epilogue wrote:Can I ask, is there anything you like about the show?
I think Lee Jung-jae and Amanda Stenberg do a good job. They aren’t given much to work with, but you can see them trying to elevate it.
I thought the force user martial arts combat sequence was fun to watch, and more interesting than any lightsaber fight in the last 25 years. Getting away from the jerkoff saber fetishism freed them to rediscover the duel-as-symbolism in a fight for the soul.
And I do always enjoy…truly, genuinely enjoy…watching people on the internet come up with bullshit excuses for things like “maybe they built their secret coven into the side of a volcano that’s flammable?”
Cool. I'm glad you're not JUST hate watching it. And I agree with your first two points. Amandla is still finding her footing, I think. I like her most of the time but then there are clunky things even she can't quite overcome (Wanna give me a HAND!). But overall I think the performances are strong. JJ shines and I thought JTS was lights out in this past episode.
I still haven’t watched the third ep so I’ve no reason to doubt you here.
I hope you like the episode. I thought it was easily the strongest so far. I have some issues with it but I won't be certain about some of those issues until we get the whole story.
I still haven’t watched the third ep so I’ve no reason to doubt you here.
I hope you like the episode. I thought it was easily the strongest so far. I have some issues with it but I won't be certain about some of those issues until we get the whole story.
I still haven’t watched the third ep so I’ve no reason to doubt you here.
I hope you like the episode. I thought it was easily the strongest so far. I have some issues with it but I won't be certain about some of those issues until we get the whole story.
I still haven’t watched the third ep so I’ve no reason to doubt you here.
I hope you like the episode. I thought it was easily the strongest so far. I have some issues with it but I won't be certain about some of those issues until we get the whole story.
Like the candle fire turning rock into lava?
I'm telling you, it's all about that generator!
Well they did say the show was about power and who gets to use it
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
I still haven’t watched the third ep so I’ve no reason to doubt you here.
I hope you like the episode. I thought it was easily the strongest so far. I have some issues with it but I won't be certain about some of those issues until we get the whole story.
Like the candle fire turning rock into lava?
I'm telling you, it's all about that generator!
Well they did say the show was about power and who gets to use it
epilogue wrote:Can I ask, is there anything you like about the show?
I think Lee Jung-jae and Amanda Stenberg do a good job. They aren’t given much to work with, but you can see them trying to elevate it.
I thought the force user martial arts combat sequence was fun to watch, and more interesting than any lightsaber fight in the last 25 years. Getting away from the jerkoff saber fetishism freed them to rediscover the duel-as-symbolism in a fight for the soul.
And I do always enjoy…truly, genuinely enjoy…watching people on the internet come up with bullshit excuses for things like “maybe they built their secret coven into the side of a volcano that’s flammable?”
Cool. I'm glad you're not JUST hate watching it. And I agree with your first two points. Amandla is still finding her footing, I think. I like her most of the time but then there are clunky things even she can't quite overcome (Wanna give me a HAND!). But overall I think the performances are strong. JJ shines and I thought JTS was lights out in this past episode.
Another thing I’ll say is that I think the show looks pretty good.
I guess maybe the reason some people say otherwise is that so much money was spent on it? I won’t deny that it doesn’t look like 180 million bucks. But I like my television sci-fi to look a little like it is straining against limitations. Maybe it’s just that I’m a geezer, but that’s a sweet spot for me.
The show has been the subject of a lot of pathetic bigotry, and I’m quite sure it would be getting a better reception without it because people will generally like Star War by default. That’s why the property was worth billions of dollars. But none of the things that those people are complaining about are the problem here.
They are basically space Buddhists, and can be criticized in many of the same ways, and work well opposed to the Sith, who represent kind of a vulgarized Nietzcheanism.
In fact it has been done a couple of times, and not in some brainless subversive way of "actually, the Jedi were always the bad guys", but in a way that shows that different factions make good points depending on one's perspective.
But that was in the before times. The times before Disney.
This whole thing started with an old man gaslighting a teenager and being all like, "hey, man, that's just like your opinion" when he gets called out on it.
epilogue wrote:This whole thing started with an old man gaslighting a teenager and being all like, "hey, man, that's just like your opinion" when he gets called out on it.
Bingo
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