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Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Entombed (2023)
Seriously... stop with the mission/quest of the week
I like this show and don't have many complaints but literally only one episode out of five thus far into season 2 has advanced the narrative at all. In the third episode we got to finally see what happened to Commander Cody after the events of Revenge of the Sith way back 18 years ago in 2005. That is the kind of thing we fans are actually interested in, not some stupid treasure hunt that was way too poorly written to be even remotely compelling. Wanda Sykes is not a welcome addition to the cast either. She is congentially incapable of playing any character other than herself. This entire idea of them working for Cid has worn thin and is obviously just a vehicle for the writers to find something for our favorite clone force to do every week. The only positive was Omega wasn't doing anything that she needed to be rescued from. That alone was refreshing. I'm beginning to lose interest honestly. The writers have a perfect opportunity to explore the early Empire and are squandering it with pointless filler.
Velma (2023)
What The Actual Farce???
Can anyone criticize this show without being labeled a sexist or racist? Probably not. So with that knowledge going forward I will take my lumps and just say that this is an objectively bad show based on an objectively bad premise. Nearly everything about this show is just moronic and ill-conceived. Being a try-hard show is extremely obvious from the very first scene. Cartoons can be very adult and crudely funny but the writing has to be there, just watch Big Mouth and you will see what I'm talking about. The blatant 21st century "edginess" attempted, and subversivness of expectaions, toward an IP over 50 years old is to be expected by people who really have no talent in furthering the narrative or desire to enhance and enrich the characters and stories. This really is like giving the keys to the kingdom to a bunch of 14 year-old kids who think they, and they alone, can make REAL comedy. They think understand the nuances of humor and are writing a masterpiece but in reality they aren't talented enough to even invent their own IP that can stand on its own so they stand on the back of something already established and still manage to fall spectacularly.
Let's be clear, nothing....and I mean NOTHING about this show is related directly to Scooby-Doo outside of character names and vague parallels of a group of teens solving some sort of mystery. The irony of it all is that had they not attempted to attach it to this franchise and just created their own show people wouldn't even criticize or make allusions to it being a rip-off of Scooby-Doo because it bears almost no similarities. People would be judging it solely on the merits that any show gets judged on. It would fare better and not get as much hate. Don't get me wrong, it's a bad show, no doubt, but it's an abomination as a Scooby show spin-off. This show shouldn't exist and if there is any justice in this world it gets cancelled immediately as a show of understanding by Warner Bros. That they made a huge mistake by green-lighting this farce. This is not what the public wants and as a business there is no profit in alienating your audience.
Tulsa King: Happy Trails (2023)
Pump the brakes!
There was supposed to be ten episodes this season and all of a sudden it's made clear that episode 9 is the acual last episode. To top it off, the actual episode itself (minus recap, opening and ending credits) was only about 30 minutes long and it feels more rushed than just about any season finale I've ever seen. All the story threads were haphazzardly tied up in a truly awful way. Not sure what happened but this was just a terrible end to an otherwise fun season of television. Cannot believe how badly they dropped the ball on this. What an embarassment. It ends on a cliffhanger that was so contrived and poorly set up that you could be excused for missing the lame reasoning given.
Zen: Grogu and Dust Bunnies (2022)
Absolutely pointless
I wasted 2 1/2 minutes of my life. I've watched inane tik toks that were less pointless than this so-called animation. I have nothing else to say so here's the opening of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought-frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon-for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part III (2022)
Darth Vader is... boring??? It's so easy to get right, yet somehow.... nope.
I want to love this series but man.... it's difficult.
Almost ZERO story in this episode and the long-awaited meeting of Obi-wan and Vader was...I hate to even say it... it was lame. Like, super boring. The composer is abysmal at their job. Everything moves so slowly. Are Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau the only people at Lucasfilm that understand what makes GOOD Star Wars? Deborah Chow directed The Mandolorian but she had those two to guide her. Left to her own devices and it's almost as lame as The Ewok films from 1985. The Third Sister is just terrible as an actress and as a character. It's like a bad high school drama. The pacing is so off. This is starting to remind me of the Robert Rodrigez episodes of The Book of Boba Fett. 10 minutes could've been cut to improve pacing and really.... what was the point of even having this Vader/Kenobi fight? In the end, it only served to separate Leia from Obi-wan so Reva could magically discover the hiding place and magically transport ahead of Leia down a one-way tunnel and kidnap her AGAIN! So much wrong it's hard to write it all. Every scene with Reva grates on the nerve. Every single dark side user in the history of Star Wars is cool, calm, and collected except for the yelling, shrill, always-mad Reva. The character is poorly written and even moreso poorly interpreted by the amateurish actor. Vader was written as if someone who has no clue what to do with a cinematic icon thinks a "bad guy" would say. And can we say....it all looks cheap. I mean...what's up with that? The "volume" production set has become a crutch already. So many times it is so obvious that they are on a small set with a projected background in this show.
Really, to make the meeting of Vader and Obi-wan lame is almost as unforgivable as Ryan Johnson's treatment of Luke. This alone removed any goodwill I was harboring. The Mandalorian is the only saving grace of these Disney+ shows. I'm worried about Andor now. The trailer for that looked great but so did the Obi-wan trailer.
It all makes this lifetime fan very sad.
Again...I WANT to love this. I just can't. It's not very good and that makes me weep for the future of this franchise. Twenty years from now it'll be unrecognizable as a franchise.
The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa (2022)
Time to admit it....
This was just abysmal. Too many things wrong to count. This episode will go down in infamy. Should end up with around a 6.0 rating here or worse when it's all said and done. The speederbike chase is as bad as anything Star Wars has ever endured. Shameful mess.
The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
Gotta be honest... there is Good, Bad, and Ugly
This show is a huge mixed bag. I am writing this after episode 3. Tem Morrison simply isn't playing Boba very well. I don't want him back as Rex or Cody. He's honestly just not that good an actor. Everything wrong with the show can be summed up by the speederbike chase scene. Nothing...and I mean NOTHING about it was good. Too many things wrong with the show that it's giving me a sense of dread like in The Last Jedi's Canto Byte scene. Soooooo disturbingly out of place and poorly executed. I feel this show will not deserve a season 2 by the end. It really saddens me.
Sure there are some cool things but even the really great things are being mishandled. This show is not delivering on its promise. Kenobi and Andor are next and it doesn't bode well for those shows.