"NicWester;c-1236754" wrote:
"Swordd;c-1236656" wrote:
There is no reason this had to be one way or the other.
There's no reason anything has to be anything, sure. But there's plenty of reasons why you should do something, for example making this a light sode event this time.
Light is popular. Like, way more popular. Way, way, way more popular. Star Wars is the story of the Light Side beating up the Dark Side and taking its lunch money. Sure, Dark Side is cool and edgey in a "Zach Snyder makes the best movies so dark and grin" kind of way. But it's the losing side and it's the evil side. Why wouldn't the first Battle be Light-oriented?
Not sure I agree with this - arguably the most popular singular character is Vader. Also, the DS doesn't get routed - how many planets between the Death Star and the Starkiller base were destroyed? How many rebels were destroyed? That's some massive destruction done by the DS. Hoth Rebel Soldier, Scout -all the R1 rebels we need for TB - ... were killed by the Empire. Same for Biggs DL. How did the Empire actually end? Not at the hands of LS toons - DV was killed by EP and EP was killed by DV simultaneously. The most key Rebel and LS character in the series was going to be roasted alive by the Emperor. That's an honest commentary that the DS can't win - even when they actually defeat the LS from a personnel standpoint, the LS comes to the surface through Anakin and the connection to his son....but a traditional LS character does not kill DV or EP. Could Luke have killed DV? Yes, if he wanted to - just like DV could have killed Luke earlier. However, had he done that and still refused to join the Emperor, most likely he would have been ground in to a fine dust. The way the series presents the story mainly from the traditional hero side makes it seem like it's some curb stomp - also the ridiculousness with how incompetent some of the troopers aim is - but if you step back and start counting up what actually has happened on screen and what we know of mentioned off screen it's much more balanced.
I think we keep getting rammed with Rebels because of Disney / marketing focus - not anything that's really based in lore. The R1 movie was Rebel-focused, the Rebels cartoon series is rebel focused - Disney pushes the good guys for profit. This game is a big commercial that we are playing.
