He’s never struck me as particularly bright. 

I’ve only seen the first 2 episodes of season 2 at this point, but so far, it addresses nearly all my issues with season 1. Most notable is the pacing. It’s just way better. If the season continues this way, I think the show will have found it’s footing.

“Grey Jedi” seems like a pretty meaningless term in an era in which there are very few Jedi and no formal organization to speak of. It would be like someone in 21st Century America announcing they were running for office as a Whig.

My guess is that Filoni doesn’t care for the sequels and thinks of them as this thing that runs counter to the world he inherited from Lucas. So the idea of establishing other threats or factions that don’t figure directly into the ST timeframe is probably something he’s deeply invested in. Obviously the ST isn’t…

Splitting hairs here a little bit, but they didn’t call the blindfold/helmet technique “Zatoichi”, they called it “Zatochi”. Obviously a reference to Zatoichi, just either slightly changed or simply mispronounced (Much as Doku, the Japanese word for “poison” became the name of Count Dooku).

Like I said, I don’t love where that story ends up but I think that the internal story logic of it makes perfect sense.

The upside is that the ST era lasts maybe one year at the most, so it’s easy to have all these other things going on besides the war with the First Order.

I don’t like the idea of the New Republic failing so horribly because it means that Luke, Han, and Leia lived long enough to see their victory over the Empire crumble to ash and then died, but given that the sequels locked Star Wars into that path I think the recent shows have done a good job of explaining how that…

Yeah, but that’s less a question of how long it takes to get around as just bad filmmaking on Abrams’ part. The space battles in his movies are a chaotic mess — for one, they take place mostly over planetary surfaces, which is dumb — whereas the ones in the Lucas movies are extremely well-choreograped. You always know…

I dunno, hyperspace travel times were never well-defined in any of the pre-Disney movies either.

He was mid, he says so himself when it comes up in season 1, iirc. Part of his journey with Ezra and the team is that he learns that it doesnt matter, you do the best with what you’ve got.

I dunno, hyperspace travel times were never well-defined in any of the pre-Disney movies either. In ANH, the Falcon travels from Tatooine to the Alderaan System pretty quickly, just long enough for Luke to get some Zatochi in. In TESB, Luke seems to get from Dagobah to Bespin in maybe a matter of hours. The Falcon…

I mean, it is a time travel show, it’s possible it’s not set in 2023. Or the last time a companion had a kid they were affected by being conceived while in the Time Vortex and then that kid was stolen and then grew up along side her parents as kids after regenerating, and Donna has half Time Lord in her so having a…

One of the faceless 10,000. This is shown a few times during Rebels, including where we see how much both Ezra and Kanan struggle fighting against inquisitors that Ahsoka later handles easily by herself.

Yeah - as you mentioned - Huyang’s remarks seem to hint at this. The Jedi had very high standards for training force users. The Jedi ignored an entire set of people who were light side aligned - but perhaps not innately skilled. The Jedi weren’t just looking for good people - they had to be talented. I think Ashoka is…

I’m bit rusty on my Doctor Who fandom, but wouldn’t someone whose parents didn’t marry until 2010 be, at most, 13 years old? Yeah, yeah, I know, wibbly wobbly, timey wimey, but still. This timeline does not add up.

Its not that the sequel trilogy depicted as instant per se, its that the sequel trilogy decided that time and space (distance/where things are...not literally space itself) were worthless concepts and got rid of them entirely. Everything in those movies happens now.

So many people want them to have a “Grey Jedi” because it was in the 90s books and some things from the 90s books (like Thrawn) have been brought back in. But if there were a way to sustainably sit on the fence between Light and Dark, that makes every Jedi who fell all the way to the Dark look pretty weak and stupid fo…

One bit of bad writing that should be acknowledged is Hera’s failure to mention why she believed Thrawn was coming back, or even to mention “oh ya - and not only did they steal an SSD hyperdrive, there were two dark Jedi on Corellia”. That latter bit kind of feels like the key bit of information we needed - and it…

I loved that their hyperspace journey actually took time and gave the show some breathing room to explore the characters. That’s how hyperspace was most often depicted in Star Wars media until the sequel trilogy when it was depicted as basically instantaneous travel between two points no matter how far apart they are.