I wasn't particularly concerned about missing out some fine point of continuity or another, it's just that it seems to be at least a few of the same people making it.

Anyway, I watched the... I guess you'd call it the pilot? The zeroth episode, last night. I liked it, though not entirely without qualification (I can see myself really hoping someone will drown the Main Character eventually, for instance). It does, as another poster suggested it would, remind me of the West End Star Wars RPG (though not my own favorite game of such, which is an Elder Days Story Time post waiting to happen :). At this early stage, I think my favorite thing about it is how thoroughly and deliberately not glamorous the twi'lek character is. One does enjoy a good bucking of stereotypes.

>though as of the current writing both Clone Wars, Rebels
>and the first two trilogies are all part of the same continuity.

Well, again, that's not necessarily a problem. See, the thing about The Clone Wars that sort of cumulatively bothered me until I couldn't watch it any more was the overarching futility of the thing. However the individual adventures turn out, you know how the whole thing is going to end and that's "badly"—makes it progressively harder to care, at least to me. The whole prequel era has that problem, and TCW has, by definition, a sort of peak amount of it.

The inter-trilogy period, on the other hand... well, there's at least some potential there, although it does kind of run into a different problem, similar to the one that Star Wars Galaxies had. SWG was set between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, a period of galactic history when there was a grand total of one (1) Jedi Master and one (1) half-assed Jedi padawan—who hadn't met!—in the universe. Which made it a little challenging that the game world was swarming with the bastards. :) In this instance, you've got the one semiretired cowboy Jedi and the Kid Who Is Strong in the Force, which, fair enough, but A, the writers will have a constant temptation to proliferate them and B, if they are trying to integrate this storyline firmly into the original trilogy, then where are those guys in five years? Doesn't bode well...

Still! It is pretty, and it does have a bunch more of that "frontier spirit" thing that TCW lacked. I often got the feeling watching the pilot that Rebels was making reference to something I'm not familiar with, which was odd but not offensive. The first season is pretty cheap on iTunes at the moment (or at least it was last night, be just my luck if the same ended this morning :), so I'll probably spring for it and keep watching for a while.

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I may or may not have mentioned this here before ... I never played SWG myself, but the design lead, Raph Koster, went on to found a company that my SO worked for briefly, and he has a whole bunch of interesting essays on video game design on his website. This includes a postmortem series on SWG, and one of those essays is all about Jedi, and why they wound up having the game world be swarming with the bastards, and the "crazy idea [he] still wishes we had done" instead.

Indeed you did. Or at least someone did, because I know I've seen that before.

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He's a C1-10P unit. A very heavily modified, nay, bodged-together C1 unit. Unlike WALL-e units, parts aren't as easy to come by for them anymore.

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And here I thought they called him Chopper because he'd been chopped like a hot rod at some point.

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Since this could be spoilers so highlight to read.

Well, second season has an episode called Wings of the Masters. If anyone remembers the West End Games adventure Strike Force Shantipole, its like that but take out the Verpine, the asteroid field, Ackbar, and turn the B-wing from a heavily armed assault fighter with some speed and maneuverability problems to UBER DEATH STAR in fighter form. But they kept the name Shatipole, and all of this is before we've yet to see an X-wing in the series at all. Yeah, I wasn't happy, but overall, well see above.

End spoilers.

Already taken, apparently.

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Wait until you meet the designer of the B-Wing.

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