Star Wars: Geschichten der Unterwelt

Let me get this out of the way. I am a huge Star Wars fan, but like most people have not liked everything that Disney has done. I loved tales of the Jedi, but in all honesty hated tales of the empire. So I was worried, yet cautiously optimistic about tales of the underworld.

However, I was pleasantly surprised. Without giving any spoilers, the Asajj Ventress storyline I found fine. Nothing amazing, but it was not a character assassination like they did with Barris. Some cool fights, but overall pretty forgettable.

Then I get to Bane. From the very start, you could see they were much more inspired. Banes backstory was super interesting, and you could see the character development throughout, and it crescendos perfectly with the final episode. I really really hope we get more Bane content from these creators, they absolutely killed it! I eagerly anticipate next years "tales" series!

I love what Dave Filoni does, but this one and Tales of the Empire were not as good as, lets say, Tales of The Jedi. Why?

I was happy to see Asajj Ventress, but I was hoping to see a more important part of her life. Here, we don't get any special story, just a random episode in her life. To avoid giving any spoilers, I won't say what she's doing, but it's really nothing special. I wish we had more of Asajj, she's a great character.

I wasn't happy to see Cad Bane. For personal, subjective reasons, I don't like this character. A cowboy in a galaxy far far away? Anyway, I also don't think this character is so important that it needs his own story, and neither did Morgan Elsbeth in Tales of the Empire in my opinion. Tales of the Jedi presented us two very special characters: Dooko and Ahsoka. And now we get Morgan Elsbeth and Cad Bane. Some characters deserve a better presentation, showing their beginnings, just not these ones. Again, this is a personal, subjective opinion.

Getting back to Cad Bane, his story presented here is just not interesting. They could've come with a better, more interesting story.

Anyway, the "Tales" could come back with many interesting characters that deserve more presentation. Can't wait for the next one (if there will be one).

Part of what is slowly turning into an annual tradition of a slew of short Clone Wars-era minisodes loosely grouped by theme. This third time is that particularly 20th Century American aspect of the Wars universe, "the vague seedy underbelly". The bounty hunters and lawbreakers, none of it ever more than euphemistically gritty, especially compared to the shockingly raw contemporaneous Andor Season 2.

Here the first set are the strongest; following an unlikely resurrection, Asajj Ventress is walking the path between light and dark in aide of a likeable young Jedi played by the phenomenally brilliant Lane Factor (Reservation Dog's evergreen Cheese). The Filoniverse is as by-the-numbers as Star Wars gets but this was a deceptive little arc that surprised me. I'd like to see more of these two. I want a Strata subplot in the Mando movie.

The Cad Bane part is less interesting, he's always been more Scrappy-Doo than Clint Eastwood for me as a character, forever showing up and adding little beyond cliché and mannered vocal delivery. His three-part tragic backstory doesn't flesh him out much and plays out like any well-worn "two street-rats separated by destiny doomed to never reconcile" story. Eff.

After the first Jedi series I keep hoping these continuity stocking fillers are far more consequential than they are, but that's not what the Clone Wars era Star Wars was built for. It's there to keep the wheels turning, the content churning out, and to go nowhere particularly interesting in no particular hurry.

Like every year (for the past couple of years), Star Wars offers us the premiere of an animated series on "May the 4th be with you" that expands a bit on the lore of characters we've met in the prequels, the Mandalorian, animated series, etc.

In addition to the excellent "Tales of the Jedi" and the average "Tales of the Empire," we now have this third version, "Tales of the Underworld." Far inferior to the first but considerably better than the second, it offers us two sets of three episodes, the first focusing on Asajj Ventress and the second on Cad Bane.

The result? A very interesting first half that leaves us wanting more, and a rather average sequel that fails to generate much interest.

I suppose that with the fans' responses, those in charge of Star Wars will gather data on which stories interest us most and which less.

Hopefully, this will result in more series like "Mandalorian" or "Andor" and less "Acolyte" or "Kenobi." In short, an entertaining batch of episodes to binge-watch in one afternoon.

There little tales are usually ok, but could be better. They are far too short. They definitely need to be longer. With 10 episodes, with 5 episodes each for each characters storyline. At 20, 25 minutes long would be better. 3 episodes at 15 mins or less isn't enough for a story development. There is a lot of stories that could be told about asajj ventress. She is a very interesting character. Since clone wars finished. There is definitely room for a big story development. I wasn't keen on bad batch. It didn't interest me. We definitely need to get back to the routes of star wars. It's lost it's way.