Firstly I want to point out that even if you have seen the Star Wars animated series and movies, this show is still amateuristic and bland. I have seen The Clone Wars and Rebels and all the movies and the characters from these series are nothing like their animated counterparts.
The story or plot in this series is enormously contrived. The protagonists make the dumbest decisions which they only make because the writers need to further the plot and not because it is a realistic decision made by a good written character.
All the plot does is relying on nostalgia and recurring characters. Everytime a familiar face pops up I can almost hear a fake sitcom cheer to remind us that you should like this very much because Anakin is in it and C-3PO just pops into a closed trial.
As worse or maybe even worse is the directing. Actors just stand there with no emotion. They don't blink, their words are spread out in time just so the writer could fill in the minimal time requirement of an episode. The backgrounds and environments are bland and nothing happens there that could enrich the world of Star Wars.
Also the world never felt smaller, again because of the reliance on recurring characters. In a galaxy with millions of stars and billions of people apparently the same handfull of people pop up everywhere to save the day or to say something to trigger our nostalgia senses.
All in all this series does not have any themes, or morals or even a simple fun story. The protagonist do things wrong and they don't have to face the consequences of their stupid actions. The villians act as if they are super smart, but cannot just aim their guns at three lonely people riding horsedogs. And to top it all of, people consume this despicable creation as if Dave Filoni is the messiah that will bring balance to the Star Wars Universe. He did fun things with the Animated Series but this is just bad, so excruciating bad.
The story or plot in this series is enormously contrived. The protagonists make the dumbest decisions which they only make because the writers need to further the plot and not because it is a realistic decision made by a good written character.
All the plot does is relying on nostalgia and recurring characters. Everytime a familiar face pops up I can almost hear a fake sitcom cheer to remind us that you should like this very much because Anakin is in it and C-3PO just pops into a closed trial.
As worse or maybe even worse is the directing. Actors just stand there with no emotion. They don't blink, their words are spread out in time just so the writer could fill in the minimal time requirement of an episode. The backgrounds and environments are bland and nothing happens there that could enrich the world of Star Wars.
Also the world never felt smaller, again because of the reliance on recurring characters. In a galaxy with millions of stars and billions of people apparently the same handfull of people pop up everywhere to save the day or to say something to trigger our nostalgia senses.
All in all this series does not have any themes, or morals or even a simple fun story. The protagonist do things wrong and they don't have to face the consequences of their stupid actions. The villians act as if they are super smart, but cannot just aim their guns at three lonely people riding horsedogs. And to top it all of, people consume this despicable creation as if Dave Filoni is the messiah that will bring balance to the Star Wars Universe. He did fun things with the Animated Series but this is just bad, so excruciating bad.