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“Cool News: Tony Gilroy, creator/writer of @starwars #Andor, just announced that they are launching a website soon with all 12 scripts & tons of concept art - all free to read!” - https://twitter.com/yogoldsmith/status/1652825407652257792

I’ll look forward to that, especially the concept art!

Neat but also a shame it kinda confirms no printed book will arrive.

StarkillerAG said:
the two moments that everyone says were stolen (the cavalry arriving and the “I am” one-liner) are pretty common fantasy blockbuster tropes. Those moments were pretty dumb, don’t get me wrong, but not because they were ripping off Marvel.

That’s two things too many and frankly I find it suspicious, particularly when they’ve said other things like Rey Palpatine were changed at the last minute.

To make things worse a bunch of ideas were just stolen from Avengers: Endgame…

So what they’re hoping to achieve by making a new episode (beyond trying to forget that stuff) is a mystery.

Whether it could move or not is unclear, but I think it was able to fire at full power if they wanted? It’s very odd that no canon media from ROTS to Andor has ever shown the Maw Installation. Which means all this construction is done out in the open.

Palpatine and 10,000 Star Destroyer Death Stars was used in place of all kinds of real story ideas. I guess they think since it’s done they’re better to double down on that? What’s next, 10,000 Executor Class planet killers? The lack of writing ability is stunning.

It did the bare minimum, it was OK. I think everyone was expecting more twists and more elements from earlier in the story. It felt like things had been cut and the running time was certainly short. It felt rushed. Like what happened to the silly plate armour Grogu was wearing? Or the dinosaurs they captured? Amongst others.

Well that was brief. But satisfying. Oddly enough the dialogue between Fett and Kast has been in my head since the 1990s when it was in the SW magazine. The ‘you’re nobody’ bit should have been the kind of thing that Mando said to Gideon before he died. What could have been eh.

Strange what sticks in your brain for 25 years. Why does the name Jaster Mereel still exist in my mind but I can’t remember where I put my wallet? Anyway I might find a few online copies of Dark Empire or the Thrawn trilogy.

I gotta say… I watched the entire dub of Backstroke of the West some time ago and it was still really boring. In fact that might have been the last time I watched any of these. I was tempted to go back at some stage recently but… eh. I have other things to do besides let SW give me a headache.

I have a weird urge to read Twin Engines of Destruction. I will report back maybe.

Oh yeah I just posted about that in another thread. Interesting perspective to have huh? Which of course was a non-issue really because I recall buying a DVD years ago had included both editions. Who knows if this will spark some deep hidden feelings in George…

If you see news about it on a general outlet that lets the readers give ‘reactions’ there are a lot of thumbs down over SW in general lately. It’s impossible to say what the far reaching vibes are because what we usually see is ultra hyped Celebration types or ultra jaded social media types. Personally I don’t care but I would wait until it’s been released to see how it goes.

Omni said:

From my experience, having lived years in both the United States and abroad, having attended conventions in multiple countries and all, Prequel reception is way, way more positive if you’re not from an English speaking country.

Dubbing in some nuance and gravitas would help a lot of the characters in the PT… just like those fanedits that changed Jar-Jar into an alien language and gave him intelligent lines.

Spielberg talks his ET editing regret

I should have never messed with the archives of my own work, and I don’t recommend anyone do that. All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like, and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there. So I really regret having that out there.

Someone make sure he talks to George about this…

What an absolute nightmare. For all of the Disney SW era problems this kind of thing is their worst crime.

It’ll never happen, particularly as Favreau is probably towing the company line. I’d be very happy to see it mind you.

Filming cancelled over weather concerns at the location for Saw Gerrara’s hideout

DZ-330 said:

So how about that Mandalorian show guys?

I liked it when they did a closing iris over the Mando household.

God I forgot about the way the space battle which just… vanished off camera. Where was the fleet again? How are the cannons being operating without gun crews? How does a TIE pilot enter the Interceptor like that? I’d love to see more detail on things like how these ships work, what goes on inside a TIE Bomber exactly, or some new detail. But there was nothing new here.

You’re right it was boring. Not a single betrayal or surprise cameo? Not even another post credits tease! I mean these are basics rather than serious good additions and they didn’t use any of them. Weird. Weirder still this feels like the end but they’ve said another two seasons are written already. I’m not playing this weekly game again, wake me when some full shows are ready to binge.

That is basically Filoni’s whole MO isn’t it, patching over things until people like it.

How exactly would Episodes I-IX not be the main saga? Even if only a handful are worth seeing I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

The only real sign that some time has elapsed isn’t Luke, it’s Han and Leia. That whole ‘I don’t trust Lando’ scene, which was famously changed to feel less hostile, is different from their attitudes on Hoth. Their behaviour says a lot. Beyond that they say 3PO was gone too long to have gotten himself lost, but that’s vague.

That being said… Luke’s vision of his friends in pain is the future. How far into the future? Who knows. Nobody grows hair or washes in these movies. How much food is on the ship? Where do they dump waste material? It’s just a movie.

The idea that travelling through hyperspace is instant sometimes and sometimes not is a minor problem. But it’s not one that needs to be addressed. Certainly not in the current era of movie writing that’s for sure.

I’m not sold on the armourer being a spy, it’s probably one of the guys living on the planet who knew the base existed. Or someone from the the clan like Axe who have been antagonistic and have something to gain.

Looks cool, though I hope it keeps my attention more than the last series which I felt front loaded all the best stories.

Superweapon VII said:
Well, if you’re willing to inject some hard sci-fi into your space fantasy

Certainly not.