I swear some evil Disney tech purposely times to shift off the credits just as the voice actors are about to show.
News Tales of the Jedi, new animated shorts anthology series.
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They're really, really not. At all. I'm sorry you think so, as it only means you haven't been exposed to actual quality.
Feeling a little conflicted. The Ahsoka stuff was fine, and had some wonderful touches here and there, but a little too insubstantial for my taste.
The last episode in particular kinda irks me since on the one hand it's only really telling the story of the novel in a hyper condensed form, but on the other hand it does this by steamrolling over a lot of the nuance and detail. I suppose one might just take the title of the series to heart and just take this as an in-universe tale - unreliable narrator and all that - not a definitive accounting of events, but that still feels a little lazy, no?
A little confused by the Inquisitor's deflating head. A darksider's body becoming one with the force makes no sense, so then the only explanation is that whatever species he was just does that when body parts are severed? Something like a Gen'Dai perhaps?
The one with her mother is fine, but let's just hope there's another season that expands on this foundation and gives us the full 'Latrans' story.
As expected though the Dooku stories are the main attraction here. As a character his true motivations have always been a little obscure and this fleshes it out rather nicely. Good bit of foreshadowing with the first part pitting Master Dooku against exactly the kind of leader that Count Dooku will become.
I'd always suspected that he was already in Sidious' pocket by the time of TPM and wasn't groomed as an apprentice Sith the way Anakin was, but slotted in as a make-do replacement. One assumes the original plan was to have Maul in the Grevious role while Dooku acts as the political figurehead, with the extra twist that he'd be there to keep the Count in line with Sidious' plan.
Side note: Kinda wild that Bail recruited not just Ahsoka at that funeral, but Sabe too.
Side side note: Clearly someone at Skywalker Sound is a big Ridley Scott fan. The computer noises at the Jedi library data archive are straight out of 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner'.
The last episode in particular kinda irks me since on the one hand it's only really telling the story of the novel in a hyper condensed form, but on the other hand it does this by steamrolling over a lot of the nuance and detail. I suppose one might just take the title of the series to heart and just take this as an in-universe tale - unreliable narrator and all that - not a definitive accounting of events, but that still feels a little lazy, no?
A little confused by the Inquisitor's deflating head. A darksider's body becoming one with the force makes no sense, so then the only explanation is that whatever species he was just does that when body parts are severed? Something like a Gen'Dai perhaps?
The one with her mother is fine, but let's just hope there's another season that expands on this foundation and gives us the full 'Latrans' story.
As expected though the Dooku stories are the main attraction here. As a character his true motivations have always been a little obscure and this fleshes it out rather nicely. Good bit of foreshadowing with the first part pitting Master Dooku against exactly the kind of leader that Count Dooku will become.
I'd always suspected that he was already in Sidious' pocket by the time of TPM and wasn't groomed as an apprentice Sith the way Anakin was, but slotted in as a make-do replacement. One assumes the original plan was to have Maul in the Grevious role while Dooku acts as the political figurehead, with the extra twist that he'd be there to keep the Count in line with Sidious' plan.
Side note: Kinda wild that Bail recruited not just Ahsoka at that funeral, but Sabe too.
Side side note: Clearly someone at Skywalker Sound is a big Ridley Scott fan. The computer noises at the Jedi library data archive are straight out of 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner'.
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Dude. Seriously? Opinions/ass holes. Everyone has one. None are better than others.
Don't forget the music as Dooku and Yaddle got into their ships. That was full-on Blade Runner at that point as if they weren't even trying to hide it.
Andor too, even the theme music gives me a distant sense of that era, if not those specifically. (The visuals kind of go crazy in that regard too, Kleya's attire when pretending to be an assistant at the antique shop would work in Blade Runner as well.)
For some reason people go in to Star Wars expecting the highest of art.
Why, I didn't go expecting it, but I definitely came back getting it!
I really enjoyed all of the episodes, especially the Dooku arc.
...but I was really bummed out that the third Ahsoka episode overwrote her novel as described by Reverend. At least she still used the same alias. I guess I'll go with the same interpretation of an unreliable narrator...but I was really hoping with a direct tie-in with the novel and not this.
...but I was really bummed out that the third Ahsoka episode overwrote her novel as described by Reverend. At least she still used the same alias. I guess I'll go with the same interpretation of an unreliable narrator...but I was really hoping with a direct tie-in with the novel and not this.
The Dooku episodes were outstanding. I could watch a whole show about a Jedi Knight and his apprentice slowly realizing they're living in the twilight of the Republic and diverging down two different paths about how to deal with it.
The Ahsoka episodes, though? Meh. Like, they're very well-crafted and all of that, but where Dooku's episodes filled in some important, blank sections on the Star Wars canvas, Ahsoka's just colored over what was already there. It was neat to see in her first episode how it was discovered she was strong in the Force, but her second episode felt more like an excuse just to get the TCW band back together, and her third episode just retold a story we already knew about. Disappointing.
The Ahsoka episodes, though? Meh. Like, they're very well-crafted and all of that, but where Dooku's episodes filled in some important, blank sections on the Star Wars canvas, Ahsoka's just colored over what was already there. It was neat to see in her first episode how it was discovered she was strong in the Force, but her second episode felt more like an excuse just to get the TCW band back together, and her third episode just retold a story we already knew about. Disappointing.
There's nothing wrong expecting SW to be good. Some people go into Star Wars content with any old crap. I'm continually baffled by people's low expectations.
My take on the third Ahsoka story is that the novel was written at a point when Lucasfilm figured they would never get to tell that story visually. Now, years later, they have a way to visually tell that story, but only in about 15 minutes. So it is an abridged tale of what happened. Useful for those that never read the novels.
Telling people their expectations are low will not inspire them to go further. Not everyone has the same expectations.
First episode at least is really good. Using Grogu's calming of the Ragnar in a new way.
Some people have the attitude that it's somehow rude or entitled to even expect that new content for old series be quality content, and we should just be thankful we get anything regardless of quality.
Well, I'm grateful for any content being made, even if I don't like it.
Quality is always a bonus, not expected, at least for me and Star Wars.
I've been wondering if we'd get her in acting role after her director gigs for The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
There's been Earth wildlife all over the place, going all the way back to Empire Strikes Back. I actually did a whole thread about this recently.
Yeah Clone Wars has shown young children being able to use the force easily, probably because the mind is more open, more calm than when you get older.
Some people have the attitude that somehow their definition of quality and their opinion of a show somehow is more valid than someone else’s and makes them more elite…….it does not.
