I think Ennis' writing is a heightened reality. Heightened but very true ... which is why the boys comic is better than the show and everybody is out of their minds 😁

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 thank you! Finally someone said it. Granted people who like the show over the comics are completely valid of course still thank you.

Finally I have someone who shares my bafflement with the praise of this season. Welcome 🤗

If you're a toff 😆

Thanks for the great comment. I always feel like people simplify Frank far too much. It sadly becomes an argument as it whether he is 'right' or 'wrong'. Which misses the point.

Really glad to know you enjoyed them. I list enthusiasm to do anymore since season three. The concepts are awesome but I lost faith thatmmeyd so anything with them. But the philosophy is still there to explore in our heads 😁

That was probably my most genuine reaction despite the fact that I'd seen the video already. I just intended to sip my wine but as I was listening to the video I thought, oh, no here it comes, the betting on your kid's life is fine if you sure, argument. 😮‍💨 And yeah I like to liken him to batman in the father arena. When asked if he is a good father I think most reasonable people would be uncomfortable saying yes but taking into consideration everything contextually you'd also feel quite unfair saying a definitive, no. I like to stick with, 'No but it's complicated.'😀 And yeah, on planet vegeta, there really wouldn't be much of a problem with his parenting. Any softer and he wouldn't have fit in with society.

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 you should do some more db content!

@pzaypraxis95 sadly I don't think I'm knowledgeable enough about franchise 😔

Really, that's one I hear a lot. The idea that because she was his leader Poe et al should have obeyed her orders. Right alongside the, she was right, she had a plan, and he should have trusted her. I'm almost done working on my TLJ script and I've tried to lean into what people like about this film but hands up, cards on the table, I'm really disenchanted with it. It would be great if you as a fan, let me know why you like it. In a general sense and the main topcis I'll be covering are Holdo, Luke, and the overall damage to the franchise. Any thoughts you have on those or anything else would be brilliant if you don't mind sharing. This won't be a debunking style essay, I'm not writing it with that mind set, it's most just why I still after all this time feel like I have things to say, mostly spurred on by my interest in leadership as a study. I've said before that my frustration rarely ever comes from disagreeing but rather lacking enough understanding of WHY people think it's good. So If you're willing to share I'd really appreciate it because I genuinely want to understand but I haven't heard anything that has helped so far, in fact it has only really soured me more. In relation to Anakin and the order, I think I mentioned to you in a comment before about how I separate what I blame an individual for and what I blame the group for. I blame the council and the people on it. Mace, Yoda, Obiwan and literally anyone who thought this was a good idea most of all. I think there is an argument to be made that the, ideology and dogmatism of the order that promotes (what I see as) toxic sacrificial mentality and blind obedience to one's (supposedly wiser) superiors as well as of course the 'let go' 'attachment leads to jealousy' 'mourn them do not, miss then do not' points of view played a part. But I am laying this one mostly at the feet of the silly people who made the silly, damaging decision. It's kind of like how I don't blame the order for Sifo Dias and Dooku creating the Clone army. And there is a story in the EU about a group of Jedi who murdered their padawans because of a vision they had. That is in NO WAY the order's fault as the order teaches the exact opposite of what they did, being wary of visions and mindful of your feelings and fears. So yeah, those are my thoughts, I don't really blame the order for the Rako Hardeen arc, mostly just the Jedi involved in it.

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 I sweared once that I'm done doing this, but fine here we go again. My question about the Holdo complaint is who in the right mind would trust Poe in her situation? The guy just proven to be a hot headed idiot who can be competent in the right situation but he cannot be trusted with plans. He is eager to sacrafice lives under his command for doing damage to the enemy even if the target isn't worth it(they didn't know the FO can trace them through lightspeed so that don't matter). Leia demoted him because of it. The situation and the fact that Leia likes him is probably the only things keeping him to get court marshalled. EC Henry said that and I think he is right that one sentence could have saved a lot if not all of the Holdo plotline. "There can be spies on the fleet". I love this movie but I also don't think it's perfect because of things like this. That being said she had every reason to keep the plan herself. She didn't know how the First Order can follow them, the whole fleet didn't know except Poe and hit small circle of friends and when Poe finally told her and what Finn and Rose are doing she was right again thinking their plan is too risky. And even if we say the whole spies thing never said so don't matter Poe himself is still a good reason not to share the plan with everyone. Because as it's obvious Poe is hotheaded and unpredictible and also popular and can start a mutiny. Guess what this is exactly what happened later. Poe eventually learned about the evecuation, how did he react? Exactly like someone like him would. He gave a tantrum he called her a coward... started a mutiny endangering everyone if not for Leia the Resistancee could have ended that day. Later it was stated that saving lives is more important to her than her reputaion. This is just personal preference to me it was sooooooooo refreshing to see a burocratic hierarchical military leader to be right against the hotheaded command refuseing flyboys/girls in star wars especially after clone wars. The Last Jedi is controversial for a reason. I don't know how believable I am when I say this but I understand why certain people dislike it or outright hate it. I understand their feelings and I always trying to be understanding and compassionate to those who are not willing to swallow this movie. Except I don't anymore. The internet outrage after this movie scarred me emotonally. I never recieved the same understanding from the haters of this movie. For a long time I cut off every connection to th sw fandom like Luke did with the force. In time started to talk about star wars again with people but it was a slow process and I still refuse to talk about it except if i know for sure I talk to people who are willing to listen and not just tell me how wrong I am for liking a movie. My core reason to like this movies is it has the courage to take us deeper than than the usua star wars story. Similar to kotor 2. This movie dared to challange us as fans. But mainstream media consumers don't want to be challanged. I learned that most people don't like seing their heroes getting old their favourite stories being deconstructed. I understand this. I'm on the opposite side I say deconstruction is one of the best thing in popular media, if it's done right and the intention isn't spite. The heroes refuse to follow the orders instead impovise some insanely risky plan to save the day? The risk didn't pay off and the consequences were horrible(except forRose and Finn who still got out). Luke Skywalker everyone's childhood hero and legend. He is also a human being with his own flaws and as a human being can make mistakes and these mistakes going to have consequences and Luke isn't just gonna shrug off these consequnces and go save the day again. These events has an effect on him mentally and these effects lead him where he is at the begining of the movie. These events put him to the abolute lowest where even we the audeince feel uncomfortable where we couldn1t even imagine Luke can be. BUT in the end from this low point Luke rise up and truly earn the title of the hero we all claim him to be. Even the child workers in the stables talk about him because his legend reached even these parts of the galaxy. To me Luke become even more of a legend than he ever was before. The movie also deconstructs some other things too we used to in star wars. Sympathetic funny smooth talker who says his philosophy is everyone's for themselves? He stayed true to his word and won't save the herose in the last minute. War of good guys and bad guys? No matter how just the reason is one side's in the war, war itself is a machine that only destroys and it inveitably lead to things like war profiteering. The novelization explore this a bit further when Finn and Rose are about to be executed. We read the "last" thoughts of Finn seconds before his execution. He is thinking about his decisions that led him here. DJ might be right about "they blow you up today, you blow them up tommorrow" it's all the same but Finn ultimately decides he is glad that he choose to fight and lost instead of being like DJ. Selfish and never fight for anything or anyone. Your reqason for war and conflict can be noble and even 100% necessary but it still going to lead to destruction. The movie isn't go to gut wrenching depths it1s still a family movie but dare to paddle to waters mainstream star wars content usually avoid without trying to look down on star wars. The reason I say Anakin is not a good example to argue against the order is because Anakin proved them right. If Anakin had been able to let go of his attachments the whole thing wouldn't have happened. But the teaching of the jedi are very strict even narrow minded. "Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is." The whole quote. What the jedi try to teach is don't let your emotions rule you especially the bad ones. How it is tought is a different question and this quote to Anakin at that time is basically saying "your wife is about to die move on dude" but marriege is forbidden to the jedi to begin with, something I disagree with. This is what proves that Yoda and Obi-Wan are better jedi than Anakin. Anakin turned to the dark side while Yoda and Obi-Wan didn't despite having losses of their own too. Huge part of being a jedi is not losing ourselves despite losses. I don't want to defend the Jedi or Anakin. I'm saying is that these are not simple questions with simple answers. There's basically nothing I can add to the Rako Hardeen episodes. You know opinion about the show. I agree this story arc is stupid but the whole show is. God'm tired. I should be sleeping for 3 hours by now instead I write comment to you. If you think everything I just said is complete nonsense I hope you at least appreciate.

@@DeerBoy736 I absolutely appreciate you laying that out for me. I was going to respond but I didn't want to write an essay and overwhelm you. They'll all be in video so you can catch my opinions should you choose but fair warning I will be going pretty hard on this film because despite my sincerest effort, anything good I can say about it comes with an asterix next to it. I will say this though. When it comes to logical problems in films I end up on the extreme ends of the spectrum. Either they don't bother me or they really really bother. (I will be opening up my vid with a logical problem but only to be transparent about the fact that I suspect it soured me towards the rest of the movie very early on and I also think it's pretty funny). But what always breaks a movie for me is if the themes and messages are out of sync with the stuff that is actually happening on screen. I think that's why I find TLJ so unenjoyable. I think it has really good ideas, but none of them come to true fruition unless the viewer finishes writing (or rewrites) the movie for the writer to make them make sense with what is happening on screen and what the characters are actually saying and doing. I've actually had this experience myself with a character I really liked where I had convinced myself it was a great character but it was really me just doing the writing in my own head. But again, I'll save that for the video. The reason I called my channel, why it doesn't work for me is because I wanted to draw a clear line between 'i like it' and 'i think it's good'. Quality doesn't always equal enjoyment. I liked the first Venom movie but can't stand The Godfather. You're not going to catch me saying A is good or B is bad. Please don't take this the wrong way because I am just coming to this same realization myself. But a lot, and I mean a lot, of the writing problems present in TLJ are also present in the The Clone Wars. At least the (frequently) bad written arcs anyway. Basically any arc/episode that isn't about a clone/clones has a chance of being bad, inconsistent, careless or just not married very well with it's own themes and ideas. In regards to Anakin and the complexity of the Jedi, yeah, totally agree no notes. 😄

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 "I will say this though. When it comes to logical problems in films I end up on the extreme ends of the spectrum. Either they don't bother me or they really really bother." That's familiar I have same problems too. "can't stand The Godfather" This is rarity, I barely hear anyone not liking just a little bit about that movie. Most people I talked with The Godfather is the don and you can't say anything bad about it. Yes TLJ and TCW has similar problems. The main difference is at least to me is the mentality behind they were written. The TCW mentality makes want to commit seppuku but the mentality behind TLJ is something I want to see more of in mainsteram media. I'm a Zack Snyder DC fan so I'm kinda an imp from hell.

@DeerBoy736 my issue with Godfather is 100% subjective. I have the same problem with the prestige show The Sopranos, another objective masterpiece. I just find anything about gangsters soooo boring. I don't know why. Theoretically they have everything I should like but they've just never interested me. And when you mentioned Snyder my head popped up like a meerkat because this is something in my script. The same problems with Rian Johnsons work are the problems with Snyder's. People think I'm crazy when i compare these two directors but despite their styles being worlds apart, their weaknesses are the same. I always find myself WANTING to like Snyder but never quite managing to because I think, "yeah Zack I get what you are trying to say you're just really bad at saying it." Same with Johnson

You replace yourself with another leader, plan for your leaving and plan for your return, and keep your subordinates abreast of the situation. I.e. the exact thing obiwan and the council did not do. I never once said that any individual leader in indispensable or irreplaceable but the thing is, you kind of have to replace them.

I'm really glad I know all this now. Thank you for your comment and your insight. 🙂

I wasn't really a fan of the bad batch. I found it quite stale and the BB clones themselves kind of didn't embody what I loved about the clones (my fav part of clone wars show) which was that they appeared to be all the same but one good element about the writing (and D Bradley Baker's voice acting) was that you just had to pay attention, get to know them a little and you could see how unique and special they were. The BB clones kind of felt superficially different. But hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 Yea i enjoyed only first 2 or 3 episodes, after that it fell off for me unfortunately, clone wars was good once again i guess i just didnt like it all that much haha. Also cant wait for your boys video!

Yeah, the mandalorian was my gateway to star wars too.😁

'Damian has beaten Slade in the comcis' Yeah and it was dumb there too. And it is kind of hard to call most of the team from the New Teen Titan's comic Teens let alone kids. He certainly didn't duel 10 year olds in NTT (I.e. definitive Slade, I will hear no arguments to the contrary 😁)

Yeah, gotta be honest, not my best point 😆

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 I think it's still sound enough of a point though; no telling where that man was going to shoot

It might have to do with the way blaster fire is different from ballistic fire. A blaster is meant to melt your organs, so there isn't really a difference between going for the chest or the head. Unless of course, the target has armor, which Rako didn't know.

@@codemancz798 not saying you're wrong about blasters, but now I'm just wondering why Rex's lungs weren't mush after getting hit by that sniper. The shot penetrated the armor and just missed his heart.

@@biorecords1506 Plot armor.

Oh absolutely I am all for dumb fun. The reason I think this show should be held to a higher standard is because it is in between very consequential events which it is Canon to. So I do understand why it frustrates some people, myself included sometimes.

I get it. I feel the same about the MCU. I guess i still feel enthusiastic about star wars is because I still have loads of great EU content to keep me going. But I also know it is pulling me further away from the Canon universe and making me more annoyed with it.

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 Yeah good point. I hear ya thats why I'm actually glad DC is taking a bit of a break and it'll be a while once we get Gunns new universe. Joker 2 is an exception but its also its own universe entirely so I can forgive that and the first film was in 2019 so I can forgive that.

What's the dumbest for you? For me it was this one because the idea that they took possibly THE most prominant general in the war out of commission despite the fact that they themselves are trying to take out their enemies generals (so they know that. that will tank their war effort) just cemented this one for me. I could discard all the other points and it would be the dumbest on the strength of that alone for me

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 In terms of over all dumb concepts, Evil Plans is the most pointless episode in the show. Half of it focuses on R2 and 3PO searching for fruit and the other half Cad Bane stealing data from them on the Senate Building. The droid shenanigans were boring and the Cad Bane parts were completely unnecessary and added nothing interesting to the Hostage Crisis Episode. If you are talking about dumb character moments, then I have a bit of a bit of a hot take if you are interested.

@@chuckmann7127 colour me intrigued 🤔

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 Recently, particularly after Tales of the Empire, I've come to realize how stupid Barriss' terrorist arc was. First, we never see what cause her to become disillusioned with the Jedi, just that they are apparently responsible for the war. Second, she nor anyone else involved in the plot claim responsibility for the attack or list any demands. This makes the bombing pointless since it essentially has no goals to accomplish. Finally, why does she frame her best friend, the same person who saved her life twice, as the terrorist? There are thousands of other Jedi out there that probably embody her problems with the Jedi, why not one of them? It really just feels like Filoni wanted twist villain so he chose her without much thought or planning.

You know something, I never thought about that. Wish I did

I understood that reference 0)

@@cerebraltr6798 And Likewise, I understand yours.

I know I was in the minority but I always prefered movie Anakin. I never got people's problems with him in the prequels. Yeah he was unlikable but I just thought, '....guys this is darth vader. Is it really so necessary for you to like him? Can't he just be compelling?' which I thought he was. Clone Wars Anakin was kind of a good boy who lost his temper on occassion.

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 Agreed, overall, I liked him too. While I found him a bit underwhelming in some aspects, Anakin was fine, in my opinion. Especially, as you've said, when you take his 'descent to darkness' into account. Initially, I found him much more compelling due to his deviation from traditional male hero tropes-both in the portrayal by the actor and the team’s attempt to show a struggle with anger, fear, and flaws. However, they abruptly shifted gears in Clone Wars, turning Anakin Skywalker into a relatively typical hero (with some anger issues) with a deeper voice, a more “charismatic” personality and almost everything about him just being completely different from the films

There is another. In Jedi Survivor a force sensitive character is implied to have been a Jedi Shadow

I don't really talk about my job. I know that sounds very mysterious but trust me it's not all that exciting, just policy. Like I said in the video, I'm not a bounty hunter/assassin 😶

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 Honestly, I’d imagine that you’d probably fit better as a therapist than an Bounty Hunter. Or a Junior High Teacher. Especially given your previous videos on Frank and Jason and all that.

The whole dress and curtains thing was a totally accident. I only noticed it while editing 😆

@@whyitdoesntworkforme9206 How would you rewrite those Bounty Hunter Disguise Episodes?