STAR WARS REBELS: New Featurette Takes Us Inside Tonight's "Rise of the Old Masters"

Before this show came out, I was hoping for the best but expecting the worst.

And thankfully, it's surpassing my expectations! For a kids show it's very mature in tone and surprisingly adult with it's writing! It's not perfect, but it is really good! I was even surprised by how few punches they pull. In this episode alone, several of the main characters straight up killed some Stormtroopers! Gotta say, I didn't think Disney would be willing to go there.

So, yeah.
The characters are likeable and so is their world.
It just feels like an original trilogy adventure!

@ManDeth

You have a lot of complaints. I will argue some of your points. When have we seen a struggling master in star wars, one who felt inadequate and ill prepared to handle his task? I don't remember one. Calling "cliche!" is getting really old, people just throw that up on the wall and hope it sticks because it just sounds so critique-y

Neither Ezra or Kanaan are powerful, but that is the point. No one is going to accept or believe that a bad-ss jedi master/apprentice team would go unchallenged by vader, these guys are small fries so he sends one of his special ops dark side goons to get 'em. Kanaan's training is incomplete so it's hard for him to teach Ezra who is all instinct, their order is dead and it makes sense for them to be weak.

The Inquisitor is a great addition to the star wars lore. As far as I can tell he is like a dark side commando, trained just enough in the dark side of the force to be an excellent hunter but not enough to truly carry the sith ambition or tradition.

You seem to think all Jedi should be super awesome, but most are no where near the level of the main characters we saw in the movies and clone wars, most Jedi we saw were on the council or in the A team. There were lots of other jedi who were far less noteworthy.

Average Jedi would get wrecked by imperial special forces trained in the use of the dark side solely for combat. Kanaan and Ezra are, at best, a mediocre Jedi team, and that is what is fun. They are not hero material like luke or obi wan, nothing about them screams destiny, but as a whole this ragtag group might make a difference.

Well I am done. I doubt I changed your mind but give the show some time to grow on you. Or just stop watching it.