temeura's charisma is the only thing saving the show from being an utter disaster and it can only do so much
honestly, exploring the backstory of any character whose background was originally shrouded in mystery is the worst
if A Fistful of Dollars came out today, we'd have a prequel exhaustively documenting Eastwood's character's childhood, where we'd learn his name was Percy Applegate and when he was a kid his dad died and he was very sad
My biggest problem is that Boba Fett in particular speaks with some VERY purple prose and often says completely unnecessary exposition lines, including ones that are also repetitive. The sneaking into Jabba's palace was especially painful there. I said "I KNOW! YOU ALREADY ESTABLISHED THAT!" out loud while watching.
I know I've gotten into an ugly argument with someone on Hexbear before over the dogma of "show not tell" as an absolute imperative, but I admit this show is reminding me that telling too much can be quite awful.
There's an interview with Morrison where he was trying to say fewer lines and give his lines away to Fenneck.
the "money can be exchanged for goods and services" exchange from the end of last week's episode was particularly egregious
The cyber kids are so lame that I kind of dig it. Jon Favreu seems to run on rule of cool.
Saying Daimyo out of the blue without it being established anywhere in Star Wars lore is kind of dumb.
They're action figures, of course. This is what the marketing team told the directors would sell best. It's a better guess than Ewoks.
I don’t remember who I heard say this but they look like Griff Tannen’s hoverboard gang from Back to the Future 2.
Overall I like the show though, the shit with the Tuskens was fucking awesome.
Yeah, it feels like they could fit on Corusant or something, but on Tatooine in feels very out of place. I would expect more angry Harley-Davidson type inspiration from Tatooine, not vespas.
Feels like they wanted to make a grittier mafia show, and then decided to make everything TV-14 so that kids can still buy all the toys.
I really wish tatooine would stop being the setting for everything. There are so many cool settings and we just get dessert over and over.
(stage whisper) desert locations are plentiful and cheap and also very easy and inexpensive to render in The Volume
I like desert settings tbf. But Tatooine's desert kinda sucks. It's 90% dunes, and only has arroyos and mountains etc when absolutely necessary to the plot. It just doesn't make sense for almost all of the people there to be out in the dunes. I still wish there was more done with the Sonoran and Chihuahua deserts. They're wetter than most, and have high diversity, but people don't like seeing real world deserts, they just want a giant litterbox.
someone should do something about this whole star wars thing
I kinda love the show lmao
In the worst timeline it would be another overly serious crime boss show with a sociopathic main character, but instead we have the spy kids guy having enough self awareness to realize that it's a franchise for kids and making enjoyably cheesy sci-fantasy slop
The more I hear about this show, the more I realize this was a serious Monkey's Paw scenario
Star Wars guys have been clamoring for years for more Boba Fett
Well, you got it!
If you're expecting star wars to be anything other than insultingly unwatchable capeshit slop you're gonna be disappointed
Yeah. Star Wars is literally Flash Gordon mixed with spaghetti westerns and Kurosawa with a dash of anti-imperialism. It has always been slop.
I stopped after the first episode. A crime lord walking around in a city with no vehicle and just one escort to collect his money was just too ridiculous for me. Then he gets attacked by a bunch of useless laser shield goons when they could have just sniped him.
lol I remember one of the things I most saw praised in the Mandalorian(aside from baby yoda suckling everyones wallets dry) was the dedication to keeping the guys helmet on despite having an attractive actor in it, and now they have a big egg playing the main role but they wanna show him off all of a sudden!
You know, if somethings you're watching is cringey and bad, you can just... stop watching it
Don't get why people hatewatch stuff
I just dislike the really overtly stupid decisions made by writers, like there's a hovertrain that regularly passes through here and shoots us up
let's hang out on the side of the big dune FACING their path, rather than the majority of the desert that isn't flat valley
oh no they're shooting at us whoever could have anticipated this, we're just gnarly survivalists who are fearsome warriors and wise
You could get the foot thing just by strapping an axe blade to the back of a boot
Axe kicks:kelly:
I don't mind the show that much but holy fuck was that Vespa chase scene godawful. Like I have no idea how they made it look that bad, but it had no sense of speed, nothing interesting. It looked comical more than anything else.
I hope it wasn't what they were going for cause goddamn it was weird. Like I can get on board with Space Mods doing cybernetics on space Vespas, but it's all too weirdly colourful and shiny. Like if they toned it back a bit I might be on board.
Could Star Wars please return to Flash Gordon pulp fiction in space, please? Stop trying to make this universe into a tokusatsu show.
