Via Decider.com:

Once upon a time, I was in head over heels in love with Star Wars, but then the prequel trilogy broke my heart. While some Star Wars fans staunchly defend George Lucas’s uneven and emotionally vacant prequels on the grounds that “it’s STAR WARS,” I’m savvy enough to know that fans deserve to be treated well by the stories they love. This isn’t to say that fans deserve all their fantasies to be catered to, but that fans deserve a quality product that doesn’t dilute the brand they’ve put so much time, love, and money into.
We still have to wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens on December 18 to discover if J.J. Abrams has successfully revived Star Wars as a film franchise, but it looks like Star Wars: Rebels has already resuscitated the series for the modern age.
Star Wars: Rebels is an animated series that takes place five years before the original Star Wars film, aka Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It doesn’t feature Luke Skywalker or Obi-Wan Kenobi, and we have yet to hear about a dashing smuggler named Han Solo or a certain spirited princess from Alderaan, but it does follow the motley crew that helped create the Rebellion. It’s a bridge between the two existing trilogies and the first new narrative that we’ve gotten since the Disney/Lucasfilm merger. And it’s gotten great.

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