DarthSkywalker
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This is rather cool imo.
I am watching one of my favorites right now on May the 4th:
Love Solo
I do love how like the shows it feels like an intersection of so much expanded lore, with what we know from the saga films. It makes it all just feel more real, and Star Wars bigger.My favourite thing about Solo is how much it feels like the two animated shows. Beyond bigger elements like Maul, the worldbuilding and cast of characters reminds me so much of the two shows. And then of course it's about several OT characters, so I feel like it bridges the two nicely.
Oh yeah... I genuinely forgot about those two.I do love how like the shows it feels like an intersection of so much expanded lore, with what we know from the saga films. It makes it all just feel more real, and Star Wars bigger.
Also I to love the only two Star Wars shows. Resistance and Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.
My favourite thing about Solo is how much it feels like the two animated shows. Beyond bigger elements like Maul, the worldbuilding and cast of characters reminds me so much of the two shows. And then of course it's about several OT characters, so I feel like it bridges the two nicely.
I feel like Rebels was already that, but even more so now. The final scene... you can all imagine how I reacted.It's too bad the prequels were never as good as these last four episodes.
But then again, the four middle episodes with the Martez sisters were horrendous. It's weird how Clone Wars would dip and vary in quality so much.
A good sendoff to the show and Ahsoka and Rex.
It makes Rebels a good companion piece to this show since if continues where they leave off here.
I really enjoy the train heist, but for my money the Kessel Run, from the moment they get there to when they land on that beach, is peak Star Wars. Honestly, if not for the reshoots of the finale to include Dryden weren't so obviously in a smaller, closed offset and thus limited, I'd feel like the movie was pretty perfect from the train heist on. It's a bit choppy early on, but still with really strong material imo. But once the train heist hits, that issue goes away and it's just all working for me.It has one of my favorite sequences in the whole saga too, the train heist.
I really enjoy the train heist, but for my money the Kessel Run, from the moment they get there to when they land on that beach, is peak Star Wars. Honestly, if not for the reshoots of the finale to include Dryden weren't so obviously in a smaller, closed offset and thus limited, I'd feel like the movie was pretty perfect from the train heist on. It's a bit choppy early on, but still with really strong material imo. But once the train heist hits, that issue goes away and it's just all working for me.
I do think that as an episode, it feels incomplete. As a part of the whole, it works really well, but as it's own episode, it is not the best.
While I really liked the arc as a whole, I will say I found it all oddly somber for this show. Yes, the show would get dark and yes it could be painful. But the finale felt so somber for the kind of show TCW was. I really liked it, but at the same time it didn't necessarily feel like TCW for me and the last few minutes almost felt unnecessarily hopeless. Especially when you consider how even RotS ends. Doesn't mean I didn't like it, because I did. I really did. But at the same time, it did feel odd for being the finale of TCW.
If I had to pick between TCW finale and Rebels, I'd probably take Rebels just because I do think it struck the right note, even with it's flaws. Thankfully I don't have to choose!
I agree. And honestly I feel like they knew this was an issue, which is why they went about rectifying it in later seasons, before the show was cancelled. I was so sure Echo would be in this episode, along with the Bad Batch. A big reason why I thought they kept those episodes in.I think part of the problem is that we lacked a number of Clone characters that we had known for a long time in this finale. I mean, sure Jesse had been around a bit. But replace Jesse in that stand off scene with Fives or Echo? Much, much stronger. It was powerful when Rex turned on Ahsoka. But Rex was lacking a clone we had seen him with for a significant amount of time, as well as having a bond we recognize. I always had a bit of an issue with how they kept on killing off the Rookiees. As they were about the only other Clone character than Rex that got significant screen time and character development.
Still, the whole situation of the crashing ship was wonderful. And Vader not finding the ship till I am assuming post ANH was great as well. The image of them Ahsoka and Rex leaving the ship with the graveyard was chilling.
I can't help but notice someone is missing.I am watching one of my favorites for this day of celebration:
That's one of the issues with the way they handled the clones. I'm not sure I'd even call Jessie an actual character more than a background ornament. So I was surprised to find it worked really well for me in spite of that, though yeah, I think tweaking the ending of the Bad Batch so it's Echo would work a bit better. Though I do kinda like that the one representing the Republic/Empire here has the Republic logo stamped on his head.I think part of the problem is that we lacked a number of Clone characters that we had known for a long time in this finale. I mean, sure Jesse had been around a bit. But replace Jesse in that stand off scene with Fives or Echo? Much, much stronger. It was powerful when Rex turned on Ahsoka. But Rex was lacking a clone we had seen him with for a significant amount of time, as well as having a bond we recognize. I always had a bit of an issue with how they kept on killing off the Rookiees. As they were about the only other Clone character than Rex that got significant screen time and character development.
Still, the whole situation of the crashing ship was wonderful. And Vader not finding the ship till I am assuming post ANH was great as well. The image of them Ahsoka and Rex leaving the ship with the graveyard was chilling.
So uh, did Hans Zimmer get like royalties for the last two episodes, because there was a lot of BR 2049 in that beautiful score.
More like Vangelis in the original Blade Runner.
About the episode, perfect way to end this final arc. Last 4 episodes were to me the best Star Wars since the original trilogy.