ScreenCrush: The Podcast! - AHSOKA Episodes 1 & 2Review - Is the STAR WARS Show Off to a Bad Start?

Episode Date: August 24, 2023

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And a little later, I am going to be joined by two fellow Star Wars nerds, Heather Antos and Megan O'Keefe. But first, here is my take. Well, you've got to have an opinion. Now, my issues with this show stem mostly from the problems I have with Star Wars Rebels, and also some really bad things that I see happening in other Star Wars shows. But first, I want to celebrate the many, many good things about this show. This show really does feel like a continuation of the Clone Wars and Star Wars

and Star Wars. In one scene, it is literally animation brought back to life. So this show did, in a way, bring me back to my childhood, just eating cereal and watching cartoons. The entire opening sequence is awesome. The late Ray Stevenson has been underused by Hollywood for years. I mean, remember, this is how he left the MCU. Who are you? What have you done? And in this opening, he gives the perfect blend of ferocity...

We are no Jedi. But also, tenderness. Kill her. There'll be a shack. There's so few Jedi left. I love the mysteries built into this show. Like, who are these two? Where's Thrawn?

Why did Asoka walk away from Sabine? Sabine. We also don't know who is even in this other galaxy. And it is very rare for me to not have any idea what's going to happen in Star Wars. I'm a prophet. What? Prophet! Prophet! I prophesy! I have sight, I see! And I have no idea where this show is going. That is very exciting. I thought they were going to be exploring the unknown regions of the galaxy, tying into the Sith cult from Rise of Skywalker, the Chis, and all the stuff that's touched on in the Thrawn books. But now we are going to a whole new galaxy, where there are no Jedi, no Sith, and this opens up so many stories for other creators to tell. And we don't know how the new

galaxy connects to the Knight Sisters, to Thron, the Pergill. I mean, as somebody who devours the cannon, this is like endless desserts to me. I have no idea what any of those words you just said mean. Yeah, Doug, you're right. The composer of this series, Kevin Kiner, has been putting together an amazing body of work for years, scoring shows like Clone Wars, Bad Batch, Rebels, and several other live-action series. But this is the first time he's getting to score a live-action Star War. I love how he weaves in the old themes of Rebels and the Clone Wars throughout this show. And, apart from Ray Stevenson, the rest of the cast is great, especially Natasha Lou Bordizo as Sabine.

Sabine has always been my favorite character from Rebels. In fact, I always kind of wish she was the protagonist of that show. And now we get to see the spotlight on her, dealing with grief, facing her fear of failure, and finally resolving that cliffhanger from Rebels. Also, you guys, we are getting to see the post-return of the Jedi era. The Mandalorian, like, played around the edges of the galaxy, but now we are at the center. Hera is on Home 1, Akbar ship from Return of the Jedi.

The various threads of the Star Wars galaxy from the prequels and the Clone Wars are finally coming together with the original trilogy. And the lightsaber fights in this show are beautifully choreographed. Like, the prequels were very precisely choreographed and the original trilogy were kind of raw, but the fights in this series

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For one, that Sabine is now suddenly a Jedi Padawan. Like the show Rebels never gave us any inkling that she is even remotely force sensitive. In fact, her lack of force sensitivity is what made it so hard for Canaan to train her to use the Dark Saber. your thoughts, your actions, they become energy, they flow through the crystal as well and become a part of the blade. So now we have like this whole other backstory to catch up with between Sabine and Asoka and their relationship. I mean, the last time we saw Asoka, apart from the Mandalorian, she was inside the world between worlds,

where presumably she sat out the Galactic Civil War. Then she returns in time to train Sabine for just a little while and then she gives up. Like all of this is just adding backstory that was never set up in the show Rebels. Dude, I am so lost right now. And that is actually dug the real problem with this show. It's season five of Star Wars Rebels. Rebels was a kid show made for Disney X-D, which a lot of people didn't even have on cable,

and a lot of casual Star Wars fans still haven't seen the show. So, like, if you've only seen the movies and maybe The Mandalorian, then this show makes no sense to you. Like, there is a lot of lore and backstory to consume with this show. And I am not a huge fan of a lot of the Force lore that Dave Filoni introduced in Clone Wars and Rebels. Like, anytime we try to get too specific with the Force and try to define it in any way.

Like, the whole thing on Mortis and the Clone Wars with the father, the sister, and the brother, and then how that mural shows up in rebels and leads to the World Between Worlds. I don't even like the World Between Worlds that much. Like, it's just, it's introducing too many specific things to the Force. The Force should be kind of basic, kind of generic. We should be able to reinterpret the Force

as whatever higher power we define it to be. So the more we explore the Force with things like Midi-Clorians or the World Between Worlds, the more it demystifies this force that binds the galaxy together. And I'm worried that's going to happen with this show. But this show is in danger of being more complicated than The Mandalorian Season 3. Like, even the villain, Morgan Ellsbeth. Like, I guess you don't have to know the full history of the Night Sisters,

how they relate to Darth Maul and how Duku wipe them out. But I do think that you have to know that they are at least Dark Side Witches. And this is confusing for casual fans, even though the first two episodes do a lot of standing around and explaining things. An ancient temple built by my aunt. You never made things easy for me. Anakin never got to finish my... Pathway to Peridia. The children at the Jedi Temple call it that. It comes from old stories.

Like all of this, when a simple live-action flashback of Ezra, Thrawn, and the Pergill would have gone a long way. So the result of all this is a show that at times feels very lethargic and stilted. Like the scene where Sabine is reading data from the droid's head, it should be exciting. There's a ticking clock. We've recently seen Sabine screw up and lose the map, so we're not that sure of her capabilities. But all through this scene, like nobody seems worried. I mean, Asoka says, I'm not sure we have a minute. But she's standing very straight, arms crossed,

and always seems to be just nonplussed. Now look, Star Wars fans know that this is because she is force sensitive and she would be able to sense the explosion seconds before it happened. But it does make for a pretty dull scene. Now, compare that to this scene in The Force Awakens when Ray is trying to keep the Falcon from exploding. It's the motivator. Grab me a Harris wrench, check in there.

How bad is it? If we want to live, not good. Now look, we know the Falcon isn't going to explode. They're not going to kill off all these new characters. they introduced. But J.J. Abrams direct this scene with so much kinetic energy, it's so fun, because there's also character stakes in this scene. Finn is trying to cover up that he's lying to Ray, and he makes BB8 a co-conspirator. Get us there as fast as you can. I'll drop you to at Phenema time. And for some reason, those same character stakes are absent in this scene

in Asoka. I mean, this is a former apprentice trying to impress her former master, and we don't get any of that behind the scenes character stuff. Like, in a lot of scenes in Asoka, it feels like, we are in this scene where things are going to happen, and then we will go into this next scene where other things will happen. There's very little interplay or chemistry between the characters. Now, maybe this is because Dave Faloni has mostly worked in animation, where it's harder to get your cast to improvise and riff like Abrams can do with live action work. Did you just praise JJ Abrams over Dave Falerney? Hey, man, Abrams is a great director, he's great with actors, but he's a bad Star Wars writer. Somehow Palpatine returned. Are you ever going to

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But the other thing here is, Asoka is very different from the character that we have known in the Clone Wars. and Rebels. Like this version of her is very stoic, like the Jedi were in the prequels. I do not believe the Sith could have returned without us knowing. The thing is, though, that that was never really a Soka. Like even in the show Rebels when she kind of took on this mentor role, Ashley Exstein always put a lot of heart into this character. Soca. And again. And maybe it's because Rosario Dawson is playing an older version of the character who's been to

this transformation in the world between worlds, but for my money, she's still a little bit too stoic. And I think it would have been lovely if Ashley Eckstein could have played Asoka in live action, like how Clancy Brown got to play writer Azotti. And like, I love Rosario Dawson, but her version of Asoka just feels kind of flat to me. The Hollywood reporter's Daniel Feinberg had a great review of the show where he said, it's frustrating how much Philonian company have focused across three shows now on how perfectly Dawson embodies the look of Asoka without giving her anything to do. But look, we are two episodes in. We have no idea where Rosario Dawson is going to take this character from here. I'm just giving you my opinion.

after two episodes. And again, I'm really just speaking for the people who do not follow the full Star Wars canon. There are Star Wars books and shows that are easy to step into, like Obi-Wan or Andor. And there are other shows that are for hardcore fans who have been wanting to see what happened to Ezra and Thrawn for years. I am very excited for where this show is going. As a Star Wars fan, I am having fun. But I thought the premiere was a bit of a slog at points. But that's just my take. Now, I am thrilled to be joined here by two of the smartest and most knowledgeable Star Wars fans that I know. We have. Group Editor of Licensing and I IDW, Heather Antos, and Senior Critic at the Decider, Megan O'Keefe.

So, Heather, I want to start with you. You heard my take on it, but what were your thoughts on this episode? I personally, like, as a Star Wars fan, as an Asoka fan, as an Asoka fan, I really loved getting to see these characters in live action. I loved, you know, that opening scene and immediately made me feel like Raiders of the Lost arc vibes mixed with. I just finished playing Jedi Survivor. Got a lot of those puzzle quest vibes.

I was like, oh, I've done this one. I know how to solve this. And I loved all of that. Sabine, I thought, they nailed her perfectly, getting to see Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera. All of that is just, it's so cool to see these characters we've grown to love, be realized in live action. And having that been said, I'm very concerned for how people who are only watching the show

because they watched Mando or because they watched Bobafat and didn't, you know, haven't been spent the last decade plus watching Clone Wars and Rebels, how they're going to understand it. I said it to a friend. It's a show with a lot of required reading and a giant missing chapter from the syllabus. Now, the missing chapter you're talking about is the relationship between Sabine and Asoka, Which, yeah, it was weird, like I said earlier, but if it improves their character

with this, like, master and apprentice dynamic, then I'm all for it. Megan, how about you? What were your thoughts on the episode? I feel like I'm very similar to you guys. I personally really enjoyed it, but I saw a lot of flaws that, you know, a casual Star Wars fan or just someone who's curious about the character might be turned off.

There is a very slow, deliberate pace to the dialogue where there's almost a weird pause in between lines to make sure people got stuff, which could be annoying to some people I actually know it was from friends who complained about it to me but the thing that is so strange at this show for me is it doesn't just take me

back to watching rebels or Clone Wars for the first time it takes me back to like reading EU novels when I was a 13 year old Star Wars and it was not cool to like Star Wars and we didn't know that the sequel trilogy would ever happen but we had this lore and this expanded universe

literally full of Jedi, full of you know different territories and throw And it felt like a show that was made for the weirdos like me. Not for the mainstream Star Wars fan, but for the really hardcore, locked in folks who remember what it was like to be bullied for, I think, Star Wars. And, yeah, I mean, I couldn't believe that Dave Faloney got to do this show, to be quite honest when I watched the first two episodes.

So follow-up question, Megan, as we're all, like, big Star Wars fans, is it too much lore to follow, like even for fans like us? It may be. I mean, again, like Heather was saying, takes a lot of required reading. If you don't know the history of Asoka, you're not going to understand why it's important that she is, you know, partaking in this quest. If you don't know that Thron was one of the original baddies in the very first conceived sequel trilogy of novels for the films, you also might not get who is this weird blue guy that they're trying to

chase. It really is something that is for the diehards and maybe not for the casual viewer. Well, the problem with that is going to be when they have the film, because the film is going to be a culmination of all this. Like, if I go into this movie and I have to understand Mandalorian politics and why Boba Fett does crime, and Asoka, and the world between worlds and all this other stuff, and this is one thing we're like, okay, our friend Adam Lance Garcia likes to say that Star Wars is a restaurant. You can order whatever you want off the menu. So like Andor is one thing that you order off the menu, and Clone Wars and Rebels are something else, and that's fine. That's great. Personally, with my Star Wars, I think the more specific we get, the less.

interesting it is. Like, for instance, the force, right? Beautiful, elegant thing. Midi-Clorians, a little too specific for people. So when we get into this phelony stuff, and if you've been watching the video this long, I'm going to assume you know about like rebels and the world between worlds, when we get into all this pheloney stuff, if the brother and the sister and the father and the balance and the good, and Assoca's got the out, is it getting too damn specific, Heather? For even Star Wars fans, is it Robinus of the magic or is it expanding the lore for you? A bit of both, I think. A bit of both. I think, you know, we've talked about this. I think every Star Wars conversation you and I have. And I have no problem with how specific the lore is. I have no problem with introducing these new concepts. I have no issue with any of that. My issue lies in if I do not have the information or the context given to me within

this show within this framework, and you're not telling me where I need to go in order to get that framework, you know, it's assuming you know that Asoko was in Rebels. It's assuming you know that all of this started in Clone Wars. It's assuming you've watched Mando, and we don't need to tell you that. And honestly, if an opening crawl was, you know, previously on and tied together three different animated series that would be a lot um but but you know that's my fear with the upcoming movie is you know anything that's a movie that's a theatrical release realistically i should have all the context i need within within that movie i shouldn't have to watch 27 television shows to understand that film and yeah it's the same problem the MCU is running into now that's

feeling like feeling that's exactly it when they announced this this movie that's going to wrap up all of these shows is exactly how I felt. It's going to be, you know, multiverse of madness where if you didn't watch X, Y, and C, television show or this other movie or whatever, you're going to be missing out on some key plot points. Now, that's not to say they can't do that successfully. They absolutely can.

I think Asoka, this show in particular, is going to be a giant test of that because it is pulling from novels and two other cartoon shows and to other live action shows. You know, if they really land this, it will be a very impressive feat. Yeah, I was thinking a couple things they needed throughout.

It could have been refilmed the flashbacks in live action, like of Ezra disappearing with Thron. Yeah, that would have worked really well for me. And also, somebody knew for Asoka to explain stuff to besides Hara, besides these people who already have an affinity to it. Like even Hu Yang, if who Yang is like, oh, what happened with Ezra? Well, Ezra was this Padawan. And then you cut to some flashbacks.

They're expanding the scope of what Star Wars can be visually. So I think they're cutting to some flashbacks while you're talking about it. Like Ryan Johnson broke that border. He can do that. Megan, what do you think? Is it too much lore right now? Like, where are you at as a fan sitting with this show? What's interesting is as a fan, I'm like, give me that lore. I'm going to gobble it up.

That's the buffet, Star Wars buffet restaurant I'm for. However, the one thing I do want to say in Asuka's defense, maybe people don't know the specifics about Ezra and Hara and Chopper and all those folks, but one thing that I appreciated about the first two episodes that I had a problem with with, say, Boca Boeufet, is I understood the emotional, you know, drives. Yes. I did, I did, it is clear that Asoka is trying to stop Thron. It is clear that Morgan Ellsbeth wants to find Thron.

It is clear that Sabine is there to find Ezra. And it's clear that, you know, although Baylon, Skoll, and Shinhati, they want, quote, unquote, power. clear that there's a mystery to what kind of force users that they are that we're going to learn more about so I wasn't as worried about the direction of the character's goals with this as I was they with Book of Boba Fett where I was like why does he want to be the you know the head of Tadowing I'm not quite sure about God we had every every week when we get together we'd be like so but why though why are you sleeping what's going on oh Megan you know it's the thing you're you're

not only a Star Wars fan your senior critic at the decider. You judge things for a living, essentially. So, as a TV show, you're saying, this show works for you. It definitely works. I don't want to, like, compare and contrast to other Star Wars shows. I don't think it's, like,

the worst of the bunch. I don't think it's the best of the bunch. I give it, like, a B, so far. Heather, what do you think? As a show, is it really popping for you? I think it's fine. I think it's fine. I think, I mean, me personally, as the world's biggest Thrawn

fan uh was really bummed out that that you know we're teasing thron and making him a big deal that he's going to be in the show and like you can't even you can't even give me like one shot behind his head like that one from the trailer right you can't even give me that and these first two um so i was really bummed out by that uh you know like like you said i i am bummed out uh about Ashley X-Sign, like, I really I really hope we get a flashback of her as young Asoka in some capacity. If

all she gets, if she gets nothing, first of all, we all write it. But if she gets like an extra or just like, here's Ashley, you know, and as a different character, like, she is why we love Asoka. She is Asoka.

I mean... She is. She is who made that character. And I still look at Rosario Dawson, who I love, by the way. I love Rosario. I think she's great in everything. And her version of this character is a lot more stoic. And like I talked about earlier, she went into the world between worlds with her for Force Al. We don't know, like, what the hell, like, why she came out. But I do want to see those flashes of the Asoka from rebels and clone wars. Yeah. Who, I don't know. I don't know if that is a choice that Rosario is making or

if it's direction. Megan, what about you? Do you think as a lead, is she the same Asoka that you've fallen in love with all these years? I mean, I agree with you guys. That was my one task member critique in my review was like she seemed a little too stoke, a little too stilted. And she was definitely, I think, shown up by Natasha Liu Bordizo, who really showed us Sabine for me. And I feel like I have a piece that went up

about like how Sabine is ironically kind of like the hero of the series. She's on the hero's journey, the Joseph Campbell hero's journey, where she refuses the call and then is pulled in. And it's Dawson playing her. her mentor, her Obi-1 actually. So I'm curious why they, you know, made that choice with, oh, you disagree, I don't know.

Oh, no, no, not that. I was just like, I wasn't even thinking, like she is on the hero's journey, but then I immediately went like, oh, God, does Assoca die then? Cause, you know. Yeah, maybe Assoca is going to sacrifice herself for this newer generation of, you know.

Look, okay, if there's anything Dave Filoni has proven, it's that Asoka cannot die. Asoka is basically a comic book character at this point. Like, if you want to know, like, we've got a video coming out about my problems with Ezra and all that. Like, I never liked there were other Jedi and a Padawan Jedi, basically right up until Luke appears. And the same thing goes with Asoka, where it would have just fit in the universe better

if the Jedi would have slowly died out if it would have been. But now we're on technicalities. We're on like, well, Asoka was never actually a Jedi. or Baylon gave up the Jedi order, you know? Like, I don't know. For me, every edition cheapens it just a little bit. That is one of my notes, and I said this to my partner while watching the show when they introduced Baylon and his apprentice.

And, you know, oh, and now Sabine is apparently, you know, a Padawan. And it makes Vader, it makes Luke. it makes Ray, it makes the emperor all feel less special. It all makes them feel a little less cool and a little less badass. What made those moments and those characters so cool is they were the only ones, you know? And now it feels like every new show we're introducing, well, here's five new force users that we're just... Here's a bunch of lightsavers. Here's the Inquisitors.

Here's these guys. Yeah. It works in animation, but I don't know. We should be in a stripped down period. Yeah, it makes a galaxy feel a whole heck of a lot smaller than I think they really want it to be. Right. You know, we kind of overshadowed Ray Stevenson, who is great in this. And Megan, you were talking earlier about getting into the mystery of all this.

And for me, one of the things I'm really digging about this show is that we don't know. I love any time in Star Wars, we don't know. We don't know who these guys are. We don't know why they have large lightsabers. we don't know what the hell throw on it. Why is there another galaxy? Are you, like, pumped for the next six episodes to see the story unfold? Is it like, is it like living out your EU dreams for you? Yeah, I think 100%. And I think, you know, Ray Stevenson is absolutely fantastic in this role. I think what he does, it's very interesting, is that he's not just

a black and white villain. He's not just cruel. There's a comment that he makes at the end of episode two where he's like, well, it would be a shame if Asoka died because that's one less Jedi and it's one less interesting force user out there. And that was fascinating to me as well because, so, like, I think the fact that Ray Stevenson's character was sort of like a little soft on the idea like, hey,

Jedi aren't maybe that bad and I'm not a Jedi, but maybe, like, it makes things less interesting. I'm very curious to learn more because it's not just, he clearly, to me, is not a full-on Sith. Yet. And I want to remind you guys that Thron in the novels, not really a villain.

He gets portrayed, like, as a baddie, a big baddie during Rebels, but in the Thron novels, he says he regrets the loss of any life, because all life is valuable. So everything he does, he always thinks is in the service of a greater good. Heather, what were you going to say? I was just going to say, and, uh, Beilin's apprentice, I forget her, her name escapes me right now, but, um, Shanhanti, like, there's, there's a, I have a big curiosity about her. Like, every, every moment we see her on screen and I props to the actress her her her just expression with her eyes and are acting with her eyes I think tell a lot and do do a lot for me but like

there's there's an interesting curiosity of her about Sabine there's an interesting curiosity of her you know about about Asoka and their battle like I in that Sabine fight like Sabine Sabine doesn't know what she's doing with a lightsaber like like she could have taken her down and in two seconds you know and I'm just I'm so curious about her and what her arc is going to be in particular in this. I'm very curious. I think she's going to be his daughter. We've got a video coming out in a couple of days where we're going to talk about this, but I think that he survived the purge, fell in love, lost his wife,

and now he's training his force-sensitive daughter. And he's not quite a Sith. Like you said, he regrets. He's not looking for, I think, personal power for any reason other than to protect his family. That's my guess. I would like that. that, but they didn't ask me to write the show, so who knows? Anything else for you guys that's like standing out as like a super positive that you're really excited for? One thing that I found particularly interesting, and this is just me being a combat nerd, but I thought the lightsaber duel style in the various scenes was particularly interesting,

our Sith friends and Sabine use a very broadsword-esque original trilogy fighting style. while our Inquisitor and Asoka stay pretty true to the prequel Clone Wars era style where it's a lot more choreographed and fancy and kind of showing off in a way I'm not sure if this was intentional or if there is a particular character reasoning behind all of this

but just as a Star Wars combat nerd I found it very, very interesting in general and we'll be keeping an eye out for some of those choices in the future episodes. Yeah, it'll be a interesting. interesting to see Merrick, the Sith Inquisitor, what their background is, you know, if they were a Jedi who was trained during the Clone Wars or if it's somebody we've seen before. The person's referred to as a he, so it's probably not going to be, oh my gosh.

Beres-Offi? Thank you. It's probably not going to be Barras-Offi. I talked about Beres-Offi in every other video, and I'm like, it's Blank on Beres-Offi's name. What, Megan? I had a write-up. He's about the Merrick theory's last night, so, yeah. I personally think it might be Ezra Bridger, but I, that's just my spoiler release. That actually brings me to my favorite part of this video, which is Wild Crazy Theory Time. Um, yeah, I think my, I sort of like the theory that Merrick could be Ezra Bridger, just because it was seen to echo, I mean, it set up a moment in live action similar to when in the animated series, Sabine realizes that Vader is Anakin, but it would do that for Sabine potentially.

And I think that would be a really nice, you know, like poetry, it runs. times, to quote George Lucas. No, I agree with that. I think that would echo a lot of what we've seen previously in Rebels with these characters. And Dave Filoni does like to steal from his own material. We've seen it not only in this, but in the other shows as well. So I definitely think that's a possibility. I just based on the other shows, are we going to get two episodes that take place with characters from the other shows?

Who knows? Like, that's, that's, are we going to get Amanda crossover in this? Are we going to get a boba, you know, crossover in this in some capacity that that kind of seems to be a thing they like to do? Well, that was a lot of fun. Megan, where can the people find you? Um, you can find me on Twitter slash X, Blue Sky, Instagram at Meg's Okay, or read my articles atdesider.com. And Heather, where can the people find you? Can find me at, at Heather Antos on all of the things and in your favorite comic books. And thanks again to MagicSpoon for sponsoring this video. Just a reminder to scan the QR code on screen right now and use the code Screen Crush for $5 off your variety pack

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