I know some hardcore book fans have criticized this for straying too far from the source, but I read the whole series years ago, and it brought back enough hazy memories of characters and events to be worth watching for me. While I wished it could have continued to the end, I had no realistic hope that it ever would. Network execs just don't have the balls to see a series spanning 14+ books, and 14,000+ pages through to the end. I'm constantly surprised they keep green-lighting projects like this, when they must know from experience they'll never make it to the end. They just hope there will be enough initial hype to draw viewers for a few seasons before leaving them all hanging... again.

@derweissse wrote:
I can't imagine that anybody saw this coming.... :(

 

We should have. They outright told us what to expect at the end of episode 1, and dropped other hints along the way. But like any good magic trick, after telling us what they were going to do, they still managed to catch us off guard when they actually did it. The head-fake near the end where he meets his future ex-wife had me thinking "oh, that's the big twist...", and then WHAM! Don't know what the plan is for next season, but they'll need something pretty compelling to replace what had become one of my main reasons for watching. @snap: more like a gut-punch.

@h3rm35 wrote:
@FargleBargle - The man was 64/65 years old at airtime. Maybe it's about the time he didn't feel like being on camera when having his personal adventures. When you get up to that age, some people are still spry and ready to do action on camera, but they're the exception, not the rule. I'm personally happy for the guy. He's no longer a dancing monkey, and he's still getting paid. Good for him.

Nobody begrudges Jeremy wanting a paycheck in his golden years, but the rest of the points still apply They seem to be more aimed at the producers of this drivel than at Jeremy anyway. His only crime was letting the money they were paying him outweigh any kind of personal integrity about what his name and face were being used to sell. The producers look like they were just trying to get some Apple TV money without putting any effort into it. But that can be said about a lot of "documentaries" these days.

I saw a lot of negative comments on this show, but finally watched it anyway, trying to keep an open mind. Whether it broke specific canon and continuity is secondary to its apparent total ignorance of who the Jedi are supposed to be. Instead of being disciplined warrior monks, who are one with the force, they are almost all depicted as weak, petty, cowardly, scheming, self centred morons, who only use the force as a parlour trick once in a while. Obi Wan would have wiped the floor with all of them. I'm surprised Yoda was having anything to do with them. It's like the creators threw out all the previously established mythology, and created their own version in a galaxy far far away from the original. And this was supposedly set when the Jedi were at the peak of their power and influence. How could these losers have persisted as a force in the galaxy until the time of the movies?