Discuss and review here!
The Jedi are SO competent with the force. Some memorable points (spoilers ofc):
- The masters’ restraint in never igniting their lightsabers unless lethality is absolutely necessary, relying on the force as their primary defence.
- The contrast between Yord’s anxious rule-focussed approach and Sol’s force-led approach.
- Torbin’s impenetrable force aura whilst meditating - for over 10 years!!
- Sol’s ability to restrain Mae in-place whilst using the force to figure out what she knows
- Every single example of Jedi mind trick use
- The lightsaber hilts and sounds each being more refined and elegant imo
Instantly sending me back to the pre-prequel era games, books & comics this series is. I am so glad that they chose to flesh out this era with the High Republic books first to ensure we have a vast array of literature and strong world building to draw from.
Naturally hyped for next week. We’re eating well today.
Hmmm I think my expectations were set incorrectly for this show. From the rumblings I heard before the premiere, it was on a similair level as Andor and was kind of a murder mystery thing. It is nothing like Andor (so far) and the murder ‘mystery’ was solved (at least for the viewers) at the end of the first episode. I was excited about the possibility of ‘Law & Order in space with Jedi’ since it seemed like a fresh genre for Star Wars but this…is more like ‘generic Star Wars plot line #45’. I plan to keep watching because the High Republic era is interesting, but the story has been bleh so far for me.
Also weird that Carrie-Anne Moss figured so prominently in the hype & advertising just to be killed off in the first few minutes. If I was excited that she was in the show (I was ambivalent towards it myself) I would be super mad about that.
I’m afraid Andor has ruined me when it comes to Star Wars media. :-/
We won’t get something as good as Andor until we do. That is, you can’t plan on it. It will happen eventually, but Andor was a hard to match high water mark. (I also would have appreciated Acolyte more as a mystery.)
Am I the only one that felt like they spoiled the whole plot in the first episode? Like the twin thing could have been a big mystery but we already know what’s going on. Also we see the evil twin’s master (whoever it is), so we know it’s a Sith plot.
I’m hoping this means they have gotten the “too obvious” plot points out of the way and can now dig into some other aspects of the story.
The twins and the Sith are both things anyone could have predicted, just from the trailers.
Fingers crossed: Sol has a really compelling character arc.
for the record, it could be a generic Dark Jedi, not a Sith.
We still don’t know who they are. We also don’t know why they’re making a big deal about not using weapons. it could just be a generic assassin rite of passage thing… and it’s Disney so they probably won’t go any deeper there even if they set it up… but it could also be some sort of very intriguing philosophical beef.
I’m leaning Sith right now if only because Jason Qimir started in on “peace is a lie” for that split-second.
I do think “philosophical beef” is probably the right answer, though. Because if some random orphan, taking Forcin’ classes part-time on a beach with some shady-lookin’ drifter, can not only match but surpass a Jedi master in a Force-off… That’s gotta do some serious damage to the Order’s reputation, right? Especially if it comes out that the Jedi specifically failed to train her identical twin? Imagine you’re one of the parents whose child went off with the Jedi because it was the “best way to realize their cosmic destiny”, never to see them again because the order drills “attachments are spiritual poison” into their heads from childhood, and suddenly you find out that, basically, homeschooling was an option the whole time? Now you start thinking maybe those “enlightened peacekeepers” training your kid to “harness their spiritual potential” might just be… kidnapping children and indoctrinating them into their weird death-cult to raise a galaxy-spanning theocratic paramilitary with a forced monopoly on psychic phenomena, against which the common denizen has no defense — who are, incidentally, hoarding all knowledge pertaining to their Order’s history, philosophy, training, and religious practice on inscrutable magic prisms that only they know how to open and read, which they keep in a locked vault in the back of their heavily-guarded stronghold. Trust in the Jedi erodes, maybe folks are a little more hesitant to send the youngsters off to Force Camp, and the Jedi Order either stagnates without new recruits or they start taking drastic measures which will, of course, only erode the public trust more, rinse and repeat until the Jedi go exctinct, and the Sith kick back with a couplea space brewskis and have a grand ol’ chuckle. “Kills the dream” indeed.
Exactly. But the sith and dark Jedi have a lot of history, it’s possible the creed was adopted by the sith from the dark Jedi.
Also, that’s exactly what the Jedi do. Depending on the era, the my stole babies because they were easier to brainwash indoctrinate train.
Also, never doubt the ability of beach creepers.
Remember what he said? They don’t kill the Jedi. They kill the dream.
It may be a bit early to make this call, but I’m ready to retcon this entire show out of canon. It makes too many bold new assertions about the Star Wars IP without grasping the basics of the lore. It then compounds these missteps with lackluster choreography, cheesy writing, a horribly misguided plot, and several lapses in logic that not even Dave Filoni could explain away if you gave him a 7 season animated series. And it’s only been 3 episodes.
Lee Jung-jae’s back must really hurt after carrying this entire show alone. I wouldn’t blame him if he never worked with western media ever again.
I know Kenobi, Yoda, and Anakin are supposed to be some of the best jedi ever, but I didn’t realize how much worse they all were until this show. At this point it’s clear Palpatine didn’t need to be an evil genius, just occasionally competent.
The Torbin scene/timeline was confusing.
Sol says he’d like to talk to Torbin.
Sol is taken on a long indirect path to Torbin.
Long enough that Osha can get there first.
That was really weird for me, too. Then they did it so they could use the cliche “suspect looking sus” trope. And then they undid that 20 seconds later. It’s a minor gripe but I did notice that was all really confusing and nonsensical for no good reason. Star Wars has been doing a lot of that lately. Ahsoka was full of scenes that just didn’t need to be there or made no sense.
Ahsoka was more egregious in my opinion. It really aggravated me in the first half season. This particular one was small enough that I can just let it go and not worry about it.
