This review contains spoilers. This has been a rough season for Star Wars Rebels. After the Season Two opener “The Siege of Lothal” set an impossibly high bar by being perhaps the third best Star Wars story ever, the show has been fumbling week after week with lackluster one-off episodes featuring uninspired and unearned character … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Review – “Legacy”
This review contains spoilers. I’m seriously considering giving up on these weekly Star Wars Rebels reviews. I know it’s bad form of me to spend a portion of what should be a critical analysis whining about the process of writing it, but once again we have another episode of Star Wars Rebels that has the … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Review – “The Future of the Force”
This review contains spoilers. I’ve been trying to figure out what is going on with Rebels this season. While the show hasn’t been exactly bad (except for that one episode) this season has had a noticeable step backwards in quality following the previous season. I’m not sure if there’s just extra padding because they got … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Review – “Stealth Strike”
The following excerpt contains my contributions to MiceChat’s Dateline Disneyland column, “Star Wars Season of the Force fails to launch as Disneyland ramps up for holiday crowds,” written by Andy Castro. Hi, my name is David. You may know me from the summer I spent pretending to be a cowboy at Disneyland or that time … Continue reading Dateline Disneyland Segment: Season of the Forced
This is starting to get frustrating. I’ve been reviewing this show for almost a season and a half now, and even when we’ve gotten the occasional bad episode, I have always enjoyed the discussion. I like this show and this setting and these characters, and it’s fun for me to get to analyze how the … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Review – “Blood Sisters”
This review contains spoilers. By now, it should go without saying that I’m a big fan of Star Wars Rebels. After an initial hesitation to watch the new series, I fell in love with the pilot episode and I continued to watch as the show (for the most part) increased in quality over the course … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Review – “Wings of the Master”
I am cognizant of the fact that I am one of the very few people in the world who enjoys Star Wars Rebels while also disliking The Clone Wars. This is something I’m kind of sick of talking about, and I’m sure you’re sick of reading, but once again I’m forced to bring up my distaste … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Review – “Brothers of the Broken Horn”
Superman is a joke. He’s an overpowered boy scout – an antique from a simpler time, irrelevant in our modern world of corruption, paranoia, and economic turbulence. That is the common wisdom regarding this character, a character that once defined the very idea of what a superhero is. Yet even now when these stories have never been more popular, … Continue reading Why the World Needs SUPERGIRL
This review contains spoilers During the last season of Star Wars Rebels, I wrote a particularly nasty review of the episode “Idiot’s Array” in which I called out the episode’s writer, Kevin Hopps, describing his work as (among other things) “a major stain on an otherwise spotless show.” It was mean – more mean than … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Review – “Always Two There Are”
This review contains spoilers. We have now gotten three separate two-part episodes in Star Wars Rebels thus far, and a pattern is beginning to emerge. The first part in each of these micro-arcs is dedicated to the goal of progressing major plot and character developments; whether that be Ezra wrestling with the ghosts of his … Continue reading STAR WARS REBELS Review – “Relics of the Old Republic”
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