It was like a constant porno.
It would have been really good if it wasn't a Disney show starring a kid.
I mean, shows starring kids don't have to be bad?
Damn you
@Mississippi Motorboater. Damn you to hell you fucking sonofabitch!
Damn you for making me ever have to do anything positive for Dave Filoni and damn this website fucking up...
What would be an example of a strong individual episode of Rebels, might I ask? Because that "overall it's not good, but it has some isolated highlights" is the exact same feeble defense bandied about to excuse the laughable ratio of good to bad episodes for TCW.
I mean, right off the bat your lumping me in with Clone Warz people.
Even wlight of the Apprentice, which everyone hails as the greatest episode of the show, is riddled with garbage, like the worst use of the helicopter lightsabers, the jobbing of Vader, Maul literally losing to a blind man and tripping off a cliff like a Looney Tunes character, among countless other things.
Sigh. Literal, internet, sigh.
For starters and people who didn't suffer through Rebels. Twilight of the Apprentice is from Season 2. It is an excuse to shove Darth Maul and Vader into a story they don't belong. No, I'm not using Twilight of the apprentice; I'm on record thinking the inquisitors are fucking gay and that Darth Vader should be forever out of Dave's reach.
Let's do this....
Season 1 is largely bland garbage. The best of the worst would be Eps 9, where without cameos or relying on others work, he largely tells a cohesive story of a flawed young man and his mentor. It's mostly bleh.
The first season arrogantly started with fewer cameos and relied on Filoni's own work. Then they poured them in the last half; a Billy Dee episode; a Yoda episode; and then Tarkin fills in as the actual bad guy for the last three/four eps with Asohka and Vader thrown in the last ep along with Bail Organa. I believe this was due to faltering ratings as it was the Clone Wars without George.
Season 2 continued this, bringing in Darth Vader for the first two episodes, then the stupid Filoni clones star in the next two episodes where the FUCKING BRAIN CHIPS THAT I FUCKING HATE become a major plot point exculpating all the clones for Order 66. From there Hondo guests in the next ep, so we have one fucking episode out of the first half of the season that isn't God Damned Filoni Warz wank and member berries. But hey, gotta boost rating. Episode Seven steals Admiral Ackbar's B-wing and makes it a ridiculous superweapon. They literally make Ep 10 to wank to Asohka. Oh and they rip off Force Unleashed in Ep 12. It's a fairly miserable slog through the second half with The Honorable Ones being probably the one memorable episode for taking the one dimensional Kallus and making him a human being. It all ends with Apprentice Twilight. I, don't have much nice to say. Darth Maul and Darth Vader. You've taken these two, who never should have been in the same place. You don't even have them fight. Instead, you have Maul get sidelined like a bitch after being a Chatty Cathy and Vader gets forced into a cameo. Again. The only redeeming thing I remember is everyone assumed that Dave had....
finally killed Asohka.
I have, extremely mixed feelings on what Fagloni did to the EU characters he pilfered. The Antilles extraction is loathsome; single handedly ruining Rogue Squadron to build up Sabine. Unnecessarily, I might add, considering Dave would later go to great lengths to turn her into a Mary Sue. Despite that, Hera's heroes is the first episode I would call solid. It manages to provide a background for Hera, establish Thrawn as a menace without undermining other characters, and contextualizes the cast. An Inside Man is a shocking solid episode. It has tension, menace, and plot with it being arguable if the Rebels so much win as survive. Considering, if pressed, prior to this season I would maybe have praised two or three episodes as 'good'; that's two solid eps and the in-between weren't completely vile. Then we have Ep 11. It's...not good. Ep 12 and 13 are a part of what makes Fagloni such a loathsome parasite. Dave created a little 2 d character in Filoni Warz called Saw. Saw's sole characteristic other than proud and angry is he loves his sister, who dies. Saw then got inserted into Rogue One, which is filled with references to Fagloni characters. The Episode is largely blah with a side of blah. Trials of the Darksaber is where Sabine's journey to Rey/Asohka status is complete, they all pledge lolyalty to her as the bestest evah! Like a bipolar clown, the show then delivers the solid, through Imperial Eyes. Then it goes to hell. Fagloni has slowly been inserting Thrawn and Maul here and there to build up
to two big reckonings. For Maul, it's the lasting indignity of being dismissed and cut down by Kenobi in five seconds of probably the most anti-climactic fight in Star Wars history. For Thrawn, after literally being shown to be ruthless and not tolerate failure, he allows the Admiral who failed to command the centerpiece of his strategy; which conveniently allows Fagloni's OC's to escape.
Why I said season three is the best he's done is because of this. Because, throughout it, he lays the seeds of an actual story with consequences. He has moments where his characters
actually lose. There are more genuinely enjoyable episodes in Season 3 than in the rest of the show combined. But all of that DOES NOT MATTER! Because he fumbled the execution at every turn. Because his feminist, libfilm, and ego driven agendas prevent him from making good, story crushing decisions.
But, unlike Mando Season 1 and 2, where you can literally just watch the first and last couple of eps and be good, or Filoni Wars that got worse as the series progressed; Rebels Season 3 actually showed some effort to build something. It failed, but I would point to it as his creative high in terms of what he's actually, solely responsible for. No Favreau, No George.