Star Wars Thread (a Galaxy Far Far Away) Obi-Wan Movie In The Works! (36)

Star Wars has been dead since Disney took over. I’m with you 100% on this, Weezy.
If I had a better relationship with my Brother(Design Supervisor on the Star Wars Feature Films), I would ask him his opinion.

 

Yeah. As has been the case with every Disney Star Wars show aside from Andor, I’ve grown to dislike Ahsoka more and more over time. The Acolyte is a joke.

I did recently finish reading the Darth Plaguis novel, which was tremendous.

 

watched first episode of Acolyte expecting it to be absolutely terrible. I didn't see it yet, but again, I'm not hardcore. I just enjoy things for what they are. I've heard some people got lost in future episodes, so there's still time to be disappointed.

But nothing will compare to the originals. Just not possible.

 

I hear you, and it sounds like many others share your opinions.

 

I gave Acolyte a chance. It started out okay to me but just got worse as it went along. Its central story just doesn't hold up

 

Same. I am very concerned that Plaguis is going to be teased in the finale and will be the next character they ruin. I recently read the Darth Plaguis novel and its one of my favorite pieces of Star Wars media ever. Every time one of these shows turns out to be bad I tell myself maybe its time to let Star Wars go lol, but then I watch the next one. Andor can't come soon enough.

 

I know. I want them to get it right so badly but they always trip over their own feet even if the concept sounds interesting.

I will have to read the Plagueis novel now.

 

A lot of these shows just feel cheap too. In Ahsoka they were supposed to be traveling to an entirely different galaxy. You’d think we would get some really trippy, creative sci fi landscapes and set pieces. Nope, the whole planet is just grassy plains and the stone temple.

The Plaguis novel is awesome, it sets up the political landscape of Phantom Menace really well and re-frames the whole Anakin Chosen One thing in a really interesting way. Can’t recommend it enough.

 

HBO has some misses here and there, but by and large they just know how to make elite television. They've been doing it for decades now. Disney seems to still be having trouble translating their approach to streaming. I hate the sequels, but visually they were pretty strong. Certain shows like Andor and (IMO) Loki do a great job, but Kenobi, Ahsoka, Boba Fett and now Acolyte just look cheap.

House of the Dragon is really good at keeping their ammo dry for the big action scenes/set pieces. Like 80% of a season is conversations in rooms, which I assume are pretty easy to shoot. They can pull it off because the writing and acting is so strong that fans love those scenes too. There's an alternate universe out there where Lucas sold Star Wars to HBO instead. I can't imagine how f***ing awesome it would be.

 

You hung in longer than I could.

After creating jedi by witch chanting, I had to go.

 

Well it looks like Darth Plaguis is the next character Disney is determined to ruin lol. The Acolyte is the 2nd worst Star Wars show for me I think. Book of Boba Fett is less damaging to the core tenets of the Jedi and the Force, but the overall quality of that show was just so atrociously bad it has to stay in last for me.

The "actually the Jedi aren't so great stuff" in The Acolyte and The Last Jedi before it is so lame, unoriginal and frankly overdone at this point. They keep doing it like its some novel way of looking at Star Wars, but it was a major theme of the prequels. Hell, we get some of it with Obi Wan and Yoda's keeping the truth of Vader's identity from Luke in the first two movies. For all the faults of the prequels, they struck the right balance between highlighting the mistakes of individual Jedi like Yoda and Obi-Wan as well as the rigidity and complacency of the order as a whole, while also maintaining that they are a force for good in the universe and that even "well-intentioned" Sith like Anakin inevitably devolve into selfishness and cruelty. What we get from The Acolyte is just that the Jedi are either hypocritical (like Sol) or just plain corrupt (like Vernestra).

 

The ending of the Acolyte wasn't just failing to stick a landing. It was completely crashing the plane. Granted, the plane that is Star Wars is barely flying at this point, but man, as low as I thought of it at first the worse it holds up over time to reflect.

It is really hard for me to process how badly this group has done this franchise. Not only do they not get the basics of Star Wars but they keep failing at basics of story telling.

Exploring the dark side of the force should be easy money and really cool. So many possibilities there and they just failed at every turn.