Like most of the previous Expanded Universe, the games (which weren’t really considered canonical anyway, because there are so many open-ended elements, and unlikely situations) have all been wiped from canon. This movie is one of the reasons why, so they can retell those stories properly.
Having said that, there was a scene in the season finale of Star Wars Rebels that seemed to be inspired by events that occur in the Knights of the Old Republic video game.
Does Mon Mothma get more than 30 seconds this time?
Before they started contracting that sort of difficult work out to the Bothans.
The trailer looks good, should be pretty exciting to see the Empire at its prime stomping about over everything again.
As long as this bunch of Rebels doesn’t turn out to be so cool that it’s all just simple going through the motions, although it’s mostly harder science fiction that’s boring like that.
And Alan Tudyk is in it. Rumor has it that he’s doing motion capture to be a droid. He’s always solid. Plus, some “Firefly” fans might enjoy him in another sci-fi role.
They used Wayne Pygram (aka Scorpius from Farscape) in the brief Tarkin appearance at the end of Revenge of the Sith. I don’t think Wayne is as sallow-cheeked as Cushing, however.
You can see him in the trailer, there’s a tall dark blue droid that follows Jyn around in a couple of shots.
Also, he’s already played a mo-cap robot before in I, Robot.
Not having watched the show, but enjoying the game, which events are you referring to?
The massacre at Malachor.
I saw an article arguing that the official lore lightsaber crossguard essentially made Malachor V from Knights of the Old Republic cannon. I think I linked to it on the Force Awakens thread.
Neat
How smart and mature is the Rebels animated series?
I started watching Clone Wars on Netflix because posters here discussed how good it was. As I started watching, I thought it was terrible and it played like a weak kiddie show.
Then I found out when I complained here that there were actually two different animated Clone Wars series and that one of them was smart and mature but the other one was more of a kiddie show- but they were both titled Clone Wars.
I thought, well that’s dumb.
I never bothered to seek out the better of the two because I had no idea how I’d know which was which since they had the same name.
The two Clone Wars series are pretty easy to tell apart just by the art style. The first one was done by Genndy Tartakovsky, the guy who created The Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack, and looked like this. It had an odd format of super-short, three minute episodes, and ran three seasons - the last season switching to twelve minute episodes.
The second series looked like this, and used a more traditional 22 minute format. It ran for six seasons, but was in an anthology format that jumped back and forth in time a lot. The first season is a bit meh, but it eventually turns in to one of the best non-film Star Wars properties I’ve ever seen.
I’m not sure which series you watched, but Rebels is a direct sequel to the second Clone Wars series, so if you didn’t like that one, you probably wouldn’t like this one either.
Ooops! I would seem that I actually did see “the good one”. The first episode had Yoda and some bad guys both land on the same planet to try to talk the ruler of that planet into siding with their side of the conflict. Some kind of race or contest was proposed to gain the loyalty of this planet.
Throughout whatever it was that Yoda had to achieve, he taught lessons to the three clone soldiers who accompanied him. He taught them each that they were “special”. They actually had lines like “But I’m just a clone, I’m the same as all the others and everything about me is predetermined” and Yoda would say, “No, even though you are a clone you are unique and special, you just have to find the special thing about you that makes you special.”
Well, I just about puked my guts out.
I think I made it through half of the second episode.
I’m glad it eventually became something decent but I’m surprised enough people stuck with it long enough to give it a chance to improve. When I came back to the SDMB to vomit about it and I found out that there were actually two different series, I thought for sure that I had been watching the kiddie version.
So, I suppose I’ll pass on Rebels as well.
Rogue One is getting reshoots:
Batman v. Superman is having a lot of repercussions in the film industry. More fingers in the pie, that’s the solution.
Darker! Grittier! darker! darker! darker!
Yeah, well past time to knock that shit off. Very very few people want dark and grim Star Wars.
Wonder if we see Porkins in the movie
Declan
Actually, I think a little bit grimmer would be appropriate - and it’s not like we haven’t had at least pretty dark Star Wars movie, plus some canon episodes of Clone Wars. Since we know the Death Star will get asplodified, it wouldn’t be that bad to show the cost of getting the information.
Of course, all TRUE Star Wars fans know that fourteen separate people stole the Death Star plans, and the coolest of all the thieves is Kyle Katarn.
Looks better than the frankly risible Force Awakens
I agree completely. 
