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Of note for fans of my original fiction, "In Forgery Divided," the sequel to my debut novel "In Treachey Forged," is now available from several vendors.  (Honestly, I'm surprised more people from this forum didn't check out my last novel, "The Kitsune Stratagem," considering the title.  Ah, well)

Still having trouble wrapping my headcanon around the ending of the manga, so I'm probably not going to be working on "Training for the Job" for a while, still.

 

Who is Rex and how was he retconned into the OT?

 

I suppose I come back to my original question: How can you justify any of the main characters surviving if they aren't mentioned at all in the Original Trilogy. I suppose you could justify it by saying Leia and Luke talked about them off screen, or that Ahsoka isn't "technically" a Jedi, but all of those ring hollow to me. 

 

Having someone like Ahsoka or Ezra survive, to me, weakens the importance of Luke's entire OT narrative.

He's not got a speaking role, but (as TVTropes puts it) Word of God is he's the white-bearded guy who was part of Han and Leia's team on Endor.  His character design in Rebels is also modeled on that guy.

As far as Ahsoka or Ezra surviving, it's just as likely as it was in the Legends continuity, and there were dozens of survivors in Legends.  (And the idea might be that Luke's Jedi trainers feared that, if he knew about the existance of other Jedi, his training would be compromised, and therefore he was never told about any other Jedi survivors.  Or at least a half-truth "from a certain point of view," as none of the remaining Jedi were ever knights.  Of course, in the Legends continuity, it was simply that every Jedi or group of Jedi believed themselves to be the only survivors, and never attempted to contact any of the others)

I will note that one of the things Rebels does is do a lot of call-backs to the "first draft" material from the Original Trilogy (the original concept art from Ralph McQuarrie, certain character backgrounds, etc).  Well, one of the original plans for "Return of the Jedi" had it that Leia was NOT Luke's sister, and the "other" Yoda spoke of was another apprentice on another planet (who Luke finding and rescuing was the subject of a proposed 4th movie; the reason they made the "other" Leia, instead, was that they decided they wouldn't be doing that 4th movie, after all).  So, perhaps Ezra is going to be that "other," and Obi Wan's Force Ghost was again only telling Luke something "from a certain point of view."

Rex can't die (at least not until the time of RotJ) because he's been retconned into the original trilogy, though the other clones (Wolffe and Gregor) could.  Ahsoka could, as well, and it almost seems likely.  Any of the regular Rebels cast could die (I'm thinking Kanan is the most likely to die, as the "mentor" often dies in a show like this... though Kanan is kind of young for that archetype), but it's unlikely they'll kill EVERYONE off.

I doubt the death count in Rebels could match that in Clone Wars, even if the series became just as "adult" (ugh; I hate that word in this context) as its predecessor.  There aren't enough cast members to kill off as many named characters, nor as many pitch battles between thousands of people on both sides, and even in Clone Wars 90% of the deaths were unnamed clones and droids.  Depending on how long this series goes, though, it just might get that deadly.

but those tv movies/series didn't release in theater it wasn't a full movie

Yeah, but I was responding to the idea they "didn't even make it back to TV."

 

The more battle scarred she gets the more beautiful she looks.

 

There's just something about a woman holding a blaster in a skintight white uniform with cuts all over her back that awakens the force in me.           I'd take Padme over wonder girl any day of the week.

 

 

 

Kinda kills it for me really. It makes Star Wars feel like Marvel. I always appreciated how the movies we got were so few and far between. Hell, even after Star War's monster success it never made it back to tv until the cartoon series in the early 2000s. (Though perhaps that had more to do with the smashing success of the Holiday Special.)

 

It made it feel special to me. Guess that's going out the window too. 

You really don't know Star Wars history, do you?  After Star Wars monster success, there was (in order) the dreadful Holiday Special, (sequels Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi), Ewoks: Caravan of Courage, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, the Droids animated series, and the Ewoks animated series.  It was only after those two series failed that Star Wars went off the air (though it continued in novels for the entire period, and there were a few then-canon video games added to the story as well in the interim) until the Attack of the Clones brought it back.  If Rogue One is better than the Holiday Special, or better yet the Ewok movies, we're doing okay.