After months of wondering when the first trailer for Star Wars Resistance would drop, it’s
finally here!
It’s very much a teaser, and doesn’t give us much in the way of story or overall plot.
It more gives us a good look at the art style, the tone, and the main character, Kazuda Xiono.
StarWars.com tells us the first, hour long episode premiering on October 7 is called
The Recruit.
Poe and BB-8 assign Kaz to the Colossus, where he meets a cast of colorful new aliens, droids
and creatures.
While undercover to spy on the threat of the First Order, Kaz works as a mechanic and lives
with Poe’s old friend Yeager, a veteran pilot who operates a starship repair shop
run by his crew, Tam, Neeku, and a battered old astromech called Bucket.
But let’s get to the trailer.
I want to talk about the art style first.
We’ve known since April this would be anime inspired.
I will admit I am completely out of my depth when it comes to anime, but I thought the
look of this show was pretty cool, especially when it comes to the ships and flying.
The faces still have a very cartoony feel, which is appropriate.
It’ll be on the Disney Channel after all.
Some of the expressions reminded me of Link in the cutscenes for The Legend of Zelda:
Breath of the Wild.
That might take some getting used to for me, but I think the ship animations look gorgeous,
and most of you probably know I’m a sucker for stories about pilots, so I expect I’ll
be into this series pretty quickly.
But the art style is a good segue into the tone of the show, because I can already see
people complaining about this feeling very childish, despite the fact that we’ve known
this would be a Disney Channel cartoon for children since April.
So I want to jump back in time to Star Wars Rebels real quick.
Because I almost didn’t watch that show, and I may have not started if I didn’t have
this channel.
I didn’t like the art style initially, and I definitely felt like it was overly childish.
But I stuck with it, and by the end of the first season I was hooked.
And then as the series went on it got progressively more mature.
That’s the thing with these kids shows, is that they tend to grow up with their target
audience.
The Resistance trailer really gave me Rebels season one vibes.
I expect we’ll have some silly, childish humor, I mean we can see it in the trailer,
but I also expect that the show won’t necessarily stay that way.
Okay that stuff out of the way, let’s into the trailer details, and really break it down.
First, I just really like what I assume is Kazuda’s ship.
It looks very X-Wing inspired, but also cobbled together.
Or maybe it was once a Z-95.
This green ship has a couple interesting markings on it.
First I can see what looks like an N1 starfighter, and to its left I see what looks like the
Millennium Falcon.
In the book Bloodline, which I assume takes place shortly before this series, Han is known
to be like a manager for races.
So maybe that’s his logo.
Maybe we could actually see Han at some point in the show.
This whole race through rings that is shown throughout the trailer reminds me of the book
Lost Stars, where Thane and Ciena have to do something similar.
They compete with their fellow Imperial cadets on speeder bikes, and they have to race through
rings.
StarWars.com tells us that the setting for most of the trailer is called Colossus.
It’s a massive refueling platform on an outer rim ocean planet.
Like I mentioned, we know this show is about Kazudo being recruited by the Resistance.
So we have Poe here, sporting his normal flight suit, but Kazudo can be seen wearing what
might be a New Republic flight suit.
That’s definitely the New Republic insignia on his shoulder.
So it’s possible that, like Poe, he was part of the New Republic Navy before joining
the Resistance.
I’m hopeful that means we’ll get to see more of that faction since we got next to
nothing about it in the movies.
There are plenty of looks at the new characters, but unfortunately we don’t know anything
about them.
This girl looks like she’ll act as a sort of rival and love interest for Kazudo.
This woman looks like a mechanic that probably works to keep Kaz from falling out of the
sky.
But I’m interested in this guy.
I think he’s a green skinned Klaatu, but he just seems excited to be there.
I like his style.
I’m assuming one of them will be Tam and the other will be Neeku.
I wish I had more to say about them, but we just don’t know yet.
In this shot I can at least point out that the symbol hanging in the back is that of
the Journeyman Protectors, who were Mandalorians like Fenn Rau in Rebels.
So maybe we’ll get some new or familiar Mandalorian characters as well.
Also this girl is a Theelin.
The hair and the eye color match Gooti’s from Star Wars Rebels, so maybe this is her
all grown up.
Then again I feel like she should be about forty years old in Resistance, so it’s probably
a new character.
This shot shows Kaz meeting with an Aleena, and they’re taking fire from someone.
I don’t know if these are First Order ships or something else.
They sound like TIE Fighters when they fire, but they’re too small to make out.
This could be a new TIE or it could be like a militia group.
Again, the book Bloodline shows us First Order sympathisers who aren’t full on stormtroopers
or anything.
Since we know Kaz’s mission from Poe is simply to find out who supports the Resistance
and who supports the First Order, I’m guessing we’ll get our fair share of trying to tell
the good guys from the bad, and the First Order might not be all that prevalent early
on.
That’s not to say they’ll be completely absent.
I’m not sure what to make of this shot of a stormtrooper.
Is it Phasma in yellowish lighting?
Is it a gold plated stormtrooper?
Or is it a normal stormtrooper who really takes polishing his armor seriously?
Who’s to say?
But they’re firing a stun blast at someone.
At this point in time the First Order is still like a behind the scenes group.
They don’t really make themselves known until the destruction of Hosnian Prime, so
I wouldn’t be surprised if full on conflict with stormtroopers like this doesn’t happen
every episode.
And that’s about all I have to say.
This is a fine first look.
And if we do take a step back from just straight up Resistance versus First Order storytelling,
that could be refreshing.
We might see more sides of the galaxy, and how people live their lives when the galaxy
is ultimately at peace.
It’s hard to say much more, so hopefully we get a more story-based trailer soon.
I’m at least excited by the prospect of pilot-centric stories, and I’m very optimistic
about the series as a whole.
If you want to read even more details about the trailer, I linked to my friends Making
Star Wars and their article in the description.
They go into some things that I don’t and speculate a little more on the plot, so go
check that out if you’re hungry for more information.
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