(For the first six episodes) Love the world building, love part of the action, love the implications regarding a galaxy trying to reconstruct itself after the fall of an Empire and the sequels of the war that let to it. Sadly, this is just nothing. We only get glances of our protagonist (with the third and fourth episode trying to build something out of his dependence in the protection of Baby Yoda and connecting with the lower class of the galaxy, making these people for a moment important, like if this is the template for the show), but not to a point where he works as anything but an archetype with any kind of humanity or development. Everything moves like a videogame. Not to say that the model of them can serve to experiment with the narrative in new ways (movies has done it really great recently, despite the general public hating most of the best examples), but here it only shows its weaknesses. The structure is going from place to place, resolving a problem, escaping and that’s it. There’s no imagination in that process. We meet characters that barely matter in the bigger plot and they are gone afterwards. There’s really nothing going on. Just a mistery box (why) and information of this universe that can be as easily research as a Wikipedia page. And Baby Yoda, I love him.
This is as good as a Favreau project can get, and that means is “fine”. And if that’s enough for you to get into this show, I’m happy for you. I only wait for more ambitious projects in this universe and that means anything that can let to Rian Johnson trilogy. Also, anyone who criticize this show for plot holes is dumb. Seriously, they can criticize it for its lack of ambitions and jarring thematic elements, but they decide to go for the same ramblings of some idiot that didn’t get his favorite trivia done well.
Review by DocmaBlockedParent2019-12-15T16:39:37Z
(For the first six episodes)
Love the world building, love part of the action, love the implications regarding a galaxy trying to reconstruct itself after the fall of an Empire and the sequels of the war that let to it. Sadly, this is just nothing. We only get glances of our protagonist (with the third and fourth episode trying to build something out of his dependence in the protection of Baby Yoda and connecting with the lower class of the galaxy, making these people for a moment important, like if this is the template for the show), but not to a point where he works as anything but an archetype with any kind of humanity or development. Everything moves like a videogame. Not to say that the model of them can serve to experiment with the narrative in new ways (movies has done it really great recently, despite the general public hating most of the best examples), but here it only shows its weaknesses. The structure is going from place to place, resolving a problem, escaping and that’s it. There’s no imagination in that process. We meet characters that barely matter in the bigger plot and they are gone afterwards. There’s really nothing going on. Just a mistery box (why) and information of this universe that can be as easily research as a Wikipedia page.
And Baby Yoda, I love him.
This is as good as a Favreau project can get, and that means is “fine”. And if that’s enough for you to get into this show, I’m happy for you. I only wait for more ambitious projects in this universe and that means anything that can let to Rian Johnson trilogy. Also, anyone who criticize this show for plot holes is dumb. Seriously, they can criticize it for its lack of ambitions and jarring thematic elements, but they decide to go for the same ramblings of some idiot that didn’t get his favorite trivia done well.