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Eh. I was more at stage one after kind of enjoying the robot scenes.

Wexter said:

rebothejedi said:

Yeah but it doesn’t make sense why they would hire a martial artist to play such an insignificant role

She might be someone’s friend or cousin who happens to be a martial artist…

Or she was doing stunts without getting any screen time herself and they gave her a cameo.

Darth Vader and Tarkin should not be in Rogue One and the Death Star should be rumoured and not been seen.

Din doesn’t even know his name. I wouldn’t give over my child to a stranger with that serial killer stare.

There’s a lot of stuff they can use, and I want to see more underworld stories. Will Daniel Logan get to be young Boba I wonder?

They’re both distinctly below average, but I agree entirely about the release date problem.

Lucasfilm 2020 Christmas Card

Yeah. But also they reminded me of

Marvel de-ages the real actors, while Lucasfilm are using stand-ins. The results are clear when the best use of this was Kurt Russell in GOTG2 i.e. his makeup was done first to help the effect.

The Dark Troopers were cool but now they’ve had their limitations shown it needs something new. You can’t have an enemy that is nearly invincible until a lightsaber arrives, there’s no room for a style of battle scene in between. I expect they will explore whatever the bodies were that rejected Grogu’s blood in Chapter 12.

Ask the most casual viewer or child and they’ll tell you in just a few words what the prequels and OT are about.
The sequels? Well, things happened. What exactly? Need some mental gymnastics to answer that.

A fledgling hero must join with new friends to stop an evil force from taking over the galaxy, while figuring out her identity. That’s the story. The specific details and internal mechanics of the story might not be good. But it takes far more mental gymnastics to ignore this and complain endlessly in a thread about The Mandalorian.

It’s almost like they have all this great material hoarded but don’t like to admit that deleted scenes exist for anything.

Wow the new deepfake took like a day and still looks better than theirs? Jeez.

idir_hh said:

I think the difference between the prequels and sequels is that one tells a story, and one does not.
No matter how badly the prequels were executed, at least there was a clear story that was being built on. The Sequels are simply a mishmash of ideas with no clear story or message. And for that reason, I don’t think they will ever be remembered fondly.

They had one chance to build a third instalment that tied it together in a nice triad. But instead it was written by hacks.

Yeah chapter 14 and 16 felt rushed to me which is a shame.

Anyway I made a thing for some levity around here.

G&G-Fan said:
That’s another thing that a lot of people miss. When he says “Do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor” that obviously means he faced him before. Obviously he was witness to the Emperor’s power first hand. That actually becomes a plot hole for anyone who removes that duel from the movie, because now how else would he know the Emperor’s power? It fits into the original trilogy perfectly.

I always took the line to mean that Anakin tried to beat the Emperor somehow and failed, thus becoming his thrall. How exactly would require some good writing. Instead Anakin was just dumb and fell for the most basic emotional trickery, then allowed Mace Windu die. And Yoda just knew all of Palpatine’s powers ahead of time, since he saw them from Dooku and wasn’t even surprised by them. They’re now just basic evil powers anyone can learn.

If they can’t get it right here, then making it work for a whole new show is in doubt. I would have loved for the ending here to make me feel positive. Really. I would love to feel like ‘wow Luke is here what an ending’. Instead I just though ‘oh god this again’.

jedi_bendu said:

I’m certain ILM worked incredibly hard to get this effect, like they did with Tarkin, and that’s enough for me. Although I still think Sebastian Stan would have worked well, it’s a great thing that old Mark Hamill can still have a chance at playing young Luke Skywalker.

And I think they should know by now to stop burning money on this stuff that always fails and has to be fixed by amateur deep fake people online. Mark Hamill can still have the role, but when it’s so prohibitive (to the budget and the performance) they need to do it another way. Give him a beard, do practical makeup, do something else. It’s gonna age like milk. Evidently people haven’t complained enough.

Bo Katan scoffed at the helmet rule in her last appearance but here it seems she’s like the real cult loony.

Luke appearing to train Grogu doesn’t make sense within the story of this show?

Luke appearing to train Grogu makes perfect sense.

I’m an incredibly silly kind of guy.

Actions that serve characterisation, not characters that exist only to serve action.

This was a fun episode until the Rogue One garbage arrived, complete with needless lightsaber drooling and dead eye CGI de-aging. I guess they never really learned anything.

jedi_bendu said:

Damn all three of these guys are gone now, this sucks.

The back of that set from eBay has typos on the copyright notice haha

They should have looked at all the ones in Dark Forces II and brought in things like Destruction, Blinding and Deadly Sight.

He’s just older. Jason Wingreen sounds nothing like him in the 1980 version.