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To: Blood of Tyrants

It’s the sequal series to Rebels.
Its fine.


2 posted on 11/14/2020 6:12:50 PM PST by securityman
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To: securityman

Eh, I wasn’t fond of Rebels, as the show had the characters engaging in stuff that just wasn’t right, such as slaughtering a civilian mining company. Plus, I really don’t think depicting the Empire as a bunch of bumblers for the most part made the heroes actually look impressive at all. At least in the original movies, the Empire DID come across as genuinely threatening, which made the heroes exploits all the more impressive. It kind of cheapens things if the heroes constantly win against the villains, and not even by narrow margins, but because the villains with the exception of Thrawn, Palpatine, and Vader are depicted as grade A morons. There needs to be a bit of a balance to it.

Besides, if the Empire was as grossly incompetent as in Rebels, how the heck did they even last over a decade. Not even France under Robespierre lasted THAT long, barely managing to last four years.

Granted, I might have a bit of an Imperial bias especially after some tasteless revelations by Lucas regarding their inspirations, but even if I were still firmly on the side of the Rebels, I wouldn’t have been fond of the series due to seeing them as mary sue characters.


57 posted on 01/26/2021 3:42:35 AM PST by otness_e
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