I only recently binge watched both Clone Wars and Rebels. Clone Wars was surprisingly good, much better than I expected. It appeals to adults, has good writing, great characters, tells interesting stories and looks good.
Star Wars Rebels, unfortunatley, is vastly worse in every way. The writing is terrible by comparison. It feels like it was written for children under 10 and has very little appeal to adults. The stories are not very interesting. The characters are absolutely horrible. The male crew members act like poorly behaved children who are constantly arguing and fighting and ignoring thier chores (I kid you not). The female characters act more adult but often come off as annoyed mothers. Plus the animation quality is bad to terrible. The characters in particular look really bad - one character has facial hair and I swear it looks like his sideburns are miniature wooden fences glued to his face. Its pathetic.
I had really hoped that the quality would improve in season 2 when they added a couple of important characters from Clone Wars but, sadly, the writing was only marginally better.
Rebels feels like it was made to be cheap, low-end meaningless saturday morning cartoon fodder.
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