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Instead, likeTony Gilroys great resistance epicAndor, it has a distinctive sensibility and feeling of authorial intent.
Free your mind, embrace the ways of the space witches!
Maybe space witches are actually … cool?
Thats part of the fun!
And maybe all that backstory isnt actually … necessary?
By the way, you dont really need to know any of that.
The show evenopens witha fight in anoodle shop.J.M.
Maybe the Jedi are actually … fascists?
Star Warsis perhaps our most strict right-and-wrong, white-and-black franchise.
(Anakin and Kylo Ren, for starters.
The Jedi sometimes feel a bit likethe Avengers(i.e., cops), and that can get boring.
Amandla Stenberg is great.
Lee Jung-jae is great.
The past is the past, innovation is the future, etc.R.H.
Maybe the Sith are actually … relevant again?
Whenever a hooded figurewith a red lightsabershows up, you know something Sithy is afoot.
Were excited to find out.J.M.
Maybe this grief narrative is actually … subversive?
(Do you bend or break Jedi code to help a former student?
Do you do the bidding of a bad guy because it provides an outlet to process your grief?)
Maybe normalizing the human body inStar Warsis … long overdue?
Do commercials about womens sanitary products make you uncomfortable?
Its metaphorical and meaningful and moving!
Kind of!R.H.
Maybe cutesy sidekicks are actually … delightful?
So you hated BB-8.
Maybe all that gross food is actually … fun?
People got big mad when Luke Skywalkerswiggedbluish-green milk inThe Last Jedi.
(Was the issue that he didnt pasteurize?)
Isnt spice also a drug inStar Wars, so is a spice cream a psychedelic dessert or candy?
I could keep going, but most importantly: I want to taste a spice cream.
Hes very much a secondary character inThe Acolyte, but thats fine!
Betray me anytime, buddy.R.H
