I'm trying really hard to give this show a fair chance, I am. Ahsoka says a couple of lines at the end of the episode that can basically be summarized as "I'm not doing this because it'll work, I'm doing it because doing something is better than nothing" which I think really represents what these series about established characters (Andor not included) are. They doesn't have an interesting story someone wants to tell, they're just throwing random ideas at the wall just because they need to tell a story. Which is the wrong reason for doing so, and it shows because consistently all these series are nonsense. This one in particular hit a new low with this nostalgia bait, key jangling garbage.
Can we leave Anakin Skywalker alone? Please. It pains me deeply to have to watch Manakin Skinwalker parade around as if they're even remotely the same character. It's a damn shame because I really do enjoy seeing Hayden. The material is so bad, and he's elevating it to watchable. I get so frustrated watching this because I really enjoy this trope of characters being guided through their past to truly understand who they are better. Moon Knight's one good episode did it. Filoni is just incapable of doing anything of interest with it, and instead uses it somehow worse than surface level. It's just throwing things you know at you. Oh look, it's his CW outfit! Wow isn't it cool that she's seeing Darth Vader! Remember everybody, Anakin is Vader everybody! I hope you didn't forget. If you did let me express that in the most uncreative visual way possible.
Ahsoka is boring as hell to watch. Which makes Sabine's absence felt hard. Thankfully Hera was there, but guess they couldn't have a good actress hang around too long so. No more Hera until the finale probably. Love that.
Filoni's live-action writing has always been bad, but it's getting worse. It's bad enough when you forget other people's work when writing sequels, it's even more embarrassing when you forget your own. Especially episode to episode, but that's fine because he just wants to trick you into thinking the moment is dramatic. I don't think the dialogue could be more generic. Plotting is all over the place. The characters are all stupid. His filmmaking belongs back in film school. He doesn't know how to light properly, his framing is always basic, and the only thing he can think of to make it more interesting is to spin the camera. Despite what people might tell you, that's not a good trick!
Last episode for the most part gave me hope that maybe this series would kind of just sit firmly in nothing mediocrity, but after tonight it fell off the cliff it keeps showing me a million times into bad with no hope of recovering.
