I will watch. I am a sucker for Star Wars so they got me. I like when they piece together stuff from the movies and it will be interesting to see her as Anakins apprentice. My expectations aren’t too high though.
I worry that I’ll be clueless because it could be based on the cartoons that I have never watched.
Dare I say this is the best Star Wars project I’ve seen since Rogue One? I thought the first two episodes were pretty good. It feels like Star Wars to me. Filoni seems to get it. Not sure if they switch directors as the season progresses, but these two were pretty good. Let’s see if the rest of the series delivers.
I really think you have to have been invested in the Rebels cartoon series to actually care for these characters initially. The callbacks to Lothal seen exactly as in the cartoon was great, the visual "Easter eggs" that are out there will be lost on those not having seen the series. My wife is like, who is Ahsoka, and why is she important in SW? I didn't have an hour to explain. She recently discovered Grogu (baby Yoda) For me, it's good. We last saw Morgen Elsbeth in the S2 of Mandalorian, fighting Ahsoka and Mando. I have high hopes for the remaining episodes.
Not sure what you’re saying with your second sentence. But I’ll say this about the first. I wonder if Disney’s model is part of the problem with the poor ratings for their marvel and Star Wars shows. Last night’s episodes were a total of 1.5 hours of good tv viewing. Now they’ll probably drop down to a 30 minute episode next week with all filler that doesn’t progress the story much.
Episode 1 was pretty darned good
I liked Andor too. But this one felt like Star Wars a bit more. I reserve the right to change my opinion, as Disney hasn’t exactly been executing as of late. But so far so good.
Because it was a truly fleshed out story with characters which all advanced a. New story
I’m still liking it but yeah it’s a good point you bring up. Our standards might not be too high right now because so much of disney Star Wars has been not good. Outside of how the 2nd season of Mando ended, the rest of it simply wasn’t great. I did like Andor but I’m in the minority.
Andor was tremendous
They’ve killed the brand. That hotel closing 9 the after it opened and after spending 2 billion on is a microcosm of Disney Star Wars.
In addition to that, Imagine losing 2 billion on Disney+ over the past year. Imagine having most of your films lose money this year, probably over a billion in losses at this point and then depend on The Marvels this Fall to hopefully break the losing streak. Actually Guardians broke the losing streak but that was essentially the only one. Imagine your stock losing 60% of its value this year. Imagine Kathleen Kennedy still hs a job…
You’re think of this whole thing wrong
www.statista.com
And leaking subscriptions.You’re think of this whole thing wrong
It’s an old school ratings view
Global number of Disney+ subscribers 2023 | Statista
How many subscribers does Disney Plus have? In Q4 2023, the number of Disney+ subscribers stood at around 150 million.
They are selling subscriptions and using Content to do it .
Star Wars has always and I mean always been not great .
It’s a knock off samurai movie in space with terrible dialogue and characters who are one dimensional
It’s always been cheese .
The only difference is the nostalgia people have for it
Yeah. They’ve been really clumsy. Like really clumsy. The old guy who has since died looked like an old guy. Dawson looked like an average female, and the Ezra dudes stuff looked like something from a 6th grade production.
I agree. I don't expect my actors to be trained in martial arts but I think Dawson has been really poor in her light Sabre scenes
Were the stunt people striking or something? Honestly I expected more from Filoni for his baby (the FiloniVerse).
Fair enough. I loved andor. Thought it was better than episode 8 and 9. I am "meh" with ashoka. It isn't bad but it isn't doing much for me. I am though two episodes behind. I just saw the turtle people and was wondering why Disney always has to have the ewok type character that dumbs down the story.
I think it does a nice job telling a compelling story , which is enough for me.
I have watched neither but did watch a summary video. I do hear those are good though
I realize you’ll go out of your way to hate on Disney Star Wars for petty reasons, but posts like this seem to imply that the prequel trilogy was good. And that’s just silly.
I wouldn’t say his reasons are petty. Not in the least.
I'm with you on this. With all we've seen, it's fair to conclude that George Lucas has no aptitude for working with digital tools. He seems to enjoy them, but his digital products are a little disappointing. It's a shame because his gifts with practical effects and latex puppets and Halloween masks and 35mm cameras were extraordinary. I'll strain for a sports analogy here and suggest it's sort of like your 270 lb 7'0" basketball center hanging around the perimeter launching threes. Just play to your strength.
You could say the same thing about Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, and in fact many people did. They were received as the lowest-brow sort of schlock in the 1960s. But last year when the British Film Institute surveyed world film directors for their once-a-decade Sight and Sound poll of best movies, Leone's Once Upon a Time in The West made the top 50.
