Ragsnstitches said:
I like the animation. High quality stuff. Audio's kind of shit though. It's Star Wars, the musical score and action needs to be louder then what it is. And frankly, it would do the show a favor because the VA is pretty bad as far as that 7 minute preview is concerned.
Also, the Protag (ezra?) is kind of grating and looks like Aladdin...
Not helped by the fact they are both street urchins in a desert city.
Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat tell you all about it when I got the time! *Runs off with Imperial weapons*
undeadsuitor said:
I'm just glad it's a star wars show not entirely centered around jedi/sith fights like everything else has been since the prequels.
At the risk of spoilers, it heavily looks like we're going to have a Jedi Master and Apprentice. Though according to Wookiepedia from the way he's dressed up their big bad is going to be an inquisitor whom- according to oldie star wars (Expanded Universe) fans Isn't -actually- a sith, just a badass normal on their payroll. So yea, Jedi vs Empire more than Jedi vs Sith.
Kusko25 said:
While not being to impressed with the characters and the like it is rare that I get engaged in a show based on the first episode. So I'm gonna give that a shot.
What bothered me though was that in an era where Disney actively discredits old cliches in their movies they are so ready to jump on the 'Stormtroopers suck at their job' bandwagon. Those are elite troops! Most of them (at this point in the timeline) are clone wars veterans! They know their sh*t!
Also a bit disappointed that while they did bring Kessel back as a spice mine where wookie-slaves work, they redconned all the cool stuff about it, like the maw-cluster and the resulting difficulty maintaining an atmosphere.
And for goodness sake being a jedi isn't an on/off switch! I was so happy when they showed the kid having small precognitions as a sign of him being force sensitive and then they just go into overdrive and show him levitating objects and force-jumping (relatively advanced techniques) 30 minutes later.
Is it too much to ask for semi-realistic pacing? Showing that it actually takes work and training to get good at something?
Anyway I'm sure it is going to be mildly entertaining but I'm not holding my breath.
Actually according to current lore, the Empire disposed of all its clone troopers after the Clone Wars. Many of them suffered from PTSD from the war and having killed their generals, as such the vast majority if not all of them were deemed unsuitable for the new imperial army by the Emperor and in a mad decision he sentenced them all to basically death by slave-mines.
As a result all the current Stormtroopers which are supposed to be the elite, haven't had the proper training. The Empire miscalculated the speed at which they could train and replace clonetroopers and as a result the majority of their stormtroopers now are undertrained conscripts, not really wanting to be there and not particularly high in spirit not necessarily able to hit much.
Notable exception would be star-ship pilots whom they still 'have' to give the neccesary training due to the expensive craft they steer.
Back to the clones, the clones already suffered from accelerated growth, which meant they were going to hit their twilight years within a decade as things stood at the end of the clone wars. As such the Emperor was left with dying clone troops that 'granted' had to do his every whim but after Order 66 felt less than enthusiastic about it. Rather than having them continue to serve and having to actually compensate them for winning the clone wars, the Emperor saved a lot of money for his budding empire by simply scrapping the lot of them, and the Mines probably made their last 20 years in the Universe more like their last 5 years.
Which effectively means that the death of the tens of millions (If not 200 million which it is by some estimates) Clone Troopers is probably the first actual genocide the Emperor commited. Arguably it could have been what really sparked rebellious sentiment, the public could be swayed to believe the Jedi betrayed them and that the clones were the 'real' heroes (They were credited for even the battles won by the jedi, the jedi generals were erased from history) But they couldn't really be convinced that not compensating the troops and sending them off to die in the mines was a good idea.
First planet to rebel (maybe as a result, maybe not) was Naboo, however the Naboo rebellion was quickly quelled and their current (And last) queen was executed.
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As for making 'more' Clone Troops. I suppose that's an option, they could use Jango Fetts kid since, youknow, he's dead and his cloning material was stolen from the facilities during the clone wars.
But I think the Emperor might have disposed of the corrupt people who ran that facility regardless, in order to tie up loose ends. So the technology might indeed have been lost entirely, we see as the Clone Wars progress more and more technology is actually lost in the war, and by the time we reach the old trilogy the technology is far less advanced than it was during the height of the old republic as trade and intellect has stagnated.
The conclusion is, from my point of view- the Stormtroopers are said in Propaganda to be elite but really they're a bunch of conscripts with little to no training, who don't really want to be there but are forced to serve under threat of death. They could easily desert and when they face rebels chances are they don't even really want to kill them, they're just under orders to and if they don't they're going to face execution themselves, so at the very least they have to open fire in their vague direction and their subconciousness will cause them to miss the very human and not-faceless rebels they are fighting.
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Anakin aka Darth Vader loved his clonetroopers, the 501st were made 'Vaders Fist' and were probably the only clonetroopers to survive the emperors wrath. However Anakin was still furious at the emperor for his decision to kill off his former combrades, and afterwards he actually plans to overthrow Darth Sidious and become a Benevolent Dictator himself (At least youknow, he wants to. How benevolent Darth Vader would be without his face-heel turn is not really up to question, he'd most likely be a really shitty ruler). When his son appears he is completely ready to put this plan into motion, but his Son (Quite rightly) see him as an evil maniac and therefore rejects the offer.
But still, there is good inside him (His feelings for the clone troopers and his son) which is how he later redeems himself in the eyes of the force. And he does ironically enough bring balance to it.
