Disney should have never made a sequel trilogy. Never reopen completed story lines. Everything afterwards belongs to the imagination. Nobody wanted to see Luke, Han and Liea as elders or failed parents/leaders, and nobody wanted to know how they died. It was doomed from the start, but the greedy israelites at Disney just had to have these original cast shekles.
If they just wrote separate story threads within the timelines already established, or did an Old Republic set story, they would have had more success. But no, they needed muh nostalgic bucks from emasculated man children.
>Just write prequels and interquels until every second between the invention of the hyperdrive and the destruction of the second death star is accounted for
No, moving forward is the way to go. However, the sequels shouldn't have taken a dump on the OT right out of the gate. Han and Leia should've lived happily ever after, maybe coming out of retirement to be mentors to the new heroes and pass the torch. Luke should have been principal or whatever of a restored Jedi order on Yavin IV (which should definitely NOT have been offscreened by Darth Wannabe). You can still have your own characters leading the way, in fact you SHOULD. It's bullshit none of the main characters from the OT moved on and in fact they regressed because JJ can't do anything except lens flare and retreads.
that's literally what they're doing now, Ahsoka is building to an adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy existing within the current Disneywars framework
>b-b-but it's not the SAAAAAMMMME
That's what an adaptation is, moron. You were never going to get a version of the story starring Luke, Han, and Leia. the Thrawn trilogy doesn't even fit with prequel canon anyway, any version of the story written today would have required massive revisions even if it wasn't starring Disney OCs
>You were never going to get a version of the story starring Luke, Han, and Leia.
Why the frick not? Those 3 are by far the biggest names/ box office draws in Star Wars. And the books, which sold tens of millions of copies , were all about them
>the Thrawn trilogy doesn't even fit with prequel canon anyway,
So? 80% of it would work perfectly fine in this canon. They’d need to tweak some stuff certainly (change of he solo twins for 5 year old Ben Solo, etc)
>any version of the story written today would have required massive revisions even if it wasn't starring Disney OCs
Not massive. Keep the basic outline. Use Ben Solo more. Weave Din Djarin, Ahsoka, Shin, Ezra, etc into the plot. It would probably help the story if anything
Disney really just made the Sequel Trilogy like their shitty direct to video sequels to the animated ones. >Heroes from the original movie are shitty overbearing parents to their kids >The villain is a previously unheard of sibling/relative to the original main villain >Rehash the old plot threads for nostalgia.
Right. The Sequels are embarrassing garbage. Even direct to video Cheapo Disney sequels like Little Mermaid 2 have much more soul than the “Rey Palpatine masters the force in 4 minutes because girlboss™ Trilogy” does
You’re pathetic. What is “earned” about Rise of Skywalker? It’s one of the worst movies ever made. Even JJ Abrams (and plenty of people inside of Lucasfilm) regard it as an awful movie
Please explain to me why Rise of Skywalker is soul?
7 months ago
Anonymous
I'm talking about TLJ's binary sunset you moron, rise of skywalker's is soulless
I wouldn't know. But I've seen the non-force user not!boba fett teenage girl using a lightsaber in a duel with the not!sith teenage girl; so I'm thinking no it's shit
Unfortunately, Filoni and Ahsoka's directors don't have the talent to make the fight scenes interesting and creative and even the Jedis don't do anything interesting, even Ahsoka's lightsaber in the cartoon has a more interesting effect than in the live action.
That’s not really saying much is it? Even the actors hated their own movies in the sequels. Everyone except the most indoctrinated consumers seem to know Star Wars is pretty shit now.
The irony is that the sequels are hated for NOT being corporate tested and safe enough. The prequels are hated because they're ineptly made, poorly written films, the sequels are hated because the fanboys can't emotionally handle the Republic falling to ruin, Luke being sad and Han and Leia getting a divorce
>the sequels are hated because the fanboys can't emotionally handle the Republic falling to ruin, Luke being sad and Han and Leia getting a divorce
the problem is they didn't do anything interesting after that
>the sequels are hated because the fanboys can't emotionally handle the Republic falling to ruin, Luke being sad and Han and Leia getting a divorce
the sequels are hated because they're trash with shit like superman leia, rey being the worst SW protagonist ever, rose and finn kissing, palpatine being announced in a fortnite event, i could go on for years
sequel apologists trying to excuse them by saying "it's only disliked because it's dark" will never stop being funny
>Superman Leia
If you think it looked goofy I won't contradict you, but people have some bizarre hangups over this scene. I knew a guy who said it was horrible because...Revan needed a spacesuit in KOTOR. What?
>Rey being the worst SW protagonist ever
I disagree.
>Rose and Finn kissing
Why are people so bootyblasted over this? Because you don't personally find Boyega and Tran attractive?
>Palpatine being announced in a fortnite event
This is moronic but no one defends Rise of Skywalker. That said, "somehow Palpatine returned" is exactly what you deserved if you unironically cried about Snoke dying
>Why are people so bootyblasted over this?
if you are trying to unironically convince me that finn x rose is something people asked for and wanted, you are lying and we all know you are lying and you're rendering your own arguments moot
The relationship isn't reciprocated, though. Rose has a crush on Finn but he friendzones her
wait I forgot this board is actually autistic and cannot read people
7 months ago
Anonymous
>cannot read people
You do not count as "people" if you're trying to pretend the sequels were only criticized because they're dark.
7 months ago
Anonymous
They're criticized by wookieepedia autists and EUgays who are so disconnected from their humanity they think their inane in-universe lore autism and emotional kneejerk reactions to their favorite action figures suffering adversity in middle age is actual film criticism
7 months ago
Anonymous
We've had countless threads on the objectively terrible story and filming in the sequel trilogy. Just because you cover your eyes and pretend not to see it doesn't make the sequels any less than complete shit. Please have a nice day
7 months ago
Anonymous
>NOOOOO YOU *HAVE* TO AGREE WITH THE INCEL CIRCLEJERK ECHOCHAMBER >I AM INCAPABLE OF FORMULATING ARGUMENTS BEYOND JUST EXPLAINING MY EMOTIONAL KNEEJERK REACTIONS TO THE MOVIE SO I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU TO KYS
lmao
7 months ago
Anonymous
Don't call me incel, you failed hedonist.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>I HAD SEX ONCE THAT MEANS I'M NOT AN INCEL GOTTEMM
Don't try to take the moral high ground or pretend you're the one engaging in good faith, homosexual. You're the one who refuses to actually debate and is just saying "reee stop disagreeing with me kys"
7 months ago
Anonymous
>I HAD SEX ONCE THAT MEANS I'M NOT AN INCEL GOTTEMM
That's literally you though. A low performing hedonist revealing his ugly desires.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>You're the one who refuses to actually debate
Correct. You aren't worth debating. Thinking the sequels are good is like thinking that the tooth fairy is real, you simply aren't mentally mature enough to have a real discussion.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Please explain why the First Order stopped attacking the Republic cruisers in TLJ after they had destroyed the hangar
7 months ago
Anonymous
they actually explain this: because they might lose some TIE fighters, which is quite possibly the dumbest answer they could have given.
7 months ago
Anonymous
idk. Because the engines on the big ships mean the capital ships going at full tilt are faster than the fighters
regardless, cinemasins plothole surfing is the most basic b***h form of "criticism". this is like getting angry at the fellowship not flying the ring to mordor on the eagles or thinking it's "le plot hole" that the Empire held fire because there were no lifeforms aboard but oh wait you were a kid when you watched those movies so it's ok
7 months ago
Anonymous
No, the fighters were easily flying circles around the capital ships. There were no more enemy fighters to counter them. So why did they pull back?
7 months ago
Anonymous
>No, the fighters were easily flying circles around the capital ships.
The Mon Calamari cruiser had stopped accelerating because the First Order had come out of lightspeed in front of them. When Kylo Ren is attacking the ships, they are slooooowly turning around so they can run away at full sublight speed. Leia and Ackbar literally tell the audience what they're doing. By the time both fleets had fully accelerated, they'd be traveling faster than the fighters could match on their smaller sublight engines
>There were no more enemy fighters to counter them. So why did they pull back?
Kylo's entire wing died, the turrets were still fricking them up.
7 months ago
Anonymous
None of this was shown, you are literally making things up
7 months ago
Anonymous
I am literally not, try actually watching the movie instead of just going into it looking for reasons to be upset
7 months ago
Anonymous
I did watch it, nothing you said was shown
7 months ago
Anonymous
No I'm saying actually watch the movie, everything I posted is explicitly shown or explained in the movie, except the bit about sublight engines of fighters not being able to keep up with capital ships, that's a bit of inference, but the Rebel fleet slowly turning around, Kylo's wing getting destroyed and Hux telling him to pull back because the capital ships can't cover him anymore, it's all there.
Trust me, I know the movie like the back of my hand, chapter and verse, every shot and cut. Shilling for the movie online is my full time job, you see
7 months ago
Anonymous
No. Body. Fricking. Cares.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Incel
Im married with kids. Look up the demographics on OT/ Luke fans, or even PT/ EU fans. They are not typically intel’s at all. But I’m willing to bet, you’re not married, dating anyone, or going out much at all. Am I right, TLJ Schizo?
7 months ago
Anonymous
If Rey actually was nude the whole movie I might have liked it privately at night. Instead most the times she covered up head to toe like some muslim chick.
7 months ago
Anonymous
someone made a mod for NuBattlefront II that has Rey in her skintight black jumpsuit she wore in Trevorrow's version of IX and it makes my dick so fricking hard
Daisy was so fricking tight and fit in the IX we actually got but she's still wearing the same fricking rags she's been in all trilogy
7 months ago
Anonymous
Nobody fricking cares. You want to discuss Rose Taco? Go hitch a ride on the short bus
>Why are people so bootyblasted over this? Because you don't personally find Boyega and Tran attractive?
It was a pretty naked attempt to prevent anything from developing between Finn and Rey, so they throw another minority at him hoping the normies don't catch on to the racism.
>rey being the worst SW protagonist ever
I'm sorry but this will never be true for as long as Hayden Christinsen is the one with the starring role in the Star Wars prequels.
Maybe one day if they make some kind of special edition that superimposes someone else over his performance we can all agree Rey is the worst, but for now? No.
At least Daisy Ridley can act so she can never be the worst even if they're both equally badly written.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>At least Daisy Ridley can act
7 months ago
Anonymous
Hayden is better. The Hayden can't act meme is complete bullshit.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Hayden has been very good in the D+ shows. He’s underrated
Watch A listers Sam Jackson and Natalie Portman in the PT. They also don’t turn in their best performances. Too much green screen
7 months ago
Anonymous
I don't even think it's the green screen, rather it's the tone George in his autism was going for (which I appreciate).
7 months ago
Anonymous
>At least Daisy Ridley can act
7 months ago
Anonymous
I know you're baiting but you will never find a Daisy Ridley performance that can beat this.
7 months ago
Anonymous
LMFAO you're fricking kidding me right?
I've seen basketball players show more emotion over missing a shot than Anakin over his mom being dead.
And this isn't even to mention how easily you could find a Daisy Ridley scene that shits all over any of the scenes where Hayden has to actually deliver a fricking line without sounding like he's chewing 5 sticks of gum.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>his isn't even to mention how easily you could find a Daisy Ridley scene that shits all over any of the scenes where Hayden
Then show me, b***h.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Sure.
This is like the only scene of the movie you can find on youtube but it's more than good enough since she actually acts and sounds like a human being, putting her far above Hayden.
7 months ago
Anonymous
There isn't a single iconic Rey scene. Meanwhile almost any Hayden Anakin scene is iconic.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Hayden's scenes are iconic for being laughably bad.
You don't think people actually think stuff like >What have I done?
or >Liar!
are actually good right? That's literally the opposite of why they're memorable.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Nope. And time will prove me right and you wrong.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Time will prove you right when delusional homosexuals that watched these horrible movies as children grow up and pretend like they're good?
Cause don't worry, the same thing is gonna happen with the sequels in 10 years.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Cause don't worry, the same thing is gonna happen with the sequels in 10 years.
It's gotten so easy to smell you midwits out. You only ever repeat the same shitty memes. No individual thought put into anything, no pattern recognition whatsoever.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>no argument left
Concession accepted.
It's also funny how you've decided to lump me in with sequel apologists when I've really given no indication that I actually like them and even admitted Rey was badly written, all I've said is that Hayden Christinsen's performance was awful.
Which it was.
And the only reason you like it is cause you saw these movies as an idiot kid and now you're an idiot adult who doesn't want to admit the things he likes are shit so has to argue with people online about their secret genius that everyone missed somehow and only your underdeveloped kid brain picked it up.
7 months ago
Anonymous
You're not a serious person and not worth my time.
7 months ago
Anonymous
lol
7 months ago
Anonymous
All good scenes. You're just salty because Hayden isn't an ugly freak like you.
7 months ago
Anonymous
You're not a serious person and not worth my time.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>you're not a....le serious person!!!
All the trannies love saying this nowadays after having watched Succession. There's not a single instance of this phrase on the Internet post-2020 that wasn't typed by troony hands.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Okay, uggo midwit.
7 months ago
Anonymous
TFA is already like 8 years old, where are those kids now? Oh, fricking nowhere. We know they're not buying toys, we know they're not going to theme parks, SW is completely fricking dead as a film franchise and only exists on a garbage streaming service... and even that's only because Mando managed to tap into the "childless 40 year old female" demographic by pure accident.
Kids don't like SW, the few that do are because their parents are showed them the core 6 films. Remember when you said that everyone would recognize TLJ as a masterpiece in a year? Then two years, then three... now you're trying to cling to the fantasy of a whole new generation that has zero attachment to this brand somehow becoming fans? Just give it up, dude. There are plenty of hills to die on, don't do it for fricking disney wars.
7 months ago
Anonymous
How about Rey Palpatine’s iconic:
> “Oi like dis!”
Or:
>”Rey, ….Rey Skoywalka!”
7 months ago
Anonymous
Frick off, Hayden fricking nailed all of those scenes. Even people critical of his performance recognize that he nailed those scenes cold
>the sequels are hated because the fanboys can't emotionally handle the Republic falling to ruin, Luke being sad and Han and Leia getting a divorce
No, shill. The Sequels are hated because they are a glib facsimile. Because they are an unnecessary, reductive, corporate remake of a much better trilogy. And because the corporate overlords had such little faith in their cheap plastic remake, they had to hammer away at lore and icons in a failed attempt to make their shitty soulless “characters” look better by proxy.
Except the issue is that they don't take any risks and Last Jedi is an anomaly in-between.
The issue with the Republic isn't that it's in ruins but rather that the First Order just strolls in and suddenly that makes the New Republic the plucky underdogs again. The problem is that the First Order should've been the rebellion, which multiple pieces of side material are able to establish better. There was no plan so when Rian got his movie he had no notes and did whatever, leading to the riskiest of the sequel trilogy and fans fricking HATED it for that.
First Order should've been rebels who recruit via indoctrination and gather power through their fellow former imperial loyalists who were planning a huge strike on the planet that the New Republic is lead from.
Finn should've had that be his first day, and the shellshock of seeing the violence break the brainwashing due to his aptitude for the force. Finn meets Rey while trying to fend off both the Republic and his former FO colleagues as she's building a new ride for herself. Have Finn learn he has the potential to be a great Jedi and have Rey want to join that path for the sake of finding her parents and getting revenge on the First Order.
This sets them up to go on differing paths as Rey's emotions get in the way of her training and she learns more about her past. Have Kylo know the truth about her and try to recruit her because having the Palpatine bloodline by his side will mean being able to do a hard reset on the galaxy, as he plans on using the secret Sith forces to eradicate both the Republic and First Order but needs someone of his bloodline to activate them.
Maybe it's not perfect but it's sure as shit a better jumping off point than what we got
>Last Jedi is an anomaly in-between.
I don't know why people still think this. Despite Rian's hard-on for muh subversion, TLJ is an incredibly safe film. Finn is perfectly fine after taking a lightsaber to the spine, and is magically prevented from sacrificing himself. The evil rich dudes with child slaves don't present a morally complex problem to solve, the heroes just smash shit and feel good about it. There's no tension when the super big ship shows up because it's defeated by a single X-wing and a crashing bomber. There's no tension during the space chase because they had a great plan the whole time. Snoke doesn't do anything bad to Rey and is easily defeated by Kylo.
Despite Rian pretending to be some edgy troll, TLJ has kid gloves on the whole way through.
TLJ is one of the safest movies I’ve ever seen. The only “chance” it takes was humiliating Luke. But ultimately that was by design from Kathy. And it ended up wrecking their franchise
I don't even really like her but she gets beaten up all the time in her own show. Anakin literally kicks her around, Baylan stomps her twice. It's nowhere near Rey levels of bullshit, she's just not a very appealing protagonist, which goes for most female characters in that kind of story.
You missed the point of the sequence entirely. Perhaps you should stick to the sequels. >REY HAS TWO GLOW STICKS THEREFORE REY WIN
That should be easier for you to process than a character working through her internal struggle with the help of her master.
Rebels and Clone Wars also told a better Star Wars story than the sequels, but mostly because the bar is so low. I'll give the Disney series their due, they are doing a pretty good job of being live action versions of those cartoons. But they are doing an absolutely shite job of feeling in any way connected tonally to the OT.
What's good about the show is the white male characters and the overall fantasticism that is so lacking in Disney slop. Also the fact they've cast good looking people in lead roles.
>le genius grand admiral >3 of your most annoying and dangerous enemies in one place with zero support >could just throw hundreds of troops at them or bomb them from orbit >LOL no let's not kill them
As if they wouldnt just le force le saber deflect le blast them all magically as in literally every other scene in the entire history of star wars with any amount of stormtroopers. Thrawn knows they're protected by plot armor and can merely delay them while he plans the escape
I know this probably isn't a very original thing to say, but I just wanted to let everyone know that I am deeply attracted to the blonde sith girl in this show. I have no other strong opinions regarding it.
Honestly yes, Ahsoka is probably what they should have done to begin with. The character was already accepted, had character development and had already been trained.
Plus, the show is actually respecting the cinematographic and narrative style that gives the prequels their identity. That creates cohesion and a sense of legacy which is always important for sagas.
Honestly had they done this to begin with they would have won it all. Backlash would have been minimal.
That said i´m pretty sure they´ll find a way to ruin it yet. It´s going to be The mandalorian all over again.
The Mandalorian always sucked. It boils down to titular character being an incompetent, bumbling moron. You can't put someone in a boatload of tacticool gear and then have them be a total jobber.
It's still mediocre as frick and requires you to watch 2 long and shitty cartoon series 90% of SW fans ignored. Sure it's better than ST but so is bad diarrhea.
the best part is when maul shows up and just rapes them all with skill instead of relying on shitty hover gimmicks
doesn't stop the existence of the inquisitors from being pointless >can't kill a failed jedi padawan and his little space aladdin buddy >get wiped by anyone with legitimate training
7 months ago
Anonymous
It's already grating as a children's show
The fricking lightsaber helicopters would've made me switch off the show instantly
I admire your fortitude
7 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, that episode is better than 9 out of 11 movies and any of the live-action series, easily. Star Wars also has always had goofy shit, so what?
By default the Sequel Triology is a fricking terrible story, poorly cast wtih horrible writing and even worst direction. >It would be hard to do worst.
Yeah, the sequel trilogy was absolute trash so its a very low bar to clear. Honestly the sequel trilogy is the worst thing Disney did with Star Wars, I'd take Solo over episode 7,8, or 9 any day of the week.
Almost anything is better than the Disney Star Wars sequels, with the possible exception of the New Jedi Order book series involving the Yuuzhan Vong, who remain the only thing indisputably worse than Disney canon.
>Almost anything is better than the Disney Star Wars sequels, with the possible exception of the New Jedi Order book series involving the Yuuzhan Vong, who remain the only thing indisputably worse than Disney canon.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the Vong show up next episode?
If the Vong ever appear in Disney Star Wars as is, unaltered from their ridiculously edgy and overpowered garbage self from the EU, then there is absolutely no defense of new canon. Those homosexuals are the defining line; if they add something called "Yuuzhan Vong" that bears only limited resemblance to the EU version but massively neutered, then I'll tolerate it, but I'd rather that whole concept ignored totally lest I die from cringe.
No. It's fricking terrible, a lazy collection of memberberries and girlboss shite, written by a hack and pitched at the intellectual level of a particularly dimwitted 11 year old.
To be clear, that makes it MARGINALLY worse than the prequels. Frankly they're both shite. >verification not required
Literally any story on Earth, even the inane ramblings of the schizophrenic who hangs out outside the train station screeching at people, even his babbling “story” is more compelling than the Sequel Trilogy. So yes.
Every story ever told is better than the Disney Sequel Trilogy. It’s a very low bar
>female protagonists
no, no, no, NO, NO YOU STUPID homosexual. this shit will turn your sons gay you stupid homosexual. boys do not need and should not have female role models. do not listen to any of these modern day homosexuals who say differently. you will raise a homosexual
>slowly walk to orb and stab it >reaction shot of people blankly watching him stab it >close-up of the stabbing >alternate shot of the stabbing and guy says like one word >close-up on another blank stare >characters walk away >this all takes HALF A FRICKING MINUTE to do what could have taken four seconds
this is clown shit
the bar is low to begin with. But also, wtf is even the story in ahsoka? Like I know what the characters are trying to do:
-asian chick is looking for that one guy
-ahsoka aping gandalf and looking for thrawn for reasons
-the asian old lady is trying to help thrawn for reasons but gets mad at everything
-old white non-sith is doing stuff for reasons
-young white non-sith is tagging along for reasons
-thrawn just wants to go home
-the republic is being stupid to set up the shitty sequel trilogy.
that's plot, not story. Like I get everyone was creaming in their pants when ahsoka and anakin were having their wet dream together, but it was so fricking hollow and meaningless. Choose life? But hey, at least we got those two cool shots where anakin glitches into vader, right?
None of the Disney+ shows mean anything, because they all exist to just advertise other product. This entire show was designed to be filler because their Heir to the Empire movie is going to be their Avengers event, and consoomers eat it up because cross-promotion of serialized product is all they understand
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. They had such a good formula going for the first two seasons of the mandalorian, and then everyone just got moronic.
>but it was so fricking hollow and meaningless. Choose life?
Too bad, you missed the point entirely. You take everything literally and can't into subtext. Sucks to be you.
>You take everything literally and can't into subtext
this is always the cope people say when excusing poor writing
"you just don't get it, it's subtext"
it's easy to say "hurr durr, you just didn't get it." Enlighten me and help me understand.
Maybe I didn't. Or maybe I'm not injecting shitty head canon to make it mean something. Granted I haven't watched any of the cartoons, but I also shouldn't have to.
Okay, I will spoonfeed you.
Anakin was helping her to work out through her shame, guilt, burdens, and her perceived notion that she is doomed to fail both herself and Sabine. He was helping her to work out her issues with perceiving Anakin and his legacy, and by extension herself, tainted by the shadow of Darth Vader. Essentially, she was wrestling with the question that Baylan brought up in the previous episode during their duel: "Everyone in the Order knew Anakin Skywalker. Few would live to see what he became. Surely, that must leave a mark. Your legacy, like your master's, is one of death and destruction." When Anakin said, "You lost the fight", he meant not only literally, as in Baylan defeated her in combat, but he also defeated her mentally by getting in her mind with these remarks. But Anakin is more than what Baylan said and Ahsoka falsely thought, and she is more than that. And she has to forgive him and move on. So by setting up the "fight" and making her win and choosing to throw away the lightsaber, forgive him and move on, Anakin passed the lesson that he himself learned from Luke in the final moments of his life. Forgiveness, letting go, and moving on. "Live or die" is not just a literal choice. It's all subtext. Life in fear, life in doubt, living out of obligation and just going through the motions is not a life. "I choose to live" is choosing the path of the light side, the path of forgiveness, the path of acceptance. "Death" is the death of soul, succumbing to fear and the dark side, succumbing to revenge and guilt over the past that you can't change. These are all fundamental themes of Star Wars that were presented by Anakin in that lesson.
That was all there, btw, but I am waiting for you to cope with your low IQ "it's all headcanon" nonsense. Just skill issue on your part.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I won't say that's headcanon, but I feel the show did a poor job of getting that across. Like to me it feels like it's all payoff but no setup. But then again, I never saw any of the cartoons. I still feel it's the show's job to do that, not me having to watch a bunch of shitty cartoons.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>but I feel the show did a poor job of getting that across
It didn't. I got it, as did many other people, because it's all there. >But then again, I never saw any of the cartoons. I still feel it's the show's job to do that, not me having to watch a bunch of shitty cartoons.
You don't necessarily have to watch the cartoons. Sure, you'd get more invested in the Anakin/Ahsoka relationship and you will get a deeper appreciation of it, but the show set up everything you needed to know for the payoff. You need to understand Star Wars, you need to understand why Anakin fell and how he was redeemed, you need to pay attention to the show you're watching. And you're gonna get all of that. Notice that I haven't referenced the cartoons at all in that post. All the information was from the Ahsoka episodes and a bit as a frame of reference from Return of the Jedi.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Maybe I'm not paying enough attention, but baylon giving that one line is not enough set up. Prior to that episode, it was just plot with sabine and ashoka. There was that one hint where ahsoka was trying to teach her but then learned it would probably be best to work together. But setup for the whole anakin thing should have started since episode 1.
And it's a bit condescending to think people don't get "star wars" and how anakin fell and redeemed himself. It's not that deep. I'm pretty sure people who watch star wars shit get it. I'm not talking about the lore of the show, I'm talking specifically about how the execution of the show is failing it's story.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>her shame, guilt, burdens, and her perceived notion that she is doomed to fail both herself and Sabine.
Literally none of which existed prior to this episode. >her issues with perceiving Anakin and his legacy, and by extension herself, tainted by the shadow of Darth Vader
Literally none of which existed prior to this episode. >"Everyone in the Order knew Anakin Skywalker. Few would live to see what he became. Surely, that must leave a mark. Your legacy, like your master's, is one of death and destruction."
Ahsoka has lived to see Anakin's son fulfill the legacy Anakin failed, rebuilding the jedi order. Anakin's fall happened decades ago, she should have had time to grow, learn, and form a hope for the future. But we see none of that. >he meant not only literally, as in Baylan defeated her in combat, but he also defeated her mentally
And if that's all it takes for her to be defeated mentally she is PATHETIC and more easily manipulated than fricking Jar Jar. >And she has to forgive him
Which she would have done after she learned about his last moments from Luke. >It's all subtext.
No, it's your headcanon. And it's fricking pathetic that you're trying to do Filoni's job for him and add meaning when it simply isn't there. >I am waiting for you to cope with your low IQ "it's all headcanon" nonsense
It is headcanon. You are barely citing the show at all. You are saying that when Anakin says "you lost lmao" he ACKSHUALLY meant "you let him get in your head" and that when he says "choose life" he is ACKSHUALLY saying "forgive and move on".
But that's not even the truly pathetic part. What's really sad is that this is your best faith interpretation and it's STILL shit. LUKE EXISTS. AHSOKA MET HIM. Whatever she feels towards Anakin has to be affected by that. She KNOWS Vader was saved. She KNOWS the galaxy is safe and slowly rebuilding. This is hack shit that was introduced and resolved within one episode and had zero impact on her character. Cheap filler.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Like I said, low IQ issue on your part. Can't into subtext, can't into actually engaging with the material on a conscious level. I doubt you are even capable of understanding the nuance of human psyche, I doubt you have a conversation with anyone but your mother. No wonder you fail to comprehend the psychology of a person, who was a child soldier, and whose mentor turned out to be a genocidal maniac, which makes her question her entire life and the validity of everything she'd been taught and what she was doing. Like, you can't even possibly comprehend it, it seems. You lack empathy and understanding. You are like Mauler-tier low IQ bugman autismo. And the worst part, you are arrogant enough to believe you are in the right.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Can't into subtext
And you're not addressing my arguments. >who was a child soldier, and whose mentor turned out to be a genocidal maniac
Things that Filoni needed to spell out for the viewer because you otherwise would never have guessed those things from the wooden performance and shallow dialogue. >which makes her question her entire life and the validity of everything she'd been taught and what she was doing.
And then over TWO DECADES passed by. >you can't even possibly comprehend it
Filoni sure can't, which is why he decided to not write it, then just say "uh yeah she simply chose to not be traumatized anymore". >You are like Mauler-tier
Thanks?
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Commit mass genocide, child murder, betray all of your friends, and become the chief enforcer to the worst tyrant the galaxy has ever seen leading to the deaths of billions >Don't show a hint of remorse >Boils down all the bad shit he did into a trick for a sparring lesson to teach his OC donut steel padawan to believe in herself
God I fricking hate Anakin Skywalker so much, he and his fans are some of the most selfish and solipsistic people I've ever seen. I've always had difficulty reconciling Vader in the OT with Anakin from the prequels, but his portrayal in Ahsoka basically boils down all the heinous shit he did into "eh shit happens, don't worry about it just bee yourself". It's psychotic
7 months ago
Anonymous
He could've been a great character if his descent into the dark side was handled more tenderly and his actions made sense.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>if his descent into the dark side was handled more tenderly and his actions made sense
It was and they did, your power level is just insufficient to see it.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Nah, you're a moron
7 months ago
Anonymous
No, but you are a midwit.
Anakin in the OT is spoken of as a great man who was twisted by evil, the prequels show him as being rotten to the core from the start.
He's not rotten to the core from the start, but there's plenty of identity issues he's struggling with throughout. Even in Episode III he always tries to pull back when he's been giving in to evil.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Even in Episode III he always tries to pull back when he's been giving in to evil.
Sheev literally admits he's being lying about being able to save Padme this entire time and Anakin goes along with his plot to murder the younglings anyway. Anakin is either stupid beyond belief to continue being taken for a ride by Sheev, or psychotically selfish to think the deaths of billions are a worthy tradeoff for the .0000001 chance they'll figure out how to save Padme before she gives birth in the next two weeks
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Start of RotS >Obi-Wan we need to protect those clone pilots! >End of RotS, a few days later. >Time to start murdering kids!
Imagine being the stupid frick who thinks this was good writing
7 months ago
Anonymous
RotS takes place over at least 6 months, moron.
7 months ago
Anonymous
No, it takes place over like four days. It was confirmed way back.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>no explanation for his character U-turn >b-but actually it was 6 months!
Stupid frick
7 months ago
Anonymous
No, it takes place over like four days. It was confirmed way back.
You're both wrong. It takes place in under 18 hours. This is explained during the mission briefing covering Palpatine's warning to the galaxy on launching his fleet of Death Star Destroyers upon the galaxy (18 hour time limit); the entire film happens in less than a day.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Rise of Skywalker is legitimately the worst film ever made
It’s horrifyingly bad
7 months ago
Anonymous
Anakin in the OT is spoken of as a great man who was twisted by evil, the prequels show him as being rotten to the core from the start.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>from the start
Meh, he was a good kid who wanted to free the slaves and save his mom.
7 months ago
Anonymous
He was a sweet kid in Phantom Menace
7 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, it's easy to be nice when you're a shy 9 year old, but the second Anakin had any sort of power or real ability to make decisions he began showing megalomaniacal tendencies and started killing people
7 months ago
Anonymous
What is he supposed to say? What CAN he say? Nothing can be said about it. You are SO CLOSE to understanding, yet so far. This is sad. He can't undo all the things he'd done. And no amounts of words or "I am sorry" will undo that. It is useless. But what's more important is that it's not what Ahsoka needed. She needed help to ACCEPT it and MOVE ON. To understand that Anakin, her relationship with him, are not defined by Darth Vader. She is not defined by Darth Vader. That there was Anakin Skywalker, a good man. Like this is Return of the Jedi, my Black person. Ever watched that flick? And what is it so different about Anakin from the OT and PT? Darth Vader in the OT allowed the destruction of Alderaan, tortured his own daughter, tortured his son's friends, maimed his own son, threatened to turn his daughter to the Dark Side, and it was said that he hunted down the Jedi. And he was redeemed.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>What is he supposed to say? What CAN he say? Nothing can be said about it.
Loads can be said about it, but Filoni doesn't even try. >To understand that Anakin, her relationship with him, are not defined by Darth Vader. She is not defined by Darth Vader.
Shit that came out of literally nowhere and isn't anything she should be feeling based on her history with Luke. >And he was redeemed.
No thanks to Filoni's pet OC lmao.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Loads can be said about it, but Filoni doesn't even try.
Yeah, like what? Show us the great, deep scriptwriting here, anon. Surely, you've watched enough Mauler to make an objectively perfect™ script, your movie is underway, right? He didn't say anything in ROTJ, other than "You were right about me. You were right." He didn't say "I am sorry", nor he tried to defend his actions. But that was never the point. There is no defense for his actions, and nothing can be said about it. But I am waiting for your perfect example of what he should have said that is totally not cheesy and would justify his actions and would make someone else feel better about it, lol. >Shit that came out of literally nowhere and isn't anything she should be feeling based on her history with Luke.
What history, dumbass? And, regardless, how is it supposed to make her feel better? Canonically, Leia, his own daughter, never forgave Anakin. "Oh, yes, Anakin is good now" says Luke. So what? How does it undo all the pain and thoughts and experiences they'd had? >No thanks to Filoni's pet OC lmao.
1) Non sequitur
2) Ahsoka was created by George Lucas
Try again, autismo.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Surely, you've watched enough Mauler to make an objectively perfect™ script, your movie is underway, right?
I've written fics when I was thirteen that are better than Filoni's writing, yeah. >He didn't say "I am sorry", nor he tried to defend his actions
No, he said what he could to praise his son after cherishing the brief moments of seeing him without the mask in the way. It was only seconds, but he died peacefully with that final act. It wasn't about apologizing. It wasn't about undoing his actions or justifying them. It was about spending what little time he had left with someone he loved. In Ahsoka, Anakin just pops up to deliver the moral lesson of the show. Despite all the memberberries thrown around it doesn't even look like he has any emotional reaction to seeing his former padawan. >What history, dumbass?
The history established BY DISNEY'S OWN FRICKING SHOW, dumbass. She was on Mando. She worked with Luke. They knew each other. >how is it supposed to make her feel better?
Maybe it doesn't. But it should make her feel SOMETHING. >So what? How does it undo all the pain and thoughts and experiences they'd had?
Good question, maybe that's what the show should have been about. Ahsoka's disbelief that Vader was redeemed, her distrust of Luke, her fear that the peace is going to be destroyed, etc. Or you could have her wracked with guilt over her failure to save Anakin, that she couldn't accomplish what Luke did. Instead, her character hasn't progressed at all since fricking Order 66. >1) Non sequitur
How in the frick is Vader's redemption and death a non sequitur to Ahsoka's character? You're arguing that this trashfire of a show is good because of Ahsoka's oh so deep trauma over Vader, and yet it ignores the most important information about his life and death.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>Won the war >Rejected a lifetime of religious indoctrination to protect the man of the people >Prevented a second civil war with that "genocide" >prevented any future separatists with pragmatic rule despite suffering crippling injuries
Quite literally did nothing wrong
it's easy to say "hurr durr, you just didn't get it." Enlighten me and help me understand.
Maybe I didn't. Or maybe I'm not injecting shitty head canon to make it mean something. Granted I haven't watched any of the cartoons, but I also shouldn't have to.
They all have their personal issues to figure out. Ahsoka with her massa problems, Sabine with having lost Ezra, Baylan with perenniality. What are you even crying about?
I don't feel I'm capable of articulating why I'm not enjoying the show. To me, it feels like they're playing checkers but everyone telling me it's a great game of chess. Each episode is just plot. Maybe I'm just moronic and don't see the story, but I want to doubt that.
I think I get what you're saying, it's clear they are building toward something outside of the show, but I still think the show is good (directionally).
7 months ago
Anonymous
see, this I don't agree with. There's something wooden about all the acting except for baylon and thrawn. Like the three main female characters are all just emoji acting. All they do is make smirking or bored faces. All their performances are flat. The female non sith atleast is playing into her character. I don't know, maybe I'm expecting too much. I just think it's crazy that Bill fricking Burr gave a better performance.
The type of people who enjoy Filonislop literally cannot engage with stories beyond a third grade level
7 months ago
Anonymous
Empty words.
7 months ago
Anonymous
What is Ahsoka about, thematically? What is the lesson the characters are learning, what does it say about the human condition? Nothing, because all Dave Filoni can do is write paper thin, brightly colored cartoon characters who have no humanity to them besides doing epic action poses
7 months ago
Anonymous
this
see, this I don't agree with. There's something wooden about all the acting except for baylon and thrawn. Like the three main female characters are all just emoji acting. All they do is make smirking or bored faces. All their performances are flat. The female non sith atleast is playing into her character. I don't know, maybe I'm expecting too much. I just think it's crazy that Bill fricking Burr gave a better performance.
is me. You're exactly saying what I feel.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Right now? I'd say it's about wounds. About dealing with loss. People are off-track. Ahsoka in doubt because of her history with Anakin and uncertainty regarding his teachings, Sabine hanging on to her memory of Ezra and the regret of having lost him, Baylan trying to escape history's cyclical nature.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Oh wow, I can't wait for the final lesson to be to accept loss again, with an elbow-to-the-ribs implication that people need to just accept this trash timeline and love the sequels despite all their massive glaring flaws.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, and I don't watch the D+ shows anymore because I hate the prequels and I was already an adult when Clone Wars started. I don't relate to them at all. I just don't watch them and instead focus on the parts of Star Wars I enjoy
I get what you mean. It feels like this show was made just with the barest hint of story because it knows fans cannot tell the difference and they'll fill in the blanks with their own veneration of Star Wars. I feel like a "real story" would fully flesh out the dynamic between Ahsoka and Sabine for example, but in this show it just consists of the two of them sometimes being quietly mad at each other with stone faced expressions and sometimes quietly giving each other knowing smiles.
season two of the Mandalorian is where this shit started. The ENTIRE season is a succession of applause cameos serving as backdoor pilots to other shows, and the entire plot was written to contrive a forced cameo from CGI cartoon monster Luke.
>He made perfect sense and they executed his appearance perfectly
He arrives to find a fricking Imperial Grand Moff captured by the former leader of Mandalore and an ex-Rebel along with an infamous assassin and a bounty hunter holding the most infamous lightsaber in existence, with Boba Fricking Fett chilling in his ship somewhere nearby, after having destroyed a shitload of Imperial battle droids that are huge upgrades over what the CIS had, and all he has to say is "hey kid you're force-sensitive come abandon your life to be trained even though that's the literal antithesis of my character arc in the original films".
If you think that was anywhere near "acceptable" let alone "perfect", you should commit suicide.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Holy shit, you’re moronic. My condolences
7 months ago
Anonymous
>no arguments
mmkay
7 months ago
Anonymous
You’ve been coming here every day for half a decade and you’ve gotten thousands of arguments by now. I’ve read the threads. You’re mentally ill if you think you can force people to like a 7 year old movie by “arguing” with them. Nobody here will ever change their mind. They hate Rey and they hate the Sequel Trilogy. That’s never going to change
7 months ago
Anonymous
You're not arguing with TLJ shill, because TLJ shill is me
though I do share the other anon's distaste of Mando Luke
7 months ago
Anonymous
The CGI wasn’t good. The scene itself was good. It was well shot, and well done. Not a single person on Earth thinks the CGI was good. But 97% of the scene was a stunt double. And that part was great.
I’m glad they let Mark Hamill play Luke a couple more times before they recast him. I think he and his fans were upset by the whole ST thing. So I think giving Mark those moments in Mando/ Boba were a very nice thing to do so he could finish up his run on a positive note.
Why would anyone really get angry at that? It was a nice thing to do. And the Boba deepfake was pretty good. But I do think it’s time for a recast. And so does Mark. But getting angry at the guy who built the franchise for having a moment is some real petty shit.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>The CGI wasn’t good. The scene itself was good. It was well shot, and well done. Not a single person on Earth thinks the CGI was good. But 97% of the scene was a stunt double. And that part was great.
I mean, if all you're asking for is a generic action figure with a laser sword cutting up CGI bad guys, then I guess that's reasonable enough. But it's not really "Luke" doing any of it in any way, shape, or form, and the awful CGI homunuclus creation prevents his scenes from having any real dramatic weight. He shows none of Luke's sense of humor, warmth or humanity, he just talks like a stoic robot
>I'm glad they let Mark Hamill play Luke a couple more times
At no point is Mark Hamill ever on screen or performing any dialogue. He was there to serve as a stand in and look good in the PR release.
>Why would anyone really get angry at that?
It was a soulless cameo from a character who didn't need to be there and forever showed that Star Wars cannot escape its masturbatory fanservice. Mando was supposed to be the proof that Star Wars could tell new stories outside of what we already knew, before it immediately became a cameofest in its SECOND season
7 months ago
Anonymous
>was a soulless cameo from a character who didn't need to be there and forever showed that Star Wars cannot escape its masturbatory fanservice.
The 35 years between ROTJ and TLJ, Luke WAS the Jedi Order. It was set up from the first episode that they were bringing Grogu to “his people” “the Jedi”. This didn’t come out of nowhere
>Mando was supposed to be the proof that Star Wars could tell new stories
You meant discount corporate Bob Fett and discount corporate Yoda battling discount Tarkington is “new stories”LOL, loser
>outside of what we already knew, before it immediately became a cameofest in its SECOND season
Star Wars isn’t high literature. It isn’t high culture. Only maybe parts of the OT qualify as culturally significant or “literary”. The Mandalorian is a mediocre tv show with a bunch of corporate knock offs. You need to grow up and read and watch better things
None of the Disney+ shows mean anything, because they all exist to just advertise other product. This entire show was designed to be filler because their Heir to the Empire movie is going to be their Avengers event, and consoomers eat it up because cross-promotion of serialized product is all they understand
>____ is better than the sequels!
No shit. Even the game with the ginger homosexual and the bug eyed Black person has a shakespearan narrative compared to crap like webm related.
I can't follow the timelines of all the shows and films. I keep having this deeply nagging doubt and confusion both before and after a character interaction.
>where was this person at this point in the sequel >where was this person at that point in the prequel >why don't they know about this thing they did in the prequel? >why would anyone care about something that didn't happen until later? >shouldn't this person existing preclude that thing from happening? >why do I care about these completely ineffectual characters?
I would sooner glue my c**t to the couch to watch a season of Bill Burr's character as a gun for hire on the periphery of a reformed empire that betrayed him and all his friends. Hell, just that burning of cinder event or whatever it was. The week leading up to it where he genuinely believes the empire is a good thing until the massacre.
No jedi. No special name tie ins. Just average people in a scifi situation that's anything but average.
>Hell, just that burning of cinder event or whatever it was.
That was the dumbest shit there ever was and even now they're trying to walk it back. It was essentially a big moronic excuse to set up the sequels but then everybody hated them.
>the cinder thing was moronic
In what way? The empire committing unilateral genocide+friendly fire is exactly what I'd expect from a galactic military junta
If you're just implying the empire isn't actually evil and all the 'evil' things they do are forced/propoganda, you're moronic.
>The empire committing unilateral genocide+friendly fire is exactly what I'd expect from a galactic military junta
Then you're a moron. Because I would expect the Empire to factionalize and start a massive civil war since there's no clear line of succession, leading to decades of large-scale galactic conflict. Instead every Moff and Admiral starts suiciding all their own territories because Palpatine's recording said so, because they're all good super loyal boys.
Is Ahsoka better than the sequel movies? Yes, ofcourse. But that doesn't mean Ahsoka is a good show, nor does it mean that Ahsoka should be regarded as Star Wars canon.
Somehow even the shitty sequels were more coherent than these Disney+ shows often are. At the very least, TLJ enjoyed having a visual artistic vision, while all of these shows barring Andor are shot inside a tiny closet with characters just standing against a screen. It's like a big budget Channel Awesome show.
i think they should flush everything after episode 3
this included
people would forget any of this vapid shit ever existed within 3 years and then they can try again
Yeah but that's the lowest bar you could set for a big budget production. The only thing decent in the new trilogy is TFA's non-story scenes where they do a good sense of scale for being a ground troop when shit is hitting the fan.
The key is that Anakin had idenity issues from the beginning. Being taken away from his mother and lacking a strong father figure were always a dangerous wienertail. Qui-Gon as this exceptionally unorthodox, yet nonetheless strict teacher, as demonstrated in his treatment of Jar Jar, could've reeled Anakin in to a degree, would have been way more accustomed to Anakin's limitless potential. That's why the duel with Maul is titled Duel of Fates, because Qui-Gon's death has a catastrophic impact on Anakin's development.
His tyrannical tendencies that would later manifest in Vader, are foreshadowed in his and Padme's conversation about forcing people to create change. Being robbed of a mother's love can turn a boy cruel.
At around the midpoint of Episode III Anakin's fragile identity is breaking down and he gives in to the temptations of Palpatine.
Having met Padme at a very young age, her much older, comparing her to an angel, ends up making her both his first love and also a replacement for his mother. Needily yearning for Padme, trying to steal a kiss through pity (the infamous "sand" line, which is much misunderstood) and finally entering a relationship with her after his mother's death, having his mother fully replaced.
Having met Padme at a very young age, her much older, comparing her to an angel, ends up making her both his first love and also a replacement for his mother. Needily yearning for Padme, trying to steal a kiss through pity (the infamous "sand" line, which is much misunderstood) and finally entering a relationship with her after his mother's death, having his mother fully replaced.
Yes yes I get all that but the prequels depict Anakin as a heroic character who has good intentions even as he's murdering children on the flimsiest of premises
How about because they'll grow up to try and overthrow the empire and mow down Anakin's men by the thousand?
Tell me, what is the functional difference between a youngling and a super advanced new battle droid at that point in the story? I know Lucas executed the prequels clumsily but killing the Jedi root and stem is just logical
I'm explaining to you why he did it because you said it was "on the flimsiest of premises". It wasn't. It makes complete sense unless you have the mind of an adolescent.
Anakin doesn't really have any strong convictions about political systems. Yeah, he does show authoritarian tendencies during his picnic with Padme but that's just a manchild whining that he can't just kill everyone who doesn't agree with him
Anakin wasn't wiping out the Jedi because he believed it was necessary to create a strong and secure Empire that he believed was the best form of governance for the Galaxy, he did it because he *still* believes he needs Sheev to teach him magic tricks to save his wife; the danger she's in is also entirely theoretical btw
7 months ago
Anonymous
I remember watching him do that monologue to Obi Wan about bringing peace and security to the empire or whatever and thinking "wow, that was kind of hitting the audience over the head". But since you still missed the point I understand Lucas, now. Thank you.
7 months ago
Anonymous
When Anakin swears fealty to Sheev, is Anakin talking about how he believes wholeheartedly in the Dark Side and the necessity of the Empire to bring peace to the Galaxy? No, he just wants to save Padme. Anakin would have thrown Sheev out the window and remained a milquetoast servant of the liberal order if Mace was the guy who could have saved Padme. Anakin has no convictions, which is why the sudden appearance of them during his last speech to Obiwan is so fricking comical.
even when Anakin has literally murdered children, betrayed all of his friends, and tried to strangle his pregnant wife to death the movie is making apologies for him
No, after the "What have I done", he's broken. He's done.
Of course I understand your schoolkid level analysis. I just think it's hilarious that you think George's clumsy foreshadowing that is as subtle as a brick to the head was actually worth discussing.
The point wasn't the foreshadowing, it was his identity issues and how they express themselves, you literal midwit.
Again, I get your bigger point, it isn't that complicated. And again, it's still funny how easily impressed you are with a film for kids.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I'm pointing out coherency. When people say his character doesn't make sense they are wrong, it's all there.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Where's the coherency of him being willing to slaughter innocents?
7 months ago
Anonymous
He's given up at that point. He's broken. He clings to what he feels he needs most, which is Padme. Ironically his darkened soul ends up destroying her as well.
7 months ago
Anonymous
So where's the coherence? >Ironically his darkened soul ends up destroying her as well.
Holy shit that's so deep
7 months ago
Anonymous
He has nothing to hold on anymore, aside from Padme and the promise of a way to save her. His whole identity got torpedoed at that point. See
Anakin's fall:
>taken from his mother >losing his father (figure) in the duel of fates >raised by an older brother ("You were like a brother to me") >missing his mother >reunited with his first love >fearing for his mother's life >mourning the death of his mother >murdering her torturers >pledging to become stronger >having Padme replace his mother >fearing for her life as well >having been adopted by the scheming chancellor >all his loyalties being challenged (to the republic, the jedi, the chancellor, to Obi-Wan and Padme) >feeling lost >being presented a way to save his wife >fear, as well as kindness of heart (Palpatine acting meek in confrontation with Windu) >giving in >no turning back
7 months ago
Anonymous
So it isn't coherent. Anakin went from a relatively good person to a child-murderer very, very quickly.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Him reaching the breaking point is coherent.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Him being desperate to save Padme is coherent and understandable. His sudden and dramatic willingness to remorselessly slaughter the children of his former order is not coherent with anything he has done before, nor is it a proportional escalation of anything he did in the immediate build-up. This is one of the reasons Episode 3 and the rest of the prequels are widely considered to be bad movies. Look, I gave you a chance to make your case but I've had enough. The writing of Anakin's fall from grace is clumsy and ham-fisted and you obviously seem to think it's clever, which means you're an idiot.
7 months ago
Anonymous
7 months ago
Anonymous
He has nothing to hold on anymore, aside from Padme and the promise of a way to save her. His whole identity got torpedoed at that point. See [...]
>well Mace is dead I might as well just keep mass murdering people
This is why, again, that I think Anakin is a fricking sociopath and anyone who sympathizes with him is also a sociopath
Tough thing in RotS is you can really see him struggle, being torn apart, always trying to go back to his teachings, which Palpatine from the very beginning of the movie undermines, constantly telling Anakin to go with his feelings and then giving a rationalization why it was the correct thing to do.
>are foreshadowed in his and Padme's conversation about forcing people to create change
Lmao you actually thought that Anakin straight up telling Padme he approves of dictatorship was subtle foreshadowing didn't you? This is the kind of midwit who defends the Prequels.
Of course I understand your schoolkid level analysis. I just think it's hilarious that you think George's clumsy foreshadowing that is as subtle as a brick to the head was actually worth discussing.
Sabine and Ahsoka actually trained and failed and developed as characters. Rey beats the living shit out of everyone on her first appearance, successfully flies a millennium falcon better than Han Solo, knows more about it than Han Solo, gets Chewbacca, gets Anakin's lightsaber, successfully uses mind trick on the next day after learning of the Force's existence, beats the main antagonist of the series, gets a hug from Leia after Han's death while Chewie doesn't, etc etc etc. And that's just from the first movie. I haven't bothered with the other ones. So no. You are a disingenuous homosexual and someone should skin you alive.
That's a fairly low bar. At this point I feel like I could have written a series or movie trilogy about how Ewoks made huge advances in their society in years following the Battle of Endor from all the discarded shit the empire and rebels left behind. And that would have been a better sequel story than the movies were.
So far all this show has done in relation to the sequels is show exactly how fricking dumb the new Republic was to let something like the new order gain strength in the first place.
>taken from his mother >losing his father (figure) in the duel of fates >raised by an older brother ("You were like a brother to me") >missing his mother >reunited with his first love >fearing for his mother's life >mourning the death of his mother >murdering her torturers >pledging to become stronger >having Padme replace his mother >fearing for her life as well >having been adopted by the scheming chancellor >all his loyalties being challenged (to the republic, the jedi, the chancellor, to Obi-Wan and Padme) >feeling lost >being presented a way to save his wife >fear, as well as kindness of heart (Palpatine acting meek in confrontation with Windu) >giving in >no turning back
>Darth Emo force pushes Purple Hair, leaving her totally defenceless >doesn't end the fight there >wastes time sparring with her and never uses the force again >later Ahsoka force pushes her to stop her from getting in the fight >doesn't force push Stevenson, he doesn't push her
How can anyone take this seriously?
Force pushes in the real films aren't often used in fights between jedi, presumably because they can be easily defended against or countered. But any jedi or sith can easily take out someone without the force by pushing or choking them. So why the frick doesn't Darth Emo use it when it's an instant win button? And how is she unable to defend against it when Ahsoka Sue uses it?
Literally how does anyone watch this and feel that there are any stakes at all? There's not even an attempt at continuity.
>e fight scenes are awful
Really bad, I don't know what diversity POC woman they got running the fights but she should be fired and replaced wtih a nazi >Fights would be 100% better. Maybe more.
Cartoons are better. Tales of the Jedi, or The Bad Batch. But Ahsoka is the better live-action show, for sure. Mando is just a saturday morning cartoon with "defend the villagers" tier plot. The less said about Boba Fat and Kenobi the better.
It’s the Ray Stevenson show. Whenevrr he and his little blown nympho aren’t on screen, the show is nearly unwatchable. The title actress is embarrassingly bad. I don’t know if it’s the makeup, the writing, or the direction, but she is fricking awful in this role. Completely miscast. It’s a damn tragedy he died because he’s the only good thing Disney has going for them, and it’s still not enough screen time to save this trash.
>screenrant
It's what Disney should've started with before making the sequel trilogy.
Disney should have never made a sequel trilogy. Never reopen completed story lines. Everything afterwards belongs to the imagination. Nobody wanted to see Luke, Han and Liea as elders or failed parents/leaders, and nobody wanted to know how they died. It was doomed from the start, but the greedy israelites at Disney just had to have these original cast shekles.
If they just wrote separate story threads within the timelines already established, or did an Old Republic set story, they would have had more success. But no, they needed muh nostalgic bucks from emasculated man children.
>Just write prequels and interquels until every second between the invention of the hyperdrive and the destruction of the second death star is accounted for
No, moving forward is the way to go. However, the sequels shouldn't have taken a dump on the OT right out of the gate. Han and Leia should've lived happily ever after, maybe coming out of retirement to be mentors to the new heroes and pass the torch. Luke should have been principal or whatever of a restored Jedi order on Yavin IV (which should definitely NOT have been offscreened by Darth Wannabe). You can still have your own characters leading the way, in fact you SHOULD. It's bullshit none of the main characters from the OT moved on and in fact they regressed because JJ can't do anything except lens flare and retreads.
They should have just used the good parts of the EU novels instead of shitcanning all of it
that's literally what they're doing now, Ahsoka is building to an adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy existing within the current Disneywars framework
>b-b-but it's not the SAAAAAMMMME
That's what an adaptation is, moron. You were never going to get a version of the story starring Luke, Han, and Leia. the Thrawn trilogy doesn't even fit with prequel canon anyway, any version of the story written today would have required massive revisions even if it wasn't starring Disney OCs
>You were never going to get a version of the story starring Luke, Han, and Leia.
Why the frick not? Those 3 are by far the biggest names/ box office draws in Star Wars. And the books, which sold tens of millions of copies , were all about them
>the Thrawn trilogy doesn't even fit with prequel canon anyway,
So? 80% of it would work perfectly fine in this canon. They’d need to tweak some stuff certainly (change of he solo twins for 5 year old Ben Solo, etc)
>any version of the story written today would have required massive revisions even if it wasn't starring Disney OCs
Not massive. Keep the basic outline. Use Ben Solo more. Weave Din Djarin, Ahsoka, Shin, Ezra, etc into the plot. It would probably help the story if anything
yeah but now it's 15 years too late and israelited up to the gills and I really can't be fricked to care anymore
I've never read the Thrawn trilogy. What makes it (and Thrawn) good?
Disney really just made the Sequel Trilogy like their shitty direct to video sequels to the animated ones.
>Heroes from the original movie are shitty overbearing parents to their kids
>The villain is a previously unheard of sibling/relative to the original main villain
>Rehash the old plot threads for nostalgia.
Right. The Sequels are embarrassing garbage. Even direct to video Cheapo Disney sequels like Little Mermaid 2 have much more soul than the “Rey Palpatine masters the force in 4 minutes because girlboss™ Trilogy” does
The actual, earned binary sunset moment of the sequel trilogy is full of soul
You’re pathetic. What is “earned” about Rise of Skywalker? It’s one of the worst movies ever made. Even JJ Abrams (and plenty of people inside of Lucasfilm) regard it as an awful movie
Please explain to me why Rise of Skywalker is soul?
I'm talking about TLJ's binary sunset you moron, rise of skywalker's is soulless
I do agree. Sadly.
well duh, sequels are the worst movies by far
>t. seething seqeulgays "but muh prequels"
I wouldn't know. But I've seen the non-force user not!boba fett teenage girl using a lightsaber in a duel with the not!sith teenage girl; so I'm thinking no it's shit
They’re not teens
>o-only magic people c-can use glow sticks!!
>The force is female!
>b-bu-but Han used a lightsaber in Empire!
>It's in the ORIGINAL TRILOGY!!!!
shut up lmao
She's Mandalorian so there's plenty precedent.
It's a very low bar to clear. Filoni's writing is mediocre as well.
This. Asoka isn't good but it's hard to frick up worse than the sequels did.
The Sequels will always be a catastrophe. A cautionary tale against corporate filmmaking
Better in the same way a glob of snot is better than a turd.
Yes, easily.
I almost starwarsgays. They're just eternally cucked to this franchise
That's the LOWEST of low bars.
Unfortunately, Filoni and Ahsoka's directors don't have the talent to make the fight scenes interesting and creative and even the Jedis don't do anything interesting, even Ahsoka's lightsaber in the cartoon has a more interesting effect than in the live action.
That’s not really saying much is it? Even the actors hated their own movies in the sequels. Everyone except the most indoctrinated consumers seem to know Star Wars is pretty shit now.
The irony is that the sequels are hated for NOT being corporate tested and safe enough. The prequels are hated because they're ineptly made, poorly written films, the sequels are hated because the fanboys can't emotionally handle the Republic falling to ruin, Luke being sad and Han and Leia getting a divorce
>the sequels are hated because the fanboys can't emotionally handle the Republic falling to ruin, Luke being sad and Han and Leia getting a divorce
the problem is they didn't do anything interesting after that
>the sequels are hated because the fanboys can't emotionally handle the Republic falling to ruin, Luke being sad and Han and Leia getting a divorce
the sequels are hated because they're trash with shit like superman leia, rey being the worst SW protagonist ever, rose and finn kissing, palpatine being announced in a fortnite event, i could go on for years
sequel apologists trying to excuse them by saying "it's only disliked because it's dark" will never stop being funny
>Superman Leia
If you think it looked goofy I won't contradict you, but people have some bizarre hangups over this scene. I knew a guy who said it was horrible because...Revan needed a spacesuit in KOTOR. What?
>Rey being the worst SW protagonist ever
I disagree.
>Rose and Finn kissing
Why are people so bootyblasted over this? Because you don't personally find Boyega and Tran attractive?
>Palpatine being announced in a fortnite event
This is moronic but no one defends Rise of Skywalker. That said, "somehow Palpatine returned" is exactly what you deserved if you unironically cried about Snoke dying
No one on this earth finds Boyega attractive.
He looks like a literal frothing monkey.
Frick off.
>Why are people so bootyblasted over this?
if you are trying to unironically convince me that finn x rose is something people asked for and wanted, you are lying and we all know you are lying and you're rendering your own arguments moot
The relationship isn't reciprocated, though. Rose has a crush on Finn but he friendzones her
wait I forgot this board is actually autistic and cannot read people
>cannot read people
You do not count as "people" if you're trying to pretend the sequels were only criticized because they're dark.
They're criticized by wookieepedia autists and EUgays who are so disconnected from their humanity they think their inane in-universe lore autism and emotional kneejerk reactions to their favorite action figures suffering adversity in middle age is actual film criticism
We've had countless threads on the objectively terrible story and filming in the sequel trilogy. Just because you cover your eyes and pretend not to see it doesn't make the sequels any less than complete shit. Please have a nice day
>NOOOOO YOU *HAVE* TO AGREE WITH THE INCEL CIRCLEJERK ECHOCHAMBER
>I AM INCAPABLE OF FORMULATING ARGUMENTS BEYOND JUST EXPLAINING MY EMOTIONAL KNEEJERK REACTIONS TO THE MOVIE SO I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU TO KYS
lmao
Don't call me incel, you failed hedonist.
>I HAD SEX ONCE THAT MEANS I'M NOT AN INCEL GOTTEMM
Don't try to take the moral high ground or pretend you're the one engaging in good faith, homosexual. You're the one who refuses to actually debate and is just saying "reee stop disagreeing with me kys"
>I HAD SEX ONCE THAT MEANS I'M NOT AN INCEL GOTTEMM
That's literally you though. A low performing hedonist revealing his ugly desires.
>You're the one who refuses to actually debate
Correct. You aren't worth debating. Thinking the sequels are good is like thinking that the tooth fairy is real, you simply aren't mentally mature enough to have a real discussion.
Please explain why the First Order stopped attacking the Republic cruisers in TLJ after they had destroyed the hangar
they actually explain this: because they might lose some TIE fighters, which is quite possibly the dumbest answer they could have given.
idk. Because the engines on the big ships mean the capital ships going at full tilt are faster than the fighters
regardless, cinemasins plothole surfing is the most basic b***h form of "criticism". this is like getting angry at the fellowship not flying the ring to mordor on the eagles or thinking it's "le plot hole" that the Empire held fire because there were no lifeforms aboard but oh wait you were a kid when you watched those movies so it's ok
No, the fighters were easily flying circles around the capital ships. There were no more enemy fighters to counter them. So why did they pull back?
>No, the fighters were easily flying circles around the capital ships.
The Mon Calamari cruiser had stopped accelerating because the First Order had come out of lightspeed in front of them. When Kylo Ren is attacking the ships, they are slooooowly turning around so they can run away at full sublight speed. Leia and Ackbar literally tell the audience what they're doing. By the time both fleets had fully accelerated, they'd be traveling faster than the fighters could match on their smaller sublight engines
>There were no more enemy fighters to counter them. So why did they pull back?
Kylo's entire wing died, the turrets were still fricking them up.
None of this was shown, you are literally making things up
I am literally not, try actually watching the movie instead of just going into it looking for reasons to be upset
I did watch it, nothing you said was shown
No I'm saying actually watch the movie, everything I posted is explicitly shown or explained in the movie, except the bit about sublight engines of fighters not being able to keep up with capital ships, that's a bit of inference, but the Rebel fleet slowly turning around, Kylo's wing getting destroyed and Hux telling him to pull back because the capital ships can't cover him anymore, it's all there.
Trust me, I know the movie like the back of my hand, chapter and verse, every shot and cut. Shilling for the movie online is my full time job, you see
No. Body. Fricking. Cares.
>Incel
Im married with kids. Look up the demographics on OT/ Luke fans, or even PT/ EU fans. They are not typically intel’s at all. But I’m willing to bet, you’re not married, dating anyone, or going out much at all. Am I right, TLJ Schizo?
If Rey actually was nude the whole movie I might have liked it privately at night. Instead most the times she covered up head to toe like some muslim chick.
someone made a mod for NuBattlefront II that has Rey in her skintight black jumpsuit she wore in Trevorrow's version of IX and it makes my dick so fricking hard
Daisy was so fricking tight and fit in the IX we actually got but she's still wearing the same fricking rags she's been in all trilogy
Nobody fricking cares. You want to discuss Rose Taco? Go hitch a ride on the short bus
>Why are people so bootyblasted over this? Because you don't personally find Boyega and Tran attractive?
It was a pretty naked attempt to prevent anything from developing between Finn and Rey, so they throw another minority at him hoping the normies don't catch on to the racism.
>rey being the worst SW protagonist ever
I'm sorry but this will never be true for as long as Hayden Christinsen is the one with the starring role in the Star Wars prequels.
Maybe one day if they make some kind of special edition that superimposes someone else over his performance we can all agree Rey is the worst, but for now? No.
Rey is the worst, get over it
At least Daisy Ridley can act so she can never be the worst even if they're both equally badly written.
>At least Daisy Ridley can act
Hayden is better. The Hayden can't act meme is complete bullshit.
Hayden has been very good in the D+ shows. He’s underrated
Watch A listers Sam Jackson and Natalie Portman in the PT. They also don’t turn in their best performances. Too much green screen
I don't even think it's the green screen, rather it's the tone George in his autism was going for (which I appreciate).
>At least Daisy Ridley can act
I know you're baiting but you will never find a Daisy Ridley performance that can beat this.
LMFAO you're fricking kidding me right?
I've seen basketball players show more emotion over missing a shot than Anakin over his mom being dead.
And this isn't even to mention how easily you could find a Daisy Ridley scene that shits all over any of the scenes where Hayden has to actually deliver a fricking line without sounding like he's chewing 5 sticks of gum.
>his isn't even to mention how easily you could find a Daisy Ridley scene that shits all over any of the scenes where Hayden
Then show me, b***h.
Sure.
This is like the only scene of the movie you can find on youtube but it's more than good enough since she actually acts and sounds like a human being, putting her far above Hayden.
There isn't a single iconic Rey scene. Meanwhile almost any Hayden Anakin scene is iconic.
Hayden's scenes are iconic for being laughably bad.
You don't think people actually think stuff like
>What have I done?
or
>Liar!
are actually good right? That's literally the opposite of why they're memorable.
Nope. And time will prove me right and you wrong.
Time will prove you right when delusional homosexuals that watched these horrible movies as children grow up and pretend like they're good?
Cause don't worry, the same thing is gonna happen with the sequels in 10 years.
>Cause don't worry, the same thing is gonna happen with the sequels in 10 years.
It's gotten so easy to smell you midwits out. You only ever repeat the same shitty memes. No individual thought put into anything, no pattern recognition whatsoever.
>no argument left
Concession accepted.
It's also funny how you've decided to lump me in with sequel apologists when I've really given no indication that I actually like them and even admitted Rey was badly written, all I've said is that Hayden Christinsen's performance was awful.
Which it was.
And the only reason you like it is cause you saw these movies as an idiot kid and now you're an idiot adult who doesn't want to admit the things he likes are shit so has to argue with people online about their secret genius that everyone missed somehow and only your underdeveloped kid brain picked it up.
You're not a serious person and not worth my time.
lol
All good scenes. You're just salty because Hayden isn't an ugly freak like you.
You're not a serious person and not worth my time.
>you're not a....le serious person!!!
All the trannies love saying this nowadays after having watched Succession. There's not a single instance of this phrase on the Internet post-2020 that wasn't typed by troony hands.
Okay, uggo midwit.
TFA is already like 8 years old, where are those kids now? Oh, fricking nowhere. We know they're not buying toys, we know they're not going to theme parks, SW is completely fricking dead as a film franchise and only exists on a garbage streaming service... and even that's only because Mando managed to tap into the "childless 40 year old female" demographic by pure accident.
Kids don't like SW, the few that do are because their parents are showed them the core 6 films. Remember when you said that everyone would recognize TLJ as a masterpiece in a year? Then two years, then three... now you're trying to cling to the fantasy of a whole new generation that has zero attachment to this brand somehow becoming fans? Just give it up, dude. There are plenty of hills to die on, don't do it for fricking disney wars.
How about Rey Palpatine’s iconic:
> “Oi like dis!”
Or:
>”Rey, ….Rey Skoywalka!”
Frick off, Hayden fricking nailed all of those scenes. Even people critical of his performance recognize that he nailed those scenes cold
Your bait is getting lazy
Hayden is the best, you filthy pleb.
When did they start letting little girls post on Cinemaphile?
>The prequels are hated because they're ineptly made, poorly written films
You reek of low-T.
>the sequels are hated because the fanboys can't emotionally handle the Republic falling to ruin, Luke being sad and Han and Leia getting a divorce
No, shill. The Sequels are hated because they are a glib facsimile. Because they are an unnecessary, reductive, corporate remake of a much better trilogy. And because the corporate overlords had such little faith in their cheap plastic remake, they had to hammer away at lore and icons in a failed attempt to make their shitty soulless “characters” look better by proxy.
It failed. The Sequels suck
>buzzwords everywhere
This isn't an argument. Call me a troony next, I think that's the next command in your npc script
This has to be one of the worst takes ever posted on Cinemaphile and that's really saying something
>The sequels are hated because they're ineptly made, poorly written films
ftfy
rian johnson didn’t post this, but an ugly bald manlet still did
Real. Prequel hate is inherently dysgenic.
>the sequels are only hated because the fa-- ACK!
Except the issue is that they don't take any risks and Last Jedi is an anomaly in-between.
The issue with the Republic isn't that it's in ruins but rather that the First Order just strolls in and suddenly that makes the New Republic the plucky underdogs again. The problem is that the First Order should've been the rebellion, which multiple pieces of side material are able to establish better. There was no plan so when Rian got his movie he had no notes and did whatever, leading to the riskiest of the sequel trilogy and fans fricking HATED it for that.
First Order should've been rebels who recruit via indoctrination and gather power through their fellow former imperial loyalists who were planning a huge strike on the planet that the New Republic is lead from.
Finn should've had that be his first day, and the shellshock of seeing the violence break the brainwashing due to his aptitude for the force. Finn meets Rey while trying to fend off both the Republic and his former FO colleagues as she's building a new ride for herself. Have Finn learn he has the potential to be a great Jedi and have Rey want to join that path for the sake of finding her parents and getting revenge on the First Order.
This sets them up to go on differing paths as Rey's emotions get in the way of her training and she learns more about her past. Have Kylo know the truth about her and try to recruit her because having the Palpatine bloodline by his side will mean being able to do a hard reset on the galaxy, as he plans on using the secret Sith forces to eradicate both the Republic and First Order but needs someone of his bloodline to activate them.
Maybe it's not perfect but it's sure as shit a better jumping off point than what we got
>Last Jedi is an anomaly in-between.
I don't know why people still think this. Despite Rian's hard-on for muh subversion, TLJ is an incredibly safe film. Finn is perfectly fine after taking a lightsaber to the spine, and is magically prevented from sacrificing himself. The evil rich dudes with child slaves don't present a morally complex problem to solve, the heroes just smash shit and feel good about it. There's no tension when the super big ship shows up because it's defeated by a single X-wing and a crashing bomber. There's no tension during the space chase because they had a great plan the whole time. Snoke doesn't do anything bad to Rey and is easily defeated by Kylo.
Despite Rian pretending to be some edgy troll, TLJ has kid gloves on the whole way through.
TLJ is one of the safest movies I’ve ever seen. The only “chance” it takes was humiliating Luke. But ultimately that was by design from Kathy. And it ended up wrecking their franchise
YES BECAUSE THE SEQUELS WERE SHIT AND REY WAS A MARY SUE.
AHSOKA HAS A LONG BACKSTORY WITH CHALLENGES AND WORKED FOR EVERYTHING SHE HAS.
I don't even really like her but she gets beaten up all the time in her own show. Anakin literally kicks her around, Baylan stomps her twice. It's nowhere near Rey levels of bullshit, she's just not a very appealing protagonist, which goes for most female characters in that kind of story.
She never gets beaten, only conveniently skips the fight. She beat Anakin in her wet dream.
Baylan told her she can't win and she conceded that. First time Baylan almost killed her. And Anakin was teaching her a lesson.
You missed the point of the sequence entirely. Perhaps you should stick to the sequels.
>REY HAS TWO GLOW STICKS THEREFORE REY WIN
That should be easier for you to process than a character working through her internal struggle with the help of her master.
The old hag has two glow sticks too
Rebels and Clone Wars also told a better Star Wars story than the sequels, but mostly because the bar is so low. I'll give the Disney series their due, they are doing a pretty good job of being live action versions of those cartoons. But they are doing an absolutely shite job of feeling in any way connected tonally to the OT.
What's good about the show is the white male characters and the overall fantasticism that is so lacking in Disney slop. Also the fact they've cast good looking people in lead roles.
No
Empire is cool again and not a bunch of jobbers with Mickey Mouse helmets.
They're still jobbers
>le genius grand admiral
>3 of your most annoying and dangerous enemies in one place with zero support
>could just throw hundreds of troops at them or bomb them from orbit
>LOL no let's not kill them
The biggest criticism for Assoka is that Thrawn is written like a fricking idiot because no one in the writing room has above room temperature IQ.
As if they wouldnt just le force le saber deflect le blast them all magically as in literally every other scene in the entire history of star wars with any amount of stormtroopers. Thrawn knows they're protected by plot armor and can merely delay them while he plans the escape
>EU no longer canon
>they talk about thrawn as if he's his EU counterpart
what has this guy in universe done at all?
That's like complimenting a dude for having a bigger wiener than a eunuch.
>Which he does.
I told a better story they the fricking movies with my toys when I was a kid, its not hard.
>in atmosphere
>screenrant
I thought they were going out of business.
I mean. Yeah. I think everyone with a fricking brain could tell you that.
stop watching nu wars
This is Filoni Wars though.
old nu wars
It's been around since 2008, so yeah. I don't consider it canon but then again nothing really is aside from Episodes I-VI.
observably and ridiculously false
Yes, but that's not a high bar.
I know this probably isn't a very original thing to say, but I just wanted to let everyone know that I am deeply attracted to the blonde sith girl in this show. I have no other strong opinions regarding it.
it is but its a really low bar to begin with
>That’s what they say
TardWars show is better than TardWars movie!? Woooowie I can't wait! I'm going to dilate with my custom lightsaber to this
Nope. But then again, I’ve stopped watching Star Wars after the prequels. Wiped my ass with the fandom and never looked back.
>one turd is better than another turd
>breaking news: small pile of dried rabbit poop stinks less than a really big reheated skunk shit
Honestly yes, Ahsoka is probably what they should have done to begin with. The character was already accepted, had character development and had already been trained.
Plus, the show is actually respecting the cinematographic and narrative style that gives the prequels their identity. That creates cohesion and a sense of legacy which is always important for sagas.
Honestly had they done this to begin with they would have won it all. Backlash would have been minimal.
That said i´m pretty sure they´ll find a way to ruin it yet. It´s going to be The mandalorian all over again.
The Mandalorian always sucked. It boils down to titular character being an incompetent, bumbling moron. You can't put someone in a boatload of tacticool gear and then have them be a total jobber.
It's still mediocre as frick and requires you to watch 2 long and shitty cartoon series 90% of SW fans ignored. Sure it's better than ST but so is bad diarrhea.
Those cartoons are better than 9 out of 11 movies.
>watching anything besides the original trilogy
And no those cartoons are fricking garbage.
They have 3 garbage episodes for every good 1.
I hate Filonigays so much.
They don't even think about you. You are an insignificant little spec not worthy of recognition.
From the tone of this post, I'm not inclined to believe you.
>Those cartoons are better than 9 out of 11 movies.
the cartoons are only better than 7, 8, 9, obi wan, and boba fat
The cartoons are better than 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, R1, Solo, Mandalorian, Obi-Wan, Boba Fett, Andor, Ahsoka
Frick off.
This cannot be fricken real KEK
the best part is when maul shows up and just rapes them all with skill instead of relying on shitty hover gimmicks
doesn't stop the existence of the inquisitors from being pointless
>can't kill a failed jedi padawan and his little space aladdin buddy
>get wiped by anyone with legitimate training
It's already grating as a children's show
The fricking lightsaber helicopters would've made me switch off the show instantly
I admire your fortitude
Yeah, that episode is better than 9 out of 11 movies and any of the live-action series, easily. Star Wars also has always had goofy shit, so what?
>The character was already accepted
Ahsoka was never accepted.
At best Cinemaphile morons accepted her orange butt cheeks and that was it.
holy cope
>he says while posting something completely different
>shill reviewers said it's good so therefore Cinemaphile likes it
have a nice day
>everyone is a shill!
lmao
Also, we like it.
t. Cinemaphile
is a shill!
No, just """critics""" and you.
>Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, some gay weeb shit
Star Wars belongs on that list with the other garbage.
That’s not that hard of an accomplishment considering how bad the sequels were.
Ahsoka sucks ass. And yes, I agree.
Yes but that’s not hard. SW cartoons and video games even mog the sequels.
A moronic monkey wanking on the corner and spouting gibberish would be a better sequel to Star Wars than the godawful sequel trilogy.
No idea.
First episode bored me to tears.
Filoni should be a supporting creative. Not the prime.
Give Favreau creative control of star wars.
>Give Favreau creative control of star wars.
lol no, frick you
By default the Sequel Triology is a fricking terrible story, poorly cast wtih horrible writing and even worst direction.
>It would be hard to do worst.
No, The Last Jedi is much better than anything Filoni created.
>this is the person telling you Filoni is shit
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
>Do you agree?
Yeah, the sequel trilogy was absolute trash so its a very low bar to clear. Honestly the sequel trilogy is the worst thing Disney did with Star Wars, I'd take Solo over episode 7,8, or 9 any day of the week.
Almost anything is better than the Disney Star Wars sequels, with the possible exception of the New Jedi Order book series involving the Yuuzhan Vong, who remain the only thing indisputably worse than Disney canon.
>Almost anything is better than the Disney Star Wars sequels, with the possible exception of the New Jedi Order book series involving the Yuuzhan Vong, who remain the only thing indisputably worse than Disney canon.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the Vong show up next episode?
If the Vong ever appear in Disney Star Wars as is, unaltered from their ridiculously edgy and overpowered garbage self from the EU, then there is absolutely no defense of new canon. Those homosexuals are the defining line; if they add something called "Yuuzhan Vong" that bears only limited resemblance to the EU version but massively neutered, then I'll tolerate it, but I'd rather that whole concept ignored totally lest I die from cringe.
The Vong were perfectly fine in the EU. You realize they lost the war, right?
Tastelet.
No. It's fricking terrible, a lazy collection of memberberries and girlboss shite, written by a hack and pitched at the intellectual level of a particularly dimwitted 11 year old.
To be clear, that makes it MARGINALLY worse than the prequels. Frankly they're both shite.
>verification not required
Make Star Wars for white boys again.
>guy on the left
is he the gay russian hitman from season 7 of dexter?
Yup. Also Titus Pullo and best Punisher.
Literally any story on Earth, even the inane ramblings of the schizophrenic who hangs out outside the train station screeching at people, even his babbling “story” is more compelling than the Sequel Trilogy. So yes.
Every story ever told is better than the Disney Sequel Trilogy. It’s a very low bar
>female protagonists
no, no, no, NO, NO YOU STUPID homosexual. this shit will turn your sons gay you stupid homosexual. boys do not need and should not have female role models. do not listen to any of these modern day homosexuals who say differently. you will raise a homosexual
idk dude I like Rey because Daisy Ridley makes my dick hard, sounds pretty heterosexual to me
>muh dick hard
not everyone makes decisions with their peepee, coombrain
based
Imagine how fricking virginal and sex starved one has to be find this exciting. It must suck to be a poor virgin.
Smoooooooooooooooooooooch
That's not a very hard task
Yes, of course. The “Sequel” trilogy is complete garbage. Everyone knows that
I was that one 1%, it was by accident.
>slowly walk to orb and stab it
>reaction shot of people blankly watching him stab it
>close-up of the stabbing
>alternate shot of the stabbing and guy says like one word
>close-up on another blank stare
>characters walk away
>this all takes HALF A FRICKING MINUTE to do what could have taken four seconds
this is clown shit
the bar is low to begin with. But also, wtf is even the story in ahsoka? Like I know what the characters are trying to do:
-asian chick is looking for that one guy
-ahsoka aping gandalf and looking for thrawn for reasons
-the asian old lady is trying to help thrawn for reasons but gets mad at everything
-old white non-sith is doing stuff for reasons
-young white non-sith is tagging along for reasons
-thrawn just wants to go home
-the republic is being stupid to set up the shitty sequel trilogy.
but WHAT exactly is the story it's telling?
Personal issues + Empire coming back through Thrawn (Remnant).
that's plot, not story. Like I get everyone was creaming in their pants when ahsoka and anakin were having their wet dream together, but it was so fricking hollow and meaningless. Choose life? But hey, at least we got those two cool shots where anakin glitches into vader, right?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. They had such a good formula going for the first two seasons of the mandalorian, and then everyone just got moronic.
>but it was so fricking hollow and meaningless. Choose life?
Too bad, you missed the point entirely. You take everything literally and can't into subtext. Sucks to be you.
>You take everything literally and can't into subtext
this is always the cope people say when excusing poor writing
"you just don't get it, it's subtext"
Okay, I will spoonfeed you.
Anakin was helping her to work out through her shame, guilt, burdens, and her perceived notion that she is doomed to fail both herself and Sabine. He was helping her to work out her issues with perceiving Anakin and his legacy, and by extension herself, tainted by the shadow of Darth Vader. Essentially, she was wrestling with the question that Baylan brought up in the previous episode during their duel: "Everyone in the Order knew Anakin Skywalker. Few would live to see what he became. Surely, that must leave a mark. Your legacy, like your master's, is one of death and destruction." When Anakin said, "You lost the fight", he meant not only literally, as in Baylan defeated her in combat, but he also defeated her mentally by getting in her mind with these remarks. But Anakin is more than what Baylan said and Ahsoka falsely thought, and she is more than that. And she has to forgive him and move on. So by setting up the "fight" and making her win and choosing to throw away the lightsaber, forgive him and move on, Anakin passed the lesson that he himself learned from Luke in the final moments of his life. Forgiveness, letting go, and moving on. "Live or die" is not just a literal choice. It's all subtext. Life in fear, life in doubt, living out of obligation and just going through the motions is not a life. "I choose to live" is choosing the path of the light side, the path of forgiveness, the path of acceptance. "Death" is the death of soul, succumbing to fear and the dark side, succumbing to revenge and guilt over the past that you can't change. These are all fundamental themes of Star Wars that were presented by Anakin in that lesson.
That was all there, btw, but I am waiting for you to cope with your low IQ "it's all headcanon" nonsense. Just skill issue on your part.
I won't say that's headcanon, but I feel the show did a poor job of getting that across. Like to me it feels like it's all payoff but no setup. But then again, I never saw any of the cartoons. I still feel it's the show's job to do that, not me having to watch a bunch of shitty cartoons.
>but I feel the show did a poor job of getting that across
It didn't. I got it, as did many other people, because it's all there.
>But then again, I never saw any of the cartoons. I still feel it's the show's job to do that, not me having to watch a bunch of shitty cartoons.
You don't necessarily have to watch the cartoons. Sure, you'd get more invested in the Anakin/Ahsoka relationship and you will get a deeper appreciation of it, but the show set up everything you needed to know for the payoff. You need to understand Star Wars, you need to understand why Anakin fell and how he was redeemed, you need to pay attention to the show you're watching. And you're gonna get all of that. Notice that I haven't referenced the cartoons at all in that post. All the information was from the Ahsoka episodes and a bit as a frame of reference from Return of the Jedi.
Maybe I'm not paying enough attention, but baylon giving that one line is not enough set up. Prior to that episode, it was just plot with sabine and ashoka. There was that one hint where ahsoka was trying to teach her but then learned it would probably be best to work together. But setup for the whole anakin thing should have started since episode 1.
And it's a bit condescending to think people don't get "star wars" and how anakin fell and redeemed himself. It's not that deep. I'm pretty sure people who watch star wars shit get it. I'm not talking about the lore of the show, I'm talking specifically about how the execution of the show is failing it's story.
>her shame, guilt, burdens, and her perceived notion that she is doomed to fail both herself and Sabine.
Literally none of which existed prior to this episode.
>her issues with perceiving Anakin and his legacy, and by extension herself, tainted by the shadow of Darth Vader
Literally none of which existed prior to this episode.
>"Everyone in the Order knew Anakin Skywalker. Few would live to see what he became. Surely, that must leave a mark. Your legacy, like your master's, is one of death and destruction."
Ahsoka has lived to see Anakin's son fulfill the legacy Anakin failed, rebuilding the jedi order. Anakin's fall happened decades ago, she should have had time to grow, learn, and form a hope for the future. But we see none of that.
>he meant not only literally, as in Baylan defeated her in combat, but he also defeated her mentally
And if that's all it takes for her to be defeated mentally she is PATHETIC and more easily manipulated than fricking Jar Jar.
>And she has to forgive him
Which she would have done after she learned about his last moments from Luke.
>It's all subtext.
No, it's your headcanon. And it's fricking pathetic that you're trying to do Filoni's job for him and add meaning when it simply isn't there.
>I am waiting for you to cope with your low IQ "it's all headcanon" nonsense
It is headcanon. You are barely citing the show at all. You are saying that when Anakin says "you lost lmao" he ACKSHUALLY meant "you let him get in your head" and that when he says "choose life" he is ACKSHUALLY saying "forgive and move on".
But that's not even the truly pathetic part. What's really sad is that this is your best faith interpretation and it's STILL shit. LUKE EXISTS. AHSOKA MET HIM. Whatever she feels towards Anakin has to be affected by that. She KNOWS Vader was saved. She KNOWS the galaxy is safe and slowly rebuilding. This is hack shit that was introduced and resolved within one episode and had zero impact on her character. Cheap filler.
Like I said, low IQ issue on your part. Can't into subtext, can't into actually engaging with the material on a conscious level. I doubt you are even capable of understanding the nuance of human psyche, I doubt you have a conversation with anyone but your mother. No wonder you fail to comprehend the psychology of a person, who was a child soldier, and whose mentor turned out to be a genocidal maniac, which makes her question her entire life and the validity of everything she'd been taught and what she was doing. Like, you can't even possibly comprehend it, it seems. You lack empathy and understanding. You are like Mauler-tier low IQ bugman autismo. And the worst part, you are arrogant enough to believe you are in the right.
>Can't into subtext
And you're not addressing my arguments.
>who was a child soldier, and whose mentor turned out to be a genocidal maniac
Things that Filoni needed to spell out for the viewer because you otherwise would never have guessed those things from the wooden performance and shallow dialogue.
>which makes her question her entire life and the validity of everything she'd been taught and what she was doing.
And then over TWO DECADES passed by.
>you can't even possibly comprehend it
Filoni sure can't, which is why he decided to not write it, then just say "uh yeah she simply chose to not be traumatized anymore".
>You are like Mauler-tier
Thanks?
>Commit mass genocide, child murder, betray all of your friends, and become the chief enforcer to the worst tyrant the galaxy has ever seen leading to the deaths of billions
>Don't show a hint of remorse
>Boils down all the bad shit he did into a trick for a sparring lesson to teach his OC donut steel padawan to believe in herself
God I fricking hate Anakin Skywalker so much, he and his fans are some of the most selfish and solipsistic people I've ever seen. I've always had difficulty reconciling Vader in the OT with Anakin from the prequels, but his portrayal in Ahsoka basically boils down all the heinous shit he did into "eh shit happens, don't worry about it just bee yourself". It's psychotic
He could've been a great character if his descent into the dark side was handled more tenderly and his actions made sense.
>if his descent into the dark side was handled more tenderly and his actions made sense
It was and they did, your power level is just insufficient to see it.
Nah, you're a moron
No, but you are a midwit.
He's not rotten to the core from the start, but there's plenty of identity issues he's struggling with throughout. Even in Episode III he always tries to pull back when he's been giving in to evil.
>Even in Episode III he always tries to pull back when he's been giving in to evil.
Sheev literally admits he's being lying about being able to save Padme this entire time and Anakin goes along with his plot to murder the younglings anyway. Anakin is either stupid beyond belief to continue being taken for a ride by Sheev, or psychotically selfish to think the deaths of billions are a worthy tradeoff for the .0000001 chance they'll figure out how to save Padme before she gives birth in the next two weeks
>Start of RotS
>Obi-Wan we need to protect those clone pilots!
>End of RotS, a few days later.
>Time to start murdering kids!
Imagine being the stupid frick who thinks this was good writing
RotS takes place over at least 6 months, moron.
No, it takes place over like four days. It was confirmed way back.
>no explanation for his character U-turn
>b-but actually it was 6 months!
Stupid frick
You're both wrong. It takes place in under 18 hours. This is explained during the mission briefing covering Palpatine's warning to the galaxy on launching his fleet of Death Star Destroyers upon the galaxy (18 hour time limit); the entire film happens in less than a day.
Rise of Skywalker is legitimately the worst film ever made
It’s horrifyingly bad
Anakin in the OT is spoken of as a great man who was twisted by evil, the prequels show him as being rotten to the core from the start.
>from the start
Meh, he was a good kid who wanted to free the slaves and save his mom.
He was a sweet kid in Phantom Menace
Yeah, it's easy to be nice when you're a shy 9 year old, but the second Anakin had any sort of power or real ability to make decisions he began showing megalomaniacal tendencies and started killing people
What is he supposed to say? What CAN he say? Nothing can be said about it. You are SO CLOSE to understanding, yet so far. This is sad. He can't undo all the things he'd done. And no amounts of words or "I am sorry" will undo that. It is useless. But what's more important is that it's not what Ahsoka needed. She needed help to ACCEPT it and MOVE ON. To understand that Anakin, her relationship with him, are not defined by Darth Vader. She is not defined by Darth Vader. That there was Anakin Skywalker, a good man. Like this is Return of the Jedi, my Black person. Ever watched that flick? And what is it so different about Anakin from the OT and PT? Darth Vader in the OT allowed the destruction of Alderaan, tortured his own daughter, tortured his son's friends, maimed his own son, threatened to turn his daughter to the Dark Side, and it was said that he hunted down the Jedi. And he was redeemed.
>What is he supposed to say? What CAN he say? Nothing can be said about it.
Loads can be said about it, but Filoni doesn't even try.
>To understand that Anakin, her relationship with him, are not defined by Darth Vader. She is not defined by Darth Vader.
Shit that came out of literally nowhere and isn't anything she should be feeling based on her history with Luke.
>And he was redeemed.
No thanks to Filoni's pet OC lmao.
>Loads can be said about it, but Filoni doesn't even try.
Yeah, like what? Show us the great, deep scriptwriting here, anon. Surely, you've watched enough Mauler to make an objectively perfect™ script, your movie is underway, right? He didn't say anything in ROTJ, other than "You were right about me. You were right." He didn't say "I am sorry", nor he tried to defend his actions. But that was never the point. There is no defense for his actions, and nothing can be said about it. But I am waiting for your perfect example of what he should have said that is totally not cheesy and would justify his actions and would make someone else feel better about it, lol.
>Shit that came out of literally nowhere and isn't anything she should be feeling based on her history with Luke.
What history, dumbass? And, regardless, how is it supposed to make her feel better? Canonically, Leia, his own daughter, never forgave Anakin. "Oh, yes, Anakin is good now" says Luke. So what? How does it undo all the pain and thoughts and experiences they'd had?
>No thanks to Filoni's pet OC lmao.
1) Non sequitur
2) Ahsoka was created by George Lucas
Try again, autismo.
>Surely, you've watched enough Mauler to make an objectively perfect™ script, your movie is underway, right?
I've written fics when I was thirteen that are better than Filoni's writing, yeah.
>He didn't say "I am sorry", nor he tried to defend his actions
No, he said what he could to praise his son after cherishing the brief moments of seeing him without the mask in the way. It was only seconds, but he died peacefully with that final act. It wasn't about apologizing. It wasn't about undoing his actions or justifying them. It was about spending what little time he had left with someone he loved. In Ahsoka, Anakin just pops up to deliver the moral lesson of the show. Despite all the memberberries thrown around it doesn't even look like he has any emotional reaction to seeing his former padawan.
>What history, dumbass?
The history established BY DISNEY'S OWN FRICKING SHOW, dumbass. She was on Mando. She worked with Luke. They knew each other.
>how is it supposed to make her feel better?
Maybe it doesn't. But it should make her feel SOMETHING.
>So what? How does it undo all the pain and thoughts and experiences they'd had?
Good question, maybe that's what the show should have been about. Ahsoka's disbelief that Vader was redeemed, her distrust of Luke, her fear that the peace is going to be destroyed, etc. Or you could have her wracked with guilt over her failure to save Anakin, that she couldn't accomplish what Luke did. Instead, her character hasn't progressed at all since fricking Order 66.
>1) Non sequitur
How in the frick is Vader's redemption and death a non sequitur to Ahsoka's character? You're arguing that this trashfire of a show is good because of Ahsoka's oh so deep trauma over Vader, and yet it ignores the most important information about his life and death.
>Won the war
>Rejected a lifetime of religious indoctrination to protect the man of the people
>Prevented a second civil war with that "genocide"
>prevented any future separatists with pragmatic rule despite suffering crippling injuries
Quite literally did nothing wrong
it's easy to say "hurr durr, you just didn't get it." Enlighten me and help me understand.
Maybe I didn't. Or maybe I'm not injecting shitty head canon to make it mean something. Granted I haven't watched any of the cartoons, but I also shouldn't have to.
They all have their personal issues to figure out. Ahsoka with her massa problems, Sabine with having lost Ezra, Baylan with perenniality. What are you even crying about?
I don't feel I'm capable of articulating why I'm not enjoying the show. To me, it feels like they're playing checkers but everyone telling me it's a great game of chess. Each episode is just plot. Maybe I'm just moronic and don't see the story, but I want to doubt that.
I think I get what you're saying, it's clear they are building toward something outside of the show, but I still think the show is good (directionally).
see, this I don't agree with. There's something wooden about all the acting except for baylon and thrawn. Like the three main female characters are all just emoji acting. All they do is make smirking or bored faces. All their performances are flat. The female non sith atleast is playing into her character. I don't know, maybe I'm expecting too much. I just think it's crazy that Bill fricking Burr gave a better performance.
The type of people who enjoy Filonislop literally cannot engage with stories beyond a third grade level
Empty words.
What is Ahsoka about, thematically? What is the lesson the characters are learning, what does it say about the human condition? Nothing, because all Dave Filoni can do is write paper thin, brightly colored cartoon characters who have no humanity to them besides doing epic action poses
this
is me. You're exactly saying what I feel.
Right now? I'd say it's about wounds. About dealing with loss. People are off-track. Ahsoka in doubt because of her history with Anakin and uncertainty regarding his teachings, Sabine hanging on to her memory of Ezra and the regret of having lost him, Baylan trying to escape history's cyclical nature.
Oh wow, I can't wait for the final lesson to be to accept loss again, with an elbow-to-the-ribs implication that people need to just accept this trash timeline and love the sequels despite all their massive glaring flaws.
Yeah, and I don't watch the D+ shows anymore because I hate the prequels and I was already an adult when Clone Wars started. I don't relate to them at all. I just don't watch them and instead focus on the parts of Star Wars I enjoy
I get what you mean. It feels like this show was made just with the barest hint of story because it knows fans cannot tell the difference and they'll fill in the blanks with their own veneration of Star Wars. I feel like a "real story" would fully flesh out the dynamic between Ahsoka and Sabine for example, but in this show it just consists of the two of them sometimes being quietly mad at each other with stone faced expressions and sometimes quietly giving each other knowing smiles.
season two of the Mandalorian is where this shit started. The ENTIRE season is a succession of applause cameos serving as backdoor pilots to other shows, and the entire plot was written to contrive a forced cameo from CGI cartoon monster Luke.
Luke was planned from the first episode of Season 1. He was always the goal. He made perfect sense and they executed his appearance perfectly
They could have gone without the Boba Fett Cameo though. Ahsoka did make some sense too
>He made perfect sense and they executed his appearance perfectly
He arrives to find a fricking Imperial Grand Moff captured by the former leader of Mandalore and an ex-Rebel along with an infamous assassin and a bounty hunter holding the most infamous lightsaber in existence, with Boba Fricking Fett chilling in his ship somewhere nearby, after having destroyed a shitload of Imperial battle droids that are huge upgrades over what the CIS had, and all he has to say is "hey kid you're force-sensitive come abandon your life to be trained even though that's the literal antithesis of my character arc in the original films".
If you think that was anywhere near "acceptable" let alone "perfect", you should commit suicide.
Holy shit, you’re moronic. My condolences
>no arguments
mmkay
You’ve been coming here every day for half a decade and you’ve gotten thousands of arguments by now. I’ve read the threads. You’re mentally ill if you think you can force people to like a 7 year old movie by “arguing” with them. Nobody here will ever change their mind. They hate Rey and they hate the Sequel Trilogy. That’s never going to change
You're not arguing with TLJ shill, because TLJ shill is me
though I do share the other anon's distaste of Mando Luke
The CGI wasn’t good. The scene itself was good. It was well shot, and well done. Not a single person on Earth thinks the CGI was good. But 97% of the scene was a stunt double. And that part was great.
I’m glad they let Mark Hamill play Luke a couple more times before they recast him. I think he and his fans were upset by the whole ST thing. So I think giving Mark those moments in Mando/ Boba were a very nice thing to do so he could finish up his run on a positive note.
Why would anyone really get angry at that? It was a nice thing to do. And the Boba deepfake was pretty good. But I do think it’s time for a recast. And so does Mark. But getting angry at the guy who built the franchise for having a moment is some real petty shit.
>The CGI wasn’t good. The scene itself was good. It was well shot, and well done. Not a single person on Earth thinks the CGI was good. But 97% of the scene was a stunt double. And that part was great.
I mean, if all you're asking for is a generic action figure with a laser sword cutting up CGI bad guys, then I guess that's reasonable enough. But it's not really "Luke" doing any of it in any way, shape, or form, and the awful CGI homunuclus creation prevents his scenes from having any real dramatic weight. He shows none of Luke's sense of humor, warmth or humanity, he just talks like a stoic robot
>I'm glad they let Mark Hamill play Luke a couple more times
At no point is Mark Hamill ever on screen or performing any dialogue. He was there to serve as a stand in and look good in the PR release.
>Why would anyone really get angry at that?
It was a soulless cameo from a character who didn't need to be there and forever showed that Star Wars cannot escape its masturbatory fanservice. Mando was supposed to be the proof that Star Wars could tell new stories outside of what we already knew, before it immediately became a cameofest in its SECOND season
>was a soulless cameo from a character who didn't need to be there and forever showed that Star Wars cannot escape its masturbatory fanservice.
The 35 years between ROTJ and TLJ, Luke WAS the Jedi Order. It was set up from the first episode that they were bringing Grogu to “his people” “the Jedi”. This didn’t come out of nowhere
>Mando was supposed to be the proof that Star Wars could tell new stories
You meant discount corporate Bob Fett and discount corporate Yoda battling discount Tarkington is “new stories”LOL, loser
>outside of what we already knew, before it immediately became a cameofest in its SECOND season
Star Wars isn’t high literature. It isn’t high culture. Only maybe parts of the OT qualify as culturally significant or “literary”. The Mandalorian is a mediocre tv show with a bunch of corporate knock offs. You need to grow up and read and watch better things
Mandalorian peaked with Season 2.
None of the Disney+ shows mean anything, because they all exist to just advertise other product. This entire show was designed to be filler because their Heir to the Empire movie is going to be their Avengers event, and consoomers eat it up because cross-promotion of serialized product is all they understand
>actually giving attention to the Rian Johnson apologist baiter
newbies
>____ is better than the sequels!
No shit. Even the game with the ginger homosexual and the bug eyed Black person has a shakespearan narrative compared to crap like webm related.
it's borderline impossible to be worse than the sequels
post pictures of the cute blonde
I can't follow the timelines of all the shows and films. I keep having this deeply nagging doubt and confusion both before and after a character interaction.
>where was this person at this point in the sequel
>where was this person at that point in the prequel
>why don't they know about this thing they did in the prequel?
>why would anyone care about something that didn't happen until later?
>shouldn't this person existing preclude that thing from happening?
>why do I care about these completely ineffectual characters?
I would sooner glue my c**t to the couch to watch a season of Bill Burr's character as a gun for hire on the periphery of a reformed empire that betrayed him and all his friends. Hell, just that burning of cinder event or whatever it was. The week leading up to it where he genuinely believes the empire is a good thing until the massacre.
No jedi. No special name tie ins. Just average people in a scifi situation that's anything but average.
>Hell, just that burning of cinder event or whatever it was.
That was the dumbest shit there ever was and even now they're trying to walk it back. It was essentially a big moronic excuse to set up the sequels but then everybody hated them.
>the cinder thing was moronic
In what way? The empire committing unilateral genocide+friendly fire is exactly what I'd expect from a galactic military junta
If you're just implying the empire isn't actually evil and all the 'evil' things they do are forced/propoganda, you're moronic.
>The empire committing unilateral genocide+friendly fire is exactly what I'd expect from a galactic military junta
Then you're a moron. Because I would expect the Empire to factionalize and start a massive civil war since there's no clear line of succession, leading to decades of large-scale galactic conflict. Instead every Moff and Admiral starts suiciding all their own territories because Palpatine's recording said so, because they're all good super loyal boys.
No. Marxist propaganda doesn't work on me.
Is Ahsoka better than the sequel movies? Yes, ofcourse. But that doesn't mean Ahsoka is a good show, nor does it mean that Ahsoka should be regarded as Star Wars canon.
>Is Ahsoka better than the sequel movies?
Not even the sequels had fricking time travel and new galaxies to ruin everything about the setting.
Ahsoka had no time travel. Star Wars has always had other Galaxies.
star wars is for kids
Random porn fan fiction about any series will be better than the adventures of Rey Palpatine-Skywalker.
The Sequels are corporate trash. The filth on the bottom of my shoe is better than them
Somehow even the shitty sequels were more coherent than these Disney+ shows often are. At the very least, TLJ enjoyed having a visual artistic vision, while all of these shows barring Andor are shot inside a tiny closet with characters just standing against a screen. It's like a big budget Channel Awesome show.
i think they should flush everything after episode 3
this included
people would forget any of this vapid shit ever existed within 3 years and then they can try again
Ahsoka hasn't ruined Star Wars beyond repair so I'd say it's better than the ST
>cat turds are better than dog turds
Its not a comparison worth discussing
Yeah but that's the lowest bar you could set for a big budget production. The only thing decent in the new trilogy is TFA's non-story scenes where they do a good sense of scale for being a ground troop when shit is hitting the fan.
The key is that Anakin had idenity issues from the beginning. Being taken away from his mother and lacking a strong father figure were always a dangerous wienertail. Qui-Gon as this exceptionally unorthodox, yet nonetheless strict teacher, as demonstrated in his treatment of Jar Jar, could've reeled Anakin in to a degree, would have been way more accustomed to Anakin's limitless potential. That's why the duel with Maul is titled Duel of Fates, because Qui-Gon's death has a catastrophic impact on Anakin's development.
His tyrannical tendencies that would later manifest in Vader, are foreshadowed in his and Padme's conversation about forcing people to create change. Being robbed of a mother's love can turn a boy cruel.
At around the midpoint of Episode III Anakin's fragile identity is breaking down and he gives in to the temptations of Palpatine.
Having met Padme at a very young age, her much older, comparing her to an angel, ends up making her both his first love and also a replacement for his mother. Needily yearning for Padme, trying to steal a kiss through pity (the infamous "sand" line, which is much misunderstood) and finally entering a relationship with her after his mother's death, having his mother fully replaced.
Yes yes I get all that but the prequels depict Anakin as a heroic character who has good intentions even as he's murdering children on the flimsiest of premises
force wanted him to do that to balance things out to prepare for the future troubles. he really had no choice
How about because they'll grow up to try and overthrow the empire and mow down Anakin's men by the thousand?
Tell me, what is the functional difference between a youngling and a super advanced new battle droid at that point in the story? I know Lucas executed the prequels clumsily but killing the Jedi root and stem is just logical
>How about because they'll grow up to try and overthrow the empire and mow down Anakin's men by the thousand?
Let me guess, you think blowing up Alderaan was also a justified act because how DARE anyone resist the fascist empire
I'm explaining to you why he did it because you said it was "on the flimsiest of premises". It wasn't. It makes complete sense unless you have the mind of an adolescent.
Anakin doesn't really have any strong convictions about political systems. Yeah, he does show authoritarian tendencies during his picnic with Padme but that's just a manchild whining that he can't just kill everyone who doesn't agree with him
Anakin wasn't wiping out the Jedi because he believed it was necessary to create a strong and secure Empire that he believed was the best form of governance for the Galaxy, he did it because he *still* believes he needs Sheev to teach him magic tricks to save his wife; the danger she's in is also entirely theoretical btw
I remember watching him do that monologue to Obi Wan about bringing peace and security to the empire or whatever and thinking "wow, that was kind of hitting the audience over the head". But since you still missed the point I understand Lucas, now. Thank you.
When Anakin swears fealty to Sheev, is Anakin talking about how he believes wholeheartedly in the Dark Side and the necessity of the Empire to bring peace to the Galaxy? No, he just wants to save Padme. Anakin would have thrown Sheev out the window and remained a milquetoast servant of the liberal order if Mace was the guy who could have saved Padme. Anakin has no convictions, which is why the sudden appearance of them during his last speech to Obiwan is so fricking comical.
They did an entire tv show about how awful the clone wars were and you still don't understand Anakin's motivations?
For fricks sake
>tell me what is the difference between a child and a killing machine
You might be autistic
No, he's always somewhat torn, there's tremendous potential in him, for both good and evil.
even when Anakin has literally murdered children, betrayed all of his friends, and tried to strangle his pregnant wife to death the movie is making apologies for him
No, after the "What have I done", he's broken. He's done.
The point wasn't the foreshadowing, it was his identity issues and how they express themselves, you literal midwit.
Again, I get your bigger point, it isn't that complicated. And again, it's still funny how easily impressed you are with a film for kids.
I'm pointing out coherency. When people say his character doesn't make sense they are wrong, it's all there.
Where's the coherency of him being willing to slaughter innocents?
He's given up at that point. He's broken. He clings to what he feels he needs most, which is Padme. Ironically his darkened soul ends up destroying her as well.
So where's the coherence?
>Ironically his darkened soul ends up destroying her as well.
Holy shit that's so deep
He has nothing to hold on anymore, aside from Padme and the promise of a way to save her. His whole identity got torpedoed at that point. See
So it isn't coherent. Anakin went from a relatively good person to a child-murderer very, very quickly.
Him reaching the breaking point is coherent.
Him being desperate to save Padme is coherent and understandable. His sudden and dramatic willingness to remorselessly slaughter the children of his former order is not coherent with anything he has done before, nor is it a proportional escalation of anything he did in the immediate build-up. This is one of the reasons Episode 3 and the rest of the prequels are widely considered to be bad movies. Look, I gave you a chance to make your case but I've had enough. The writing of Anakin's fall from grace is clumsy and ham-fisted and you obviously seem to think it's clever, which means you're an idiot.
>well Mace is dead I might as well just keep mass murdering people
This is why, again, that I think Anakin is a fricking sociopath and anyone who sympathizes with him is also a sociopath
You really don't get it, do you?
Tough thing in RotS is you can really see him struggle, being torn apart, always trying to go back to his teachings, which Palpatine from the very beginning of the movie undermines, constantly telling Anakin to go with his feelings and then giving a rationalization why it was the correct thing to do.
>are foreshadowed in his and Padme's conversation about forcing people to create change
Lmao you actually thought that Anakin straight up telling Padme he approves of dictatorship was subtle foreshadowing didn't you? This is the kind of midwit who defends the Prequels.
You don't even understand why I'm mentioning it and how it's part of the bigger construct, you literal midwit.
Of course I understand your schoolkid level analysis. I just think it's hilarious that you think George's clumsy foreshadowing that is as subtle as a brick to the head was actually worth discussing.
The good guys keep winning literally because of the dumbest shit imaginable so basically it's still shit.
Sabine and Ahsoka are both Rey on steroids, so no.
Sabine and Ahsoka actually trained and failed and developed as characters. Rey beats the living shit out of everyone on her first appearance, successfully flies a millennium falcon better than Han Solo, knows more about it than Han Solo, gets Chewbacca, gets Anakin's lightsaber, successfully uses mind trick on the next day after learning of the Force's existence, beats the main antagonist of the series, gets a hug from Leia after Han's death while Chewie doesn't, etc etc etc. And that's just from the first movie. I haven't bothered with the other ones. So no. You are a disingenuous homosexual and someone should skin you alive.
>Sabine and Ahsoka actually trained and failed and developed as characters.
Get out of here, wolf fricker.
Concession accepted. Hopefully you will star in a funky town vid one day. You deserve it.
That's a fairly low bar. At this point I feel like I could have written a series or movie trilogy about how Ewoks made huge advances in their society in years following the Battle of Endor from all the discarded shit the empire and rebels left behind. And that would have been a better sequel story than the movies were.
So far all this show has done in relation to the sequels is show exactly how fricking dumb the new Republic was to let something like the new order gain strength in the first place.
Anakin's fall:
>taken from his mother
>losing his father (figure) in the duel of fates
>raised by an older brother ("You were like a brother to me")
>missing his mother
>reunited with his first love
>fearing for his mother's life
>mourning the death of his mother
>murdering her torturers
>pledging to become stronger
>having Padme replace his mother
>fearing for her life as well
>having been adopted by the scheming chancellor
>all his loyalties being challenged (to the republic, the jedi, the chancellor, to Obi-Wan and Padme)
>feeling lost
>being presented a way to save his wife
>fear, as well as kindness of heart (Palpatine acting meek in confrontation with Windu)
>giving in
>no turning back
improving on shit isnt hard
>Darth Emo force pushes Purple Hair, leaving her totally defenceless
>doesn't end the fight there
>wastes time sparring with her and never uses the force again
>later Ahsoka force pushes her to stop her from getting in the fight
>doesn't force push Stevenson, he doesn't push her
How can anyone take this seriously?
Force pushes in the real films aren't often used in fights between jedi, presumably because they can be easily defended against or countered. But any jedi or sith can easily take out someone without the force by pushing or choking them. So why the frick doesn't Darth Emo use it when it's an instant win button? And how is she unable to defend against it when Ahsoka Sue uses it?
Literally how does anyone watch this and feel that there are any stakes at all? There's not even an attempt at continuity.
The fight scenes are awful
I swear all fight choreographers died in 2014, every fight since is the most embarrassing shit.
>e fight scenes are awful
Really bad, I don't know what diversity POC woman they got running the fights but she should be fired and replaced wtih a nazi
>Fights would be 100% better. Maybe more.
Wouldn't know I'm not watching any of that slop.
Post nuWars better written than Ahsoka. You can't. Blandor doesn't count.
Cartoons are better. Tales of the Jedi, or The Bad Batch. But Ahsoka is the better live-action show, for sure. Mando is just a saturday morning cartoon with "defend the villagers" tier plot. The less said about Boba Fat and Kenobi the better.
Mando s1 and s2.
Andor.
Jedi Fallen Order + the sequel.
Bad Batch.
Kenobi, boba Fett and Mando 3 are awful. Ahsoka is better than those at least.
"Blandor" has characters.
I'm sorry you didn't like that it didn't have lightsabers but it still mogs the rest of disney slop in every way.
Andor
in its entirety
Is there any difference between Ahsoka and Rey outside that the former is orange?
They're both nu-Disney shoe-ins for gurl powerrr
Yeah.
It’s the Ray Stevenson show. Whenevrr he and his little blown nympho aren’t on screen, the show is nearly unwatchable. The title actress is embarrassingly bad. I don’t know if it’s the makeup, the writing, or the direction, but she is fricking awful in this role. Completely miscast. It’s a damn tragedy he died because he’s the only good thing Disney has going for them, and it’s still not enough screen time to save this trash.