4/11/2024 0 Comments Vader streams tv channel listPlus there’s Boba riding a Rancor to fight a giant robot like he’s in a kaiju movie, and of course, Machete in space. Temuera Morrison is always a badass, and he gave us an all-time great Star Wars meme. Still, when The Book of Boba Fett was about Boba Fett, it had some things going for it. Perhaps The Book of Boba Fett’s biggest redeeming quality is also the greatest indictment of it: There are entire episodes that don’t even feature Boba and are instead just transplanted hours of The Mandalorian that hastily wrap up the plot of an entirely different show. The big problem with The Book of Boba Fett is that the initial premise of a story about the Star Wars criminal underworld starring Boba Fett trying to be a crime boss quickly got swallowed up by flashbacks explaining how Boba himself survived getting swallowed by the Sarlacc, and endless subplots about other, less interesting characters. Then again, this cartoon does feature R2-D2 and C-3P0 facing off against space pirates, so that makes it worth a watch, because every show is better with pirates.īoba Fett, the silent loser who did absolutely nothing and died like a fool after ten minutes of screen time yet somehow became one of the most popular characters in all of Star Wars, finally got his own show - and it is not good. Still, nothing in Droids really, well, mattered, and despite being developed by sound-design master Ben Burtt, Droids doesn’t really impact the franchise at all, and its limited budget is quite noticeable, making this another Star Wars show that isn’t essential unless you’re a completist or someone with nostalgia for this show. ![]() How important is it to understand what’s going on? 0 out of 10 Gungans.ĭroids, a one-season companion to the ’80s Ewoks show, is just slightly better than the other half of the Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour because its recognizably about Star Wars, exploring the galaxy’s criminal underworld and actually featuring Anthony Daniels, reprising his role as C-3P0. While there are some small references to Return of the Jedi, Ewoks mostly spends its time with cute forest teddy bears and plots that seem more fantasy than science-fiction. It’s as inessential to the overall Star Wars franchise as it gets. Paul Dini, the creator of the groundbreaking Batman: The Animated Series, co-created Ewoks, but this earlier effort has none of the craft of the cartoon he’d make a decade later. Cartoons of this era were primarily about selling toys, and the Ewoks seemed to exist in the movie primarily to appeal to kids. There may be some nostalgia for this two-season ABC series about the cute but fierce warriors from the forest moon of Endor, but Ewoks never manages to shake off its cheap 1980s Saturday morning cartoon look and format. So, we’ve ranked every single Star Wars TV series, based on whether they are worth your time, and whether they will matter at all to the future of the franchise. This makes it hard to know where to start with Star Wars TV and to pick which shows to watch. ![]() Some, like the earliest ’80s Saturday morning cartoons, were mostly sideshows, others were meant to expand the story with side stories that eventually became intrinsic to the overall franchise, and others are now as essential as any of the main Skywalker saga entries - particularly as at least one upcoming movie is set to directly pay off some of the TV shows. That last bit is important, because lately it’s been on TV that Star Wars is fully exploring the franchise’s endless possibilities for storytelling, most recently with Ahsoka, a live-action series about a character who first appeared in a cartoon and has gone on to be one of the most important characters in the entire galaxy.Įach Star Wars TV show is vastly different from the others, both in terms of tone, but also in how they incorporate or ignore the larger canon started by the movies. In addition to the movies, there are dozens of canon Star Wars books and comic series, video games, and many, many TV shows. We really should’ve seen how complex Star Wars was going to get when the first one was retroactively titled Episode IV. You can read our r anking of every Star Wars movie here. ![]() Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos: Disney, Getty
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