Mocata

The hyped up positive reviews have started to appear on social media. I will probably reserve judgement until the whole series is out and be avoiding spoilers soon.

https://x.com/EammonJacobs/status/1913512415544684600

#Andor season 2 is the best Star Wars story since the original trilogy. Yes, I’m serious.

The plot is a masterful, timeless mirror to our own world yet gives us intense action and haunting performances from Diego Luna, Adria Arjona, and Genevieve O’Reilly. I’m blown away by it.

What’s weird this time is that they claim it will go into production in like 5 months from now. Will they just cobble together art and script ideas that were floating around already? The whole reveal is kind weird in general.

I can see it, you are good to go.

I suppose there are ideas planned for a Solo sequel that could be picked up here. I kinda forgot that was a thing! But for me it’s mostly dangling a shiny thing for the crowd.

It suggests that Obi-wan was teaching the real basics, but also that the movie needed to show off the new weapon they created on screen. Then in part two Yoda is teaching less physical more mental ideas, evolving the concept of The Force but also the movie making. AOTC then just becomes a joke obviously.

Skybatman said:

JadedSkywalker said:

Yeah i wanted to see this when it was Rogue Squadron and Patty was the director.

is the same movie but envolved to this ?

It would seem unlikely they have 2 projects with such similar concepts, but not impossible.

Yeah that scene with the saber cutting a thing into several pieces, it was like an old Seasonal Films movie where the Kung-Fu student gets faster reflexes. Not showing it emphasizes that Yoda doesn’t consider weapons important, the same with the cave lesson.

https://x.com/starwars/status/1913133212349726755

Maul - Shadow Lord, a Star Wars Original series, arrives on DisneyPlus in 2026

Not sure about this. It’s just more animation but isn’t his story over in TCW? Do they need viewers enough to bring him back, again?

Me too, doesn’t inspire confidence.

Oh you mean it’s in Japan, rather than being a separate regional event. Forget what I said.

I suppose so, in some ways, but they don’t give him that much to work with. He even takes them to a weird cantina! I don’t dislike the dynamic though, Harrison Ford was phoning it in pretty badly in some movies just before this one (Ender’s Game etc). He has some little good moments between Rey, Kylo, and even Finn.

The new dynamic is just Obi-wan again unfortunately; including the death.

Ironically Top Gun: Maverick was better than the original Top Gun and a better SW movie than most recent efforts.

Yeah GOUT is just a laserdisc rip, basically junk.

Yeah but that kind of thing doesn’t exist before TPM. And the idea of the saber was heavy or hard to control unless they concentrated was a behind the scenes idea from the first movie, right?

Mocata said:

Yeah but those are like mainstream movies with A-List actors in, not some kind of obscure cult favourites for people that know who Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima are. SW77 may be out on Blu-ray before Dreaming the Reality… but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Damn.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Dreaming-the-Reality-Blu-ray/354666/

It exists in universe? What calendar did they use before?

Well I mean Yoda only said it was the Force that should never be used to attack. You could argue that the unruly bar flies being chopped just with a weapon was fine.

Yeah the team later became Gainax. Anno always has a lot of projects going on because of a lack of money in the industry. He agreed to remakes of Eva to drum up financing for other releases for example. Space Battleship Yamato had a big celebration exhibit about a month ago that he attended, so things are always in the works.

This is very interesting news, I wonder how this came about. Good on them over at the BFI for wrangling it. Of course it’s also going to make everyone wonder if a home media release will finally be legal. I have to be skeptical and imagine that Disney only will allow this as a museum piece or for festival screenings…

Good for him I guess. I checked out of these shorts a while ago.

It was the Despecialized edition, before the app was removed.

I can’t even see the ads through all this spam.

The Daicon IV anime convention (1983) opened with a short film that includes some interesting (unauthorized) characters…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDN68LxWW-8

https://x.com/THR/status/1905017366750343234

Clive Revill, Voice of the Emperor in ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ Dies at 94

Interesting they report his passing with this role that hasn’t been officially part of the film for many years.