Caught up on Bad Batch earlier and then plowed thru Tales of the Jedi.... still quite enjoying Bad Batch and looking forward to the remaining episodes. Tales of the Jedi was enjoyable!
Finished up Bad Batch.
I liked it.
Kinda want to rewatch the entire series thing to enjoy the ending again...
for the life of me, I ALWAYS, and I really do mean ALWAYS, read "Bad Batch" as "Bad Bitch" every single time. my mind can't seem to get that sorted out no matter how much I KNOW it's called Bad Batch.
"Tales of the Empire" was also a decent watch... it'll be interesting to see where some of the stories spiral out to....
Acolyte is such low a level effort. How does this shit keep getting made?
What about it makes you consider The Acolyte a low-level effort?
the production is trash. the green screen is terrible. the atmospheres look fake and digital. the storyline so far is incredibly dumb and obvious. a multi billion dollar company cant figure out how to make this look good. its amazing to me.
Last edited by DVYDRNS; 06-16-2024 at 12:14 PM.
Yeah, as soon as I saw that, I was explaining to my wife how that wouldn't be possible in the vacuum of space where there's no oxygen to fuel the fire. I became my dad for a minute, haha! It's one thing when there's an explosion emanating from the inside of a ship or space station (the Death Star exploding, for example) where there's air with oxygen inside (I AM able to suspend my disbelief for science fiction movies, I promise), but this was just a small fire out in space.
Because Star Wars has never had fire in space before...
"The power of one.... the power of two....... the powerrrr of mannnnyyyyy."
Starting to get a little bored at how easy the show is to predict now...
I clocked Spoiler: the twins and Qimir being the Sith so early on.
The only thing I didn't predict was Spoiler: Jenki and Yord getting killed off
Here are a few theories I now have that probably are going to happen/be revealed
Spoiler: - The Jedi killed the sisters somehow, I think everyone knows that
- Sol/Qimir both know their respective Osha/Mae are not who they actually are
- Qimir is the apprentice, not the master
- Osha becomes the apprentice of Qimir, not Mae
- Sol/Mae die to keep the Jedi unaware of the Sith
Five episodes in and I am curious to see how this turns out...
My first theory was kind of obviously right, but the 2nd one may now have been explained a bit by the latest episode...
so when do you start working for lucasfilm?
ETA:
I think I'm done with Star Wars once Andor comes out. The whole of Acolyte I kept thinking that it was essentially an argument against the Jedi and that they shouldn't exist and it was pretty effective at that. Every single story from Lucasfilm now likes to talk about the downfall of the Jedi and present them as flawed and it's not great, Bob. I just want space wizards with glow wands and, to be fair, Acolyte had that in spades. That last fight? Holy shit that rocked.
It's also deeply depressing how the downfall of the Jedi is mirroring the current world situation: the bad guys can't win so they go into politics to make the good guys illegal. Very reductive but you know what I mean.
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Absolutely brilliant that I predicted all of that pretty much correctly right?
I think give the sum up film made by Filoni a chance first, I reckon he’s got a big old plan. If the plan sucks, then yeah, it’s been a bit wrecked hasn’t it?
I was always a fan of the way people took the universe and changed it, expanded universe always spoke to me more than the main canon. I was always a fan of the flawed Jedi trope too. Action for the sake of action is for Clone Wars, it bores me, I’m fine with the changes, embracing it - so long as it’s made well, and I’m not sure The Acolyte really hit those marks like I’d have liked it. (the Qimir/Sol fight was utterly badass, have we seen sabers in close quarters like that before?)
As for Star Wars reflecting politics… um??? Hasn’t it always done that? Like forever?
https://www.reddit.com/r/saltierthancrait/s/RN8l3T0hF0
That makes more sense than what I typed.
Disney took inclusivity so far that they figured the bad guys deserve to have equal footing with the good guys.
Finished up The Acolyte tonight...
Gonna need a rewatch binge to see really what I think about it (took too many breaks while watching; stuff going on)... but... I am curious to see where that story goes to.
I like the expanded aspects of other force users out there that aren't Sith or Jedi. I like The Stranger (Darth ManyTeeth) character design... well acted role (best in show, I think).
Just adding more flavour to the SW galaxy I like...
I had to look up where I knew Yord and Venestra from... Russian Doll S2!
It's crazy that Manny Jacinto went from a dork pretending to be a spiritualist to being a spiritualist pretending to be a dork.
Walking through Wal-Mart to get something and saw the 4k steelbox for Andor so I made sure to grab it. They also had Moon Knight but I'm less sure about needing to own that on physical media.
Apologies on the image size.
I just saw there's a Kenobi steelbook, I wonder if some intrepid fan will take that and make a new cut a la The Hobbit trilogy?
Last edited by allegate; 07-23-2024 at 03:27 PM.
Found it in a thrift store? That's ridiculous.
In before the “Disney ruined Star Wars and made it for kids” comments. I hope no one could possibly think this show is for anyone except the new generation of fans (and those of us without as much cynicism)
I don't understand why "fans" insist on grimdark Star Wars when 4 out of the 6 George Lucas movies were very light-hearted for movies about the perils of fascism.
My theory, as a near-50 years old man, is that star wars was a very serious affair for 10 years old me. It wasn't silly, even though it could be funny. Now 40 years later, what is acceptable as "serious" has drastically changed, and the thrills I've felt as a kid at watching Star Wars are definitely absent from most new entries...
... Which is fine ! Let the kids have those ones ! I think the adults trying to watch a Star Wars with the same awe and exhilaration they felts when they were kids are indeed misguided, and need to accept that Star Wars was always silly, goofy, a barely cohesive melting pot of everything, which makes less and less sense the longer it lasts. The thing is a western space opera with samurai wizards set in a fascist dystopia, literally in a past future because the technology is seen through the lens of what seemed incredible in 1970, for fuck's sake...
Which reminds me of something funny. The Acolyte is a show that takes the core concepts of the Skywalker saga - which were mostly strung together on the fly over the decades - and comprehensively repackages them in a new story for a 16-and-up audience. But there's an incredible amount of hate for it, because the morality of the characters is supposedly too ambiguous for many people to even accept it as Star Wars.
Well, The Acolyte has officially been cancelled. This is going to make all the twitter dorks and bigots think they won.