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Breaking the atmosphere

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Been playing Alan Wake in preparation for Alan Wake II and it naturally made me want to go back and revisit Control. Remedy's ability to nail this tone of retro futurism, Americana, weird fiction, and Brutalism while making it so believable is unparalleled. Even on my old lower end PC the game looks absolutely fantastic. You can FEEL the warmth of the sun rays peeking in through the blinds and the dust of the Oceanview Motel & Casino along with the cold concrete and marble of The Oldest House. It completely absorbs you into Jesse's headspace as they traverse though it. Just a phenomenal game, man.

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Ok not gonna lie, I'm kinda downed after Ahsoka finale, it was mmm unsatisfying in many plot moments to me personally (even a cliffhanger is not as satisfying as it should be)

It's still beautiful show, filmed with great skill and devotion (ah, music, acting, sets, designs are dope) but main plot kinda crumbles on itself in key points (Sabine-Ahsoka relationships, only glimpse of Baylan's motivation, lack of some keystones of pesonal relationships even!). To me, Dave Filoni's Star Wars was always about plot and characters, nuances of their relationships in the first place and I kinda lost it here.

I want to think that it was just first experience as live action director and further season will not be "disneyfied". I want to believe.

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We are SEVEN EPISODES into this eight episode season and we STILL don't even know why Ahsoka left Sabine the first time they trained together. The closest we got was Baylan saying that Ahsoka didn't help Sabine save her family from being killed, which could mean ANYTHING. If it's referencing the glassing of Mandalore, then what the fuck was Ahsoka supposed to do about that? If Clan Wren was in danger some OTHER way, maybe Ahsoka was busy helping someone else and couldn't show up? If Ahsoka genuinely DID just abandon Clan Wren because she was a bitch who didn't want to help, then I feel like that's a character flaw that should get addressed at some point.

But we've got SO LITTLE TIME left on this season and they've left so much out. I know a second season is supposed to be coming, but this history between Ahsoka and Sabine came out of fucking nowhere and it's gotten ZERO explanation.

We don't know why they started training together, why Sabine wants to be a Jedi at all when it was never something she wanted (or could actually DO) back in Rebels, or why Ahsoka would even WANT to train Sabine at all and how she approached that. This relationship is the core of this entire show and we don't know jack all about it. We have characters like Hera and Huyang telling us that they were "good together" or whatever, but we have no context for that at all and none of it makes any sense. The core relationship of this show should not be something that waits until the second season to be explained, in my opinion.

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