Star Wars Resistance, the next cartoon and successor to Clone Wars and Rebels
 

https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-wars-re...ser-1825546331

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We're getting a third Star Wars cartoon which was expected since Rebels just wrapped.

Filon's Star Wars cartoons keep going, we'll most likely see Ahsoka in this too.

Brandon Auman who worked on the 2k12 TMNT series is a head writer/Exec producer for the new series.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BiCfUusD...=brandon_auman

I guess it's hard to get mad at them for doing something other than more OT wank.

Maybe this can even retroactively make Episode 7 and 8 make sense...

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Plus we get to see more of Captain Phasma.

The Clone Wars cartoon really fleshed out the Clone Wars era and improved some of the flaws of the prequels (particularly Anakin's characterisation), so we'll see.

It's kind of funny that these days 30+ year old adults get more excited to watch kids cartoons than the movies. All the people on other forums cheering for this are 30+ year old adults. lol.

“Anime inspired”

Hopefully it’s more avatar/voltron rather than Rwby/teen titans

uh oh this is set in the new star wars universe


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You shoulda just shorted that to "is coming." Still made me laugh, though. :tlol:

I dunno, I don't get excited for cartoons. Even cartoons adults can enjoy. It just feels like... I dunno, like cheating. Taking the easy way of telling a story.

Cartoons are written for adults nowadays. Even ones aimed at kids.

Yes, Cubed, I'm aware of that.

It just seems like taking the cheapest form of storytelling to placate adults who want stories.

Serious Ninja Turtle movies? Nah, he's a cartoon with some horror references that kids won't get. Good Justice League movies? Nah, he's a new cartoon series. Good Star Wars movies set in [x] time period? Nah, have a cartoon.

My take, anyway.

The same. It doesn't feel "real" to me. Even a book feel more "real" to me than a cartoon.

Glad somebody else gets my thinking!

Out of respect for The Clone Wars and Rebels (which I both enjoyed), I'll give this new show a chance. But it doesn't sound like anything that I'm going to be interested in.

I'm just not a fan of the new turtle guys working on the new star wars things. star wars is in bad enough shape as it is. we don't need more horror elements introduced into star wars. ugh.

I never understood how people say "Clone Wars fixes the PT", it doesn't really. They're fun stories but I don't think they add to the movies, in fact they cause more problems. The original "The Clone Wars" cartoons which are ironically non-canon do make the movies better since they were made to bridge the gap between the movies and without them you're left with a bunch of questions. I like CG Clone Wars but it's not so amazing.

I do think this series can flesh out the sequel trilogy a bit better but it's limited what it can do. Can it make Captain Phasma into a badass? Maybe but we already know how she'll be in the actual movies, etc. So yeah, I don't think it'll do harm and may fix a few things but it won't make the ST actually good.

Hm, do you think all animation is inferior? Disney/Pixar cartoon movies are written for adults to enjoy, Young Justice is considered one of the best DC series of all time and it's a cartoon, and of course the classic Batman: TAS is critically acclaimed. There's also anime most of which is aimed at adults and I'm not even much an anime fan in general. It's also obviously easier to do these shows with cartoons/animation than with real people, cheaper too, so we get more stories out of it.

I mean we're not in the 1980's anymore, there's so much animation and cartoons aimed at adults these days. Let alone all the adult comedies they air, etc.

Can't wait to see the first footage. Probably at San Diego Comic Con.

Now more than ever there's a ton of cartoons aimed at adults thanks to the success of Adult Swim. However most of those shows tend to be comedies. Yes, many shows are now written intelligent enough that not only kids but adults can enjoy them too. That doesn't mean the shows target audience isn't primarily kids even if there's a small loud niche online of adult fans.

I love animation but it's still doesn't hit the same points a live action show/movie for adults. Let alone a book which is the superior format for storytelling. We can cherry pick exceptions, for example BTAS being better than any live action take but they pale in comparison to what can be achieved if something is really meant for adults.

Yeah it's cool to see how much progress cartoons have made over the years but it's still a long way before you can argue that they're the same.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm far more lenient when it comes to plot and execution with animation than I am with something live action.

There are just things you can get away with in a cartoon that you can't with actual actors, and depending on the story sometimes Show Not Tell just works better.

Here's my wishlist for the show:

*Exploit BB-8, he was such an awesome addition to Episode VII and sadly got ignored in Ep. VIII.
*Continue the fanwankery of using the continuity of Clone Wars/Rebels to tell stories with characters we saw in those series. It really helped Rebels feel like a more established universe.
* Try to adapt some stories, haven't watched S3/4 of Rebels so no spoilers but if General Thrawn wasn't killed or Hier to the Empire adapted, maybe it can be adapted in some way, not just that but other fun post OT EU stories
*Goes without saying but try to make the sequels make more sense by
explaining all the problems of going back to the OT in the 30 year span.
*Have an episode with Finn as a storm trooper before he ever met the others
*It's time for Jar Jar Binks to return
*The Empire should really be dealt with a minimum, have more fun stories but based on Leia/Poe being integral parts of the plot I'm guessing that's hoping for too much

I think it has to do with suspension of disbelief, when it's animated you're already accepting that these drawings are "real" so you're more willing to let them do things that your brain might not let pass if it's done by CG or a more realistic set of rules. That's what I think.

This series will take place before The Force Awakens. So we will get to see more about Captain Phasma. and maybe get to see how Finn was forced to join the First Order. Though this new show will focus on a new character. Some of the characters from The Force Awakens like Po Dameron will appear on it.

That is certainly a possibility.
It's like, how certain comic get ups work on the page, but just do NOT work on actual living people.

Yeah. Though by the same token I am more lenient when it comes to plot and execution in animation... I am also taking it far less seriously on the whole.

Just as a random example, think of TMNT 2007. The only scene people remember from it, the big Leonardo vs. Raphael scene? Now imagine if it had been in live-action instead, full-on Jim Henson suits and all.

There's no way you can tell me that scene wouldn't have had way, way, way more weight in live-action.

maybe fixes isn't the right word.

It shows, that with NO yes men around, you CAN make even bad ideas like Jar Jar work REMARKABLY well. The only Jar Jar episodes I found annoyingly unwatchable where the one where he got a girlfriend. gross central ;o)

I've actually seen those. Somewhat entertaining, though certainly nothing I took remotely seriously and nothing I ever expected to be or remain in canon. I just remember Mace Windu jumping on top of ships from the ground and punching holes in walls, or something... it felt super exaggerated and stylized.

The shenanigans in Rebels would have gotten absolutely ass-blasted by fanboys if they did that in Episodes VIII or IX.

Not if it un did all the damage the ST caused. in fact, for this one instance only, i'd celebrate it. and it wasn't a normal version of that particular method either, more like one we've seen before in a certain series about turtles.

but all in all, i'm rather happy that SW for the most part has avoided that particular sci fi trapping.

Time travel is in almost everything sci-fi, I'm really surprised Star Wars never touched on it till now.

This is the way that I look at the two Clone Wars cartoons. The first "series" was literally a bridge between episodes II and III. The second series that ran for six seasons wasn't necessarily meant to connect the two movies. It was about telling stories that happened between the two.

I consider both cartoons canon, the 2D one doesn't conflict that much. I think the only difference is showing why General Grievous "coughs."

What? There's time travel in Rebels? Ugh, talk about a bad idea.


Yeah, I always considered both shows canon, there's hardly any real contradictions unless you get super geeky and you can just wave those away.

It's only in one episode, and it's not really time travel, it's more like, "pull a character out of this part in the past into the present."

So... time travel.

Be nice to CC

If you watch the episode it's more of a "time portal." Nobody actually went back in time. Just the main character pulled someone from the past into the present.

It feels like you have less problems with the actual medium and more the demographic

he's not nice to anyone else ;o)...

just mention you're over 35 and see the reaction you get ;o)

the only reason i want it out of star wars, is because it's too EASY a plot device. Star Trek Over used it to death, even IF most of those episodes tend to be their better ones.

I don't want star wars to have to fall back on the same crutch.

Not really. The show handled the idea very well, imo.

again, think Time Window from cody's lab.