Honestly? I didn't love it. Cool as it was to see a live-action version of a Clone Wars battle, I didn't feel like Anakin and Ahsoka's interactions revealed much about their relationship. I'm glad Ahsoka came out of it in a lighter and more outgoing mood, as the version Rosario Dawson played previously seemed barely connected to the animated character, so there's that. And the pacing remains godawful. The space whale sequence was thrilling and beautiful at first, and then it. Just. Kept. Going.
I want to like this a whole lot more than I do so far. It's just not doing a whole lot for me.
Ahh bummer. Did it remind you of international assassin at all? Ahsoka had to battle a most powerful adversary to survive and make it back to the real world.
This is the first that comparison has even occurred to me, I'm afraid. International Assassin is such a deliberately strange, and ultimately emotionally overwhelming experience. This was like a few dozen episodes of other shows I've seen where a character hallucinates or magically gets a visit from a Ghost of Christmas Past/Present/Future-type.
Man, I want to like this show, and some of the visuals are cool, but it suffers from the heavy Star Wars Formula stuff that afflicts almost every movie and TV show since the original trilogy (besides Rogue One and Andor, of course). It feels like they have to follow the same EXACT plan for every episode: we must have one (1) lightsaber fight. We must have wipe cuts. We must have droids doing funny/cool droid stuff. We must have (in most eps) at least one cute animal to make people go "awww how cute". We must have at least one discussion of the force or being a jedi. It just feels so formulaic. I want them to mix it up and try different things so badly! That said, I still tune in to Disney+ each week, and I feel like each episodes is ever-so-slightly a net positive to watch. And I like the visuals and where the story arc is going in a macro sense. I just wish we could mix up some of these formulaic aspects sometimes. We get it, jedi are important/powerful, the force is important, every series/movie has to relate to the Skywalker family somehow, etc. etc. I know it's Disney so largely fat chance, we're lucky we got Andor, but mix up the formula a bit, dammit! Try new things! Try different editing! Introduce more characters that aren't jedi or sith or force-related! There's an entire universe in this world, of course.
What about this week's Ahsoka?!?! 🤯
Honestly? I didn't love it. Cool as it was to see a live-action version of a Clone Wars battle, I didn't feel like Anakin and Ahsoka's interactions revealed much about their relationship. I'm glad Ahsoka came out of it in a lighter and more outgoing mood, as the version Rosario Dawson played previously seemed barely connected to the animated character, so there's that. And the pacing remains godawful. The space whale sequence was thrilling and beautiful at first, and then it. Just. Kept. Going.
I want to like this a whole lot more than I do so far. It's just not doing a whole lot for me.
Ahh bummer. Did it remind you of international assassin at all? Ahsoka had to battle a most powerful adversary to survive and make it back to the real world.
This is the first that comparison has even occurred to me, I'm afraid. International Assassin is such a deliberately strange, and ultimately emotionally overwhelming experience. This was like a few dozen episodes of other shows I've seen where a character hallucinates or magically gets a visit from a Ghost of Christmas Past/Present/Future-type.
Man, I want to like this show, and some of the visuals are cool, but it suffers from the heavy Star Wars Formula stuff that afflicts almost every movie and TV show since the original trilogy (besides Rogue One and Andor, of course). It feels like they have to follow the same EXACT plan for every episode: we must have one (1) lightsaber fight. We must have wipe cuts. We must have droids doing funny/cool droid stuff. We must have (in most eps) at least one cute animal to make people go "awww how cute". We must have at least one discussion of the force or being a jedi. It just feels so formulaic. I want them to mix it up and try different things so badly! That said, I still tune in to Disney+ each week, and I feel like each episodes is ever-so-slightly a net positive to watch. And I like the visuals and where the story arc is going in a macro sense. I just wish we could mix up some of these formulaic aspects sometimes. We get it, jedi are important/powerful, the force is important, every series/movie has to relate to the Skywalker family somehow, etc. etc. I know it's Disney so largely fat chance, we're lucky we got Andor, but mix up the formula a bit, dammit! Try new things! Try different editing! Introduce more characters that aren't jedi or sith or force-related! There's an entire universe in this world, of course.