What really sad is that they coulda had their cake and ate it too.
Just drop the flash back he man shit, and have a story A teela and story B adam. and just jump back and forth so while Teela is trying to deal with X problem have adam get an arch where he has to deal with not having the sword of power, have something to give weight to his "sacrifices"
Have teela emote a bunch of confronting bullshit about love secrets etc.
On the smith talk.
the fucking 1990s are gone, he made a few meh movies that spoke to mid 90s counter culture.
He also drank from the poison chalice with his "an evening with kevin smith" shit.
he tells in funny and relatable way how hollywood works he breaks the rule that since you dont know where someone will end up, you always kiss everyone s ass all the time.
The netflix show was a fucking grift and he fucked up. I doubt he had that much to do with it, I bet a committee of writers told him what they wanted.
his job was to cash the fucking check and promote it.
The clownfish shit was soo fucking stupid. all he had to do was say nothing, or just be alittle tease and say "oh well just wait till the show drops and tell me how you feel tee hee"
Also mark hamil was just doing the joker.
