I do at least respect what "Rebels" is doing. They are trying to put in more EU characters and references-the Inquisitors, Immobilizor 418s etc.
Err, Filoni's work for the star wars universe I'd consider mediocre at best. The Clone Wars was an okay show, and had some interesting things, but the whole father son daughter thing was garbage, and a lot of the things in clone wars was really unnecessary or detracted from the original story even. Now with rebels I'd say that it's unfortunately worse in that factor, with stormtroopers (and most of the empire for that matter) practically being garbage against the rebels. Clones on the other hand are now practically flawless in every way combat wise, when they should be on par with imperial stormtroopers, maybe a little better but not a whole lot. Speaking of the Empire, since when did it throw 3 inquisitors, which last time I checked were an extremely valuable resource, at a small group of rebels, only to lose 1, and the other 2 still manage to fail miserably at fighting the rebels. I really don't like Filoni for a lot of what he's done to say the least.