You are here.
More Star Wars universe IP-mining. I don’t see why everyone’s so into this. I mean, he looks cool – but probably the most interesting thing about the show is the amount of analysis and speculation it’s generated about whether Mandalorians == Space Jews. I don’t understand the issues enough to comment, and don’t have a…
This might be the first time I’ve said this about this show, but I actually enjoyed this season – and this represents a bit of a seachange in that it’s become more driven by plot, and seems less about making the viewer seem complicit in witnessing something awful. Of course the architects of Gilead are…
The Orville’s now almost totally shed its comedy roots and transmorphed into a late-90s space scifi serial. Season 3 was a “replatforming”, that saw a new titlecard (The Orville – New Horizons), and longer episode lengths – which made for slightly more self-indulgent plotlines. As well as this, the writers leant into reincorporation/revisiting of story…
Holy crap. THIS is good Star Wars Universe content. As my colleague put it, “It doesn’t have space wizards” – what it DOES have is intrigue, politics, characters you give a shit about, and storyline that it’s foregone conclusion EVEN THOUGH it’s prequel to other universe properties. And all done lovingly and accurately using the…
OK, so I was ALWAYS gonna be watching this, and will watch it to completion unless it gets really dire. The world’s too rich not to. However, it’s worth registering at this point: they’re pretty bloody earnest, aren’t they? Totally lacks any of the sense of humour of its predecessor. The time elapsing business screwed me…
Such a rich setting. And ambitious in scale. Incredible detail. Really struggles in the way that prequels with known source material do though in that we know this is a story that needs to hit certain beats. The storytelling’s a bit ponderous but why not just relax into the art and go with it? Will…
Having never read the GRAPHIC NOVELS but heard loads about them over the years I was very keen to watch this, and mostly enjoyed the British emo/stoner vibing lead character. Took me a minute to pick up that as a comic book the pace of it wouldn’t necessarily be episodic story arc, but could be…
This show. My god, this show. I found myself describing in breathlessly to a workmate and realised that I absolutely love it. Flawed characters… flawed SUPERHEROES… and the set pieces – even after 2 eye-popping seasons, they can *still* pull surprises out of the bag. And, of course, there’s the delicious swearing. Proper compelling TV….
I really think Ewan McGregor was giving this all he had, but it’s not possible to overcome the laziness of the Star Wars franchise and its 21st Century architects. A patronising parade of fan-appeasing lip-service stretched over a jeopardy-free plot, punctuated with plenty of “REALLY?” eye-roll moments. The one interesting character avenue that the story…
We started this season in around Feb/March last year. They’re just so damn epic in scale! Season 2 was quite the journey, with LOTS of key character deaths and huge changes in the political setup in 13th Century Turkey. It’s crazy-infuriating sometimes as you wonder WHY THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE LISTENING TO {character}, despite…