This whole show would have made a much better 2 hour movie

[Edited on July 21, 2024 at 2:37 PM. Reason : Just so much useless filler to fill out 8 episodes]

7/21/2024 2:36:23 PM

There were so many good ideas, and really, really well-done fight choreography. Some of the best we've seen. But the pacing was just so wacky, and the flashbacks just made it worse when it might have been better off simply using linear storytelling.

The use of flashbacks even made no sense sometimes. I think it was the next to last episode (?) and we're under the pretext that Sol is the one telling the story (when he tells the twin to shut up and listen.) But all sorts of things happen in the flashback that he's not a part of, and the overall flashback doesn't seem to represent his POV at all. It's objective. There was no Rashomon pattern, like in Last Jedi, where we see different perceptions of the same event. It was just an episode set in the past.

7/23/2024 5:14:52 PM

AJAB?

Guess we'll never get an explanation of what exactly Ascension is or what the covens plan for the girls was? Or did I miss all that?

Also is that weird guy in the cave the top Sith lord, so one of the three have to die?

7/27/2024 2:11:45 PM

Spoiler: Weird guy in the cave eventually is killed by Palpatine, so maybe both of them will die.

7/27/2024 4:22:28 PM

Finally got around to finishing the Acolyte. Remember how in all previous Star Wars media, light saber color was explained as being determined by the kyber crystal? And that is why Sith always have red sabers, because their crystals are synthetic because for whatever reason they don't have access to the natural ones?

So I guess that was just a rumor. The real reason they are red is because they are just really pissed off. But not Darth Vader in his fight with Obi-Wan though. Despite being so pissed off that he slaughtered a bunch of Jedi younglings, choked his own wife, tried to kill Obi-Wan, and got his limbs cut off/burned alive, and became the most powerful force user in the galaxy, he still wasn't as pissed off as Osha. His saber stayed blue.


[Edited on September 13, 2024 at 10:52 AM. Reason : ]

9/13/2024 10:46:46 AM

"I know there's still good in you, I can sense it."

9/16/2024 4:00:52 PM

I didn't watch all of the Acolyte. Just seemed like a train wreck. Good example^ it would seem. And it was cancelled, so hopefully they're righting the ship with their SW content.

9/18/2024 3:07:57 PM

Enjoyed the first two episodes of Skeleton Crew. Gives me the Gen X fuzzies. Loved how they used speeder bikes like neighborhood bikes.

12/3/2024 1:31:47 PM

Did a rewatch of Andor. Absolutely fantastic show. I love seeing the inner workings of the empire, far removed from any Skywalker/Jedi talk. I can’t wait for season two and seeing if we get any background information on Luthen.

The prison episodes were just good TV.

I’m a little biased though because I feel like Rogue One is probably one of the best movies out there in the Star Wars universe.

1/14/2025 9:05:49 AM

Well it is (Rogue One).

1/15/2025 1:57:21 PM

I watched it. It was decent, but I don't know... it just didn't feel completely put together. Season 3 in particular felt rushed.

and this show is definitely better than some of the other Disney stuff, but a common issue I see in all Disney content is that all the actors... despite being diverse in age and race and what not, feel the same? they all have the same kind of vibe around them... I can't exactly describe what it is, but they're all kind of the same. the expressions, the way they talk, the expressions, their general disposition

Nothing really beats the prequels for me. I should rewatch them, I don't think I've actually seen the movies outside of clips in over ten years

3/12/2025 1:44:24 PM