Was this the one everyone thought was boring? Or was it The Acolyte? Or the most recent season of The Mandalorian?
I do like me some Star Wars, but it's feeling like we're being oversaturating us with shows.
oversaturating
8 episodes every six months is oversaturation?
The fact that there is a constant stream of star wars content is oversaturation in itself.
TV shows traditionally run from fall to spring with a short break for the holidays. They used to be 23 episodes. That's a third more content in total and running over at least twice as much time. I don't recall anyone thinking the regular TV schedule was oversaturating.
Regular TV schedule is fine if there is some sort of prolonged break afterwards.
My point is that while star wars content is generally enjoyable, less is definitely more and if they would instead produce an occasional movie or season, released every year or two, people would get a lot less fatigued. And it would give the time needed to produce actually compelling content instead of deeply mediocre b and c plots with a star wars coating.
But thats no good as a subscription selling point I suppose.
If by prolonged break you mean 3 month summer, that's less than the average of 4 months we get now.
Also as a subscriber, yes I want new things. I'm paying for new things. It doesn't need to be new Star Wars and Disney (in this case) has plenty of brands that they can offer me a wide variety of content, new content, every month (ish).
Now in terms of quality, you can produce multiple things. Mando/Ahsoka, that's Dave Filoni & Jon Favreau. Acolyte, that's Leslye Headland. Skeleton Crew, that's by Jon Watts & Christopher Ford. They're not putting all this work on one person. It's spread out. These people are given the time to produce good work.
To be clear I have plenty to criticize about the content we're getting. But I don't feel fatigue. I think we're getting the content people intended and I think we're getting it at a good pace.
Oh no regularly releasing shows on a consistent schedule it's terrible
Star wars Episode 4 ist 125 min long. One Episode of A Life Action Series is c.a. 40 min. They are basicly releasing 2 1/2 movies every 6 months.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
The first two episodes of Ahsoka were a bit ponderous, but I think it really picked up after that.
Everyone hated The Acolyte, but I really thought it was pretty decent and creative. The usual contingent of "woke haters" make it difficult to separate legit criticism (and to be sure it's definitely not perfect) from the usual hate-fans. The bad guy was again the best part of the show (as it should be) but he was really only in a couple of episodes.
Most recent season of Mando was okay. Not as good as the first two but way better than Boba Fett.
Problem is, though, that some of the hate fans have some valid points for the wrong reasons.
For example, it does feel a lot like the writers are ticking boxes. They have the usual Star Wars tropes, but also the "diversity" check boxes. It feels very obvious that there's the orphan, here's the misunderstood genius, here's the queer character, here's the obvious callback to casual fans, etc. etc.
You'll have your haters for everything deemed woke, those are idiots, but having formulaic, not very organic stories isn't exactly great.
That's totally my point. The people who hate everything aren't wrong about some of the things, but you can't just listen to reviews and get a clear picture. Some of the stuff they complain about is valid and some isn't. So the shows are usually way better than they insist, but that's not to say they are great. I have yet to see anything in Star Wars that didn't deserve some criticism but is still mostly worth watching. TRoS and the holiday special are the only real exceptions but BoBF was also pretty bad.
I found a lot to like in The Acolyte. It wasn't top notch Star Wars content, but it deserved a better reception than it got.
We can only hope that they don't make the next season of Andor until they fix whatever flavorless fuckery is afoot in their cash machine...
Just watch Andor.
Acolyte was ridiculous but I liked this one.
I guess people like Ahsoka but I thought it was boring.
Ray Stevenson/Baylan Skoll acting and story made the show with Ivana Sakhno/Shin Hati imo. They had such an interesting story and great acting I watched it just for them. The force that was calling to Baylan, great plot and cliffhanger. Wish we could have had more of him :(
This time make it good
I mean, obviously not. They already established the characters and also the actor that played the only decently acted villain (blanking on his name...) died.
Ray Stevenson played Baylan Skoll. He will be sorely missed. It was one of the best new Star Wars characters we've gotten in a long time. I would've loved for his character to be continued but who knows if another actor will do him justice. Ian McShane would probably be awesome but he's pretty busy.
Ian Mcshane is also like 20 years Rays senior. I love him but I'm not sure that's the best recasting choice.
Meh, I’m gonna skip all the stuff they put out until they make more stuff that isn’t set in the same time period. I want more like The Acolyte, but with better writing. More High Republic & Old Republic stuff. I’m bored with the whole Skywalker time period.
Except for Andor, because they absolutely cooked with Andor & Rogue One.
I liked season 1. Sabine came across as spoiled and annoying in the early episodes. Probably could have handled that differently. We got Thrawn, and we got the Nightsisters. Cool. Ezra was a bit disappointing. Meh. The space whales are kinda weird, but whatever. Plot devices. We got a couple of great scenes from Hayden which was a good fist pumping moment. I hope season 2 is better. I’d like to see Snips show a little more personality closer to her character from the clone wars series, or at least make me believe she’s the same character.
Baylans acting and story was frankly best part of the series
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