sarastro7

It's Day 1 of the S2 release; the first three episodes of season 2 have been seen. Sadly, they are not on par with S1 at all. Things pick up a *little* bit in ep. 3, but overall there is little plot, hardly any stakes, and all the characters aren't really DOING anything. Most of what is shown in these episodes has nearly no meaningful plot progression, and it's just too little, too late. Nowhere near the supreme level of S1. I don't think this new season was rushed; I just think it's bad. Uninspired. Gilroy has run out of steam. Season 1 was probably the best Star Wars material outside of A New Hope and Empire Strike Back. But that magic is no longer present. I rate the first two episodes of season 2 a 6/10, and the third episode a reluctant 7. Season 1 as a whole I've given 9/10, but on the strength of a clearly subpar second season, the overall rating of the show is down to an 8/10 from me. I'd love to see the show pick up some proper thrust and propulsion in the rest of S2, but, I'm not sure I believe it will. A shame.

From the trailer I felt like this would be a fairly bad movie, along the lines of the 2018 Robin Hood movie (which I haven't actually seen. Yet. LOL!), but it was better than I feared. I'll admit it starts out rather slow, with some rather wooden characters, and one is taken aback by the Renaissance-style language (that raids Shakespeare very overtly on many occasions, from "the milk of human kindness" to "unsex me here", which is kind of hilariously unashamed), but as the movie went on it became more engaging, more action-heavy and just plain more interesting. More characters, too. It ended up an epic adventure with additional substance added by the verbosity of it. I'm a Shakespeare fan, so I had fun with it. It's not amazingly great, but it improves across the runtime, getting more and more exciting and involved, and I ended up rating it a 7/10, which I stand by. Not a great classic, but will I watch the sequel if it comes? Sure.