It has strong individual episodes. The plot is fucked, most of what you mention is from the last and first seasons. Yes I watched it up until the final season. It was fascinating, like seeing a monkey build a bicycle. It manages to get the idea of two wheels. Suddenly you wonder, will it make an actual bike? But no. It tries to take the wheels and put them on top of each other and faceplants repeatedly.
What would be an example of a strong individual episode of
Rebels, might I ask? Because that "overall it's not good, but it has some isolated highlights" is the exact same feeble defense bandied about to excuse the laughable ratio of good to bad episodes for TCW.
Even
Twilight of the Apprentice, which everyone hails as the greatest episode of the show, is riddled with garbage, like the worst use of the helicopter lightsabers, the jobbing of Vader, Maul literally losing to a blind man and tripping off a cliff like a Looney Tunes character, among countless other things.
I haven't read the NJO books yet, but Disney snatching the title like that for their new shitty movie still hurts.
You'll have plenty of time now. We're about to endure 5 uninterrupted years of agony from the SW front...and a series as girthy as NJO is just about the only thing I can think of that's long enough to help weather the storm.
Not to mention the fact that it's going make googling the original series (or even simply referring to it) a pain in the ass.
Something tells me that when this is all said and done, the prices on NJO hardcovers and the like are going to go up in price.
In fact, EU stuff in general has been going up in price on the second hand market ever since TROS made everyone realize that Disney had ruined the saga beyond repair. Hardcovers and trade paperbacks that used to go for pennies around 2015 or so now suddenly command much higher prices.
I think with every passing show and movie, people are rapidly starting to realize that there was neglected gold in those books and comics that everyone took for granted.
It'll be very funny to me if Ray Stevenson got a better role in RRR, a random film not even from his industry, where he plays a moustache-twirling baron. Compared to what he does in a Hollywood production, which is part of what was once the biggest cultural behemoth in America, where he plays a Sith lackey.
I think the high point in Ray Stevenson's Hollywood career was playing Frank Castle in
Punisher War Zone.
I'm probably the only one who either remembers that, or cares about that neglected gore-laden schlockfest of a film. But I'll go to my grave loving it...and I certainly got more joy out of it than all two seasons of that
HORRENDOUS, disgraceful excuse for a Netflix series.
