Omni said:
Juno Eclipse said:
jedi_bendu said:
Juno Eclipse said:
The quality has been more of a live-action standard
I have to take a bit of issue with this wording. Animation always seems to get looked down upon as an “inferior” medium, and although it’s totally fair for someone to prefer one over the other, neither animation or live action have any bearing on the quality of a story. They’re simply the vessel that brings that story to the audience.
A great example is how The Bad Batch, has been blowing The Mandalorian - a live action show - out of the water every week it’s been airing. Maybe The Mandalorian should start aspiring to be animation standard…
(I’m aware this is a very pedantic thing to point out but as a massive fan of animation I see this kind of treatment of it a lot)
It is simply praise for the show, in giving credit what Matt Michnovetz (writer & producer), Jennifer Corbett (lead writer) and Brad Rau (series director) and the whole team, for what have accomplished with the Bad Batch. I see a many comments on how much fans have enjoyed this show despite not being into animation series previously.
I think it’s poor praise, and prejudiced against animation as a medium, which sucks, as SW has had many high points in animation, like Bad Batch.
I know. It is why I think the Bad Batch will overtake The Mandalorian in my personal rankings soon enough (as well as Mandalorian not holding my interest and generally having a disappointing season so far).
It is also why Clone Wars (2003) and Visions place in the top 3 of all time small screen rankings for me, with the Bad Batch and Tales Of The Jedi making the Top 6, ahead of Kenobi and BOBF.
Though Resistance does rank bottom, a good and much needed concept that failed in the execution, fitting in with events between TLJ and TROS and explaining the layout of the galaxy, and how the FO came to power so quickly, and so on. Instead, it wandered off with meaningless filler stories, introduced needless disposable characters, and some cheap looking animation.
It reminded me of cheap animation for kids that was prevalent through the 1980’s and early 90s TV. Cheap, lazy and uninspiring, toy adverts with flat stories there only to keep kids glued to the TV sets for 20 minutes. Like Ewoks, and the slightly better Droids, that did a funky theme and some good episodes dotted in amongst it. I am of that era, and grew out of animation shortly after that time because good live-action TV offered so much more; weight, tension, cinematography, story and character arcs, and good quality engaging books offered even more than that.
I had no idea in praising the writers, director and producer of Bad Batch, in comparing them to what is being achieved in quality live action series, that I was “prejudiced against animation as a medium”. Thank you for that. It made me smile and laugh, quite a bit.