I think he did it out of love for the people that love him. He would've read anything given to him. He deserves the world man. I'm so glad he got a redemption arc.

@@bcvetkov8534 He didn't need to redeem anything. He is a good actor and a nice guy, that's it.

I agree. I think Hayden acted well enough (a lot better than whatever direction he got for the prequels). It's just that, much like the prequels, the script sadly didn't make a lick of sense.

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p I meant like in the public sphere. Ik people gave him shit at first for the prequel trilogy. I know he's great. Like I said he's amazing.

I’ll happily watch his scenes clipped out and uploaded to KZfaq when that happens

i cri everytiem

George: “no retakes”

but what if stormtrooper was not bonk?

@@sulphurous2656 The world as we know it would no longer exist

Next time you gonna tell how Aragorn actually broke his toe in Two Towers, eh?

You're ignoring that an entire episode of emotional buildup preceded that scene.

​@@rippspeck that's the point they're making.

​@@rippspeckThat's his point, stupid.

​@rippspeck 30 minutes of build up vs more than a decade of us getting to know Ahsoka, what a comparison.

Starts singing “If it takes a thousand summers, I will wait for you.”

Vader was always regarded as a misunderstood villain, to a great extent like those in Gundam. Extremely powerful but with shades, hateful but focused, and Palpatine being the all-evil baddie baddie. Then the Canon turned him into an irrational psycho that kills everything that breathes. Which subsequently dumbs down Luke. "There is good in him". No dude, there clearly isn't!

Please practically every piece of star wars media is obsessed with Vader, even the old EU stuff. I mean the prequels exist just to tell the story of Vader and blow him up to be the most important thing in the universe, Anakin is literally the chosen one.

Honestly; they've oversaturated Vader being a villain, he's not even intimidating anymore.

@@nephicus339 Member when Vader getting his helmet broken and showing part of his face was narrative resource reserved for extremely special circumstances, against a remarkable opponent? Now it happens ALL THE TIME. It's pathetic.

I don’t think u watched the show. The main reason Anakin is “evil” in this shot is just to prove a point to Ashoka and to teach her a lesson. It was just an act Star Wars fans just be saying shit without knowing anything 🤦🏾‍♂️

what they forget is that children were treated like people in the 70's

Best take in a while.

And they clearly don't know what a good wizard is like, just that they wear white and win everything

Offensive to children that statement is.

Facts

The thing is, Disney has shown they can produce good Star Wars if they want, they just seem to not want to put in the effort 50% of the time

It's brainwash and social engineering. 100.

@@justlivin2499 There's a reason Andor was undermarketed. They don't want people to see what could be made if they actually put effort in, because then that sets a precedent that they have to keep doing it, which costs money. They know full well that AI could write Star Wars and the braindead amoebas feeding on fanservice would lap it up all the same.

Yea

it really seems like everyine working for disney lacks the ability to actually create anything

Damn that sounds interesting, I wonder if Star Wars fans would enjoy it 🧐

Films and series two different things so trying to be smart didn't work for you

It's definitely NOT a Vader/Anakin-focused (I am assuming people who say they want a Darth Vader series mean they want Vader as the main character) trilogy, that would be the prequels.

@@ashleybanks-wm4cg Lmao. You're missing the point that Darth Vader already has an arc that covers six goddamn films and that tapping the character for a new series would be yet another look at a character we've been looking at since the 70s!

@@Azhini I see you guys tryna be sarcastic at least the first one was but you don't seem that smart to realize that A fresh new take on the Character would be very interesting and well recieved considering hes one of the most iconic characters in all of media history Just like how we needed Picard i absolutley love the Picard series i remember watching Star Trek with my grandfather when i was little and him being a high ranking military man he can relate to him amd loved him My grandfather is gone now and im in my late 20s having a Picard for the new age was a surprise and a treat The same justice should be done for Vader omg i hate having to explain things to dense ppl on the internet

At least he wont get harassed this time

Slaughtering innocent children is about as irredeemably evil as it gets. The prequels were not well written.

What? George Lucas was the original one who explicitly treated Vader/Anakin as separate entities. Even Sidious in empire refers to Luke as the offspring of Anakin NOT VADER. The clone wars TV shoe further reinforces the difference by having the imperial march play whenever Anakin starts dabbling in the dark side in certain scenes but otherwise treats him as a good guy. You're obviously talking out of your behind and just spewing random crud you absolute clown. 🤡

I mean.... killing kids man, beings that never had the chance to actually do anything other than get slaughtered by their actual hero is beyond brutal. Even if Anakin had stopped before fighting Obi-wan, it was too late. Once you start you are forever lost to the dark path, ironically enough, i doubt it would be the same if he eliminated the CIS leaders first THEN attacked the Jedi

​@The_ScapeGoat Vader was never redeemed in the original trilogy. That's the part people misunderstand. Change does not equal redemption.

I would honestly want to kill myself. It’s ultimate torture, tie someone down and force them to watch that and I’m pretty sure you could get any information out of someone.

I am fairly sure that would be called a cruel and unusual punishment.

That's Grizzy's job...

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p That man is doing God’s work, I tell you. Still, I’d rather that he not get terminal brain cancer from viewing that much stupidity

I'd die of cringe after 24 minutes.

Or at least what's left of it 😂

The pinnacle of the disney star wars fanbase that is.

Most intelligent Star Wars fan.

“He Vadered! He Vadered!” She prob eats her soup with a fork 😂

Watching the AI read the tweets made me dumber. That's how stupid they all were. Disney numbed star war fans so much they forgot what good storytelling looks like.

It was pathetic. I split my sides watching that for the first time.

Its kind of meant to have a charm of the lower budget ANH Star wars

@@hunterprt1274 I doubt it. It just ended up looking like crap.

@@thesultanofswing8706 Its also because how fans were critical of the overuse of CGI in the Prequels and prefered the old way of using costumes and minimal CGI, this is just fan catering

@@hunterprt1274well that’s gay. As hell. Bringing back the yoda puppet for the new trilogy was also gay.

As someone who really enjoyed the clone wars animated series, _no one_ should have to watch it to have context for what's going on in a completely different show/movie/game. I've seen idiot fans defending that one Jedi game that came out a few years back having force zombies by saying "Well that was established during The Clone Wars TV series!" Yeah, it was, but you shouldn't need to watch 6+ seasons of a children's TV show to make sense of what's going on in a completely different thing. Also just because they introduced zombies there doesn't mean zombies fit Star Wars. Any work should stand on its own, this whole "living universe" garbage exists solely to milk money from people out of FOMO so they go and watch every single little thing instead of each work being its own individual creation.

@@Shenaldrac thanks for your reply. I’m trying to get into Clone Wars because of lots of great reviews from people, but I’m finding it difficult to get through season 1. I know, I know, I’ve been told by fans of the show I can skip it… but I’m a bit of a completionist. : D I wanted to comment to say that I think the criticism I was quoting wasn’t just saying “context from other Star Wars shows” but in fact “context from any TV show.” For example, the movie “Logan” has memeified the idea of “badass grown old, world has moved on without him, no place for him, but he can still contribute one last time… before sacrificing himself.” Other movies/shows now attempt this storyline as a way to dress-up a sequel after many years, but sometimes use, indirectly, the context from Logan that most audience members are familiar with. While you can do this and still have artistic integrity, it seems Star Wars under Disney needs to rely on memeified context to make anything and that’s cheap and lazy.

​@@thegoodgeneralthe show is very much trying to find its identity in the first couple of seasons it doesn't really know if it wants to cater to kids or all ages if you keep watching you'll start noticing a shift to something more serious but still fun

@@bluefalcon7 thank you! I'm not giving up on it. : )

@@Shenaldrac I mean, that's kinda like watching return of the jedi without having watched a new hope. Its also a bit of a shame that you reduce the clone wars to a "children's TV show", when its arguably the best content produced about the star wars universe, with arguably the most adult themes as well. Sure, the primary audience is children, but that does not mean it cannot be viewed by others, and especially if you want to watch star wars specifically

Hahahaha 😂 Ha.. haha 🙂 ... Ha ... 😐 And now I'm sad 🙃

*Modern Star Wars Cultist".

average modern smooth brain star wars fan

"THIS IS THE CLONE WARS!" is actually worse and cringier than "I dont like sand"

Fan service is....le bad?

Heck, they did it even earlier in Rebels. It’s practically a trope in itself at this point, but everything Disney Star Wars is so bland it’s all immediately forgotten as it airs.

What you mean? This is the first Star War ever! Before this show there were no Star Wars!

It was done different AND it was presented differently

Honestly, it reminds me of GOT S8 Daenerys dragon wing and ROP Sauron Galadriel water reflection visuals. "Cool" visual being supported by absolute piss poor writing. And people lap it up like its a work of some visionary when in truth they are just basic and shallow "fan" pleasing visuals with no substance whatsoever.

And rebels before that… and clone wars before that

And that is why they earn the title of being. A four lettered alternative word for chicken sucker. I'd put the actual word but KZfaqs been deleting my comments.

idk people loved Andor

Did they? I heard the ratings for that show were really low.@@thefolder69

That happens, it works, but for how long ? eventually people get bored. Case in point : videogames. look at Call of Duty, its boring now

@@thefolder69 Only people seeking something more substantial than surface-level fanservice can appreciate Andor. The fact that it wasn't as popular compared to other shows and even one of the biggest Star Wars youtuber didn't like it shows that the majority of Star Wars fans are children. That's why Star Wars can't grow up, because the fans are so easily excited by key jangles but get bored by something that is actually deep and thought-provoking.

My only complaint is that I wish Anakin and Obi-Wan had argued with each other in RotS. In another example of limitations breeding genius, because they couldn't effectively choreograph a lightsaber duel due to the special effects and Vader's restrictive suit, lightsaber battles in the Original Trilogy were philosophical debates punctuated by strikes. The choreography in Episode 1 was damn good and told you about the characters in the fight, and was a new and fresh take since nobody spoke. But so much of the prequels suffered the same as subpar video-game sequels: the director finally has the budget and technology to do what he originally wanted to do, and forgets about what made his original stopgap so beloved.

I didn't care about "figuring it out". Outsmarting the writers. The stories were great and by then, the relationship between fry and Leela was deep... the emotional ride was a gripper and the end was a relief. The craftsmanship of the storytelling that sucks you in and makes you forget it's a sitcom with nightly reset button. The drama was made real and consequential.

​@@keekaleikaithe little hints just add to rewatchabiljty imo

@@thesupreme8062 That's not just your opinion, it's right on the money. It's part of the purpose of it, so you're correct.

Like how Skoal & Hati are references to the wolves in Norse mythology chasing the sun & moon and their journey ends when they catch it.

​@goodwatching agreed, and Futurama kept on doing it, episode after episode of deeply human connections. It reminds me of a few DS9 episodes, like the visitor, which fucking wrecked me. Or babylon 5. Deeply emotional stories that were only needed to exist in a single episode and created the connective tissue for the rest of the series.

I quote Grizzy’s video from that exact moment: “You must have a goddamn IQ of 160!”

Isn't she the same woman that defended Amber in Invincible?

@@_S0LUS_ I dunno, I don’t watch any of her shit. I wouldn’t be surprised though

wasn't it just plot summary?

​@MsZsc it was plot summary with a synapsis of theme and plot breakdown. I wouldn't say it's an entire thesis, nor do I think op was, just a very good breakdown of the episode with characters thoughts and actions.

the repetition of the hastags gives the impression of a cult

I still can't get how the hell they thought that scene is somehow "the best scene in starwars history" like how?

@@goldblood8471 If you squint hard enough it might look good - especially when you started the whole show with the idea that this MUST be the best thing evaaar.

​@@goldblood8471 Yeah, statements like that are questionable. But I guess it's pretty much because the bar is so low nowadays. Scenes like that are arguably what fans should have been getting instead of the sequel trilogy. It's like throwing a starving dog a bone.

The Fortnite player base has the same mentality as the fans of SW.

@@sercravenmohead3631imagine still hating on fortnite in 2023💀💀

At least Spaceballs was entertaining, Disney Star Wars isn't.

@@AscendantStoic Or it's entertaining in how far it's strayed

Star Wars 10: The Search for More Money.

im pretty sure at this point, spaceballs had better written, and more consistent characters then current starwars.

MERCHANDISING! MERCHANDISING! MERCHANDISING!

What you're describing was literally done in the original trilogy with Luke, masterfully I might add. This is why most people bring up disney only being able to rehash things, I'd think.

⁠@@mr.barcode3186Your comment doesn’t make any sense not only did George Lucas create TCW but also created every single storyline in the series, the only difference is that he wasn’t the main writer like he was in the PT.

@@johnny.V03 then why does the show go out of its way to contradict the prequels and pander to prequel haters?

@@mr.barcode3186 I don’t want to argue whether TCW is good or not I just think the people shifting all the blame on Dave Filoni for TCW are *EQUALLY* bad as the people who give all the praise to Dave Filoni for TCW while ignoring the fact the George Lucas was the one that green-light the series to begin with.

@@mr.barcode3186 Probably cause the people behind the show saw the flaws of the prequels and wanted to fix it. Stuff like make Anakin likeable, make the audience give a crap about the conflict, add some characters to the jedis who died doing order 66 so they are more then just extras getting murdered, making general grevious an actual somewhat threat instead of a guy who flee at the first sign of danger

he should do what Robert Pattinson did, stay away from the films that gave him bad reputation and play on passion projects

He took the check. He knows what these shows are written like. If he deserved better he would’ve sought better.

I disagree with the implication. Hayden perfectly plays the role of an autistic adolescent with superpowers and was written just right, coarse and irritating and all in the prequels.

​@@mandowarrior123your headcanon is not canon

This!! Not a flying shit.

It’s why I’m unsubscribing. I can’t be the only one who feels completely apathetic now. MauLer is admirably dedicated but it’s time for something new. Or old. I would like to see him break down a video game again, like old times. His Amnesia/Soma series is undoubtedly his best work, even after all this time.

@@Dunmerdog Just to clarify, I was talking about Disney/Star Wars, not MauLer. I'm pretty new to his channel and I like it so far.

BOO HOO HOO MUH STAR WARS

Nah, when I think about how we were cheated out of 1313, the Underworld show, a LucasArts developed Battlefront 3, and George's original sequel plans, I get heated.

Given the fan reactions to those onside. You can't say he doesn't know his audience.

The amount of comments on things I have seen that are "if it was star wars, I'd buy it" honestly shock me. People will disregard any critical thinking as long as the right IP is attached to it.

Dude knows fanbase and makes cash while not using more than a braincell. He’s a genius

@@colboy1fish blind consumers haha

I mean, I appreciate the honesty.

Amen, same here.

You know shit is getting bad when reading fanfiction is more interesting than watching new Star Wars "content"

As a She-Hulk fan, I've long since known that for some franchises, the fanfiction writing is better than the official stuff, LMAO

​@@TheHulk1850 fuck me, I never considered how painful it must be to like comics She-Hulk these days...

​@@goji3908You know it's bad when a shitty mmo game has better writings than the original franchise that it piggybacked on

Secession is the answer lol

I actually started (and finished!) watching Buffy for the first time because of this review. It reinvigorated my hope for what tv/cinema could be… makes me realize what has been lost. At what point did studios begin to dilute their productions soooo much that stories became dull, childish and impotent? It feels like a constant insult to my intelligence, and I have a grudge against the buffoons in modern audiences seal-clapping and cheerleading this garbage forward.

@@milliewoo337 Good for you! I’m glad you enjoyed it, it’s so damn good! Alas, the studios get away with this crap because “we” tolerate it. If no one actually demands your best, why would you ever do anything more than the bare minimum? I think it’s only been very recently, like the last year tops, that the tide has started to turn. Well, hopefully anyway 🤞🏼

Recommend "Angel" as well if you haven't seen it, I surprisingly ended up liking it even more than Buffy @@milliewoo337

Beautifully said. The death of creativity is something that needs to be recognized and addressed but most people don’t even realize it’s happening

DUDE THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME!! I can't believe I forgot about this considering this happened in one of the earliest seasons of the clonewars.

Wasn't that in season 1 lol. Literally more than 10 years ago

never forget not everybody watches an animated show made for Cartoon Network

​@guciowitomski3825 that's no excuse to recycle the same thing and call it character development It's character regression, and we should expect better from the franchise

​@guciowitomski3825 Isn't that what this show is aimed at, though? No one watches Ahsoka who hasn't already seen Clone Wars and Rebels.

The Feloni Waifu strikes again!

It was all in her head, so doesn't matter.

Anakin wasn't beaten, as the lesson needed to be taught about coming to terms with the past and to move forward, embracing the positive of Anakin teaching during the Clone Wars and letting go of the self guilt of Vader. Understanding that Ahsoka's legacy is more than just Anakin's, it goes as far back as Yoda.

@@Xfactor3521 Ahsoka is 900 years old? Or 20 times younger?

​@user-xx6vy9ri8p well, that's just needlessly obtuse. It's not even that far of a stretch. Yoda trained Dooku, Dooku - Qui gon.

“ I CLAPPED WHEN DARTH VADER TURNED ON HIS RED LIGHTSABER!” -Mike Stoklassa, 2016

@@strugz3484 😂😂😂

“ITS THE GUY WHO DID THE THING!!!1!!1!1!1!1!!1!!!”

Closest that comes to mind is "I think WW2 just hit us" from Pearl Harbor.

To be fair, if you're about to march onto the field, going "over the top", and have any understanding of what that means (and how pointless it is) odds say you'd want to be wasted on something as strong as your commander....

It was anakin reminding ahsoka where they were based on the flashback, it did not actually happen in the timeline. It was a fabricated memory.

There's something very "it's morbin' time" about it

@@5xmasterx548 "This is a fabricated memory?!"

Worse still, a good portion of these 'fan' and reaction channels are just posers, watching SW or else just because after a couple really big titles like early GoT, being a nerd became something akin to 'I'm not like the others'. And ofc, it's easy money, faking a meltdown for donations on twitch

You meant these "writers" fanfictions and self-inserts into IPs...

@PossumReviews That and also not really questioning if something new or additive makes sense. You could make the argument that the prequels did this by adding super speed as a Force power. By having them escape via a dash, you question why on earth didn't Obi-wan utilize that power in his and Maul's fight to get to Qui-gon. The rule of thumb I go with any story is what A) make everything you write count, big or small and B) Keep track of whatever powers and abilities you setup and account for them. That's why Fullmetal Alchemist is one of my favorite pieces of media of all time. Namely, because the author Hiromu Arakawa, did these two rules. Especially with the magic system, Alchemy, keeping it very consistent with rules that were easy to follow and establishing clear cut exceptions. Hence, by the time we get to the final battle; it's one of the most satisfying battles in media because it's paying off so many small elements established throughout. Star Wars used to do this very well during the OT and Disney era, well, they've just forgotten.

​@@Avarn388 Yeah the prequels were really bad and goofy, were terribly inconsistent with the force, and rightfully heavily criticised (perhaps not even criticised enough). As absolutely trash as the prequels were though they are utter masterpieces when their quality is scaled against the sequels and any of the other Star Wars skin-suit wearing zombie media Disney has pumped out since acquiring the IP. If the OT is normalized to a 9/10 (Ewoks stop it being a 10/10), the prequels can be normalized to a 2.5/10, whilst the sequels are a 0.000000000000000001/10 (and that's being generously lenient on them) I get not wanting to have a completely "hard" magic system for the force to leave some flexibility, and the example of "force dash in one scene because I thought it'd be cool plus I needed to get the characters somewhere, also I wanted to show off some CG effects, but then I didn't think about what this power would mean for other scenes" is a prime example of why throwing magic into a story because you think it's cool but not thinking about it's effects on the story is anathema. Keep it loose if you want, but if you introduce something new you've got to check it's not going to retrospectively render previous media ridiculous, and you've got to hold it in your mind as part of the context when writing all future scenes. It's hard but if you want a story with magic to not just be frustrating and self defeating this is what you've got to do

@@Avarn388 Random FMA appreciation? Very based

No one is saying that.

@@echs457 It really isn't that much of an exaggeration, especially considering the numerous tweets MauLer showed on screen.

@SkollTheWerewolf so is it what's being said or is it an exaggeration? If it's true then touche, if not then go kick rocks or something

One of the tweets said the shot should win awards, so it's hardly a stretch. You're arguing over a technicality. The way those people reacted to it, I'd be surprised if they didn't think it should win awards.@@echs457

I wouldn't call myself a starwars fan. I enjoy parodies like 'not obi wan' or Auralnauts far more. The shot was nothing new but it looked pretty cool.

Wow. That must mean the writers didnt watch Rebels OR they knew nobody would catch on because nobody watched Rebels. Layers.

@@spec02alex Also in Rebels, Ahsoka tells Vader she will avenge Anakin to which he says "Revenge is not the Jedi way" and she responds, "I am no Jedi." Ahsoka from Rebels already accepted her role as a military agent. She admired Anakin because he stood up to the hypocrisy of the Jedi and did what was necessary, and she blames the Jedi for failing Anakin and turning him to Vader. Literally nothing about the live action show makes any sense in light of Rebels and Clone Wars. It's shocking that Dave Filoni wrote this when he was heavily involved in the other two shows

​@sivad1025 I've decided that Padawan Filoni resembles his Master a little too much. As in both George and Dave have the unfortunate tendency of needing a leash of some sort to curb their more runaway ideas. Plus the fact that Dave clearly isn't actually all that good of a writer anyway.

And this unequivocally highlights how much of a degenerate shills all these people who praise this garbage are. They salivate over the most basic bitch shots in history cause it Anakin and than Vader and then Anakin again but will completely overlook how none of it makes sense even with the shows they say they like.

Nice find there. Filoni doesn't have any sense of what he's doing with Ahsoka. A character is a sequence of consistent actions, all building onto those that came before. If you forget or ignore even one, the whole thing comes undone.

has become? always has been hon. nice of u to finally show up 😂

Could what has been done really be considered fan service if it was openly ignoring the fans?

​@@housemanalearn to spell before being so cocky

@@kaitlyndavis6074 That's pretty ironic, he means "has become?" because that ship has already sailed

Spectacle is all that matters now. Everything is just a spectacle, and they're not even bothering to give a mild effort to make the spectacle's build up actually lead to it.

That would be amazing.

Somehow Palpatine returned again.

@@Calvinosaur Not arguing that wasn't bad.

That would be amazing

ill take liam neeson or a green ketamine-addicted frog over this shitshow any day

They are very clearly blue, not white. Might be something with your monitor’s color settings, that messed with my perception of things quite a few times. Regardless, yes, her lightsabers should be green.

​@@user-sk5oz7fn8y her sabers were blue in Siege of Mandalore.

Heir To The Empire doesn't happen until the Filoni movie. Which means Luke could play a big part of it. Incel

At the end of Ahsoka Thrawn makes it back to the main galaxy and Ahsoka lost. Its been leaked. Dont get your panties twisted up now

@@birons3708 calling me incel just shows much you need to get laid. I'm fine, buddy. XD And no, the entire plot of Heir to the Empire is already jacked up. I could list off all the ways that they've screwed the pooch on that storyline, but you'd probably have a stroke and use more trigger words.

@@birons3708 Ya'll really toss around buzzwords these days. Incel? What about the comment was incel? He didn't shit on Ahsoka, he just said that this was originally Luke's story. Get a grip.

@@birons3708 I like that you added incel in there for some reason. Very on brand for Disney slop consoomers. Simp. Look, I can do it too.

Hayden is a great actor. Unfortunately he is always given lines as Anakin that are awful and it’s straight up disrespectful to him and his talent.

​@@druidofscosglen2868you peeked my interest. What's the name of the show?

Guy literally had to hold back in the fight against Ahsoka bc Dawson didn't put in as much choreography training as he did.

​@@CheemsofRegretIdk if you can really blame Dawson when they didn't even bring the same choreography trainer as the prequels had, I'm sure if Disney wanted to extend training she would have done it.

@@truegeminii6030 nor did they have the time to train the prequels did. 3 year release gap is something star wars probably won't see anytime soon.

KOTOR 2 tells one of the single greatest SW stories. Only Plagueis really comes close to challenging it. Space Jesus is the best exile.

Something Lucas or Disney will never replicate

Also, anyone else feel like Disney is currently the main character in a Shakespearean tragedy?

@@RainbowMan9407I’m waiting for the end

Agreed.@@sonicfighter64

@@sonicfighter64 The ending where everyone dies?

@@DarthSidian the ending where Disney is an old abandoned company where you could go in Disney land and see nothing but rusted broken down rides and somehow here the haunted echos of it’s a small world cause that’s where Disney’s heading if they don’t get their act together

This is a consistent problem in ALL fantasy media and Shad has called it for years. Game of Thrones had the same problem with Sir Arthur Dayne.

Anakin has powerful strikes the requires the two saber block, and remember that Ahsoka had to use a boulder to brace against Baylan Skoll's strike when he started to had more power behind each swing.

@@Xfactor3521 If Obi-Wan could block Anakin's strong Form V attacks in ROTS, there's really not much of a reason Ahsoka couldn't block or parry them as well, especially if she's getting a little help from the Force. This all strikes me as convenience above all else.

Does she ever do that thing from the games where she blocks with one and telekinetically spins (it's a good trick!) the other around the opponent, bisecting them?

​@@Xfactor3521Blocking with two weapons like that is bullshit anyway. You can just power through it. Try it sometime with a friend and some greased poles(closest thing to lightsabers you're going to get).

Then you never were a fan. You're a gatekeeper. Real fans support the next generation of fans in progressing the franchise forward.

@@BlueHooloovoo People like you are why we gatekeep and should have gatekept harder. Now these franchises die with no interest.

So your saying you “just want to give up”?

all you want is to not think and consume product@@BlueHooloovoo

@@BlueHooloovoowhy would they support mediocrity? You sound childish.

Or "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-ugh!"

I think you described the fan reaction to ROTJ back in 1983.

Serving up a pile of shit while telling them about stuff that happened a decade/decades ago.

@@russellharrell2747 I will maintain until I die only 1/3rd of ROTJ is good. The rest is absolutely Phantom Menace levels of bad.

@@adamkares7549 I agree with this statement

@@adamkares7549yet the phantom menace is still better than anything Disney has done bar maybe rogue one and andor

And notice in ROTJ, the flap on his uniform is flipped down during the Vader fight so that he’s not all black.

Back when the franchise understood subtlety and characterization

If I’m not mistaken, didn’t Ashoka wear grey throughout Rebels? Symbolizing her more broad, realistic view in life and the Force that the old Jedi Order couldn’t grasp? Because if you think about it, wasn’t it her clashing personal beliefs, and the Jedi turning on her, that made her choose to leave?

Yep, and Lucas did it again with Anakin. Light colored attire at the start progressively getting darker until all he's wearing is death. This is also why the removal of Vader's helmet to reveal Anakin's pallor is doubly significant in RotJ: it sort of symbolizes his purification and renewal. However, he's still wearing black, a color commonly associated with death-and that's what happens to him, he dies. He dies in that moment partly because his actions still carried severe consequences. Apologies if it seems like I'm waxing poetic, I don't intend this to sound pretentious. It's just a personal analysis.

Is why I always felt the true jedi outfit should be brown. A plane neutral tone reflecting their stance to life the universe and everything. They are not rulers nor gods they are simple shepherd's attempting to persuade the flock to not be absolute dipshits. Where as the pure white or pure black repersent the oppersite a belief that they are more rightous or have more worth than any other being, blinded by their own sheer fucking hubris.

Rain World?? Oh heavens, now you... _You_ have taste. I discovered the game through the Curious Archive, and it was an instant buy. No regrets. Anyway: I second everything you said.

Thanks a lot, I appreciate the kind words. I found it from Mattewmatosis and his recommendation series. What’s the Curious archive? I’ve never heard of that before.

It seems like it's the most popular form of """writing""" nowadays. So much stuff does that. And the sad thing is that the current mass audience is so dull and passively infantile that it's working quite well. They then go on to fill the net about how deep and interesting the story they've just watched/played is... even though 90% of it was their minds filling it in themselves. What's worse, I get more and more people telling me that's somehow "the best form of storytelling"... What have we come to.

I remember when Neil Breen was asked why he had a scene with little skulls in one of his movies and he basicly just said "it means whatever you want it to mean". It's not really that different. But unlike with Breen there are some people who really believe Filoni knows what he's doing.

It's genius really. Why write stories when the fans do it themselves and pay you anyway?

@@cattrucker8257We learned nothing as a society from the downfall of Game of Thrones

This is the genius of Filoni imo, whether he's intentionally doing it or not. Have the consoomers fill out the blanks and do the work for you in their own heads then get praised as some "fantastic" writer when in reality your writing is actually bare bones and clunky as all hell while using pretty visuals that lack substance, shallow fanservice, and better ideas pilfered from the EU to make it seem like it's actually good. It's depressing that people consider this show "amazing" Star Wars when these very same people can't even spot the very obvious and basic deficiencies in its writing.

Nothing else gets the "fans" frothing. At this point, key-jangling is their entire marketing strategy.

@@wheeliebin18- they know fans who love the original trilogy have disposable income. Dangle the keys and they’ll *hashtag* Take My Money! Are they trying to involve the newer generations into the love of those original 5 characters so that they, too, can show them the money when they’re old enough to have some.

They're not paying homage to the old characters. They're disrespecting them. They neither understand or care to understand who those characters are, what they represent, or how their legacy impacts the world around both in and out of the universe. Disney just knows they print money so they are okay with incompetent writers using the IP as a vanity project if they want so long as they bring in the big bucks. Legacy be damned. They are akin to children pissing on the shoulders of giants.

It's not a homage, it's nostalgia bait to get the old fans in the seats.

They pay "homage" the same way a deranged stalker makes a doll out of someone's hair.

12:53

I have a love/hate relationship with his videos. They are funny, informative, and fair. But at the same time, they make me wanna reevaluate myself as a critic, and an aspiring screenwriter. Which is a good thing in the long-run. But once I start reevaluating, I inevitably fall into a chasm of overthinking.

@@MrTroyman8 personaly I think its kinda unnessery/mean to call out random reactors/twitter users

​@@poppag8281That's what makes it funny

@@poppag8281you mean all the reactors who had the exact same fake-ass response?

@@poppag8281 That one girl needed to be called out tough. What in the everliving fuck were those "reactions" even? People who watch her HAVE to know it's fucking fake, right? I mean her grasping for air and crying like a toddler? come on!

For real. Watching The Long ™ reviews of these Disney movies is infinitely more entertaining than watching the movies themselves

Disney didn't make Game of Thrones

@@examiningkubrickphilosofia1530 His TLJ series is what launched him to popularity

You mean Filoni. Disney only kept Filoni around because of the fans ignoring anything he didn't make. I mean they have made great novels and Andor, but no one looks at those anymore.

Even tho I love Star Wars and have never seen attack on Titan I do agree with you.

If this was around 2009, when star wars had the EU and masterpieces like dawn of the Jedi all the way to legacy, I'd say you're wrong and your opinion is shit. Now? I very much agree and SnK world building is beautiful.

Oh my god, someone actually brought up the end of AoT as a positive. I never thought I'd see it.

Hmmm honestly I think one COULD make a differentiation between "star wars" AND the "star wars universe". Star wars, for me, is about the main characters and the events that helped build this "tragic" yet "Hopeful" story: a fallen knight that becomes a war criminal due to the faults in his Order's views, and the son and daughter that later come to undo his doings and redeem him and the world to build a better future (which is heavily inspired in middleages fairy tales and epics). And that story YES has a beginning and an end (which could have been treated with WAY more respect than what they did in the sequels by giving a propper closure) The Star Wars Universe tho, it is a very compelling one that can be expanded to no end. And I really REALLY liked what they did with "Star Wars Visions", specially the 2nd season, where they prompted other directors from other countries and cultures to make their take on the star wars universe and the results were amazing, so much that lots of them could've been a better base for the last sequels. So I feel they could have given this epic a propper "death" and closure without it meaning you can't come up with incredible stories inside the logics and phisics of that universe. Sorry if bad grammar came up, english is not my 1st language btw. Greetins from South Am! (also my country participated in one of the star wars visions shorts in the 2nd season! )

@@kyon813 gangs of new york vibes

Because "the masses don't like new things and complain about them". That's why old people hated the prequels after all /sarc

Play the recent games, perhaps? (Jedi fallen order + survivor) That's quite some fresh air. ( but it still plays with imperial era tho). just hope they dont f***k it up with asmussen gone).

I just want the era of bad writing to end

You will take Tatooine and you will like it!

Star Wars=Light Sabers, good vs. evil, space magic...you just cant do too much with those tropes.

Apparently.

And Constant Shilling.

Mike Judge must have been some kind of prophet when he made "Idiocracy".

​@All2Meme I'd rather watch ow my balls from that movie then the new star wars show.

Notice all the reaction videos are little zoomers? Star Wars is bought and paid for with millennial tears and their disgust at anything traditional.

thats what Ive been saying. Where the fuck has Luke been? In any of this?

Disney still is holding onto the dog shit sequels for dear life and won't accept that they just need to defucking canonize the whole shit show so they can have a flexible and good story again. Unfortunately that would stomp on far too many egos there at Disney so they will continue to parade Star Wars' corpse around until they inevitably kill this series forever as every large studio does to every fucking IP out there today. What a fucking sad time to enjoy fiction

Can't have strong Male Characters in Star Wars Anymore.

​@@arnowisp6244Boo hoo

​@@s.bakyhnh1756 Yeah cry like a baby because that's what you are

nah hes old af and looks every bit of it. create something new in this univeerse ffs

Ah don't let this this hack ruin it for you.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@1ManNamedDan The hack that be the writers of Ahsoka or..?

​@@1ManNamedDanwhat hack? The writers of Ashoka?

​@@furnoprime9439exactly 😂😂

I think it's more of apathy towards the show, angry at the seals in the audience

I don't think he's angry at the particular show. He's angry at the fans for another celebration of key jangling and them ignoring anything else. He finally has to come to realization what nothing good will ever come out from Star Wars beyond nostalgia baiting and the franchise he's tired of will never change.

@@sivad1025 i think there's some anger there, because Disney is actively damaging the entertainment industry in it's desperate attempts to train a generation of braindead idiots to make their lives easier. Star Wars, at this point, is actively damaging the culture understanding of what art really is, it's just that stupid but some people try so hard to defend it.

That's cringey.

@@TheNemesis432 That's Star Wars fans for ya. They'll eat up anything

@@ny8956 a toddler could write a better story using legos and action figures chief, its not as hard as you seem to think it is.

@@frankieM_ I'm sure we can look forward to seeing your screenplay on tv then.

@@ny8956 if i ever care to switch careers to screen writing i'll make sure to invite you to my academy award ceremony

@@frankieM_ Might wanna get a scrip for those delusions lol

@@ny8956 Wouldn't need a script for that one, if I did do it it'll be an autobiography

They're not rehashing it. They're reiterating it to show how Ahsoka's violent upbringing and Anakin's wartime teachings to "fight or die" have made her closed off and cold in life, while Anakin's legacy as Darth Vader hangs over her like a shadow, preventing her from truly living. She's become detached and laser focused on "the greater good" like the Jedi as a coping mechanism for everything that's happened to her and her fear of Vader's shadow. Anakin's point to her is that the way she was raised prepared her for the clone wars, to be a warrior, but it didn't prepare her for peace, and so for as valuable as his lessons to her might have been, she doesn't have to be defined by them anymore than he has to be defined by Darth Vader. We see him in the afterlife as embodying both aspects of himself, Anakin and Vader, in balance, and by rejecting the adage "fight or die" that she'd been raised with, she also achieves a similar internal balance. She chooses not to fight or to die, but to live; after this moment, her motivation shifts from stopping Thrawn--fighting--into helping Sabine and Ezra--living. The Jedi had forgotten what they were fighting for, the point of living, as they'd become so detached that they they could no longer see the trees for the forest. Ahsoka almost went down the same road, but Anakin pulled her back by reminding her of herself. And her personality shifts to reflect that, becoming much more free spirited and much less closed off toward those around her. I know it's popular to say "star wars bad" but this is one of those times where they nailed the usage of legacy characters. It wasn't just memberberries. There's real stuff going on here.

@@roberthesser6402 How charitable of you to write the scene for the writers. It's still retelling a character arc she already experienced and thereby a complete waste of time, but gargling Filoni's baby batter has had adverse effects on your brain.

@@ForeverLaxx I mean you’re welcome to come up with a cogent reason why my analysis of the literal events of the episode and the things said in it is wrong instead of acting like a child but I’m not expecting much. The reiterating on her childhood as a leader in wartime is meant to establish the ground work for the rest of the episode’s exploring how that affected her outlook on life. Neither I nor the show should have to hold your hand to see that.

@@ForeverLaxxhow many people watching the show do you think did the homework?

@@roberthesser6402 "Boo hoo he called me out on my shilling!"

It never was.

I can empathize with that.

No, it still is.

I've heard various forms of "the prequels are... le bad!" such as this being blasted on repeat by internet celebrities and co on the internet for years and years before the Disney shit came out that I can't even remember what people were complaining about in the first place regarding wooden dialogue such as this.

@@sulphurous2656 I guess "people don't talk like that". But for teen monk who was a desert slave it sorta makes sense to say when Padme said "We loved to swim and take sunbathes on the sand".

Also, when they had an opportunity to give Anakin more screen time (because he’s a main character) in Kenobi, what did they do? They decided to sprinkle him as a cameo and focused all the writings and screen times on Reva. The same sh*t with Boba Fett they had a full like 7 episodes to show Temuera Morrison’s acting as Boba Fett but instead, they made him a side character in his own show to Mando and then used the cheap trick by sprinkling his cameo (even his voice) in the other shows that aren’t about him. We could have got a show focused on Anakin and Obiwan, instead all we got were Anakin cameos throughout the shows. Boba Fett too. But hey, as manipulative as it is, it always makes the fans crazy so it kinda works.

@@nont18411We literally got 3 movies of Obiwan and Anakin. Star Wars needs less of Skywalker key jangling, not more of it. Tell new, original stories.

​@@nont18411man I enjoyed a lotta ideas and stuff from Kenobi, but Reva was insufferable. SHE DIDNT NEED TO BE THERE. WHY. WHY BRING HER UP AND GIVE HER THIS WHOLE ANGLE!? So much opportunity to explore Kenobi and Vader and their past but instead did THAT!?

​@@bikramarora1819 very fair, but clone wars does show that you can do a lot with characters and continue to explore them meaningfully without shitty key jangling. Unfortunately they didnt really do that in Kenobi or Ahsoka, tho I will say I do enjoy a lot of the ideas put forth. However you are 100% right that they should really be focussing on new stories and characters. Star Wars is a massive universe and theres so much room. Hell you dont even need to take from Legends books or games, just make up something new. Heres hoping the Acolyte will be that. Either way, theres room for both the new and familiar as long as its done right, it just mostly hasnt rn with SW.

How many of these youtubers embellishing their reactions are paid by Disney? A part of me is holding into the idea that not everyone can be that stupid, right? Oh god i hope so

Ye honestly thafs part of the problem. Ik it sounds mean to pick on ppl for liking something, but the lack of any sort of standards basically means disney can get away with making garbage continuously

​@@billross9132Very well said

Its so unbelievable I actually really don't believe any of these dinks whos livlihoods are based on getting views. Of course they're lying to you, they are professional liars. You are actually truly blown away by a bog standard action scene shot because it shows Darth "Ive been around doing similar badassy looking Red-Lightsaber 'Memberberry shots for 50 years" Vader? My ass. Star Wars is one of the most inauthentic franchises in Hollywood at this point.

It’s genuinely uncomfortable to watch.

Also, to be a successful grifter you need to, well, grift.

It is physically painful. They could use this to break gitmo prisoners.

Reminds me of RedLetterMedia's "Nerd Crew" lol

Yeah the ‘surgical’ approach has always been a large part of his appeal

i much prefer this to him yelling for several hours straight

I didnt watch Buffy, but is there more to the scene than just being told "snap out of it"?

The way he presented the Futurama scene had me tearing up, very quietly and very privately, because it was so sad and so beautiful by the end. Thanks, Mauler. Listening to your videos had make me a Better storyteller, and I'm about 40% of the way finished with my first novel.

@@awhellnah__ I did, but I didnt watch Buffy. To me the scene boiled down to the witch tellibg Buffy to snap out of it. Was there more to it? Is the small scene with the book a callback? Was there more important dialogue?

Shit, overused joke.

Rank10ygo. Will burn in hell. For coming up with this joke on Twitter.

@@SirDankleberry It beats "first" by a country mile.

He said “it’s Maulin’ time!”

Not sure if you've seen the clip...but you're not too far off. Anakin literally says to Asoka "it's time to die"

see the thing is... even if those people feel their accusations are even more justified... they're not... those people only make words like sexist and racist and Nazi, lose their meaning, and that is definitely very immoral, as if we aggregated such actions, we would no longer be able to label the real racists, sexists, etc. Due to this immorality, these people should be routinely ignored. These people's mindsets should be utterly rejected and buried. We should never tailor our opinions and presentations to circumvent their shadow. Instead, we must, to honour the fruits of the Enlightenment and good society, by cutting right through that shadow with the light that is our freedom. We need not be clever to these folks so that we cover all our bases, as that only contributes to the current malaise. Kick them right in their woke ballsacks with that morality, logic and imagination. If we did this sooner, more openly, and in higher numbers, this orthodoxy would've never gotten so deep into the foundations of our society, such that you cannot look in any direction without it rearing its ugly, stupid face.

it would help if he knew anything about star wars. if you dont know the characters just stfu.

Also to prove there can be well-written, beloved female characters, because these people are so poisoning the well with girl-bosses that if the pendulum swings back too far, we may not see a Leia, a Buffy, and Ripley, even a Sarah Conner for a generation.

No, he's just a crybaby who hates on things. Just like you.

They will go after the fact that the Futurama & Buffy characters were white, and Ahsoka has a more BIPOC cast. They can still scream racism.

This needs a pin right fucking now

"someone get this man a pin" -Ryan Gosling@@AimlessSavant

I thought that this happened in Lord of Ring: Gollum... I got my Star Wars all mixed up.

​@@AmarenamannLOCK BALLS 🔒🏀

​@@ghoulsome9483LOCK BALLS!

"Less is more."

@@ggt47unless less means more often 😊

@@ggt47These are the exact things the longer videos are full of - we’re just getting one of these takedowns on its own here.

@@DigitalPsyche I meant with Maulers video.

Great review but sadly for the trashiest of the trash. It's a golden turd of sorts. Sorry @mauler 26:03

lets hope disney wont rediscover kotor2 to slaughter it in a halfassed series

@@LLachs283 My friend, they've already indicated that the Old Republic is part of the official Star Wars timeline. It's only a matter of time now.

​@@OKMBVideoscan't wait for trangender Revan