Tough crowd. I've been pretty meh to disappointed with everything post Mando S2, with the exception of Andor, but I've rather enjoyed these two first episodes.
At the very least, this feels like I'm watching Star Wars. Whether that's what everyone considers Star Wars might be debatable...
From muppet specials, Ewok and Droid cartoons, Luuke clones, rabbit mercenaries, to a moon taking out Chewbacca...I grow a little tired of the hating on new stuff bad/old stuff good charade that gets regurgitated so often. What was sanctioned as cannon back in the day went just as far off the rails as some of the stuff we see now, and just the same, people picked and chose what they wanted to accept into their view of Star Wars. No media will outlive Star Wars, it's been self sustaining for decades and will evolve one way or another. Even when Star Wars is quiet, it still produces merch, discussion, and interest.
True...
I don't know if it's because I'm back in a more sympathetic mood towards Star Wars but I felt
Ahsoka was more what I expected from a live action series, as opposed to TBOBF and OWK. For a start there was less to laugh
at in the first two episodes of Ahsoka.
I liked Jaxxon.
He was wacky, as were most of the original comic book stories, but there was something about them. At the time that
was the expanded universe, until I started reading the novels.
All true.
As someone who also grew up in the wake of the movie release with Splinter, the first Han Solo Novels, and of course the Star Wars Comics including yes Jaxxon and The Star Hoppers, (after Splinter the actual first Expanded U. tale). And eventually the more celebrated novels, there was always the solid OT film canon, and a secondary loose canon attached to it, depending how well I felt the ancillary material served and expanded on the OT characters and premise, vs. leached off and degraded the OT characters to serve it's suposed "new "characters and concepts.
I always could just pick and chose what I recognized as canon, and it's the same now, how I see all the Disney material, no different than I saw the Star Hoppers, which set the bar pretty low out the gate.
Yet I still enjoy it.
In fact in a weird way Ahsoka and the re-emergence of the Rebels crew in live action, actually (for better and worse) feels the most reminiscent of first reading the adventure of the Star Hoppers Crew. Which both feels parasitic (not adding much) and derivative of the original material, yet also a whimsical offshoot, completely in the spirit of the original.
While mostly base level easy applied tropes (borrowed no less from 7 Sam and Mag 7), it's actually funny how straight 1 to 1 derivative the Ghost Crew was of the Star Hoppers crew (though some Rebels fanatics might be loath to acknowledge it):
-Hera Syndulla - the headstrong, green alien (long ears, flight suit) Pilot and owner of the ship -
Jaxxon
-Kanan Jarrus - the oldest of the group, symbolic remanent and Jedi diehard idealist, can still blindly believe, have faith in the cause of the old bygone way -
Don-Wan Kihotay (now replaced by Ahsoka)
-Zeb Orrelios - the big, loyal, gruff muscle of the group (also possibly last of his kind) -
Hedji the Spiner
-Sabine Wren - the colorful feisty female warrior, former hunter/pirate gun slinger and weapons expert (now add a lightsaber and she's the ultimate girl badass cliche-
Amaiza Foxtrain
-Ezra Bridger - the Young upstart, troublesomee street kid, joins the cause (obvious hopeful Luke analog)-
Jimm Doshun (self identified
Starkiller Kid)
-C'P Chopper -the droid of the group, cantankerous, somewhat reckless, mechanics/repairs -
F.E. Effie
We've come full circle to the best of the worst, it's like the firkin poetry-bolder he started, rolled right on
"rhyming" completely out of his control
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