Please no book spoilers in this thread. This thread can contain TV spoilers up to season 2 episode 1.
Just watched ep 1. Think I’ll continue in the same way I watched season 1: admiring how good it looks, but finding it frustrating.
As an example: as welcome as a naked Lee Pace fight scene is, it didn’t really establish how many assassins there were / what they were doing at any given moment.
Was good to see Holt McCallney (from Mindhunter), show up though.
I still can’t get over how both Salvor and Gaal are “the chosen ones” in a setting where the whole premise is that there are no chosen ones and/or special individuals, aside from The Mule, but that’s the whole point of that arc.
The Cleon/Empire thing, tho, that’s great.
pretty rough episode imo. season 1 was all over the place but felt fairly consistent. this was some real highs (all the cleonic content) and some real deep lows (everything else)
The Empire storyline is the most interesting part of this show.
i don’t disagree, it could probably just be its own show
Agreed, my philosophy for the first season was that they deserved a lot of runway for this kind of story.
They’ve still got some, and I can see what they could be setting up this episode (and Lee was so much fun, watching him break from the cold Empire of s1 was great), but they really have to clean it up early this season.
Synnax is literally the least interesting planet in the Galaxy, wasting time here seems so silly.
The thing with Demerzel is also really damn weird, dying to see how this whole nightmare turns out.
