Not seen 1923 but 1883 was brilliant
1923 is ok, but its final episode is so bad that if you could pencil down what would make the worst finale ever, compare to what they did, and you'd fall short. It is mesmerizing, it is appalling, it is egregious.
Spoilers (DO NOT READ if you care about em): it felt as if someone told the writers 'well guys, we thought we'd have another season to develop and close a couple of subplots but that's not the case, so we need to wrap things up, pronto. Whatever it takes. Just do it'.
They spent the entire two seasons creating this smart, ruthless and psychopathic antagonist, only to leave him, inexplicably, completely unprotected in front of the hero, who dispatches him in 2 secs.
Imagine this in the star wars context: Yoda faces Palpatine. We are all thinking 'Jesus ******* Christ, this should be a big one'. Yoda fights 45235423 storm troopers, every beast imaginable in tatooine, dodges 4532341 lasers from every conceivable space ship in the galaxy and barely beats Palatines new secret, unknown supermega-ninja-samurai-pirate-apprentice. Yoda is destroyed, both physically and mentally. But his will is relentless. He wants to fight Palpatine. He needs to fight palpatine.
The climax of the film, the trilogy, ****, the entire saga is about to begin. Everyone is grabbing tight to their armrests. Tension is at its peak. Most of use thought this would never. Ever. And here we are.
And then Yoda kills Palpatine with the most amateur and predictable fencing move in recorded history. On his first attempt. Split second later the end credits show up on the screen.
