Star Wars The Acolyte (tv series)
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CadetTK2386
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While not a big Jedi fan, I am interested in seeing an exploration of a different time and part of the greater Star Wars Universe, one well removed from the Skywalker Saga. Given that it is only a 100 years before TPM, I'm sure there will be an inevitable Yoda cameo, but it would make a sense in the context of the Show and would feel less "Small Universe" then some of the other instances of cameos in Star Wars properties, both before and after the Disney acquisition.
I also am interested in how it has been described as a Murder Mystery. We don't get a lot of those in Star Wars. It being a murder mystery or thriller also ties into that I'm also very intrigued by the Director's comments in one of the interviews that she was inspired by Rashomon. That is my second favorite Kurosawa movie, and one of the things I love about The Last Jedi is how it paid tribute and homage to Kurosawa by presenting the flashbacks to the fall of Luke's Jedi Academy through the three distinct points of View, Kylo's Luke's, and finally The Truth, in a fashion inspired by Rashomon as a conscious choice in gratitude for all of Kurosawa's influence on George Lucas and the Star Wars franchise as a whole.
I will be interested to see how Leslye Headland takes inspiration from Rashomon and how it structures the show. Whether we get conflicting descriptions during interrogations, whether we'll actually see scenes reshown form different perspectives, what kind of unreliable narrator plays into the descriptions. If nothing else, I'm glad that more Star Wars creators are recognizing and acknowledging Kurosawa.
I also am interested in how it has been described as a Murder Mystery. We don't get a lot of those in Star Wars. It being a murder mystery or thriller also ties into that I'm also very intrigued by the Director's comments in one of the interviews that she was inspired by Rashomon. That is my second favorite Kurosawa movie, and one of the things I love about The Last Jedi is how it paid tribute and homage to Kurosawa by presenting the flashbacks to the fall of Luke's Jedi Academy through the three distinct points of View, Kylo's Luke's, and finally The Truth, in a fashion inspired by Rashomon as a conscious choice in gratitude for all of Kurosawa's influence on George Lucas and the Star Wars franchise as a whole.
I will be interested to see how Leslye Headland takes inspiration from Rashomon and how it structures the show. Whether we get conflicting descriptions during interrogations, whether we'll actually see scenes reshown form different perspectives, what kind of unreliable narrator plays into the descriptions. If nothing else, I'm glad that more Star Wars creators are recognizing and acknowledging Kurosawa.
NakedMoleRat
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What Star Wars really needs right now, is “More cow bell!”
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Bloop
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You have to know that's not how your comment reads. If you really just found those types of comments "hilarious," you wouldn't have commented in the way that you did, lumping all the critical commentors into one big "done with SW/Disney ruined it" basket. Your comment was dismissive of everyone's criticism.
As most should be.
I can’t control how anyone reads into what they think my comments say or what they think I I’m feeling. Get in where you fit in, I guess.
that's what she said........zing!
Look, the minute you try to bring common sense into an RPF Star Wars discussion, we're all headed for disappointment.
Yeah, they're turning the bacta tank concept into a deus-ex-machina, a way out for every near fatal injury.
So on the one hand, you can almost/essentially kill the character, or at the least give them severe traumatic injuries ("Oh, no! How will the main character survive?") and then plop them in a bacta tank for however long you need there to be a pause in the action, or a flashback sequence, and then pull them out ready to go.
...I think with Vader, it's the first time in canon that we KNEW he even used a bacta tank, starting with Rogue One (apparently, quite regularly), and then re-iterated in Kenobi.
Although it's not clear if it was because his body was constantly breaking down due to the widespread degree of injuries he sustained on Mustafar, and so he needed the frequent chemical repair to maintain the status quo, or whether he was frequently injured in his role as the Emperor's lapdog and was just healing fresh wounds/injuries.
If this show has a Sith lord, and that Sith lords kills every Jedi that finds out about it in the end. That would be pretty gangstar.
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NakedMoleRat
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That and the fact that lightsabers don’t kill anyone anymore. You can be impaled through the abdomen, get up and walk it off, or at the worst…need a bacta patch for a few hours.
So this means could mean several things, either all the Jedi that confronted the "guy with red saber" died, or the red saber guy is not a sith and just a dark side force user or like Palpatine and Plagueis (both sith) were completely hidden from the Jedi, prior to Ki-Adi's comment.
I fully subscribe to the very popular theory that lightsaber blades have ‘edges’ like a sword. A true master can either cut straight through, deflect, push, or basically use a lightsaber like a baseball bat a’la Luke on the Sail Barge in ROTJ.
joberg
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He has a brille (thin semi-transparent skin-like eyelids)
joberg
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Sorry, but my "circle" is like this one:Yep, the complainers are here. And plenty of complainers about the complainers. Allow me to be the first to complain about the complainers who complain about the complainers. The circle is now complete.
Anyone game for a fourth level?
Joek3rr
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But even some running around with a lightsaber should raise eyebrows. I mean how did Qui-Gon deduce Maul was Sith?
“He was trained in the Jedi arts. My only conclusion can be that it was a Sith Lord.”
Mace should have said. 'Sit down Qui-Gon, we run lightsaber wielding wackos all the time.'
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