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Minor correction, the name of the episode is Jedi Night 😛

I’ve often wondered if watching the Prequels is a better experience if you’re a non-native English speaker, or if you watch it in a different language, so that the worst tendencies of the dialogue don’t necessarily register as overly childish or obnoxious.

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. You stop evaluating the lines by the quality you perceive in them, and only focus on what they’re trying to convey to the story, and the lines in the PT are very competent in that regard. So people watching the movie dubbed or subbed get a very different perception of the characters and story, probably the one Lucas wanted everyone to.

CloakedDragon97 said:

Futurama is better than The Simpsons ever was, even in the early seasons.

Agree 100%.

For what it’s worth, I’m also firmly against the youngling bit being re-inserted.

I liked the finale well enough I guess. Wonder if Pascal was on set a single day. Doesn’t look like it, lol.

PT movies are incredibly important technologically and in how pioneering their production workload was, they’ll no doubt be remembered in 50 years, but I don’t think that to the degree of the OT at all.

Great stuff Ady, thanks for the update.

Well, unless the Filoni-verse can pull off a miracle and make me care about the ST setup, this movie will be a hard pass, possibly an unpleasant pass. Still trying to ignore and forget about TROS completely, but we’ll see.

I will say it is indeed painful to see Rey take on this mantle of “first of the new” that was fully meant for Luke - regardless of what is text or isn’t, Luke wins in ROTJ by defying his elders, and they all look proudly back to him at the end, which symbolizes how right he was to go against their wishes. It’s been the major understanding of the franchise for decades - that Luke would be the first of the new, his masters the last of the old. It makes sense, the Empire that they were unable to stop was defeated by Luke, the status quo completely changed, everything changed. Luke has a clear path and a blank page to make a better Jedi Order than ever before. Even Timothy Zahn saw this way when writing Thrawn, and I don’t think anybody objected, because I’m pretty sure that’s how everyone interpreted Return of the Jedi.

Sadly for some inexplicable reason the sequels took that away from him, and while seeing Rey at the end of TROS explicitly on this same exact path felt really bad, actually getting, to her, what we should’ve gotten for post-ROTJ Luke is… hard to stomach. Ugh.

Dre, do you have any tips on how to make a good LUT for an entire scene? I often find myself trying to find the best shot in a scene but it often produces unsatisfactory results in other shots. I saw a video from williarob from a while back where he basically makes a collage of shots and matches several at the same time, producing hopefully a better LUT for a batch of shots as opposed to a single shot. Do you recommend this? If so, do you know a quick way to get me to create a collage like that? Regardless, this tool is wonderful and what it achieves is astonishing, thank you so much.

Yeah, this is great. It has Kersh written all over it, phenomenal director. Especially in that movie.

Man, I loved this one. Lol. So corny. I had such a good time.

Juno Eclipse said:

jedi_bendu said:

Juno Eclipse said:

The quality has been more of a live-action standard

I have to take a bit of issue with this wording. Animation always seems to get looked down upon as an “inferior” medium, and although it’s totally fair for someone to prefer one over the other, neither animation or live action have any bearing on the quality of a story. They’re simply the vessel that brings that story to the audience.

A great example is how The Bad Batch, has been blowing The Mandalorian - a live action show - out of the water every week it’s been airing. Maybe The Mandalorian should start aspiring to be animation standard…

(I’m aware this is a very pedantic thing to point out but as a massive fan of animation I see this kind of treatment of it a lot)

It is simply praise for the show, in giving credit what Matt Michnovetz (writer & producer), Jennifer Corbett (lead writer) and Brad Rau (series director) and the whole team, for what have accomplished with the Bad Batch. I see a many comments on how much fans have enjoyed this show despite not being into animation series previously.

I think it’s poor praise, and prejudiced against animation as a medium, which sucks, as SW has had many high points in animation, like Bad Batch. Not to mention entire animated masterpieces like some Pixar stuff, a bajillion animes, western stuff like Last Airbender, etc.

Yeah that is strange, especially coming from a Force Unleashed fan. Interested in your thoughts.

Realistically you’re probably right, but I half expect him to show up and be really important in at least one episode… regardless of what we think here, the response to Luke in Mando and then BOBF was overwhelmingly positive, I’m sure Filoni would want to play with him at least a little bit more.

Since all of the new shows are inevitably leading to the ST, I think I’ll stick to Neverar’s Starlight and make a light edit of TLJ, with a “Luke Lives” ending and stick to that as the end of my canon. I do enjoy elements of the old EU but not very many, and I’m guessing we’ll get a Thrawn Trilogy Redux in Ahsoka with her and the Rebels crew (and probably Luke too?) so maybe best of both worlds? Still don’t like the reset in status quo in TFA/TLJ but if fleshed out enough over the next few years in actual good shows and books, then I might be okay with it. Sadly lots of setup going Exegol/Emperor’s Clone/TROS’s way which I want to disregard completely, so I’ll try to just headcanon that Snoke was a failed attempt by Palpatine to be cloned and remain in power I think, something like that. Still unfortunately bad but oh well…

I recently finished a rewatch of Rebels - a show I hadn’t seen since the original release, and I adored it. I always knew I loved it, and have always been a fierce defender of it whenever people criticized it, but I really, really loved it. All four seasons.

I’m with you jedi_bendu, I really love Season 1, I love spending some time with the crew, go on little adventures with them, they’re my good space friends and I want no harm to come to them. Little lighthearted, often low stakes adventures, really comforting in so many ways.

Season 2 gets more serious but still has that absolute charm, but I think the show manages to pull off the tonal shift from Season 1 & 2 to 3 & 4 really, really well. I didn’t remember a lot of Season 4 before this rewatch and now I remembered why - that last half to me was just one episode! And one of the best ones at that, absolute perfection from “Rebel Assaut” onwards. But I also love to bits one of the most widely criticized ones - “Fighter Flight”. Ezra slowly becoming more selfless and less self-centered (never really selfish), his relationship with Zeb, you know, I just love hanging out with them, could do it for two extra season of the so widely hated “fillers”. I kept an eye out for actual, true filler episodes that add nothing to the overall story and out of 75 there’s maybe two or three, so not a lot, huh?

In all or almost all something is added to the story, either a bit of character development, perhaps a new piece of equipment, meaning you shouldn’t skip any. And you shouldn’t want to, they’re all so delightful. Sometimes lightheartedly delightful, sometimes tear-jerking, full on ugly crying delightful. I love Rebels. Hopeful for Ahsoka.

Mocata said:

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.

Incorrect.

Emre, are you trolling? G&G’s point seems crystal clear, are you purposefully misunderstanding?

Very well put, NFBisms, I agree completely.

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino’s best film.

1. Andor
2. Rebels
3. The Bad Batch
4. The Mandalorian
5. Clone Wars (2003)
6. The Clone Wars (2008)
7. Tales Of The Jedi
8. Visions
9. Obi-Wan Kenobi
10. Resistance
11. The Book Of Boba Fett

Yeah, they’ve no idea what this show is about anymore. Mando isn’t Andor, doing what they just did isn’t the appeal of this show, nor has it ever been. Make a different show to explore the state of the galaxy in the post-ROTJ world since the VII-IX trilogy fucked up that part of the setting worldbuilding, but come on don’t put this in the middle of my nice, EIGHT EPISODES LONG show about Mando and Mandalorian culture (which they’ve been failing to make very compelling in this season so far).

Remove the Coruscant section from this episode and it’s pretty good… but only as a (literal) 10min epilogue to the previous episode. Putting those two Mando episodes in Boba Fett really was a poor decision in so many spheres it’s baffling - I wonder if they actively sabotaged themselves, or if one of the creatives or suits really had that bad of an idea.

As someone who hasn’t really seen the film since it left theaters, I noticed no seams. Couldn’t even really tell you what was AI or not.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

George’s ex-wife. As I understand it, she led the editing process for the first film.

George did, and the Death Star was always targeting Yavin. There just wasn’t the countdown element to it. “Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!”

Nev, that art is beautiful!

Really enjoyed Episode 2. Still one plot thread too much, no idea why that opening with the droid was there, ended up feeling out of place. The perspective switch was also a little bit wonky but pretty much everything else was great. Really interesting to see how Din and Bo are getting closer to reaching a middle ground between their beliefs. Also loved the Grogu action. Really solid, I’m excited now.