I feel like in the Lucas star warses non fatal dismemberment and disfigurement is a symbol of the vulnerability that reminds us we are human and in everything after they use it to represent someone becoming evil. Very uncool
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i timed this poorly because i thought the season finale was yesterday, but thereās apparently one more episode left. i hope i donāt forget literally everything that has happened so far in the span of a week!
i have enjoyed the back half of the season a lot more, it has been more interesting aesthetically and there is less talking, both good things.
it does make me wonder if the writers thought about how funny the words āinhibitor chipā sound in a new zealand accent though
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tbqh Iāve been enjoying the Bad Batch more than anything Iāve seen of the Clone Wars series ā though I think thatās mostly because Iāve (uncharacteristically) been keeping up with it as it comes out. As it stands, every time Iāve watched an episode of Clone Wars my reaction has been āI guess that was neat idk,ā and then I remember that thereās like 7 seasons of that stuff and mentally check out.
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the fuckin star war animatrix looking extremely fun
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iāve had enough visions of sw at this point
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I still want to see someone turn force lighting into a light saber, its the next logical step after episode 7thās force stopping a blaster bolt, but hand to hand combat against a light saber user is close.
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The music/audio mixing in that trailer is parodically bad
Thereās a bunny with a lightsaber, ergo literally nothing else matters Iām watching it.
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After one season Resistance is pretty good so far . Iām sad they cancelled it.
thereās a science saru short in this so no matter what happens, Iām at least watching that short.
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This is definitely overselling it, but itās vaguely like a DS9 esque premise but star wars. Plus thereās a giant baby bird and pig man who are in love with each other
In this episode they are looking for a device called a ātrans binary deflectorā
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so yeah Resistance has ended up being my favorite animated Star Wars show (ok maybe close second to Rebels, but thatās just bc Rebels had more time to get good) and my second-favorite Thing of the sequels era (After TLJ).
It manages to strike the tone of being entirely kid-friendly but also, occasionally, incredibly grim and violent, which is something I associate with OT Star Wars but donāt really see in any other cases. Part of this I am sure has to do with being given permission to actually show individual characters dying, even if it is just in like spaceship explosions. Itās not like graphically violent or anything, but yeah people die a lot. I have had this theory that some kind of moratorium on definitive death in Star Wars shows is also why none of them have ever had any good space dogfight sequences, and that is another thing they do a lot more of in Resistance that just makes it fun to watch. Arguably, it has more and better spaceship fights than even the sequel trilogy does.
There is also a pretty surprising, subtle moment in Resistance where the āgood guysā switch from always having their blasters on stun to just straight up murdering stormtroopers. No one says anything about it, but when the shit hits the fan they just start killing people, and I respect that.
Oh another thing it does that is surprisingly āclassic star warsā is having a recurring alien species that is both cute and funny but also very clearly and explicitly a food animal. Like they keep them as pets but are also like āoh weāre gonna eat him for lunch later.ā Itās great.
I think it also does a very good job of making the First Order seem very evil and menacing without just going full on into cackling one dimensional villain territory.
This is the one area where Rebels never quite succeeded to me, in that you know the empire are the bad guys, but all of the ways they are bad just seem kind of mundane. Like, you have the imperial officers that spend all of their time just doggedly pursuing the main characters while doing vaguely authoritarian things in the background, or the sith characters that are just sort of like spiritually naughty or whatever. I donāt think anything other than the prequel trilogy have ever even attempted to explain why people are lured to the dark side, itās not that compelling to me. Like, the stuff with Maul is interesting, but once you start to spend more time with him you see him more as a sort of unscrupulous anti-hero or foil rather than someone who is actually just rotten to the core. Heās too individualistic and focused on pretty minor goals to ever be that evil IMO.
Having Thrawn as the major antagonist also adds to this problem because you never really believe he is on board with the empire ideologically, he is just like a threatening adversary, and they also try to make him out to be this sort of Lawful Evil noble military genius type guy, the classic respected enemy trope.
But the First Order in Resistance are extremely corrupt and scary, like underneath the veneer of the āpeace through superior firepowerā angle that Empire/First Order propaganda that you see all the time, you see that the institution is treacherous cannibalistic thing where everyone is constantly trying to screw their peers over to look good and is also constantly in danger of being arbitrarily executed by your superior for minor failures. Again, I think this is a lot of what makes the Empire good antagonists in the OT and the way they follow up on it in letās say about 2/3 of the sequel trilogy is also good, but it never really carries over that well into the TV shows.
I think there must have been some of this with Kallus in Rebels, but to me nothing in that arc was as impactful as the episode in Resistance where a character decides to abandon the First Order largely because she watches her friend carry out an order to open fire on an unarmed transport.
Anyway it still is not like, that great, but Iām just surprised it seems to have basically been ignored by the fandom at large. I will concede that a lot of the first season is really rough, but all Star Wars cartoons are kind of like that. If they had been able to do another season of it (and narratively speaking there is really no reason why they couldnāt) Iām pretty sure it would have found its audience, but, oh well.
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Finding out Darth Vader was named after a dude George Lucas knew named āGary Vaderā is almost as bad as learning Wintermute was just the actual last name of someone William Gibson knew growing up
Feel like Iāve made this post before now, I guess I forgot about Gary Vader then remembered it again
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Iām also sad the Vader family is not more prominent in me and Lucasās shared hometown, BC it would be cool to be like oh yeah we all know about Gary Vader because we all go to the Vader Bros auto mechanic or whatever. Turns out there are very few perks to growing up in the same town as George Lucas
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i grew up knowing a few Gannonās and it always took a a bit of restraint not to say something about it to them
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I would like to know more about Garyās little know brother Spacein and the influence he had on the early history of digital media.
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Put on The Last Jedi this afternoon. Itās still excellent and, together with Rogue One, the only reckoning with being Star Wars weāll ever get. But I take solace in the fact that Kylo Ren kills Grogu off screen and deepfake Luke doomed him to that fate.
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