Ah, I was actually really happy when they added Palpatine because he's one of my favorite characters, I just also thought it was a cheap trick because I could just somehow hear the corporate board meeting going 'well, here's the chart of our prospective profits if we bring in yet another major franchise character and as you can see the line is going *up*'. I wasn't really bothered by it making the galaxy seem smaller since they'd already introduced a whole score of major and minor characters from the movies, The Clone Wars, and even the EU (Vader, Maul, Ahsoka, Rex, Thrawn, Leia, Obi-Wan, Lando, Wolffe, Gregor, Hondo...). I definitely loved how they dealt with the finale, though. I also realized that they'd foreshadowed that there was something really important on Lothal way back in season 2 when I found out I missed the first two eps for that season and finally watched them.
I can't say I was able to actually enjoy the Kallus redemption arc. I never really warmed up to his character and while I don't remember the specifics, I do know that part of my dislike was the manner in which they chose to pull that arc off and it wasn't just completely based on my lack of interest in him.
I actually felt Thrawn was another opportunity where they could have had Sabine play a more integral role than she ultimately did. She's an artist and Thrawn's big thing is art, after all. But oh, well. And yeah, he's definitely more one-dimensional in the cartoon than in Zahn's books. Also, Pryce is much more interesting in the Zahn novel she appears in than in Rebels. I don't really feel she did a whole lot in Rebels. Also, I'm curious what you would have liked to have seen regarding Thrawn and Ezra?
As for Maul: I've seen all of The Clone Wars and that is some wild stuff, let me tell you! They do reference that a number of times, so my issue with it isn't so much that it can't be seen as an extension of The Clone Wars plot, just that his entire plotline seemed a lot more superflous than I thought it should have been. I felt there should have been more of the Sith holocron, and more time with Maul and Ezra, and also more should have been done with the fact that Sabine is a Mandalorian and Maul became a Mandolorian at one point during The Clone Wars. I thought the ending that Maul got was overly abrupt and I don't buy that Maul learned so little about fighting since the last time Obi-Wan and him fought that he couldn't even manage to last more than a few seconds against him when he has always been a much tougher foe than that, both against Obi-Wan and against other opponents. I also find it very derivative since I think he died on Tatooine going after Obi-Wan like twice in the old EU. Like, I'm not surprised they went that route, but it's just very uninteresting to me. And they didn't even make Obi-Wan work for it. I was really excited to see Maul in Rebels, but I just felt really let down by how his arc was executed, especially when compared to what some of the other characters from the movies and The Clone Wars got.
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Date: 2019-06-04 10:18 am (UTC)I can't say I was able to actually enjoy the Kallus redemption arc. I never really warmed up to his character and while I don't remember the specifics, I do know that part of my dislike was the manner in which they chose to pull that arc off and it wasn't just completely based on my lack of interest in him.
I actually felt Thrawn was another opportunity where they could have had Sabine play a more integral role than she ultimately did. She's an artist and Thrawn's big thing is art, after all. But oh, well. And yeah, he's definitely more one-dimensional in the cartoon than in Zahn's books. Also, Pryce is much more interesting in the Zahn novel she appears in than in Rebels. I don't really feel she did a whole lot in Rebels. Also, I'm curious what you would have liked to have seen regarding Thrawn and Ezra?
As for Maul: I've seen all of The Clone Wars and that is some wild stuff, let me tell you! They do reference that a number of times, so my issue with it isn't so much that it can't be seen as an extension of The Clone Wars plot, just that his entire plotline seemed a lot more superflous than I thought it should have been. I felt there should have been more of the Sith holocron, and more time with Maul and Ezra, and also more should have been done with the fact that Sabine is a Mandalorian and Maul became a Mandolorian at one point during The Clone Wars. I thought the ending that Maul got was overly abrupt and I don't buy that Maul learned so little about fighting since the last time Obi-Wan and him fought that he couldn't even manage to last more than a few seconds against him when he has always been a much tougher foe than that, both against Obi-Wan and against other opponents. I also find it very derivative since I think he died on Tatooine going after Obi-Wan like twice in the old EU. Like, I'm not surprised they went that route, but it's just very uninteresting to me. And they didn't even make Obi-Wan work for it. I was really excited to see Maul in Rebels, but I just felt really let down by how his arc was executed, especially when compared to what some of the other characters from the movies and The Clone Wars got.