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sum1 · 09-23-2016, 10:53 AM

Anybody here bother with Rebels anymore?

**BehrItAll** · 02-19-2017, 05:32 PM

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Anybody here bother with Rebels anymore?

I do. The show has gotten better. I am liking this season a lot. Thrawn is on it.

Dave Filoni Explains Why the Star Wars Prequels Are So Important to Today's Stories

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Dave Filoni Explains Why the Star Wars Prequels Are So Important to Today's Stories

There's an increasingly small subset of Star Wars fans that still love to rail against the prequel trilogy. While some arguments are valid (some of the dialogue was undoubtedly dry, some of the scenes disconnected, and CGI for several major environments just wasn't quite there yet), people who dismiss them out of hand are missing the many additions to Star Wars mythology and character work that the prequels provided. It's something that Star Wars Rebels showrunner and staunch prequel supporter Dave Filoni tries to get across to fans, and says absolutely makes today's stories, in Rebels and on the big screen, much richer.

When ComicBook.com discussed the growing idea of "balance" in the Force in today's Star Wars stories, from Kanan's training with the Bendu to Ezra experimenting with dark side techniques to Ahsoka's clear-bladed lightsabers and even Kylo Ren/Ben Solo's affinity with and straddling of both sides of the Force, Filoni went back to the prequels.

"I think it works into what the struggle is. You want to achieve this balance or you want to become ... I think it's a natural part of it, and really the introduction of this idea of balance comes from the prequels," Filoni told ComicBook.com. "That's where the prophecy of the chosen one and 'the one who will bring balance,' as quoted by Mace Windu, really comes from. So, I find that very interesting because the prequels add a tremendous amount of depth to all these things, especially ways of the Force. The people, I don't think realize that that's where it comes from, but it's not something that's natural to the original trilogy. It's something that stems from the prequels, which added a tremendous amount to what we know about Star Wars."

Filoni says that the truest separation between light and dark sides of the Force comes not in the technique, but in the intention.

"One of the fundamental things to always understand about the light side and the dark side of the Force and the intentions that drive those things are willingness or will to be selfless or selfish," he said. "From those two key points of starting grow out either in enlightenment of selflessness or greed and fear and anger and hate, and you just go spiraling down and down and down, but those are the building blocks that George [Lucas] would always talk about and I always keep trying to come back to in everything I do because if you work from that point, then actually you can tell a story with the Force."

So, you can expect the Force and its exploration to continue to be central to modern Star Wars stories, whether that's in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars Rebels, or beyond. And you have the prequels to thank for that.

CommanderM · 03-04-2017, 05:58 PM

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Anybody here bother with Rebels anymore?

I never got into it myself, sum.

sum1 · 03-04-2017, 11:07 PM

Re that article Steph posted:

"There's an increasingly small subset of Star Wars fans that still love to rail against the prequel trilogy."

It's not an increasingly small subset. It's an increasingly large subset. The success of Disney's new Star Wars has caused people to compare the Prequels with it and the result is that they view the Prequels is a less favourable light. Immediately after TFA came out, many new voices were raised in scorn at the Prequels. Prequel contempt became more mainstream with the advent of TFA. The truth is the Prequels are fading into the background now, as people focus on the OT and the new films and choose to ignore the films put out in between.

As for Filoni's woffle about balance in the Force, that's a total misinterpretation of what Lucas meant by balancing the Force. As far back as the late '90s he explained that "balance" mant the elimination of the Dark Side, which was like a cancer. Needless to say, this indicates he has a funny interpretation of what the word "balance" means, but that was his vision. Filoni and Disney are just inventing their own crap and pretending it comes from the Prequels. It doesn't. That's not Lucas's vision.

As for Rebels, I learned not to waste time on Star Wars animation when The Clone Wars went bad and then got cancelled. I wonder if they're ever going to do a Star Wars live action show? We could end up with a host of Star Wars Netflix shows, like Disney has done with Marvel.

**BehrItAll** · 03-12-2017, 05:07 PM

So, I think Obi-Wan will be making an appearance on Star Wars: Rebels.

The season finale is at the end of March.

sum1 · 03-13-2017, 11:05 AM

Will he be going on a date with Darth Maul? That would make Tar happy.

Evilord · 03-26-2017, 04:29 PM

Am I the only one here who likes Rebels? (Sigh.) anyways, the finale for S3 just aired. Pretty good. Bendu is a beast.

sum1 · 03-29-2017, 04:12 PM

Steph likes Rebels, but she's not here a lot of the time. Personally I had my fill of Star Wars animation after the Clone Wars debacle.

a new hope · 04-02-2017, 06:42 AM

I've never gotten into the tv series

sum1 · 04-05-2017, 06:00 PM

I went along with TCW for quite a while, to follow Lucas's so-called vision, but after they resurrected Darth Maul I just never came back to it. For a while I intended to, but I gave up on it. The Maul thing was what made me lose whatever faith I had in the show.

After that, Disney cancelled TCW (with its story unresolved!) and replaced it with Rebels. I checked out the pilot episode of Rebels to get an idea of it, but I had no intention of following a Star Wars animated show ever again.

a new hope · 04-05-2017, 06:35 PM

Honestly I wouldn't even know where to start.

sum1 · 04-07-2017, 05:36 AM

At the beginning?

a new hope · 04-07-2017, 11:05 AM

Well duh

I just mean which series.

sum1 · 04-08-2017, 12:58 PM

TCW. That's the beginning, you dork.

a new hope · 04-08-2017, 01:21 PM

I tried that, didn't grab my attention enough.

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