Destiny

I'll keep it short as the other reviews have done a good job on iterating through all of the awful things going on with this show.

But ultimately, it's just boring... there's so much they could have done with such a fun IP, but they're just writing such... meh... shows

Everything feels so forced, it's like the actors are stressing so hard to get their big break from a Star Wars show that so much just feels so unnatural.

Episode 1 and 2 felt like we were off to a good start, but this just feels like filler. I'm hoping the series can turn itself around since right now it feels like it's completely nosedived and it's going to be hard to try to carry on watching.

First off, I just want to say I am tired of defending the new star wars shows. I get that both boba fett & obi wan were tough watches for some people but the mandolorian and Andor were some of the best star wars i've seen in a good bit.

This on the other hand, this is tough to watch. I was okay with the first two episodes but this episode literally made me say outloud "What the heck is happening?" to which by the end of the episode I felt like I just wasted my time watching something Star Wars. Even just the thought of wasting my time on something in the star wars universe makes me extremely sad to think about. I absolutely love the world George Lucas made and I know that some shows and movies that have come out have been divisive and a let down but this show is on a complete other level. I feel that Kathleen Kennedy and here team are taking what was good about the universe (both canon and non canon alike) and destroying it. Disney is giving you basically unlimited amounts of money to make something great but you instead took what seems like a screenplay from some 10 year olds star wars fan fiction and made it into reality. I'm just tired, sad and upset at the way she and her team is handling this. There is so much good non-canon storytelling out there, stop trying to recreate the wheel and give the fans what they want.

I am going to try to give this show the benefit of the doubt but my expectations for the rest of this series has dropped to zero.

This felt like the most un-Star Wars product released since Disney took over. Super bland characters, extremely predictable script, and poorly written dialogue. I don't have time to really go into the issues with this series' concept of the witches and the way this ridicules the importance of Anakin's genesis. Yes, magic exists in the Star Wars universe, no, it shouldn't look like this with only one Dathomirian and active force wielders who can impregnate people. This was such a special opportunity to create an epic story in a rare time period yet it feels like the director didn't even want to create a Star Wars show.

Unironically one of the worst things I've ever had the misfortune of sitting through. People complain about the sequels, but this is an entirely different level. At least the sequels have enjoyable scenes, likeable characters, and aren't pure nonsense. This is just pure nonsense. It feels like it was pulled off a 12 year old's Tumblr fan-fiction.

When the witches start singing together I almost shut it off. It was so cringey that I actually felt regret, Real regret. Like why did I waste my time watching this? I could have been washing dishes. I could have been shaving, How did I get to this low of a point in my life that I sat through this?

In a show with bad writing and bad acting and illogical story beats, I was genuinely surprised when Jodie Turner-Smith came on screen with some legit good acting. Never heard of this actress, was ready to ignore her flat character and more placeholder dialogue - but couldn't. She's great.

Sadly, and I mean that, her good acting made the rest of the episode even worse by comparison.

No attempt is made to explain why things are happening. They just happen. Cue Jedi for no reason. Cue confusing politics with weird rules. Cue immaculate conception or something? Flashbacks are meant to inform - so why am I more confused?