Bri DeLuciano

NO SPOILERS. After episodes 1-3, more than anything I find I am mostly just really confused by this show’s concept. With a TV-14 rating, the same as The Mandalorian mind you, you’d think it wouldn’t give such 90s Power Rangers vibes. You almost can’t help but feel it’s a Saturday morning kids TV show, like I’m actually watching The Disney Channel network station. Thumbs Up: 1. Right off rip, Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, yes! Cringey and all, not mad at it. 2. Returning characters and actors from the big screen, love it. Perfect nostalgic feel. 3. Logically linking Leia to Obi Wan, explaining why she’d be reaching out, maybe she was being cryptic in New Hope by saying he served her father. I can get on board with that. Thumbs down: 1. Felt cheap, I’d imagine that this show would be getting at least $10M an episode to be on par with the John Favreau/Dave Filoni series adaptations. So again, why am I watching something that feels so low rent? 2. Delivery feels off. So many little details that makes me think either the writers and/or directors don’t understand Star Wars enough to tell this story. If Obi Wan is going for the down low approach, why is he dressed up like a Jedi? Why is what is supposed to be a 10 year old clearly an 8 year old during filming? She’s the cutest thing ever, the actress playing young Leia, but she’s too young and her character lacks the dimension that an older child could have delivered. Having a slight older kid even, could have easily been a believable 10yo. The ‘bad guys’ are laughable. The chase scene in the woods with Leia, these have to be the most poorly trained mercenaries in the whole galaxy. The main antagonist, Reva, feels either undeveloped or needed a far more powerful actress. How do we go from Rosario Dawson, Amy Sedaris and Ming-Na Wen’s characters to this? Hell, Gina Carano looks Oscar worthy by comparison. As a main character, Reva needed more. I’m sure she is wonderful in other roles, this one plainly wasn’t written for her craft. Even the wooden box that the saber was buried in was ridiculous, that wood would be desiccated after being encased in desert sand for a decade. So many little things are just off and lacking authenticity. Conclusion: I wanted so badly to embrace the Deborah Chow adaptation, but it seems the missing ingredient must be the John Favreau and Dave Filoni dream team. All the throwback moments couldn’t make up for this overall poor cinematic storytelling. Maybe things will turn around in the later episodes. Please do better Disney+

Beyond cheesy. Maybe that's the point? Really sloppy fight sequences for a move focused on martial arts. I mean, you could practically feel them counting in their heads coordinating the moves, not natural at all. No clue where the storyline was going based on on how they cut this together. Must have given up somewhere in production. Did the director even try to coach the actors? Or are they just really that mediocre all the time? Location spots were cool though, and it was visually appealing. Was happy to get to the end though.

Slow moving, anticlimactic and utterly pointless. Too much time was spent watching a half naked Zoe Kravitz alone in her apartment and almost no time was spent getting the viewer involved in the storyline. It was hard to care, let alone cheer for the protagonist's victory because it was such a sloppy one. How have we arrived in a world where the only movies worth watching are Disney films at this point? Disappointed is an understatement.