Art Attack (prequel short)

[Brandon Rhea]

The second of four prequel shorts for Star Wars Rebels has been released. It's called "Art Attack" and features Sabine sneaking into a TIE fighter parking area in order to create a distraction, so the Ghost can fly away. Check it out:

[video=youtube;2dSJRKB8x9E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dSJRKB8x9E[/video]

 

[Johnnysaurus Rex]

Poor Stormtroopers. Just can't hit a darn thing.

 

[Cortan]

So yeah, looks like jokes about the Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy are gonna actually be a thing in universe now. At the very least, its clear that they're not meant to all be incredibly trained and well disciplined troops like the Clones were prior to them.

Other things: The guy the Stormtroopers push around at the start looks kinda like what Luke Skywalker (I think it was Luke? Possibly an early Obi-Wan) looked like in some Ralph McQuarrie art, minus the cape.

Sabine seems like her skillset is gonna be based on an ability to infiltrate as well as detonate, with any slightly glance away or obstruction providing her the means to get by people. Now, like with Batman (and as happens a few points in the short itself), this could end up getting ridiculous a trait, but hey, I like a less than direct combatant sometimes.

The thing that has me puzzled most if the usage of a paint bomb rather than a full explosive. Its... a little inconsistent since it clearly tears the TIE apart, and whilst maybe the stormtroopers managed to back off a bit, it still only manages to knock them off their feet and splatter a bit of paint onto their armour. More to the point, it seems like it could indicate a possible aversion to offscreen deaths that its predecessor series rather lacked at times (but then the clones weren't always fighting humanoid enemies, so the censors probably didn't as much attention), which could hurt the show later on. That or perhaps its a personal trait of Sabine herself - she may be a rebel, but she strangely wants to more consider her work art, rather than 'that time I blew up half a dozen people'. Speculation, but curious.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

I think the speculation about Sabine and art is probably accurate. The previews we've seen so far have shown a lot of death.

 

[Marf]

I saw the thread title and this is what instantly came to my mind:

[video=youtube;0evlWSY8kTc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0evlWSY8kTc[/video]

:joytears: