Post by fonebone on Aug 22, 2023 19:47:21 GMT -8
Star Wars: Ahsoka "Part One: Master And Apprentice"
I don't usually do this. Usually I treat Pilots very gently, and with a grain of salt. I try to keep an open mind. But I strongly disliked that. It used a brand of plot-related stupidity of the type usually reserved for long-running series that have become a little long in the tooth and run out of gas. Now, this IS a direct sequel to "Rebels", from Dave Filoni himself, and "Rebels" had some amazing plot-related stupidity of its own week in and week out, but I always brushed that off as it being a show for kids. Nope, truly Filoni doesn't understand how dumb this is and is an actual bad writer. Interesting to learn.
I don't begrudge Sabine for being dumb enough to take the map and go off by herself. It's established she doesn't like being told what to do, and likes testing limits with authority. What I object to it the fact that Ahsoka should already know this about her, and insisted she hand over the map to her right this instant while she was entertaining notions of taking off with it.
Interesting Ahsoka once trained Sabine to be a Jedi. The ending DID fool me though. I really did think they actually killed Sabine off. I was pissed for a hot minute.
David Tennant is not as big as Doctor Who get for Star Wars as Tom Baker's voice-over role was in "Rebels", but it's probably second.
Return of the credit crawl Narration at the beginning, this time using red lettering. I've kind of missed that in the franchise.
I am very unhappy with that, and I almost NEVER give Pilots the business. But this shows started off on the thinnest of ice with me. *.
Star Wars: Ahsoka "Part Two: Toil And Trouble"
Better.
I have to say the New Republic is making some of the exact same kinds of stupid mistakes as the Old Republic. The idea that about half the Republic fleet is former Imperialists is troubling. Not only should those guys be in jail, but the bad dude played by Peter Jacobson thought he was justifying the idea, when instead he was pointing out the flaw in its logic, when he claimed the New Republic couldn't function without the Imperialists in the ranks. That's a BAD thing, man.
See, to me, that means the New Republic needed to start over. The idea that they NEED former Imperialists to function gives that faction an alarming and unnecessary amount of political power. If I were Leia, I would simply have the people learn to do without. At least to start off with. Would people have been pissed to lose so many of their comforts? Yeah. But you don't overthrow an Empire and do it halfway by refusing to actually destroy it. Man, people talked smack of The Mandalorian: Season 3, but I dug the fact it hinted the New Republic was not just even more corrupt than the Old One. It was starting to become as corrupt as the Empire itself. This is an interesting idea I want to see further explored.
While we are talking smack about the Republic and the Jedi, I am tickled that the Droid played by David Tennant seems ten times wiser than Yoda and Obi-Wan on their best days combined. And probably twenty times as honest. I dig him.
Sabine with the Mandalorian helmet is a much bigger deal with the added context of "The Mandalorian" than it ever was on "Rebels". Which is something I like.
I can work with this. ***1/2.
I don't usually do this. Usually I treat Pilots very gently, and with a grain of salt. I try to keep an open mind. But I strongly disliked that. It used a brand of plot-related stupidity of the type usually reserved for long-running series that have become a little long in the tooth and run out of gas. Now, this IS a direct sequel to "Rebels", from Dave Filoni himself, and "Rebels" had some amazing plot-related stupidity of its own week in and week out, but I always brushed that off as it being a show for kids. Nope, truly Filoni doesn't understand how dumb this is and is an actual bad writer. Interesting to learn.
I don't begrudge Sabine for being dumb enough to take the map and go off by herself. It's established she doesn't like being told what to do, and likes testing limits with authority. What I object to it the fact that Ahsoka should already know this about her, and insisted she hand over the map to her right this instant while she was entertaining notions of taking off with it.
Interesting Ahsoka once trained Sabine to be a Jedi. The ending DID fool me though. I really did think they actually killed Sabine off. I was pissed for a hot minute.
David Tennant is not as big as Doctor Who get for Star Wars as Tom Baker's voice-over role was in "Rebels", but it's probably second.
Return of the credit crawl Narration at the beginning, this time using red lettering. I've kind of missed that in the franchise.
I am very unhappy with that, and I almost NEVER give Pilots the business. But this shows started off on the thinnest of ice with me. *.
Star Wars: Ahsoka "Part Two: Toil And Trouble"
Better.
I have to say the New Republic is making some of the exact same kinds of stupid mistakes as the Old Republic. The idea that about half the Republic fleet is former Imperialists is troubling. Not only should those guys be in jail, but the bad dude played by Peter Jacobson thought he was justifying the idea, when instead he was pointing out the flaw in its logic, when he claimed the New Republic couldn't function without the Imperialists in the ranks. That's a BAD thing, man.
See, to me, that means the New Republic needed to start over. The idea that they NEED former Imperialists to function gives that faction an alarming and unnecessary amount of political power. If I were Leia, I would simply have the people learn to do without. At least to start off with. Would people have been pissed to lose so many of their comforts? Yeah. But you don't overthrow an Empire and do it halfway by refusing to actually destroy it. Man, people talked smack of The Mandalorian: Season 3, but I dug the fact it hinted the New Republic was not just even more corrupt than the Old One. It was starting to become as corrupt as the Empire itself. This is an interesting idea I want to see further explored.
While we are talking smack about the Republic and the Jedi, I am tickled that the Droid played by David Tennant seems ten times wiser than Yoda and Obi-Wan on their best days combined. And probably twenty times as honest. I dig him.
Sabine with the Mandalorian helmet is a much bigger deal with the added context of "The Mandalorian" than it ever was on "Rebels". Which is something I like.
I can work with this. ***1/2.