Star Wars: The Disney+ Empire Strikes Again and Again and...

My kids and I were debating whether this is the worst Star Wars tv show (they are easily swayed by the strong opinions of YouTubers). I argue that Obi-Wan and Boba Fett were both worse because not only were they generally unnecessary, but they also retroactively ruined or deflated parts of the original movies. This, at least, exists on its own merits and can be cherished or forgotten with relative ease.

Feels inconsistent that any one force user is strong enough to force push that many other force users at once. For Jedi masters, they kind of suck at everything to do with using the force?

(this show is way more fun than any other Star Wars TV series I've watched, because it's goofy and moves right along... Andor was better but also bleak and depressing)

I'm just happy w/ Acolyte because it's exploring a time period in the universe that is mostly just explored in the comics. like it's thrilling for once to not have a goddamn legacy character in the damn thing.

well until we find out the Darth is actually little Sheevy Wonder

Feels inconsistent that any one force user is strong enough to force push that many other force users at once. For Jedi masters, they kind of suck at everything to do with using the force?

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, June 20, 2024 10:53 AM bookmarkflaglink

"these are show muscles, not go muscles" - basically

Given all the High Republic stuff so far in print/comics etc it does feel a little weird that their skills would have atrophied that quickly after the Nihil came through. But hey.

maybe their teacher was Gareth Southgate

Timely!

I want to see a fleet of brand new Millennium falcons , like the most current model

Yes, with an elon musk cameo

(this show is way more fun than any other Star Wars TV series I've watched, because it's goofy and moves right along... Andor was better but also bleak and depressing)

Agree. I feel like this show is the first Star Wars TV show I’ve seen with the zippy old school Lucasfilm adventure energy of the first trilogy. The other shows have been either bad and silly or good but too ponderous. Andor is the wonderful exception. Why don’t YouTubers like the acolyte, dare I ask?

not enough white people

Yeahhhhh! Darth Bortles, baby! Bring on the Force-powered molotov cocktails!

Finally got to put those dancing skills to good use

rare SW show that I wish had longer than 30 min episodes, every episode so far has felt so rushed. RIP Jecki and Yord, we hardly knew ye

Big ol' interview in Entertainment Weekly on last night's episode so only read THAT once you've actually seen it, trust me. (Small detail there: Headland is hoping for a season 2.)

this show's villain is scarier than Kenobi's. poor Jecki with the good horns

Damn this show stepped up! V good last 2...

I actually appreciate that Sol's annoying, pathos-soaked sanctimony is not given the usual Star Wars treatment of 'he meant well, he cared too much and made a mistake' and leaning more towards 'this dude is delusional and did fucked up things and still can't take accountability outside of the performative kind'. I'll be aggravated if it turns out he was either a) right all along or b) a victim of someone else's manipulation, which...might happen because Carrie Ann-Moss character

yeah this episode was great, v exciting

also really love the look with the vivid green forest & bright jedi swords, feels v 80’s a la Jedi or caravan of courage etc

xp Sol = "speed of light" = grimes ~= crimes. So I think we can safely say that guy's bad.