STAR WARS REBELS: SPARK OF REBELLION Review; "A Solid Start To This New Series"

That good? May watch this with the nephews.

The story was pretty good and the sound effects were awesome. The animation is too amateur-ish, the Wookies looked ridiculous. I'll be checking it out again.

I didn't like it.

I didn't like it because I found it too simplistic, too vague, with a selection of characters that appeared to be too conceived by focus-group than by good writing.

# Astromech droid with attitude? - check!

#Elder leader of the group with mysterious Jedi past - check!.

#Stand-in Chewbacca figure and bruiser of the group (Zeb - based on McQuarry's original chewbacca design) - check! (character looks ridiculous btw) - check!

#Feisty and sexy female bounty hunter figure for the Boba fanboys? - Check!
etc....


I liked the use of John William's score at key emotive points and some of the situations did touch on a more original trilogy kinda-vibe, but for the most part it just felt uninspired for the most part.

Really hoping Disney doesn't force this 'character-design-by-focus-group' vibe on JJ Abramms' new film and on the new Star Wars films.

Disney,Just go with what is traditionally 'Star Wars' and stop trying to be so f*cking trendy and clever all the time, it feels forced (no pun intended).

I'm guessing it will appeal to the under 15's who will not notice or mind the blatant drive for trendyness over traditional, and to whom scenes like the sickly sweet (pass the bucket) wookie reunion scene might appear emotion-filled and not sickly sweet cliché.

Don't even get me started on the dumb-ass laser-slingshot design. You can almost picture the eureka moment some idiot LA-based hipster broke out that badboy idea at the boardroom table. >.<

In short - what the Clone wars eventually grew into was far superior, darker, less sickly-sweet.


Three and a half outta Ten.... tops!.

it was good to me. no complaints.

@Simyjo
''a selection of characters that appeared to be too conceived by focus-group than by good writing.''

Nail on the head.

The Wookies did look like ass but I enjoyed the show. It's great to be back in the classic time period. The classic sounds and seeing storm troopers run around like idiots was enough to hook me. Btw people that bitch about a children's show really need to get their priorities in check.

story was decent, but my god that dialogue was atrocious. Any time a character says something to themselves is just campy writing (i know its aimed at kids, but so was BTAS among other shows) "who is that kid?" nobody talks like that, thats all internal. Just show character action. The whole patting the thighs to relay messages during the heist was great. stuff like that, cut out the characters talking to themselves, and it was pretty solid

I found it to be a decent start to the series it was fun watch. My biggest complaint of the show was the pacing because it was almost breakneck from how quickly they were jumping from one action piece to the next. That is definitely something that needs to be worked on as the series progresses creating a steady pace for the show. I didn't find the characters too bad besides the R2-D2 wanna be with the sassy attitude and the annoying noises it made. So I would definitely watch more of this show but it needs to work on some things to make the show better.

@NerdMan

I just found things happened way to quickly especially when they go after the Imperial transport ship. It goes rescue the wookies, IT'S A TRAP, oh no kid got captured, let's rescue the kid, I'm cool, RUN AWAY, hey found real wookies, let's rescue the Wookies.

One really cool thing that no one has mentioned was did anyone notice how the space battle actually felt like watching the original Star Wars. Seemed weird like they took the original footage and worked with it to make the space battles. I liked that a lot and hope to see more of that from the series.

I wasn't expecting it to be terrible or anything, but it exceeded my expectations! I've been defending the Disney purchase from the start, so it feels nice to finally kind of have my faith rewarded in a way.

I really like. It felt like old Star Wars. I'd love to see it get a bit darker as time goes by. But awesome start.

Look at those sideburns man.

What's more fascinating to me about this project is how none of the characters have OT ties. Which begs to wonder why theoretically they wouldn't be prominent in OT trilogy. I can't see Ezra/Kanan walking out of this series like Ashoka in Clone Wars (more like self-sacrifice in Force Unleashed). This series will prove interesting in the grand scheme of things I think more so than Clone Wars, since we knew the fate of most of the principle characters. Things I'd hope to see, are characters like Nien Nunb, and Clone Wars characters whose stories weren't really resolved.