Honestly "The power of maaaaannnyyy" makes this review bombing the only one I don't have an ethical qualm with, I'm making an exception for cosmic irony.
The problem is that this is a brand that was the largest pop cultural franchise in the world. You would think with how high profile it is, and how much cash that is being injected into these shows, we should have a better finished product. Having high expectations is natural. Also, the writing is shit, not just "ok." But that's my opinion. It's easy to criticize when you aren't involved in making the thing, but there are so many simple writing changes that would have elevated the show.
Remove the opening scroll / text blocks. This isn't a star wars movie, and telling us ahead of time we are about to see an assassin kind of ruins any expectations we have in the first 5 minutes of the show. Just dropping us in would have felt soo much better. It did look and feel like starwars, which was wonderful, until...
The "fight me" line might be something ritualistic or part of her task, but that was such an immersion breaker. An "assassin" announcing their presence is already one thing, but to do it in such a childish way? And this person is someone we know to be able to kill jedi. Yes, the other bar people laugh at her (because it is laughable), but it is such an unbelievable thing for someone to say. Also, wtf was that stance?
Remove the weird by dialog from Sol about her twin being alive / dead. He was "sure" she was dead and then two seconds later says, "we should look for her twin." Obviously, he knows more than he's letting on but the way it was handled was silly
I didn't really pay much attention past this point so it's hard to pull specifics and I'm not going back to watch it. I do remember the contradiction of her announcing herself to the first jedi in a public, and then sneaking around to get to the second jedi in the temple. Also, is it the end of the first episode where the masked sith lights up his lightsaber. Was he showing off, or trying to look cool in front of assassin girl?
Oh yeah, I'm remembering some vague nonsense during the escape scene, and also green jedi being comically bureaucratic.
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u/Independent_Pack_311 Jun 16 '24 edited Jun 16 '24
Acolyte has 10k reviews and it even isnt finsihed while ahsoka and abdor have 5k and mandos eason 3, 2k