Ugh…ugh…argh…AAAAAHHHHHH!
This show is killing me. Fumbling around, taking missteps at every possible turn.
Whose idea was it to put together 9 year-old child actor written by people who have never encountered a 9 year-old with silly, hammy, impossible to take seriously Reva? What dialogue is this? What’s more intimidating:
“You WILL tell me what you know.”
vs the actual line
“You’re gonna tell me what I wanna know!”
No one, and I mean NO ONE in the Empire should be saying “wanna” or “gonna”.
When was it established Leia knew a single thing about “the Path” outside of the one, singular safe house she’d been to?
The music angers me. So much. It’s getting worse. There was one brief section in the middle that was sort of Star Wars-esque but it was brief and lacking.
Why do these new shows insist on inventing new security systems and things like that that make ANH harder and harder to buy? So they have Imperial droids roaming the corridors of “Fortress Inquisitorious” (which made me gag when I heard it) by the dozens, but the Death Star has none?
Why would there be so much security for a big freezer with Jedi in it? Why are they keeping the bodies? I mean, seriously, this doesn’t even match up to the canon they established in this show. If they were so intent on killing the Jedi to put them into their Jurassic Park amber collection, why’d they leave the dude from the first episode just hanging around on Tatooine?
Supposedly Force-users can sense other Force-users. So why doesn’t Reva go, “hey, you’re practically a damn Jedi, Leia. I’m gonna turn you in to my boss so I can get some brownie points, who cares about Kenobi because you’re clearly very Force-sensitive.” Whoops, then they run a blood test for the midi-chlorians and find out she’s related to Anakin, show over, goodbye. Someone’s going to chime in now and say, “but ROTJ ruined that first by making Leia Luke’s sister, and that’s why you should humbly accept all BS from here until the end of time, because the OT retconned things.” To which I say, humbly go and eat a brick.
The little “rag-tag” group of Path people were all terrible. Reminded me of the Resistance in a bad way. (Like, TLJ bad.) Remember when the Rebellion seemed like it was staffed by people who were prepared to fight, and didn’t look like college-aged actors getting their first break?
So glad we spent valuable time in this brief 30 minute episode (including a recap and an long logo intro and a show intro) showing us how a bacta tank works, the very, very poorly edited “flashbacks” to the battle we just watched last week, and then bearded man saying “I won’t help you. Actually, I will. You convinced me by doing and saying nothing.”
I’m finishing this show out of morbid curiosity alone at this point. Nothing they could say or do can fix the lack of attention to detail, to canon, to the writing, its overall execution. It’s a big mess, and while overall the pacing has been (until now, apparently) somewhat more competent than BOBF, it’s clear that this is a story that an algorithm demanded they tell to fill content, not one anyone was interested in telling. Same with BOBF, except that show had an episode or two of escape in the middle where it shifted focus back to a character they wanted to tell a story about.
Some may say “hey, power to you if you enjoyed this. Like what you like, and all that.” Not me. Not anymore. Stop defending this. Please. All you’re doing is allowing more of this trite, poorly written garbage to get made. It’s destroying me. You shouldn’t be content with table scraps.
