I just remembered that Anakin Skywalker was a character who had a full redemption arc and ultimately died a hero who did the right thing. I legitimately forgot about that because Disney now owns one of the most iconic villains in all of cinema and they ONLY want to focus on Darth Vader being a villain.
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.
@@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 🤦🏾♂️
Judge: "I hearby sentence you to 24 hours of uninterrupted Star Wars fan reaction videos" Lawyer: "Your honor please be merciful. Atleast consider the death penalty."
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 mean, Lucas said it himself. Whenever you try to be creative, the fans crucify you. But Disney figured out that if you jangle keys in front of people, they love you for it.
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 UA-cams been deleting my comments.
@@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.
And you know the worst part? Hayden is a genuinely good actor. but every time he's attached to star-wars, he gets the worst dialog, and the worst direction. I also DESPISE THE SPLIT PERSONALITY DAVE FILONI WRITES FOR ANAKIN! George Lucas explicitly said on multiple occasions that Anakin is Vader, and Vader is Anakin. There is no split. "BuT wE cAn'T hAvE oUr GoOd GuYs KiLl KiDs! ThAt's BaD!!!!!!!".
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
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.
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 like how Anakin and vaders voice being mixed together for a split second is being treated like a masterpiece like they didn't do it literally last year in Kenobi
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.
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.
@@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
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.
@@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.
Everyone treating a split second flash of Darth Vader like it took a literal visionary genius to come up with is seriously the equivalent of dangling keys in front of an infant
@@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.
Little Ahsoka saying "This is the clone wars!" is the most emotion shown by her in the entire show... May I also add that Hayden seems to be the only one in the show who is trying to prevent saber combat looking like two people with glowing bats hitting each other? Like, Ahsoka's actress just seems to swing wildly in hilarious attempts to look cool while Hayden is forced to slow down and match her speed, which is something he isn't used to considering the training he and Ewan went through to actually sword fight for the prequels. I know there are countless videos about how lightsaber duels suck ass now but come on, compare this one to the Mustafar duel and the massive difference in speed while still SHOWING us what's happening is astounding. You didn't hear Kenobi yell "Anakin the platform is falling we need to run!" in the fight, they just do it like an actual human in that situation would do, you don't hear them argue with each other when their sabers clash or anything either. I wish they made them fight again in the Kenobi show, maybe it would've actually made their last duel almost be as awesome as the one on Mustafar, but since Vader is crippled by that point it makes sense why he doesn't fight very quickly.
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.
Hearing Tweet ravings being read out as the meaningless soundbite gibberish they almost always are is both deliciously hilarious and terribly, terribly sad.
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.
“The idea that this is one of her most important character episodes and all of the context to understand it is apparently from countless seasons of other TV shows.” Damning. Well done.
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
@@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
The best part about the Futurama episode is that it blatantly shows you Leela being stung but doesn't constantly shout in your face. This lets the audience pick up on the clues themselves and deduce that she's the one in the coma.
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.
@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.
The worst part is that most of us ex-fans just don't care anymore. We’re not angry, mad, sad, or disappointed. We’re jaded and apathetic knowing what could've been but never will be. EDIT: To clarify, I'm talking about Star Wars
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.
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.
@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.
I don't know if The Clone Wars has already covered this or not, but the idea of Ahsoka having to deal with the Trauma of being trained by the man who became Darth Vader is genuinely a good idea. There's a lot of directions you can go with that. "Will I end up just like him? Can I resist the dark side? Could I have prevented his fall?". All of that would be good things to explore with Ahsoka if they haven't been done already.
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.
@@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
"Luke Skywalker should be incredibly relevant to this whole series but for some reason we're pretending like this isn't a time where he would be most active in the universe. He would be hell-bent on stopping any empire loyalists from resurrecting the regime and the war, not a worthless titty-sucking hobo yet!" FUCKING THIS! ^^ SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!! 👏👏👏
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
To the person who said they wanted a Darth Vader series, I'm sure they'll pleased to know that there already is one. It was made 46 years ago. A trilogy of films made between 1977 and 1983. I'm not surprised they haven't heard of it though. It's a pretty under appreciated piece of Star Wars media nowadays.
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
The first 15 minutes of this video gave me chills. Not only because I adore Buffy and hearing someone analyze it so seriously is just impressive but, it makes me remember when TV was good and something to look forward to and creators took pride in their work and wanted to provide people with the quality. The fact that this no longer appears to be the case just makes me really sad. We’re being fed an intellectual diet of lucky charms and we’re all becoming fat and stupid.
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 🤞🏼
I swear to god yoda and qui gon could just resurrect one day in a show and fight Palpatine a third time with ghost anakin and these people would still call it amazing
Never forget that Ashoka already went through an arc where she contemplated why she would need to accept that being a Jedi can bring death when she lead the freakin squad of fighters in SWCW and her arrogance got her squad killed. She LEARNED this lesson already
@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
Futurama is the absolute perfect balance between real emotion, jokes and humor, seriousness and jokers and science. I always hated the show for absolutely no reason, until i saw my boyfriend watch it... I firstly made fun of him, but after catching him twice watching it, I just sat with him and watched. I AM SORRY MAT GROENING, I absolutely loved it
I appreciate how you mentioned that Luke Skywalker is incredibly relevant to this series. It's worth pointing out that the original books that Thrawn and his storyline come from are ABOUT LUKE. Yeah, there are like 5-6 books that deal with Thrawn and his campaign, and Luke is the main character of them, not Ahsoka. They wrote Luke out of his own story.
@@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.
Another problem with the whole Ahsoka being sad cause people died following her orders thing is that from the look of Ahsoka's outfit and the clone armor, this is supposed to be from late in the Clones Wars, but Ahsoka already had a "People died because of me" moment all the way back in season 1 of the Clone Wars at the beginning of the war. So she had the same crises twice? (Context, it was that episode when she over zealously lead a squad of fighters to attack a blockade and lost over half her men in the assault, also allowing enemies to attack the Republic fleet and nearly getting the Admiral killed.)
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.
MauLer, it's even worse than you think because in Rebels, Ahsoka is the one telling Ezra to value Kanan's death for the lives it would save. Not only is this out-of-left field in this show, it's a regression from where she was in her last appearance!
@@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.
21:10 That's why KOTOR games are so good. They have basically nothing to do with the movies and have their own original story, thousands of years away from the movies.
She uses two lightsabers, but never seems to actually use them effectively or properly. Why use both to block? The whole benefit of dual wielding is blocking AND attacking.
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).
Ahsoka and Rey wearing white as they mature is simple-minded. As Luke progressed, he went from white in ANH to gray in ESB and black in RotJ, symbolizing his loss of innocence and becoming more dangerous. As he became less naive, less pure, more knowledgeable, more powerful, and more familiar with violence, his capability of becoming a monster also increased.
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.
The way Disney treats Star Wars characters is like how the Simpson treats celebrity appearances their there for the sake of being there and nothing else.
I just realized that Young Ahsoka has the white lightsabers she got at the end of Clone Wars and not the green one she should be wielding at that time. Couldn't even be that consistent
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.
Ahsoka has already had this character arc in Season 1 of The Clone Wars. She was appointed to lead a Clone Fighter Squadron during a naval battle. Her hubris gets them all killed and she is absolutely devastated. She learns of her responsibility as a leader and how it's not just her own interests She must look out for, but also the lives of the soldiers she's assigned to lead. No idea why they decided to rehash it. Its already been done much better almost 15 years ago
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.
I can't believe Filoni fans are satisfied with the portrayal of Anakin and Ahsoka. If Ahsoka (inexplicably) has never talked to Force Ghost Anakin, she should be so distrusting of him. Angry at him, fearful of him, intimidated by him. Not happy to see him. Their last interaction was him trying to kill her. She was only saved from Anakin's killing blow by Filoni ripping a hole in the space-time continuum. "Hello Snips" followed by her calling him "Master" is already so wrong, and the scene just started...
This isn't the first time she has been in a situation like this. She's been in multiple situations and even in the same place in Star Wars Rebels, so she has experience with the more supernatural star wars. Don't know what you're talking about their interaction being wrong either, nothings wrong with them referring to each other by that.
This stuff always make me try to write the story these hacks never could. Following this line of thought; what if her response wasn't "master," but rather "Vader." Those two syllables would have hit like a knife in the gut. For both audience and character.
Yeah, that was certainly weird, though not implausible if we assume she got the full story of his death from Luke. So I'd say wary would be a more appropriate reaction than distrusting. But what I found odd was Anakin's irritated reaction to Ahsoka pointing out his legacy of death and destruction. That... seemed quite a bit blasé. I would think a redeemed post-Endor Anakin would be far more grim about his own path, definitely not stating with such confidence that he's more than that. But rather admitting his path was one of darkness, but expressing his pride that Luke and Ahsoka despite this had become everything he should have been.
This entire argument is invalidated due to Luke already having told Ahsoka everything about him, which explains her saying "So much like your father" to him, unless she was straight up calling him a Sith Lord to his face.
I heard mauler mention some people didn’t like how long the intro with the two examples were. I wanted to add the input that I thought the intro was incredible. Some of maulers best. Very compelling.
Everytime I see Hayden in a newer Star Wars show I'm always praying to God that they dont make him say some garbage ass dialogue, because the man has already gone through enough of that before
Star Wars Fans: "This shot is brilliant and should be taught in every film study class." The shot: _Anakin flickering between Darth Vader and himself in a mystical hotbox_
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
This is the Star Wars future with Filoni having the absolute power for you. Souless, Mid, Stagnating, Disney-obedient and Pointless stories that will never make the viewer to think BUT LOOK THERE IS VADER, REX AHSOKA AND OTHER STUFF FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD SO PEAK People titled him the savior of Star Wars and descendant of Lucas vision and not realising for what terrible fate they doomed the franchise with that.
Mitthrawnuruodo, in the books, was like the Sherlock Holmes/Miyamoto Musashi of space. Thrawn; Thrawn: Alliance; Thrawn: Treason Is one of the best trilogies I've ever read. Timothy Zahn is the writer who could have saved StarWars, shame to see his character make an appearance in a DisneyBrand StarWars product.
The end of Attack on Titan reminded me of what a meaningful story could be. It has a beginning and an end. Star Wars will never end, never have a resolution which means it will never have any real meaning. I say this after religiously watching every Star Wars medium up to Mandalorian. It's just a bloated corpse now, and the swarm of flies animating it keep puppeting the old beats.
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.
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! )
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.
"zombie pisshat dialogue"... Beyond the utter destruction of shitty entertainment, the apocolyptic levels of snark, and the ability to deadpan absolutely anything, the Longman's ability as a wordsmith is the thing about him I admire most.
Watching those Star Wars content churners getting so brainlessly excited over literal leftover recooked shite reminded me of feeding time at the pig pen. They, too, will literally eat anything and scream as the trough is being filled...............With anything.
It’s a shame, because seeing Hayden again is a really great concept. If showing Hayden/Anakin again wasn’t a crutch for bad writing, it could’ve been amazing.
Its funny how the brought Hayden back and still didnt bother to give him good dialouge, which is basically responsible for 90% of his issues in the prequels.
@@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.
LORD, this drone-normies NPCs tweet sequence at 22:46 had me like 🤢🤢🤢 @MauLer is right, we are doomed. Fandom will eat crap and say that it is actually 5-star French cuisine food.
"It doesn't help that the actresses playing this collection of corrugated statues on wheels feel the need to resist emoting as though the survival of Disney's stock proces depends on it." That sir, was bloody briliant. Subbed
As a Star Wars fan who grew up with the prequels, I just want this era of "look at this character, you recoginise this character don't you!" to end. It's an entire galaxy with millenia of history, why do I have to see the same characters again and again.
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).
It's so insane that Disney is so desperate to pay homage to the older characters of Star Wars, and yet they simultaneously completely disrespect them and tarnish their legacies.
@@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.
Star Wars was the first movie(s) I remember watching with my parents. We had the "FOR THOSE WHO REMEMBER" VHS box set and it was something I grew to love through books, games, and even eventually the prequels. Seeing it as it exists now feels like finding out that a woman you loved for years now does the most degrading hardcore movies you can imagine. It's just this awful melancholy nostalgia for what was and what might have been and the sadness at what it's become... I miss being excited about Star Wars.
The biggest problem with Disney Star Wars (and modern writing in general) is modern writers are more concerned with writing _about_ IPs than they are writing stories _set within the universes of those IPs._ That's why everything these days is either some sort of metacommentary or postmodern deconstruction, or just blatant nostalgia bait. And the sad thing is the most vocal fans are the ones who don't care about stories, regardless of how much they pretend to. They just want to see their favorite action figures on screen, and the context or justification doesn't matter to them. That's who modern writers are writing for.
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
@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
What's funny is, this whole concept was already done IN Star Wars and better. In Kotor 2, the Jedi Exile is confronted by his/her deepest regrets as a General in the Mandalorian War. The choices they had to make, the cost in lives and the consequences of it all. It was done so much better. The final lesson being, no matter what you do, you must make a choice. Apathy is death.
Hey man, love everything you do and can’t wait to see more stuff. You and the EFAP crew have changed my approach to criticism and analysis of media forever, thanks a lot. So I’d like to put forth a game recommendation for you. Rain World. I’m not sure if you’ve seen Mattewmatosis’s video on it but it’s a game that I think could be a great stream playthrough. It’s one of the hardest and most grueling games I’ve ever played, but also one of the most underrated. It has some of the most beautiful and crazy abstract pixel art I’ve ever seen in a piece of media. I think you’d really appreciate the amount of detail, particularly towards the ecosystem and level design. As well how unique the gameplay loop is. I understand that you have a lot of things being recommended to you as well as all the things you already have plans to do but if you are ever looking for something totally different to play and a great challenge maybe consider trying it out. Thanks a lot man, continue doing great shit.
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's all true and all, but after so many years, truth be told, Hayden is still the best fking duelist. It's amazing how much work he still puts into choreography. Deadpool said it best: that's just lazy writing
the prequels had a lot of faults, but the action and choreography was not one of them. some of the best sword fights ever in a movie, the only other one that comes to mind is the princess bride.
@@commentingisdangerous7530 Yeah for it's flaws, the prequels had something modern Star Wars media lacks: Passion. Passion from the actors and the storytellers and giving it their all with what they had on hand.
Never in my days did I expect to see him be so angry at a Star Wars show that it would warrant a video. I assumed they were simply not worth it. How happy I am to be wrong. Let’s go!
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.
I tried watching a Dune reaction from the couple with the guy with the beard, beanie, and Nintendo shirt. But they had no clue what was going on. The girl was especially clueless. They compared everything to Star Wars and seemed to think that Paul, a novice student of his Bene Gesserit mother, could simply "use the voice" on a Reverend Mother, an expert of several decades- all in the first act. So, it would not surprise me if they love Rey Palpatine. Considering she managed to fight and defeat a Sith, several years her senior, after knowing about the Jedi for about 25 minutes.
Imagine being in WW2, crouched in a trench as bullets flying over head, bombs hitting close, then your commander looks at you with the most blank expression and says "tHiS iS wOrLd WaR 2?!"
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....
“Why make one movie when you can just keep adding to the same one forever? Just put- Just put that there. One here. More. More! It must be perfect! Never clean! NEVER CLEAN! The past never happened! I’m in control of my life!” - JonTron (Starcade: Episode 5)
These reactions remind me of RLM famous oneliners like: "I clapped, I clapped when I saw it!" or "IT BROKE NEW GROUND" or "I clapped because I know what that is"! This is literally all is left of star wars. The cheapest, undeserved, nostalgia filled moments that turn adults into menchildren.
But clearly they’re doing this for the clout? No one actually thinks like this they’re taking videos of themselves because they know others will spread it around, as MauLer is doing here.
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.
The Anakin/Vader smoke shot was about as subtle as a sledgehammer. The fact it got as much praise as it did (as in people claimed it to be deep and meaningful) boggles my mind. Probably the worst part is that it shoves down our throat a message we’ve already learned countless times by now and tells it in the exact same way which has been told several times as well.
There's a depressing trend in popular culture to think that if a thing is done, it is de facto done well. Character growth and character arcs, for instance , are understood to be good things, and so minimal, nonsensical characterization is applauded so long as something changes, because that's an arc and thus good. Any vaguely unusual shot or visual that has any symbolism or meaning at all beyond the literal is therefore hailed as subtle, striking art, literal genius.
There's 2 kinds of fans, my friend. Those who love a well crafted story and well written characters and a deep lore. And those who just want wizards with laser swords, pew pews and who clap like seals at the right member berries.
I love how you not only chose better written characters in similar situations, but all were female as well. You can write good female characters, it's Disney and Filoni who are inept.
Not just inept, but afraid. They're terrified of making these characters seem weak, so they tell character growth stories in which the character was right about everything the whole time and didn't change between the beginning of the story and the end. Ahsoka wasn't actually responsible for any deaths, and she was never actually tempted by the dark side. We just get imagery that hints of the possibility, and then she fights Anakin, beats him, and he tells her she had it in her all along... just like Rey had it in her all along... just like Captain Marvel had it in her all along. Learning is weakness. Getting affirmed that you were just the bestest ever all along is _E M P O W E R I N G_
Disney cliche of these characters wearing white. When Luke wore pure black to fight vaber who also was also wearing black. Luke was going against the norm Disney doing the cliches
I have a friend who loves the new star wars shows and is super happy about any sort of nostalgia or callbacks but i find them really annoying How do i say to him that i find the shows really bad and the cheap nostalgia really lazy without looking like an ass?
@@michaelgonzalez4698 I loved that motif for Return of the Jedi. It wasn't until Luke pulled himself from the brink and proclaimed, "Never. I'll never turn to the dark side. You've failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me," that the lapel of his coat folds open and reveals a lighter color on the inside when resisting the Emperor.
@@goroakechi6126I have (at least some parts of it, anyway), and still do. Even the lesser specimens I've read at least have a sense of wonder. Even Claudia Gray's Leia (which is supposed to set up Holdo as a trusted compatriot for Leia but just makes Movie Holdo look like an imposter) is leaps beyond anything they've whacked on a screen except maybe the best parts of the Mandalorian and Andor.
Well said how the episode distracted the fans with stuff while being absent of substance. It indeed succeeded with bringing the fans into a frenzy while offering nothing.
The freak-out over Anakin/Vader is genuinely depressing because it means that we're so starved for the franchise that they have us happy to get table scraps when we used to have the whole damn restaurant.
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.
@@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
That's just in Ahsoka's visions though, right? She didn't meet him until after the first battle of Geonosis, so she would only remember him with the robot arm, wouldn't she?
Because if he's a force ghost or whatever the fuck her was, he should be totally restored. Not just his body minus his hand. Otherwise he would have showed to as Vader still. Or, he should have showed up with 7 degree burns missing limbs and legs. It really doesn't make sense that he shows up with his robot hand
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.
@@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!
Clever of Mauler to use examples of female characters he actually really likes, so these “fans” can’t use the sexist accusation against him and would actually have to engage in discourse with evidence, which they won’t do.
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.
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.
He has the perfect body language for the type of angsty stressed out person Anakin is supposed to be, he fits the visual very well, emotes better than pretty much everyone on the cast of Ahsoka and yet still cannot get a single person to write dialogue more complex than a piece of plywood for him.
If you wanna remember Anakin and his better portrayals, remember ROTS and Tartakovsky's Clone Wars. There's absolutely no better portrayal of Ani (on the screen) than those.
BY FAR my favorite thing about this channel is that, no matter how bad the content Mauler's reviewing is, he always takes the time to show a good example.
@@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
I get that this content takes awhile to put together and mauler is quite busy with the EFAP channel, but I wish he released more content. I like his style
Never forget that in 1977, a stormtrooper did a head bonk on a door
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?
The folks who were always screeching "Star Wars is space wizards for children" are now writing Star Wars, and it shows.
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
I just remembered that Anakin Skywalker was a character who had a full redemption arc and ultimately died a hero who did the right thing. I legitimately forgot about that because Disney now owns one of the most iconic villains in all of cinema and they ONLY want to focus on Darth Vader being a villain.
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 🤦🏾♂️
Shout out to the Futurama team, who can make people cry simply by showing them a dog in front of a pizza parlor.
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.”
Judge: "I hearby sentence you to 24 hours of uninterrupted Star Wars fan reaction videos"
Lawyer: "Your honor please be merciful. Atleast consider the death penalty."
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.
"He did the thing! I recognized it and I clapped when I saw it" - modern star wars fan
Hahahaha 😂
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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?
I mean, Lucas said it himself. Whenever you try to be creative, the fans crucify you.
But Disney figured out that if you jangle keys in front of people, they love you for it.
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 UA-cams 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.
And you know the worst part? Hayden is a genuinely good actor. but every time he's attached to star-wars, he gets the worst dialog, and the worst direction.
I also DESPISE THE SPLIT PERSONALITY DAVE FILONI WRITES FOR ANAKIN! George Lucas explicitly said on multiple occasions that Anakin is Vader, and Vader is Anakin. There is no split. "BuT wE cAn'T hAvE oUr GoOd GuYs KiLl KiDs! ThAt's BaD!!!!!!!".
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.
In Hayden's defence, he doesn't write the script.
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 UA-cam when that happens
I like how Anakin and vaders voice being mixed together for a split second is being treated like a masterpiece like they didn't do it literally last year in Kenobi
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
Oh my goodness...Those shots of Baby Yoda jumping around...
It's like they filmed a child playing with their toys but airbrushed out the child...
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.
I am so tired of Hayden being wasted on garbage. I’m glad he’s getting respect, I really am. But he deserves better.
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
"it's pretending to be a story"
Is the most perfect description of anything Disney produces
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
Everyone treating a split second flash of Darth Vader like it took a literal visionary genius to come up with is seriously the equivalent of dangling keys in front of an infant
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💀💀
Little Ahsoka saying "This is the clone wars!" is the most emotion shown by her in the entire show...
May I also add that Hayden seems to be the only one in the show who is trying to prevent saber combat looking like two people with glowing bats hitting each other? Like, Ahsoka's actress just seems to swing wildly in hilarious attempts to look cool while Hayden is forced to slow down and match her speed, which is something he isn't used to considering the training he and Ewan went through to actually sword fight for the prequels. I know there are countless videos about how lightsaber duels suck ass now but come on, compare this one to the Mustafar duel and the massive difference in speed while still SHOWING us what's happening is astounding. You didn't hear Kenobi yell "Anakin the platform is falling we need to run!" in the fight, they just do it like an actual human in that situation would do, you don't hear them argue with each other when their sabers clash or anything either. I wish they made them fight again in the Kenobi show, maybe it would've actually made their last duel almost be as awesome as the one on Mustafar, but since Vader is crippled by that point it makes sense why he doesn't fight very quickly.
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.
Hearing Tweet ravings being read out as the meaningless soundbite gibberish they almost always are is both deliciously hilarious and terribly, terribly sad.
the repetition of the hastags gives the impression of a cult
truth
‘Red, That’s red’
The pinnacle of intelligence in the Star Wars fan base
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.
Star Wars is now more a parody of itself than Spaceballs ever was
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!
This is why I've started writing fan fiction, it hurts less when done yourself
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
“The idea that this is one of her most important character episodes and all of the context to understand it is apparently from countless seasons of other TV shows.”
Damning. Well done.
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
The best part about the Futurama episode is that it blatantly shows you Leela being stung but doesn't constantly shout in your face. This lets the audience pick up on the clues themselves and deduce that she's the one in the coma.
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.
The worst part is that most of us ex-fans just don't care anymore.
We’re not angry, mad, sad, or disappointed. We’re jaded and apathetic knowing what could've been but never will be.
EDIT: To clarify, I'm talking about Star Wars
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.
Being a lifelong fan of Futurama i never thought i would see a thesis paper worthy breakdown of an episode wow amazing work
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.
I don't know if The Clone Wars has already covered this or not, but the idea of Ahsoka having to deal with the Trauma of being trained by the man who became Darth Vader is genuinely a good idea. There's a lot of directions you can go with that. "Will I end up just like him? Can I resist the dark side? Could I have prevented his fall?". All of that would be good things to explore with Ahsoka if they haven't been done already.
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
"Luke Skywalker should be incredibly relevant to this whole series but for some reason we're pretending like this isn't a time where he would be most active in the universe. He would be hell-bent on stopping any empire loyalists from resurrecting the regime and the war, not a worthless titty-sucking hobo yet!"
FUCKING THIS! ^^ SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!! 👏👏👏
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
To the person who said they wanted a Darth Vader series, I'm sure they'll pleased to know that there already is one. It was made 46 years ago. A trilogy of films made between 1977 and 1983. I'm not surprised they haven't heard of it though. It's a pretty under appreciated piece of Star Wars media nowadays.
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
The first 15 minutes of this video gave me chills. Not only because I adore Buffy and hearing someone analyze it so seriously is just impressive but, it makes me remember when TV was good and something to look forward to and creators took pride in their work and wanted to provide people with the quality. The fact that this no longer appears to be the case just makes me really sad. We’re being fed an intellectual diet of lucky charms and we’re all becoming fat and stupid.
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
The girl saying, "Red... that's red," at 35:38 had me DYINGGG!!! What even is reaction content??? 😂
“ 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!!!”
I swear to god yoda and qui gon could just resurrect one day in a show and fight Palpatine a third time with ghost anakin and these people would still call it amazing
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
Never forget that Ashoka already went through an arc where she contemplated why she would need to accept that being a Jedi can bring death when she lead the freakin squad of fighters in SWCW and her arrogance got her squad killed. She LEARNED this lesson already
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.
Futurama is the absolute perfect balance between real emotion, jokes and humor, seriousness and jokers and science.
I always hated the show for absolutely no reason, until i saw my boyfriend watch it... I firstly made fun of him, but after catching him twice watching it, I just sat with him and watched.
I AM SORRY MAT GROENING, I absolutely loved it
i love the instant switch-up from "it's bloody brilliant" to "a clusterfuck of abysmal writing" lmao
I appreciate how you mentioned that Luke Skywalker is incredibly relevant to this series. It's worth pointing out that the original books that Thrawn and his storyline come from are ABOUT LUKE. Yeah, there are like 5-6 books that deal with Thrawn and his campaign, and Luke is the main character of them, not Ahsoka. They wrote Luke out of his own story.
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.
"Red? That's red." Perfectly sums up the level of thought that goes into peoples' love for this show.
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
Another problem with the whole Ahsoka being sad cause people died following her orders thing is that from the look of Ahsoka's outfit and the clone armor, this is supposed to be from late in the Clones Wars, but Ahsoka already had a "People died because of me" moment all the way back in season 1 of the Clone Wars at the beginning of the war.
So she had the same crises twice?
(Context, it was that episode when she over zealously lead a squad of fighters to attack a blockade and lost over half her men in the assault, also allowing enemies to attack the Republic fleet and nearly getting the Admiral killed.)
how many times do Star Wars fan need to hear Temuera Morrison's voice to figure out he was always there?
Fanservice has become a substitute for actual good writing
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.
MauLer, it's even worse than you think because in Rebels, Ahsoka is the one telling Ezra to value Kanan's death for the lives it would save. Not only is this out-of-left field in this show, it's a regression from where she was in her last appearance!
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.
21:10 That's why KOTOR games are so good. They have basically nothing to do with the movies and have their own original story, thousands of years away from the movies.
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
Even if Ahsoka was a good show these fan reactions would be embarrassing.
She uses two lightsabers, but never seems to actually use them effectively or properly. Why use both to block? The whole benefit of dual wielding is blocking AND attacking.
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).
Ahsoka and Rey wearing white as they mature is simple-minded. As Luke progressed, he went from white in ANH to gray in ESB and black in RotJ, symbolizing his loss of innocence and becoming more dangerous. As he became less naive, less pure, more knowledgeable, more powerful, and more familiar with violence, his capability of becoming a monster also increased.
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.
The way Disney treats Star Wars characters is like how the Simpson treats celebrity appearances their there for the sake of being there and nothing else.
I just realized that Young Ahsoka has the white lightsabers she got at the end of Clone Wars and not the green one she should be wielding at that time.
Couldn't even be that consistent
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.
Ahsoka has already had this character arc in Season 1 of The Clone Wars. She was appointed to lead a Clone Fighter Squadron during a naval battle. Her hubris gets them all killed and she is absolutely devastated. She learns of her responsibility as a leader and how it's not just her own interests She must look out for, but also the lives of the soldiers she's assigned to lead. No idea why they decided to rehash it. Its already been done much better almost 15 years ago
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!"
I can't believe Filoni fans are satisfied with the portrayal of Anakin and Ahsoka. If Ahsoka (inexplicably) has never talked to Force Ghost Anakin, she should be so distrusting of him. Angry at him, fearful of him, intimidated by him. Not happy to see him. Their last interaction was him trying to kill her. She was only saved from Anakin's killing blow by Filoni ripping a hole in the space-time continuum. "Hello Snips" followed by her calling him "Master" is already so wrong, and the scene just started...
This isn't the first time she has been in a situation like this. She's been in multiple situations and even in the same place in Star Wars Rebels, so she has experience with the more supernatural star wars. Don't know what you're talking about their interaction being wrong either, nothings wrong with them referring to each other by that.
This stuff always make me try to write the story these hacks never could.
Following this line of thought; what if her response wasn't "master," but rather "Vader." Those two syllables would have hit like a knife in the gut. For both audience and character.
Yeah, that was certainly weird, though not implausible if we assume she got the full story of his death from Luke. So I'd say wary would be a more appropriate reaction than distrusting. But what I found odd was Anakin's irritated reaction to Ahsoka pointing out his legacy of death and destruction. That... seemed quite a bit blasé. I would think a redeemed post-Endor Anakin would be far more grim about his own path, definitely not stating with such confidence that he's more than that. But rather admitting his path was one of darkness, but expressing his pride that Luke and Ahsoka despite this had become everything he should have been.
I’d assume it’s cause she knows what this place is and how anakin saved the world (til ros)
This entire argument is invalidated due to Luke already having told Ahsoka everything about him, which explains her saying "So much like your father" to him, unless she was straight up calling him a Sith Lord to his face.
I heard mauler mention some people didn’t like how long the intro with the two examples were. I wanted to add the input that I thought the intro was incredible. Some of maulers best. Very compelling.
Star Wars: “Hey look! It’s ______!”
“Fans”: *hanejduhsbfkekwhsgbfr*
Everytime I see Hayden in a newer Star Wars show I'm always praying to God that they dont make him say some garbage ass dialogue, because the man has already gone through enough of that before
@@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
Star Wars Fans: "This shot is brilliant and should be taught in every film study class."
The shot: _Anakin flickering between Darth Vader and himself in a mystical hotbox_
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.
This is the Star Wars future with Filoni having the absolute power for you.
Souless, Mid, Stagnating, Disney-obedient and Pointless stories that will never make the viewer to think BUT LOOK THERE IS VADER, REX AHSOKA AND OTHER STUFF FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD SO PEAK
People titled him the savior of Star Wars and descendant of Lucas vision and not realising for what terrible fate they doomed the franchise with that.
Mitthrawnuruodo, in the books, was like the Sherlock Holmes/Miyamoto Musashi of space.
Thrawn;
Thrawn: Alliance;
Thrawn: Treason
Is one of the best trilogies I've ever read. Timothy Zahn is the writer who could have saved StarWars, shame to see his character make an appearance in a DisneyBrand StarWars product.
The end of Attack on Titan reminded me of what a meaningful story could be. It has a beginning and an end. Star Wars will never end, never have a resolution which means it will never have any real meaning. I say this after religiously watching every Star Wars medium up to Mandalorian. It's just a bloated corpse now, and the swarm of flies animating it keep puppeting the old beats.
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
I had no idea that Filoni himself compared his audiences to kids being excited by a new toy lmaooo
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.
The scene where Dexter Jettster said "I am the last of the Mohicans" as he saved Sarah Connor really made me tear up.
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!
"zombie pisshat dialogue"... Beyond the utter destruction of shitty entertainment, the apocolyptic levels of snark, and the ability to deadpan absolutely anything, the Longman's ability as a wordsmith is the thing about him I admire most.
Watching those Star Wars content churners getting so brainlessly excited over literal leftover recooked shite reminded me of feeding time at the pig pen. They, too, will literally eat anything and scream as the trough is being filled...............With anything.
It’s a shame, because seeing Hayden again is a really great concept. If showing Hayden/Anakin again wasn’t a crutch for bad writing, it could’ve been amazing.
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 😂😂
Its funny how the brought Hayden back and still didnt bother to give him good dialouge, which is basically responsible for 90% of his issues in the prequels.
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.
LORD, this drone-normies NPCs tweet sequence at 22:46 had me like 🤢🤢🤢
@MauLer is right, we are doomed. Fandom will eat crap and say that it is actually 5-star French cuisine food.
"It doesn't help that the actresses playing this collection of corrugated statues on wheels feel the need to resist emoting as though the survival of Disney's stock proces depends on it." That sir, was bloody briliant. Subbed
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As a Star Wars fan who grew up with the prequels, I just want this era of "look at this character, you recoginise this character don't you!" to end. It's an entire galaxy with millenia of history, why do I have to see the same characters again and again.
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.
It's so insane that Disney is so desperate to pay homage to the older characters of Star Wars, and yet they simultaneously completely disrespect them and tarnish their legacies.
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.
Star Wars was the first movie(s) I remember watching with my parents. We had the "FOR THOSE WHO REMEMBER" VHS box set and it was something I grew to love through books, games, and even eventually the prequels.
Seeing it as it exists now feels like finding out that a woman you loved for years now does the most degrading hardcore movies you can imagine. It's just this awful melancholy nostalgia for what was and what might have been and the sadness at what it's become...
I miss being excited about Star Wars.
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever watched on UA-cam. Funny, informative, incredibly good analysis of depth in storytelling.
"So this is how good writing dies, with thunderous applause"
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.
The biggest problem with Disney Star Wars (and modern writing in general) is modern writers are more concerned with writing _about_ IPs than they are writing stories _set within the universes of those IPs._ That's why everything these days is either some sort of metacommentary or postmodern deconstruction, or just blatant nostalgia bait.
And the sad thing is the most vocal fans are the ones who don't care about stories, regardless of how much they pretend to. They just want to see their favorite action figures on screen, and the context or justification doesn't matter to them. That's who modern writers are writing for.
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
What's funny is, this whole concept was already done IN Star Wars and better. In Kotor 2, the Jedi Exile is confronted by his/her deepest regrets as a General in the Mandalorian War. The choices they had to make, the cost in lives and the consequences of it all. It was done so much better. The final lesson being, no matter what you do, you must make a choice. Apathy is death.
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
Hey man, love everything you do and can’t wait to see more stuff. You and the EFAP crew have changed my approach to criticism and analysis of media forever, thanks a lot. So I’d like to put forth a game recommendation for you. Rain World. I’m not sure if you’ve seen Mattewmatosis’s video on it but it’s a game that I think could be a great stream playthrough. It’s one of the hardest and most grueling games I’ve ever played, but also one of the most underrated. It has some of the most beautiful and crazy abstract pixel art I’ve ever seen in a piece of media. I think you’d really appreciate the amount of detail, particularly towards the ecosystem and level design. As well how unique the gameplay loop is. I understand that you have a lot of things being recommended to you as well as all the things you already have plans to do but if you are ever looking for something totally different to play and a great challenge maybe consider trying it out. Thanks a lot man, continue doing great shit.
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's all true and all, but after so many years, truth be told, Hayden is still the best fking duelist. It's amazing how much work he still puts into choreography.
Deadpool said it best: that's just lazy writing
the prequels had a lot of faults, but the action and choreography was not one of them. some of the best sword fights ever in a movie, the only other one that comes to mind is the princess bride.
Hayden 100% was a GOAT at Form V Jemn So
@@commentingisdangerous7530 Yeah for it's flaws, the prequels had something modern Star Wars media lacks: Passion. Passion from the actors and the storytellers and giving it their all with what they had on hand.
Don’t forget, sometimes a stunt is involved to have a smooth move and take.
@@commentingisdangerous7530 But Mike form RLM was right that prequels fights lack intentions and emotions in fights. It looked like cool dances.
Never in my days did I expect to see him be so angry at a Star Wars show that it would warrant a video. I assumed they were simply not worth it. How happy I am to be wrong. Let’s go!
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
I tried watching a Dune reaction from the couple with the guy with the beard, beanie, and Nintendo shirt. But they had no clue what was going on. The girl was especially clueless. They compared everything to Star Wars and seemed to think that Paul, a novice student of his Bene Gesserit mother, could simply "use the voice" on a Reverend Mother, an expert of several decades- all in the first act. So, it would not surprise me if they love Rey Palpatine. Considering she managed to fight and defeat a Sith, several years her senior, after knowing about the Jedi for about 25 minutes.
I'll be honest the shot of Anakin flickering between Vader looks cool, but is devoid of all meaning or substance so it all rings hollow
It's sad that as a life long Star Wars fan I've reached a point where I just want it to go away.
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.
Imagine being in WW2, crouched in a trench as bullets flying over head, bombs hitting close, then your commander looks at you with the most blank expression and says "tHiS iS wOrLd WaR 2?!"
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?!"
It really is a Goddamned shame what they have done to Star Wars…
Very sad.😔
The Mormons control your ENTIRE digital experience. 100%
It's been sad since they created TCW.
“Why make one movie when you can just keep adding to the same one forever? Just put- Just put that there. One here. More. More! It must be perfect! Never clean! NEVER CLEAN! The past never happened! I’m in control of my life!” - JonTron (Starcade: Episode 5)
These reactions remind me of RLM famous oneliners like:
"I clapped, I clapped when I saw it!" or "IT BROKE NEW GROUND" or "I clapped because I know what that is"!
This is literally all is left of star wars. The cheapest, undeserved, nostalgia filled moments that turn adults into menchildren.
ATST!!! ATST!!!
Thanks
Those people need Jesus. Or anything even nominally meaningful to fill the massive void in their souls with something other than this godawful tripe.
I FUCKING LOVE STAR WARS
But clearly they’re doing this for the clout? No one actually thinks like this they’re taking videos of themselves because they know others will spread it around, as MauLer is doing here.
"Peak Vader" was beaten by a weaponless Ahsoka... yet another degradation of the one person, to raise up another.
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.
Those reactions were so painful I almost chuckled as a coping mechanism.
phenomenal intro and transition into how it applies into star wars, got me hooked to watch the whole thing
The Anakin/Vader smoke shot was about as subtle as a sledgehammer. The fact it got as much praise as it did (as in people claimed it to be deep and meaningful) boggles my mind. Probably the worst part is that it shoves down our throat a message we’ve already learned countless times by now and tells it in the exact same way which has been told several times as well.
There's a depressing trend in popular culture to think that if a thing is done, it is de facto done well. Character growth and character arcs, for instance , are understood to be good things, and so minimal, nonsensical characterization is applauded so long as something changes, because that's an arc and thus good. Any vaguely unusual shot or visual that has any symbolism or meaning at all beyond the literal is therefore hailed as subtle, striking art, literal genius.
People are stupid, just as George Carlin always said.
obviousness is subtle to people who have no concept of what subtext is
There's 2 kinds of fans, my friend. Those who love a well crafted story and well written characters and a deep lore. And those who just want wizards with laser swords, pew pews and who clap like seals at the right member berries.
But did you get the Gandalf reference? It was so subtle!
I love how you not only chose better written characters in similar situations, but all were female as well. You can write good female characters, it's Disney and Filoni who are inept.
Not just inept, but afraid. They're terrified of making these characters seem weak, so they tell character growth stories in which the character was right about everything the whole time and didn't change between the beginning of the story and the end.
Ahsoka wasn't actually responsible for any deaths, and she was never actually tempted by the dark side. We just get imagery that hints of the possibility, and then she fights Anakin, beats him, and he tells her she had it in her all along... just like Rey had it in her all along... just like Captain Marvel had it in her all along.
Learning is weakness. Getting affirmed that you were just the bestest ever all along is _E M P O W E R I N G_
Disney cliche of these characters wearing white. When Luke wore pure black to fight vaber who also was also wearing black. Luke was going against the norm Disney doing the cliches
I have a friend who loves the new star wars shows and is super happy about any sort of nostalgia or callbacks but i find them really annoying
How do i say to him that i find the shows really bad and the cheap nostalgia really lazy without looking like an ass?
@@michaelgonzalez4698 I loved that motif for Return of the Jedi. It wasn't until Luke pulled himself from the brink and proclaimed, "Never. I'll never turn to the dark side. You've failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me," that the lapel of his coat folds open and reveals a lighter color on the inside when resisting the Emperor.
Good storytellers base their stories on reality. Bad storytellers base their stories on other people's stories.
That recap of the Futurama had me in tears. I remember that episode. Good stuff, "Brilliant" even.
"It's red"
A 3 year old child could probably provide the same level of quality commentary.
The sad thing is, I love being childish...but that childish part of me has high standards.
ah... damn
Read the Expanded Universe. Still has a good deal of fanservice while actually having stories.
@@goroakechi6126I have (at least some parts of it, anyway), and still do. Even the lesser specimens I've read at least have a sense of wonder. Even Claudia Gray's Leia (which is supposed to set up Holdo as a trusted compatriot for Leia but just makes Movie Holdo look like an imposter) is leaps beyond anything they've whacked on a screen except maybe the best parts of the Mandalorian and Andor.
@@QueenAleenaFanhe means Legends not canon.
SERIOUSLY! THANK YOU! I've been subconsciously thinking along these lines but could never articulate it.
Ageing millennials yelling "OOOOOOOOH!!!!" at mediocre tv shows is the soundtrack to civilizational collapse
I agree. It’s so fake, so over the top & desperate for attention. I’m sick of it
The average millennial is DSP
truly a lost generation
@@rockmanraiden6627 fucking ouch lol.
Please write my epitaph, I've never had my thoughts on disney star wars so well summarised
Look, it’s a reminder of something that was actually good, and somehow that translates to this being good. Makes perfect sense.
Well said how the episode distracted the fans with stuff while being absent of substance. It indeed succeeded with bringing the fans into a frenzy while offering nothing.
The freak-out over Anakin/Vader is genuinely depressing because it means that we're so starved for the franchise that they have us happy to get table scraps when we used to have the whole damn restaurant.
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
I loved the part when he said “it’s star wars time” and he starred all over their wars
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"
Starwars fans are embarassing. They will happily lap up any slop that falls off disneys table
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
One thing I saw someone bring up that I can’t believe I didn’t notice on my own was the ridiculousness of anakin’s ghost still having a robot hand
That's just in Ahsoka's visions though, right? She didn't meet him until after the first battle of Geonosis, so she would only remember him with the robot arm, wouldn't she?
Because if he's a force ghost or whatever the fuck her was, he should be totally restored. Not just his body minus his hand. Otherwise he would have showed to as Vader still. Or, he should have showed up with 7 degree burns missing limbs and legs. It really doesn't make sense that he shows up with his robot hand
This is the problem with the world between words, what are the functions of it?
Mauler’s shortest video and he called out a ton of people, and he’s absolutely right.
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!
Clever of Mauler to use examples of female characters he actually really likes, so these “fans” can’t use the sexist accusation against him and would actually have to engage in discourse with evidence, which they won’t do.
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.
Oh man i miss futurama.... The Sting is a beautiful episode!!
But Mauler..... What a GREAT video man... you outdid yourself this time! LOVED IT!
Love Futurama. This episode is one of my all time favorites. Never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
Poor Hayden Christensen… I think there’s a really good Anakin portrayal hidden somewhere and he’s just been cursed with the worst writing.
And awful directing
I think he did verye well personally, and alot of people say its his best performance yet so idk
He has the perfect body language for the type of angsty stressed out person Anakin is supposed to be, he fits the visual very well, emotes better than pretty much everyone on the cast of Ahsoka and yet still cannot get a single person to write dialogue more complex than a piece of plywood for him.
If you wanna remember Anakin and his better portrayals, remember ROTS and Tartakovsky's Clone Wars. There's absolutely no better portrayal of Ani (on the screen) than those.
Exactly what was wrong with the writting? please specify
BY FAR my favorite thing about this channel is that, no matter how bad the content Mauler's reviewing is, he always takes the time to show a good example.
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
21:39 Am I crazy or is she clearly saying "I choose to lift"? Sounds like inspiring dialog to me.
I get that this content takes awhile to put together and mauler is quite busy with the EFAP channel, but I wish he released more content. I like his style