Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord

Season 1 Finale. Thoughts?

Edit: Also I’m declaring spoilers for all Star Wars content below. Ahsoka, Rebels, Clone Wars, Mando, etc.

  • Dewded@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It had its moments, but I think they do a lot of setup with weak pay-off. This leads to emotional stuntedness.

    Morgan becomes a witch? Gets a cool sword too? I bet she’s gonna do some wild magic! … Oh it’s just a normal swordfight.

    Her being left behind seemed to have an emotional beat. Then when Ahsoka meets up with her, there wasn’t really any emotion to be had in their face-off. Just throw in a few quips from Ahsoka like “Thrawn sacrificed you like he does all his pawns” and then Morgan could be all like “Lies! He gave me magicks!” and she’d do a scary spell on Ahsoka that makes her disadvantaged.

    And imagine when Ahsoka is surrounded by stormtroopers and we get the Sabine fakeout, Morgan quips something like “look who was left behind now” only to get blindsided by Sabine who is armed with a tacky one-liner like “behind you!”

    Idk, just give me emotion, please. Ahsoka was better than Kenobi on average, but I have to say Kenobi had a strong ending scene between Vader and Obi. That alone made the show hit like a truck.

    Emotion is what sets Andor miles ahead. This same applies to the first season of Mandalorian for most part. Strong characters and powerful moments. That’s Star Wars, not a generic zero stakes hallway fight with stormtroopers.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah it seems so weird that they keep introducing cool new swords into this show that wind up being just identical to a lightsaber.

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        1 year ago

        It was a cool callback to the Clone Wars, but that also really begged for it to be used meaningfully. It’s just member berries if there’s no pay-off.