AxonVenom

Yeah, the show does often feel cheap, and it’s hard to put a finger on why. Maybe it’s the sets or the camerawork? The generic score really doesn’t help at all, either. That might actually be a big part of it.

But I can put all of that aside, because what matters most to me is the writing. And while I think the writing has generally been okay, there are a few things (especially Obi-Wan and Vader confronting one another) that really irk me.

The thing that makes me really livid isn’t that they couldn’t resist completely undermining the ANH duel as I expected they would, but that they were (and still are) being cheered along at every step of the way by fans who are far too dumb to understand how giving Obi-Wan and Vader a le epic lightsaber fight in-between RotS and ANH utterly deflates such an important and iconic scene in the original film.

I have done an excellent job of avoiding interaction with the Star Wars fandom over the years and keeping to myself, but I just had to finally make an account on here so that I had some place to vent about this. It’s honestly so baffling how fans of a franchise built on two of the best films ever made can be so oblivious to what bad writing looks like. I sincerely hope that Mike Stoklasa decides to do a Plinkett review for this show at some point. I don’t hate this show, but I really do hate what it did. I’m so tired of seeing great films being retroactively lessened.