figmentPez
Staff member
A lot of people seem to be so used to bad storytelling that they can't recognize good storytelling when they see it. They want to be told everything, even when they're being shown everything they need to know.Yeah. Ashoka's gonna get a lot of complaints that it's inaccessible because "you have to watch a bunch of stuff to understand why this is important." And those complaints will be wrong, because the show is perfectly accessible without all that history... all you need to know is Ezra is missing, his friends want to find him, and they want to stop Thrawn along the way because he's the greatest military thinker alive and was being held back by the Emperor.
A character could walk in, kick a puppy, hold a knife to a child's throat, and demand to know where the princess is, and some people would still ask "Who is this? Do we know who they are? Princess of what?" They're the villain. They are what their actions are showing them to be. Knowing their name and backstory tells us less than the fact that they kick puppies! We know they're the villain because they're doing evil things. They're looking for someone important to the plot, and we'll learn more about that person if you watch what you're being shown, instead of expecting to be told.
I'm 30 minutes into the first episode, and I haven't seen a damn thing that I need to have watched any Star Wars at all to have understood, let alone Rebels, specifically. Does it help that I know what Jedi are, and the Empire, Rebels, droids, and all that? Sure, but I don't need to know what a lightsaber is to know that it's a weapon that can cut through almost anything, when I've just seen it used to cut through stone like it's butter. This show is doing a great job of showing who characters are; by the way they act, and by the way others treat them.
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