[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Some really good and some really bad in that episode. But overall, more good than bad.

Spoiler!

Loved the flashback sequence and how it wove into the episode. Felt straight out of the prequels despite the ineffective de-aging. Layered the story progression nicely and gives gravity to the history between Kenobi and Anakin. Bravo.
Loved the development of Reva. Makes her much, much better and she was well acted here too. Big kudos to Ingram. The haters were dead wrong.
Vader was great here. At moments didn't feel like Vader though? Not sure what it was. The ship-sike was kind of dumb.
Liked the return of the Grand Inquisitor (who I thought was way cooler than the trailer made him out to be), and that end reveal. This late in the game it gives me the strong sense that we're getting a second season. It feels kind of like things have just begun, rather than being wrapped up.

The soundtrack for this episode was AWFUL. All over the place, over-dramatic and didn't help build any tension. Who greenlit that?
The supporting cast minus Talla has been terrible. Ninjiani doesn't belong in this show, same with the other guy. They don't come across as Star Wars characters in the slightest. Great for something else, not this. (maybe a bit of forced ethnic representation going on too? whatever)
The sets looked small and cheap through this entire episode, emphasized by the vingette effect and edge blurring. Not cinematic quality or even at Mandalorian's level, what's up with that?
A lot of corny moments and the plot is mind-numbingly convenient at times. Leia opens the door just in time with the help of Lola who she turned back from red to blue! Hooray (shades of the worst bits of Phantom Menace and Anakin in his N-1 saving the day). Oh and - How long until you can override the door? 4 hours (how does he know this out the top of his head without doing any diagnostic work to see what happened?) You have 1! (because that's how long this episode is). Will they stop with these lazy eye-rollers in the script? Jesus H. ..

The unmistakable undertones of Disney throughout this show have subtly undermined the few really Great things it is managing to do, which is such a shame. It's odd that the worst technical episode had the best scenes and character development. The whole product could be great if they just leaned into the Star Wars stuff, and stopped with this trying to insert Disney-isms everywhere.

I think we're spoilers aloud here, but that's cool.


Yeah, in terms of the effects that you're talking about.


For some reason the show outside of a couple of times has felt like its cramped in small spaces, even the hanger scene in the Inquisitors fortress which was an absolutely huge area felt really kind of cramped and not do to the sheer number of people in the screen, I can't explain it.


The scene that really dissapointed me was when we saw the assault craft leaving the Star Destroyer, for some reason to me, it looked fuzzy and didn't feel like the scale of a Star Destroyer. When you watch a New Hope or ESB or the opening scene of ROTJ, you're intimidated not only by the sheer size of a Star Destroyer, but the perceived mass of the Star Destroyer.


For some reason the de-aging process made Anakin look almost animated, especially when he smiled. But I want to emphasize that I loved the scene. The major complaint about ROTS's duel was it was too stylized and lacked heft. The choreography took the required emotion out of it. In this one it was brilliant because it started as two old friends in a very stylized fight that was a sparring match and evolved as Anakin desparate to be declared the victor and better warrior went to a heavy style where he tried to just batter Obi-Wan into submission. The lesson at the end about Anakin having to be able to look past winning being the thing that would always make him a Padawan was so great. And in the end we saw the whole when I left you I was the learner, now I am the master, as it was never about the Force and about victory at all costs and we saw a bit of that again when Obi sacrificed himself on the Death Star.


Yeah Ingram was truly great in this epsiode. I figured that would happen as we got the pretty obvious backstory. And seeing the cruel disposal of the younglings without apology was a great touch instead of just seeing the light saber ignite and the scene moves on like they did in ROTS. That suddenly gives a whole lot of weight to Anakin's turn and how easily he was seduced by Palpatine.


So how does this season end?


I think outside of a quick finish to Vader pursuing the hyperdrive less hero's ship where again Obi-Wan will outsmart Vader pounding the master student relationship is what we're going to see.


Obviously Ben's return to Luke and Reva's hunting of Luke. I think the question is, and has been. Does Reva really want revenge on Obi-Wan and is she willing to become Anakin and kill a child to do it?


Or will she go there and give up her pursuit of Revenge after realizing that its something she really doesn't want, and will Ben encourage her to go into exile?


Or will she truly die?


I do want to give credit to the writers. They've truly made Vader terrifying in this show. The way he easily handled Kenobi and contemptuously handled Reva has been an awesome bit of writing. At this point there's no question of that good in him that we saw in ESB and ROTJ. This is still more Anakin then Vader, impatient, impulsive and a black hole of rage and hatred. We are also seeing a still relatively powerful Sith Lord who even crippled is truly the chosen one and several steps above anyone else not named Sidious. Not the somewhat slowed down older man in the OT.