Star Wars: Resistance

Although I liked the fact this series adds to the story of the last 3 films (kind of), the main star Kaz is just so damn annoying, so is his green friend Niko who is like this animated series version of Jar Jar. I watched all of season 1 and now on to 2 but Kaz is beginning to seriously ware thin. He is just too clumsy it's not even funny. Star Wars Rebels had some seriousness too it, this is like a piss take.

When this show started I was aboard the hate train because I was tired of Disney's new direction of Star Wars and the first episodes felt really disappointing and boring. As of mid February, the show has gotten quite more promising and interesting than from where it started. All of the characters except for Oscar Isaac's character (Poe Dameron) felt really dumb at the beginning, but became more interesting as they became more developed. The plot at the beginning (which consisted of plane racing) became more of what the show promised, becoming more of a war in space than what we see at the beginning. If you're an adult you probably won't get much out of the show, but it serves as way better of a show for younger folks than Star Wars Rebels does.

Overall, this show is massively disappointing, but not because it's really that bad - it just has such a vaunted legacy to live up to, and had such promise that it doesn't reach.

First, the artwork is beautiful. I only wish the the other Star Wars cartoons had anime-inspired artwork like this instead of the awful, dated, digital style they have.

But the other SW cartoons succeed in spite of their artwork, the writing is that good -- and the inverse is Resistance. In spite of the beautiful animation, the show never takes off, the writing is that directionless.

In contrast to the other SW cartoons, there's almost no tie-in to the specific plot of the SW movies, with an exception or two. It's just broad strokes about life in the SW universe during the time of "The First Order", centered around a "platform"/station. There's little about Jedi. It makes this cartoon into something else entirely. It's slow and mundane with occasional action. It's basically a lighthearted drama. Similar to SW Rebels, the main character isn't very likable. But it almost works.

While Resistance tries to keep it relatively light and humorous, it's rarely actually funny -- but admirably, it's not cringe-worthy either. There are some flashes of quite clever and unexpected humor with surprisingly nuanced comedic timing, in fact. Such as when a good-guy droid tries to get a prisoner to talk by submitting them to nails-on-chalkboard sounds..only to have another of the good guys abruptly tell them to stop bc it's annoying. Not easy to pull-off.

The character development is decent, like the other SW cartoons, and overall the writing is far better than the sequel SW movies - unfortunately that's the universe that this show operates in, so perhaps it's for the best it doesn't waste time trying to make sense of nonsense and cuts it's own path.

If they made a third season, I'd come back for it. For me, Rebels only took off in its 2nd season, before becoming my favorite over the Clone Wars series. Regardless, I appreciated this effort overall - when the beautiful artwork of Resistance gets paired with the writing success and compelling narrative of the previous SW cartoons, it's going to be an absolute winner.

This new series is creatively bankrupt from the start. This is a Star Wars without any of the adventure, any conflict, character, or creativity. The entire series so far (up to episode 10) takes place around one system. The planet is just a platform surrounded by water, very similar to the Kamino planet from Attack of the Clones. There are no landscapes to explore. This is almost like a sitcom. The small cast of characters walks around this one area doing nothing of interest besides solving very watered down problems while weak slapstick goes on. It could have used a laugh track. The "just for kids" excuse is false. This show has the same TV-Y7 rating as Rebels. It is just made as a cheap cash-grab. I grew up watching the Clone Wars 2D and 3D cartoons. Those were perfectly age appropriate and still watchable as an adult. This is just the laziest thing. It is a disgrace.

...thank god they are bringing back Clone Wars.

This show was made for kids ONLY. It does not have the universal appeal of CW and Rebels. Adults fans of SW will not like it. Such a disappointment. The characters and plots have no depth.