The characters look fine but it’s really a visual style designed for ships, which are a key part of show. The same thing occurred with Rebels: I disliked it until I loved it. I remember this being a drawback when I first tried to watch Resistance and the visuals remain a common criticism of the series, but a few episodes in I started to really love the style. In the shadow of old legends, a new generation has to rise and take matters into their own hands.Īs with each new show, besides The Bad Batch that continued the visual design of The Clone Wars, it takes a while to get used to the animation art style. The show is very much a generational tale with the young characters new to the fight stewarded by the old guard, the station run by a former imperial and a former rebel.
#STAR WARS RESISTANCE SERIES#
It’s not just plot that flows from the films into the series but themes too. I always found it disappointing that The Rise of Skywalker glossed over this, beginning a year later with a larger Resistance force than when we last saw them, but now that story exists within Resistance. The Millennium Falcon is simply swapped out for the Colossus. It may not feature the same characters, other than occasional cameos, but the show explores how a small band of Resistance members on a single ship/station struggle to survive and, eventually, thrive. Season 1 of Resistance is the contextual prequel to The Force Awakens, offering backstory and further information that improves the film, much like The Clone Wars does with the prequel trilogy, and season 2 is the proxy sequel to The Last Jedi. They even persuade Tam, a supporting character, to join their ranks and their argument is surprisingly strong. The First Order come across as a much smarter political force, as well as military, when we’re granted insight into the machinations that they use to gain territory in peace time, keeping their numbers hidden and using pirates to do their dirty work. The political stances of both factions are understood, as well as the arrogance of the New Republic. I read the novels and stay on top of canon but even so, watching The Force Awakens for the first time left me confused at the state of the galaxy at this time, the film so terrified of the political backlash of the prequels that it just ignored that aspect. The show catches up with The Force Awakens by the end of the first season of its two-season run, but before that happens the series actually offers what feels like vital context for the conflict. This may mean less action, certainly on a large scale, but curiously for a kids’ show there is more political intrigue. Star Wars: Resistance is the first canon animated series not to begin at a time of open warfare or rebellion. And even the show knows Kaz can get tiresome running around and falling over constantly so every few episodes it places him back in the cockpit of his fighter or racer to give us a glimpse at how capable he is at a pilot. It’s the journey of a clumsy idiot taking responsibility and becoming a leader. Kaz grows over the course of the series and however irritating he may be at the start, there comes a definite point where you start to root for him. Early in the series he tested my patience but that Jar Jar Binks-esque persona is very much his starting position. Protagonist Kazuda Xiono is a clumsy goofball, there’s no two ways about it. As an adult watching the show there’s a level of apparent humour that you have to push through cut down the layers of slapstick to get to the good drama underneath. Resistance is certainly the silliest and most kid friendly Star Wars series. But I could only stay away for so long, the show beckoning to be watched every time I saw the icon on Disney+, so I gave it another go fully expecting to suffer through it. Star Wars can have a show for younger kids that isn’t for me, that’s fine. I gave up on the series because of this, finding the pilot far too goofy and childish to enjoy, but I didn’t review bomb it like some other, stupidly angry fans online. Set on the Colossus, a giant refuelling station in the Outer Rim, the series charts the rise of the First Order and a small band of Resistance fighters who, well, resist. After loving The Clone Wars and Rebels, I was eager to check out the next animated Star Wars adventure but I stopped watching after the first episode. I dismissed Star Wars: Resistance when it first aired.
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