To transform Star Wars in an infinite series of series was never the best idea in the galaxy. if four years ago The Mandalorian he triumphed by appealing to the spirit pulp of the saga with episodes like series B (and those final illustrations, like a Western novel), it was enough Boba Fett’s book so that the fans had to ask themselves uncomfortable questions: if the idea was to produce a series about a bounty hunter mandaloriano anyone, why not have done it directly on the mythical Boba Fett?
The presence -as of Mussolini in full decline- of a plump Temuera Morrison He finished demystifying that once mysterious armor. In this context, that of a certain fatigue, the first two episodes of the spin-off of The Mandalorian released on Disney+ (waiting for the remaining six, which will arrive weekly), dividing critics (only two stars in The Guardian) and sometimes causing more than skepticism.
And yet the creation of Dave Filoni (producer and screenwriter for the factory, who is launching as a director) is hypnotic in many ways. First of all, because the opening scene is like a neo-Gothic remake of the one from 1977: some red letters parade on the black screen to explain the situation (the empire has been defeated, etc); a ship that looks like a model appears in a long plane that gives a good account of its enormity, and something like a boarding takes place in which a man in black (the already deceased Ray Stevensonto whom the episodes are dedicated) moves soldiers from the New Republic aside with a simple wave of his hand.
There is also a lost map theme again, which needs to be found. Although that, of course, matters little. In Star Wars, there is always something to find before it is too late or something else to destroy in time. the familiar macguffins to move the action forward. But the nature of the missions matters as much as the melodramatic family soap opera. What has truly mattered always in Star Wars it is the production design, its ability to transport us to other worlds, and the presentation of characters that are cool on their own, like simple articulated figurines, regardless of the action.
The art of Ahsoka it is exquisite. And the series presents two characters that anyone would like to have on their bookshelf: the very exotic and attractive Natasha Liu Bordizzo -all a candy for the Chinese market (the great pending issue of Star Wars and Disney+) – is the first flesh-and-blood incarnation of Sabine Wrena biker pass through rebel, whose appearance riding a full-throttle Speeder Bike is reminiscent of the seminal anime Akirawhile the Ukrainian Ivanna Sakhnoa blonde on the Dark Side, looks like she’s straight out of a neo-Gothic clip from Boy Harsher o Lebanon Hanover. In this Death Proof from a galaxy far, far away Rosario Dawsonwho starred in the most feminist film of Tarantinoperhaps paradoxically the least convincing, for abusing her attitude of a vicious Jedi, a somewhat exaggerated mimicry, perhaps to transcend makeup.