allan-doyle1973
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No-one asked for this. Even when it was announced it was pre-destined to be another god awful chapter in Disney's continued plundering of the Star Wars IP. Another popcorn, comic book style take on both established and fringe characters to please whatever the zeitgeist was or simply sell merch.
For me. Rogue One has been the only light for Disney Star Wars and when I saw that movie, I was excited for more. I've been sadly disappointed till now.
After watching the S2 finale of Andor today and Rogue One straight afterwards, the cast, narrative, style and production is indistinguishable moving from one to the other. The continuity is hugely impressive.
I'm not going to go deep, but I'm so glad they made this series. It was epic. With all the references and plot-lines that fans will pick up on without key jangling or member-berries. As well as new and interesting ones. Compelling sub plots, fleshed out characters and all in a world with real consequences. And not a light sabre or force choke in sight!
It was great and now I'm sad it's gone. Just like the reimagined BSG I doubt we'll see anything this good again for a while. Especially from Disney.
The writing was great, the cast was superb and the direction was incredible. Save the last few episodes so you have time to watch Rogue One straight afterwards.
That was NOT the way. THIS is the way.
For me. Rogue One has been the only light for Disney Star Wars and when I saw that movie, I was excited for more. I've been sadly disappointed till now.
After watching the S2 finale of Andor today and Rogue One straight afterwards, the cast, narrative, style and production is indistinguishable moving from one to the other. The continuity is hugely impressive.
I'm not going to go deep, but I'm so glad they made this series. It was epic. With all the references and plot-lines that fans will pick up on without key jangling or member-berries. As well as new and interesting ones. Compelling sub plots, fleshed out characters and all in a world with real consequences. And not a light sabre or force choke in sight!
It was great and now I'm sad it's gone. Just like the reimagined BSG I doubt we'll see anything this good again for a while. Especially from Disney.
The writing was great, the cast was superb and the direction was incredible. Save the last few episodes so you have time to watch Rogue One straight afterwards.
That was NOT the way. THIS is the way.
Just another search for a magical Star Wars map McMuffin with a lot of laborious, slow set pieces that are I'm sure supposed to be moments of tension and drama, but they all seem to miss the mark.
The joyful, pragmatic nature and optimism if the animated Ahsoka is flat out missing from this live action version. Instead we get a joyless, stony faces cynical character that has zero charisma. All her pals are just the same. Wooden, soulless and written badly...
I'm staggered at how regularly Lucasfilm can screw up Star Wars. There is a universe of source material to work from and they are slowly running out of characters that anyone cares about.
4 episodes in an nothing has happened. A lot of staring, people making dumb decisions, inconsistency's in the rules of the universe it's set in as well as the continuity and easily spotted holes n the plot. With dialogue tropes pulled right out of the "The collins big book of dialogue tropes" It's difficult not to find any positives.
Bring in Anakin (worst SW CGI yet) at the end of ep4 for a bit of fan service / key jangling and the "real fans" will re-engage.
I actually can't be bothered writing any more. I'm falling asleep just thinking about it.
The joyful, pragmatic nature and optimism if the animated Ahsoka is flat out missing from this live action version. Instead we get a joyless, stony faces cynical character that has zero charisma. All her pals are just the same. Wooden, soulless and written badly...
I'm staggered at how regularly Lucasfilm can screw up Star Wars. There is a universe of source material to work from and they are slowly running out of characters that anyone cares about.
4 episodes in an nothing has happened. A lot of staring, people making dumb decisions, inconsistency's in the rules of the universe it's set in as well as the continuity and easily spotted holes n the plot. With dialogue tropes pulled right out of the "The collins big book of dialogue tropes" It's difficult not to find any positives.
Bring in Anakin (worst SW CGI yet) at the end of ep4 for a bit of fan service / key jangling and the "real fans" will re-engage.
I actually can't be bothered writing any more. I'm falling asleep just thinking about it.
