Watched the first two episodes of Ahsoka. My wife and I have never watched any of the Rebels shows, so coming from that perspective, we’re pretty disappointed with the show so far. The story seems interesting but we couldn’t get over the wooden acting and terrible dialogue.
I was really hoping this show could do for the New Republic era what Andor has done for the “Rise of the Empire” era, but so far it just doesn’t have the same intrigue. A lot of time is spent on Sabine accepting her role as Ahsoka’s apprentice, but by the time it happens I had a hard time caring.
This show has a lot of love right now, so I understand that this might be a bit of an unpopular opinion right now, but I don’t think this show is going to age well.
I'm 100% with you, just probably worse. Granted, it is only two episodes, but I found the first two episodes of Ahsoka to be borderline atrocious and I'm both a Rebels fan and a fan of the Ahsoka character. While I was a big fan of the casting of Rosario Dawson in the character at first, I've found her to be terrible as the character from the start, to the point that it doesn't even feel like the same character as in the animated series. Why is she walking around so slow and stoic all the time???? Also, if I had a dime for every time she stands there and crosses her arms, I'd be a rich man. It drives me crazy. None of that is Ahsoka from the animated series either. Don't get me started on her atrocious dialogue they give her as well. With all that said, none of these are even the greatest sin of the actress and the writers. The greatest sin is that they all have created a fairly unlikeable character so far. Isn't this an Ahsoka show?? Aren't I supposed to be rooting for her rather than sitting there in complete apathy? Sabine doesn't feel like the same character either, while I'd call Hera decent so far.
Moving past the characters themselves, I've just found the writing and dialogue all around of the series to be so so bad. I've been bored to death so far in a show with lightsaber fights. Why are we searching for ancient artifacts to find an Grand Admiral who disappeared like what 15 years ago??? It reminded me of the whole Rise of Skywalker Death Star thingamajiggy map/compass whatever. How did Sabine survive a lightsaber in the gut when we've already seen others in Star Wars die from the exact same wound?? I could go on and on with many others but I'll spare you all.
Anyway, I'm glad some people seem to be liking this show so far, but I'm just not one of them unfortunately. I'm sitting here super disappointed right now, especially after Andor set the bar so high for me and reignited my love of Star Wars. Mandalorian S3 then restarted the decline and Ahsoka is plummeting it right now.
All this is so sad because I've always been such a big Star Wars fan through all the good and the bad and I'm finally getting sucked of that joy. It doesn't help that I've gotten into Star Trek within the past 15 years and that franchise is on the opposite trajectory. I've been watching the latest season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds lately, which has been outstanding in all facets, and then I watch something like Ahsoka and its almost laughable to compare the writing between the two franchises. Oy vey......