The show is incredibly dull. Not worth reviewing.

Nah, they did a good job finding things to nitpick lol. I wish you were enjoying this as much I am Zack. Maybe it would help if you remembered that this showrunner either turned a blind eye to, or served up women and young girls to a predator to get ahead and acquire 'fame'. She's being rewarded for this by hollywood going out of their way to not mention her association to a serial casting couch predator, so there is zero sympathy for people giving bad reviews of her show. Usually there is the notion of separating the art from the artist but I can't with traffickers and predators. Leslye should be in jail or ostracized for her facilitator role or outright stupidity, not defended.

I get you're trying to set yourself apart from the reactionary channels, but bro the problems are much deeper than is this is Cortosis or is it not? Steelman it and grant them everything is and it works exactly as they established it, it still throws off the fight choreography is wrong, there is no need for Choreo, you just block once - disable their blade, stab. ad infinitum. And I read the comments about it being rare, and that's why you don't have a full suit of armor out of it. I will give Many Jacinto (Smilo Ren) credit, as he was there in his choreo getting to blocks having to wait before they've even attacked or him having to swing way wide just to make their block look semi realistic. Jackie/Jecky? or whatever, having a light saber the whole time she's fighting with Mae even after Mae whips out the daggers she's been killing people with. And then how they all kept forgetting they had force power.. Honestly, the reactionaries are still going to have a field day, you basically just said they followed up a terrible episode with an exceptionally boring one.

As always you can enjoy whatever you want it doesn't mean that this is yet another show that either breaks canon (including one established by Disney) or is extremely inconsistent, boring, down right contradictory with itself and the list goes on. This show doesn't deserve to be rated anything above 3/10 while still being generous. People are either still holding on to whatever is left of SW or are drown in so much sh*tty shows that they will even attempt to defend this. If this makes me "reactionary" then so be it lol. At this point it is kinda funny when you don't agree with someone then you're automatically a X, even tho I'm probably on par with Ryan's knowledge about SW & SWEU and this doesn't even deserve to be attached to anything EU related, not like it will be since Disney detached itself from EU from the get go lol.

2:03 no because when they try to explain things it just makes it worse

Star Wars is over. I'm not picking through Disney's dump looking for a peanut to munch on.

It's feels weird, but I have nothing but apathy to anything Star Wars now. I'm not sure how they can get me back as a fan, or if they even want to.

I agree about it being a hundred times more interesting to NOT set up the cortosis metal? But that should be a thing you do at the *beginning* of the series, not the 5th episode of… what, 8? It’s indicative of the fact that this is _meant_ to be a mystery, with a lot of “what’s going on?” moments among the players, but the writers continually demonstrate that they don’t have the first clue of how to actually go about doing this.

I'm sorry, i just saw that autism otter try to fight the girl, i can't take this seriously... Like what the hell. It's insane. Yes, i can absolutely rip this apart without trawling for background information. Come on...

dude, its story beats, to have a reflective scene after an active scene. It's not always about budget, its how stories convey and reinforce information, setting up the next active scene.

I'm not watching this show at all, so i haven't spent a lot of time looking at this Sith helmet before this video, but those 'teeth' are definately the metal flex hose from a detachable showerhead, right?

I have Cortosis… Cecil gave it to me. Luckily I was prescribed a cream for the itching.

Ya Boi going after that "Free Range" Audience

So zack the EU isn't canon...which means them using defunct lore (despite having replaced the lore with their own new canon, no one was interested in) is a failure in story telling. It brings to question why does something exist without a much larger faction utilizing it. The EU explaination is that its rare...why am I to assume that carries over? On the episode at hand, nothing makes sense in travel time. More inconsistency in perceptiveness of characters despite indicating in prior story telling they should be able to sense things. No justification of why they are still on the planet. It's forced narrative from characters having a lack of information/ability, they shouldn't lack.

yeah I just don't care either way

Leslye Headland recommends your sensible takes, Zack.

So....congrats on being first, I guess? If you're doing videos just to get one over on Disparu and Gary and crew....I don't know, seems like not that great a reason to hit "record". But sure, knock yourself out.....

After seeing some of the fights from episode 5 I almost regretted not giving the show a fair shot...but I know there was no way I'd make it through episode 3 anyways so it is what it is. I'm okay with not consuming every star wars project that comes out, I can't imagine the show ends up being a 9/10 by the end

Vernestra was the master of Qimir. Thats why he has the scar in that form on his back because. I had the same scar one time made by my mother after she wooped my asz

The more I hear about this show, the more I think it could have been a solid two-hour movie. All the filler scenes and dragged-out payoffs just make it feel bloated. Someone at Disney or Lucasfilm really missed the mark on this one. If it had been a movie, it might have been a decent six out of ten instead of the disappointing four out of ten show we got.

Should would have been better if it was about simlo ren and have him be sol's failed student and their story arc.

Richard Gere joke was underrated.

I'm not watching the show as I've been disenfranchised with Disney Star Wars since TLJ in 2018 (or 2017 I don't remember the release year). The last movie I watched was Force Awakens (saw the leaks of TLJ as well as leaked videos on Reddit before the us release and decided it wasn't worth my time). Spent some time in the Disney Hate circle (I have some High Council animations on my channel) But eventually, after the umpteeenth "KK will be fired anyday now!" I more or or less ditched the channels after a few years. It was fun shitting on Disney but eventually it became toxic and a bit boring. Had to move on and accept that Star Wars wasn't for me, a black man born in the early 90s, anymore and had been more or less turned into a YA/princess brand. Since then, the only other official Disney Star Wars media I consumed was one or two eps of The Mandalorian, which I stopped watching because I realized that it was just going to build up the the Sequel trilogy anyway so there was no point in getting invested in anything. I hate Disney Star Wars with a passion. I find it soulless, vapid, and destructive to what George established and I refuse to give them any more attention or money. I just ignore it because the only language Disney understands is money and I will do what little I can do to affect their bottom line. I sometimes pop my head in on the hate-watch channels like Midnight's Edge, Robothead, and Geeks and Gamers as well as Thor Skywalker and SW Theory, but not with any regularity because I'm at the point of apathy now about the "franchise". All that to say, I really didn't understand how bent out of shape haters got about the helmet. They point out the helmet shutting off the lightsaber like it's stupid and I'm like, "No, that's cool That's the first time we've seen Cortosis on screen in such a way faithful to EU lore." And to hear people malign it confuses me. People saying it's stupid because it breaks the lore when I guarantee that they didn't complain when it was in old Canon. People complain that everyone would be using it as if they don't understand what scarcity means (Cortosis is not only rare in the old Canon, but was also expensive and difficult to mine and refine). People complain that it shouldn't be immune to lightsabers because the lightsaber is supposed to be all-powerful as if they don't understand how to balance worldbuilding and I *know* they didn't complain about Beskar which is similarly lightsaber resistant (it just doesn't short them out). Sure, Disney SW still is absolutely garbage, but can't it be criticized for legitimate problems and not made-up stuff?

Yeah

I haven't watched a single episode of this show. That said, I'm hearing a lot of double standards/double speak in the counterpoints to the criticism. When "middle-aged men" (not coming for you here) make a critique about the show, there's a shame parade of "why are you even watching a show intended for children?" Then, in this episode, I'm told there's a suggestive full frontal nude scene with the protagonist and the sith, where the sith casually says "Well if you're not going to join me, can I put my clothes on." _(Show for children you say?)_ And of course, when you call that out, they rail about moral prudence attempting to impede creativity. And with all of that, (the pièce de résistance) I'm also told there's not even a warning about suggestive themes in the episode, which really is the finer detail on a major problem with Disney; They're trying to show adult stuff to your kids without your knowledge. Which this _very thing_ highlights, but of course will be swept under the rug with the gaslighting of "Well, be better parents"- we're _fantastic parents,_ we just put trust in a company that we _thought_ cared about family values and wouldn't do something _like this._ Curiouser and curiouser that Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant created the show. The apparent cortosis thing: "stuff from the EU isn't canon except for the stuff we use, and when we use it, you're stupid and not "real fans" for not thinking about it in the first place." That's the argument for all of the canon, summed up. This show has a lot of problems, but moreover, _Disney_ has a lot of problems.

Three in one day? You're just spoiling us now.

I can't believe Ki Adi Mundi died fighting 5000 sith. talk about canon breaking.

So I take it the show is just dumb, not spiteful? These things used to be spiteful. Like with Marvel; Zack would say something on youtube and some butthurt comics pro would triple down and make the story so stupid that it even annoyed them, just to "get" their online enemies.

2:23 😂 savage 90's reference. I heard somewhere that your boy Stallone started that rumor

Apparently its the "worst one ever" until the next one comes out.

I think this week their going complain about the budget. Apparently each on of these episodes cost 25mil dollars. Even if the show is good it still unfathomable how they are spending that much on an episode.

Jesus. I watched 5 and 6 because they seemed like they would be the most tolerable. This show is what some would call a “nothing burger.” It’s like people are arguing over episodes of Full House. If it didn’t have Star Wars in the name, there would be silence. We’d be calling it Rebel Moon or Atlas the TV show, “When JLo isn’t in her Mech, she’s shaking her groove thang or twerking on the moon!”

I don't know. For me it cool that you know how to hit light stable right you can deactivate it. Like a pressure point.

I've never heard of cortosis, apparently this only appears after 2014 in Disney era star wars so I don't really know what people mean by it being an EU thing. Reference, wookieepedia "appearances" I know nothing about this show but that screenshot is not cool. Idk, after Darth Vader and kotor games I guess all sith need a helmet 🤷‍♂

I wonder what canned phrase we will see be born from episode 6 “reviews” 😂

I want star wars to die, not because of the direction it's going in and all the diversity crap, no, I just want the incessant talking about it to go away. it's like being subject to a 24/7 autistic stim session that just never ends. I am sure I have developed a twitch from hearing the words "star" and "wars" in the same sentence and no matter where I go, I cannot escape it. I put a audiobook on about travelling in the outback of australia for some respite, and the guy mentioned it in that!! will it ever. just. stop?!

All this star wars drama made me go back and re watch clone wars while playing through the force unleashed, there’s plenty of good stuff and there will be more eventually

Hahaha thanks for calling out the BS rage bait nonsense going on right now! New subscriber 🎉😂

Last week they complained the episode was action pack but lacked substance this week they are going complain episode is boring and star wars is about action. Its a revolving door of arguements. I get how perferably this show should binged so pacing between episodes feels more balance. Each episode should feel satifying if you release it week-by-week. They have this whole arguement about interia where these properties have been bad for a while you need a few good episodes, series, movies to correct.