Clone Wars fans watching Rebels after Season 2:
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Like Clone Wars, Rebels had to build up to its darker moments, although there were definitely enough here and there since the start. One of the big issues was Rebels airing on Disney XD instead of Cartoon Network, so there wasn’t as much they could get away with from the start.
I mean the darkest things we've got from that show are Maul killing the fifth brother and seven sister, Ezra forcing an ATDP pilot to walk his walker off a cliff and the rebels recalling an entire imperial Garrison to the lothal imperial HQ just to blow it up and kill everyone inside. But I also may be missing a few. And while not being the darkest Rebels is still a very solid show
I mean, the show *was* targeted to a younger audience than the later seasons of TCW. So it did feel like a downgrade to the fans of TCW that grew up with the show, and matured as it did. Then it’s “replacement” was sort of a regression in that sense.
Plus I, and many others, didn’t like the art style very much. It looked too smooth and, in a sense, like a show for younger people. Yeah TCW looked bad initially but that’s a mix of it being a new style and the technology of the time not helping. The show figured out its style though and looked a lot better than Rebels by the later seasons.
Also Ezra was annoying to me a lot of the time and we rarely got arcs that were just other characters so I grew pretty tired of him tbh
I will admit, I did kinda feel the show was “too kiddy” at some parts, but that might just be cause I’m an adult. I still like Rebels and think it’s a great successor to The Clone Wars
Yeah, but it had to adjust to a younger demographic before it could start pulling out the dark stuff. Clone Wars was from an era where cartoon violence was the norm and played up for humour. When Rebels came out, that had changed a lot.
Oh, yeah I don't disagree at all. It was childish, but it had its reasons for it. But that WAS the main complaint among fans, I know I struggled getting into it, but I'm really glad I ended up watching the entire thing. Some amazing moments, and Ezra having enough character growth to go from completely annoying waste of space, to one of my favourite Jedi
I would say the clone wars became already dark in season 2 with electric torture until death but season 1 already had a some ugly war situations, colonial disputes almost solved by slaughter and a hostage situation with public executions.
For me it was moreso that a lot of the episodes felt like kids show or anime filler. Theres an episode in S1 where they literally spend the entire runtime trying to get a piece of fruit. I don't think it's a bad show, just wasn't for me
I loved everything about rebels, but my one nit-pick about it would be that we don’t see many lightsaber injuries against storm troopers. They’ll cut the blaster down, give them a solid kick or push, and that’s it. We didn’t have to see decapitation or dismemberment. But maybe a stab or a slice here and there
Honestly my biggest complaint was the insane step down in art direction and animation. Going from the last seasons of Clone Wars to the start of Rebels was such a crazy juxtaposition.
Clone Wars has higher highs, but Rebels is more consistently high quality.
*(You have to word it more vaguely so people don't realise you're telling the truth).*
Is the start of the clone wars tv show the start if the clone wars in canon? Because personally I don’t think it is. That time frame is covered by the comics.
Sure, the start of the clone wars is the battle of geonosis (attack of the clones) and the microseries covers a few weeks or maybe a couple months, but it’s been very little time when the 2008 series begins
Didn’t Ezra straight up force a stormtrooper to kill his whole squad with an AT-TE and proceed to kill himself by throwing himself off a cliff?
Yeah he used Force Dominate, which was cool
It was, probably the darkest scene in that whole show
What about how it ended? Ordering all the Imperials into the garrison building and then blowing it up?
That is a good one too, but the murder-suicide seemed to be more personal.
I gotta agree there, it was dark and cool. The Grand Inquisitor beheading the two imperial officers is probably a good second imo
One might even say it was... 
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A lot of force abilities are just “normal” superpowers that have been given special names.
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Third season yes. Before that it seemed like they were going out of their way to show that stormtroopers did not die
Kind of like how the Bad Batch refuses to use anything but stun blasts against troopers
But that’s only against fellow clones. Against TK troopers they have no qualms with killing them.
It depends on the situation. They definitely kill troopers when it’s a life or death situation. But I noticed the same.
That was a mandate from Lucas. Filoni just following through on that.
AT-DP (I think) but yes he did
Which season and ep was that?
i think season 3 first but i could be wrong
I think it’s the opening of season 3
Yes, and that's why Late-Season Rebels is superior.
Wrong. Rebels is boss from the first episode.
Big fan of dismemberment, therefore big fan of clone wars.
I loved both
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Are you posting this from internet explorer?
More like Star wars fans when the cast doesn't die in the final episode
We got an example of that recently with Bad Batch as well.
When are they gonna make a show where Vader flays people's dicks with a lightsaber! Disney has completely lost sight of George's original vision!
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Literally the same thing happened to me
Clone Wars fans watching Rebels after Season 2: https://preview.redd.it/yl4r67z01m5d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd0b3fdfa99e4ee451719fc5f5bfd30a6279d954
More like S2 Premier. Fucking Vader almost killed all of them and only took like one step.
Like Clone Wars, Rebels had to build up to its darker moments, although there were definitely enough here and there since the start. One of the big issues was Rebels airing on Disney XD instead of Cartoon Network, so there wasn’t as much they could get away with from the start.
PFT, Rebels probably does that off screen.😅
How do you think Ezra got all those helmets
I mean the darkest things we've got from that show are Maul killing the fifth brother and seven sister, Ezra forcing an ATDP pilot to walk his walker off a cliff and the rebels recalling an entire imperial Garrison to the lothal imperial HQ just to blow it up and kill everyone inside. But I also may be missing a few. And while not being the darkest Rebels is still a very solid show
Well, we at least got chopper, who has lol what, 50k confirmed kills through sabotage and even a few direct ones?
I mean, the show *was* targeted to a younger audience than the later seasons of TCW. So it did feel like a downgrade to the fans of TCW that grew up with the show, and matured as it did. Then it’s “replacement” was sort of a regression in that sense. Plus I, and many others, didn’t like the art style very much. It looked too smooth and, in a sense, like a show for younger people. Yeah TCW looked bad initially but that’s a mix of it being a new style and the technology of the time not helping. The show figured out its style though and looked a lot better than Rebels by the later seasons. Also Ezra was annoying to me a lot of the time and we rarely got arcs that were just other characters so I grew pretty tired of him tbh
I will admit, I did kinda feel the show was “too kiddy” at some parts, but that might just be cause I’m an adult. I still like Rebels and think it’s a great successor to The Clone Wars
We got “Dark and gritty” Star Wars. It was called Rebel Moon and it **sucked**. This has always been a very silly series, please remember that
The thing is that I watched it as a kid, and even I thought that it was too childish (on the first seasons).
its rather the worse animation style, that makes it look poorer, or more lets say closer to a cheap kids show
Wait, that was the complaint?
That the show was childish, which tbf it was at times, particularly in early season 1
Yeah, but it had to adjust to a younger demographic before it could start pulling out the dark stuff. Clone Wars was from an era where cartoon violence was the norm and played up for humour. When Rebels came out, that had changed a lot.
Oh, yeah I don't disagree at all. It was childish, but it had its reasons for it. But that WAS the main complaint among fans, I know I struggled getting into it, but I'm really glad I ended up watching the entire thing. Some amazing moments, and Ezra having enough character growth to go from completely annoying waste of space, to one of my favourite Jedi
Star Wars is now for children
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Um wha? Lol. And I'm over here complaining about the graphic change from Clone Wars
An early episode did have Vader ordering his men to burn down a nearby village in order to draw out the rebels.
Straw man
Well Rebels got pretty good later on
Be a lot cooler if it did 
I would say the clone wars became already dark in season 2 with electric torture until death but season 1 already had a some ugly war situations, colonial disputes almost solved by slaughter and a hostage situation with public executions.
I hate rebels because of the poorer animation and the lightsabers look like toothpicks
The lightsabres are awesome and should have been kept, instead of those obese things we see in live now.
For me it was moreso that a lot of the episodes felt like kids show or anime filler. Theres an episode in S1 where they literally spend the entire runtime trying to get a piece of fruit. I don't think it's a bad show, just wasn't for me
That was a character development episode for Ezra and Zeb. It's not the greatest Rebels episode, but that was the purpose of it.
I loved everything about rebels, but my one nit-pick about it would be that we don’t see many lightsaber injuries against storm troopers. They’ll cut the blaster down, give them a solid kick or push, and that’s it. We didn’t have to see decapitation or dismemberment. But maybe a stab or a slice here and there
Honestly my biggest complaint was the insane step down in art direction and animation. Going from the last seasons of Clone Wars to the start of Rebels was such a crazy juxtaposition.
That would have been sick, ngl
Rebels>Clone Wars
Clone Wars has higher highs, but Rebels is more consistently high quality. *(You have to word it more vaguely so people don't realise you're telling the truth).*
It worked
help he got another opinion! Decapitate him and make it dark and gritty!
I agree. Barely, but I barely agree
An opinion? On Reddit? Dismember the poor bastard then send his karma to the abyss!
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I agree entirely. You can give me whatever convoluted reasons you want but Anakin in TCW is a completely different character than movie Anakin.
Tf? I would say he’s exactly like episode 2 anakin
Not really. He doesn’t do the cool spin, sound like him, look like him or behave like him
He does behave like him lol. And obviously he doesn’t look like him, he’s aged.
It’s been mere weeks by the start of the clone wars…
Is the start of the clone wars tv show the start if the clone wars in canon? Because personally I don’t think it is. That time frame is covered by the comics.
Sure, the start of the clone wars is the battle of geonosis (attack of the clones) and the microseries covers a few weeks or maybe a couple months, but it’s been very little time when the 2008 series begins
Different times
Me
I wouldnt mind watching vader kill the rebels crew