It has nothing to do with them. If it’s there, and works in-setting, then it is.
I also don’t see where your apparent sneering attitude is coming from, but that’s not a me problem.
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I also don’t see where your apparent sneering attitude is coming from, but that’s not a me problem.
What sneering?
I don't have the black and white view as you do and disagree with the conclusion. That is not sneering.
I'm not seeing any sneering there.
I've never really been too into the Cad Bane character but I... guess I liked those episodes a bit more than I thought I would?
I never imagined there had been a "prototype Bane".
Story-wise this covered a lot of all too familiar ground. The High Noon homage was suitably blatant, especially when the deputy quits. And also there's like a ton of movies where the cop and the criminal were childhood friends...
It just occurred to me that disappearing Jedi can't get resurrected via Dathomirian Lazarus pit because there's no corpse to put in. But if there's a corpse and they're put into stasis (even for months like Ventress was) and dunked into one they have a shot. Maybe ghost Qui-Gon was trolling the Jedi by teaching them that disappearing on death trick.
That's not a thing.
Finally got a chance to watch the episodes.
Even though I've never read any of the books, I'm happy for those who are fans of them because they got to see Ventress' resurrection adapted from Dark Disciple, although I don't know how closely the opening episode adhered to it. Regardless, I enjoyed watching Ventress' journey in finding her place in the world and accepting her fate in it, and apart from Quinlan Vos.
The overall story was fairly straightforward with a few fun adventures thrown in, although I was less keen on yet another Jedi survivor. Admittedly a young Jedi was a good pairing for Ventress so I don't mind it so much, but I was annoyed by how quick both of them were to drawing their lightsabers and bringing attention to the fact that they're Force wielders.
Of the three adventures, I enjoyed the tale of the former Separatist officer struggling to find his own place in the world without fighting. Unless I'm mistaken, I appreciated the restraint in making the officer someone we had seen before and instead he was simply someone who would know who Ventress is without ever encountering her in person.
On the back half, I was far more engaged with the tragedy of Cad Bane, street rat. I was in awe in seeing young Cad, excuse me, Colby living on the streets making the best of life with his one and only best friend. I loved how the whole trilogy leaned heavily on Western pastiches, even to the point of possible absurdity. Yeah, it was a little on the nose Cad's mentor was a gunslinger with a thing for toothpicks and the original owner of the hat (a bit Indiana Jones there) but I still liked how Lazlo was presented in the story.
While predictable, I loved the heartbreaking nature of the two friends being forced apart from each other on their first heist, one becoming a gangster while the other becoming a lawman. Since it's a Western tale, the shootouts were to be expected, even if they felt a little weird in the metropolitan setting.
The only thing I didn't quite like was how the third episode felt a little hamfisted. Between how everyone knew Niro's history with Cad to the smallness of the police station for such a large city (granted it's probably just for a borough but it still felt off) to the unseen romance of Niro and Arin, as well as how Cad apparently grew such a strong reputation as a gangster...while in prison the whole time? I don't know, something was missing, something that would've been presented better if it wasn't for the nature of the narrative with the big time jumps for each episode.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the overall trilogy but the third episode didn't quite stick the landing like I hoped and how the show clearly thought it did.
Even though I've never read any of the books, I'm happy for those who are fans of them because they got to see Ventress' resurrection adapted from Dark Disciple, although I don't know how closely the opening episode adhered to it. Regardless, I enjoyed watching Ventress' journey in finding her place in the world and accepting her fate in it, and apart from Quinlan Vos.
The overall story was fairly straightforward with a few fun adventures thrown in, although I was less keen on yet another Jedi survivor. Admittedly a young Jedi was a good pairing for Ventress so I don't mind it so much, but I was annoyed by how quick both of them were to drawing their lightsabers and bringing attention to the fact that they're Force wielders.
Of the three adventures, I enjoyed the tale of the former Separatist officer struggling to find his own place in the world without fighting. Unless I'm mistaken, I appreciated the restraint in making the officer someone we had seen before and instead he was simply someone who would know who Ventress is without ever encountering her in person.
On the back half, I was far more engaged with the tragedy of Cad Bane, street rat. I was in awe in seeing young Cad, excuse me, Colby living on the streets making the best of life with his one and only best friend. I loved how the whole trilogy leaned heavily on Western pastiches, even to the point of possible absurdity. Yeah, it was a little on the nose Cad's mentor was a gunslinger with a thing for toothpicks and the original owner of the hat (a bit Indiana Jones there) but I still liked how Lazlo was presented in the story.
While predictable, I loved the heartbreaking nature of the two friends being forced apart from each other on their first heist, one becoming a gangster while the other becoming a lawman. Since it's a Western tale, the shootouts were to be expected, even if they felt a little weird in the metropolitan setting.
The only thing I didn't quite like was how the third episode felt a little hamfisted. Between how everyone knew Niro's history with Cad to the smallness of the police station for such a large city (granted it's probably just for a borough but it still felt off) to the unseen romance of Niro and Arin, as well as how Cad apparently grew such a strong reputation as a gangster...while in prison the whole time? I don't know, something was missing, something that would've been presented better if it wasn't for the nature of the narrative with the big time jumps for each episode.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the overall trilogy but the third episode didn't quite stick the landing like I hoped and how the show clearly thought it did.
I assume this is the sort of thing that got dropped due to the short format, cut for time essentially, but it's one of the things that, included, could have enriched the narrative.
Yeah, that's what I was driving at. I think this story would've flowed better if the episodes were longer or even more of them. The overall story is still strong but the third episode makes a lot of leaps that don't quite work for me.
So an embarrassment of riches, they created a story that ended up being too good for the format that allowed for its creation in the first place?
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