It was 2 episodes of vanilla.
I take it that gang of friends were part of one of the old cartoons.
I bet the missing one is now the baddie with a mask on.
I think Andor has ruined Star Wars TV programmes now, it raised the bar so high that everything else just seems bland in comparison.
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Andor totally ignored the make-beiieve wishywashy Force stuff (which is often used as some of the worst deus ex machina possible) and was bascially a spy or undercover operative story.
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I am loving it!!
meh at best, but then Iām not really the target audience. Never watched Clone Wars or Rebels other than a few episodes so no skin in the game really. The acting is pretty poor even for Star Wars standards, but spaceships/lightsabers/robots seems to keep me coming back.
When it comes to the recent crop of Star Wars shows, apart from Andor they could really do with some new writers. Some Redditer made a good point, stop focusing on one anchoring character (Mandolorian/Boba Fett/Kenobi/Ashoka) and expand things a bit like how successful shows are about the environment and lore and not one character. Have main characters but also have other storylines going on like Game of Thrones (except obvs the shit show that was the final series)
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Interesting. I think the production as a whole is excellent. There were a few moments in the first two episodes that bumped me out momentarily, such as no dialogue during the lightsaber fights.
But Iām finding the pacing great, characters well fleshed out and sets beautiful. I did watch Clone Wars, though.
I did not enjoy Andor much at all. I remember very little from it aside from the things that really got on my nerves. Donāt get me wrong, it looked great but bloody hell it was a drag.
To me Ahsoka is much more along the lines of how to focus on a key character well. I think they almost got there with Obi-Wan, but were let down with the first couple of episodes being safe and serving as one long āpreviously on Star Warsā.
The lack of dialogue during the lightsaber fights is really doing a lot of heavy lifting in telling everyone āthis series is inspired by samurai filmsā.
Yeah, there is loads of Japanese and Chinese culture littered all over this series so far. Not just the lightsaber fights. As for talking during lightsaber fights, that is usually when the antagonists know each other well but not always, if it can help push the plot along faster too. The Darth Maul - Duel of Fates had no dialog for instance.
Star Whales that can travel from galaxy to galaxy, the world between worlds. It has a lot to hold your interest as a SW fan at the moment but so did Mando at the start.
Still no Andor though, hehe.
I watched Andor twice.
And then when the latest season of Mando came out, it just felt like the world had moved on.
This feels kinda the same.
As mentioned; something layered a la GOT would be good. Andor was well recieved, so buildong on that would be good.
But maybe the franchise is worth more when you donāt aim it at the dads.
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Oh, 100%.
I watched it the 2nd time with a friend as she hadnāt seen it. Was so good, still.
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Think thereās 8 episodes for the season.
I for one am absolutely loving Ahsoka. Then again, Iām yet to find a piece of Star Wars media I havenāt loved since the arcade game was absolutely fucking rock hard and I spent Ā£3 getting nowhere.
Likewise. Episode 5 scratched a lot of itches for me, but technically it was a filler episode. Not much happened to move the story forward. Yes, lots of character development but it did serve as an episode to right a few wrongs in previous Star Wars.
Itās nice of Thrawn to keep calling off any attack he looks like winning. Keeps the viewer from ever having to get even slightly worried.
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The series felt like some stuff happened but nothing really happened.
āIf we show Anakin enough, we can get away with doing as little as possibleā
Witch magic, zombie stormtroopers were a surprise mind.
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Just doesnāt seem like Star Wars, Filoni seems to lean heavily on magic to get him out of writing dead ends.
Explain how Maul came backā¦witches or something
Get Thrawn back from the other galaxyā¦witches or something
Donāt have a ship to take us thereā¦space whales
All but a handful of Jedi weāre killed during order 66ā¦hereās another Jedi nobody has heard of that somehow made it out
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I deliberately didnāt watch that episode of Rebels because I thought it was stupid*, but then theyāve turned out to be a big part of the story down the line!
*not strictly true, I fell asleep watching the episode as I did many others, due to binge watching after night shifts. This was the only one I didnāt make sure to go back and finish.
Deus Ex Machina - plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly or abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence.
You could argue the Force is the Deus of the original trilogy, but it was more layered than just that, it was interesting stories, heroes and villains, overwhelming odds versus plucky rebellions and just straight up adventure.
Some Charlie Brooker wannabe You Tube guy likened it to 8 episodes of ākey janglingā to stop you from seeing just how bad it actually was, āweak story? no worries, looky, itās Anakin for no reasonā - Itās Star Wars by committee and having seen leaks of the upcoming Acolyte that just re-writes Jediās again to be Matrix style flippy-dippy ninja types, it doesnāt look like the future is all that bright.
Although, the Andor season 2 leak looked well promising, so thank god for that
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This girlās reaction to the end scene in Rogue One is pretty cool. She was away when it came out and missed it in the cinema apparently.
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