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Post #1582937

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screams in the void
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The Acolyte (live action series set in The High Republic era) - a general discussion thread
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20-Mar-2024, 7:40 PM

Idk…guess I will reserve judgment for when I actually see the show ,but was not impressed with the trailer and agree with the previous assesments so far on the flat look . Biggest thing that took me out of it was the fight scenes lifted straight out of The Matrix . Cool that Carrie Anne Moss is in the show , but all I could see was Trinity in a Jedi Robe . That " bullet time " effect has been copied to death by movies and shows since the Matrix first came out . Sure ,this is supposed to be the Jedi in their prime , but the choreography could be done another way . The show needs to distinguish itself from the style of everything else in my opinion . Give me a good story any day over edgy, cool and flashy fight scenes . Even with older stuff like the look of the old republic games , I felt the tech and look could have been more unique to reflect those much older time periods , instead of showing ships and armor etc , that didn’t look much different at all from later time periods . What I would love to see is a show that goes much further back in time and has a look akin to the original Tales Of The Jedi comics as drawn by Chris Gossett . Now that would be unique .