“Star Wars: Resistance” is an animated Star Wars series currently in its second – and last – season on Disney. I’ve found it to be at best “meh.” A lot of that is due to the target audience… it is clearly meant to be a kids show, with a lot of pratfalls, slapstick humor, simplistic characters and storytelling, etc. And a lot of the problem is due to the timeframe: it’s set at the time of “The Force Awakens,” which automatically kinda makes it suck. The most grating aspect of the show is the main character, one Kazuta Xiono, who is portrayed as someone who in a better series would be the comic relief. He’s a clumsy dumbass who is difficult to take at all seriously.
But then…
Which does kinda shift my opinion of the character. In a franchise that has repeatedly depended on space wizards and my least favorite trope of all time, “Chosen Ones,” Kaz is a guy with no force-powers whatsoever who succeeds by the fact that he has learned skills through hard work and training. Compared to MaRey Sue, who is the Bestest Jedi EVAR without needing a moments effort to train or learn, Kaz is freakin’ Shakespearean in his quality.