The recent pictures from New York Toy Fair have given us a
glimpse of what some of the characters and space ships will look like when the
new Star Wars animated series finally premieres in the fall of 2014, so I
decided to give some of my thoughts on what we may or may not get out of this
show.
What The Fans Want:
A five season story arc that begins some ten years after the
events of Revenge of the Sith that involves Han Solo and Chewbacca in
the early days of their friendship, smuggling, roaming the galaxy, meeting all
manner of interesting creatures, getting in adventures and sometimes having to
deal with various Imperial Entanglements.
Also having run-ins with bounty hunters like Boba Fett, and other
smugglers, space pirates, and baddies.
The overall arc borrows from the Brian Daly books but isn’t a slave to
them, and leaves off with Han and Chewie on Tatooine in the Mos Eisley Cantina.
What We Will Probably Get:
Obi-wan teams up with a young, pre-teen Jedi who was in hiding
during Order 66, an alien sidekick of some kind, a wacky droid and a female
Twilek (because Dave Filoni seems to love Twileks so much), as they travel the
galaxy tracking down and rescuing the literally hundreds of Jedi that escaped
The Purge. At the same time Mon Mothma
and her small group of rebel senators bemoan Palpatine’s New Order, but do
nothing about it because the Rebel Alliance doesn’t actually win any battles
against the Empire until right before A New Hope. The overall story arc will most likely
never be realized because Disney has an appalling track record with animated TV
of late, and will most likely cancel the series after one season.
This doesn’t mean I’m not looking forward to seeing what the
show is about and what direction it goes, but lets just say I’m not holding my
breath for the 100 episodes of awesome sauce that it could be if it was
about the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca, but who knows, we might just get pleasantly surprised.
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