New Star Wars Television Show Gets An Extended Trailer

Hera, one of the new characters on the show.

I absolutely loved Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and was super sad to see it go. The major reason the team behind that show called it quits was to start up the first major project between Lucasfilm and Disney: Star Wars: Rebels. This CGI animated TV show will start airing regularly on Disney XD shortly after an hour long special debuts on Disney Channel in October. Just before its presentation at Comic-Con this weekend, Disney has debuted an extended trailer you can watch below.

The whole thing looks OK as a whole, with pretty much every aspect of the program so far having some positive yin to a negative yang. The voice cast for instance contains talented folks like David Oyelowo, Jason Isaacs and Steve Blum, but the lead character is voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr. for some ungodly reason. I'm not sure why they departed from the animation style of The Clone Wars, which was consistently beautiful Season 2 onwards, but the stuff here looks tolerable, if a little too plastic-looking.

I'm sure the show will get better as it progresses, just like The Clone Wars, but I wish we had a little more to latch onto in terms of quality characters and actions at this point. At least it looks like Wookies will be around in some capacity!