Capital Games TeamI mean, this company is holding characters we love hostage, telling awful stories and destroying prior lore (and the cardinal sin: only releasing one decent game in the last decade, and that's if you're a fan of Fallen Order's gameplay style). And instead of getting a gacha game to add one of the literally most iconic Star Wars characters of all time (Red 5 Luke), they're focusing on a 'new' bad story where the main character is taking the role Luke held in the original (and better) version of the story 30 years ago.
Yes, it's offensive. I put up with 6 months of this Ahsoka show stuff and I'm glad the few unquestioning Ahsoka fans got their fanservice. But now lets get back to Star Wars. Add the ISB, show some love for Andor, and get Red 5 Luke in the game already!
I do see what you are saying now and they did drag it out, but I did enjoy the Ahsoka show. And I do completely agree with the Andor content the show was unbelievably so good. Because I love Luthen's ship. Yes Red 5 Luke does need to be in the game for sure.
I mean, to be clear, I'm also saying that Ahsoka is bad Star Wars. But I'm glad people enjoyed it. It didn't appeal to me, and while I think both the writing and acting were weak, I will admit some facets of it (specifically: Baylan and Shin) were exceptional. I wish to have seen him in a better produced work (akin to the few standouts of the Acolyte deserving far better than the show they were in).
That said, I wish those same people respected how badly it portrayed Thrawn, how much the lore is being destroyed - jumping to another universe in Hyperspace taking nearly no time whatsoever, for instance, when the Falcon took days to go from Tatooine to Alderaan in Ep IV, Nightsister magick getting more and more ridiculous and becoming more of a perversion of the original concepts of the force, and that's not even to mention the World-Between-Worlds nonsense that, while good narratively to bring back Hayden, was complete and utter Deus-ex-machina to save Ahsoka from a death her character had earned on Malachor.
Ahsoka, the show, takes the worst parts of Rebels and TCW and amplifies them to 11. And personally, I think that it's going to be remembered more like TFA at this point: a flash in the pan that overshadowed better works, didn't make narrative sense, stole characters arcs from better EU stories and applied them to new faces who hadn't earned them, and sullied earlier works
I'll admit, Ahsoka made me love Rebels just a little bit less, and now that TCW has to be seen more 'critically' as part of the canon, bad writing/good execution stories like Mortus are going to look worse and worse as time goes on.
There was the potential to have a great Ahsoka show, of course. But this show wasn't it, and while I think Ahsoka as a GL might've made sense at some point (either years down the road *after* the Thrawn story, for instance), this one season of the TV show was not the time to make her a GL.
ImortalAzazel you make really great points man, and I agree with your logic. Thrawn was really trashed like bad. The Nightsisters were just all of a sudden there in our face. Too much rushing in SW content recently. And I think fans like possibly myself have become complacent because of the recent story telling and content we've had to accept because that's all we get on screen. Unfortunately it's about corporate politics and revenue with Disney and EA, however they can benefit from each other -_-
I also wanted to add, yes Baylan Skoll acting and his presence and poise was so chilling I fell in love with him. Same with actor for Luthen and Moff Gideon. At least a select few actors we're superb.
