"Whether you're hate-watching because devout anti-fandom is now the performative scab that's formed over the puss-oozing wound of your own lack of recognizable human value and/or purpose, or you're watching because you're a.. person, and it was either on or of interest, Disney got your money anyway." Goddamnit Bob lmfao.
Lee Jung-Jae actually had to learn English for this role and after his win on Squid Game I figured he'd have to learn the language for the roles he'd be asked for following that win for South Korean television.
Just because it's been around a long time doesn't make it less ridiculously stupid. Not because of some bias against new things, but because a normal whip is a terrible weapon, and wriggling death noodle of melty lasers is just as likely to main you as it is the enemy. Bad weapon is bad.
@@R3DM4G3 So, does that means you think Indiana Jones is stupid for using one too? I think it fits, especially for this series. This being a Shoalin Temple style film and whips being a weapon that is used in Kung Fu demonstrations is apt. Seriously, take two seconds on YT to look and you'll find martial artists using the whip.
@davidsykes6584 well, seeing as Dr. Jones doesn't use it as a weapon... no. It doesn't matter how much it fits a theme. It's a terrible weapon. The videos and martial artists you reference? They are not demonstrations of practical use but showmanship and entertainment. Bad weapon is bad.
@@R3DM4G3 You do realize a realistic lightsaber will kill everyone within, at least, 50 feet right? Star Wars is hardly the hill to die on when it comes to realistic/practical weapons use.
I've subbed to PT for years and I'm waiting to see how upset some RUclipsrs decide to get with it. I'll just be pleased if Abby manages to not act a bit smug.
@@MrFuzzyGreen So far, so good... hey, Abbs is an actor by trade, and she's hittin' the big-time. She's got a named role on "House Of The Dragon" to boot. She's ALLOWED to be a bit smug.
My fave thing about the lightsabre whip is all the people complaining about it have clearly never heard of the Indian Urumi, the swordwhip, which is equal parts awesome and terrifying.
It's funny how Star Wars fans often don't ACTUALLY GET Star Wars (complaining about a lightsaber whip)!? Cool new stuff that makes you go WOW WHAT IS THAT is a huuuuugge part of the core tone and appeal of Star Wars.
I know, right? Instead it's like there's now an "orthodox" wing of the fandom who have decided that nothing new can ever be introduced to the universe without first justifying why it's never been seen before. Which is ridiculous.
@@stevena.7022 Yeah despite Bob's glowing review, I have no interest in watching this. Trailer doesn't grab me at all. I still think Disney SUCKS AT STAR WARS. It's not Crouching Tiger In Space, it's not More Dour Star Trek (Andor). It's Flash Gordon, you morons.
Wait people are complaining about the whip? The whip comes all the way from the old canon you know the sacred timeline fanboys are always saying is better than the Disney era. Like come on if you complain about the whip just get out I'm not gonna take you seriously. Edit: I am STILL on the fence on whether or not to watch Rebel Moon part 2 just to see how bad it is. I honestly didn't think it could get worse than part one.
Being an OG EU fan boy, I am actually someone who never particularly cared about the whip. I never disliked it, sure, but I never felt any real thrill over it. It was pretty much just a "Oh, that's a thing, I guess," because I agree with Bob in that the ridiculousness of the lightsaber kind of overrides anything else about it, so the lightwhip (as it has been called) has been... not so much nothing period as it is nothing to get in any way emotional about. Yes, I am aware that this is merely my take, but I refuse to even tune in the fake hate around Star Wars. Also, don't bother with Rebel Moon Part 2. You're just getting what amounts to the extended/ultimate cuts for Batman v. Superman - maybe not so much in it just be the absolute worst (though it is pretty terrible), but in that you are effectively just getting more of what you didn't like about the first one.
1:50 Man, this is literally every time the right wing reactionaries get mad. I watch the thing and have no idea what the fuck they were specifically upset about.
Somewhere along the way I stopped keeping up with what they are up in arms about this time because they are always angry at whatever is going to be popular enough to get them clicks.
Just watched the first episode of Star Wars Acolyte. Pretty solid, I'm in. The premise and characters are interesting and the art design is amazing. It's just nice to get hundreds of years removed from the Skywalker time line. There is not a stormtrooper in sight and there are all diffrent droid models walking around, it just feels like they really took the opportunity to make new designs rather than throw the same old mix and match props.
I want only one thing from Disney Star Wars: Do something interesting with the Sith. On the level of "Lana talking philosophy with Gnost-Dural and Tau." Looks like BioWare's still the only one doing anything interesting with the brand. I don't even dislike Disney Star Wars, it's just all the same. "Hey let's do Top Gun for the 10th time" and "Hey let's drag Ahsoka back in again" and "Hey let's do another story where the Jedi are too dumb to live" and I feel like you'd probably make more money doing something more unique. Like a Jedi and Sith having to work together to solve a mystery and they keep getting into Force religion bickering matches that occasionally escalate into duels. Would anyone want that? We won't know until someone makes it. Star Wars is such a safe brand you could just fuck around and find out, but they don't want to do that. Makes me miss the Force-Immune super aliens whose weapons were snakes.
Personally, I'm pretty tired of the Sith. I'd like to see the franchise pivot to focus more on other Force-using factions. Let's see more of the Night Sisters. Let's see more of the Whills. Let's see new, wild, creative takes on Force philosophy which aren't tied to Jedi/Sith dogmatism.
I'd be all over like, a Darth Maul or a Dooku/Tyrannus miniseries, even if the Sith are also probably too dumb to live, or even just more of the 'living force' stuff they were (trying to?) do in the sequels. But how could you do force theology / force comparative religion in large doses without bumping into the problems they bumped into with midichlorians?
@@VilcxjoVakero Midichlorians were trying to explain the Force. Philosophy is in how people interpret and understand the Force, which is inherently interesting. But I'd want them to do this with new characters, not just dragging Maul or Dooku out of their coffin again.
I kind of imagine the grifter gang all sitting and watching this while talking on Discord or a messenger chat, going 'what about that scene, think we can milk it?' 'Nah, that's the same thing we hyped up last week' and so on
Darth Maul's lightsaber almost making up for the rest of the Phantom Menace is the most perfect encapsulation of that movie, I couldn't have put these words together better if I'd tried
Well that’s not fair there was also the song that went with it. Duel of the Fates is the best thing about the prequel era and that’s coming from a Clone Wars fan.
@@ohthreefiftyone Speaking of Duel of the Fates, I just saw a video about singing the line 'This is Halloween' from Nightmare Before Christmas in your head, over and over and speed up each time.
“It’s fine” pretty much sums up my opinion on this and most of the SW serials. Only complaint about this one is I could do without the setting captions. For almost a dozen feature films context was enough to tell us we’re on Coruscant, Geonosis, Tattooine, etc. Not sure why anyone claiming to be a SW fan would gripe about the whips. Those have been canon to the mythos for what? 30 years now? It’s hard to evaluate entries of this franchise anymore, since I don’t know how much our opinion on new material is because of how good or bad it is, or because it’s easy to take the material for granted these days. From roughly 1983-1997 we all wanted more Star Wars movies, but didn’t know if low-quality extended universe fiction was all we were gonna get. So if a series like this-or pretty much any of these-had come out ca 1988 I’d have said it’s the best thing on TV. Watching these feels like the franchise has come full circle. It was inspired by pulpy sci-fi movie shorts of the 1930’s, tv westerns and samurai movies, and now we have the streaming age evolution of those.
6:32 thirdly, this doesn't matter and I kinda hate that I know it but that's precedented in lore! lightsaber whips have been around forever! Since literally the 80s!
Honestly, I never understood some of the hatred some of these things get from the "fans." Each of these star wars entries are really not much better or worse than any other entry including the original trilogy. The second trilogy had some boring parts in them and some of the dialogue was not great, but it wasn't so bad.
Yeah, exactly. There's maybe 2-3 movies in the entire franchise which are actually Good Films, and the rest are varying degrees of dumb fun. And you could say the same for the TV shows, for that matter. Very little of it is unwatachably awful, and very little is stellar A-grade filmmaking. It's a big-budget B-franchise in every way. (And I say this as a lifelong fan!)
Sigh, ya’ll are missing the point. You’re just looking at good or bad where, lol, thinking caps gentlemen. Would all of this be discussed as much as it has if it was that simplistic,🤣. It’s about the changes in the story telling/adding girl bosses without any build up. Basically removing the foundation, disregarding the entire story for decades just to push an agenda. So, yes, the “dumb fun” as the guy above puts it. Has been ruined by propaganda. That’s the hatred if you will. Lastly, lol, however many movies a person may think was actually good. As a measure to validate a point of what doesn’t deserve hatred. Is subjective, doesn’t make it fact. No need to read replies.
The right winger hate watchers use a few threads of truth and spin it into a web of hate and suck people into the alt right . Yes todays “girl bosses “ are lame but we still should judge things by their merits and not automatically come to conclusions
Been a huge fan of the High Republic novels since they began. So getting to see this era fully realized in live-action is a genuine pleasure. But aside from Vernestra Rwoh (the green skinned Jedi) you don’t have to worry about pre-established SW lore to enjoy The Acolyte. Oh and it has an 87% on RT so Critical Drinker and Tyronne Magnus are going to lose it.
I'm honestly shocked that it's taken THIS long to get something onscreen that showed the Republic during its heyday. I've long thought that was one of the biggest single problems with the Prequels. Since the Republic is already circling the drain in Ep 1, it's hard to be too upset about its downfall.
As someone who isn’t a big fan of the prequels and doesn’t really know much about the lore outside of the movies, I was pleasantly surprised. It really did feel like it was hitting the notes the prequels were trying to hit in terms of tone and narrative. It was kinda nice to not be burdened by all that lore and just enjoy an action-thriller set in a fantasy world with characters whose motivations I understood.
This is Disney's casino, and The Mouse Always Wins. And yeah, Zack Snyder basically did w/ "Rebel Moon" what The Joker did to that giant stack of money in "The Dark Knight." "...I'm only burning my half."
@@jordanloux3883 He'll still get hired... his action chops are time-worn but battle-tested. It's all very slick and well-choreographed, but "Rebel Moon..." is still Edgelord Star Wars.
It basically comes down to: If you want a cool looking action scene, get Zack Snyder. If you want a decent movie with a good story, get someone other than Zack Snyder.
I'm guessing that she's in episode 3 and that's a) why certain people are mad about it and b) why I'm calling that one as my favourite episode right now
Our good host here really speaks to my sensibilities with this one. I'm watch most of the shows that come out. I enjoy most. But the diologue about SW online has become legitimately exhausting to where I don't watch anything related to SW except sources I already know will give it a fair shake, like this one.
This was one of the few star wars things I've been looking forward ti, purely because it has absolutely nothing to do with anything Skywalker. I get it. They're important, but I'm tired. Glad to hear it's enjoyable.
The spinny saber is actually from the cartoons originally and only later was used in the games and then Obi Wan. And yes, people were mad about it when it came in the cartoon too.
Having seen the first two episodes myself, I have to agree with most of what's said here (except the episode 3 stuff, as I haven't seen it, nor have I heard any of the complaints, as I try to avoid a lot of those circles nowadays). It had a fun wuxia vibe (a particularly Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-esque scene in the premiere was neat, but sadly confirmed something I'd suspected from the trailers I'd seen), the mystery's intriguing enough (I did clock the first twist pretty early and was slightly disappointed, but it leaves some threads to explore), I'm looking forward to watching it. Could it all fall apart into fan service or bad plotting? Sure, but I'm willing to watch at least a few more episodes, probably finish out the season, given how short they are. I'm not raving about it as much as I did the debut of The Mandalorian or Andor, but probably more than Obi-Wan, just based on first impressions.
I had to rhink for a moment about the really, really bad Star Wars snyder movie before I remembered that Rebel Moon was even a thing. Gods that move was violently mediocre.
Hey, thanks for the rewiev Bob! I'll hold out watching this until the whole thing is out, so i can gulp it all down like a big content python. I mostly like the new star wars, even when I occasionally would want them to be a bit bolder with their themes. Still, I can go for some Mando just as well as some Andor. Thinking about shows and digesting what i liked or disliked afterwards is almost the best part. Again; like a python!
My takeaways from this: 1) Acolyte, like most streaming Star Wars, is decent. 2) Star Wars haters don't matter. 3) Zach Snyder is falling rapidly in Mr. Chipman's estimation (and about time).
Nah, Zack Snyder is more like a modern-day John Boorman... the man is a fiercely inventive technical and visual director, but for every "Excalibur" there must be a "Zardoz." Bob doesn't even hate Michael Bay, even though Michael Bay made a movie that put Bob on the map as a "Tell Us How Ya REALLY Feel, Mate" critic.
@@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247 Hey, I happened to like Zardosz, Trib. That aside, John Boorman actually made worthwhile films people still want to remember (see Point Blank, my fave from him). That's never Snyder unless someone hands him a whole script he can't screw up. And I never said our Mr Chipman hated Snyder. Still, it's impossible to ignore how the former no longer defends the latter on artistic merit.
Not THIS Gen Xer, thank you. I liked all that for what it was, which wasn't much in retrospect. That everyone else in my generation keeps having this hangup is far from my problem.
God forbid anyone say anything critical about the prequels or a millennial/gen Z person will turn purple and insist they’re masterpieces of the highest order.
@@paulmartin6419 Yeah but Bob and those “critics” never say what about the Prequels are wrong, only that they’re just “bad and not real Star Wars!!!1” A bunch of hot air filled man children who got pissed those films weren’t Exactly like the original trilogy. 🙄
@@MRDLT00 Seriously? That’s just denial. People have spent decades deconstructing why those movies didn’t work on many levels. There are so many essays, videos, reviews etc. It’s easy to point out the idiots who don’t try to make arguments. That seems to be a massive chunk of online “fandom” now.
On a sidenote on getting mad at things. reminds me of when Atlas announced their new game and the comments where filled of angry people. I scrolled up to see what they got mad at, read it again a few times and saw the phrase "Diversity is their strength." IE a extremely generic phrase about teamwork.
Seen the first two episodes and yeah, pretty good. My only complaint is I wish there was more Carrie-Anne Moss. Also, as someone who has pretty much ignored any news on this show, but it's generally all toxic like Bob say, I was pleasantly surprised to see Manny Jacinto in this, really enjoyed his character in The Good Place.
@@jimballard1186 yeah fair. And I can def see the story being dumb, overlong, self-serious, &c. But I didn't realize people disliked the space grain and the space feudalism and the art nouveau (I think?) body horror aesthetic
I made sure to see hundreds of beavers at the IFC off of your recommendation, and I agree, best movie of the year. We also got to see it with the director and all of the actors in their beaver costumes. Wouldn’t have been exposed to such a magnificent film without you Bob, thanks as always for being a fantastic reviewer.
I still remember your words of wisdom on the franchise. It's like sex and pizza. Even when it's now the best version of it, it's still sex and pizza. Even at its worst (whatever the hell that means nowadays), it's still Star Wars
Honestly having just watched the show i thought it was fine. I honestly don't see what people are complaining about. The only thing i can think of is the usual Kathleen is ruining star wars, there's a girl in my guy thing, or just "ruining" of the lore like its always been sacred. I could maybe see people get mad at the convergence thing and the spliting of one character into two cause its vaguely like anikin, though not really.
ignoring all the obviously bad writing..."fine" isn't exactly a noteworthy achievement, is it? if disney keeps popping out things that are "fine" at best...what's even the point of continuing the franchise? it should just be allowed to die at this point.
No hardcore Star Wars nerd is allowed to bitch about Lightsaber whips Those have been in the extended franchise stuff for decades and they are indeed awesome
I never watched Rebel Moon, but hoo-boy, for a Star Wars rival to be so poorly received it makes even the unpopular Star Wars stuff more enjoyable? Yeah, that's a whole new level of bad 😅
Thank you for saying what most of us think about the angry "fans". I truly believe that these youtube channels exist because being angry draws more clicks.
And you'd be correct. The worse part, as Mr. Chipman has pointed out several times, is that it's become their whole brand identity and business model. That has a limited utility and reach, which is why a lot of them are also trying to become the next right-wing political darlings.
Thanks for this. It's the first time I have come across your channel. I too noticed the tendency for the nut jobs to campaign against Disney or SW shows. So I'm glad I found your entirely reasonable review. It is sorely needed. My GF and I have been debating watching this show. The other recent shows have had the characters being blindingly stupid to move the plot along. It's frustrating and annoying. From your review, it seems like it's a possibility, but you didn't directly mention it, so I have hope. Thanks. I shared this with GF so she can evaluate if she wants to watch it with me.
Just about the only character from the original movies that I would expect to show up would be Yoda, though most likely only in a cameo when reporting on events near the end...
Anyone complaining about "lightsaber whips" forfeits their right to ever complain that Disney ditched the EU for the new movies and shows. Because that is 100% a prominent thing from the EU, and the first thing anyone did was bitch about it...
Even more egregious, lightsaber whip thing was introduced ages ago and anyone whining about that like it breaks the lore is just making up reasons to be mad.
As far as I'm aware, we never had a lightsaber that could switch between a whip and a standard blade before. That's never been a thing, unless it was in some ultra obscure comic from the 70s or something
This may not be important but the release time is notable, usually this stuff comes out like 3am or so but this time it's 9pm which is interesting...to me at least. I wonder if they're just trying to go back to the TV era watercooler of discourse and interaction for the audience
Why would you review eps 1-4 instead of just the first two that are out? It means I can't watch this for another two weeks, if I even remember this by then.
I'm not likely to subscribe to another service to watch this but I am happy to hear there are original characters that aren't related to the same 4 people we always see.
3:03 “wHAt IF tHE PReQuels wHeRe gOOd?!?!?” Cause criticizing any Disney Star Wars is a big no no, but bashing the Prequels will always be fine and no issues at all I guess. 🙄🙄🙄
The manufactured hate machine for anything related Disney is many times larger than it was for the prequels. That’s what I find so ironic about people mentioning how hated the prequels were while gleefully participating in the current online hate-fest.
@@paulmartin6419 A lot of the hate machine for Disney Star Wars is manufactured by online people who drive for clicks to their whiney videos you are right. At the same time though, you don’t need to defend the massive corporation that is Disney on every one of their profit driven decisions. 😅
curious to see what got those reviewers mad in episode 3 next week for what i saw for eps 1-2, it just seemed ok. i want to like it more. the wuxia angle is a really nice touch, that I enjoyed. i like that the Squid Game guy is in this. I hope this series gets better. and thanks for being in the more level headed camp about this kind of stuff out there. helps a lot and your stuff feels like i'm learning something or i get reminded of stuff that i should know and stuff. hopefully the next set of episodes are good.
As a matter of fact, reviews *are* going to be make-or-break for me. Certainly can't trust fandom discourse for an honest assessment. I've been burned by too many Star Wars projects, especially on TV, that started promisingly and shit the bed by the end. The only thing I'm genuinely looking forward to is Andor Season 2; everything else gets the wait-and-see approach before I invest any time whatsoever.
I gotta be honest, I like that whip lightsabers are in official canon material now, that means that I will get Silri some day. Silri from Empire at War FoC
Honestly, if anything‘s put me off of Star Wars it’s just the constant jumping around in timelines. I would like to pick a specific point in the Star Wars history and just move forward with it. It’s honestly the same problem I had with the X-Men movies, just pick a point in history and stick with it.
Think it's kinder funny that someone would be mad about a lightsaber whip since it was part of old canon too XD Don't remember were it came from though
Shhh. The SWhater's don't care that it already existed in the Legends timeline that they're always praising and saying is perfect and never made anything dumb. This is solely Disney's fault and it's terrible because Disney made it! They definitely didn't forget about Lumiya or Githany from the Darth Bane books that they definitely, absolutely read on a daily basis and can quote by heart to try and forget about all the terrible content from Disney Star Wars. Are you trying to insinuate that they actually never read the stuff from Legends and simply hate the new stuff for the sake of hating it?
Last I checked, Lumiya's whip didn't go from standard blade to energy whip, hers was more of a cato ninetales with energy ribbons and crystal studded leather making up the multiple strands of her whip. And she had to use the handle (made of lightsaber resistant metal) to block lightsaber blows when she couldn't get the moment of her whip going and keep the enemy at a distance. Also Githany's whip was just a whip and didn't switch either. I believe in a comic adaptation she had a normal lightsaber on her hip as a backup, but her lightwhip was just a single energy ribbon. What we're seeing here is more akin to Ivy's Snake Sword from Soul Calibur series, except that thing is alive and operated with black magic to explain the shit she can do with it in game and such.
Tbh I think the whip lightsaber is dumb, just from a practical weapons point of view... But lightsabers generally are shitty weapons. The whip is just the dumbest of the dumb weapons. I also only watched Star Wars 1-6. Then nothing til S1 Mando and then Andor. Seen no other star wars. Dont care to see more star wars. If its good, yay, if its not then it doesn't impact me. Its exhausting to see people get agitated by pop media. If you don't like something, its not like there ISN'T a perpetual deluge of shit to get absorbed by. Go find something else.
Somehow I was not notified about this video despite having rung that bell. All I can say is that hearing your review was like a breath of fresh air and a confirmation that I'm not crazy. The right-wing trolls have been so loud and so aggressive, almost enough to make me doubt my own senses when I say "huh. this is neat. It's shaking up some status quo in ways that I was hoping Ahsoka would do, validating decades-old arguments I remember having in star wars message boards, new spin on the action. Adding some depth to a lot of star wars lore concepts that have been 2-dimensional." It's been hard to really assess how well-executed everything is under the onslaught of "THIS IS WHEN WOKE DISNEY FINALLY KILLED STAR WARS".
If it's a new story with new characters, I'm in. I'm so tired of the gap-filling most star wars stuff has been doing essentially since the original trilogy was finished.
Minus the ugly racism of the latter and I say that as someone who admires HPL. I am thankful we have never seen an SW equivalent of "Horror Of Red Hook".
Acolyte Episode 5: Jedi harvesting grain with lightscythes.
Episode six is them milling the grain so that's a nice change of pace.
I mean dark masky guy probably sees them as grain…
Dangit, did you beat me to this?
OK, but a lightscythe would be awesome. 🙂Although that seems more like a Sith weapon, for a baddie with a Grim Reaper kinda vibe.
"Whether you're hate-watching because devout anti-fandom is now the performative scab that's formed over the puss-oozing wound of your own lack of recognizable human value and/or purpose, or you're watching because you're a.. person, and it was either on or of interest, Disney got your money anyway."
Goddamnit Bob lmfao.
I wonder - Disney has all the money anyway, how do we make sure they actually pay their staff and not undermine the unions?
@@katherinealvarez9216 Be loud about it.
@@katherinealvarez9216 The French had some pretty effective ideas.
Some of us pirate that shit
How does Disney get your money from a streaming show?
Just to update your reference, us parents of a certain age dont have Disney+ for Mickey, we have it for Bluey. 😂
Also, because I'm Canadian I got to watch Shogun.
Yes, Bob is a little bit out of touch there.
Okay but have you and your kids watched the newer Mickey cartoons? They're fantastic.
Well, a edited censored version of bluey.
Ours require Bluey, Mickey, Spidey, and the various pixar shorts with cute animals. Variety!
Lee Jung-Jae actually had to learn English for this role and after his win on Squid Game I figured he'd have to learn the language for the roles he'd be asked for following that win for South Korean television.
Talking to casual viewrs who are not Permanently Online is probably the best, heathiest thing a reviewer can do.
Hell, that any of us can do!
Truth.
The Lightsaber Whip has been a thing in expanded stories since like... I dunno the 80s?
Just because it's been around a long time doesn't make it less ridiculously stupid. Not because of some bias against new things, but because a normal whip is a terrible weapon, and wriggling death noodle of melty lasers is just as likely to main you as it is the enemy. Bad weapon is bad.
@@R3DM4G3 So, does that means you think Indiana Jones is stupid for using one too? I think it fits, especially for this series. This being a Shoalin Temple style film and whips being a weapon that is used in Kung Fu demonstrations is apt. Seriously, take two seconds on YT to look and you'll find martial artists using the whip.
@davidsykes6584 well, seeing as Dr. Jones doesn't use it as a weapon... no. It doesn't matter how much it fits a theme. It's a terrible weapon. The videos and martial artists you reference? They are not demonstrations of practical use but showmanship and entertainment. Bad weapon is bad.
@@R3DM4G3 You do realize a realistic lightsaber will kill everyone within, at least, 50 feet right? Star Wars is hardly the hill to die on when it comes to realistic/practical weapons use.
1977 actually. It’s nearly as old as Star Wars itself.
I got called racist on IG foe calling this "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Jedi." But I absolutely love the 2000s Kung Fu esthetic in this era of Star Wars
Came for Abigail Thorn being in a Star Wars. Stayed for the Star Wars.
I've subbed to PT for years and I'm waiting to see how upset some RUclipsrs decide to get with it.
I'll just be pleased if Abby manages to not act a bit smug.
@@MrFuzzyGreen So far, so good... hey, Abbs is an actor by trade, and she's hittin' the big-time. She's got a named role on "House Of The Dragon" to boot. She's ALLOWED to be a bit smug.
…..is this the episode three thing people are upset about?
@@TJRex01 Yeah, that'd be my best guess.
If Bob is hinting at Ep 3 being Abigail's arrival, I am so incredibly hyped for next week!!
My fave thing about the lightsabre whip is all the people complaining about it have clearly never heard of the Indian Urumi, the swordwhip, which is equal parts awesome and terrifying.
It's funny how Star Wars fans often don't ACTUALLY GET Star Wars (complaining about a lightsaber whip)!? Cool new stuff that makes you go WOW WHAT IS THAT is a huuuuugge part of the core tone and appeal of Star Wars.
I know, right? Instead it's like there's now an "orthodox" wing of the fandom who have decided that nothing new can ever be introduced to the universe without first justifying why it's never been seen before. Which is ridiculous.
@@jasonblalock4429
The irony is that the orthodox fans are much like the rigid Jedi of the Prequel Trilogy. That's not a good thing for them.
I said "wow what is that" when I saw a brush fire on the wing of a spaceship
@@stevena.7022 Yeah despite Bob's glowing review, I have no interest in watching this. Trailer doesn't grab me at all. I still think Disney SUCKS AT STAR WARS. It's not Crouching Tiger In Space, it's not More Dour Star Trek (Andor). It's Flash Gordon, you morons.
Wait people are complaining about the whip? The whip comes all the way from the old canon you know the sacred timeline fanboys are always saying is better than the Disney era. Like come on if you complain about the whip just get out I'm not gonna take you seriously.
Edit: I am STILL on the fence on whether or not to watch Rebel Moon part 2 just to see how bad it is. I honestly didn't think it could get worse than part one.
Being an OG EU fan boy, I am actually someone who never particularly cared about the whip. I never disliked it, sure, but I never felt any real thrill over it. It was pretty much just a "Oh, that's a thing, I guess," because I agree with Bob in that the ridiculousness of the lightsaber kind of overrides anything else about it, so the lightwhip (as it has been called) has been... not so much nothing period as it is nothing to get in any way emotional about. Yes, I am aware that this is merely my take, but I refuse to even tune in the fake hate around Star Wars.
Also, don't bother with Rebel Moon Part 2. You're just getting what amounts to the extended/ultimate cuts for Batman v. Superman - maybe not so much in it just be the absolute worst (though it is pretty terrible), but in that you are effectively just getting more of what you didn't like about the first one.
1:50 Man, this is literally every time the right wing reactionaries get mad.
I watch the thing and have no idea what the fuck they were specifically upset about.
Somewhere along the way I stopped keeping up with what they are up in arms about this time because they are always angry at whatever is going to be popular enough to get them clicks.
Just watched the first episode of Star Wars Acolyte. Pretty solid, I'm in. The premise and characters are interesting and the art design is amazing. It's just nice to get hundreds of years removed from the Skywalker time line. There is not a stormtrooper in sight and there are all diffrent droid models walking around, it just feels like they really took the opportunity to make new designs rather than throw the same old mix and match props.
@Bob 6:10 , No kids want the app to watch Micky, they want it for Bluey :D
I want only one thing from Disney Star Wars: Do something interesting with the Sith. On the level of "Lana talking philosophy with Gnost-Dural and Tau."
Looks like BioWare's still the only one doing anything interesting with the brand.
I don't even dislike Disney Star Wars, it's just all the same. "Hey let's do Top Gun for the 10th time" and "Hey let's drag Ahsoka back in again" and "Hey let's do another story where the Jedi are too dumb to live" and I feel like you'd probably make more money doing something more unique. Like a Jedi and Sith having to work together to solve a mystery and they keep getting into Force religion bickering matches that occasionally escalate into duels. Would anyone want that? We won't know until someone makes it.
Star Wars is such a safe brand you could just fuck around and find out, but they don't want to do that.
Makes me miss the Force-Immune super aliens whose weapons were snakes.
Personally, I'm pretty tired of the Sith. I'd like to see the franchise pivot to focus more on other Force-using factions. Let's see more of the Night Sisters. Let's see more of the Whills. Let's see new, wild, creative takes on Force philosophy which aren't tied to Jedi/Sith dogmatism.
I'd be all over like, a Darth Maul or a Dooku/Tyrannus miniseries, even if the Sith are also probably too dumb to live, or even just more of the 'living force' stuff they were (trying to?) do in the sequels. But how could you do force theology / force comparative religion in large doses without bumping into the problems they bumped into with midichlorians?
@@VilcxjoVakero Midichlorians were trying to explain the Force. Philosophy is in how people interpret and understand the Force, which is inherently interesting. But I'd want them to do this with new characters, not just dragging Maul or Dooku out of their coffin again.
I kind of imagine the grifter gang all sitting and watching this while talking on Discord or a messenger chat, going 'what about that scene, think we can milk it?' 'Nah, that's the same thing we hyped up last week' and so on
Less in shape versions of me is a pretty good dig lol
😄
Darth Maul's lightsaber almost making up for the rest of the Phantom Menace is the most perfect encapsulation of that movie, I couldn't have put these words together better if I'd tried
That one fight at the end almost did it, almost.
Ah. Hack fans who were probably jizzing themselves for the Force Awakens and it’s lack of originality. 🤣
Well that’s not fair there was also the song that went with it. Duel of the Fates is the best thing about the prequel era and that’s coming from a Clone Wars fan.
@@ohthreefiftyone Speaking of Duel of the Fates, I just saw a video about singing the line 'This is Halloween' from Nightmare Before Christmas in your head, over and over and speed up each time.
I kinda like it actually. it's still better than the two that followed it...
“It’s fine” pretty much sums up my opinion on this and most of the SW serials. Only complaint about this one is I could do without the setting captions. For almost a dozen feature films context was enough to tell us we’re on Coruscant, Geonosis, Tattooine, etc. Not sure why anyone claiming to be a SW fan would gripe about the whips. Those have been canon to the mythos for what? 30 years now?
It’s hard to evaluate entries of this franchise anymore, since I don’t know how much our opinion on new material is because of how good or bad it is, or because it’s easy to take the material for granted these days.
From roughly 1983-1997 we all wanted more Star Wars movies, but didn’t know if low-quality extended universe fiction was all we were gonna get. So if a series like this-or pretty much any of these-had come out ca 1988 I’d have said it’s the best thing on TV.
Watching these feels like the franchise has come full circle. It was inspired by pulpy sci-fi movie shorts of the 1930’s, tv westerns and samurai movies, and now we have the streaming age evolution of those.
Zero minutes spent harvesting the grain: convinced.
Explain this.
@@XzoahX making fun of Rebel Moon
Awww man! I like grain, and harvesting...and grain...
you magnificent bastard - i'm in.
A lightsaber as a whip? I saw that in the Motu-Film with Dolph Lundgren as a kid - and it was cool 😎
6:32 thirdly, this doesn't matter and I kinda hate that I know it but that's precedented in lore! lightsaber whips have been around forever! Since literally the 80s!
Actually curious to see Bob’s take on Episode 5 (AWESOME imho). The weirdos keep getting weirder.
Hey Bob! Any chance you'll go back and review Andor? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Honestly, I never understood some of the hatred some of these things get from the "fans." Each of these star wars entries are really not much better or worse than any other entry including the original trilogy. The second trilogy had some boring parts in them and some of the dialogue was not great, but it wasn't so bad.
They aren't.
Yeah, exactly. There's maybe 2-3 movies in the entire franchise which are actually Good Films, and the rest are varying degrees of dumb fun. And you could say the same for the TV shows, for that matter. Very little of it is unwatachably awful, and very little is stellar A-grade filmmaking. It's a big-budget B-franchise in every way.
(And I say this as a lifelong fan!)
Sigh, ya’ll are missing the point. You’re just looking at good or bad where, lol, thinking caps gentlemen. Would all of this be discussed as much as it has if it was that simplistic,🤣. It’s about the changes in the story telling/adding girl bosses without any build up. Basically removing the foundation, disregarding the entire story for decades just to push an agenda. So, yes, the “dumb fun” as the guy above puts it. Has been ruined by propaganda. That’s the hatred if you will. Lastly, lol, however many movies a person may think was actually good. As a measure to validate a point of what doesn’t deserve hatred. Is subjective, doesn’t make it fact. No need to read replies.
@@SonGoku-yb3zm Oh noes! Girl bosseS?!?!?!? The horror! The horror...
The right winger hate watchers use a few threads of truth and spin it into a web of hate and suck people into the alt right . Yes todays “girl bosses “ are lame but we still should judge things by their merits and not automatically come to conclusions
Been a huge fan of the High Republic novels since they began. So getting to see this era fully realized in live-action is a genuine pleasure. But aside from Vernestra Rwoh (the green skinned Jedi) you don’t have to worry about pre-established SW lore to enjoy The Acolyte.
Oh and it has an 87% on RT so Critical Drinker and Tyronne Magnus are going to lose it.
I'm honestly shocked that it's taken THIS long to get something onscreen that showed the Republic during its heyday. I've long thought that was one of the biggest single problems with the Prequels. Since the Republic is already circling the drain in Ep 1, it's hard to be too upset about its downfall.
As someone who isn’t a big fan of the prequels and doesn’t really know much about the lore outside of the movies, I was pleasantly surprised. It really did feel like it was hitting the notes the prequels were trying to hit in terms of tone and narrative. It was kinda nice to not be burdened by all that lore and just enjoy an action-thriller set in a fantasy world with characters whose motivations I understood.
This is Disney's casino, and The Mouse Always Wins. And yeah, Zack Snyder basically did w/ "Rebel Moon" what The Joker did to that giant stack of money in "The Dark Knight."
"...I'm only burning my half."
And in this metaphor the man being burned alive at the top of the pile is Zack's credibility as a filmmaker
@@jordanloux3883 He'll still get hired... his action chops are time-worn but battle-tested. It's all very slick and well-choreographed, but "Rebel Moon..." is still Edgelord Star Wars.
@@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247 He'll get hired for less and less. And NO ONE is going to be insane enough to hand him total creative control again.
@@johnathonhaney8291 True... he's proving to be better at cinematography than direction anyway.
It basically comes down to: If you want a cool looking action scene, get Zack Snyder. If you want a decent movie with a good story, get someone other than Zack Snyder.
What's funny about whip complaints is how old the idea of a lightsaber whip is. It's first appearance was a Star Wars comic book in the 70's.
I'm gonna watch it for Abagail Thorne being in it.
I'm guessing that she's in episode 3 and that's a) why certain people are mad about it and b) why I'm calling that one as my favourite episode right now
Same. I'm looking forward to seeing her.
Our good host here really speaks to my sensibilities with this one. I'm watch most of the shows that come out. I enjoy most. But the diologue about SW online has become legitimately exhausting to where I don't watch anything related to SW except sources I already know will give it a fair shake, like this one.
Same here.
MCU is getting to those levels as well in fan discourse circles.
This was one of the few star wars things I've been looking forward ti, purely because it has absolutely nothing to do with anything Skywalker. I get it. They're important, but I'm tired. Glad to hear it's enjoyable.
people crying about the light whip need to read the Bane trilogy. You know. The old canon, they love so much.
We really tried to make it through Rebel Moon, several times. Just can't do it. Thanks for lowering the Star Wars bar, I guess?
Keep at it Bob!
I have to admit I don't get the "zero minutes harvesting the grain" reference, and I believe I have see all there is to see of Star Wars.
I'm just going to guess Episode 3 is where they introduce the character played by trans actress Abigail Thorn.
The spinny saber is actually from the cartoons originally and only later was used in the games and then Obi Wan.
And yes, people were mad about it when it came in the cartoon too.
I believe it came from Rebels, right?
@@arvidp.247 Yes.
Having seen the first two episodes myself, I have to agree with most of what's said here (except the episode 3 stuff, as I haven't seen it, nor have I heard any of the complaints, as I try to avoid a lot of those circles nowadays). It had a fun wuxia vibe (a particularly Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-esque scene in the premiere was neat, but sadly confirmed something I'd suspected from the trailers I'd seen), the mystery's intriguing enough (I did clock the first twist pretty early and was slightly disappointed, but it leaves some threads to explore), I'm looking forward to watching it. Could it all fall apart into fan service or bad plotting? Sure, but I'm willing to watch at least a few more episodes, probably finish out the season, given how short they are. I'm not raving about it as much as I did the debut of The Mandalorian or Andor, but probably more than Obi-Wan, just based on first impressions.
6:44 - As a 9 year old when the Phantom Menace came out, the double sided lightsaber made it the greatest Star Wars of all time.
Glad to see that you are still keeping it real with regards to Hack Snyder.
Wait, people were complaining about a lightsaber whip?
Sadly, yes. Some people have no sense of fun.
I had to rhink for a moment about the really, really bad Star Wars snyder movie before I remembered that Rebel Moon was even a thing. Gods that move was violently mediocre.
I came here very specifically to hear you say it's better than Scott Snyder's what's-it-called.
I think you mixed up your Snyders 😂
@@sathrielsatanson666 You are correct! I will leave it cause I think it's funny.
Hey, thanks for the rewiev Bob! I'll hold out watching this until the whole thing is out, so i can gulp it all down like a big content python.
I mostly like the new star wars, even when I occasionally would want them to be a bit bolder with their themes. Still, I can go for some Mando just as well as some Andor. Thinking about shows and digesting what i liked or disliked afterwards is almost the best part.
Again; like a python!
I have not seen Rebel Moon; what was that about harvesting the grain?
My takeaways from this:
1) Acolyte, like most streaming Star Wars, is decent.
2) Star Wars haters don't matter.
3) Zach Snyder is falling rapidly in Mr. Chipman's estimation (and about time).
Nah, Zack Snyder is more like a modern-day John Boorman... the man is a fiercely inventive technical and visual director, but for every "Excalibur" there must be a "Zardoz."
Bob doesn't even hate Michael Bay, even though Michael Bay made a movie that put Bob on the map as a "Tell Us How Ya REALLY Feel, Mate" critic.
@@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247 Hey, I happened to like Zardosz, Trib. That aside, John Boorman actually made worthwhile films people still want to remember (see Point Blank, my fave from him). That's never Snyder unless someone hands him a whole script he can't screw up.
And I never said our Mr Chipman hated Snyder. Still, it's impossible to ignore how the former no longer defends the latter on artistic merit.
As long as jj isn't involved, I'm for it.
Didnt they cancel this one as soon as soon as it was in the can?
That's an unsubstantiated rumor as of right now.
6:48 A Gen X’er will always let you know they hated Phantom Menace and the Prequels, even when you never asked about it. 😒
That's not true.
Not THIS Gen Xer, thank you. I liked all that for what it was, which wasn't much in retrospect. That everyone else in my generation keeps having this hangup is far from my problem.
God forbid anyone say anything critical about the prequels or a millennial/gen Z person will turn purple and insist they’re masterpieces of the highest order.
@@paulmartin6419 Yeah but Bob and those “critics” never say what about the Prequels are wrong, only that they’re just “bad and not real Star Wars!!!1”
A bunch of hot air filled man children who got pissed those films weren’t Exactly like the original trilogy. 🙄
@@MRDLT00 Seriously? That’s just denial. People have spent decades deconstructing why those movies didn’t work on many levels. There are so many essays, videos, reviews etc. It’s easy to point out the idiots who don’t try to make arguments. That seems to be a massive chunk of online “fandom” now.
On a sidenote on getting mad at things. reminds me of when Atlas announced their new game and the comments where filled of angry people. I scrolled up to see what they got mad at, read it again a few times and saw the phrase "Diversity is their strength." IE a extremely generic phrase about teamwork.
Hundreds of Beavers, still the best movie of the year!
Hundreds of Beavers, still the best movie of the year!
Never even heard of it until just now.
@@DentArthurDent68 Check out Bob's review! The movie is available on-demand
Ahhh, nice and rational, that’s why one comes back.
To be fair light whips have been in the fiction for awhile. Mostly the video games, TTRPGs, novels and comics. And they are really awesome.
Seen the first two episodes and yeah, pretty good. My only complaint is I wish there was more Carrie-Anne Moss. Also, as someone who has pretty much ignored any news on this show, but it's generally all toxic like Bob say, I was pleasantly surprised to see Manny Jacinto in this, really enjoyed his character in The Good Place.
I can't wait for the show and X-23 with a lightsabre
That's what I was looking forward to. I even watched Logan this weekend just to compare how far she's gone in her acting.
joke'll be on Bob when the next new lightsaber is a light-sickle, light-pitchfork, or maybe those little knobs for holding corn on the cob
Ok but tbh having engaged relatively little with Zack Snyder aside from making fun of 300 with my classics friends I did actually enjoy Rebel Moon
@@VilcxjoVakero You're allowed to like it.
@@jimballard1186 yeah fair. And I can def see the story being dumb, overlong, self-serious, &c. But I didn't realize people disliked the space grain and the space feudalism and the art nouveau (I think?) body horror aesthetic
@@VilcxjoVakero Incredibly long takes of nothing remotely interesting happening is far too much of Rebel Moon.
@@Pyrian fair
Bob likes The Acolyte.
And in other news, water is wet.
I made sure to see hundreds of beavers at the IFC off of your recommendation, and I agree, best movie of the year. We also got to see it with the director and all of the actors in their beaver costumes. Wouldn’t have been exposed to such a magnificent film without you Bob, thanks as always for being a fantastic reviewer.
I still remember your words of wisdom on the franchise.
It's like sex and pizza. Even when it's now the best version of it, it's still sex and pizza.
Even at its worst (whatever the hell that means nowadays), it's still Star Wars
Honestly having just watched the show i thought it was fine. I honestly don't see what people are complaining about. The only thing i can think of is the usual Kathleen is ruining star wars, there's a girl in my guy thing, or just "ruining" of the lore like its always been sacred. I could maybe see people get mad at the convergence thing and the spliting of one character into two cause its vaguely like anikin, though not really.
ignoring all the obviously bad writing..."fine" isn't exactly a noteworthy achievement, is it? if disney keeps popping out things that are "fine" at best...what's even the point of continuing the franchise? it should just be allowed to die at this point.
No hardcore Star Wars nerd is allowed to bitch about Lightsaber whips
Those have been in the extended franchise stuff for decades and they are indeed awesome
I never watched Rebel Moon, but hoo-boy, for a Star Wars rival to be so poorly received it makes even the unpopular Star Wars stuff more enjoyable? Yeah, that's a whole new level of bad 😅
Thank you for saying what most of us think about the angry "fans". I truly believe that these youtube channels exist because being angry draws more clicks.
And you'd be correct. The worse part, as Mr. Chipman has pointed out several times, is that it's become their whole brand identity and business model. That has a limited utility and reach, which is why a lot of them are also trying to become the next right-wing political darlings.
The villain reveal, once I realized what I recognized the actor from, about made me choke on my tongue. Loved it.
Thanks for this. It's the first time I have come across your channel. I too noticed the tendency for the nut jobs to campaign against Disney or SW shows. So I'm glad I found your entirely reasonable review. It is sorely needed. My GF and I have been debating watching this show. The other recent shows have had the characters being blindingly stupid to move the plot along. It's frustrating and annoying. From your review, it seems like it's a possibility, but you didn't directly mention it, so I have hope. Thanks. I shared this with GF so she can evaluate if she wants to watch it with me.
the Andor/Ahsoka comment seems fairly on point. It feels like it's somewhere between, and I think I'm okay with that. I like it so far.
Just about the only character from the original movies that I would expect to show up would be Yoda, though most likely only in a cameo when reporting on events near the end...
Hey Bob, real quick I wanted to say thanks for not speaking with the RUclips cadence. That cadence is exhausting to listen to.
Anyone complaining about "lightsaber whips" forfeits their right to ever complain that Disney ditched the EU for the new movies and shows. Because that is 100% a prominent thing from the EU, and the first thing anyone did was bitch about it...
I'd complain more that the creator of this show used it to make it about her own personal struggle than a dumb whip, lolol
Even more egregious, lightsaber whip thing was introduced ages ago and anyone whining about that like it breaks the lore is just making up reasons to be mad.
As far as I'm aware, we never had a lightsaber that could switch between a whip and a standard blade before. That's never been a thing, unless it was in some ultra obscure comic from the 70s or something
This may not be important but the release time is notable, usually this stuff comes out like 3am or so but this time it's 9pm which is interesting...to me at least.
I wonder if they're just trying to go back to the TV era watercooler of discourse and interaction for the audience
Why would you review eps 1-4 instead of just the first two that are out? It means I can't watch this for another two weeks, if I even remember this by then.
I'm not likely to subscribe to another service to watch this but I am happy to hear there are original characters that aren't related to the same 4 people we always see.
I just like that we got like 4 new archetypes of "Star Wars Guy" in 2 episodes of TV.
3:03 “wHAt IF tHE PReQuels wHeRe gOOd?!?!?”
Cause criticizing any Disney Star Wars is a big no no, but bashing the Prequels will always be fine and no issues at all I guess. 🙄🙄🙄
The manufactured hate machine for anything related Disney is many times larger than it was for the prequels. That’s what I find so ironic about people mentioning how hated the prequels were while gleefully participating in the current online hate-fest.
@@paulmartin6419 A lot of the hate machine for Disney Star Wars is manufactured by online people who drive for clicks to their whiney videos you are right.
At the same time though, you don’t need to defend the massive corporation that is Disney on every one of their profit driven decisions. 😅
I liked the first two episodes
curious to see what got those reviewers mad in episode 3 next week
for what i saw for eps 1-2, it just seemed ok. i want to like it more.
the wuxia angle is a really nice touch, that I enjoyed.
i like that the Squid Game guy is in this. I hope this series gets better.
and thanks for being in the more level headed camp about this kind of stuff out there. helps a lot and your stuff feels like i'm learning something or i get reminded of stuff that i should know and stuff.
hopefully the next set of episodes are good.
RE The whip saber; I love that idea. I'm a Kingdom Hearts fan and I love crazy weaponry!!! Go Drill Saber!
No amount of criticism is going to make me watch a drinker review. I'm SW'd out, but good on them.
Sounds like a watered down and sanitized version of the story from the Knights of the Old Republic comic
Sounds like you think 'knowing the lore' is the same thing as 'having real insight',
As a matter of fact, reviews *are* going to be make-or-break for me. Certainly can't trust fandom discourse for an honest assessment. I've been burned by too many Star Wars projects, especially on TV, that started promisingly and shit the bed by the end. The only thing I'm genuinely looking forward to is Andor Season 2; everything else gets the wait-and-see approach before I invest any time whatsoever.
Always appreciate your reviews.
Yes! Murder mystery! I love those!
Damn you, You made me spit up my coffee from laughing do to the less in shape joke.
As the great philosopher Homer Simpson said, "It's funny because it's true."
I gotta be honest, I like that whip lightsabers are in official canon material now, that means that I will get Silri some day. Silri from Empire at War FoC
Scroobius Pip is in there?!
Now there's a name I haven't heard in some time...
I had completely forgotton this was a thing but will probably check it out now. Don't let Disney say you never did anything for 'em ;)
Honestly, if anything‘s put me off of Star Wars it’s just the constant jumping around in timelines. I would like to pick a specific point in the Star Wars history and just move forward with it. It’s honestly the same problem I had with the X-Men movies, just pick a point in history and stick with it.
"The people who hate Star Wars the most are the Star Wars fans themselves."
Never change.
If the best part of your childhood was a movie you watched, then you need to accept that it is not a childhood worth returning to.
I mean that includes Bob’s reactions to the Prequels like he comments in this video, so you right. 🤣
How dare they be passionate about what they like.
Think it's kinder funny that someone would be mad about a lightsaber whip since it was part of old canon too XD Don't remember were it came from though
Why are people getting upset about a lightwhip? Does no one remember Dark Lady Lumiya??
Shhh. The SWhater's don't care that it already existed in the Legends timeline that they're always praising and saying is perfect and never made anything dumb. This is solely Disney's fault and it's terrible because Disney made it!
They definitely didn't forget about Lumiya or Githany from the Darth Bane books that they definitely, absolutely read on a daily basis and can quote by heart to try and forget about all the terrible content from Disney Star Wars. Are you trying to insinuate that they actually never read the stuff from Legends and simply hate the new stuff for the sake of hating it?
Last I checked, Lumiya's whip didn't go from standard blade to energy whip, hers was more of a cato ninetales with energy ribbons and crystal studded leather making up the multiple strands of her whip. And she had to use the handle (made of lightsaber resistant metal) to block lightsaber blows when she couldn't get the moment of her whip going and keep the enemy at a distance.
Also Githany's whip was just a whip and didn't switch either. I believe in a comic adaptation she had a normal lightsaber on her hip as a backup, but her lightwhip was just a single energy ribbon.
What we're seeing here is more akin to Ivy's Snake Sword from Soul Calibur series, except that thing is alive and operated with black magic to explain the shit she can do with it in game and such.
good to hear this from bob
light saber whip was in old canon
Tbh I think the whip lightsaber is dumb, just from a practical weapons point of view... But lightsabers generally are shitty weapons. The whip is just the dumbest of the dumb weapons.
I also only watched Star Wars 1-6. Then nothing til S1 Mando and then Andor. Seen no other star wars. Dont care to see more star wars. If its good, yay, if its not then it doesn't impact me. Its exhausting to see people get agitated by pop media.
If you don't like something, its not like there ISN'T a perpetual deluge of shit to get absorbed by. Go find something else.
Somehow I was not notified about this video despite having rung that bell.
All I can say is that hearing your review was like a breath of fresh air and a confirmation that I'm not crazy. The right-wing trolls have been so loud and so aggressive, almost enough to make me doubt my own senses when I say "huh. this is neat. It's shaking up some status quo in ways that I was hoping Ahsoka would do, validating decades-old arguments I remember having in star wars message boards, new spin on the action. Adding some depth to a lot of star wars lore concepts that have been 2-dimensional."
It's been hard to really assess how well-executed everything is under the onslaught of "THIS IS WHEN WOKE DISNEY FINALLY KILLED STAR WARS".
you are crazy. just because you hear another crazy person agree with you doesn't mean you aren't.
I found 1 and 2 pretty boring.
If it's a new story with new characters, I'm in. I'm so tired of the gap-filling most star wars stuff has been doing essentially since the original trilogy was finished.
Nice use of the NES Strider transport pipe sound.
That light wip does look cool.
I had no idea there was a light saber whip.....i think that sounds cool
I enjoy this era of Star Wars, SW meets HP Lovecraft
Minus the ugly racism of the latter and I say that as someone who admires HPL. I am thankful we have never seen an SW equivalent of "Horror Of Red Hook".