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The “Force Gods” are a billion times worse than “midi chlorians.” (lemmy.world)

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I don’t understand how Clone Wars season 3 goes from the amazing Savajj arc (how did Cartoon Network get away with airing that?) into this dorky shit. The monster designs look like rejected Pokémon box art legendaries.

It also just seems so weirdly inconsistent with lore.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can't recall season numbers of events. Are you talking about the mortis gods? That is just a name. They are just powerful force wielders. They are no more a god than say Superman would be a god. Someone just saw their power and coined them gods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

But the show seems to be implying they are like “embodiments” of the force or something. Being on the planet stops time, and the father seems convinced that Anakin needs to be there to “control”/balance them as the Chosen One.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

This arc is to help you, the viewer, understand how little you are able to comprehend and understand about the force as well as just how much larger it is than they are.

Allow it to be just a show of what the force is capable of AND how powerful Anakin truly is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Because Star Wars is soft sci-fi full of space magic.

I love Mortis arc. It shows what the Force is capable of (literally anything, because Force-users are superpsychics that can manipulate the fabric of reality if they're powerful enough).

Think about Scarlet Witch from Marvel. Everyone says she's a psychic, but she actually warps reality. Really you could take any psychic from marvel, as they're all stupidly OP and can change reality on some level.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, it's awful and I'm really not looking forward to seeing what they do with them on Ahsoka. But whatever. I've had to find a way to make peace with the fact that Star Wars is never going to be, and perhaps never was intended to be, what I want it to be. I still love Star Wars.

But I'm also never watching TRoS again and I will judge the fuck out of anyone who claims to love it.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's because it's a hack show for children.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don’t understand how they got away with making this for kids - the routine and fairly graphic on screen deaths, torture scenes, false flags and war crimes.

I’ve been fairly pleased with the writing myself. The movie was garbage and put me off watching the series, but the series itself is amazing. Having an episode that is just Seven Samurai was pretty funny (and very Star Wars, because half of A New Hope is just Kurosawa anyway). Having the clones depicted as human beings, and characters seriously interrogating the ethics of forcing the clones to fight draws out some really good writing IMHO.

If anything, it’s at least a far sight better than anything the Mouse has been doing.

It reminds me a lot of ATLA as a “kids series” that isn’t afraid of confronting war.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

The overall storytelling is great, but the episode to episode writing/directing is... iffy at best. There's some fantastic episodes that delve deep into characters and stories, and then there's some that are trying as hard as they can to be fun sci-fi schlock... but forget to make it fun.