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Star Wars: Resistance

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The new Star Wars animated show has a title and some dope ass key art:

Star Wars Resistance Is the Next Lucasfilm Animated Series and the Details Are Absolutely Incredible



After Star Wars Rebels came to an end earlier this year, we knew the next chapter of Star Wars animation was close, and now we know exactly what it is. And it's extremely exciting. The new chapter in Lucasfilm's world is leaving behind the age of the Rebellion to tell a new saga set in the run-up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Announced by Lucasfilm today, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels producer Dave Filoni's next project will be Star Wars Resistance.

Set in what is described by the company as an "uncharted time frame prior to The Force Awakens," the "anime-inspired" Resistance will follow a young pilot named Kazuda Xiono, recruited by General Leia Organa's burgeoning Resistance for a top-secret surveillance mission to survey the growing power of the First Order. The series will focus on Kazuda and a cast of ace pilots, but will also feature familiar faces from the sequel trilogy in the form of BB-8, Poe Dameron, and Captain Phasma, with both Oscar Isaac and Gwendoline Christie reprising their respective roles for the series.

According to Filoni—who will executive produce the series alongside Rebels veterans Athena Portillo and Justin Ridge, as well as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Brandon Auman—the series will focus on the high-flying, high-speed adventures of the galaxy far, far away's daring pilots:

The idea for Star Wars Resistance came out of my interest in World War II aircraft and fighter pilots. My grandfather was a pilot and my uncle flew and restored planes, so that's been a big influence on me. There's a long history of high-speed racing in Star Wars, and I think we've captured that sense of excitement in an anime-inspired style, which is something the entire team has been wanting to do for a long time.
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No other details were revealed about the series, although we should mention there were zero mentions of Jedi in the announcement. Then again, that didn't stop Star Wars Rebels, did it? Maybe a few more familiar faces could show up...

Star Wars Resistance will feature a voice cast alongside Isaac and Christie that includes Christopher Sean, Suzie McGrath, Scott Lawrence, Myrna Velasco, Josh Brener, Donald Faison (a big Star Wars fan, we should note, especially Rebels), Bobby Moynihan, Jim Rash, and Rachel Butera.

Star Wars Resistance will premiere on the Disney Channel this fall, before transitioning to its regular home on Disney XD. We'll bring you more on Star Wars Resistance as we learn it. What are your thoughts on the newly unveiled details?
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I didn't watch that much of Rebels, but the bits and pieces I saw looked pretty great, and the idea of an anime-esque Star Wars show that's focused on ace pilots taking the fight to the First Order sounds pretty fucking rad. I'm especially surprised they've managed to enlist the efforts of Oscar Isaac and Gwendoline Christie, though I'm sure they're going to be more glorified cameos than recurring parts.
 
Hmmm...."anime inspired".... o_O

But the last two were critical successes, no? At least once they got going. Probably safe to assume this one will be too.
 
I'm hoping this means it's going to have an artstyle similar to that old show Skyland.
 
A show focusing on the Resistance?

Boy is that going to be a downer, given how literally all the Resistance except a number small enough to fit on the Millennium Falcon got killed.

Maybe the big OCs on the cast will leave the group before the dieoff, Ahsoka style.
 
Zap Rowsdower said:
A show focusing on the Resistance?

Boy is that going to be a downer, given how literally all the Resistance except a number small enough to fit on the Millennium Falcon got killed.

Maybe the big OCs on the cast will leave the group before the dieoff, Ahsoka style.
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Yup, not sure if to bother with the show. Hard to get invested in the characters and the plot if you know all their efforts will be for nothing.
 
Renewal said:
And same with Rebels; everyone knew Kanan and Ezra had to be written off at some point,
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Not necessarily; being a galactic effort with many planets contributing rather than one ex-general's private vendetta, the Rebel Alliance is fairly consistent in being portrayed as having had multiple cells at any given time, whereas the Resistance, lacking such resources, just had the one Leia was in. Them having always been offscreen in another cell was always a possibility.
 
Zap Rowsdower said:
Not necessarily; being a galactic effort with many planets contributing rather than one ex-general's private vendetta, the Rebel Alliance is fairly consistent in being portrayed as having had multiple cells at any given time, whereas the Resistance, lacking such resources, just had the one Leia was in. Them having always been offscreen in another cell was always a possibility.
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I mean, you're being a bit generous to the OT era, and dismissive to the ST? Like Yoda explicitly says Luke is the last of the old and the first of the new Jedi, which leaves no room for Kanan and Ezra.

Like yes, Resistance has a lot to deal with in terms of TLJ's baggage, but your first post just feels like a knee jerk knock against Resistance before we have anything but the barest details. The SW animation team has two successful series under the belt, so we can extend them a bit of credit, you know?
 
Renewal said:
I mean, you're being a bit generous to the OT era, and dismissive to the ST? Like Yoda explicitly says Luke is the last of the old and the first of the new Jedi, which leaves no room for Kanan and Ezra.

Like yes, Resistance has a lot to deal with in terms of TLJ's baggage, but your first post just feels like a knee jerk knock against Resistance before we have anything but the barest details. The SW animation team has two successful series under the belt, so we can extend them a bit of credit, you know?
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IIRC while the bulk of the Resistance that's left ends up on the Falcon at the end of TLJ, Lucasfilm has said that there are scattered cells that weren't on Da'qar during the evacuation and are still out there. It's entirely possible for the characters introduced here to just be off doing their own thing and never got swept up in the battle over Starkiller Base/the subsequent evac to Crait.
 
I think people like Clone Wars due to the scale of the conflict. Neither the OT nor the ST conflicts feel as massive and overwhelming.
 
Ace Pilots taking the fight to the First Order. . . .seems like we're getting that Rogue/Wraith Squadron tv series we always wanted. At least in spirit anyways.
 
I still don't get why they're called "resistance" as they fight on the side of the established and dominant Galactic power.
 
On the one hand, I don't care about Rebellion 2: Electric Boogaloo.

On the other, "cast of ace pilots" sounds like my jam. And hey, maybe this thing will make me give a shit.
 
Admiral Skippy said:
The fun family-friendly show coming soon to Disney XD!

Star Wars Resistance: Barrier Troops
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STAR WARS: PHOENIX would be a legit title for a Rogue One style miniseries about Republican SOF dudes tooling round the Galactic periphery to work with local security forces in curbing THE FIRST ORDER

It works because of the reference to CORDS' bullshit in South Vietnam and because of the Alliance crest

Symbolism!

On topic, Filoni can perform when he works with the right people and I am tentatively interested in the visual presentation.

As such:
 
I wonder how they are going to reconcile the narrative of heroic victories with the simple fact that the First Order must ultimately win?

Because they will win. The FO is going to build up their gigantic fleet-from-nowhere, they'll build a galaxy-conquering armada of Star Destroyers even bigger than the Empire's (at least in individual size), and they'll nuke the New Republic with the Death Star Mk. 3 Electric Boogaloo. Oh, and the titular Resistence? It'll be crushed and cut down to the point it can all fit in a space van.

In light of that, going for the standard "HOO-RAH" tone of uplifting heroic victory would come across as astoundingly hollow. Better, surely, to go for something more like Rogue One in approach and tone - not about scoring triumphant victories, but about damage control. Desperately trying to whittle down the FO as much as they can, trying to inconvenience them and their plans for galactic dominance as much as possible, and generally trying to inflict as many paper cuts as they can while trying to get through to a New Republic that just doesn't care.

Instinct tells me that's not what they're going to do.
 
Mechasaurian said:
I wonder how they are going to reconcile the narrative of heroic victories with the simple fact that the First Order must ultimately win?

Because they will win. The FO is going to build up their gigantic fleet-from-nowhere, they'll build a galaxy-conquering armada of Star Destroyers even bigger than the Empire's (at least in individual size), and they'll nuke the New Republic with the Death Star Mk. 3 Electric Boogaloo. Oh, and the titular Resistence? It'll be crushed and cut down to the point it can all fit in a space van.

In light of that, going for the standard "HOO-RAH" tone of uplifting heroic victory would come across as astoundingly hollow. Better, surely, to go for something more like Rogue One in approach and tone - not about scoring triumphant victories, but about damage control. Desperately trying to whittle down the FO as much as they can, trying to inconvenience them and their plans for galactic dominance as much as possible, and generally trying to inflict as many paper cuts as they can while trying to get through to a New Republic that just doesn't care.

Instinct tells me that's not what they're going to do.
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The same way they reconciled TCW with the fact that Sidious wins, and the way they reconciled Rebels with the fact that their protagonists has no notable role in the Empire's downfall. Neither TCW nor Rebels shied away from the costs of the war their protagonists were fighting, and it's astoundingly cynical to me that you automatically assume the same team behind those two series will automatically go for a "hollow" uplifting victory.
 
Mechasaurian said:
I wonder how they are going to reconcile the narrative of heroic victories with the simple fact that the First Order must ultimately win?

Because they will win. The FO is going to build up their gigantic fleet-from-nowhere, they'll build a galaxy-conquering armada of Star Destroyers even bigger than the Empire's (at least in individual size), and they'll nuke the New Republic with the Death Star Mk. 3 Electric Boogaloo. Oh, and the titular Resistence? It'll be crushed and cut down to the point it can all fit in a space van.

In light of that, going for the standard "HOO-RAH" tone of uplifting heroic victory would come across as astoundingly hollow. Better, surely, to go for something more like Rogue One in approach and tone - not about scoring triumphant victories, but about damage control. Desperately trying to whittle down the FO as much as they can, trying to inconvenience them and their plans for galactic dominance as much as possible, and generally trying to inflict as many paper cuts as they can while trying to get through to a New Republic that just doesn't care.

Instinct tells me that's not what they're going to do.
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It kinda does feel like a retread of Clone Wars and even Rebels in that regard. In CW we know the Republic eventually falls, while in Rebels we know all the old Jedi must perish or otherwise dissapear. Still that didn't stop them.

In my opinion, Rebels would have been way batter about non-Jedi DURING the Galactic Civil War, preferably after the Battle of Yavin — we can get our modern galactic-scale conflict and even have Luke, Leia, and Han for a few episodes. Folowing from that same of thought, Resistance ought to be set AFTER the destruction of the Starkiller base, maybe even after TLJ and chronicling how Leia and Rey build the Resistance/New Republic back up from nothing.
 
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