TM2YC said:
Call me a prequel-hating-luddite if you will (With some good reason :-D) but Rebels S2 is kinda ruined for me, now it's been smeared all over with prequel sh*t, that was mostly absent from S1.
I'm only interested in the crew/family of the Ghost, I liked those guys. I didn't watch Clone Wars, so I couldn't give a rats a*s about Ashoka, and am irritated when she (and the Clone troopers) take screentime away from the Ghost characters I've grown to love.
Okay, so, I didn't watch
The Clone Wars, but I just ran through the first two seasons of
Rebels. And I stand by my preference for the animation style of
TCW - I just prefer the sharper, more angular character looks than the mushy curves of
Rebels. (Also, I gather that Lucas poured a whole lot of personal dough into
TCW, giving it far greater detail and a much more epic scope.) That said, while the first season was acceptable youngling entertainment overall, I didn't get much into the characters - they're all pretty bland and kiddie-fied, so the heavy PT influence on season two (which the above post had prepare me for) didn't bother me all
that much.
What
was disappointing was that, instead of getting into the nitty-gritty of building the Rebellion, preferably with Leia and Mon Mothma in regular roles, season two instead almost entirely relied on small side missions that nominally furthered the cause, but mostly just rehashed paint-by-numbers plots from season one. And I know this is
Star Wars, but must
every single episode feature multiple battles? Every
Star Trek series balanced episodes with space and phaser battles with ones that didn't, to their benefit. With a whole galaxy to play with, do we really need blasters, TIE fighters and lightsabers in
every damn outing?