The Glade 4.0

I liked SW:Clone Wars, but it was always just a pleasant diversion. Now we get to see Disney's first foray into the Star Wars universe.

The first episode of Rebels was spectacular.

Serious spine-chilling nostalgic wow. Disney's going to treat this franchise well.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Guardians of the galaxy far far way?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I can see the comparison, but no, not really.

Disney understands the Star Wars I grew up with.

I don't know how to explain it better than that. While far better written than Lucas's shoddy prequel trilogy, the Clone Wars series clearly took its inspiration and feel from those movies. With Rebels, I sense something; a presence I've not felt since... well, a long time ago, in a lifetime far, far away. Rebels takes me back to when the original trilogy was new to me, rather than being an improved take on the shite Lucas tried to foist on us over the last 15 years. It fills me with a new hope for the next movie.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Well that's good. I'll have to look into this at some point. I've got a lot on my plate right now so I'll have to wait till hit netflix at some point.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Second episode and it got even better.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Second episode was somewhat less of a walking cliche, sure.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

"Walking Clichés" don't bother me. They're kinda modus operandi for the setting. After all, Star Wars ("ep.4") was just The Hidden Fortress in space.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Oh.
My.
God.

The season finale was so awesome.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Okay now I have to watch this. I do have that $25 amazon card from my birthday...

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Did pick this up. I am enjoying it. It does however have the unfortunate side effect of making me want to actually play star wars, which sucks because I don't really have an rpg group right now.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

This looks like it could be rather dark.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Oh yis

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

It's back.

Season 2 Episode 1 is an hour long and is complete with James Earl Jones and Billy Dee Williams, and makes me feel like a little girl again back in the late 70s. I wasn't sure if Vader would ever recover from the emasculation the prequel trilogy performed, turning him into a whiny brat instead of a powerful fallen jedi.

I was wrong. He gives me chills here.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Old clones!

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

very cool

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

With Rebels s02e16, it looks like Disney just unofficially brought KOTOR into canon.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Really? Nice. KotOR's the one bit of Star Wars EU that I care about.

It's not official, obviously, but since Star Wars Rebels is considered canon, when it references KotOR in an episode, it strongly implies such.

This episode was amazingly storycrafted, as it was one of those rare bits of material that seem to tie together a bunch of different material from different sources.

Without going into detail:
Yoda was in it.
Vader was in it (voiced by James Earl Jones.)
Ahsoka Tano was in it, and she was watching an instruction video by her former master, Anakin Skywalker.
And Malachor was mentioned in an important way... Malachor, the place where Revan and Malak fell to the dark side, and also where the Jedi Exile fought her climactic battle, and Darths Sion, Nihilus and Traya met their ends.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Looks like there have been previous mentions of it, too.
http://www.nerdunion.us/2016/02/16/star ... lic-canon/

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

HK-47 is in the latest star wars mobile game, so he's essentially canonized.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Well, that took a dark turn.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

After the season finale, I have a little more to say on the approach to the canonicity of KotOR they are taking with Rebels.

Malachor
- In KotOR, Malachor V was the place of the final battle between the Mandalorian Mercenary Clans sent by the Sith Empire, and the Jedi/Republic army lead by Revan and Malak. While the exact nature of the battle has long been kept mysterious, it is a place where millions died, and hundreds of Jedi, including Revan and Malak, fell to the dark side. It is assumed that Revan and Malak found some ancient Sith artifact that allowed them to destroy their foes (and many allies, as well) en masse. Years later, this is also where The Jedi Exile fights her climactic battle against Darths Sion and Traya.
- In Rebels, Kanan and Ahsoka tell Ezra Jedi have long been forbidden to go to Malachor, due to a legend thousands of years old of dark events that occurred there. When Ahsoka, Kanan and Ezra arrive, there is an ancient sith temple, and thousands of charred, millenia-old corpses surrounding it. The temple is revealed to be an ancient weapon with the power to destroy the enemies of those who wield it, but the temple requires that its controller use rage, aggression or fear along with the force in its control.

Minor: When blinded by Maul's lightsaber, Kanan Jarrus puts on a face-covering mask. This mask looks identical to some armor available to Consulars or Inquisitors in SW:TOR.

Obviously, neither of these nods to KotOR officially make the story of the Prodigal Knight Revan into official SW: Canon. However, it's clear that the writers are treating it at such.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

As an aside - I feel vaguely irritated that the absolute most dramatic, most chilling, and most epic scene Darth Vader has ever had in Star Wars is in a Disney XD half-hour cartoon.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

And another major old "Star Wars Extended Universe" character is back in canon.

Also, for Kaffis, looks like they have the recruitment of Wedge Antilles in an episode here.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

I read about the Thrawn thing the other day. Definitely piqued my interest upon reading that. Outside of this thread, I hadn't heard anything else about the show.

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The Dude abides.