Contrary to what the other person said, my friend and I watched it last night and the first episode left us with more mild disappointment than excited enthusiasm - but we actually loved the second episode and it felt much better for us. Our issues with the first episode weren’t anything major, it was just contrived conflicts for the sake of actually getting to what’s going on. Our two examples were there was a lot of maps and puzzles that feels like they should be part of a video game, and it’s not the kind of puzzles that the audience can really feel like we’re part of, and then some of the character conflicts were a result of unnecessarily withholding information when the characters can just clash and be a natural conflict. Finally, the ending was very funny in retrospect due to a character solving something, going to look outside at the stars, and then later saying they didn’t solve it… so they were just staring in the sky for no reason with binoculars thinking maybe they’ll see it xD
Okay but in all honesty, I still enjoyed and loved the show. I had a feeling that episode one was merely a means to get us moving and ultimately as long as these minor issues don’t keep up with the rest of the show then I’m not worried. Episode two did have a minor video game segment with unnecessary tension but after that the episode was awesome. So far we’re getting at least a little bit of development on the enemies they introduced (may Ray rest in peace) and it’s cool seeing the timeline at this stage in the game. The translation from TCW/R is also done really well, I’d say everybody except for Huyang (a droid) looks freaking incredible. Huyang just looks like a puppet with CG overlaid or something, compared to the rest he’s just a little out of it. However David Tenet does great with him :)
For context, I enjoyed all of BoBF (but definitely do see where it has shortcomings at various stages) and Kenobi as well.
@JimmyChanga per the lightsaber fight in Ep1’s ending - my hope is that the character felt like she was showing off the tricks she learned resulting in her motivation for needing to go back to training. In that context, while not the best saber fight I appreciate it more. I liked Ahsoka’s fights though
Contrary to what the other person said, my friend and I watched it last night and the first episode left us with more mild disappointment than excited enthusiasm - but we actually loved the second episode and it felt much better for us. Our issues with the first episode weren’t anything major, it was just contrived conflicts for the sake of actually getting to what’s going on. Our two examples were there was a lot of maps and puzzles that feels like they should be part of a video game, and it’s not the kind of puzzles that the audience can really feel like we’re part of, and then some of the character conflicts were a result of unnecessarily withholding information when the characters can just clash and be a natural conflict. Finally, the ending was very funny in retrospect due to a character solving something, going to look outside at the stars, and then later saying they didn’t solve it… so they were just staring in the sky for no reason with binoculars thinking maybe they’ll see it xD
Okay but in all honesty, I still enjoyed and loved the show. I had a feeling that episode one was merely a means to get us moving and ultimately as long as these minor issues don’t keep up with the rest of the show then I’m not worried. Episode two did have a minor video game segment with unnecessary tension but after that the episode was awesome. So far we’re getting at least a little bit of development on the enemies they introduced (may Ray rest in peace) and it’s cool seeing the timeline at this stage in the game. The translation from TCW/R is also done really well, I’d say everybody except for Huyang (a droid) looks freaking incredible. Huyang just looks like a puppet with CG overlaid or something, compared to the rest he’s just a little out of it. However David Tenet does great with him :)
For context, I enjoyed all of BoBF (but definitely do see where it has shortcomings at various stages) and Kenobi as well.
@JimmyChanga per the lightsaber fight in Ep1’s ending - my hope is that the character felt like she was showing off the tricks she learned resulting in her motivation for needing to go back to training. In that context, while not the best saber fight I appreciate it more. I liked Ahsoka’s fights though