I think an adaptation should be made as good as possible even if some small sacrifices to fidelity have to be made, like not using super fake looking contact lenses! Most people who watch Star Wars live-action shows on Disney aren’t hardcore Clone Wars and Rebels fans. Most people watching wouldn’t even realize that the eye colors were wrong. Yes some of the hardcore fanbase would have been angry. “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” is certainly true, but I would suggest that is skews the balance toward a very small but vocal contingent within the Star Wars fandom. The best argument I’ve heard for the fake eye coloring is that fans would have been incredibly upset if Disney hadn’t matched the eye color. So is the irony of everyone complaining that I’m complaining. Do I need to go make a new TV show or movie every time I critique one? That’s preposterous. I can’t possibly go and make my own Star Wars show just to prove to angry fans that I can do it better. At least you can cook dinner on a critic’s budget. A food critic, however, would have an easier time with it. It is no more a film critic’s job to make movies than it is a food critic’s job to make dinner. ![]() Meanwhile, Andor did a terrific job with every costume, hairstyle and set, crafting a world that felt lived-in and real, but also fantastical and alien.Īnother reaction that I see regularly-doing my job, as a critic-is a version of “If you think you could do better why don’t you try!?” As I’ve noted in the past, I am a critic not a filmmaker. The speeder bike kids in Boba Fett also looked nothing whatsoever like Star Wars. ![]() I’d argue that many of the aesthetic choices in the prequel trilogy cheapened those films and made them feel less like Star Wars. That’s saying that critiquing graphics in a video game is “superficial.” Maybe graphics aren’t the most important factor, but they matter and so do design choices in a Star Wars TV show. I would argue that there is nothing superficial about critiquing visual design choices in film and television. One I’ve seen come up more than once is that this is “superficial”. I will respond to some of these arguments. Some of the pushback I’ve gotten has been considered and thought-provoking, and I appreciate that, but much has amounted to little more than personal attacks. basic.Ĭritiquing the visuals or aesthetics of a visual medium is pretty par for the course, but then again certain subsets of any fandom tend to believe that any critique whatsoever of the thing they love is a literal assault on their identities. I did expect some pushback, but I didn’t expect quite the level of vitriol and anger over something so. For one thing, I didn’t expect it to soar past 200,000 views, or for my Facebook post to get over 450 comments. The response to this post has been both expected and a little surprising. Hey, at least she got to keep her natural eye color! Are there no hair-stylists in a galaxy far, far away? Yeesh. Just because Bo-Katan had terrible hair in the animated shows doesn’t mean you have to do this to Katee’s hair in live-action. This also applies to the hair department.The eye color thing is just one example, but given how important eyes are in conveying human emotion on the screen (and in person, obviously) making sure that the actors can do their jobs properly is more important than making sure Hera or Ahsoka’s eyes are just so. You can be faithful to Rebels and Clone Wars without this strict adherence to visual continuity. Obi-Wan’s cloak should feel worn and dirty. ![]() I was going to comment on her son, Jacen, as well but honestly that’s just a whole other story that gets deep into alien/human crossbreeding and plausibility and I’ll save it for another time.įor now, I will end this by strongly urging Disney and Lucasfilm and Dave Filoni and the costume and SFX departments on these shows to do three things: Surely an older Hera, now a general, would have a few more outfits laying around. That works in a cartoon! But adaptations have to adapt. South Park’s characters wear the same outfit year after year and basically never grow old. Cartoons often feature characters in the exact same clothes. In the original Star Wars movies the characters appear in different outfits regularly.
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