Jesus this episode was atrocious. I'm talking Obi-Wan level bad.
If they want to tackle shit like this, then they need far stronger writing. It's almost as if they watched Andor and thought they wanted to make something like that. Only none of them have the skill to pull it off.
Last edited by ares834 on Mar 15th, 2023 at 03:04 PM
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Episode started out good with the ship on ship combat, then took a hard dive into mediocrity and sat there. Then it ended good. All in about. about 10-13mins of good total.
I enjoyed it... but I'm not as big a star wars fan as most of you these days. The extended unoverses, beyond the early non Canon stuff like splinter, and the original comic series is mostly a mystery to me, I was ten when ep 4 came out, it is to me mainly childhood. That's not to say I wasn't on the early boards, but that was 25 years ago pr more maybe.
The highlight of the episode is surely the order 66 part. We finally get to see who saved Grogu... I surely didn't expect Ahmed Best to appear, he looked cool with those two lightsabers
Btw I’m glad that Grogu wasn’t saved by Barriss or some other famous Jedi. One criticism I have towards new canon is that, since it’s relatively new, you always have the same 5-6 Jedi who do everything, while the rest just stand there and watch and die when order 66 comes around. They should make us feel more like the Jedi order is made up of 10.000 members, each contributing to the war. Like in the EU I remember there was this Jedi Knight who set up a rescue mission to save some younglings from Grevious, then there was a Bruce Lee look-a-like who fought and almost chocked Maul, Jedi master Echuu Shen was the first Jedi to kill a dark acolyte during the clone wars etc. So I’m glad that for once it was an unknown Jedi, not war hero Kenobi or Ahsoka, who contributed to doing something important
Also very disappointed that they are going with Bo-Katan becoming the new Mandalore. Seeing our MC grow into that role would have been far more entertaining. But now Din has become a side character in his own shown. He has no agency or direction. Instead he just comes across as a lackey. This is in rather stark contract to the first two seasons where he had his own quest as well as we saw him grow and begin to doubt his dogmatic (and idiotic) beliefs.
Oh, and Baby Yeed has been completely pointless this season. He's just there for cute gags and to sell merchandise. I'm so glad they undermines season 2's powerful ending for that!
Last edited by ares834 on Apr 5th, 2023 at 07:43 PM