![]() ![]() Luckily, this is not the world we live in. There is a world where the Adventure Time creative team is content with rehashing its brand of surreal, candy-infused tomfoolery ad nauseam. And though The Force Awakens will ultimately take the lion’s share of the attention this year, Rebels goes a long way to highlight all the fantastic stories that the Star Wars universe still has to offer.- Mark Rozeman While always ready to harken back to the original trilogy via well-placed music cues and returning characters/voices (C-3PO, Yoda and Lando all make appearances-amongst others), the show also strikes out on its own, crafting worlds and characters that build on what came before it, as well as canonizing a branch of kickass new villains called the Inquisitors. Essentially illustrating the birth of the Rebel Alliance, the series is a textbook example of a prequel done right. The ship’s motley crew turns out to be subversives fighting against the tyrannical Empire in their own small ways. Set five years before the events of A New Hope, the series centers on an orphaned boy named Ezra who, due to a well-timed interference, ends up hopping aboard a freighter called The Ghost. What could easily have been a shameless cash grab, however, has become-in the hands of the proper creatives-a rollicking space adventure that beautifully captures both the fun and awe inherent to the Star Wars experience. And so, they wisely culled from the talent pool of the Clone Wars animated series to make Star Wars Rebels. Inevitably, a year prior to its release, the franchise’s new corporate overlord found it prudent to expand its newly-purchased universe beyond the cinema and into serialized animation. Stars: Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall, Freddie Prinze Jr.ĭon’t know if anyone noticed, but a new Star Wars film got released into theaters this year. ![]() Creators: Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Dave Filoni ![]()
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