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More catching up post Holidays: so there will be one more Clone Wars Season! On the one Hand, I'm pleased. This is my era of Star Wars; not the OT, not the sequels, though I am fond of both, but for me, the prequel era is the one that touched my heart most, and The Clone Wars is my favourite incarnation of it. Incidentally, note to the sequel creators: the way The Clone Wars managed to individualize the Clones and make them sympathetic hammers home that what will happen is their tragedy as well, with the added outrage that their entire existence from artificial creation to death is basically glorified slavery. ( Slightly spoilery comparison between clones and stormtroopers and the narrative treatment in CW vs the sequels ensues. ) Now I know that Rex makes it into Star Wars: Rebels, but hooray one more outing for the other clones before Order 66 strikes!
On the other hand: the s5 finale in terms of Ahsoka as an individual, Ahsoka and the Jedi, as well as Ahsoka and Anakin, can hardly be topped dramatically. So I'm afraid that whatever Ahsoka's s6 story will turn out to be, it will feel anticlimactic by comparison. What I do hope for is that Filoni will put Padme's cut subplot from Revenge of the Sith about organizing parliamentary resistance against Palpatine together with Bail Organa into this last season, and maybe Ahsoka's story could interweave with this?
Also recently watched, due to it being on Netflix: season 3 of I, Zombie. Which was as entertaining as ever, though I do have some serious and not so serious complaints. Early in the season, Ravi continued the unfortunate late s2 trend of making me forget why I liked him so much by displaying an irritating case of Nice Guy Syndrome vis a vis Peyton. Thankfully, by mid season this was over with, and he got back to being an endearing character. The very last scene of the season between him and Liv was one of the show's most emotional and best and earned by three seasons of friendship and trust. This also was the first season where all of Liv's nearest and dearest ( did something spoilery )
Speaking of alterations of the status quo, the s3 finale actually went through with the major game changer foreshadowed since the s2 finale. Which makes sense in terms of all the preceding events, though less in terms of having to suspend disbelief as to the reaction such an event would cause in anything resembling the current day US. Which reminds me: I'm usually not a "but think of the children" type of viewer, but Rob Thomas, did you have to use a nefarious scheme for your big evil finale revealed plot that could have been dreamt of by an anti vaccination nut? In the current climate?
And one more thing about the finale: ( which is too spoilery to mention above cut. )
On to the good stuff: other than my complaint about Ravi, I felt on board with how ( a spoilery triangle resolved. )
Clive had a good season, to the point where at times he felt like the co-lead. Given the finale's events, though, I wonder whether the show's case of the week format won't be gone or at least radically altered next season, which makes me wonder about which role he'll have then. Anyway, while we got Ravi's early season romantic woes and Major's long term social angst due to the s2 events, it's noticable that Clive, who in late s2 sacrificed a major relationship (as far as he knew forever) for friendship and the greater good, never spent much time navel-gazing but focused on the job throughout, without this feeling like he'd just forgotten what he'd lost.
Whereas with Liv it felt like the season wanted to avoid letting her react in anything other than a short scene at the end of the season opener to something enormous she had to do in the s2 finale, and that this got lampshaded in a later episode which told us she threw herself into her vision-caused alternate personalities to avoid processing might have been a rueful acknowledgment of this. If you think about how the first season took its time letting her process her zombiedom and used this as a depression metaphor, the contrast is pretty startling. Incidentally, I am relieved her third non-Major love interest ( did not do something spoilery )
All in all: nitpicks aside, I do like this show a lot, and am very curious indeed about season 4.
On the other hand: the s5 finale in terms of Ahsoka as an individual, Ahsoka and the Jedi, as well as Ahsoka and Anakin, can hardly be topped dramatically. So I'm afraid that whatever Ahsoka's s6 story will turn out to be, it will feel anticlimactic by comparison. What I do hope for is that Filoni will put Padme's cut subplot from Revenge of the Sith about organizing parliamentary resistance against Palpatine together with Bail Organa into this last season, and maybe Ahsoka's story could interweave with this?
Also recently watched, due to it being on Netflix: season 3 of I, Zombie. Which was as entertaining as ever, though I do have some serious and not so serious complaints. Early in the season, Ravi continued the unfortunate late s2 trend of making me forget why I liked him so much by displaying an irritating case of Nice Guy Syndrome vis a vis Peyton. Thankfully, by mid season this was over with, and he got back to being an endearing character. The very last scene of the season between him and Liv was one of the show's most emotional and best and earned by three seasons of friendship and trust. This also was the first season where all of Liv's nearest and dearest ( did something spoilery )
Speaking of alterations of the status quo, the s3 finale actually went through with the major game changer foreshadowed since the s2 finale. Which makes sense in terms of all the preceding events, though less in terms of having to suspend disbelief as to the reaction such an event would cause in anything resembling the current day US. Which reminds me: I'm usually not a "but think of the children" type of viewer, but Rob Thomas, did you have to use a nefarious scheme for your big evil finale revealed plot that could have been dreamt of by an anti vaccination nut? In the current climate?
And one more thing about the finale: ( which is too spoilery to mention above cut. )
On to the good stuff: other than my complaint about Ravi, I felt on board with how ( a spoilery triangle resolved. )
Clive had a good season, to the point where at times he felt like the co-lead. Given the finale's events, though, I wonder whether the show's case of the week format won't be gone or at least radically altered next season, which makes me wonder about which role he'll have then. Anyway, while we got Ravi's early season romantic woes and Major's long term social angst due to the s2 events, it's noticable that Clive, who in late s2 sacrificed a major relationship (as far as he knew forever) for friendship and the greater good, never spent much time navel-gazing but focused on the job throughout, without this feeling like he'd just forgotten what he'd lost.
Whereas with Liv it felt like the season wanted to avoid letting her react in anything other than a short scene at the end of the season opener to something enormous she had to do in the s2 finale, and that this got lampshaded in a later episode which told us she threw herself into her vision-caused alternate personalities to avoid processing might have been a rueful acknowledgment of this. If you think about how the first season took its time letting her process her zombiedom and used this as a depression metaphor, the contrast is pretty startling. Incidentally, I am relieved her third non-Major love interest ( did not do something spoilery )
All in all: nitpicks aside, I do like this show a lot, and am very curious indeed about season 4.
