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June 24, 2024 at 8:26 pm #1883820

limburger

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the dialog may have been bad / cheesy … but they didn’t try to pretend it was trying to sell a message or something.
It was pure pop corn, leave your brain at the door entertainment done right.

The prequels were a really bad attempt at telling Darth Vader’s backstory. I think the Clonewars / Rebels series did a lot of fixing in terms of backstory and world building for those of us without access to the books that were written about Starwars. Ahsoka gets a really good character arc, which makes me extra sad to see her wasted in her own series. Same applies to Sabine.
Great character … and she becomes this boring as fck wannabe jedi, because of reasons that aren’t even explained.

I’m tempted to say that the missing backstory between Sabine and Ahsoka could have made for a more interesting tv-series.

The sequels stopped trying to tell a story with interesting characters. It tried to sell a message and used the Starwars IP to lure people into the trap as well as justify the expense.

@sundancer where is that infamous Christmas movie in that list of yours ?
I remember seeing somewhere on the interwebs that the Acolyte managed to score even lower than that one on Rotten Tomatoes.