for a children's network and has to be kiddy, but that doesn't change the fact that it is. I'm surprised that the TIE Fighter anime that was created hasn't turned into an official show. An actual Star Wars anime would be ******* sweet as long as the Japanese don't fill it with giant humanoid robots or 11 year old females.

As for how the ships look, I don't mind them. Attack Shuttle looks sweet, Ghost is literally an IHOP restaurant, Fang Fighter looks cool. They're no TIE Avenger or Assault Gunboat though.

Rebels is worth the watch is you can get past the first few episodes. It goes from what I felt was a more kid friendly show to something a bit more undefined as the season progressed. Season 2 was fantastic.

-Cal

Hey, that's some of her best work .

i'd be a bit surprised to see any TIE on the rebel side, hyjacked or not.

Scum on the other hand would make some sense. They need some Imperial looted stuff anyway, since they basically feel like "not so nice rebels" right now and not looter and pillagers lol

Very similar creative arc to The Clone Wars. Season one of both was just meh. Season two was MUCH better. Still some silly stuff (flying light-propeller-sabers), but very good development. The season premier with the Vader reveal last summer was great. And LOVED his fight at the end of the season! I mean look at this screen cap:

I still can't get past how cartooney looking the main characters are. All the secondary characters look really good with interesting faces. The main crew of the Ghost is just so flat and uninteresting. Compare Ezra to Hondo in this image:

Hondo is interesting, has depth and character, while Ezra is just smooth and nothing other than a little shading. I don't know why Disney keeps the leads so intentionally bland.

And the Ghost is a cool ship!

I liked season 1. I am waiting for season 2 to be out on Bluray. Not even a preorder available yet.

I posted this in another topic, I don't have a connection with the Rebels content, and the ships come off as cartoonish, not real models, but some of that is the paint schemes.

As for the Ghost itself, it is almost as big as the Gozanti and feels like it should have been in epic, not regular, but that doesn't work for the business model.

Once I see season 2, I might be more favorable of the new ships coming in wave 9, but as of now, they are just things I haven't seen before that don't have an aesthetic that I am drawn to.

I miss TCW. For me, that show redeemed the era. I even came to love the art style and miss it. The rebels style isn't as interesting or unique.

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I still can't get past how cartooney looking the main characters are. All the secondary characters look really good with interesting faces. The main crew of the Ghost is just so flat and uninteresting. Compare Ezra to Hondo in this image:

Hondo is interesting, has depth and character, while Ezra is just smooth and nothing other than a little shading. I don't know why Disney keeps the leads so intentionally bland.

Maybe to make it easier for kids to project themselves onto the main leads.

My 5 year old son started working the XBOX 360 DVD at 2.5 years to watch all the Star Wars movies and loves watching the Clone Wars.....but there is only ONE character is he scared of....literally runs out of the room....the Inquisitor. That dude was so bad-ass.

I also thought Clone Wars first season was meh. But it is so rich and complex past the "kiddie" stuff and I must say this.....

Clone Wars made Force Awakens feel like a Kiddie movie. Clone Wars is way more advanced.

There...I said it.

So all the Rebel haters....go complain somewhere else. Not interested in your crying. I have some 8 movies (Clone Wars too), a whole bunch of Lego episodes to laugh at, and some Rebels and Clone Wars shows to soak in.

Or it's called getting a little bit more budget to make the new models. The Ghost crew are pretty much still using their models from Season 1. And they are all getting an upgrade next season.

Or it's called getting a little bit more budget to make the new models. The Ghost crew are pretty much still using their models from Season 1. And they are all getting an upgrade next season.

Sabine got a slight tweak, but nothing significant outside the different hair dye. Can't wait to see what they do with Kanan in Season 3 considering what happened to him at the end of Season 2.

I've only watched the Pilot, which was fun I guess, but not enough to make me invest... It gave me too much a vibe of Firefly with Lightsabers merged with Blake's 7. Also, assuming they stick to cannon, at some point Kanaan and Ezra will have to die.

A-wings and B-Wings? What the hell?

Really, you need to stick till about episode 6 or 7 for Rebels to really take off. Even then, you get a really good episode before it hits its stride.

This sort of falls into the same logic as people complaining after the Rogue One trailer that only girls can now be leads of Star Wars movies.

How? I don't follow the logic behind this comparison..

Two wave's focused heavily on Rebels content isn't the future, it's simply incorporating new property into the game, very similar to how the first couple waves after Scum and Villainy were introduced focus very heavily on Scum ships with less Rebel and Empire ships. At this point in the production the game will want to grab ships where it can and unlike Empire and Rebels, the S&V has less of a pool to grab from. (Since we never truly saw the Guavian Death Gang or Kanjiklub's ships.)

The crux of your argument hinges on whether or not you agree that such a trend exists. While two waves do not make a trend, it's extremely likely that this will become a trend in ensuing releases.

Strip back the question of whether or not such a trend yet exists (owing to a lack of data) and look at the main point: Do you think that Xwing should only include ships that cameoed (however brief) in TFA and Rebels?

Strip back the question of whether or not such a trend yet exists (owing to a lack of data) and look at the main point: Do you think that Xwing should only include ships that cameoed (however brief) in TFA and Rebels?

Considering the Defender, Jumpmaster, and G-1A never appeared in TFA or Rebels, I think we're nowhere near that future.