Speaking at the premiere for Skeleton Crew, Dave Filoni confirmed to Extra TV that he is currently writing the second season of Ahsoka. Filoni, Lucasfilm’s Chief Creative Officer and creator …
The first two episodes of Ahsoka were a bit ponderous, but I think it really picked up after that.
Everyone hated The Acolyte, but I really thought it was pretty decent and creative. The usual contingent of "woke haters" make it difficult to separate legit criticism (and to be sure it's definitely not perfect) from the usual hate-fans. The bad guy was again the best part of the show (as it should be) but he was really only in a couple of episodes.
Most recent season of Mando was okay. Not as good as the first two but way better than Boba Fett.
Problem is, though, that some of the hate fans have some valid points for the wrong reasons.
For example, it does feel a lot like the writers are ticking boxes. They have the usual Star Wars tropes, but also the "diversity" check boxes. It feels very obvious that there's the orphan, here's the misunderstood genius, here's the queer character, here's the obvious callback to casual fans, etc. etc.
You'll have your haters for everything deemed woke, those are idiots, but having formulaic, not very organic stories isn't exactly great.
Ray Stevenson/Baylan Skoll acting and story made the show with Ivana Sakhno/Shin Hati imo. They had such an interesting story and great acting I watched it just for them. The force that was calling to Baylan, great plot and cliffhanger. Wish we could have had more of him :(
I mean, obviously not. They already established the characters and also the actor that played the only decently acted villain (blanking on his name...) died.
Ray Stevenson played Baylan Skoll. He will be sorely missed. It was one of the best new Star Wars characters we've gotten in a long time. I would've loved for his character to be continued but who knows if another actor will do him justice. Ian McShane would probably be awesome but he's pretty busy.
I liked season 1. Sabine came across as spoiled and annoying in the early episodes. Probably could have handled that differently. We got Thrawn, and we got the Nightsisters. Cool. Ezra was a bit disappointing. Meh. The space whales are kinda weird, but whatever. Plot devices. We got a couple of great scenes from Hayden which was a good fist pumping moment. I hope season 2 is better. I’d like to see Snips show a little more personality closer to her character from the clone wars series, or at least make me believe she’s the same character.
Meh, I’m gonna skip all the stuff they put out until they make more stuff that isn’t set in the same time period. I want more like The Acolyte, but with better writing. More High Republic & Old Republic stuff. I’m bored with the whole Skywalker time period.
Except for Andor, because they absolutely cooked with Andor & Rogue One.