Tobar

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Dave has been quietly visiting and interacting with all of the directors that have come on to do all of the new films. It’s been my suspicion for years and now it’s confirmed that he’s been gearing up slowly to start working in live action. He even made reference recently in an interview that Kennedy has been shepherding him through the process. Teaming up with Favreau is the perfect next step for him. They’ve been friends for over a decade. Dave showed Jon early Clone Wars footage and Jon showed him some early Iron Man footage at Skywalker Ranch back around 2007.

In their interviews about the Mandalorian they make it clear that the writing of the show is very collaborative. Jon uses Dave as a sounding board and they work out ideas for episodes together before Jon goes off to write them. And now on set, Jon is mentoring Dave on the art of live action filmmaking.

This has been a long thorough process and I’m excited to see what Dave has in store for the future.

I think it’s an interesting turn for the Mandos. George really turned the established Mando culture on its helmet when he decided to tackle them in the Clone Wars. After his departure Dave has slowly brought them more back in line with what the EU had established.

From what we’ve seen so far, I think the evidence would suggest the Empire nearly wiped them all out. And the survivors believed the reason for this was the abandonment of their old ways. And so now they’ve rededicated themselves to those ancient ways that made their people great originally.

I’m really enjoying these glimpses of their current society.

I have it on PC and it’s been a fantastic experience. Haven’t run into any major bugs or glitches. The big one that I’ve heard of was people going out of there way to break into an area they haven’t unlocked yet and then finding they’ve broken the game. I don’t have much sympathy for them but the devs have said they’re working on a fix.

regularjoe said:

I like the setup of subverting expectations. We heard Mandalorian and thought kickass bounty hunting and instead we’re going Star Wars does Mr. Mom and people are onboard with it.

This is actually exactly in line with one of the directions I thought they might go. A lot of lone fighter stories tend to ape Lone Wolf and Cub. As such, I was a little disappointed they went that route but the execution thus far has been fantastic.

Z6PO said:

How can you kill such a giant rhino beast with such a small knife ?

He probably made an educated guess as to where the beast’s carotid artery was.

I would want a Resistance trilogy that is a character study about John Connor. With no time travel elements until the end of the last film that sets up T1&2. The first film would be the fall of civilization and the start of the war. See how John prepared for that and began rallying survivors. The first film would predominately have HKs and endoskeleton terminators. The second film would introduce the infiltration terminators starting with the rubber skinned earliest models. This would be expensive but I think it would be great to have a de-aged Arnold as a member of the Resistance that disappears for a while and returns as a T-800. The last film would be the last great seige of Skynet as John learns they’ve cracked time travel and are preparing to assassinate him in the past.

There’s a lot you can do with the future war setting that they squandered with Salvation.

Anchorhead said:

When Kuiil asks about what happened against the Rhino, the Mandalorian says he has no idea. I like the idea that the Force isn’t known everywhere. Did he also not realize the baby was helping him?

On a backwater world with little to no contact with the greater galaxy sure. But the Jedi were guardians of the Republic for over a thousand generations. The Mandalorians themselves have clashed with the Jedi a number of times in their history.

I think he knows it was the baby, he’s just having a hard time coming to grips with just how powerful the infant apparently is.

Mocata said:

Tobar said:

According to this it sounds pretty difficult.

https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/11/mandalorian-most-pirated-show/

Ripping the original file is the challenge. Once a file is out there, it’s out there.

ChainsawAsh said:

Yeah, my post wasn’t trying to say that all forms of Disney+ piracy is an issue - it’s the WEB-DL style (getting the digital files themselves and stripping the DRM) that’s prohibitively difficult. WEBRIP style (recording the video stream from a device through a capture card over an HDMI connection) is easy, but it will result in at least some degradation in quality.

Yeah but TavorX’s original post was about the downloading the original 4K files to your PC. Webrips are the general bread and butter of your average pirate.

According to this it sounds pretty difficult.

Dewbacks are an original '97 alteration and therefore the compositing for them is the same as it always was. Though I will say, it has not aged well at all. As for the recreated changes from '04 and after. Of the ones I’ve seen they all look a lot better, I haven’t seen one yet that looks worse.

TavorX said:

I do have one question out of curiosity, do you ever get other companions that can accompany you along your travels? Or is it only that Droid? Do those featured characters on the ship basically just stay on the ship or do they do other tasks depending where in the story you’re in?

In terms of adventuring out with you I think it’ll always just be BD. The rest of the crew stays with the ship.

Spottyfriend said:

Can anyone recommend some good video reviews of this? I can only find the 4-minute IGN-style ones that are not in-depth at all…

I’m always fond of Easy Allies. It’s the same team that used to do the GameTrailers reviews. Real professional productions that give you a break down of everything you need to know without giving away big story spoilers.

It’s fantastic. I would say the best Star Wars game since Jedi Outcast.

RogueLeader said:

But it does make me wonder if Lucasfilm actually has some psuedo-vocabulary they use for simple Huttese when writing alien dialogue for the actors/voice actors to speak, and the variations are just due actors pronouncing words slightly different or loose translations.

Ben Burtt invented Huttese for Return of the Jedi. He published a book with common phrases in a number of Star Wars languages years ago. So yes, Huttese has always been consistent.

sade1212 said:

How do the Hayden scenes look in ROTJ? I’d be interested to see if they’ve improved that or made it worse, and whether the bottom left corner in the wide shot is still a duplicated mess.

Mavimao said:

I’d like to see a screenshot of the Tantive door right before the imperials blow it up. It’s been used as an example of how much detail was lost in the cleaning process for the dvd/bluray.

BedeHistory731 said:

I wonder if the rancor recomposites remain. Those were some of the only good '04 alterations, owing to the darkness of the scene.

sade1212 said:

Anyone got screenshots of that new TPM colour grade? The Bluray colours are all kinds of awful.

Broom Kid said:

The Gonk droid sound effect WAS different, wasn’t it?

Yeah while watching I thought it odd that they recycled the Imperial Spy’s dialog from SW and the gatekeeper droid’s dialog from ROTJ but then recorded new Gonk sounds.

I LOVED it! Felt far more like Star Wars than the ST ever has. It’s so obvious it was made with care for fans by fans. So many nods to various things. It’s surprisingly dark in tone with some of the action and a little of the humor. The main character is intriguing and I can’t wait to find out more about him. Similarly, the end of the first episode has me excited to see more!

BedeHistory731 said:

Tobar said:

Is this a brand new audio mix as well? It has the Threepio narration over the death star plans and also has “Close the blast doors!”

That’s been there since 1997.

My understanding was that the only mix that had both of those together was the original mono mix.

Is this a brand new audio mix as well? It has the Threepio narration over the death star plans and also has “Close the blast doors!”

The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy.

Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights.

But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperor’s warlords has taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic…

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - Chapter 1
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - Chapter 2

Pretty rough around the edges but a pretty solid adaptation all things considered. I’m really digging this rise of animated fan films.

ray_afraid said:

But what’s the difference? Looks just like him, talks just like him, acts just like him. Has the same job.
Would it really be that different if he also once captured a guy named Han?
Why not truly make him a new character? Why the familiar costume?
I’m looking forward to it, but not totally sold.

That’s just judging based on all superficial aspects. This last trailer seems to hint heavily we’ll be exploring his relationship with his family and probably see what became of Mandalore.

As long as it’s not a leak it belongs in this thread. The other thread will come to life once the show starts airing.

GLogus said:

Luke’s instinct is to destroy the texts, and Yoda confirms that this instinct is correct. The texts were dry and boring and what really matters is the Force itself, because it alone will guide you. Rey needs to look forward, not backward, if she is to succeed.

But Yoda didn’t destroy the texts, they’re aboard the Falcon at the end of the film.

Someone mentioned somewhere that the show would touch on the subject and the internet blew up about it.

Jedit: This looks to be the source of it: The Mandalorian to explore the origins of the First Order

Here’s the relevant quote from Dave as I suspected:

This doesn’t turn into a good guy universe because you blew up two Death Stars. You get that the Rebels won and they’re trying to establish a Republic, but there’s no way that could have set in for everybody all at once. You have in a Western where you’re out on the frontier and there might be Washington and they might have some marshals, but sometimes good luck finding one.

Also, what could happen in the 30 years between celebrating the defeat of the Empire and then the First Order? You come in on Episode VII, [the First Order are] not just starting out. They’re pretty far along, pretty well equipped. So somehow, things weren’t necessarily managed as well as they could have been if [the galaxy] ended up in hot water again like that.

So that quote got conflated into The Mandalorian is a First Order origin story.