#jedirattail sw watchthrough

[jedirattail]

my sw watchthrough: The Phantom Menace

I love baby Obi-Wan so much. I'll never forgive them for cutting off his beautiful hair though

Headcanon that force users can only force-run once in their lives and that's why we never see them do that again

I like politics in my star wars, but they really could've gone for something more relevant to the rest of the story than the taxation of trade routes

This started out stronger than I remember. I was enjoying myself through the first act and JarJar even got some laughs out of me

It just slows down so much and gets very goofy during the second act when they're on Tatooine. Not enough Obi-Wan.

"ussa in big doodoo dis time"

The podrace looks and sounds amazing (as much as I don't like the Tatooine stuff)

Qui-Gon isn't really the perfect good guy "what the Jedi are meant to be" that the fandom makes him out to be sometimes. He literally bargains on a slave child's life so he could fix his ship. Still like him him but damn

Obi-Wan's "Why do I sense we've picked up another pathetic life form?" with his little vocal fry? and smirk? he's perfect

It's crazy how much better Coruscant looks in the later movies

But the practical effects in this movie are actually great. Wish they kept more in E2&3

The queen's outfits are so amazing and one of the best parts of the movie

Darth Maul is hot. It's mostly the voice.

Grappling hook guns are goofy as hell

Duel of the Fates is obviously incredible. I don't know much about fight choreography, but Ewan kills it with how he expresses Obi-Wan's emotions through his fighting after Maul kills Qui-Gon. Love Obi-Wan.

Unexplained glowing plasma ball of peace

I really wish Anakin was already a teenager at this point and it wasn't so long before E2. Jake Lloyd was great though and didn't deserve the hate at all

Next is Tales of the Jedi - The Sith Lord, and then I might check out some of the comics and/or books that take place between TPM and AotC (depending on what my library has)

[jedirattail]

my sw watchthrough: Tales of the Jedi episodes 1 & 2

S1E2 - Justice

ofc episode 2 takes place first, this is star wars

It's an interesting place to start the story of star wars. It starts us with Dooku and Qui-Gon and sets up the republic government as corrupt and unpopular from the start

The jedi and senate are so out of touch with what regular people's lives are like

Dooku and Qui-Gon really stand out in this starving, dirty, impoverished villiage with their clean, fancy robes

The jedi might mean well, but they live on the top level of coruscant with the senators and don't usually see this kinda stuff

And they ask why the people don't just elect someone better, no clue about the level of senate corruption

I want more Dooku

S1E1 - Life and Death

Seeing Ahsoka's mom is making me cry. her baby :(

Love the circle of life hunter and prey stuff. None of the three species are framed as more or less evil or innocent than each other, they're all just surviving

Ahsoka learns to face death so young, and it never really stops for her

Baby Ahsoka riding the big cat into town is so Dave Filoni lol

I wonder how giving Ahsoka to the jedi went. Her parents obviously love her

Phantom Menace next 🫡

[jedirattail]

I've just started watching through star wars in chronological order. I'll probably just post my thoughts here as I go through it. All I've watched so far is the first two episodes of tales of the jedi, so I'll post my thoughts on that in a sec

I think I'm gonna try to do basically everything between episodes 1 and 6, so tcw, bad batch, rebels, kenobi, andor, rogue one, and tales of the jedi/empire, and maybe some comics if we're feeling crazy. We'll see how long I actually stick with it lol