patrick_dn

The opening scene says it all: a smooth-talking, yet insincere sales man sells the most expensive golf stick in the shop just so he can better himself financially. A pattern he would repeat during the first episode. It made me hate the main character played by Owen Wilson instantly. The guy is down on his luck and moves on to 'prey' on the talent of a young guy he meets accidentally. It's not portrayed as 'preying on', but as 'giving someone with talent but no access to the sport a well-deserved break'. It just feels utterly selfish. Furthermore, I couldn't relate at all to all the plastic smiles and slick, smooth-talking.

First 2 episodes started of well. But then came episode 3: jedi's barging in on a remote settlement, pressuring the adults and manipulating a child to go with them,... I'm rooting against the jedi now! Thanks fan fiction for the destruction of the jedi myth. But maybe showing how power hungry and blindsighted the jedi were to moral values before the republic seized power, was the whole idea.

On the other side, the series has been destroying the myth far longer than with this one. Remember space whales, witches popping up all of a sudden...!? I'm waiting for killer frogs and sheep the size of elephants, speaking multiple languages to top things of.

I was looking forward to this and started out with the first episode. In my opinion a lot of things are off. Especially the main character is a bit contrived. The idea that the main character would be emancipated in the same way women in our times are emancipated just because she's smart, seems to me a dumb idea.

I'm not looking for another series that wants to force our current views and morals onto a bygone era. I'm not in for a lesson in 'how to treat women today' using a 50s setting. I'd rather see a realistic approach on how smart women in those days had to compete with the male oriented society. This is not that series.