Spooky Star Wars Rebels

[LiquidMan]

I have recently watched episode 11 of season 3 of the anomated series “Star Wars Rebels”, called Visions and Voices.
Something bugged me: the atmosphere was very creepy, a “magical” (read: Dark Side-ish) beverage is used as a key device and the main antagonists are the ghosts of witches who try to possess the protagonists to use their bodies in order to remake their clan. I don’t know of I should see this as “occult” or not, mostly because all the rituals are made up with in-universe elements, there is no devil behind this powers (only the fictional "Dark Side of the Force) and even the ghosts are not entirely evil, as it is shown in previous lore that they were shaman-like people who were butchered by the Empire…it has an occult-like atmosphere, but all in all is no more real than Harry Potter’s magic…I don’t really know…opinions?

 

[midori]

It’s okay if you outgrow something. You might enjoy S1, S2, and S3 of a series, but sometimes it can take a turn somewhere. You don’t need a particular reason— you can think, “This isn’t really attractive to me” or “This doesn’t make any sense” or “Wow the writers are really reaching for ideas” or “This isn’t going anywhere” or “I don’t like where this is going” or whatever. And then you can use that time you would have spent to do something that you do enjoy, rather than keeping with a show because you like the premise/like the franchise/feel obligated/watch it out of habit.

 

[Pat_Payne]

I have recently watched episode 11 of season 3 of the anomated series “Star Wars Rebels”, called Visions and Voices.
Something bugged me: the atmosphere was very creepy, a “magical” (read: Dark Side-ish) beverage is used as a key device and the main antagonists are the ghosts of witches who try to possess the protagonists to use their bodies in order to remake their clan. I don’t know of I should see this as “occult” or not, mostly because all the rituals are made up with in-universe elements, there is no devil behind this powers (only the fictional "Dark Side of the Force) and even the ghosts are not entirely evil, as it is shown in previous lore that they were shaman-like people who were butchered by the Empire…it has an occult-like atmosphere, but all in all is no more real than Harry Potter’s magic…I don’t really know…opinions?

I’d say it’s probably OK. It’s definitely not shown as something desirable or worthy of emulation (Ezra had to be dragged into it, and the consequences were dire for him, Kanan and Sabine, the only truly willing participant was the completely evil Maul). The atmosphere was deliberately creepy, mostly IMO to show Maul’s degenerating state of mind (note that he had an anti-shrine to Satine, the Mandalorian leader he’d deposed in The Clone Wars, and Kenobi’s name scrawled out on a wall in what could be Maul’s own blood) and the ritual he had planed was another manifestation of it.

 

[LiquidMan]

It’s okay if you outgrow something. You might enjoy S1, S2, and S3 of a series, but sometimes it can take a turn somewhere. You don’t need a particular reason— you can think, “This isn’t really attractive to me” or “This doesn’t make any sense” or “Wow the writers are really reaching for ideas” or “This isn’t going anywhere” or “I don’t like where this is going” or whatever. And then you can use that time you would have spent to do something that you do enjoy, rather than keeping with a show because you like the premise/like the franchise/feel obligated/watch it out of habit.

No no no, that’s not my problem (I still enjoy the series). You see, I make it a rule for myself to steer clear from any media that features “real” occult (satanic rituals, Baphomets, pentagrams and similar symbols…), but I don’t have problems with fictional magic or even red skinned, “Diablo-esque” devils - because I know all of this things are just part of our fantasy, that they’re not real and simply part of our culture.
My point here was if I was to take it seriously or simply enjoy this as well as an innocuous, make-believe ritual of fictional magic…

 

[LiquidMan]

I’d say it’s probably OK. It’s definitely not shown as something desirable or worthy of emulation (Ezra had to be dragged into it, and the consequences were dire for him, Kanan and Sabine, the only truly willing participant was the completely evil Maul). The atmosphere was deliberately creepy, mostly IMO to show Maul’s degenerating state of mind (note that he had an anti-shrine to Satine, the Mandalorian leader he’d deposed in The Clone Wars, and Kenobi’s name scrawled out on a wall in what could be Maul’s own blood) and the ritual he had planed was another manifestation of it.

So you think all of that was purely entertainment and fictional after all?