SWCO starts today, so as not every piece of news will likely be worthy it's own topic, I thought I'd do a general one.

 

While it hasn't started yet, we already have the first piece of news: Forces of Destiny.

 

Those are 16 canon animated shorts, 8 coming out during this summer and the next 8 during fall, focusing on Star Wars' female characters. Maz Kanata will narrate every short, and yes, Lupita will be doing her voice.

 

Daisy Ridley is giving voice to Rey, John Boyega to Finn, Vanessa Marshall to Hera, Ashley Ackstein to Ahsoka, Felicity Jones to Jyn, Catherine Taber to Padmé, Tiya Sircar to Sabine and Matt Lanter to Anakin Skywalker. I believe those are all the announced VAs so far?

 

I am excited about this one, tbh. I am always up for animation, and that's across all eras of SW. And Hera is gonna meet Han Solo!!

Edited April 14, 20178 yr by palizinhas

Forces of Destiny sounds interesting, but not really exciting. I'm dying to know more about Battlefront 2 and expecting some footage of TLJ to be shown.

The 40 years of SW panel was one of the most emotional things I watched in my life. I was close to crying in the opening video, and then the memorial to Carrie in the end just pushed me over the edge, especially when John Williams came on to play her theme.

 

Some of the best quotes were George Lucas' "I wasn't supposed to say this, and I'm not supposed to say this. But Star Wars is a movie for 12 year olds." and Dave Filoni's "Don't make decisions based of fear". Liam Neeson and Samuel L Jackson's messages were hilarious. And I'm so glad Hayden got the cheering he did when he got on stage, it is his first Celebration in 15 years after all.

 

And Harrison Ford!!! Can't believe all it took to make him like SW was to kill Han.

 

No announcements there, but I wasn't expecting there to be one. Just a really beautiful tribute to an amazing franchise.

 

Next up is Dave and Pablo on animation, I believe. Here's to hoping for more information on the untold stories of The Clone Wars.

 

 

For the animation panel, Dave confirmed we'll find out Ahsoka's fate in s4 of Rebels, Wolffe and Gregor will return. They showed an unfinished TCW clip that's part of an arc where Cad Bane mentors Boba Fett. All in all a pretty great panel, though there were issues with the stream.

Edited April 13, 20178 yr by palizinhas

. And Hera is gonna meet Han Solo!!

Oh, $&*!  This is gonna be good!  I'm not gonna lie, I think the greatest moment in all of Star Wars is when Hera punched Lando in Rebels, so I'm kinda excited for this.

Edited April 13, 20178 yr by VisitJoan

Someone made a topic for the trailer, so I'll just give the deeds on some fun tidbits from the panel itself.

 

- Kelly Marie Tran's character is named Rose, and she's a Resistance technician that accidentally gets wrapped up on an adventure with Finn. They played Across the Stars when she walked into the panel, so I wonder if she's Finn's love interest or something along these lines

 

- Daisy says that part of Rey's conflict comes from meeting Luke. Because she has certain expectations of him, but sometimes meeting your heroes doesn't quite end up like one would expect. I imagine Luke's final line in the trailer may play into that.

 

- From what Hamill says, the big parts of Luke's story between RotJ and TFA are still left untold, and will probably be covered in other media after the movie comes out

 

- According to John, Finn needs to decide for once and for all if what he wants is to help the Resistance, or just run from the First Order. Which makes sense, he only goes back for Rey, and Rey's with Luke at the moment.

 

- BB-8 has a lot of comedic presence in this movie, just like he had on TFA.

 

For less important to the movie stuff, Hamill joked about having no lines in TFA, saying that when he first read the script he thought he'd come in in the third act, so when the Skywalker saber moved in the snow he thought "this is it. It's me" and then it flew.... To Rey. He seems to have bonded with Rian Johnson because both were scared of messing up the movie.

 

Kelly had to keep her part a secret for four months, so she convinced her family she was doing an indie movie in Canada. When she went home she bought maple syrup so her family would believe she was actually in Canada.

 

There's also some fun stuff with Carrie as Leia, apparently. I'll discuss trailer tidbits in the trailer thread.

 

Next up for me is the Heroines of SW panel, I'm still too high over the trailer to set down for the Rogue One panel.

 

 

Heroines of SW didn't have much new stuff - it was about representation and stuff more than anything - but it was really fun. Ahsoka doll confirmed (she and Padmé were the leads left out of the first dolls announcement, now only Padmé left unconfirmed), and the dolls look way less creepy in person. There will be a short with s2 Sabine/Leia team up in Forces of Destiny.

 

Tiya Sircar played Greek Goddesses with her sisters when she was a kid and they all fought to play Athena. She also got really excited over Sabine doll, because there were no dolls that looked like her when she young.

 

Dave Filoni's advice for men writing female characters: "shut up and listen to women". I'm pretty sure it was already a known fact and I kinda figured, but when George Lucas came up with the idea of Anakin having a Pawadan, Dave was the one who suggested a girl.

 

Daisy Ridley came up on stage briefly to talk voicing Rey for Forces of Destiny, she said it was different and exciting even though she hated the sound of her own voice.

 

Ahsoka doll comes with a cat, for some likely short related reason. Sabine's comes with the helmet, as expected (all her figures do).

 

Tomorrow's Rebels, so I'll probably be excited about it even more than today.

 

It wasn't streamed, but two comics (Phasma miniseries and Star Wars Adventures) were announced, as well as three books (Phasma, The Legends of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia of Alderaan).

 

Really excited about the last book in particular. More Alderaan material is always welcome.

Edited April 15, 20178 yr by palizinhas