DigitalfreakNYC

Note to myself: ask @Jayfor an Incel Blocker feature for the forum.

I'm surprised by how bad this show is. Something just feels way off. The fight in episode three wasn't exciting or thrilling. Don't kill me, but I prefer the prequels over the other movies because of the world-building and more believable aspects (rather than Luke being a cartoonish hero figure, which was fine for the time period of the originals but never resonated with me)—and I was hoping that this show would resemble the prequels more than the originals in that respect. (which doesn't make any sense because they're too different time periods, but whatever)
 
The guy pretending to be a jedi in episode two was boring and seemed like a rehashed version of the (second) codebreaker character in TLJ. The mining planet in episode three was just southwestern US. The inquisitors are severely cartoonish, especially the one Reva killed.
 
However, I enjoyed seeing Alderaan for a little bit, I liked the brief hallucination of Anakin in episode three (something I was expecting in the show), and Ewan plays a broken and traumatized Obi-Wan very well. It's just that the show is bland and predictable.
 
Perhaps Natalie Holt felt the same way while scoring? I've enjoyed some cues, but sadly, nothing has been very interesting. I know she can produce amazing work based on her previous stuff. Also, I wonder if the score would've been more cohesive if all her music had been kept in and not replaced with JW's theme.
 
I'm just hoping the second half of the show is better. But then again, it's SW, and I think they've wanted to play it safe with the show rather than taking necessary risks

Episode 3 is just one long cavalcade of fucking idiocy.
 
 

 

 
 
Just... walk around it?

Man, that wasn't good. The budget limitations of the Disney+ model are really showing. This story (if it even needed to be told) really should have been a movie. The confrontation between Vader and Obi was so underwhelming. The direction was flat, the blocking/choreography clunky... Some nice visual language with the red and blue lightsabers in the dark, but compare it to the similar sequence in The Force Awakens between Rey and Kylo Ren (which had emotional stakes and brutal, heavy fight choreography) and it's almost laughable. Pathetic that Vader was stopped by a bit of fire that he and the stormtroopers could've easily walked around. And didn't he literally just extinguish a fire with the Force before the new one started? And couldn't do it again? Or, you know, pull Obi-Wan and his helpers into the fire? Maddening.
 
They shot their wad too early bringing in Vader at this point. The dramatic tension established at the end of the last episode is now all but gone. And c'mon Natalie, you had the perfect opportunity to knock this episode out of the park. The lack of Imperial March was enough, but what is there was just so thin and uninspired, the action music in the previous episode had more punch than this. I'm stoked she got this assignment but I really feel like she dropped the ball on this ep.

They just secretly put him in a bacta tank. Death means nothing in SW now.

Another thought. If this incoherent cramp of a story would at least serve as a vehicle to create some great action scenes, I would be ok. But the action scenes are actually quite bad, I think. Or am I the only one thinking that?
 
 

I haven't succeed to finished this third episode, too much nonsense IMO with Obi-Wan changing his mind every single scene
The music is I think catastrophic, espacially the Vader's treatment. I think that there are two themes in cinema that you shouldn't change while making a sequel/spin-off Jaws Main Title and The Imperial March. How could Holt and the people at Lucasfilms think that it was a good idea to replace Vader's theme, that's beyond my understanding.

I’ve mostly been fine with Obi Wan’s characterisation so far but I think it took a misstep this episode
 
This lad has been on the run from the galactic government for years now, he should be significantly more paranoid and far more guarded about what he says, feeling like that he can trust absolutely nobody
 
So to have him ousted because he blurts out Leia and then starts openly talking about being a Jedi after the fact is an incredibly strange choice for the character that takes away from his believability 

Some really dreadful, inappropriate music being used… again. It’s like they’re trying to piss me off.

You dont introduce a character like that without the imperial march. Nonsense.
 
the duel music was old fashioned musically decent but so athematical that it didnt work imo.

After the third episode I think, I better stop commenting on the show and its score until I find something really positive to say about it. Three more episodes to go.

I'm not finding it an instantly hummable theme - it feels more to me like a melody from somewhere within a score.
 
It's nice, but in my view hardly the most amazing thing he's ever done.

I know I'm probably gonna get slaughtered for this but here it goes:
 
 
I think this is absolutely freakin' incredible.
I've been listening to it all day. 
It's based around the rendition from the Rise of Skywalker trailer and I just find it amazing.
I'm sure this will be considered heresy but it's a Williams/Zimmer mash-up that just hits me in the right place.  Modern and yet, not.  I'd love to hear an actual orchestral version of this. 

Thoughts?

I know I'm probably gonna get slaughtered for this but here it goes:
 
 
I think this is absolutely freakin' incredible.
I've been listening to it all day. 
It's based around the rendition from the Rise of Skywalker trailer and I just find it amazing.
I'm sure this will be considered heresy but it's a Williams/Zimmer mash-up that just hits me in the right place.  Modern and yet, not.  I'd love to hear an actual orchestral version of this. 

Thoughts?

If the thing limited to 2000 copies sells out in a minute or two, you made too few. 'Nuff said. This is way beyond the days of Varese 6 hour sell-outs.
 
Yavar

Sadly, it isn't impressive at all.  Mondo is *infested* with reseller/scalper bots, and as a company, they refuse to do anything about it.  All of their releases sell out almost instantly, and already have placeholder entries set up for them on eBay.  I'm a movie poster collector.  They had a Jaws poster signed by the artist up a while back, and I was sitting there poised at the ready the moment the items went live.  They sold out in the few seconds it took me to enter my shipping info.  It's a total racket.  The people who genuinely want these releases are getting shafted with Mondo every time, and they really couldn't care less.

Proud SAG member here...who makes his living entirely as an actor. Ask away.
 
Also, my roommate from college is a working dutch actor.

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They're Japanese. Blu-spec versions of the same CD's.

So how about that La La Land Records, hey?