Tales of the Jedi - General Discussion

My expectations for any Star Wars content is alway very low, I never buy into the hype, I've been burned on numerous occasions before... so if it is indeed good, its a pleasant surprise, looking forward to next Wednesday: Live-action and animated content in one day great times to be sci-fi and fantasy fan.

 

You know....I wonder if they will ever do any more SW films, but stick to tv instead.

 

Wouldn't it be extremely popular (and profitable) if LFL were to do Cinema releases of the TV shows? Imagine a limited-time big screen release of The Mandolorian. Break up a season into 3 or 4 segments and release them over the course of a few months, similar to the way the OT special editions were done in the 90s.
Didn't Battlestar Galactica (The Original) do this way back in the late 70s? It was actually an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Star Wars, and I believe it ended up in some lawsuits with George Lucas suing the producers.

 

It's kinda hard to be critical of a series when you can binge it's entirety in just a bit more than an hour. Not saying it deserves criticism, I'll definitely watch it again before diving too deep. It's not quite what I expected, not as juvenile as most SW animation... I really like the look- sort of an evolved Clone Wars style.
Right now I'd have to say the final story of each character were the two best episodes.

 

I seen 4 so far and is awesome. What SW should be. Wish who ever did these also did the ST. Would have been so much better

 

Can't wait to watch that

 

I really like the concept of TotJ. Filling in backstory, connecting dots, tying up a loose end or two. And the execution is great -- they really cover a lot of ground in short time slots. I hope more are on the way, as they could explore and expound upon the stories of Jedi that we know, yet know so little about (the Yaddle episode being a model for this). I wonder if they have more in the can, or close to it, that they'll drop in a strategic way. I'd be all for it.

 

Although the premise of Dooku's first two stories were oddly similar, I really liked the way it showed his gradual descent to darkness. I'm guessing those two storylines being so similar was to show the tedium of the Jedi's duties pre- Clone Wars. His finale was heartbreaking with Qui-Gon and Yaddle and it really brought home the theme from all three that the Jedi's downfall was their reluctance to react when needed.
I was expecting more childhood Asokha, possibly up until her becoming Anakin's Padawan. Baby Asokha was "cute", I liked seeing her peoples' culture and customs. Her second episode was a throw-away- basically a deleted scene from Clone Wars. Her finale was the best of the entire series. The only thing I could ask to be different would to have seen this in live action as a flashback on the Asokha series! Obi Wan wasn't the only one struggling with denying the Jedi instinct. A key piece of the Big Story told beautifully, short and simple.
I hope they go forward with this series, and I agree it would be great to see tales involving some of the lesser known or even unknown Jedi.

 

Watched all 6 early this morning, and I thought they were fantastic, with 4 and 6 being the most compelling of the bunch. It's an excellent format for telling backstories like these, and I hope they continue to do these for all story eras.

The production value on TotJ is also impressive as hell. The shots of the forest as Ahsoka's mother took her on the hunt... I could practically smell the soil, the trees, the leaves. SW animation has developed far beyond what I ever expected when TCW first came out. Again, it's the perfect way to tell these shorter tales.

And, I have to say, despite the speed with which Ahsoka was able to dispatch him, that was by far the most bad-ass Inquisitor we've seen yet. The ones in Rebels and Obi Wan never quite seemed... unhinged enough. This one I'd definitely like to see more of.

 

random thoughts for each episode, collected live as i watch them

Spoiler

1
- Seeing more of the togruta people was cool, but this one really dragged for me. i hate to say that i feel like we're off to a rough start.

2
- well dang, an edgy dooku, where we get to see his sympathy for the galaxy and his disillusionment with the republic? didn't know i wanted that so badly, but this was great!

- this was actually a tense little standoff

-and wait, that was a young qui gon! of course it was, how could i not see that!

3
- Windu too!

- I really like this "peaceful" era, around and before Episode I. great to see more content in this time.

- ah yeah, i thought that looked like Raxus. I'm sure they mentioned that already, but I probably wasn't paying attention.

- "for a jedi to succumb to a surprise attack is rare... unless that attack comes from someone one would trust"... man, foreshadowing

- idk what these galaxy brains expected, picking a fight with two of the best jedi duelists of the era

- eh, not as good as the second episode... but i heard 4 is pretty good?

4
- oh ok, i guess we're getting all the dooku stuff out of the way at the same time? wait, are these in chronological order? that doesn't make sense, ahsoka wouldn't have been born by the time of the last episode

- huh. so he's the one who removed kamino from the archives. guess that makes sense.

- man, the sifo diyas mystery is a mess. i feel like the loose ends are pretty well fixed by now, but it only took two decades, a full movie, and several tv episodes. It's like poetry, in that it can be really confusing for some people.

- YADDLE! And more Qui Gon. Man, I'd take a full season of animated shows set in this era, so cool seeing Qui Gon in TCW-style animation.

- seems kinda weird that Obi Wan and Dooku haven't met. Like, y'all have hyperspace travel, a family reunion can't be that hard to organize.

- oh wow, i had to hit "skip intro" late on this one

- scene with the falling leaves is super reminiscent of Anakin's Ruminations

- oh dang, Qui Gon's funeral. (ohhhh, of course that's the sith they were talking about, duh)

- oh no, is this why yaddle isn't around later?

- the very sleek emperor look reminds me of the original TESB design

- well damn, it really was Anakin's Ruminations

- oh dang, now she's Spladdle

- SHE LIVES!

- oh no, she die

5
- oh hey, it's that one camel guy

- no, i am not referring to anakin as "that one camel guy"

- well, i guess anakin doesn't realize how good of practice this blocking clone trooper blasts thing really is

- tbh, he probably could've just let her practice with beatsaber and spare her some pain

- oh man, heck of a flashforward. thought this episode was pretty slow at first, but i appreciate the payoff.

6
- neat seeing these film moments recreated in the tcw style

- did we know ahsoka was at padme's funeral? i'm not sure i remember that.

- come to think of it, was vader there? surely he was aware of it.

- "the river"? on Naboo? That's how you get gungans.

- my sweet summer child, there is so much fight ahead of you still

- so cool to see some follow up to the TCW final episode, and even a great bridge from the last Tales episode!

- oh no, are we going to see Star Wars's thirty-seventh attempt to make a Seven Samurai homage?

- she's going by "Ashla", that's kinda neat. or did we know that already?

- ugh, we have a little r/pol weirdo as the village idiot, i see

- lol, how's the empire working out for you now, little dude?

- ooh, i REALLY like this Inquisitor design. so creepy

- eh, not worth even using the force to save that kid, tbh. but ahsoka's a better person than I.

- SUCH a cool duel! Reminds me of the final Maul v Kenobi, and the Morricone-esque soundtrack was excellent. I love it!

- hope that corvette lands on the kid

Overall, I'm pleasantly surprised with this show! Glad that I didn't give up on it after the first episode, because the rest were much better!

 

This was glorious. The animation was something else.
I hope we start getting more live action CGI to show off the power of the Force users.

 

Side note: I love that Yaddle talks normal. Meaning then I wonder why Yoda never intentionally talks normal? Like, would he talk normal if he was pissed off?