Reviews

In their quest to overwrite all that came before and make this an acceptable substitute for the prematurely ended The Clone Wars, they have tried WAY too hard to make it like the original Star Wars trilogy. The end result: its anything but original. Part of being THE original was just that: it was new.

In Example: Instead of using new music with movie music to highlight certain events, they just jammed the original soundtrack in. (As opposed to TCW which only used it for highlights.) Ezra: Aladdin in space. Maybe if they hadn't intentionally made him LOOK like Disney's Aladdin and not intentionally reminded us by calling him street rat, it would have felt like Star Wars instead of an Aladdin Star Wars mash up.

The animation in characters has gone seriously down hill from the Clone Wars. In Example: Ezra: plastic hair? The Wookiees: they look like the Empire took time upon capture to force them to go sit through a mass grooming and hair brushing. We KNOW they can do better: Chewbacca showed up in the Clone Wars and looked great.

The Stormtroopers helmets don't match either the prequel period, Clone Wars or Original trilogy, or even a cross. They basically look squashed, presumably because they are trying to turn 2D Mcquarrie art into 3D. I guess now I know why that design was modified from the movies: it makes them look like there is no room for a full head, let alone gear, in the helmet.

Continuity conflicts and unlikely technology: No way, no way, can a tractor beam be jammed. If it could be done, Han Solo, guaranteed would've had a way on the Falcon. He had all those modifications for that very reason.

Ezra's slingshot. A normal slingshot with a thermal detonator would make a bang and might make sense as being cobbled together by a desperate and creative local thief. But an energy slingshot that can incinerate troops does not make sense in the hands of a same thief. I'd expect that tech from a budding bounty hunter maybe. Or even an undercover bodyguard where blasters are outlawed. Local thief? No.

The bag. There is no sensible jailer on this planet or any other that leaves the prisoner locked up with the bag and only later thinks to search him.

Personal dislikes: pink armor. I don't mind small doses of pink, graffiti artists, or armor. But near total pink armor just isn't Mandalorian.

Did I find anything good: Yes. McQuarrie art is always great in the backgrounds. The story itself might have had potential. But there fierce desire to make it so much like the original trilogy killed it, as did intentionally adding the Disney stamp of Aladdin to Ezra. If I wanted Aladdin, I'd be watching that not Star Wars.