Star Wars: Rebels is a perfect example of how corporate greed actually works. Star Wars: The Clone Wars was reaching the end of the series when Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas. During this time, Yoda was contemplating death and the future when he was confronted from the five symbols of human emotion. This was used to foreshadow the end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Less we forget the clone trooper's story arch in which they figured out what execute order 66 actually was. Disney stopped the show right there which was the worst timing they could actually do. They decided to "make it up to us" by airing a more "toned down" version of the show that would "appeal to all audiences." They gave us some random kid who wants to play jedi with a wookie reject, vagabond middle aged man, punk rock stereotype girl and some random alien who have the sudden urge to overthrow the empire.
Now we're stuck having to watch what Disney views as quality television with it's severely watered down fight scenes, lack of intensity, boring character designs, terribly designed weapons, lack of explanation and sudden interest in bringing back characters who they should've brought back at the end. How are you going to bring back Ahsoka with out explaining what happened to Barris Offee? What happened to Asajj Ventress? What happened to Grievous? How did Captain Rex, who was foreshadowed to die, come back to life? How the hell did Greggor Survive? Most importantly, why doesn't the cast consist of the jedi young-lings Ahsoka and Yoda trained?
Let me just list everything wrong in that for the sake of the one person who is trying to defend a show for older kids.
1. Corporate greed? Okay, you're using the most common example of why everything Disney or any other company sucks.
2. They toned it down because Disney XD is a channel for kids that are at least 8 and up. I don't think any parents would react well to their 8 year old kid being let to be able to see people dying, bleeding, sliced in half, whether on-screen, heard off-screen, or implied.
3. Wookie reject? I'm sorry, you mean the 40-something year old man. Your wookie reject is Zeb, an entirely different species. They even used him as a fake wookie species to trick a couple of stormtroopers JUST TO SHOW that he WASN'T a wookie.
4. So someone who likes graffiti, is the age of a teen, dresses in a way that Is somewhat punk rock, is instantly a punk rock stereotype girl. At this point your logic is getting really terrible.
5. If you're this desperate, the show is set WAY after the events of the classic Star Wars we know and love. Kanen, or however you spell the "40-year-old's" name, explained this using, if I remember correctly, a mural of past events. Another member of the Empire said something significant and relevant to this when he said that this generation will know the jedi in paper/books, but he knew the jedis as /flesh and blood,/ meaning he knew Jedis before the events of the TV show.
6. Why does this thread need to exist? It's a kids show. Stop arguing. |