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visitorzeta t1_je9xq11 wrote

If you strip away the Star Wars paint....This show would be considered terrible. Dialogue is mostly just exposition, there's barely anything resembling character to any of the characters.

Everything is shot in a compact environment, surrounded by digital screens, there's no depth to any of the environments. Then there's these weird moments, that feel like it's an amateur, fan film production, like in the most recent episode when the pirates are overtaking the town and one of the pirates is roughing up a citizen...I swear he pushes him over in the most gentlest way possible.

It's just a bit laughable....How do we display these new pirate characters reprehensible behavior without them harming any civilians??? Oh, I got it...They wanna drink in a school.

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PartyxAnimal t1_jeajgtn wrote

Agree 100%. Everything feels very fan made. It’s very goofy watching Iike 15 extras which are supposed to represent the whole city’s population. Everything is just so small and cheap.

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Vuiz t1_jeby1nm wrote

That scene with him doing a speech to his citizens.. and they would make up 1/2 of your average high school class..

Another pet peeve I had with that section, it's a big city - How the hell do you evacuate an entire city? Especially from a ship directly above said city?

Their crayon show, the bad batch has much stronger story than s3 mandalorian.

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spyson t1_jebp7do wrote

It feels like if the clone wars was live action and that doesn't translate well.

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MeatTornado25 t1_jec5izt wrote

> If you strip away the Star Wars paint....

I've been banging that drum since Season 1.

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MadeByTango t1_jec1cw4 wrote

> Everything is shot in a compact environment, surrounded by digital screens, there's no depth to any of the environments.

That new “volume” tech is making everything look like cheap trash; the art direction around the orb is abysmal and obvious in every set design

Not just a Star Wars problem, but it’s the most obvious in Disney stuff

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inthearticleuidiot t1_jeakkjn wrote

What I've seen of the new season is making my opinion of Mandalorian and the Halo show converge in my mind. Though I didn't even finish Halo and it had more interesting plot and character shit going on at least.

I may just wait for the Ahsoka show. That was the best episode of Mandalorian anyway. Mandalorian should have been a limited series not two much less three seasons.

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marioquartz t1_jeazsbz wrote

Maybe my version of the episodes is a better version, because in mine I dont see any problem with depth or image.

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NotmejusaBEe t1_jeb6707 wrote

I like you. Most accurate description of Star Wars post Lucas

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DeficiencyOfGravitas t1_jeb8tea wrote

> Most accurate description of Star Wars post Lucas

Did you not watch the Prequels? If you strip away Star Wars from those, they're The Room level terrible.

Star Wars being bad is the norm, not the exception.

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NotmejusaBEe t1_jeb94u3 wrote

The prequels are at least an attempt at something different. They are ok, not as great as 4,5,6 but after the Disney stuff, it was at least an attempt to do more with the story. Disney has been real bad imo

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DeficiencyOfGravitas t1_jebc1gs wrote

> The prequels are at least an attempt at something different.

Did they? The Phantom Menace is about a boy from the desert who leaves home with a wizard, falls in with a group of people rebelling against an oppressive enemy, flies a starfighter with no experience, and then blows up a giant orb in space which saves the day.

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NotmejusaBEe t1_jebi0k7 wrote

Lol, oversimplified garbage take. Can't even be fair with the criticism. Everything is based offeverything since the begin of time

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JohnCavil01 t1_jebsuir wrote

Is it?

I think the onus is on you here to explain how that take is garbage and over-simplified.

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ZsaFreigh t1_jecetpm wrote

It's a 136 minute long movie that you summarized in like 3 sentences. Of course it's oversimplified.

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JohnCavil01 t1_jeeju6i wrote

George Lucas himself said “it’s like poetry, it rhymes” - criticizing The Phantom Menace for being a rehash of many of the same plot elements as A New Hope is not off-base. After all people complained about that endlessly when it happened again in The Force Awakens.

I know it’s fashionable to argue that the Star Wars prequels are somehow good actually but that doesn’t change the fact that it retreads a lot of repeated ground. Evidently George Lucas wants us to believe that was artistic and intentional but if even he can admit it I don’t really think this oversimplification critique holds much water.

And that’s to say nothing of the fact that I wasn’t the one who said it but instead was responding to the shitty reply which simply called it an “oversimplified garbage take” as if that goes without saying.

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NotmejusaBEe t1_jec1txo wrote

I mean lion king is a rip off of Hamlet. And you can't rip off yourself. The prequel had to meet a point so some of the tones have to be similar but to say that compared to the Disney stuff minus the under cover boss spoof has been really broad and boring. Lucas was making choices and Disney is having focus groups.

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LutherJustice t1_jedoj2r wrote

Well yeah, but Lucas himself confirmed that he was basically going for a redo of A New Hope. He might have even said that it rhymes, like poetry.

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Starline88 t1_jeeofmh wrote

> The prequels are at least an attempt at something different.

And they failed. The writing is on par with Sequel Trilogy.

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NotmejusaBEe t1_jeesjsz wrote

I'm not saying they are good but I would say the Disney trilogy is the worst piece of Starwars media ever produced including the universally panned The Star Wars Holiday Special. Just saying they were attempting something and most of it did not land but the new thing was just a bigger mess. Both are not great, I'm with you but the new one is the worst piece of media with the name Star Wars and what they did to Luke is the worst single decision ever.

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Starline88 t1_jef124y wrote

Yeah i can agree that Sequel Trilogy was not good. As for what happened with Luke, yeah it was dumb decision. I can see what they were going for but the execution sucked.

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