So. Why in the ******* **** is this show on at ten o'clock in the ******* night, on a ******* school night? I had to put my ******* seven year old to bed at ******* 7pm, so I can wake him the **** up, to ******* watch it.

57 minutes ago, Edgehawk said:

So. Why in the ******* **** is this show on at ten o'clock in the ******* night, on a ******* school night? I had to put my ******* seven year old to bed at ******* 7pm, so I can wake him the **** up, to ******* watch it.

Tomorrow is Columbus Day. Most schools are out.

2 hours ago, Edgehawk said:

So. Why in the ******* **** is this show on at ten o'clock in the ******* night, on a ******* school night? I had to put my ******* seven year old to bed at ******* 7pm, so I can wake him the **** up, to ******* watch it.

I sense you are upset about something?

24 minutes ago, SithArissa said:

I sense you are upset about something?

**** it. I couldn't get the little guy to wake up for it. We'll watch the reruns next year, if it doesn't suck.

I'll let it run a while, and a few people whose opinions I trust watch it, before I go looking for it online. I've got comics, novels, DVDs, video games, and the TTRPG, so a new series in an era/setting I have no interest in is low on my list of priorities.

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Is this show coming out on Amazon?

2 hours ago, Edgehawk said:

**** it. I couldn't get the little guy to wake up for it. We'll watch the reruns next year, if it doesn't suck.

If only the distributor didn't have a multitude of on-demand apps and services to allow access to the show.

Or it weren't on again tomorrow.

Or throughout the week.

It'd be great if we lived in an age with some sort of recording technology that allowed us to watch at a time other than broadcast.

All crazy talk, I know.....

I know. It is still a stupid time to show it. And 9pm tonight (another school night) is not much better. Besides, we're going to see The Dawn Wall on the big screen this evening. At 7pm, a far more reasonable hour. I do not see it scheduled further "throughout the week," or at an appropriate time for young viewers.

Are you in an area that does not have DVR service? I actually had forgotten it was starting and when I pulled it up on Youtube TV, I found episodes 1-3 that I watched yesterday morning.

I dropped standard cable/satellite for youtube dvr a few months back so it's hard to remember specific schedules.

1 hour ago, Edgehawk said:

I do not see it scheduled further "throughout the week," or at an appropriate time for young viewers.

It’s being run in two parts in the mornings.

8 hours ago, Nytwyng said:

If only the distributor didn't have a multitude of on-demand apps and services to allow access to the show.

Or it weren't on again tomorrow.

Or throughout the week.

It'd be great if we lived in an age with some sort of recording technology that allowed us to watch at a time other than broadcast.

All crazy talk, I know.....

I found the witch!

And I'm going to have to wait on this, as I don't get the channel, but it's refreshing to see a 2-D cartoon. I honestly couldn't stand the Clone Wars and Rebels animation; 3-D stuff has come a long way, but I think 2-D stuff beats it hands-down in the sheer amount of personality and fun a show can have.

Well this is still 3D, just rendered in a 2D style. Watching the first episodes I was not as disappointed as I was when I first saw the trailer. I will get used to it but I prefer my 2D to be traditional hand-drawn and my 3D to be 3D.

Watched it with my 5 year old, he enjoyed it a lot more than I did. Wasn’t terrible but was VERY “young”.

The story and characters seem fine. I like the setting. The art is bad. The bright outline around all of the people--regardless of the lighting--just grates on me. My stepson joking referred to it as a stand-in for JJ's lens flares, and I hate it just as much. The Nikto's face also seems way under drawn, but so do a lot of the faces.

I liked the animation style, the racing ships are gorgeous, kinda has this speedtracer vibe, and the first order star destroyers looked awesome. The show looks like it's following the rebels format of slow start to build characters backstories up.

Not my cup of tea. Here's hoping for the live action show.

15 minutes ago, 2P51 said:

Not my cup of tea. Here's hoping for the live action show.

Yeah I hope the live show is more adult oriented.

It was about what I expected; that is more kid-focused with morals to the stories, more light-hearted stories, and a racing theme to allow lots of action with reduced violence. Decent, but not exactly "Star Wars" to me.

I disliked the cel-shading look, not because I dislike cel shading (I actually rather like it) but because I dislike poorly-done cel shading. Cel shading is one of those things that's easy to make look good in promotional stills, but hard to make look good in motion. While they do appear to have made some good choices (the water splash effects seem to be legit 2D composited in, wise move) in-general it's pretty sloppy, resulting in a weird 2 and a half D look suggesting that cel-shading was done for money reasons over style (Cel shading saves a TON on texture artists).

Lately only the Dragon Prince has come close to making Cel Shading actually look like 2D. Not perfect though, they need to figure out a frame-rate "sweet spot" as 15 FPS looks like 15 FPS, and there's times when the characters really need to squash, stretch, bend, and warp to look right, but the models clearly weren't rigged to do so...

1 hour ago, Ghostofman said:

It was about what I expected; that is more kid-focused with morals to the stories, more light-hearted stories, and a racing theme to allow lots of action with reduced violence. Decent, but not exactly "Star Wars" to me.

I disliked the cel-shading look, not because I dislike cel shading (I actually rather like it) but because I dislike poorly-done cel shading. Cel shading is one of those things that's easy to make look good in promotional stills, but hard to make look good in motion. While they do appear to have made some good choices (the water splash effects seem to be legit 2D composited in, wise move) in-general it's pretty sloppy, resulting in a weird 2 and a half D look suggesting that cel-shading was done for money reasons over style (Cel shading saves a TON on texture artists).

Lately only the Dragon Prince has come close to making Cel Shading actually look like 2D. Not perfect though, they need to figure out a frame-rate "sweet spot" as 15 FPS looks like 15 FPS, and there's times when the characters really need to squash, stretch, bend, and warp to look right, but the models clearly weren't rigged to do so...

I thought the animation style was ok, I don't see ILM going away from 3D since they use the models on all of their properties like the ghost being updated for photorealism in Rogue One. I'm not sure why they change animation styles on every new project, maybe their budget keeps getting smaller. I don't care if the shading style doesn't look just like 2D, I'm fine with it having its own in-between aesthetic. I thought that white outline or highlight that was often around the characters was a bit much.

The new Tie Interceptor looked cool, and it's color where something out of X-Wing, it looked like that fancy TIE fighters the inquisitors used and it had a hyperdrive like they did.

I don't need high end or super duper animation, it would be nice since they have the cash to make it look pretty. To me the best part of animating any IP is that you can churn out content so much faster and for so much less. It's a great way to expand a genre's universe. You have to just write something worth watching. This is clearly aimed at kids.

1 minute ago, 2P51 said:

I don't need high end or super duper animation, it would be nice since they have the cash to make it look pretty. To me the best part of animating any IP is that you can churn out content so much faster and for so much less. It's a great way to expand a genre's universe. You have to just write something worth watching. This is clearly aimed at kids.

I've only seen the first episode, however Rebels and TCW were that way at first too, they got progressively darker as their target audience aged.

12 minutes ago, Eoen said:

maybe their budget keeps getting smaller

This is almost undoubtly it.

Having done 3D and cel shaded projects in the past... if you want to save a boat-load, cel shading is 100% the way to go. Once you establish your standards and settings, you can pretty much fire the entire texture and shading department, and your lighting department also can be heavily cut, since cel shading doesn't need complex light rigs, as a matter of fact, it needs comparatively simple ones based primarily on camera positioning. It's also super economical on your render resources and times, you can render out a cel shaded scene super fast.

2 minutes ago, Ghostofman said:

This is almost undoubtly it.

Having done 3D and cel shaded projects in the past... if you want to save a boat-load, cel shading is 100% the way to go. Once you establish your standards and settings, you can pretty much fire the entire texture and shading department, and your lighting department also can be heavily cut, since cel shading doesn't need complex light rigs, as a matter of fact, it needs comparatively simple ones based primarily on camera positioning. It's also super economical on your render resources and times, you can render out a cel shaded scene super fast.

Well they're rendering out and finishing off the last part of The Clone Wars at the same time maybe that's eating up a big chunk of their staff and over all budget.

Watched the premiere last night and I liked it. Definitely has a strong stylistic element, but I'm into that—I've always enjoyed the animated Star Wars because they're always trying something new. The cel shading plus the setting give the whole show the same feel as The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, which is a bonus in my book.

Really, though, I'm in it for the juicy new canon.