Fair enough! I find Obi-Wan a far more difficult character to like than I think Lucas & Co intend him to be, and I had few feelings about Maul prior to watching Rebels, so in part I was just pleasantly surprised that Twin Suns gave me so many emotions about them.
And yeah, the timeframe was a problem, as was the baffling decision to rely mostly on self-contained episodes-of-the-week rather than story arcs. It’s just hard to tell a story in twenty minutes. There’s a noticeable uptick in quality with the two-parters and in the fourth season where they take a more arc-based approach. Likewise I agree that much of the animation was a pile of meh, which is why the bits that wowed me in the S2 finale made such an impression.
The silver lining of the things that frustrate us about a work is always that they make good fanfic fuel, haha. I tend to like interquels - done well I think a story is more about the journey than the destination, and constraints can spur a lot of creativity - but the freedom of AUs definitely has its appeal.
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Date: 2019-06-05 03:08 pm (UTC)And yeah, the timeframe was a problem, as was the baffling decision to rely mostly on self-contained episodes-of-the-week rather than story arcs. It’s just hard to tell a story in twenty minutes. There’s a noticeable uptick in quality with the two-parters and in the fourth season where they take a more arc-based approach. Likewise I agree that much of the animation was a pile of meh, which is why the bits that wowed me in the S2 finale made such an impression.
The silver lining of the things that frustrate us about a work is always that they make good fanfic fuel, haha. I tend to like interquels - done well I think a story is more about the journey than the destination, and constraints can spur a lot of creativity - but the freedom of AUs definitely has its appeal.