STAR WARS Rebels new animated series!

[Mara Jade's Father]

Yeah it was a dumb construct to solve a story problem, it was silly but hardly the end of the world. And Jar Jar was perfectly fine IMO, my little brother loved him.

Someone on the staff must of just thought it would be cool. They could have just had them force jumping around or even jet packs. I did not see any real reason for them that could not have been done another way. I got to wonder if Dave will get questioned about this during celebration.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

I can't agree with that. I'd say they wanted to have the confrontation but still have stories for both the characters. Vader.. well obviously. But there must still be plans for Ashoka past the episode. The same way both Rey and Kylo survived their first meeting.

Obviously I have no insight to the plans of what is going to happen in this series but whether story resolution happens in this series or some other way, I will be happy as long as it happens in some sort of video form. Not a fan of stories continuing via, comic, novels, etc...

 

[Zombie_61]

So only one other person in this thread has a problem with the helicopter sabers? Really? That is more dumb than anything in the Prequels, Jar Jar included.

No, I had a problem with the helicopter sabers as well. They were dumb; Jar Jar is annoying.

 

[glunark]

I assumed there was some kind of repulsor in the saber, because if they were just using the force, there would have been no need for the broken one to fall.

Those little robots were flying, so is it that hard to believe they wouldn't build something similar to what keeps them up into their weapons?

Even my boy thought it was stupid though, but I didn't let it ruin the episode.

 

[karmajay]

Eh, the helicopter thing was silly but unlike the PT it was a small bit of silly in a show that has plenty of things right.

I really enjoy this show and am a bit sad it will have to end BUT between this show and CW I have all the confidence that Filoni and his team can pull off the next series as well!

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

The helo-sabers reminded me a lot of the GI Joe Atomicman figure I had as a kid in the 70's.

 

[Riceball]

I assumed there was some kind of repulsor in the saber, because if they were just using the force, there would have been no need for the broken one to fall.

Those little robots were flying, so is it that hard to believe they wouldn't build something similar to what keeps them up into their weapons?

Even my boy thought it was stupid though, but I didn't let it ruin the episode.

That might be something but if that were the case then why spin the sabers while in flight? My impression was that somehow the spinning blades of their sabers provided lift even though there's no way a pair of spinning blades could actually provide any lift.

It's entirely possible that the helo sabers were something they were essentially told to do to help sell toys. Can you just imagine an Inquisitor action figure, now with spinning helo saber action!

 

[cboath]

It'd have to be a massive repulsor to lift them what? 100 feet in the air? and be able to fly nimbly navigating around all the spires there - and long distances as well.

Repulsor's are what they used to float han in carbonite on Bespin. Sure didn't look enough to float a person around like that.

 

[glunark]

Repulsors are also what keeps snow speeders in the air, and they look nimble enough.

And small floating droids where enough to keep Anakin in the air, twice.

The only other alternative is that the blades have a second mode where they take a more aerodynamic shape, but with that, the occupant would spin in the opposite direction.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

How can blades made of laser or plasma or light do anything like that, even when spinning? It's not a physical object - it's light. The only physical part of the sabers are the handles. The helo-sabers are dumb as ****.

 

[Jaitea]

It was all daft,....Vader surfing?.....Dave's just playing in his toybox

J

 

[Riceball]

How can blades made of laser or plasma or light do anything like that, even when spinning? It's not a physical object - it's light. The only physical part of the sabers are the handles. The helo-sabers are dumb as ****.

I have to agree, being made of lasers of plasma there's no way the blades could possibly provide any lift no matter what shape they take.

 

[cboath]

Repulsors are also what keeps snow speeders in the air, and they look nimble enough.

And small floating droids where enough to keep Anakin in the air, twice.

The only other alternative is that the blades have a second mode where they take a more aerodynamic shape, but with that, the occupant would spin in the opposite direction.

I'd wager its not remotely the same repulsor on a speed that you find in a 1.5" X 11" long cylinder....Even if it has a big flat cylinder around it.

 

[joshvanrad]

I finally got around to watching this episode. As it turns out, Filoni learned a lot from GL... and that's unfortunate.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

How can blades made of laser or plasma or light do anything like that, even when spinning? It's not a physical object - it's light. The only physical part of the sabers are the handles. The helo-sabers are dumb as ****.

I have to agree, being made of lasers of plasma there's no way the blades could possibly provide any lift no matter what shape they take.

I think I need remind you all that Lightsabers are not real and because of that, we really do not know the properties of a lightsaber blade as it relates to the real world and our knowledge of science. We know that when Vader throws his lightsabers in Return of the Jedi that it spins on an axis not center on the hilt, but on the hilt and blade. We also know that the blade can hit and glance off objects. Whatever the blade is, it does not act as light as we know it. It has weight and mass at least from how we see the users wield them.

I really don't know how the lightsabers lift them. I'd like to think it is a combination of both the mechanisms and the ability to use the Force. The only thing I really know it that they work... because I saw them work.

All I can get from the database is...

The Eighth Brother often used his double-bladed, spinning lightsaber to propel himself through the air, making for sneak attacks and quick escapes. This method proved unwise, however, when he jumped off the edge of the Malachor Sith Temple with his damaged lightsaber, and fell to his death.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

No, it's not.

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Yeah it is. Tell me exactly how people flying with spinning lightsabers like a helicopter is better than having to watch an annoying character and some bad dialogue? At least the last two fit into the universe. I get it that some people don't like the Prequels, but just don't accept stupidity just because it's labeled "Star Wars" and Lucas is gone.

 

[Bryancd]

Yeah it is. Tell me exactly how people flying with spinning lightsabers like a helicopter is better than having to watch an annoying character and some bad dialogue? At least the last two fit into the universe. I get it that some people don't like the Prequels, but just don't accept stupidity just because it's labeled "Star Wars" and Lucas is gone.

I like the prequels very much.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

The first movie in an actual theater my daughter saw was The Phantom Menace. We saw it a few months after it was released at the base theater in late 1999. She was had just turned (or about to have turned) two years old but I had been running the OT in her room on her TV saw she had a base knowledge of Star Wars and recognized characters. She immediately took to Jar Jar. She is now 18 years old and still loves Jar Jar.

Basically, anything in Star Wars that makes my kids like Star Wars is okay with me.

 

[darth_myeek]

Fixed length laser swords, noise in space and every planet breathable.. even treeless lava ones. The genre is called Space-Fantasy. A writer's get out of jail free card probably, but something which stays true to 30's/40's Flash Gordon serial solutions.

 

[karmajay]

Yeah, again, I can understand if people did not like the helosabers but everything else about the episode was pretty flawless.