Kalit Atl

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I really wanted to like the series, and after watching the excellent X-Men 97 I had high hopes, but seems Disney is intent on making Star Wars unwatchable. The first episode was decent enough that had me excited and thinking this would be a revenge murder mystery with the Jedi playing the detective while trying to stop a gifted (maybe misunderstood) Jedi killer acolyte of a Sith Lord....something like Seven meets Star wars. Unfortunately the terrible writing has the logic wheels of this train falling off by the second episode and it becomes a convoluted illogical mess by the third episode. The highlights are the great settings and decent fight choreographies. Jodi Turner Smith, Lee Jung Jae, and Carrie Anne Moss always a delight to watch. And, nothing else sadly. Spoilers ahead: The series wasted the perfectly good dichotomy of the twins (one good, one evil) by trying to excuse and redeem a clearly sociopathic personality (who tried to murder her sister). Nonsensical dialogue plagues the episodes; example: "it's only four Jedi (if we kill them) who will miss them?" No grasp of how things really work: fires in space; a small fire burns down and destroys a giant stone temple, and somehow also kills everyone in it in a matter of minutes. Just plain bad writing: a Padawan so conflicted about something he didn't do, nor was responsible for (the fire and death of those in the temple... If anything the Jedi he was led by were the authority) he commits suicide after a second attempt on his life by the evil twin. Not to mention that he clearly took the time to become a Jedi Master and finish his training. And let's not mention some of the laughably bad makeup on some of the alien characters (had me thinking I was watching old Star Trek and not in a good way). This all becomes too much to excuse. I couldn't get past the third episode. This could have been another grown-up story like Andor, but instead became...(Others have described it quite accurately as) a bad CW show.