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So is this set in that distant past of the high republic?
I really hope so.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: This might be our first Star Wars media not linked to the exploits of the Skywalkers?
We’ve had bits one step removed (Mando, Ahsoka, Rebels). But I think this is the first about as entirely removed as you can get whilst still including the Jedi Order?
I wait for the final episode to introduce some starwars street where you see Kenobi's ancestor or some gak. Hopefully not. But I am not convinced that Filoni and co can help themselves.
These are my opinions. This is how I feel. Others may feel differently. This needs to be stated for some reason.
It's set about 100 years before the Phantom Menace so any character that's more than 100 in TPM could in theory show up at some point but yes it's nice not to be tied to the Skywalker Saga.
The trailer seems to cover 3 time periods - Master Sol appears with short hair in an earlier scene, then with longer hair in the class scene with a young Mae, then later fighting the older Mae.
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On the other hand, a lot of shows and movies suffer from skipping steps and making things seem trivial that would benefit from some exposition. Like the second episode, I'd rather have the quest for knowledge shown if that knowledge (secret base, M-count thingy) is made out to be a secret that is known only to specific groups the protagonists have no connection to.
You can certainly argue whether it should be done in this specific way, but at least as far as I'm concerned it's a good thing that it is there. As a matter of principle.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Fine enough episode, but a bit filler. Fun but kind of unnecessary.
I do appreciate that Omega's very obvious special status was left unused long enough to make me genuinely think maybe they weren't going to go there. They've done a nice job building it gradually as something for the character to discover organically rather than the usual "you're special and I can teach you" route they usually go with force sensitives.
Finally Ventress returns. However, I dunno if that’s now a retcon, given she was bumped off in a novel which was, if memory serves, derived from unproduced Clone Wars scripts?
I hope it is, she’s far too interesting a character to kill just to make a former Jedi nobody really cares about all sad in his feels.
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LunarSol wrote: Ah, the EU. Full of such character concepts like.... what if Wedge... was a Jedi? or... what if Han.... was a Jedi?
I don't recall either of those being a thing in the EU. Or any real amount of anything similar. Might have been a comic thing, as I never followed those, but they weren't really a part of the EU, aside from the bits (like Lumiya) that were retconned in later.
Crosshair is consistently one of the better characters in the show since the end of S1. It helps that he actually has a character arc rather than merely living in service to the main plot.
As of the most recent episode, yes. Ventress' arc was one of the cooler character arcs in the latter seasons of Clone Wars and seeing her return and retain what makes her interesting is great. I liked the hints they dropped at the end of the episode, and how it plays into both Ventress' background as a character and where she wants to go in the future.
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: Wookieepedia suggests this may be a retcon, as Bad Batch is set after Asajj’s death in the novel I mentioned.
...to which I would say again - she's a character descended from an order of necromancers, in a tv show about clones. They don't need a retcon to reintroduce her.
For what it's worth, according to social media Filoni has said that her return will be addressed elsewhere. It's entirely possible that they haven't actually figured it out yet and just threw her in for the hell of it with the intention of figuring it out later, although this series does include a plotline involving something called 'Project Necromancer'... Presumably to do with setting up the machinery for Palpatine to eventually return, somehow, but could be a tie-in to Assaj as well.
Former Jedi, former Sith Assassin (or Assassin aligned with a Sith Master), now a rogue from both.
She and Ahsoka both have real potential when it comes to exploring the balance of the force, and why the two extremes presented thus far clearly only cause imbalance.
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Does anyone feel like Omega has been captured, taken by the Empire, and rescued one too many times already and it almost feels like we could have skipped half these season if we were just going to go rescue her from the planet she was already on to begin with?
Overall S3 has a better and far less tedious balance than S2, but I can't help but 'let's just reset to Season 3 episode 1' is some of that S2 writing coming back to be lazy again.
Does anyone feel like Omega has been captured, taken by the Empire, and rescued one too many times already and it almost feels like we could have skipped half these season if we were just going to go rescue her from the planet she was already on to begin with?
Overall S3 has a better and far less tedious balance than S2, but I can't help but 'let's just reset to Season 3 episode 1' is some of that S2 writing coming back to be lazy again.
I don’t think any of them are getting out alive.
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This is the only recent SW giving that has me somewhat interested, but I'm very wary of them doing some sort of redemption arc for Bariss to do another 180 ala Reva to explain why we don't see her in Rebels with her going through the Inquisitorial trials as some sort of long con to try and kill Vader and die in the process or something. We'll see, but Disney has a pretty terrible track record of showing the perspective from the Imperial side without the protagonists going rogue shortly after.
Nice. I like what Tales of the Jedi added. Good to get an Empire version of that.
I did wonder what happens to Barriss. I can see Grimskul's concern that we're getting the Mirialan version of Reva. Too much of the turncoat Imperial nonsense in the past not to be paranoid about it. But I hope they'll refrain. I imagine Barriss is still going to try to take on Vader, but her motivation should be different. She murdered a bunch of people before the Empire was even a thing. That feels more like Maul territory, path of vengeance that only leads to self-destruction.
Does anyone feel like Omega has been captured, taken by the Empire, and rescued one too many times already and it almost feels like we could have skipped half these season if we were just going to go rescue her from the planet she was already on to begin with?
Overall S3 has a better and far less tedious balance than S2, but I can't help but 'let's just reset to Season 3 episode 1' is some of that S2 writing coming back to be lazy again.
Omega only got "captured" this time around. She's infiltrating the cloning facility in preparation of the attack to free the clones and burn the place to the ground.
The repetition is that she's still great at getting herself into trouble, but the circumstances of her capture and the following goals aren't comparable to earlier captures.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
2024/04/05 21:53:58
Subject: [Star Wars] Disney+ SW shows(spoilers) Tales of the Empire trailer p.176.
