4 hours ago, Fourtytwo said:

Now that I look at it, the show has a little bit for almost every taste - some light-hearted adventure, some character-driven drama, some dark moments. Or to quote two Stormtroopers: It's not regulation, but I kinda like it.

You did remind me of something that has been a thorn in my side with Rebels. The keystone Stormtroopers. They play right to the idiotic trope that they are all "bucketheads" and bad shots, and this is just silly. I understand the heroes having plot armor, but when you make the enemy that bumbling it becomes more Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrain than anything that gives dramatic weight to the scene.

It's basically Firefly in the SW universe. When the show has a story to tell about the role the crew is playing within the larger SW universe and civil war, it's really good and fun to watch. The show does a great job of paying homage both to the original films and the Legends/EU while still remembering that it has its own story to tell about its own characters. It also does an excellent job in seasons 2 and 3 of concluding the stories of several key CW characters. But there's filler, and the filler can be meh, although often it's a good chance for the villains to establish how dangerous they are or the heroes to consolidate new allies or resources that are used later in the show. The animation is also not really my style, with the characters looking like plastic dolls, the lightsabers having blades the width of pencils, short stubby panels on the TIE Fighters, etc. It definitely looks like Disney-fied Star Wars. However the series is definitely willing to go to dark places, with one of the main characters being tortured on-screen in season 1, and a scene where some Imperial officers are executed suddenly and without warning by a Inquisitor in a way that I would certainly never expect to see in a "kids show" in this day and age. In fact I would say one of the things that got me to like the show, in addition to just having a ton of references to other Star Wars media, was how willing it was to use death in its story-telling in a serious way.

TL;DR - if you like Star Wars and didn't mind TCW animation style and occasional filler too much, you will probably like this show.

Overall it's good, but there is a lot of inconsistency, some truly terrible episodes and some badly handled story. Considering how spectacularly terrible Force Awakens was, it helps make Rebels seem like a light in the darkness. I mean, seriously, it's the best Star Wars show since Return of the Jedi, so...

Brilliant show. Loved Twilight of the Apprentice, Twin Suns, and the Siege of Lothal.

The filler episodes can be maddening when watching it weekly, less so when binging. I will miss it when it's over and done.