Im a big fan of your work. You authentically express your views in a wholesome manner whilst educating me on this universe. I get excited on new shows coming, eagerly anticipating your content. I greatly appreciate your style, sir. Please keep it up.
In the Prequel Era we see both the Jedi and the Republic on a slow downward spiral being exacerbated by the Sith, and that's our main reference for the Jedi Order, games and other stories before this have largely modelled the Jedi on their prequel era state. I think the point of the High Republic is twofold: First: To show both the Jedi and the Republic in a time period where things were working a lot better, not perfect, but the Republic was less corrupt and the Jedi were more emotionally healthy, less strict about their rules being followed to the absolute letter and gave more individual freedom to it's members (the Wayseekers being a key example), I mean these two organisations lasted for THOUSANDS of years, meaning that for most of it things more or less worked. Second: To show how the crises they face (The Path, the Nihil and these assassinations etc) begin moulding both groups into how we see them in the Prequel Era.
The point of the high republic is to make a new era for Disney to franchise. An era they can take whatever creative liberties they want, and it's gonna backfire immensely. The leaked plot details about Acolyte are probably going to sink the high republic altogether.
@@KarazolaX Well yeah but that’s true of every single era in Star Wars, including the Legends ones. I was looking at that narrative reasoning. And I’ll judge whether it “backfires” for myself, these days there’s TH-camrs that do nothing but whine about absolutely everything being awful.
@@Mr-Rinn Yeah but Disney's handling of Star Wars has been terrible. One good season of Andor, Two good seasons of Mandalorian. Everything else has been mediocre or garbage. People wouldn't complain nearly as hard if they didn't keep putting out slop. Kenobi was so terrible its hard to even believe.
@@KarazolaX Oh they would, a lot of the “hater” or “Fandom Menace” TH-camrs out there seem to be motivated more by personal politics than anything else, an obvious example of this being how they complained about Cara Dune being another Mary Sue, only to do a complete 180 upon discovering Carano’s political beliefs. I try to avoid going into things with a closed negative mindset. Star Wars is and always has been a mixed bag writing wise, but I can always find something to appreciate, the Book of Boba Fett for instance was a fairly mediocre series, but it’s second episode where it focuses on Boba with the Sand People was among my favourite Star Wars TV episodes of all time.
I know they worship the movie canon, but they're not going to get everything to line up. And using a red lightsaber/the Dark Side doesn't necessarily make one a Sith; Dark Jedi are a thing (see Baylan Skoll as an example). Maybe that's semantics, but I do think it makes a difference. The Sith also just don't have a monopoly on red lightsabers or the dark side. Someone could come to those on their own, similarly to how you have Force 'sects' in a lot of species in Star Wars, the Kel Dor being a prime example. The lightsaber is a little more specialized, but the point stands. Not trying to dunk on you, more just giving a bit of hope that you can maybe afford to get attached to some of these characters.
Just because they have a red lightsaber doesn't make them Sith. Heck even Jedi Survivor introduces us to a High Republic Jedi who turned his lightsaber red without being a sith.
Yes, any Jedi who "knowingly" faces a Sith will have to die. I'm guessing there will be a big reveal with Lee Jung-jae's character, showing him what his former Padawan has become, and then he will die, probably at her hand. I predict Vernestra will find out about the Sith and die too. But the Sith are only one specific class of dark-side Force users. A Jedi who simply sees a red lightsaber and lives isn't a problem. The Jedi believe the Sith to be extinct; therefore, their first conclusion will be that this is just a former Jedi who's gone to the dark side and bled their crystal, or one of the other dark-side Force users around at this time. By the way, there were also other groups of light-side Force users. We meet some of them in the High Republic books and comics. It's interesting when they're all at Jedha. Some Force groups are neutral too, and others, like the Path, believe that no one should use the Force.
The Drengir really remind me of the Primals from World of Warcraft as both of them seek to turn everything that isn't a plant into fertilizer and replace everything with plant life, though with probably the only exception being insects, but I haven't learned that much about the Drengir yet to make a solid comparison between the two.
Thank you for providing a Star Wars show preview. There's plenty of clickbait out there. But this video was thoughtful fan contant. All Star Wars fans care about is how a show makes them feel. If a fan loves the lore then the value of how a show grows the universe- thats important to them too. If it feels like Star Wars and the lore grows- that's all a lot of us care about. We stopped letting others tell us what to feel about Star Wars decades ago.
1:15 "It's become toxic, so no creator wants to touch it" No. They realise it wouldn't be profitable. I don't like these attempts to blame fans. If no one buys your product, the product is at fault (inclusive of marketing, branding etc.), not the customers...
@@erinm9445 that right, how they dare to ask for a decent story, with competent writing and at least mildly interesting characters, "we want Geode and dinosaurs now...."
@@AlessandroRodriguez Haha, you think the toxic fans are just politely asking for good stories and writing? That's the best one I've heard all day! Keep telling yourself that 😂😂😂 The writing IS mostly terrible on Disney Star Wars, AND there's a seriously toxic part of the fan bse. Two things can be true!
@@erinm9445 Disney bought Star Wars BECAUSE the fans are emotional. That's how they earned billions. And actors/directors happily connect directly to fans on social media, but then scream 'toxic" when the criticism comes in. If you find out a double-edged sword is too sharp... stop wielding it. I'm with you that harassment should be condemned, but "toxic" is too vague, and too often includes simply criticising something you care about.
I sell books for a living, and since high republic came out I have had exactly zero people ask me for any of the HR books. Worth noting too that I do still get people looking for legends stuff.
That means absolutely nothing. If you were to ask the people who work where I buy my books you'd likely get a very different answer. Personal experience is not evidence of anything.
I just want the old republic at this point they can follow the swtor timeline and choose a character or have some of characters team up when we get to the revan stuff
@@anthonyrodriguez8788 I'm guessing, but what I think the original poster is referring to is how the one generation's worth of time that we see in the movies is treated more or less like our own recent history: things change quite a lot, and technology seems to progress significantly. And yet, somehow the history of the Republic is supposed to have stretched back for an immense span of time beforehand (something like three times as long as human civilization on Earth has existed), and yet the implication is that almost nothing changed during that time, or happened worth mentioning. And I'm just commenting that this is not how history works. But it's not as if history or politics was ever Lucas' strong suit... much less that of those people working on it these days. Did that answer your question?
@@ariochiv yeah. At first I thought you were making a thoughtless claim to try and trash the High Republic era as is often the case in these comment sections. Yeah technological and societal development tends to move at a snails pace in Star Wars, not quite as bad as in other scifi settings like 40k but still really slow.
It's really good! YJA takes place about 200 years before the Phantom Menace and Acolyte takes place about 100 years before, so Kai would be dead by then. Maybe some of the other characters could be alive, not sure how long Pooba and Pantorans live. (But I doubt we will see them; they seem to really be trying to keep that show separate from the darker things going on in the galaxy at that time.)
I have to say the path of the open hand sounds kind of right. Not in the you shouldn't use the force idea but in the Jedi were too dependent on the force to solve their problems way. This sounds interesting none the less.
Were they? Qui-Gon kept relying on the Force to "present solutions" but he was clearly an outlier. The Jedi only relied on the Force to help the overcome the difficulty of non-lethally subduing lethal force (something real life police struggle with). The Jedi mainly relied on negotiation, understanding, and their reputations as ambassadors to solve issues. Remember, Episode 1 starts with Jedi negotiators being treated like a great thing that only failed because of Sith meddling.
All things considered it wouldn't surprise me if the prophecy of the Chosen One got referenced in some capacity given it's purpose of bringing balance to the Force. Even if the Skywalker family isn't directly involved i can still see references to them been made through dialogues regarding the Light and Dark sides needing balance to achieve peace across the galaxy.
I've been catching up on the High Republic through audiobooks and comics, its genuinely solid and a bur underrated imo, the Jedi are a lot more open and Flexible, closer to the ideal of Jedi as a whole, but it also explores the flaws in the Jedi Order that become manifest fully by the time of the Prequel Era.
I got given a number of High Republic novels as Audiobooks.for Christmas. I have never in my life been so bored with Science Fiction books in a universe I really like. Maybe the Acolyte will be better. But I was literally boed to sleep by Asoka, something I never thought I would say about Star Wars. I hope the new series will be better. Frankly at this point I am just hoping they don't screw up things we know from the lore. I have to say if they openly have the Sith operating...I think hat will piss everyone off wih even the smallest knowlege of Star Wars lore.
A point was made to me last night. People are forgetting the conversation in the council when Qui-Gon first reports seeing Maul. Master Cone-head tells Yoda - sith are extinct, no one has seen a sith in a thousand years. - No one has seen a sith and lived.... Anyone in this show who sees a red blade must die. I'll let that simmer. There are sith in play in the back ground at this time, Plagueis's master for example. I forget his name.
I might be possible to "bleed" a crystal even if you're not officially Sith 🤷🏾. If anyone tried to claim the mantle of Sith, I'm sure that whoever is the current Sith in the rule of 2 would eventually destroy them.
Yes, any Jedi who "knowingly" faces a Sith will have to die. I'm guessing there will be a big reveal with Lee Jung-jae's character, showing him what his former Padawan has become, and then he will die, probably at her hand. I predict Vernestra will find out about the Sith and die too. But the Sith are only one specific class of dark-side Force users. A Jedi who simply sees a red lightsaber and lives isn't a problem. The Jedi believe the Sith to be extinct; therefore, their first conclusion will be that this is just a former Jedi who's gone to the dark side and bled their crystal, or one of the other dark-side Force users around at this time. By the way, there were also other groups of light-side Force users. We meet some of them in the High Republic books and comics. It's interesting when they're all at Jedha. Some Force groups are neutral too, and others, like the Path, believe that no one should use the Force.
@@lorigoshert6667 yes I see your point. In their arrogance, the Jedi wouldn't believe it was a sith without hard proof. Yes there were other force users and the lesser restrictions on personal studies led to some unfortunate circumstances .
If they care about the lore, they'll simply go with "not Sith but dark Jedi" or with the "at the end Yoda decides to silence it all for whatever reason".
The setting concept and showing how the Republic failed to tame the Outer Rim and how it decayed into what it was in Phantom Menace is good, but the material used to show it has not gotten good reviews. It has potential as a setting. The worldbuilding and era of history for it is interesting and I think some really good stories can be told here. If Disney can manage to do that is the real question. The show runner for this is not very experienced as far as I can tell and that worries me a little, but if she listens to the crew around her that know how to make Star Wars and she has real passion for the setting, we should get something good out of it.
The (lack of) passion is the problem. Nothing live action Disney has put out--outside of Rogue One and Andor--has felt driven by passion for the material and the stories that are told. Or if passionate people are involved, their voices get overwritten by studio interference. It all just feels like pandering to some idea of what a hypothetical audience would want. Ironically it's the animated shows that seem much more passion-driven, maybe they can get away with it since they have a smaller audience and are taken less seriously.
@@erinm9445 The animation, Clone Wars and Bad Batch, are pure, unfiltered Dave Filoni channeling his full passion with no studio interference. Remember how good the first and second seasons of the Mandalorian were? That was him as well, before the studio execs. saw that it was super popular and get involved. They have a guy right there that can make Star Wars for them and can probably green light other creators to make similar projects. He spent years hanging out with Lucus asking about all the little details of the setting and what the plans were for the setting, from the original concept to what Lucas had planned to do with it as a grand design. Filoni is also really into legends and has been incorporating many of the fan favorites into his works. He's why we have Grand Admiral Trawn as cannon and loose in the galaxy right now. The good news is that the CEO of Disney that oversaw the launch and success of the Marvel cinematic universe is back in charge and he has reorganized not only that part of the company, but also placed Dave Filoni as Creative Director of the studio for making all Star Wars. As I said before, the setting they have established is good and has the potential to have good stories told in it. We just have to hope that this inexperienced show runner was chosen for her talent, the story she wanted to tell, and her passion for Star Wars.
@@KnightsWithoutATable That's why I specified live action. I love all the cartoon stuff. And of the live action Ahsoka is my fave, though I think it would have been much better if it was animated, making it live action kind of bogs it down and makes it feel more serious or something, which makes it not work as well. I have never gotten the Mandolorian love though, I watched the first season and a few eps of the second and I just couldn't get into it. I've never really liked westerns much, so maybe that's the problem? But yeah, I do generally agree with you about Dave Filoni, but also agree that, outside of the cartoons, the studio seems to interfere with his stuff too much.
@@erinm9445 The problem Disney has with Star Wars live action boils down to one person, and she is a serious problem. They rewarded her for negotiating the sale of Lucas film to Disney for a really good price and she is really good at merchandising and promotion campaigns, but she should never be allowed on a studio lot in a million years. She is responsible for the mess that was the sequels and all of the problems in every live action project that Disney has done for Star Wars. They need to take her power away at the very least and firing her would not be off the table with how badly she has messed up. She nearly made Filoni quit making Star Wars with how she was messing with things on the Mandalorian and how she was trying to mess with Asoka as it was in per-production.
@@KnightsWithoutATable I'm wary of blaming it all on one person. It seems like when people like Disney Star Wars (Rogue One, Andor, Rebels, Clone War Season 7, Mandolorian), the writers and directors get credit and Kennedy doesn't; when people dislike Disney Star Wars, Kennedy gets the sole blame. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying she's blameless, but it's also not as simple as "bad person messing up my otherwise wonderful things".
Dude, High Republic is hundreds of years before Tenebrous was even born, it's literally impossible for any High Republic media to retcon a prequel era Sith Lord.
@@anthonyrodriguez8788my guy the show is 100 years before phantom menace. Tennabrous was born between 247- 167 bby, so he is alive and well. Don’t know where u got the “100s of years” from lmao
I look forward to it. I haven't read the High Republic materials as there is just other stuff in Star Wars that has my attention. It could be very cool. I have been around from the beginning and have seen "a lot of strange stuff" as Han Solo would say in the EU/Legends over the years. Some of it great and some total crap. I don't have such a negative view of the sequels and look forward to the Rey-focused movie. Some of the prequel era stuff was very good and some not so much. I just consume it as it comes and as I can make it fit into my life. I loved Andor, but I loved Rogue One so I suppose that is to be expected. It would be cool if this effort lights a new fire in our bellies.
@grayflaneur4854 I'm a fan, from standing in line for the original movie with my siblings and a parent to standing in line with my children. There have been O maaan, that kinda sucked moments through out However, overall, I'm still interested, still enjoying, and still willing to hope for the best while accepting the, that kinda sucked moments now & then. I suppose if my life was perfect and I never had / stumbled / lived thru that kinda sucked moments of my own, I could be righteously judgmental of a movie franchise, whoever is in the driver's seat; but alas, Star Wars [and other franchises] are no more perfect that I, and yeah, I can accept that while hoping they learn from their mistakes just as I have. Rogue One and even Kenobi were awesome for me and Boba Fett rocked im[one of the few]ho. There's been enough groovy over kinda sucked to give me this hopefulness. I'm with you, Looks Like it Might Be Groovy, hurray for another slice of the Galaxy far, far away!
I've read everything that's been released so far (except the most recent novel), and it's really good. There are some reddit threads that show everything in order.
Just got finished "path of vengeance" in phase 2. But yeh the high republic is great (perfectly encompassed by how awesome Loden greatstorm is). Also, I do hope the acolyte means that we get to see a live action Vector on screen!
Sadly that is the Old Republic era and for some reason Lucasfilm doesn't like that era to the point where they created a whole new era to supplement it.
yea i had the same mentality going in to andor and i was blown away. I think the less lore baggage you have when creating a story the easier it is to make an appealing tale. Let's hope they figure it out
@@GenerationTech only thing is they have loads of lore to live up to that they can't contradict from the prequels. I'm also not a big andor fan so I'm not optimistic. Maybe it'll be a surprise but the creatives making this raise extreme doubts
I went into Andor with no real expectations and was surprisingly impressed however I had the same attitude when starting the other Disney+ original SW content and, aside from The Bad Batch and the first 2 seasons of The Mandalorian, can't say the same for any of the rest.
I’ve read most of the high republic literature out there and can catagorically say this show has a lot of fantastic and mysterious world building to work off. Yes the high republic was a time of prosperity, but it also showed how the arrogance of the jedi was beginning to become their downfall even then - and how much coverup was really going on. Unknown poorly glossed over disasters that come back to haunt them. Can’t wait to see how the show builds on that!
Thanks for this video on the High Republic. There are some good stories and characters but this franchise feels more like a corporate product rather than a passion project. Like your theory that the villains in the Acolyte series could be linked to the Path of the Open Hand faction.
I like fun too.. it ruins the fun when they do retcons and change stuff that's been set in stone since the 70s... it ruins the fun when they try and push self inserts and political ideals...when they're more focused on diversity then telling a good story with good characters there is no more fun in star wars but bad batch and andor
@@ChrisPierce-y1r dude the original stars wars was literally a commentary on how imperialism and fascism is bad so don’t say it’s ruining the fun when Star Wars is pushing political stuff since they always have. Not to mention the diversity stuff wasn’t the main reason the sequels sucked..the sequels at least after the fist one were just bad they were rushed and they were only really made to sell merchandise because they where made by Disney who Is a company and company’s only care about making money and since most people in modern times are more diverse they make stuff more diverse so they get more people to watch their stuff and buy their stuff. Not because they really love politics or anything but because they really love money.
Never understood why people didn't like the High Republic series, is pretty cool and Marchion Ro is a genuine interesting villain, a non force user that out wit the Jedis.
Aside from the "controversy" surrounding the apparent agenda surrounding that series some of the characters come off as totally ridiculous due to their designs and backstory like in the case of that rock "pilot" that literally looks like a block made of rock.
@@javiervasquez625 so what, is star war supposed to forever locked at the OT trilogy and can't have new ideas and stuff to work? Milking the same time period for what? 50 years already? Time to try new thing, even silly things
@@mentalmandolorian5723 yep, did you see how many people lost their shit at the thing that came out about George yesterday? They are screeching that he betrayed them
@@whateverwhatever4476 I wouldn’t call it a betrayal, but I can kinda see where those really down hard believers would get that idea from. George siding with Disney doesn't change they're doing a bad job in my eyes, but that doesn't ultimately matter I guess
"The rule of two," Kotor, those are the stories I think most fans would like to see come to life. Disney can still feature the strong female it so covets in Bastila Shan.
If they include at least an appearance from the Drengir (evil plant monsters) that COULD be cool and a very different enemy for the Jedi, but the visual effects have to look really cool and menacing!
Why is it important? Well, it's not from a narrative perspective. But it will be important in that it is going to completely bury the Star Wars brand. It will finish what the Last Jedi started.
Even tho I do not think Disney Star Wars is no longer for me I just hope it reaches the young audiences that George Lucas has always intended to reach. I’m not expecting it to be epic or suck I’m just hoping it reaches a new audience that could latch on for generations to come. I’m hoping that the age gap in Star Wars is a thing and the young ppl that are in these projects could captivate the very audience they represent. I always agreed with George when he said Star Wars is for the kids. And here we have a very youthful auditions that’s ready to take on the helms and carry Star Wars for the next generations to come.
I hope it's an entertaining show. I like the idea of an unexplored era in a familiar franchise with only Yoda as the familiar character. Maybe this will show why the Jedi Order changed to how it was in the prequel trilogy.
Im excited, Disney needs something with more of a clean slate like THR, than the boundaries cobstantly growing around the OG timelines as more content around those have been released.
I doubt its the Open Hand. The director of the Acoylte series openly said "Star Wars is about underdogs vs institutions. Well, this time, the Jedi are the institution, and the *Sith* are the underdogs."
I'm not sure it's them either, but the Path of the Open Hand were always a fringe group, they were a cult founded by a heretic from the Guardians of the Whills and stayed on some backwater world for hundreds of years until they started resorting to terrorism and stopped by the Republic and the Jedi, so some kind of successor group of theirs can't be ruled out yet.
Honestly that point you bring up with the Path is a really good idea, though knowing Disney they’re probably going to completely ignore that possibility and do something else that utterly fails to be lore accurate/make sense/be a good story etc.
I hope this new series will be good. We need a R-rated Old Republic Star Wars movie with a great director that would use real martial artists for all fighting scenes. Have a complex story full of political and strategic scheming.
Thank you Alan! I am excited to see Acolyte! I might start reading the High Republic novels as I saw them at a nearby bookstore. The High Republic, I think it’s about midway between the end of the New Sith Wars/ Ruusan Reformation period and Darth Bane’s decree of the Rule of Two, right to the Invasion of Naboo as seen in Phantom Menace. Basically smack dab in the middle of a millennia of peace protected by the Jedi Order.
Very disappointed in you Allen. Firstly calling Din a side story when he is at the heart of 2 upcoming theatrical films, and has fought the imperials since season 1. Then going off on an inaccurate tangent about the sequels and doomcalling on the franchise. It's just sad.
My predicition: I bet this show actually gives us very little details about the state of the galaxy during the High Republic. It'll follow 3 or 4 lackluster characters with unclear motives around the galaxy who speak in poorly written one liners and spend a lot of their time battling enemies who's origins and goals are also unclear. It'll take place mostly on new fringe planets (instead of well established ones) who's locations and relationship to the rest of the galaxy are also unclear. We will come away with nothing but questions about the timeline and how what we are seeing fits into anything leading to the prequels because the show won't really address this.
@@Squiddy-go1du average lol. Typical comment from someone who doesn’t care about what Disney has done to SW. I bet you bought a “the force is female” t-shirt.
I both and very intrigued and very worried at same time about this show at the same time, the fact Disney has screw thing up badly and have bad track record with Star Wars and hurt my faith in them, but at the same time it interesting they are taking something of wuxia film(crouching tiger, hidden dragon) approach to storytelling and that could work with Star Wars, and visual it looks great. Will see were it goes.
The high republic is currently my favourite era in SW, seeing how the jedi view the force on a personal level and how each perspective is different was mind opening to me since often in visual media we only get the same view as regular citizens of the force. Opaque and vague
I haven't seen the trailer for the series yet, but I have come across the "Acolytes" name in Star Wars via various sources. Seems interesting and it (hopefully) will be a nifty alternate to just "current" Star Wars lore (i.e., the Skywalker era.) From the way the faction is described, "The Path" seems akin to Earth's European "Dark Age" when Catholicism violently persecuted those persons of "pagan" religions, who practiced alternate forms of worship or "magick" (old English spelling used today to differentiate between "energy spell work" and fictional or illusional "magic.") Basically, the leaders and followers of the Catholic faith (at the time) considering the practice of "magick" to be heresy and therefore punishable by imprisonment, torture and, of course, even death.
i'm sorry but Mandalore being liberated in the live action series is a much bigger deal than you give it credit for. the mandalorians in legends brought both the republic and sith to their knees at various points in history to the point that jedi such as Reven turned to the darkside because of their hatred of mandalorians for the horrors of their crusades, not to mention the pre-clone wars civil war that pitted Jaster Mereel's reformists against Death Watch who wished to continue those crusades. Mandalore's return has the potential to bring a great deal of good or evil to the galaxy depending on how they proceed.
That show is not canon period, because it makes zero sense and sith are sith and jedi are jedi. There's good and evil, neither of them can't switch places. I see the Acolyte as a deathblow to an already very dead franchise.
All of the shows you listed were already planned before the sequels rolled out. There was no policy change and dont pretend like it was a reflexive action to focus on the old characters.
I feel like as an old cannon man, or like we like to call it the true cannon, which goes from 1977-2011, covering millions of stories and what ifs and established content..ramble ramble. The point is, the Golden Age has stories which could be retold. Everything could have been retold. And Legends did exist before Disney, but it was for the distant future of the universe, which eother loosely based itself in the orig trig or didn't, or for the obscure or funny comics. I just wanted to see the badass strategist Thrawn, that Timothy Zahn brought to life. I didn't get that though. I got a Saturday morning cartoon villian. He sounds like Thrawn, he walks like Thrawn, but he's not that guy, trust me buddy.
The setting sounds interesting, but I'm not sure if I trust Disney not to screw it up. Maybe I'll watch it, maybe I won't. I just don't care about Star Wars that much anymore, which is quite sad.
Yeah I'll give it a go and hope it surprises me but Tenebrous and Plagueis have to be involved in some way, and I won't forget how Headland spoke about the prequels and lucas. Worth the watch and hope for the best.
Some fans believe they'll also show Revan and some of the Sith from the Old Republic days as Keanu Reeves (who many fans see as the perfect actor for Revan) was reportedly casted for a small role in the series. Here's to hoping he plays a cool Sith/Dark Side user that fleshes out the Lore in a cool and interesting way.
@javiervasquez625 not sure how and to be honest not too bothered, love Raven and the old republic but I'll just stick to the established lore of it rather than see disney do their own thing good or bad with it. I'm just hoping it'll make sense all in all and not some disneyfied quirky and edgy show, they can do their own thing but thr high republic wasn't really advertised well and not many people care about it. I'll watch the show but hope they handle the lore well
I have always said Disney needed to go into some other timeline as the only option available to them, and continuing in the existing timeline was doomed to failure. What they're doing can now stand on its own. Balls in their court on that one, I know nothing about this High Republic era other than its a thing that exists.
In short I want it to be good but I’m expecting it to be the second coming of the willow show. I have extremely strong opinions about the showrunner and that she should be in prison next to her old boss (if I didn’t think he would get a kick out of it ied put her in the same cell) but that shouldn’t colour my view of Star Wars. One think I’m kinda worried about is how they are going to handle the fact that the Jedi aren’t meant to know their are Sith around at this time period, as for a the Jedi are concerned it’s been over a thousand years since they last saw a Sith but here we are only a hundred years before that statement in the prequels and we are going to have Sith running around waving their little red sabres, Maul didn’t say at last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi “again” as him showing up was a massive surprise as they had gone into hiding for a thousand years, at the time of the show they’re is meant to be only one Sith Tenabres as the soon to be Sith plagaus is in his teens and Palpatine isn’t even an idea in his grandfathers mind and all of the Sith leading up to the prequels were VERY good at keeping in the shadows. Now as I’ve heard others say they could get around this by making sure anyone that sees a Sith gets yetted out of existence before they can tell anyone what they have seen, their is also the possibility of the Jedi covering it up and Yoda is the only one that knows about the incident we know the jedi have the shadows so the show could end with whatever Sith we see been locked in one of them chambers we saw Maul in and stored in the orders basement and yoda deletes the records so that no one else is tempted to be a Sith but that’s messy.
Knowing Star Wars, if this is The Paths doing eventually it comes to light that a Sith sits somewhere at the top of The Path but who knows, time will tell.
"As for Din Djarin, he's not even fighting the empire, he's fighting the empire's DLC" had me in stitches
Makes sense how he got his full Beskar setup so fast. He bought the Premium Deluxe Pre-Order.
@@Spartan120that rich snob, buying all the P2Ws. Bet he’s gonna buy a mythosaur once the new mounts are added 😂
Im a big fan of your work. You authentically express your views in a wholesome manner whilst educating me on this universe. I get excited on new shows coming, eagerly anticipating your content. I greatly appreciate your style, sir. Please keep it up.
"Close your eyes"
That one alien youngling: "But sir, I physically can't"
YOU LIVE IN A WORLD OF LIES!
Alien discrimination lmao
Suddenly Anakin materializes from behind, lightsaber in hand: "need help?" 😅😂🤣
Anakin: *BRR SOUNDS*
"That one alien youngling: "But sir, I physically can't"
In the Prequel Era we see both the Jedi and the Republic on a slow downward spiral being exacerbated by the Sith, and that's our main reference for the Jedi Order, games and other stories before this have largely modelled the Jedi on their prequel era state.
I think the point of the High Republic is twofold:
First: To show both the Jedi and the Republic in a time period where things were working a lot better, not perfect, but the Republic was less corrupt and the Jedi were more emotionally healthy, less strict about their rules being followed to the absolute letter and gave more individual freedom to it's members (the Wayseekers being a key example), I mean these two organisations lasted for THOUSANDS of years, meaning that for most of it things more or less worked.
Second: To show how the crises they face (The Path, the Nihil and these assassinations etc) begin moulding both groups into how we see them in the Prequel Era.
The point of the high republic is to make a new era for Disney to franchise. An era they can take whatever creative liberties they want, and it's gonna backfire immensely. The leaked plot details about Acolyte are probably going to sink the high republic altogether.
@@KarazolaX Well yeah but that’s true of every single era in Star Wars, including the Legends ones. I was looking at that narrative reasoning.
And I’ll judge whether it “backfires” for myself, these days there’s TH-camrs that do nothing but whine about absolutely everything being awful.
@@Mr-Rinn Yeah but Disney's handling of Star Wars has been terrible. One good season of Andor, Two good seasons of Mandalorian. Everything else has been mediocre or garbage.
People wouldn't complain nearly as hard if they didn't keep putting out slop. Kenobi was so terrible its hard to even believe.
@@KarazolaX Oh they would, a lot of the “hater” or “Fandom Menace” TH-camrs out there seem to be motivated more by personal politics than anything else, an obvious example of this being how they complained about Cara Dune being another Mary Sue, only to do a complete 180 upon discovering Carano’s political beliefs.
I try to avoid going into things with a closed negative mindset. Star Wars is and always has been a mixed bag writing wise, but I can always find something to appreciate, the Book of Boba Fett for instance was a fairly mediocre series, but it’s second episode where it focuses on Boba with the Sand People was among my favourite Star Wars TV episodes of all time.
@@KarazolaX Sink when its been fine for 5 years and its endingwas planned since the star lol
Does this mean every Jedi that comes across a sith Lord must die? Because in the phantom menace.. they said the sith have been gone for a millennium
Sssshhhh
I know they worship the movie canon, but they're not going to get everything to line up. And using a red lightsaber/the Dark Side doesn't necessarily make one a Sith; Dark Jedi are a thing (see Baylan Skoll as an example). Maybe that's semantics, but I do think it makes a difference.
The Sith also just don't have a monopoly on red lightsabers or the dark side. Someone could come to those on their own, similarly to how you have Force 'sects' in a lot of species in Star Wars, the Kel Dor being a prime example. The lightsaber is a little more specialized, but the point stands.
Not trying to dunk on you, more just giving a bit of hope that you can maybe afford to get attached to some of these characters.
Just because they have a red lightsaber doesn't make them Sith.
Heck even Jedi Survivor introduces us to a High Republic Jedi who turned his lightsaber red without being a sith.
You think these writers have seen a Star Wars film?
Yes, any Jedi who "knowingly" faces a Sith will have to die. I'm guessing there will be a big reveal with Lee Jung-jae's character, showing him what his former Padawan has become, and then he will die, probably at her hand. I predict Vernestra will find out about the Sith and die too.
But the Sith are only one specific class of dark-side Force users. A Jedi who simply sees a red lightsaber and lives isn't a problem. The Jedi believe the Sith to be extinct; therefore, their first conclusion will be that this is just a former Jedi who's gone to the dark side and bled their crystal, or one of the other dark-side Force users around at this time.
By the way, there were also other groups of light-side Force users. We meet some of them in the High Republic books and comics. It's interesting when they're all at Jedha. Some Force groups are neutral too, and others, like the Path, believe that no one should use the Force.
The Drengir really remind me of the Primals from World of Warcraft as both of them seek to turn everything that isn't a plant into fertilizer and replace everything with plant life, though with probably the only exception being insects, but I haven't learned that much about the Drengir yet to make a solid comparison between the two.
Thank you for providing a Star Wars show preview. There's plenty of clickbait out there. But this video was thoughtful fan contant.
All Star Wars fans care about is how a show makes them feel. If a fan loves the lore then the value of how a show grows the universe- thats important to them too.
If it feels like Star Wars and the lore grows- that's all a lot of us care about. We stopped letting others tell us what to feel about Star Wars decades ago.
1:15 "It's become toxic, so no creator wants to touch it"
No. They realise it wouldn't be profitable. I don't like these attempts to blame fans. If no one buys your product, the product is at fault (inclusive of marketing, branding etc.), not the customers...
Disney is not trying to find a fitting product for their customer, they are trying to find a fitting customer for their product.
I'm not gonna defend Disney's schlok here or anything, but there is absolutely a very loud group of toxic, emotionally fragile fans, too.
@@erinm9445 that right, how they dare to ask for a decent story, with competent writing and at least mildly interesting characters, "we want Geode and dinosaurs now...."
@@AlessandroRodriguez Haha, you think the toxic fans are just politely asking for good stories and writing? That's the best one I've heard all day! Keep telling yourself that 😂😂😂
The writing IS mostly terrible on Disney Star Wars, AND there's a seriously toxic part of the fan bse. Two things can be true!
@@erinm9445 Disney bought Star Wars BECAUSE the fans are emotional. That's how they earned billions. And actors/directors happily connect directly to fans on social media, but then scream 'toxic" when the criticism comes in.
If you find out a double-edged sword is too sharp... stop wielding it.
I'm with you that harassment should be condemned, but "toxic" is too vague, and too often includes simply criticising something you care about.
I sell books for a living, and since high republic came out I have had exactly zero people ask me for any of the HR books.
Worth noting too that I do still get people looking for legends stuff.
That doesn't really surprise me. Legends is more exciting than high republic.
HR is flawed from the start. Authers of it dont even understand physics.
Legends... EU will always be superior
@@generaltronI like a lot of stuff in legends, but a lot of it is shit. Both High Republic and Legends have great and shitty novels
That means absolutely nothing. If you were to ask the people who work where I buy my books you'd likely get a very different answer. Personal experience is not evidence of anything.
@@generaltron In Revenge of the Sith Anakin and Obi-Wan fight over a lava lake. Star Wars have never cared about physics.
I just want the old republic at this point they can follow the swtor timeline and choose a character or have some of characters team up when we get to the revan stuff
Idc to see any of that, i just want new characters
I hope they don't because they'll just f it up like they do with everything else
tbh im more interested in the scum and villainy aspect of starwars, would love to see more of that concept
They would ruin Revan, better they don’t touch him.
They'd ruin all of it just like eveything else they touch. Leave it alone
Funny how the Republic canonically stretches back 25,000 years but the "high republic" is only a couple centuries ago...
I'm kinda struggling to find the funny part here.
What is it?
It's almost as if the writers don't understand how history works. Go figure.
@ariochiv ...........what on earth are you on about?
@@anthonyrodriguez8788 I'm guessing, but what I think the original poster is referring to is how the one generation's worth of time that we see in the movies is treated more or less like our own recent history: things change quite a lot, and technology seems to progress significantly. And yet, somehow the history of the Republic is supposed to have stretched back for an immense span of time beforehand (something like three times as long as human civilization on Earth has existed), and yet the implication is that almost nothing changed during that time, or happened worth mentioning. And I'm just commenting that this is not how history works. But it's not as if history or politics was ever Lucas' strong suit... much less that of those people working on it these days.
Did that answer your question?
@@ariochiv yeah.
At first I thought you were making a thoughtless claim to try and trash the High Republic era as is often the case in these comment sections.
Yeah technological and societal development tends to move at a snails pace in Star Wars, not quite as bad as in other scifi settings like 40k but still really slow.
People keep forgetting that Young Jedi Adventures takes place during the High Republic Era. It's a kid cartoon but it's better than the sequels.
Thats sad
What isn't better than the sequels?
That said, personally I prefer almost all the cartoons than movies/shows.
to be fair, being better than the sequels isn't exactly an accomplishment. I would be surprised, if anything could be worse.
It's really good! YJA takes place about 200 years before the Phantom Menace and Acolyte takes place about 100 years before, so Kai would be dead by then. Maybe some of the other characters could be alive, not sure how long Pooba and Pantorans live. (But I doubt we will see them; they seem to really be trying to keep that show separate from the darker things going on in the galaxy at that time.)
I don't even care enough to hate it.
What a mindset... A true fan I see
Enough to comment annonymously?
Idk I didn't see anything I hate
What kind of a SW fan are you, bro??
@@comicbooknerd3570 the same kind of "Fan" that ruined Jake Floyd's life and made Ahmed question his
I have to say the path of the open hand sounds kind of right. Not in the you shouldn't use the force idea but in the Jedi were too dependent on the force to solve their problems way. This sounds interesting none the less.
Were they? Qui-Gon kept relying on the Force to "present solutions" but he was clearly an outlier. The Jedi only relied on the Force to help the overcome the difficulty of non-lethally subduing lethal force (something real life police struggle with). The Jedi mainly relied on negotiation, understanding, and their reputations as ambassadors to solve issues. Remember, Episode 1 starts with Jedi negotiators being treated like a great thing that only failed because of Sith meddling.
I can’t wait for this show! So excited to see a different side of the Jedi Order and get away from the Skywalkers for just a bit.
All things considered it wouldn't surprise me if the prophecy of the Chosen One got referenced in some capacity given it's purpose of bringing balance to the Force. Even if the Skywalker family isn't directly involved i can still see references to them been made through dialogues regarding the Light and Dark sides needing balance to achieve peace across the galaxy.
I've been catching up on the High Republic through audiobooks and comics, its genuinely solid and a bur underrated imo, the Jedi are a lot more open and Flexible, closer to the ideal of Jedi as a whole, but it also explores the flaws in the Jedi Order that become manifest fully by the time of the Prequel Era.
Allan has some of the best quips i've ever heard!!!! Keep it up mate!!!
I got given a number of High Republic novels as Audiobooks.for Christmas. I have never in my life been so bored with Science Fiction books in a universe I really like. Maybe the Acolyte will be better. But I was literally boed to sleep by Asoka, something I never thought I would say about Star Wars. I hope the new series will be better. Frankly at this point I am just hoping they don't screw up things we know from the lore. I have to say if they openly have the Sith operating...I think hat will piss everyone off wih even the smallest knowlege of Star Wars lore.
Star wars is not science fiction its a fantasy space opera.
You sound like a bot
Hedlund already said that she wants to show that the jedi were truly evil, not the Sith. It's going to be trash.
A point was made to me last night.
People are forgetting the conversation in the council when Qui-Gon first reports seeing Maul. Master Cone-head tells Yoda - sith are extinct, no one has seen a sith in a thousand years. -
No one has seen a sith and lived....
Anyone in this show who sees a red blade must die.
I'll let that simmer.
There are sith in play in the back ground at this time, Plagueis's master for example. I forget his name.
Darth Tenebrous
I might be possible to "bleed" a crystal even if you're not officially Sith 🤷🏾. If anyone tried to claim the mantle of Sith, I'm sure that whoever is the current Sith in the rule of 2 would eventually destroy them.
Yes, any Jedi who "knowingly" faces a Sith will have to die. I'm guessing there will be a big reveal with Lee Jung-jae's character, showing him what his former Padawan has become, and then he will die, probably at her hand. I predict Vernestra will find out about the Sith and die too.
But the Sith are only one specific class of dark-side Force users. A Jedi who simply sees a red lightsaber and lives isn't a problem. The Jedi believe the Sith to be extinct; therefore, their first conclusion will be that this is just a former Jedi who's gone to the dark side and bled their crystal, or one of the other dark-side Force users around at this time.
By the way, there were also other groups of light-side Force users. We meet some of them in the High Republic books and comics. It's interesting when they're all at Jedha. Some Force groups are neutral too, and others, like the Path, believe that no one should use the Force.
@@lorigoshert6667 yes I see your point. In their arrogance, the Jedi wouldn't believe it was a sith without hard proof. Yes there were other force users and the lesser restrictions on personal studies led to some unfortunate circumstances .
If they care about the lore, they'll simply go with "not Sith but dark Jedi" or with the "at the end Yoda decides to silence it all for whatever reason".
The setting concept and showing how the Republic failed to tame the Outer Rim and how it decayed into what it was in Phantom Menace is good, but the material used to show it has not gotten good reviews. It has potential as a setting. The worldbuilding and era of history for it is interesting and I think some really good stories can be told here. If Disney can manage to do that is the real question. The show runner for this is not very experienced as far as I can tell and that worries me a little, but if she listens to the crew around her that know how to make Star Wars and she has real passion for the setting, we should get something good out of it.
The (lack of) passion is the problem. Nothing live action Disney has put out--outside of Rogue One and Andor--has felt driven by passion for the material and the stories that are told. Or if passionate people are involved, their voices get overwritten by studio interference. It all just feels like pandering to some idea of what a hypothetical audience would want. Ironically it's the animated shows that seem much more passion-driven, maybe they can get away with it since they have a smaller audience and are taken less seriously.
@@erinm9445 The animation, Clone Wars and Bad Batch, are pure, unfiltered Dave Filoni channeling his full passion with no studio interference. Remember how good the first and second seasons of the Mandalorian were? That was him as well, before the studio execs. saw that it was super popular and get involved. They have a guy right there that can make Star Wars for them and can probably green light other creators to make similar projects.
He spent years hanging out with Lucus asking about all the little details of the setting and what the plans were for the setting, from the original concept to what Lucas had planned to do with it as a grand design. Filoni is also really into legends and has been incorporating many of the fan favorites into his works. He's why we have Grand Admiral Trawn as cannon and loose in the galaxy right now.
The good news is that the CEO of Disney that oversaw the launch and success of the Marvel cinematic universe is back in charge and he has reorganized not only that part of the company, but also placed Dave Filoni as Creative Director of the studio for making all Star Wars. As I said before, the setting they have established is good and has the potential to have good stories told in it. We just have to hope that this inexperienced show runner was chosen for her talent, the story she wanted to tell, and her passion for Star Wars.
@@KnightsWithoutATable That's why I specified live action. I love all the cartoon stuff. And of the live action Ahsoka is my fave, though I think it would have been much better if it was animated, making it live action kind of bogs it down and makes it feel more serious or something, which makes it not work as well.
I have never gotten the Mandolorian love though, I watched the first season and a few eps of the second and I just couldn't get into it. I've never really liked westerns much, so maybe that's the problem?
But yeah, I do generally agree with you about Dave Filoni, but also agree that, outside of the cartoons, the studio seems to interfere with his stuff too much.
@@erinm9445 The problem Disney has with Star Wars live action boils down to one person, and she is a serious problem. They rewarded her for negotiating the sale of Lucas film to Disney for a really good price and she is really good at merchandising and promotion campaigns, but she should never be allowed on a studio lot in a million years. She is responsible for the mess that was the sequels and all of the problems in every live action project that Disney has done for Star Wars. They need to take her power away at the very least and firing her would not be off the table with how badly she has messed up. She nearly made Filoni quit making Star Wars with how she was messing with things on the Mandalorian and how she was trying to mess with Asoka as it was in per-production.
@@KnightsWithoutATable I'm wary of blaming it all on one person. It seems like when people like Disney Star Wars (Rogue One, Andor, Rebels, Clone War Season 7, Mandolorian), the writers and directors get credit and Kennedy doesn't; when people dislike Disney Star Wars, Kennedy gets the sole blame. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying she's blameless, but it's also not as simple as "bad person messing up my otherwise wonderful things".
This honestly didn't look as bad as i expected. If they erase Tenebrous from canon, though...
Dude, High Republic is hundreds of years before Tenebrous was even born, it's literally impossible for any High Republic media to retcon a prequel era Sith Lord.
But the series is supposed to be 100 years before TPM. Darth Tenebrous is Dark Lord of the Sith at this time. But let's see what they do.
@@anthonyrodriguez8788my guy the show is 100 years before phantom menace. Tennabrous was born between 247- 167 bby, so he is alive and well. Don’t know where u got the “100s of years” from lmao
@@anthonyrodriguez8788I think u r thinking of the old republic
@@ryanm327 No, old Republic was thousands of years before the prequel era
High Republic is hundreds of years before the prequel era.
I look forward to it. I haven't read the High Republic materials as there is just other stuff in Star Wars that has my attention. It could be very cool. I have been around from the beginning and have seen "a lot of strange stuff" as Han Solo would say in the EU/Legends over the years. Some of it great and some total crap. I don't have such a negative view of the sequels and look forward to the Rey-focused movie. Some of the prequel era stuff was very good and some not so much. I just consume it as it comes and as I can make it fit into my life. I loved Andor, but I loved Rogue One so I suppose that is to be expected. It would be cool if this effort lights a new fire in our bellies.
@grayflaneur4854 I'm a fan, from standing in line for the original movie with my siblings and a parent to standing in line with my children. There have been O maaan, that kinda sucked moments through out However, overall, I'm still interested, still enjoying, and still willing to hope for the best while accepting the, that kinda sucked moments now & then. I suppose if my life was perfect and I never had / stumbled / lived thru that kinda sucked moments of my own, I could be righteously judgmental of a movie franchise, whoever is in the driver's seat; but alas, Star Wars [and other franchises] are no more perfect that I, and yeah, I can accept that while hoping they learn from their mistakes just as I have. Rogue One and even Kenobi were awesome for me and Boba Fett rocked im[one of the few]ho. There's been enough groovy over kinda sucked to give me this hopefulness. I'm with you, Looks Like it Might Be Groovy, hurray for another slice of the Galaxy far, far away!
@@katiekofemug - yes. I am with you. I know what you mean.
Looking forward to it.
I was so excited when NEO realized that there is no spoon.
i need to read the HR trilogy before this show. not because it's necessary to, but because i'm actually interested in the books now
I've read everything that's been released so far (except the most recent novel), and it's really good. There are some reddit threads that show everything in order.
Just got finished "path of vengeance" in phase 2. But yeh the high republic is great (perfectly encompassed by how awesome Loden greatstorm is). Also, I do hope the acolyte means that we get to see a live action Vector on screen!
All I wanna see is the Sith Empire and the cool armored jedi and sith clashing among with their awesome troopers
Sadly that is the Old Republic era and for some reason Lucasfilm doesn't like that era to the point where they created a whole new era to supplement it.
Yeah that's the OLD Republic.
I would love that as well though
Wrong era bro
3:15 someone messed up on the graphic. There's BBY for before the battle of Yavin... and _after_ the battle of Yavin.
I'm going to watch for it and hope for the best but i expect very little lol
yea i had the same mentality going in to andor and i was blown away. I think the less lore baggage you have when creating a story the easier it is to make an appealing tale. Let's hope they figure it out
@@GenerationTech only thing is they have loads of lore to live up to that they can't contradict from the prequels. I'm also not a big andor fan so I'm not optimistic. Maybe it'll be a surprise but the creatives making this raise extreme doubts
I went into Andor with no real expectations and was surprisingly impressed however I had the same attitude when starting the other Disney+ original SW content and, aside from The Bad Batch and the first 2 seasons of The Mandalorian, can't say the same for any of the rest.
@@dlxmarksI still don't get what everyone loves andor I couldn't get passed episode 2
@@dlxmarks idk it just came off as any other political drama like west wing or game of thrones but set in sw
Thank you for this , a comprehensive response to this Trailer ! Best yet
Alan does a damn good job talking about star wars instead of stoking moral panic of feminism and wokeism like most other creators rely on.
I’ve read most of the high republic literature out there and can catagorically say this show has a lot of fantastic and mysterious world building to work off. Yes the high republic was a time of prosperity, but it also showed how the arrogance of the jedi was beginning to become their downfall even then - and how much coverup was really going on. Unknown poorly glossed over disasters that come back to haunt them.
Can’t wait to see how the show builds on that!
Great take as always 🫡
we also had a little bit of high republic stuff in jedi survivor with cal fighting a fallen jedi and high republic era pirates
Thanks for this video on the High Republic. There are some good stories and characters but this franchise feels more like a corporate product rather than a passion project. Like your theory that the villains in the Acolyte series could be linked to the Path of the Open Hand faction.
Finally discussion on something other than the clone wars or galactic civil war
what a bunch of kung fu lesbuns and no white men? lol woke trash Star Wars is buried, tombstoned and grass already springing up
I just like star wars and i like watching more star wars and this looks pretty alright probably watch I like having fun
I like fun too.. it ruins the fun when they do retcons and change stuff that's been set in stone since the 70s... it ruins the fun when they try and push self inserts and political ideals...when they're more focused on diversity then telling a good story with good characters there is no more fun in star wars but bad batch and andor
@@ChrisPierce-y1r dude the original stars wars was literally a commentary on how imperialism and fascism is bad so don’t say it’s ruining the fun when Star Wars is pushing political stuff since they always have. Not to mention the diversity stuff wasn’t the main reason the sequels sucked..the sequels at least after the fist one were just bad they were rushed and they were only really made to sell merchandise because they where made by Disney who Is a company and company’s only care about making money and since most people in modern times are more diverse they make stuff more diverse so they get more people to watch their stuff and buy their stuff. Not because they really love politics or anything but because they really love money.
During that period, actually Yoda has already been present, and will ascend to master level and has more influence
Never understood why people didn't like the High Republic series, is pretty cool and Marchion Ro is a genuine interesting villain, a non force user that out wit the Jedis.
DEI, it's all over those books, that's why. They aren't enjoyable books they go through a checklist and a formula.
Aside from the "controversy" surrounding the apparent agenda surrounding that series some of the characters come off as totally ridiculous due to their designs and backstory like in the case of that rock "pilot" that literally looks like a block made of rock.
Why are people talking about agenda? Do you guys really mind details like sexuality and color? Like bro, those are mere characteristics 💀
@@IejirKotharSpoken like someone who hasn't read the books.
@@javiervasquez625 so what, is star war supposed to forever locked at the OT trilogy and can't have new ideas and stuff to work? Milking the same time period for what? 50 years already? Time to try new thing, even silly things
Are people just hating to hate now
Basically. It's like they're past anger and are just at depression at this point
@@mentalmandolorian5723 yep, did you see how many people lost their shit at the thing that came out about George yesterday? They are screeching that he betrayed them
@@whateverwhatever4476 what happened with lucas?
@@Special_Agent_NSB he's pretty much sided with Disney and said they're doing a great job with Star wars
@@whateverwhatever4476 I wouldn’t call it a betrayal, but I can kinda see where those really down hard believers would get that idea from.
George siding with Disney doesn't change they're doing a bad job in my eyes, but that doesn't ultimately matter I guess
Seems good so far!
"The rule of two," Kotor, those are the stories I think most fans would like to see come to life. Disney can still feature the strong female it so covets in Bastila Shan.
I'm hesitant about it. Haven't watched the trailer yet we shall see
Love from a Coreysdatapad and Vaush fan!
I really hope this show does well, because prequel-era shows are so rare these days and it's honestly such a shame...
My parents and I are going to try it out. It does look interesting
If they include at least an appearance from the Drengir (evil plant monsters) that COULD be cool and a very different enemy for the Jedi, but the visual effects have to look really cool and menacing!
I'd love to see more of the sith lore
Why is it important? Well, it's not from a narrative perspective. But it will be important in that it is going to completely bury the Star Wars brand. It will finish what the Last Jedi started.
Even tho I do not think Disney Star Wars is no longer for me I just hope it reaches the young audiences that George Lucas has always intended to reach. I’m not expecting it to be epic or suck I’m just hoping it reaches a new audience that could latch on for generations to come. I’m hoping that the age gap in Star Wars is a thing and the young ppl that are in these projects could captivate the very audience they represent. I always agreed with George when he said Star Wars is for the kids. And here we have a very youthful auditions that’s ready to take on the helms and carry Star Wars for the next generations to come.
Doesn’t seem like kids even care about Star Wars anymore sadly…
@@FoxHoundUnit90 there will be a show that will grab em. maybe not this one but at some point it will
I hope it's an entertaining show. I like the idea of an unexplored era in a familiar franchise with only Yoda as the familiar character. Maybe this will show why the Jedi Order changed to how it was in the prequel trilogy.
Never thought I’d say it but bring back the vong. At least they’re interesting.
That would be amazing if they just made movies from that series. Hardest thing would be casting Luke Han and leia but hell they have the budget for it
Im excited, Disney needs something with more of a clean slate like THR, than the boundaries cobstantly growing around the OG timelines as more content around those have been released.
I doubt its the Open Hand. The director of the Acoylte series openly said "Star Wars is about underdogs vs institutions. Well, this time, the Jedi are the institution, and the *Sith* are the underdogs."
I'm not sure it's them either, but the Path of the Open Hand were always a fringe group, they were a cult founded by a heretic from the Guardians of the Whills and stayed on some backwater world for hundreds of years until they started resorting to terrorism and stopped by the Republic and the Jedi, so some kind of successor group of theirs can't be ruled out yet.
Honestly that point you bring up with the Path is a really good idea, though knowing Disney they’re probably going to completely ignore that possibility and do something else that utterly fails to be lore accurate/make sense/be a good story etc.
I hope this new series will be good. We need a R-rated Old Republic Star Wars movie with a great director that would use real martial artists for all fighting scenes. Have a complex story full of political and strategic scheming.
That would be cool
Thank you Alan! I am excited to see Acolyte! I might start reading the High Republic novels as I saw them at a nearby bookstore. The High Republic, I think it’s about midway between the end of the New Sith Wars/ Ruusan Reformation period and Darth Bane’s decree of the Rule of Two, right to the Invasion of Naboo as seen in Phantom Menace. Basically smack dab in the middle of a millennia of peace protected by the Jedi Order.
An unrelated question: whats the point of the army ? Why not just use orbital bombardment?
Quite a lot of the time you’re only at war because you want the land, and if you blow up a city you can’t exactly claim it
Eckhart has done videos on this I think
@@RyanGoslingthestonecoldsigma yeah true but in star Wars they rely highly on command posts outside of city
@@DarkestKnightshade Ill check him out
That's like asking what's the point of having an army, Air Force and navy when you can just throw nukes at every problem.
Awesome video Thanks
Very disappointed in you Allen.
Firstly calling Din a side story when he is at the heart of 2 upcoming theatrical films, and has fought the imperials since season 1.
Then going off on an inaccurate tangent about the sequels and doomcalling on the franchise.
It's just sad.
Give us the Old republic .
My predicition: I bet this show actually gives us very little details about the state of the galaxy during the High Republic. It'll follow 3 or 4 lackluster characters with unclear motives around the galaxy who speak in poorly written one liners and spend a lot of their time battling enemies who's origins and goals are also unclear. It'll take place mostly on new fringe planets (instead of well established ones) who's locations and relationship to the rest of the galaxy are also unclear. We will come away with nothing but questions about the timeline and how what we are seeing fits into anything leading to the prequels because the show won't really address this.
That’s an easy bet for sure lol. The commentary on the show before the trailer left little to be desired or expected
Yeah keep predictions to RLM. So boring
Looks like it could be good 🤞
I'm looking forward to it!
🤣🤣
@@mysterious___1average Star Wars “fan” mentality ^
@@Squiddy-go1du average lol. Typical comment from someone who doesn’t care about what Disney has done to SW. I bet you bought a “the force is female” t-shirt.
I both and very intrigued and very worried at same time about this show at the same time, the fact Disney has screw thing up badly and have bad track record with Star Wars and hurt my faith in them, but at the same time it interesting they are taking something of wuxia film(crouching tiger, hidden dragon) approach to storytelling and that could work with Star Wars, and visual it looks great. Will see were it goes.
The high republic is currently my favourite era in SW, seeing how the jedi view the force on a personal level and how each perspective is different was mind opening to me since often in visual media we only get the same view as regular citizens of the force. Opaque and vague
Just here to read the nerd rage 🍿
I’m here to read the reylos rage 😂
Ever since the showrunner was revealed. I've been skeptical of Lesley Headland.
You da man Alan 💪🏽
Isn’t Leslye Headland the former “Acolyte” of Harvey Weinstein!?……That’s so empowering…
I haven't seen the trailer for the series yet, but I have come across the "Acolytes" name in Star Wars via various sources. Seems interesting and it (hopefully) will be a nifty alternate to just "current" Star Wars lore (i.e., the Skywalker era.)
From the way the faction is described, "The Path" seems akin to Earth's European "Dark Age" when Catholicism violently persecuted those persons of "pagan" religions, who practiced alternate forms of worship or "magick" (old English spelling used today to differentiate between "energy spell work" and fictional or illusional "magic.") Basically, the leaders and followers of the Catholic faith (at the time) considering the practice of "magick" to be heresy and therefore punishable by imprisonment, torture and, of course, even death.
I'm excited. Because otherwise I can't do much else. Obi Wan, despite liking the character, didn't draw me. This? I want more old, pre trilogy era.
I honestly forgot that the acolyte was even a thing.
The High Republic era books & comics have had massive reader decline from the first two books. Sales numbers remain anemic at best.
Source?
@@aaronputhalath2778 look it up for yourself. If I can find it you can.
i'm sorry but Mandalore being liberated in the live action series is a much bigger deal than you give it credit for. the mandalorians in legends brought both the republic and sith to their knees at various points in history to the point that jedi such as Reven turned to the darkside because of their hatred of mandalorians for the horrors of their crusades, not to mention the pre-clone wars civil war that pitted Jaster Mereel's reformists against Death Watch who wished to continue those crusades.
Mandalore's return has the potential to bring a great deal of good or evil to the galaxy depending on how they proceed.
It's a trap !!!
That show is not canon period, because it makes zero sense and sith are sith and jedi are jedi. There's good and evil, neither of them can't switch places. I see the Acolyte as a deathblow to an already very dead franchise.
“Neither of them can switch places”
Meanwhile the entire point of tcw is that the Jedi were also corrupt and their downfall was inevitable
All of the shows you listed were already planned before the sequels rolled out. There was no policy change and dont pretend like it was a reflexive action to focus on the old characters.
Thanks Alan👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
"Close your eyes"
"This is the the time to Geode to Shine"
I feel like as an old cannon man, or like we like to call it the true cannon, which goes from 1977-2011, covering millions of stories and what ifs and established content..ramble ramble. The point is, the Golden Age has stories which could be retold. Everything could have been retold. And Legends did exist before Disney, but it was for the distant future of the universe, which eother loosely based itself in the orig trig or didn't, or for the obscure or funny comics. I just wanted to see the badass strategist Thrawn, that Timothy Zahn brought to life. I didn't get that though. I got a Saturday morning cartoon villian. He sounds like Thrawn, he walks like Thrawn, but he's not that guy, trust me buddy.
The setting sounds interesting, but I'm not sure if I trust Disney not to screw it up. Maybe I'll watch it, maybe I won't. I just don't care about Star Wars that much anymore, which is quite sad.
Dont forget young Jedi adventures whom are set in this time period and that the game Jedi Survivors explore it as well. J.
Yeah I'll give it a go and hope it surprises me but Tenebrous and Plagueis have to be involved in some way, and I won't forget how Headland spoke about the prequels and lucas. Worth the watch and hope for the best.
Some fans believe they'll also show Revan and some of the Sith from the Old Republic days as Keanu Reeves (who many fans see as the perfect actor for Revan) was reportedly casted for a small role in the series. Here's to hoping he plays a cool Sith/Dark Side user that fleshes out the Lore in a cool and interesting way.
@javiervasquez625 not sure how and to be honest not too bothered, love Raven and the old republic but I'll just stick to the established lore of it rather than see disney do their own thing good or bad with it. I'm just hoping it'll make sense all in all and not some disneyfied quirky and edgy show, they can do their own thing but thr high republic wasn't really advertised well and not many people care about it. I'll watch the show but hope they handle the lore well
I have always said Disney needed to go into some other timeline as the only option available to them, and continuing in the existing timeline was doomed to failure. What they're doing can now stand on its own. Balls in their court on that one, I know nothing about this High Republic era other than its a thing that exists.
P.S. I had no idea the High Republic was that close to the main timeline.
Fair point
Still choosing a mostly chill time period in which the main villains work behind the scenes wasn't the wisest idea
Is this set during the same time period as the flashbacks in Jedi survivor? It would be cool if we saw Dagan Gera or Santari Khri in the show.
I have a bad feeling about this…
Hey now! Stick with THR. This 3rd phase has really been great. The other two were very enjoyable as well.
I'm gonna laugh if this turns out to be actually good despite all the internet fans who are negative about it
In short I want it to be good but I’m expecting it to be the second coming of the willow show.
I have extremely strong opinions about the showrunner and that she should be in prison next to her old boss (if I didn’t think he would get a kick out of it ied put her in the same cell) but that shouldn’t colour my view of Star Wars.
One think I’m kinda worried about is how they are going to handle the fact that the Jedi aren’t meant to know their are Sith around at this time period, as for a the Jedi are concerned it’s been over a thousand years since they last saw a Sith but here we are only a hundred years before that statement in the prequels and we are going to have Sith running around waving their little red sabres, Maul didn’t say at last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi “again” as him showing up was a massive surprise as they had gone into hiding for a thousand years, at the time of the show they’re is meant to be only one Sith Tenabres as the soon to be Sith plagaus is in his teens and Palpatine isn’t even an idea in his grandfathers mind and all of the Sith leading up to the prequels were VERY good at keeping in the shadows.
Now as I’ve heard others say they could get around this by making sure anyone that sees a Sith gets yetted out of existence before they can tell anyone what they have seen, their is also the possibility of the Jedi covering it up and Yoda is the only one that knows about the incident we know the jedi have the shadows so the show could end with whatever Sith we see been locked in one of them chambers we saw Maul in and stored in the orders basement and yoda deletes the records so that no one else is tempted to be a Sith but that’s messy.
I’ll be looking to see if they will make reference to “Young Jedi Adventures,” the children’s series set during that general era. 🤓
How dare a franchise targeted at children make *looks at notes* a children’s show
@@cael4065 - Who’s complaining? Not me.
Pretty much
I cannot wait to see this, been loving this period since the first book, doubly so since the high republic stuff we got in Jedi survivor.
Knowing Star Wars, if this is The Paths doing eventually it comes to light that a Sith sits somewhere at the top of The Path but who knows, time will tell.
I watched this entire video, and I liked it. I am the High Republic.
In that pic you showed did one of those Jedi have a black lightsaber or amI seeing things?
More importantly how did no one at LF notice its eyes were open
3:46 Would someone please tell me who/what the wolf/dog thing is in the bottom left corner?
After taking a huge deep dive into the Star Wars wiki. They appear to be Loth-wolves
eAwesome video! I think you did a much better job at analyzing this trailer than Eckhartsladder.
Wasn't Acolite the term used by the Sith, while the Jedi used the term Youngling?
i heard that too
Yep
I thought it was going to be about Asajj Ventress for some reason so I was very confused when the trailer dropped
Was watching this trailer & was like where's Jude Law then remembered that's Skeleton Crew.