Wolfsburg
Master Member
I thought it was solid though not mindblowing. I actually liked the lack of dialogue at the beginning.
After the first episode, I still struggle with the aspect of "why we should care" and can't really see where they are going worthwhile with this. I thought the flashbacks were far more interesting than "current events".
I would've thought we would've spent more time in the sarlacc and seen many more of Jabba's henchmen down there, perhaps just barely living, rather than a lone, random stormtrooper. I'm assuming that must've been a lost sandtrooper or something. The detail of using his rebreather was neat though. Overall, I thought they could've gone way creepier with the sarlacc stuff than they did though. Oh well.
Still not liking Fett strutting around without the helmet but I expected and accept it. However, it bothered me more that he just handed it over (to apparently get filled with credits) after all the trouble he went through to get it back. The subsequent fight with the parkour ninjas was pretty clunky and the lack of either he or Fennec sporting blasters was very weird. I do kinda find the notion that something could be wrong with him intriguing although he seemed just fine in The Mandalorian.
I actually loved the black robed Tusken Raiders. A nice way to introduce something different without straying too far away from their design language.
So was the crater city supposed to be Mos Espa? That seems weird since I don't recall it looking anything like that in TPM. I know the crater city is based off some old Mos Espa concept art but assumed it was somewhere else, maybe Anchorhead or even Bestine.
The cameos of several Boston Dynamics Spots was kinda neat and I suppose the first true robots to be featured in Star Wars?
I liked the design of the sand monster and thought it fit the SW aesthetic well enough. I haven't researched it at all but wasn't there a djarik piece that looked a lot like him?
Minor nitpick but is it me or did they mess up a bit with Max Rebo? Doesn't he actually play with his feet rather than his hands? If that actually is him, I wonder how he escaped? I seem to recall he did in the EU although I no longer recall the details.
Speaking of escape, I'm now just as curious as to how Bib Fortuna escaped as anything else. Additionally, and this has nothing to do with the show, but the more Twileks I see, the more I wonder: what exactly is wrong with Bib Fortuna? He has claws, needle teeth, elongated skull, etc etc and just generally more grotesque than most any other Twilek we've seen. Was he an albino mutant? Some other race or somesuch? Most Twileks just look like humans with head tentacles.
Still, the show has the right look to it in my book, regardless of whatever questionable narrative choices are made. I'm not a Filoni fanboy in particular but I have to say that Filoni and Favreau def know the "feel" of SW more than most in charge these days and this show is further evidence of that. While this episode didn't really have a "hook" to it like the first episodes of seasons 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian, it was nevertheless well done overall and here's hoping it only gets better from here.
After the first episode, I still struggle with the aspect of "why we should care" and can't really see where they are going worthwhile with this. I thought the flashbacks were far more interesting than "current events".
I would've thought we would've spent more time in the sarlacc and seen many more of Jabba's henchmen down there, perhaps just barely living, rather than a lone, random stormtrooper. I'm assuming that must've been a lost sandtrooper or something. The detail of using his rebreather was neat though. Overall, I thought they could've gone way creepier with the sarlacc stuff than they did though. Oh well.
Still not liking Fett strutting around without the helmet but I expected and accept it. However, it bothered me more that he just handed it over (to apparently get filled with credits) after all the trouble he went through to get it back. The subsequent fight with the parkour ninjas was pretty clunky and the lack of either he or Fennec sporting blasters was very weird. I do kinda find the notion that something could be wrong with him intriguing although he seemed just fine in The Mandalorian.
I actually loved the black robed Tusken Raiders. A nice way to introduce something different without straying too far away from their design language.
So was the crater city supposed to be Mos Espa? That seems weird since I don't recall it looking anything like that in TPM. I know the crater city is based off some old Mos Espa concept art but assumed it was somewhere else, maybe Anchorhead or even Bestine.
The cameos of several Boston Dynamics Spots was kinda neat and I suppose the first true robots to be featured in Star Wars?
I liked the design of the sand monster and thought it fit the SW aesthetic well enough. I haven't researched it at all but wasn't there a djarik piece that looked a lot like him?
Minor nitpick but is it me or did they mess up a bit with Max Rebo? Doesn't he actually play with his feet rather than his hands? If that actually is him, I wonder how he escaped? I seem to recall he did in the EU although I no longer recall the details.
Speaking of escape, I'm now just as curious as to how Bib Fortuna escaped as anything else. Additionally, and this has nothing to do with the show, but the more Twileks I see, the more I wonder: what exactly is wrong with Bib Fortuna? He has claws, needle teeth, elongated skull, etc etc and just generally more grotesque than most any other Twilek we've seen. Was he an albino mutant? Some other race or somesuch? Most Twileks just look like humans with head tentacles.
Still, the show has the right look to it in my book, regardless of whatever questionable narrative choices are made. I'm not a Filoni fanboy in particular but I have to say that Filoni and Favreau def know the "feel" of SW more than most in charge these days and this show is further evidence of that. While this episode didn't really have a "hook" to it like the first episodes of seasons 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian, it was nevertheless well done overall and here's hoping it only gets better from here.
