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Nope. JD’s right. They were great.
I'd say good with occasional great moments.
Rebels has one of the greatest fuels in franchise history.
But Clone Wars and Bad Batch both slumped for me. Rebels was up and down.
Rebels has one of the greatest fuels in franchise history.
But Clone Wars and Bad Batch both slumped for me. Rebels was up and down.
I wasn't a fan of live action shows/movies with a focus on kid characters even when I was a kid. I've always had more tolerance for animated shows/movies with kid characters, but even in my younger days live action stuff with a focus on kids (kid characters were fine, just not as the focus) just irritated me. Turbo: A Power Rangers movie came out when I was about 6 and a half years old and I genuinely remember being upset that there was now a literal kid power ranger, I wasn't even 7 and the kid was bugging me. The first Power Rangers movie also had a subplot with a (never seen before or after) kid character that I thought was annoying at the time (and still do now, although he doesn't take up enough time in the movie to ruin it for me).
So all the kiddie movie/show fans can philosophize or imply why people don't like stuff with kid characters, but I've genuinely not liked that kind of thing, at least in live action, since my elementary school days. Its been a consistent preference/opinion even when I was in the age group that those kind of shows/movies pander to.
Fascinating.
And it took my straight out of it for a bit. However, as soon as the ship got discovered, things looked a lot more Star Wars. If that makes sense. This is really geared more towards kids, but I've got this 5 year old girl in my life, and considering she already likes things like the first Harry Potter, TOS and Space Balls, she might dig the original Star Wars and enjoy this. And I would probably enjoy watching it with her.
I would imagine life on a regular planet in the New Republic would be fairly typical 20th/21st century living. Most planets we've seen in detail are either Outer Rim backwater worlds, worlds under Imperial occupation, or large cities. There are bound to be places that are more settled than Lothal, but less urban than Coruscant.
I doesn't need to look rural or backwater or Coruscant, ofcourse.
But it's literally sub-urban USA as we seen in almost every movie since the 90's. Not even Earth generally speaking. No, United States Of America. That's what took me out of the first 30 seconds of the trailer.
I gave up on The Acolyte after one episode because… it just felt like more Star Wars. New setting (ish), but same old stuff.
This sounds really enticing. Star Wars + Stranger Things. I’m down for that.
This trailer....does not interest me in the slightest.
We've already had Stranger Things and before that, Super 8, shamelessly mining the imagery and tropes of 1980s Amblin films.
Absolutely don't need that in my SW content, thankyouverymuch.
This may be the first SW project I never bother to watch even once. We'll see how the reviews are.
We've already had Stranger Things and before that, Super 8, shamelessly mining the imagery and tropes of 1980s Amblin films.
Absolutely don't need that in my SW content, thankyouverymuch.
This may be the first SW project I never bother to watch even once. We'll see how the reviews are.
I'm looking forward to this (of course, as usual).
Re: the 20th-21st century-esque setting, that would seem to be meta(textual), to draw a parallel between the characters and us (a.k.a., future consumers/the children of those footing the bill for merchandise
). That doesn't really bother me. On the contrary, I find unusual creative choices (and this is one) interesting. I get a kinda Explorers vibe to this.
Re: the 20th-21st century-esque setting, that would seem to be meta(textual), to draw a parallel between the characters and us (a.k.a., future consumers/the children of those footing the bill for merchandise
). That doesn't really bother me. On the contrary, I find unusual creative choices (and this is one) interesting. I get a kinda Explorers vibe to this.
Yeah... I don't mind the idea of showing us Star Wars suburbia for the first time, but what they came up with isn't very visually imaginative. But then, this looks like an entry-level show, an on-ramp to the universe for new viewers, so it's no surprise that it's pretty basic.
On the other hand, Star Trek: Prodigy is also an on-ramp for kids, but it's still a rich and challenging show. I see people elsewhere making the predictably kneejerk comparisons to Prodigy, but the obvious difference right off is that the Prodigy characters were escaped slaves seeking a better life, while these are comfortable suburban kids who are just looking for adventure, and they probably just want to get back home to their families.
The ship at 1:04 in the trailer looks at first glance like a Starfleet vessel with a saucer and four nacelles, though a closer look suggests otherwise. I also saw a tweet likening the graphic behind the schoolteacher to an LCARS display from Trek.
Just once, when a character in a story says "Trust no one," I want to see the listener respond, "Oh yeah? Then why should I trust you when you say that?"
Not going to do a full breakdown since I'd rather not over-analyse at this point, but a few fun details did jump out at me: -
Indeed the landspeeders had a very retro-60's look to them, and the houses honestly look to me like something Ralph McQuarrie or Doug Chiang might have come up with if asked to adapted the 'Poltergeist' style of house (So Cal modern Tudor, I think?) with a little bit of retro-60's modern thrown in.
Other context clues are the crude wooden toys (something we've seen in Star Wars before in Rogue One, Bad Batch & Visions), the fact that the kids aren't just staring at their comlinks all day long, and that they're riding bikes around and exploring the woods.
Personally, I think it feels perfect. Their home needs to feel very safe and familiar and "normal" for the audience if them getting lost in the galaxy is going to have any kind of drama to it, let alone for any desire to return home to have any weight. It's not much of a adventurous journey in the unknown if these kids are from a more familiar location, like 1313, or Corellia, or Tatooine. Those are places people tend to be happy to escape and not look back! Same if they were from somewhere more beautiful and exotic.
- That gymnasium is *enormous*, and rotund! I'm going to go out on a limb and presume that this is mostly for some kind of zero gravity sport? Smashball, perhaps?
- Am I crazy, or do the TA droids have kind of a Huyang look to their torsos? One assumes the rollerball locomotion has been cunningly devised so students can't "accidentally" trip them up . . . or hear them coming.
- I note the seeming total absence of air traffic on their homeworld. Even Lothal had some airspeeder traffic, so this really underlines how safe and protected this place is.
- An Ithorian waking a dog may be my favourite image from this whole thing. Not 100% sure, but I think it might be the same species as those tooka/racoon-pug looking things in Ahsoka's home village from TotJ.
- I don't know who or what that little owl person is; but they're my new favourite!
- Kinda funny seeing such a prominent Defel after Lucas went to the trouble of minimising the original's on-screen appearance. Thankfully he doesn't look as out of place among a bunch of space pirates!
- I don't know what that giant trash-crab monster is doing with an R2 unit glues to it's back, but something about the image just made me chuckle.
- There's something very Star Wars about and big, old-fashioned iron key, with a little random tech piece glued to the bit instead of wards, and of course it opens a jail cell with actual bars.
Not to split hairs, but I got much more of a mid-to-late 20th century vibe from the overall aesthetics of <insert name of planet suburbia here>. Specifically the 50's - 80's part of it, which is right in the strike-zone for an Amblin-esque setting.
Indeed the landspeeders had a very retro-60's look to them, and the houses honestly look to me like something Ralph McQuarrie or Doug Chiang might have come up with if asked to adapted the 'Poltergeist' style of house (So Cal modern Tudor, I think?) with a little bit of retro-60's modern thrown in.
Other context clues are the crude wooden toys (something we've seen in Star Wars before in Rogue One, Bad Batch & Visions), the fact that the kids aren't just staring at their comlinks all day long, and that they're riding bikes around and exploring the woods.
Personally, I think it feels perfect. Their home needs to feel very safe and familiar and "normal" for the audience if them getting lost in the galaxy is going to have any kind of drama to it, let alone for any desire to return home to have any weight. It's not much of a adventurous journey in the unknown if these kids are from a more familiar location, like 1313, or Corellia, or Tatooine. Those are places people tend to be happy to escape and not look back! Same if they were from somewhere more beautiful and exotic.
Same. It has that normal grounding right before the adventure that is common in kid's shows. I'm here for it.I'm looking forward to this (of course, as usual).
Re: the 20th-21st century-esque setting, that would seem to be meta(textual), to draw a parallel between the characters and us (a.k.a., future consumers/the children of those footing the bill for merchandise
