Yeah… Mando was a kid when the battle droids arrived.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Palpy shows up for more senate scenes to be honest. But the plot will probably revolve around them trying to find out what the super weapon is, to follow up the post credits tease. Plus they will have to find a way to lose characters who aren’t in Rogue One and deliver others. So bigger fractures between Saw and the Alliance, a reason to get K2 on board, the likely death of Bix and Vel. Maybe the defection of Galen Erso and the training of Jyn could be involved. What is the time frame?
Huh I just saw that EC Henry video, it was fun. As for this screenshot… it’s kind of odd they removed it. Maybe they deleted it because they spotted it?
If Beskar Steel is kind of indestructible how can a shard of it be left at a crime scene?
Huge chunks of the episode could have been cut if R5 was the key to locating the covert though. You could write any old techno babble if that’s all it took for Navarro to get in contact. Like the whole mines plot the whole pirate plot is now done, resulting in no change. What happened to Grogu and Mando as a team learning about stuff? Who knows, and the last two episodes will probably be something like a Rebels villain coming back helping Gideon… or more Dark Troopers (saber proofed). It’s a mess and it’s leading into a bunch of cross overs, again. I don’t really care about Bo Katan to be honest, but that’s the only real story beyond the cloning stuff.
The population of the settlement was like 20 people. But look over here, another cameo!
They’ve diluted it all too much now, so only something big will be good enough. You can’t really get back up the hype they had for an unknown cast in a new movie. So you’re left in a state where only a Rogue Squadron or an Obi-wan is enough. At least not for a long time.
Yeah it’s just a cameo for the super hardcore, or the handful of people that watched his Jedi gameshow or whatever it was.
Except it is true. He moved out of collaboration and into hiring yes men. Particularly after getting rid of the people that wanted to change the ending of ROTJ to be darker. He didn’t get anyone brave enough to direct himself, and I agree he didn’t want to do it, but his ideas weren’t challenged in the same way. You think Ron Howard wants to be in a position like Richard Marquand but with even less freedom? Just think about the famous ‘I love you’ line and how it was changed on the day by people that put character first. Where were those people on the day they shot the midochlorians line? Gone.
KOTCS was a disaster because Spielberg’s passion was dead at that point and he didn’t challenge any of the bad ideas like the ones that were cut from The Last Crusade. If it was still the '80s they might have even made a plot about aliens work, but artists change. People having high expectations isn’t the problem; it’s the fact that their expectations were dashed in such a massive way that they could never have predicted.
In my experience it was all very hit and miss, and gets ‘good’ in the season two finale, and then after in season three when Thrawn arrives. I’m still not convinced that the conclusion with certain animals and certain portals worked for me, but it has its moments.
If only George had relinquished control and given directorial duties to others like with the OT it might have worked out better. But by that stage he believed his own legend so having another film like ESB with the likes of Kurtz and Kersh having creative input was impossible.
Star Wars was pretty much irrevocably damaged in 1999.
This is true. But people have short term memories when it comes to being fed the latest pop culture thing, so that is why we’re now facing the current state of things.
A lot of valid points being made here. For a long time now the business model for a lot of movie studios has been the constant drip feed of “content”. We used to get movies every 2-3 years and now they want 2-3 movies every year. It nearly went this way with Star Wars and the ‘stories’ spin-offs. Until it didn’t. Meanwhile the format transition into TV became a thing with the Disney monolith. So as a result you’re left with a bunch of studio suits who think they if interest wanes, even for just a second, their money will stop coming in.
But how to keep interest going? Well you can just keep announcing projects. Keep up the brand hype, keep those customer endorphins flowing. Don’t touch that dial, we have this and then this and this! Problem is behind the scenes a major studio isn’t a place artists and unsuspecting people dreaming of working on Star Wars can actually function… so you’ve got a crash now with dozens of things being announced and dozens of people finding out what life is like behind the curtain. Just look at Solo, and before that Ant-Man. The people I feel bad for are the ones that can’t actually afford to quit when the job sucks, like the visual effects animators.
Michael Corleone as a template is an interesting idea. But I think they should’ve gone down the City of God route, in which Lil Dice (or in this case Lil Ani) gets picked on as the runt until it turns out he loves killing.
Does anyone think that making Vader a tragic figure was a big mistake? I feel like beyond the lack of camaraderie between Anakin and Obiwan, they should have shown him liking power, or liking throwing people around. It would fit more with his attitude in SW towards the likes of Admiral Motti for example. It would be more believable, and any idea of regret or sadness could be much more subtle.
It’s … Return of the Jedi? It mean on here ROTJ works for me but I can’t say that out loud. To be honest I sometimes just forget there’s another Jedi title even as someone that doesn’t mind that movie. Like I forget what the 3rd one was even called at all occasionally.
Oh I enjoyed it in a similar way, but I’m worried that they’re just stretching out the character stuff so thinly at this stage. I’m amazed they didn’t get stuck on Mandalor for a week or something. Or that they’ve shown so much of science man but nothing of Gideon. It’s jumping between breadcrumbs and total filler more than S2 for some reason.
I liked it too, but it feels like that episode style is being used too often.
By all accounts a more appreciated writer but I can’t see them staying the course any more than all the others.
This all seems very unlikely, but let’s not dig ourselves into a hole talking about personal matters eh.
True.
One man’s chef’s kiss is another’s epic cringe
I’m starting this series now after being done with Rebels last week. It was kinda meh even if I did enjoy Thrawn. After S1 E4 I think Crosshair is the best character but maybe I’m just a sadist.
Honestly I expected child endangerment to be mentioned as part of the warrior’s path or something, like if you don’t suffocate inside a monster’s gut you can rank up to initiate level. They clearly spent a lot of money on creatures too which is very weird when they’re not story relevant in a serious way. Did the spider episode and the Krayt Dragon episode get a lot of views or something?
More dinosaur action, I mean it’s fine? It’s not challenging but it’s fine. I don’t care about the baby rescue at all. But again I feel like parts of this could have been a continuation of the ending last time around. Or that the previous Coruscant plot would have been 30 mins and the rest of the Mando stuff last week could have been part of this chapter? And the cult STILL look like idiots training out in the open with the killer animals? Why aren’t they under ground?