SPOILER Willow, the TV Series

I just finished watching it and it was the best episode so far for me. Very funny and there's some great character interactions throughout. I appreciate that they're not taking this series too seriously. I'm been meh so far, but I genuinely enjoyed this one and it made me laugh a few times. The only odd part is the romance between Jade and Kit. The two were established as a pair in the first episode and the back and forth between them seems like already covered territory. It was nice to see Jade have something else to do other than worry about her love interest. Lastly, the stuff with Rool was great.

 

This show is the definition of a guilty pleasure for me. I’m watching every episode. But, when getting together with family for Christmas, if anyone brings it up, I will absolutely pretend I’ve never heard of it.

 

Watching last week's episode right now. It's almost over. This is horrible. Horrible. Warwick Davis is awful. So is Boorman and the kids. The unfunny humor, dialogue that is out of place - willow just said "truth bombs" - and cheeseball villains, this is just terrible. One of the most disappointing experiences of my TV/movie watching life. Complete and total disservice to the movie.

 

Stop torturing yourself... there is allot of streaming content that will satisfy your appetite. I didn't think it was horrible. I watched the first two episodes and thought it was a fun watch. I might re-visit the actual film... thanks LFL and Disney+ for more content for my subscription...

 

The only think I could think of when I read this was to say congratulations for having such a wonderful life.

Turning back to the latest episodes.

The cinematography for an episode of TV is amazing. I would love to see some of this in Star Wars. Bravo all the way around.

 

How I feel now all the Skywalkers are dead.

 

Do we really have to turn EVERY thread here into a hating TRoS thread?

Is it possible to stay on topic just a little bit, and... I dunno... perhaps take into account that patrons get really demoralized when people keep pooping and pooping on stuff they are here to love, and that the kids who came to celebrate Star Wars here are being chased out of the Cantina? If you have stated the same opinion 500+ times over 50+ threads, or whatever, then... perhaps it is enough now?

 

Perhaps I should quit while I'm still ahead....if there is one thing I've found it's that Kylo Ren isn't popular on SW forums.
Neither are his fans.
At the end of the day this is a forum for generic SW fans, rather for just those who liked the Skywalkers. It seems I've been depressing people, and apparently am making kids unhappy. This is for people who still love SW.
Have a nice New Year, everyone, and so long. It's been fun.

 

Rude? No, I wasn't being sarcastic, just literal!

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Hi Angelman, sorry to hear that, I quit once before and was tempted back, but you are right...I sound like a broken record. SW isn't for me anymore as I'm a Skywalker fan, they're all gone and unlike this old woman people want to move forward. I hope people will get the same pleasure out of the new characters as I did out of the old; my problem is I can say goodbye to SW...but not Kylo Ren. He is, and was, my favourite character.

All the best, thanks for having me.

 

Final episode was pretty good. I guess they plan on doing more. I'm curious what the numbers look like. The internet hated this series, but that's not always a good measure of reality. I had low expectations for the series, but I'd give it 3/5. The cast was great. It was funny at times. Lore is Harry Potterish in terms of being nonsensical.

 

I watched the first episode and found that it falls too far, for me, from theatrical quality in terms of story, dialogue, and the quality of the new characters.

It's all too 'televisiony'. I say: blegh. I won't be watching any further.

 

Apparently, he series has not been cancelled. It will be taken off the air to change its storytelling style a bit.

 

I hope they eventually made another one down the road, but I really don't know what audience it is for this IP. The movie isn't good. It wasn't a huge hit at the time. So making this for people who loved Willow is likely to bore anyone else.

I thought this was really the strength of the series. The cast of characters were great. There was plenty of chemistry there and the production values were very good.

Again though, what's the audience for this? 40 something fans who are generally tough to make happy? This only really works if they bring in new fans and maybe they did, but there's a lot of competition in this space now.

 

Quote of the day! Bravo, sir.

 

I don't doubt there are some people who enjoyed it and I liked it as a kid, but it wasn't much of a success financially or critically. It's easy to inflate how popular something was a kid. I though Little Monsters was a huge cultural thing at the time since all the kids in my neighborhood liked it. I'm not sure how many people even remember it now.

I'm not insulting you for liking Willow so maybe you shouldn't insult those of us who liked the series.

After rewatching Willow (the film) a couple of years ago I realized it was kids film that I enjoyed as a kid, but it was a very poor movie. I'd have no desire to ever watch it again, but if I had to choose I'd rather sit through the TV series than the film.

 

Just watched the first 4 episodes, and this show is not bad. There's a lot to like here, even though the writing is a bit patchy and some of the characters feel superfluous and underdeveloped (i.e. I honestely think we could have done with a smaller cast). The drama is quite high in places, and the show goes really dark when it wants to! Ep.4 was particularly strong.

Warwick isn't a particularly good actor, to be honest, but he doesn't need to be in this show. He's alright and gets help from the rest to carry this thing. His daughter however, is amazing!