Top 6 Worst Things About Star Wars Rebels So Far

3. Voice Actors

CALM DOWN! Hold your horses! I’m not saying that ALL the voice actors are bad. Steve Blum is fantastic as usual. David Oyelowo and Jason Isaacs are great villains even though Isaacs might as well walk around with a t-shirt saying “I’m always the villain!” on it. My problem is with… the others. And to be honest, they’re not the WORST. Just… I mean, is that it?

Taylor Gray is kind of annoying as Ezra, but I chalk that up to the character more than him. Vanessa Marshall, who plays Hera, seems kind of uninteresting, but again that’s more the material she’s given. Then there’s Tiya Sircar. I’m not saying she’s bad… but she was kinda miscast. She makes Sabine seem too nice. Too vanilla. When I first saw the designs for the character I thought of a voice like Eliza Dushku‘s or maybe Grey Delise‘s. Someone tough and spunky. Sort of Veronica Mars in space. Tiya’s is too… nice! She’s too nice! And then there’s Freddie Prinze Jr. Okay, so he was in Mass Effect 3. And he was great. But he’s not now. I’m listening to him trying to be a stern Jedi knight and I just don’t buy it! Sometimes it works but most of the time I’m just… I’m very aware that I’m listening to Freddie Prinze Jnr. I wasn’t in Mass Effect, but I am now.

2. These Aren’t The Rebels You’re Looking For

Yeah, when they said the show was called Star Wars Rebels, I assumed it would be about, y’know, the REBEL ALLIANCE! Its formative years, right after it was founded, leading up to the events of Episode IV? Instead we’ve got a lead up to the lead up. And they’re not the Rebel Alliance, their just rebels. With a lower case “r”. Weak.

Maybe it was just my own preconceptions, but I think if the show was about the actual Rebel Alliance it might help the show feel more in touch with the rest of the Star Wars Universe. It seems like the situation we’ve got is more its own private story. Which is fine. Nothing technically wrong with that. And maybe these characters will one day end up working for the Rebel Alliance. But I don’t want to wait for that. I want it now! With ice cream! Waaaaah!

1. Ahsoka No Show

Geddit? Because no show rhymes with Tano. Sort of. Anyway, where the hell is Ahsoka? Or Rex for that matter? Ahsoka left the Jedi order before Order 66 and Rex doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to follow through with an order like that. Forget this Kanan bloke, why isn’t Ahsoka teaching Ezra? And Rex would be invaluable to the team as a military man. It would be interesting to see how these two have changed since the fall of the Republic, especially given both of their close connection to the Jedi and Anakin Skywalker in particular.

It would add an element of familiarity to the show. Make it seem like a continuation of The Clone Wars, rather than something entirely different. Plus, it’s only two characters. There’d still be room for all the other original characters. And that’s not to say that we might not see Ahsoka or Rex later on in the series, after all we’ve never found out what actually happened to them. I just think that they’d make for a perfect fit within the show.