By now I feel like it's visually extremely well made but the writing, plot development, villains, emotional points, characters motivations... are all extremely erratic and bland. What will now happen? A 2nd rescue to fill 1 episode, then 1 escape and pulling the strings in the finale? I'm honestly not that keen to know, given we already know what the characters' fate will be. What is this adding? I was interested in seeing more humanity from Ben, him mentoring Leia maybe, maybe see some of Luke's life at the farm meant as "giving beloved characters a more rounded persona, emotionally and in the small things and in what led them to become who we know".
I have the same impression I got with Spider-Man: No Way Home and The Book of Boba Fett : quite unnecessary plot, just playing on the nostalgia factor and love for the characters. I don't know if it's Disney's go-to in this period but personally if it's done this way I just prefer to treasure the memories
- Going to Freck cause he seems friendly from the distance. It seems Leia's only purpose by now is to put them into a supposedly dangerous situation to get the plot ahead for 5-10mins - The whole ride on the "bus" with the stormtroopers... - I liked the heartfelt conversation after the stormtroopers left, and honestly I'd have preferred much more such a tone. Less events-packed - Obi-Wan bowing and accepting his fate and a possible shot seems forced, not trying to protect Leia I mean - Feels like Ewan McGregor was not used anymore to his Obi-Wan/Alec Guinness voice: while they're hiding in the Path, he underlines "what is [this place]" like Guinness did, exact tone - Again stormtroopers getting close and aggressively questioning someone just to let it go. Cheap tension, if used too often - I don't know if it's acted on purpose but you can see that Obi-Wan moves like an older man, with less agility, a more shuffled running pace - The main villain always having a sixth sense over how to discover where the good guys are hiding, or were hiding as when Reva does here discovering the hiding room and the tunnel (as she saw them last episode shooting on the roofs. Here even randomly by throwing away some object in a rage attack) - again feels cheap writing to have something happen and have a chase - Obi-Wan getting force-choked? I've always wondered how during a lightsaber duel, one would protect himself/herself from such a technique - And of course, the final
Review by Snowy_CapHaddockBlockedParent2022-06-02T01:09:56Z
By now I feel like it's visually extremely well made but the writing, plot development, villains, emotional points, characters motivations... are all extremely erratic and bland. What will now happen? A 2nd rescue to fill 1 episode, then 1 escape and pulling the strings in the finale? I'm honestly not that keen to know, given we already know what the characters' fate will be. What is this adding? I was interested in seeing more humanity from Ben, him mentoring Leia maybe, maybe see some of Luke's life at the farm meant as "giving beloved characters a more rounded persona, emotionally and in the small things and in what led them to become who we know".
I have the same impression I got with Spider-Man: No Way Home and The Book of Boba Fett : quite unnecessary plot, just playing on the nostalgia factor and love for the characters. I don't know if it's Disney's go-to in this period but personally if it's done this way I just prefer to treasure the memories
- Going to Freck cause he seems friendly from the distance. It seems Leia's only purpose by now is to put them into a supposedly dangerous situation to get the plot ahead for 5-10mins
- The whole ride on the "bus" with the stormtroopers...
- I liked the heartfelt conversation after the stormtroopers left, and honestly I'd have preferred much more such a tone. Less events-packed
- Obi-Wan bowing and accepting his fate and a possible shot seems forced, not trying to protect Leia I mean
- Feels like Ewan McGregor was not used anymore to his Obi-Wan/Alec Guinness voice: while they're hiding in the Path, he underlines "what is [this place]" like Guinness did, exact tone
- Again stormtroopers getting close and aggressively questioning someone just to let it go. Cheap tension, if used too often
- I don't know if it's acted on purpose but you can see that Obi-Wan moves like an older man, with less agility, a more shuffled running pace
- The main villain always having a sixth sense over how to discover where the good guys are hiding, or were hiding as when Reva does here discovering the hiding room and the tunnel (as she saw them last episode shooting on the roofs. Here even randomly by throwing away some object in a rage attack) - again feels cheap writing to have something happen and have a chase
- Obi-Wan getting force-choked? I've always wondered how during a lightsaber duel, one would protect himself/herself from such a technique
- And of course, the final