I’m going to echo what everyone else has said in this thread and applaud this finale. Well done.
I’m just going to say this, as someone who was introduced to Star Wars around six years old and who’s favorite film is The Empire Strikes Back, who has pretty much watched and seen all of the mainline Star Wars for almost the past 30 years. This is the best Star Wars TV or Film we’ve ever gotten.
Not just Disney era. Period. I don’t say that lightly.
The exquisite writing and dialogue. The pacing. The consistently wonderful performances from everybody in the show, from Stellan Skarsgård as Luthen Rael, to Genevieve O’Riley as Mon Mothma, to Andy Serkis as Kino Loy. In my opinion, there wasn’t a single false or bum note in this entire show. I was always captivated. And, most of the time, it’s just people talking to each other. Just characters talking and conversing with each other had me always engaged and captivated. That’s how good the writing in the show is.
As a young boy, the original Star Wars trilogy captivated me by its newness, strangeness and wonder with all of its crazy concepts and made me believe that this world could exist. And, with each subsequent film of that trilogy, it added something new and built upon itself. However, as much as I’ve liked and even loved a lot of Star Wars since then, it’s usually just taken from itself and built upon what was already there. At best, it re-examined itself. At worst, it rehashed old things. Not that I don’t mind that sometimes, but there’s been just a little something missing that I’ve been craving from Star Wars since those three films.
This series is the first time since that trilogy that added something to this universe and felt new to me. I mean, truly new. It didn’t feel like it was just treading old ground. It didn’t walk the same well-trodden paths that have been walked before. It made its own way and carved out its own little corner in this wide and crazy universe. And, most of all, it not only made me believe it could exist, like what I saw as a boy. For the first time, it made it feel real, truly real. I believed it before. Now, I
believe it.
And, maybe it’s just this show’s serendipitous timing with the current sociopolitical climate, the recent midterms and my current physical state and state of mind, but the show really has galvanized me and given me hope for the future generation. I guess, in a way, I am like Maarva, a spark of rebellion lit up in the heart of her hampered body by Cassian, a symbol of the new generation, to stand up and fight against oppressive and destructive tyranny, doing whatever she can, even if it’s something just as simple as walking down Rix Road, once a constant reminder of fear and who she lost, now acting in defiance for what is possible and what is right.
I don’t know if any of them will ever read this, but to all of the cast and crew that worked on this, from the bottom of my Star Wars loving heart, thank you for creating something truly special and wonderful. For the first time since I was a little boy, you made me fall in love with Star Wars all over again. And I will always be grateful for that.
Can’t wait and looking forward to seeing what you do for season two.
There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already.
Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.
Remember this: Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction.
Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy.
There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And then remember this: The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks.
Authority is brittle.
Oppression is the mask of fear.
Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority, and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this. Try. - Nemik
Do you mind if I put a link to this in my as my signature? I really love this quote.