I think the main reason I'm able to keep enjoying (and maybe even keep apologizing?) for this stuff is that I'm really attracted to lore and mythology. Maybe the dialogue is clunky and maybe the acting is stiff and maybe the FVX look like a cartoon, and maybe I can't tell where they spent $180 million.... but OH SHIT THERE'S A COVEN OF WITCHES THAT USE THE FORCE BUT CALL IT THE THREAD AND WERE HUNTED INTO EXILE AND HOLY SHIT THEY MANAGED TO CREATE LIFE OUTSIDE OF CONCEPTION WHICH IS SOMETHING THE SITH HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO FOR CENTURIES! OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH....
How is this gonna play out! What does this mean for what we thought we knew about the Star Wars mythology?! Does this tie into Anakin at all? And what the actual fuck actually happened during that fire?!
I'm a plot sucker, or rather a sucker for plot. I love world building, even if it comes with subpar character building. Ideally, I'd love to have both --- The Last Jedi, I'm looking right at you! But I have a higher tolerance for the mediocre stuff when the lore/mythology/world building ignites my synapses.
Cool, that’s a distinct reason why you are liking newer Star Wars.
I can't believe it took me so long to realize it.
And as a writer who starts with character, it hurts me deeply to admit it.
But if I'm being totally honest... outside of Ahsoka... I think plot lust has always been my attraction to Star Wars. The characters in SW have never been as interesting as the things happening to them.
My only gripe is now it’s not just the Acolyte that is bad.
It’s all Disney live action tv shows which is ridiculous.
Ive loved Mando, Andor, Ahsoka, Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan.
They are all fine additions to Star Wars and have delivered some of the most memorable moments in the Star Wars franchise
Mando season 2 finale, Obi-Wans finale, Ahsoka and Anakin going back to live action clone wars. Andor had “one Way out” and Luthens speech. Book of boba Fett had the Luke/Grogu training montage plus the arrival of Cad Bane episode etc…
Looking back at it, Obi-Wan seems like the biggest missed opportunity of these Disney Plus shows. So much promise but the whole thing felt like some non-canon book from 1993.
Monkey_Driven wrote:Looking back at it, Obi-Wan seems like the biggest missed opportunity of these Disney Plus shows. So much promise but the whole thing felt like some non-canon book from 1993.
Should’ve kept it to a movie instead of shoehorning it into Disney+ for the sake of quarterly earnings for their streaming service.
Monkey_Driven wrote:Looking back at it, Obi-Wan seems like the biggest missed opportunity of these Disney Plus shows. So much promise but the whole thing felt like some non-canon book from 1993.
Should’ve kept it to a movie instead of shoehorning it into Disney+ for the sake of quarterly earnings for their streaming service.
Monkey_Driven wrote:Looking back at it, Obi-Wan seems like the biggest missed opportunity of these Disney Plus shows. So much promise but the whole thing felt like some non-canon book from 1993.
Should’ve kept it to a movie instead of shoehorning it into Disney+ for the sake of quarterly earnings for their streaming service.
Disney dont make star wars.. Lucasfilm does.
You're kidding yourself thinking Disney and Lucasfilm aint the same
Monkey_Driven wrote:Looking back at it, Obi-Wan seems like the biggest missed opportunity of these Disney Plus shows. So much promise but the whole thing felt like some non-canon book from 1993.
Should’ve kept it to a movie instead of shoehorning it into Disney+ for the sake of quarterly earnings for their streaming service.
Disney dont make star wars.. Lucasfilm does.
You're kidding yourself thinking Disney and Lucasfilm aint the same
Or that "Lucasfilm" has even the slightest say in how their product is released.
im a disney shareholder ..i dont get to call the board up and demand they make the next series less black or with fewer women in it..youll be sad to hear that probably..it isnt how it works..
this entire thread and everyone in it ... showing you entire ass lads
I didn't realize dime was personally responsible as a Disney shareholder for greenlighting that Lion King sequel. I had no idea corporations had become so democratized.
epilogue wrote:I still think this show is way better than Mando and Fett. But it doesn't hold a candle to Ahsoka or Andor.
So far.
What about Obi-Wan?
At this point I like OB1 more. I'd say they're about even after 3 episodes.
1. Mando
2. Andor
3. Ahsoka
4. Kenobi
5. Boba
Still, Mando when it’s at its weakest (worst parts of s3) is near the bottom, while the top three episodes of Boba (esp the Mando episodes), were very good. Ahsoka had a great cast, Kenobi some real highlights. Andor was very solid throughout, no stinker episodes, great arch, yet not as many true highlight episodes as Mando has brought us.
Still haven’t seen Acolyte, but it can’t be worse than the bottom two Boba episodes.
dimejinky99 wrote:im a disney shareholder ..i dont get to call the board up and demand they make the next series less black or with fewer women in it..youll be sad to hear that probably..it isnt how it works..
this entire thread and everyone in it ... showing you entire ass lads
Are you saying that several RM users don’t like it (even if it’s good), because the series has black actors and women in prominent roles?
dimejinky99 wrote:im a disney shareholder ..i dont get to call the board up and demand they make the next series less black or with fewer women in it..youll be sad to hear that probably..it isnt how it works..
this entire thread and everyone in it ... showing you entire ass lads
again, youre doing this thing where you scroll the internet all day watching people say awful things like black people or woman should not be allowed in star wars, and then you come here and some of us think acolyte sucks, and you continue arguing with us as if we said women and black people shouldn't be in star wars.
