Star Wars Resistance
| Star Wars Resistance | |
|---|---|
 "Stop resisting" - Space Police | |
| Format | Series |
| Created by | Dave Filoni |
| Theme music composer | Michael Tavera |
| Country of origin | Space |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Dave Filoni |
| Production company(s) |
Lucasfilm |
| Distributor | Disney |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Disney+ |
| Picture format | Cartoon |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Ahsoka |
| Followed by | Disney Trilogy |
Star Wars Resistance is an American animated science fiction television series created by Dave Filoni, set in the Star Wars Universe. It follows Kazuda Xiono, a New Republic pilot turned Resistance spy, as the threat of the First Order (or Empire 2.0) emerges. The series starts shortly before The Force Awakens and ends before The Rise of Skywalker, connecting the whole sequel trilogy together — which would have been great, had people actually watched the show.
It also serves as Filoni's third animated venture in the Star Wars galaxy. His first show, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which is widely accepted as "peak Star Wars", was cancelled in 2014 when Disney purchased Lucasfilm from Jedi Grand Master George Lucas. After the buy out, Filoni was forced to downgrade his animation to create Star Wars Rebels. After Rebels ended in 2018, Filoni was once again forced to make an even shittier show with an even worse animation style. This was, of course, Star Wars Resistance. Thankfully, it ended after only two seasons, as Disney saw the error in their ways and allowed Filoni to finish off The Clone Wars season seven, which was released in 2020 with its original animation style but even better. Afterwards, Disney stopped making Filoni having to use eye bleeding kids cartoon animation, and allowed for Star Wars: The Bad Batch and Tales of the Jedi to use the beloved, gritty style which was first seen in 2008.
Cast and characters[edit]
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (2018-19)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 & 2 | 1 & 2 | "The Recruit" | Steward Lee & Saul Ruiz | Dave Filoni & Brandon Auman | October 7, 2018 |
| 3 | 3 | "The Triple Dark" | Sergio Paez | Kevin Burke and Chris "Doc" Wyatt | October 14, 2018 |
| 4 | 4 | "Fuel for the Fire" | Bosco Ng | Eugene Son | October 21, 2018 |
| 5 | 5 | "The High Tower" | Steward Lee | Stephany Folsom | October 28, 2018 |
| 6 | 6 | "The Children from Tehar" | Saul Ruiz | Paul Giacoppo | November 4, 2018 |
| 7 | 7 | "Signal from Sector Six" | Sergio Paez | Brandon Auman | November 11, 2018 |
| 8 | 8 | "Synara's Score" | Bosco Ng | Gavin Hignight | November 18, 2018 |
| 9 | 9 | "The Platform Classic" | Steward Lee | Kevin Burke and Chris "Doc" Wyatt | November 25, 2018 |
| 10 | 10 | "Secrets and Holograms" | Saul Ruiz | Stephany Folsom | December 2, 2018 |
| 11 | 11 | "Station Theta Black" | Sergio Paez | Brandon Auman | December 9, 2018 |
| 12 | 12 | "Bibo" | Bosco Ng | Paul Giacoppo | January 13, 2019 |
| 13 | 13 | "Dangerous Business" | Saul Ruiz | Eugene Son | January 20, 2019 |
| 14 | 14 | "The Doza Dilemma" | Sergio Paez | Gavin Hignight | January 27, 2019 |
| 15 | 15 | "The First Order Occupation" | Bosco Ng | Kevin Burke and Chris "Doc" Wyatt | February 3, 2019 |
| 16 | 16 | "The New Trooper" | Steward Lee | Paul Giacoppo | February 10, 2019 |
| 17 | 17 | "The Core Problem" | Saul Ruiz | Kevin Burke and Chris "Doc" Wyatt | February 17, 2019 |
| 18 | 18 | "The Disappeared" | Sergio Paez | Steven Melching | February 24, 2019 |
| 19 | 19 | "Descent" | Bosco Ng | Paul Giacoppo | March 3, 2019 |
| 20 | 20 | "No Escape: Part 1" | Steward Lee | Brandon Auman | March 10, 2019 |
| 21 | 21 | "No Escape: Part 2" | Saul Ruiz | Brandon Auman | March 17, 2019 |
Season 2 (2019–20)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 1 | "Into the Unknown" | Brad Rau | Steven Melching | October 6, 2019 |
| 23 | 2 | "A Quick Salvage Run" | Bosco Ng | Brandon Auman | October 13, 2019 |
| 24 | 3 | "Live Fire" | Steward Lee | Mairghread Scott | October 20, 2019 |
| 25 | 4 | "Hunt on Celsor 3" | Brad Rau | Sharon Flynn | October 27, 2019 |
| 26 | 5 | "The Engineer" | Bosco Ng | Sarah Carbiener & Erica Rosbe | November 3, 2019 |
| 27 | 6 | "From Beneath" | Steward Lee | Kevin Burke & Chris "Doc" Wyatt | November 10, 2019 |
| 28 | 7 | "The Relic Raiders" | Brad Rau | Brandon Auman | November 17, 2019 |
| 29 | 8 | "Rendezvous Point" | Bosco Ng | Jennifer Corbett | November 24, 2019 |
| 30 | 9 | "The Voxx Vortex 5000" | Steward Lee | Gavin Hignight | December 1, 2019 |
| 31 | 10 | "Kaz's Curse" | Brad Rau | Eugene Son | December 8, 2019 |
| 32 | 11 | "Station to Station" | Bosco Ng | Mark Henry | December 15, 2019 |
| 33 | 12 | "The Missing Agent" | Steward Lee | Brandon Auman | December 22, 2019 |
| 34 | 13 | "Breakout" | Brad Rau | Steven Melching | December 29, 2019 |
| 35 | 14 | "The Mutiny" | Bosco Ng | Mairghread Scott | January 5, 2020 |
| 36 | 15 | "The New World" | Steward Lee | Jennifer Corbett | January 12, 2020 |
| 37 | 16 | "No Place Safe" | Brad Rau | Gavin Hignight | January 12, 2020 |
| 38 | 17 | "Rebuilding the Resistance" | Bosco Ng | Jennifer Corbett | January 19, 2020 |
| 39 & 40 | 18 & 19 | "The Escape" | Steward Lee & Brad Rau | Brandon Auman | January 26, 2020 |
Production[edit]
Reception[edit]
With Resistance being one of the few things that even the most die hard fans refuse to watch, reviews and ratings are very biased. The average viewer, being aged below ten, always speaks highly of the show, citing the "cool flying ships" and "Kylo Ren being an absolute badass." Because of this, the first season has a rating of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics — many of whom were forced to watch the show with their young children, and didn't even watch the show themselves but gave a high score since it's Star Wars and "has to be good, right?" Luckily, its casual score, a 6.7/10, redeems the high praise. Not because people didn't enjoy the show, as how do you enjoy something you haven't watched? But because the rating is actually scoring how much the animation style sucks.
Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media stated that the "downplaying of cartoon violence" really hurt the shows potential, but "after four seasons of Rebels skinny lightsaber duels, at least the space dogfights were watchable." Additionally, after the massive flop of season two, a third season set after the events of The Rise of Skywalker was scrapped so that nobody had to live in a galaxy were Rey Palpatine was a Skywalker. And also so that Dave Filoni could focus all his time into the poorly written live-action series.
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