markellisiddon

I love this show. It captures the child like sense of adventure the original trilogy had more than anything since. It's also broadly accessible to a family audience without pandering too much to either. It's firmly sits in the adventure space where the stakes feel real and the danger palpable. It also just FEELS like the team putting it together 'get' what makes Star Wars so exciting. I honestly am so pleasantly surprised by this series and can't wait to see where it takes us. Hats off to the team behind it, you've found a great cast here and there's room for them to grow into their roles as they age. Bravo!

I'm just baffled who this series is aimed at? I get that reinvention is a good thing, but the conflicting and contradictory nature of so much of this show seems almost designed to annoy people that like Star Wars. Is the play here that they are trying to alienate the current fan base and instead find a large new audience? I really don't think this can possibly work. It's really starting to feel like just making something people that like Star Wars would actually watch is something they are actively trying to avoid.

It's kind of depressing on so many levels. It's now starting to feel like the brand that Star Wars was is just not what they want Star Wars to be. When I think about the endless stories they could make instead, that would not exclude new audiences and still excite old audiences, it's just bizarre how we end up here. With such a middling show that seems to be made for an imaginary audience.

I guess the good thing about trying to alienate an audience is that eventually all of us feeling disappointment and then writing about, it will just stop caring anymore so there will be less people complaining. Maybe that's what Disney want?

This film really caught me off guard. The script feels razor sharp and seriously funny. It works on levels that younger kids will enjoy, but adults also can really enjoy. I honestly laughed harder in parts of this movie than in many other comedy movies. The juxtaposition of what we usually get in these animal movies for kids, with a much more sharp and surprisingly funny script. I'm in my 40's and watched with my 12 year old who also really found it funny. It's up there with one of my favourite animated family movies. Don't sleep on this one, I worry it might get overlooked as something way less interesting than it actually is.