Mike_Droideka

....and Owen Lars.

It was Captain Panaka who mentioned sitting ducks in TPM. Incidentally, there is a line in the original 1977 Star Wars novelization where Kenobi mentions that "Even a duck has to be taught to swim" to Luke Skywalker.

It's far from being unrealistic. When Lucas was planning Star Wars UNDERWORLD, one of his objectives with it was to "make it look as good as the features." There's no excuse as we've seen episodic TV like Game of Thrones delivering spectacle and thrilling audiences worldwide. Andor was incredibly bland to look at. Kenobi, Ahsoka and the Boba Fett show were all a waste of everyone's time. I agree that The Mandalorian had its moments, before Season 3 dove off of a cliff.

I get it. Things like that tend to break immersion for some people. I think a knife fight in Star Wars is pretty stupid, but I've seen (and heard) a ton of stupid shit in the last 10 years of Disney Star Wars, so it's right in line with everything else

Smaller budgets, smaller results. It's no wonder these streaming shows come off looking like fan films.

It's not so much that Star Wars can't have zippers or that they don't exist in the SWU, it's just that Lucas didn't want them visible on his characters costumes which I can very much understand.

Lucas was reluctant to show off a lot of aliens in the original trilogy. If you rewatch those films, most of the masked aliens are shown in carefully or dimly lit scenes; the Cantina, Dagobah, the Carbon Freeze Chamber and Jabba's Palace. Lucas was concerned that audiences would find the masks hokey, so he cut away from them or just showed them on screen very quickly. Prosthetics and animatronic mask techniques have greatly improved since 1979 and we've seen some amazing alien creature work in the prequel trilogy. It's a massive galaxy and seeing human after human is becoming a bit naff. It seems to be a Disney thing. It's far more economical to cast a bunch of human extras than it is to create an array of convincing alien masks. That's part of the problem with Disney. They're not interested in spending the big bucks to make Star Wars look grand and feel elaborate, which is what it should be. This is why they keep hiring mostly low tier directors and writers and why these streaming shows end up looking and feeling like fan fiction.

More of the same. Average visuals, stunt/fight work we've seen a hundred times before in other flicks. No droids and way too many human characters for my liking. All of the costumes, particularly the extras look brand spanking new off the rack and seem to be created by the same person who works on all of the other ugly Disney Star Wars streaming shows. The whole thing looks and feels like fan fiction which is in line with everything we've been subjected to since 2015.