I still just can't believe how hard Disney fumbled the ball with season 3 of the Mandalorian. Season 2 ended on the most amazing set up for getting to see Grogu and Luke training for an extended period of time, and fleshing out both Din and Grogu as characters without each other... But nah let's just immediately reunite them on a shitty spinoff show and then start season 3 as if season 2 basically never happened

Brilliant analyses of the Jedi morality. I'm only a passing starwars fan, confined mostly to the six films and a few Eu novels prior to the horrible Disney era, but watched this after really liking your analyses of rings of power. Hope you get more subs and views, and that you'll be coming out with more videos like this in the future.

@lowtemperaturehands

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, really appreciate it. Glad you liked the bit on the Jedi morality, I thought it would be something interesting to add because despite it having quite significant implications, it isn't something that's talked about much, at least from what I've seen. Posting a long video on something that's been out of relevance for 2 months definitely isn't the smartest way to get views and subs, but want to keep producing content that people find worth watching.

@darktenor4967

11 ай бұрын

@@lowtemperaturehands I always appreciate in depth moral discussions, and in an era when so much ethical debate runs on pure emotions, it's nice to here someone employing reason for once. I actually don't really care myself whether a thing is current or not if the discussion is interesting, and if someone is going into the subject via rational arguments, and a detailed perspective, rather than hammering the usual buzwords. I'd definitely be up for more of these sorts of analyses even of things that have faded slightly out of the current consciousness, since an in depth exploration of a passed topic or story property is much more preferable to a shallow note on what the current news is (shallow though most properties are these days).

It seems the characters in this saga are mere means to achieve plot points. You nailed it, that this constitutes poor writing. Compelling writing is character based, and demonstrates a knowledge and consistency in characters that is audience can relate to. It seems that Luke and Asoka's decision to not train Grogu because he is fearfull, is itself based on fear--the fear that they will fail him. so it is super inconsistent. George Lucas has demonstrated that he is willing to frankenstein his own IP for financial gain and cultural relevance. He has successfully rejected his attachment to good filmaking.

Another thought: the idea of yodas species being a toddler at age fifty - while cute - now backfires on the writers since Grogu can't actually change and grow. Imagine he would be any other species or maybe they establish a faster life cycle early on, he could be like 10 in the first season and now 14 and realistically grown and changed and transformed from a helpless kid into a half proficient fighter. See at lots of other tv shows for examples - Arya Stark in Game of Thrones comes to mind.

Indeed. It's not just that Disney has done and is doing a very poor job at it's primary purpose, telling stories. Or that Disney is abusing it's position as a story-teller to promote propaganda instead of meaning. The people who work for the company seemingly have no understanding of the material they abuse.

In the end, Grogu is a victim of everything to do with Disney Star Wars: wasted potential. In the original Star Wars, the small lingering plot threads and the few big ones are tied up by expanded universe stories (or film novelisations, but those don’t lead into the films). For the Disney trilogy, anything good they’ve made even the largest plot threads are left undone at the end of each film. And their expanded universe looks like nothing but a series of cop-outs made by writers who don’t have the same passion for the source material that many of the original EU creatives had.

Recently I had a fridge logic moment: isn't it absolutely amazing that George Lucas constructed the finale to his 6 film cycle in such a way that it is not power, not fighting for a common goal, not deflecting the bad guys power back at him, but compassion that ultimately undoes evil. Luke's persistent compassion and love for his father and his father's sudden (suddenly on display) and deepest compassion and love for his son? Those are to which the Emperor is blind and what undoes him. I did enjoy the sequel trilogy quite a bit, but it doesn't come close to the amazing ending we've already had - for forty years now!

@lowtemperaturehands

7 ай бұрын

Great comment. Funny you should say this too, I'm going to sort of touch on this in my next video which is a review on the Ahsoka TV series. The video is just taking a little time because it's probably my most ambitious video yet

@fgdj2000

7 ай бұрын

@@lowtemperaturehands Thanks. Feel free to quote me on that, if it fits into your video (Never been quoted in a KZread Video, least of all a well analyses one like this and would be an honor, but it's your video and your opinion and probably not that original of a thought anyway :-)) Have a nice day.

I might be one of the rare "weirdoes" who don't find baby Yoda cute or lovable. More that that, I think this doll of today is less life-like than the Yoda doll from 45 years ago, and sometimes is outright creepy in how it looks and moves. Anyway, great analysis. When entertainment becomes too corporate, it is doomed. Because when those MBA-zombies try their usual recipes "cutting costs, maximizing profits" and "consumers can be taught to eagerly consume our product with enough advertising and media praises", it suddenly doesn't work. Storytelling quality is not just one of attributes that can be offset with CGI, explosions, costumes and other tricks - it's the cornerstone. But Disney treats their franchises and characters not like living and breathing universes and beings, but like marketable products, decorations and dolls. It became obvious back in mid-00s when they brought back to life captain Barbossa in PotC franchise, despite him having an impactful and touching death scene in the first movie, that was a perfect send-off for a great character. But Disney's thoughts went like "hey, he's popular and liked, so let's milk him once more and who cares about the ramifications". That could be seen as a foreshadowing of "Somehow Palpatine returned", and personally I knew SW was gonna be destroyed once I've heard about its purchase by Disney. And that's why it would be an undeserved compliment to Disney to try and find some logic or philosophy in their plot twists. There's no depth there, and their storylines are shaped by marketing demands and by political agenda. But it is infuriating how in attempts to claim more depth to their plots they totally misrepresent and flip over the core "ideological" differences between Jedi and Sith. It is particularly the Sith who see attachments as a weakness which can lead to defeat, but should be exploited when found in others. They might be right (after all, Luke gambled the fate of the resistance and even his sister's fate on the attachment between himself and his father), but it doesn't mean the Jedi, and Luke specifically, share this view.

Hey, I don't know if you value viewer input but I have think your first title was better, it was more subtle and more intriguing (I think it was "Too cute to succeed" or something like that), I don't know if I would have clicked on this new one. Anyway good video, been here since the first one !

@lowtemperaturehands

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! I certainly appreciate the input, I’ve reverted it.

@JackandJohnProd

11 ай бұрын

@@lowtemperaturehands Nice, hope it will help the video !

I was also super disappointed in this season. From both a character and general perspective the writing is worse

To be faire in the sequels luke failed so it make senses.