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Ahsoka Season 1, Episode 1 Discussion (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/starwars

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I thought it was intriguing, and slower than I anticipated until the very end. Seems like a middle ground in tone/pacing to the other Mando-verse shows and Andor. I didn't see a post here so I figured, why not?

I'll be back tomorrow after I sleep to chat more.

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[–] melonpunk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard of the concept in the streaming space of "number of minutes watched", like there's a different way of judging success. This has me wondering if there's a demand from up top to make these shows longer in order to increase that metric. I say this because while slow pacing can be an artistic choice and I'm perfectly fine for it for the right story. I lapped up Oppenheimer, and movies like Only God Forgives.

When it works, it works. Ahsoka felt like it was stretched way out of pace, a 25 minute show elongated into an hour. Every. sentence. was. laborious. and. plodding. when. it. didn't. have. any. reason. to. be. Not to mention the delivery of the lines felt so wooden and forced, and I think if you're going to build around a slow paced story, then you need to lean on the emotion and body language to fill it out. This had none of it.

[–] aufheben 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah the pacing should be tighter, it’s Star Wars, not a Tarkovsky film