Comment on 'Shadow and Bone' canceled after 2 seasons, spinoff also scrapped
loobkoob@kbin.social 1 year agoYeah, I really liked the premise. I never got into Game Of Thrones purely because it felt to me like it relished the violence, gore, sexual abuse, cruelty, etc, too much. I'm not some puritan who's against stories featuring those things, but I don't enjoy seeing them constantly depicted in detail.
Anyway, the idea Shadow and Bone being this fantasy show with in-depth politics without leaning too heavily into all that stuff was appealing to me. But yeah, it ended up just feeling rather tropey, flat, and very "young adult" (in a bad way).
Also: hell yes to Andor! It's easily my favourite show from the past few years.
SrTobi@feddit.de 1 year ago
For me as well. Andor started a little bit slow, which makes it hard to recommend without warning to at least watch the first 4 episodes (which i think comes partly because our brains have been trained to have shorter and shorter attention spans). But then… Boy was it gripping. And there were real stakes! When was the last time in star wars that characters had to go into a high security building AND you were not 100% sure they all would come out unharmed? What? Like empire strikes back? And the usage of storm troups has never been better! I find it funny that I’d rather want to heare more about these no name characters than all these blant main chars from the movies. I think I could watch a whole series about the ISB… Fuck I’m rambling! Anyways. Agreed it’s good!
averyminya@beehaw.org 1 year ago
It’s funny you say that because in this case we do know that Andor would have to make it out given the events of Rogue One. However, I’d argue that you’re still right and that makes it even more compelling. We know Cassian’s fate which makes his entrapment even more impressive for how the hell he’d ever get out!
SrTobi@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yeah you are of course right regarding Cassian himself, and it’s certainly suspensful to see how exactly they get in/out. though at least in the 2nd arc I’d argue that it’s also interesting to see if they succeed or not. The money is a huge mcguffin, but it’s also one that the rebels can live without. Normally in star wars they steal something or someone that is important to further the story, but the money basically doesn’t matter and we see it not having any tangable effect on the rebels (though of course the heist increases the activity of the isb). That makes it unclear if they will even succeed. On the other hand there are a bunch of characters that conveniently get introduced so we can fear that they might die. And the do die.