Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-1635895-20130520222934/@comment-1895174-20140104204359

Thailog wrote: How much are we supposed to care and root for characters that we know are going to die/disappear/become evil? I mean, really? We're supposed to care for the clones? The ones that later are basically depicted as mindless, one-dimensional drones? That was always a problem with it. Structurally, it was always supposed to be filler material, but had no idea how to be filler material. Look no further than Ahsoka - a character who's supposed to be really important to Anakin and Obi-Wan's characters and the Star Wars universe as a whole, but is never even as much as mentioned again. You would think a Jedi trained by Darth Vader himself is something that would be brought up at some point.

On top of this, as someone who is an avid Star Wars fan, I could never stand the way the show treated the rest of the expanded universe. Characters like Asajj or Darth Maul who were previously given complete character arcs are now left hanging. Others were really poorly represented, like Grievous, a once highly-dangerous Jedi killer who the show reduced to a joke who's lost to Jar Jar. And then there's the rest that just contradicts what's already happened. Like Adi Gallia being turned into a redshirt, or Barriss into a Dark Jedi. What? The only people who would care to see what became of Adi Gallia in the Clone Wars are the people who already know Grievous killed her years ago. The show treated the established canon with such rampant disregard it became hard to care about any of what happened on it. Who's to say some other cartoon won't come around and erase its events from the canon?

And that's where I have a lot of faith in this new show. Greg's work on YJ and Spectacular Spider-Man made use of some of the most obscure parts of the properties they were based on. So rather than throwing the past 35 years of Star Wars stories to the wind like The Clone Wars did, here's to hoping Rebels will take inspiration from them. The good and hard-working editors at Wookieepedia would love him for it, too.