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Star Wars: The Bad Batch: The Cavalry Has Arrived (2024)
Dave may not be fit for making live actions, but the series are amazing
After Clone Wars and Rebels, The Bad Batch is another brilliant Star Wars cinematic story.
My only complain during this show was the character Omega and when I finally started to enjoy seeing her around and care for her, the series ended.
This episode is also proof that Star Wars can still bring up in viewers and fans real emotions. It was the perfect episode to end the series. Let s hope Dave or someone else will not ruin these characters by bringing them back in another generic cringe live action like the ones they keep doing lately. But I am all for seeing more cartoon stories with Omega as rebel pilot and with Crosshair, Hunter and Wrecker as back up characters.
So, we have to thank Disney, Dave and everyone involved in this series, The Bat Batch proves that there is still hope for Star Wars!
Shôgun: The Eightfold Fence (2024)
One of the best tv episodes
Everything is so well done in this episode. The characters interactions are amazing. One hour to make you forget completely that you are a spectator and those are actors surrounded by cameras. I think that the real cinematography shifted from the big screen to the tv adaptations and series today. More and more often I find the need to rewatch and discover the amazing cinematography of tv series while not caring much of the most of the movies made lately for the big screen. This episode was one of the best episodes I saw in a tv series. I can compare it with another episode from another show about samurai and Japan, but of a different nature, ep. 5 from Blue Eye Samurai.
I am so happy after watching this episode. I wish now I could have a time machine and watch now all the other episodes.
Blue Eye Samurai (2023)
A masterpiece!
I had no clue what to expect when I started watching the first episode. I was hooked from the start by the very beautiful visuals and the overall atmosphere and also by the very relatable characters.
It has no supernatural elements, this is a 100% old school samurai story set in a medieval Japan. I saw only the first episod so far and I can not wait to see the entire series.
I think this style of animation is called manga, or it is inspired by this genre and I was not a big fan of it until I watched Castelvania. This is the second such animation I watch and I am so happy I had no prejudice in giving it a try.
Ahsoka: Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch and the Warlord (2023)
Dave, pls hire stunt performers and stop using FX from last century
I really wished I can love this show. I really tried to. I can forgive the childish writing without any depth and all the plot holes for the sake of the characters I love from Clone Wars and Rebels.
But I can t forget the fact that they treat Ahsoka and all the recent live actions Star Wars like a low budget children show. There is no depth, no effort in making them look organic, zero effort for fighting choreography, prosthetics that looks like the the Muppets, everything looks so... cheap and fake and cringe...
Coming back at fighting scenes, Rosaria and Sabine looks like any random woman you pick from the street that you give some sticks and tell them to just wave the sticks in all directions. Why not use doubles, real stunt performers, actors that can actually move? Ahsoka was one of the most agile jedi out there, insanely good choreography on Clone Wars and now, what the hell are these fighting scenes? It is distractingly bad, it is painful to watch them. The same can be said about any fighting scenes from their recent live actions. D Vader vs Oby Wan looked like two amateurs fighting in a mall at the childern stand...
This is 2023, you don t have to do Star Wars anymore by the 1970 standards, use some special effects already. Hire some professionals. Like you did in Clone wars for motion capture scenes. Those were amazing, especially in the last season. And now you bring on live action this... Or at least give up the fighting scenes for good, make a dramatic show where ppl just talk and keep the fights at minimum, samurai style. Ahsoka should be so good by now and be able to finish any fight in 1-3 moves... And Sabine... jesus, let her just be a mandalorian and use guns, she looks hilariously bad in every fighting scene... making her a jedi was so uncalled and ridiculous.
There is also an overall feeling of plastic, everything looks like they edited in a hurry some scenes shot at the first take just to finish it as fast as possible. I am so disappointed of Dave s approach to this live action. No effort whatsoever. The only good parts about this show were the ones with Ray and Hayden Christensen and the scenes with the young Ahsoka.
Ahsoka: Part Six: Far, Far Away (2023)
Not bad is good enough for me
I still think Clone Wars is the best Star Wars ever created. Also I enjoyed a lot Rebels and got attached to the characters from this show. About this episode I am happy they did not messed Thrawn, he s really in character, while the overall vibes of the episode where a little more dramatic than usual.
Ashoka series is more like a next season of Rebels. There are so many things that could have been much better in this series, but for me, an old fan of these characters, I find it quite entertaining. I still think that the episode with the young Ashoka and Hayden was amazing and the series should have been a remake of Clone wars, but I can enjoy this one now for what it is.
As a final note, I also think Andor series are mindblowing, a masterpiece of cinematography and story telling, I wish Disney/Filoni would learn something from that or even work sometimes with those directors for all these new Star Wars live action they make that all fall on the more naive childish side of story telling.
Ahsoka (2023)
As a Rebels fan, I was in tears at the end of episode 2
Ok, I still think Andor is the only decent live action series of all the recent ones they released. I also think that Clone Wars and than Rebels were just amazing.
I had a huge fear that Ashoka will fall in line with the other recent releases and that is cheap, fake, Muppets feel like shows.
I understand why some may consider these first two episode slow peaced, but those may be the one who did not watched Rebles or Clone Wars. For me, the first two episodes were the perfect introduction to the old characters we love. I am so happy the casting was good, the actors of Hera and Sabine do a great job impersonating them and they feel natural, nothing forced about the way the act and interact.
Ashoka s actress is also a very good choice, she has Ashoka attitude in everything, an older and wiser version of her.
The story is simple so far, but the most important aspect for me is the emotional human side of the show, where they form the team again and go search for Ezra.
The bad dudes are also a very good choice of casting. So sad that we lost Ray in real life, he was a great actor and a perfect cast as a jedy character.
Another good thing is the fact that so far I didn t spot any woke stuff, everything feels like a normal follow up of Rebels. Everything feels like it should be, nothing feels forced.
One negative aspect, the damn prosthetics and puppets for the alien characters and creatures, it seems that those are the norm in any SW movie. It always feels like their budget ended exactly when they had to make them. At least they didn t abuse showing those here, at least in these two episodes.
In the end, I had low hopes, considering the stuff Disney keep doin lately, but I am really happy for how it came out. I hope the show will get even better and the new watchers, not familiar with Rebels and the characters, will start enjoying the show and forgive this slow beginning that was much needed to set the scene between the old characters.