[No spoilers, I hope, but I can’t speak for the comments.]
The kid and I watched the final six episodes of Star Wars Rebels last night, which were tremendously fine, lots of fun, wrapped up a ton of plot points, set up some new ones for a future David Filoni production, and revealed the secret behind the voice of Chopper.
All in all, good stuff.
The finale episode … Some Q&A: … Rebels Recon (with an interview of Filoni)
When Rebels started up (in the premature ashes of Clone Wars), I enjoyed it but was a bit disappointed for the narrower scope, the focus on the kid, the apparent Disneyfication of the tale. But even if that was an accurate description at the time, the saga grew substantially over the years into something really, really cool, pulling in elements from Clone Wars (and other bits of Star Wars lore) and making a something quite enjoyable.
I’ll miss it, but I’m glad it had an awesome wrap-up.
I really enjoyed the show. I had the same early problems as you, but as it went my problems diminished. I think it may have expanded canon a bit much and I can see Disney breaking the cartoons from the movie at some point.
+Roy Hembree Well, I can certainly see them caviling at letting something from a cartoon dictate how a multi-zillion dollar grossing movie is written … but they've also been pretty cool about accepting that continuity (esp. since the show's staff worked so closely with the Lucasfilm team), to the extent of Hera and Chopper getting shout-outs in Rogue One, and Captain Rex being all-but-locked in as that dude with the beard in Return of the Jedi, so I think the canon established will be treated as such.
They got Thrawn right! 🙂
+Scott Randel I just finished reading the new(ish) Thrawn novel by T. Zahn, and I must confess I continually "heard" him in Lars Mikkelsen's voice.