Ahsoka

What I really want is them to make something that isn’t just fitting things in between the existing films. Those are fine as occasional stories, could even do them as an anthology or flashbacks within something else.

Create new interesting characters, have some new problem brewing that could then feed into a film or something. Imagine if Andor had been made before the original films came out then ANH was made.

I’ll continue to expect disappointment and for unknown reasons won’t just give up on it all.

The fourth and fifth episodes were alright, though I guess Ahsoka is Gandalf now.

That shot in the flashback where

I’m enjoying the show but it is taking its sweet time getting anywhere. Should be interesting to see where things go from here even if I’ve no idea why I need to care so much about their lost mate. They keep telling us how important he is and sad they feel but no one appears to show any emotion about it apart from maybe Tennant-bot.

There's just enough about it that redeems it above BoBF and Kenobi.

I quite enjoyed the fifth too, seems flashbacks are it's "thing it does well", and harked back to the Grogou escape sequence in Mando as something quite nicely done. Even if I don't have any clue as to the lore (world between worlds or something something?) and the stupidity of "new planet, don't wander" straight to "stay here alone as we play coastguard".

But those gratuitous mustard pant shots. All is forgiven Winny, and it wasn't anywhere near tediously talky as I feared last week, but it feels like they're absolutely wringing a S2 out of this. Someone predicted the Thrawn shot in the trailer as an end-of-season cliffhanger and it seems likelier by the week.

It does have a strong sense of the MCU “this is all just a set up for something else” about it.

Yeah that was me, but I was also under the impression that it’s 6 episodes, but apparently it’s 8?

So I’ll adjust prediction. Ep 6 will be “looking for ring ship” then finding it.
ep 7 will be “looking for Thrawn ship” then finding it.
ep 8 will be “try to stop Thrawn ship going back to original Galaxy and failing”

and look, maybe they’ll go “hey, we found this blue guy in a whole galaxy straight away. He stands out!” And ep 8 will be a last ditch attempt to stop him IN the og galaxy (and failing) but however it lands, it’s setting up the big crossover event between all these shows with Thrawn as the big bad.

hopefully Ray Stevenson’s character has a planned epic death or resolution in this series so the next one doesn’t have to awkwardly deal with his absence.

The siege of Mandalore and the Purge of Mandalore are wholly separate events in the… manda… lore…

Ahsoka’s thing was about something-something capture Darth Maul.

Made even more confusing by one of the mandos getting murdered had a spikey, Maul-esque Helmet.

This episode more than any other pretty much needed you to have watched the other fluff, which I have not. The significance of force kid has absolutely passed me by.

Having watched Rebels and The Clone Wars I'm quite enjoying it, but I can see that it wouldn't make much sense if you hadn't seen those. It does seem to assume an awful lot of knowledge with only the odd line of exposition thrown in.

Because it’s largely fan service to 13 seasons of cartoons. They (probably, rightly) seem to identify their audience as mainly 25 year-olds.

I liked the lightsaber fighting stuff with Anakin and the clone wars, it’s one of the few bits so far that seems to be about the actual characters instead of their map hunt and other dumb shit. Not the faintest idea why it was happening though.

The whole thing is so slow and seems to think it’s exciting and a big spectacle when it’s 5 minutes of space whales moving slowly or people standing in silence or talking slowly. These first 6 episodes could’ve been an hour in total.

I liked the space whales’ big moment

I was pleased to be wrong with my cynical predictions.

..Eroks