Its getting too much love. As a counterbalance let this thread be the way for some negativity aimed at this series
I'll start.
I don't have D+ so can't watch it.. like I'm not invited to the party or something.. fuck this series!
It's not brilliant, and has it's faults, but I really like it.
shareI don't have D+ either. But I watch it ... elsewhere.
I agree that it gets a degree of praise beyond its merit. I enjoy it but it is medium fare. I'll join in with my criticisms to help balance its theoretic ego in hope s of improvement.
1. Grogu baby noises. He used to be silent yet still cute/childlike. Big downgrade.
2. Darktroopers a clunky, robotic shadow of the terrifying droid technology seen in TPM. Those forcefield droid were more formidable a whole generation previous.
3. Mando is what they call this guy who is a Mandalorian from the planet Mandalor which was once ruled by the Great Mandalor. All the other Mandalorians have names but he is Mando. Lame. Would only be OK if the only one who called him that was Carl Weathers.
4. The protagonists (other than Mando) engage in combat in the modern television method. ie. They stand straight up, hold their weapon straight out in front of them, and confidently walk into combat as though they had the same limited actuation of an old Star Wars action figure. Forward into the fire fight they stride, hitting everything they shoot at as though they know they can't be shot. This faux exciting technique has been showing up all the time in TV. I noticed it around the end of Person of Interest (perhaps long before that). Compare it to how our heroes had to shoot from cover and behave like they are being fired at in the first Star Wars.
"3. Mando is what they call this guy who is a Mandalorian from the planet Mandalor which was once ruled by the Great Mandalor. All the other Mandalorians have names but he is Mando. Lame. Would only be OK if the only one who called him that was Carl Weathers."
Growing up, the local park I played ball at had a BUNCH of characters. Link, Butter, June, etc. One summer a kid moved into the neighborhood from Tennessee. I don't remember his name if I ever knew it, because when we found out he was from Knoxville, that was what we called him. Eventually, we just called him "Knox."
See how that works?
Wow, your little story illustrates that difficult concept so perfectly. You really dialed in on my lack of understanding. Thanks.
Wait ... what if there were four other guys also from Knoxville? And their mayor's name was Knox, in the country of Knoxy on planet Knoxvania.
No prob. . .happy to help. Let me know if anything else confuses you.
As far as the four other guys, if I remember correctly we called them Porthos, Athos,
Aramis, and D'Artagnan. Athos had the best jumper; Porthos was a beast on the boards, Aramis had handles and D had hops.
. . .or was it Aramis w/the icy j? Shrug. Carry on. . .
yeah, i know the first few episodes of S1 seemed promising but it soon was pretty clear tis just some lame episodic adventure. its really like open World video game where the charchter does random sidequests, except none of it is interesting.
shareThat Frog lady episode was so bad I cried. Then Mando struggles with spiders but 2 pensioners with semi automatics clear out ALL those pesky spiders for him without even breaking a sweat.
This Frog lady had frog sex at some point?
I was more amused with seeing how many of her spawn baby Yoda would eat before she noticed, to be honest.
And what exactly is STOPPING you from getting D+? It's not exactly rocket science, you know!