I watched it, figured it’s worth discussing.
My biggest question is about Tak Rennod and the Onyx Cinder. Just exactly how or what happened? Did he steal a ship from At Achrann, destroy the directions for At Attan, then somehow got onto the planet, undetected, crashed? Died? And the ship was left unnoticed long enough to get covered by nature?
I feel like anyone going beyond the barrier would be noticed by the droids immediately. I really expected Tak to be the grandfather of someone on the planet. That he arrived to this paradise, had a change of heart and hid his ship to live out the rest of his days. But I can’t really see that as a possibility now.
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The show excelled at creating tense situations where you would worry if the characters will survive (except for the child soldier planet episode), but the characters were generally not engaging enough for me to really care. The kids all were obviously going to survive because Disney wouldn’t kill kids, but if they were adults or droids then that would be better at delivering tension for the audience. Jod was the most interesting, but his true malice couldn’t shine with the kids’ PG-rating armor. The reveal of the planet being ruled/powered by one robot without any redundant systems felt too familiar and trite with Disney’s The Marvels and even She-Hulk both within recent memory.
Wim upturned an entire planet’s way of life, probably got some innocent people killed, and possibly crashed the galactic economy. That’ll teach the audience the right lesson about wanting to go on an adventure.
I think some people were wanting the finale to be a little longer, but I’m fine with where they left things. I’ll be a bit less fine if there’s no Season 2, so hopefully there is.
For a show that was literally “Maybe the real treasure was the friends we met along the way”, I’m surprised by how much enjoyed the whole thing. It was very well made, and I imagine that there’s some kids out there who think it’s the best thing ever, so that’s nice.
Another show that like Andor I had little interest in when announced and after watching it turned out to be great. Wish that was the case for the shows I was actually interested in when announced.
If there’s no season 2 I think the ending was fine, just felt like there could’ve been another episode or just had this finale be extended another 10-20 minutes. But if there is a season 2 then that’ll improve the ending a lot. Really hoping a season 2 does get announced at celebration
Yeah, the shows based on the OT characters feel forced, but the shows where someone said “I have an idea for an original story in the Star Wars universe,” are good.
If the latter included characters from the former it would work a lot better than saying “we need shows about these characters!”
So after watching the finale I’m feeling whelmed. I liked that it was largely just a story set in the Star Wars galaxy, I appreciate the lack of baggage, but I’m a little bummed that it just sort of ended.
I have so many questions after the show is over, questions that I hope are answerer in a future story, but I wish we got just a little bit.
How did the planet come to be hidden? What do the parents know about the “Great Work”, is it true or a lie? What happened to Jod? How will the New Republic act? Does this planet being discovered ruin someone elses secret plans? How does a planet whose sole goal is printing money work? How big is the planet/conspiracy? What about the other At planets? Why are they just abandoned? Who is/was the Pirate King (he was fuzzy/blurred out)?
I guess I’m excited for more.
How did the planet come to be hidden?
This is how they were designed and intended to operate when they began making money
What do the parents know about the “Great Work”, is it true or a lie?
This was true. Their mission was to make money. It’s just they were disconnected from the outside for so long and kept going.
How Does this planet being discovered ruin someone elses secret plans?
I don’t think it ruins anyone’s secret plans. Most people don’t think the place existed and it was forgotten to history.
What about the other At planets? Why are they just abandoned?
I think it mentioned the rest of the “jewels” were gone and this was the last one. They likely were invaded or went to ruin on their own. It’s honestly a miracle AtAtin survived with their strict society.
Who is/was the Pirate King (he was fuzzy/blurred out)? I guess I’m excited for more
This is probably the biggest mystery left, probably on purprose.
What do the parents know about the “Great Work”, is it true or a lie?
Considering it started before the Empire (and they didn’t even know what happened), it seems to me that the Great Work was simply just the money minting operation. In fact, seeing how hard the whole planet has this '70s-80s America vibe, I imagine that it’s a really old ass secret, like, from a very long time ago in the Old Republic (as old as '70s America is to us!), the entire reason it got so big - because money. Everybody was simply indoctrinated into it, into keeping the secret and not stealing anything or leaving, but it wasn’t much more than that. Early guesses were that it would link into the sequel trilogy somehow, but it looks like it was simply a forgotten secret from the past, not for the future.
Jod’s fate can be anything they need, if they ever want to pick up the story later, if they want Jod to return, they can just say he escaped or hid or maybe he did time in prison and then got out. If they don’t, if Disney were to collapse tomorrow, you can just assume that Jod was captured and that’s that. There’s no real point in saying RIGHT NOW, if ever, how this wraps up, you don’t write yourself into a corner when you really don’t need it at all. It doesn’t matter, the good guys won. Any later detail is not that interesting until they follow through with something else.
What about the other At planets? Why are they just abandoned?
The Republic collapsed. It’s safe to assume that one planet got lucky and the others didn’t. Probably because they didn’t follow protocol as scrupulously as our guys!
Largely agree. It was, ironically, a realistic ending where they call for help and are rescued. Would’ve preferred something closer to Goonies or Home Alone.
I wonder if they held back answering some questions for season two. There’s a lot of ripe potential in the unanswered questions. Overall I enjoyed the show.
When season 2 comes out, will you rewatch season 1 to catch up?
Probably, but I also like rewatching shows in general.
