jedi_bendu

Author of comics such as Dark Empire and entries in the Tales of the Jedi series, Tom Veitch, has sadly died of covid-19 at the age of 80.

An early pioneer of the Star Wars expanded universe, with a wonderful imagination. May the Force be with him.

This is where I first saw the news: https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-tom-veitch-obituary/?utm_content=bufferbe8ae&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=CBR-TW&utm_campaign=CBR-TW

Fellow Rebels fans rejoice: Dark Horse are starting off their return to Star Wars by publishing an omnibus of comic strips from the Rebels magazine in Germany, most of which were previously unavailable in the US and UK.

https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR220315

This is awesome, thanks for compiling it Muffy!

Fun fact: Alys Ongwa (4th from bottom) is Daniel José Older’s tribute to fellow comics writer Alyssa Wong.

To add to the thread, here is an artwork of Loden Greatstorm and his padawan Bell Zettifar I really like.

Saw Belle in the cinema the other day, amazing film. Much more than a simple Beauty and the Beast adaptation.

https://youtu.be/xFkgq0wmQ90
The HUGE Problem with The Book of Boba Fett | Video Essay from the FilmSpeak YouTube channel

Excellent and entertaining video about the highs and lows of the series. Pretty long, mind you.

Something tells me Chung-hoon Chung’s cinematography for Obi-wan Kenobi will be a nice change. He was Director of Photography for IT and Last Night in Soho, two very colourful and beautifully shot movies. He’s also done other very acclaimed movies like Oldboy and The Handmaiden, I just can’t speak for those because I haven’t seen them yet.

I always wanted to see Leia actually using her strength in the Force to use. We do get that a little in TLJ of course, but it was particularly nice to see her taking over from Luke as a Jedi teacher.

TBOBF is the only one of those I would say looks consistently dull.

MalaStrana#2 said:

I’m so concerned about Kenobi: can they ruin SW any further? 😕

Kenobi is a totally different creative team so I wouldn’t give up hope just yet. Same with Andor - Tony Gilroy, who was heavily involved with Rogue One - is writing. Honestly, I’m just concerned about Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni’s upcoming projects.

Anchorhead said:

jedi_bendu said:

I’ve never said it before, but I’m an occasional article writer for the website sweditorig.com and posted a full review of The Book of Boba Fett the other day. Here it is in case anyone is interested.

https://www.sweditorig.com/post/the-book-of-boba-fett-series-review

Well articulated, reviewed, and written, sir. I have to say, after chewing on the whole series a bit now that it’s over, I agree fully with your article. I started excited, became more so, suddenly lost interest, scratched my head at Mando Season 3 episode (even though it was my favorite), loved Ms Howard’s episode, then enjoyed bits of the finale. I’ll look for more of your work on that site. Again, great piece.

Thank you very much! I was unwisely writing it in the early hours of Friday morning so I’m glad you agree it turned out nicely. I didn’t entirely trust myself making that judgement!

I’ve never said it before, but I’m an occasional article writer for the website sweditorig.com and posted a full review of The Book of Boba Fett the other day. Here it is in case anyone is interested.

https://www.sweditorig.com/post/the-book-of-boba-fett-series-review

In my experience, Rian gets a lot of blame for things he wasn’t able to do anything about.

Update to the above: multiple sources now suggest a High Republic live action series begins filming in June. Seems to still be one with a younger cast of characters, even around 10-12 years of age: the article suggests it could be the story of how the friendship between Avar, Elzar and Stellan began, which could be interesting.

WARNING: character death spoiler for The Fallen Star contained within.

https://thedirect.com/article/star-wars-high-republic-disney-plus-show-update
Star Wars: High Republic Disney+ Show Receives Exciting Update by Andrew Gilman

Cthulhunicron said:

Yeah that spin move was so bad. Can you imagine if a character did a pointless spin in the middle of a fight in the original Star Wars trilogy?

That would be so terrible. The movie would be ruined.

I agree with the others, this is very well put together. I’m having a great time comparing storyboard frames to final shots and seeing the process. Some unused shots in there I would have loved to have seen realised, too. Thanks for your work on this!

thebluefrog said:

The series summed up:

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Honestly this spin is one of the best things from that episode, I don’t care. Pure campy goodness.

Boba’s character development at the start of the series needed to be continued, Cad Bane’s importance to Boba’s past needed to be set up earlier. If these things met in the middle, and the screen time wasted on getting The Mandalorian season 3 early had been spent on stuff more related to the story, you might have a really bold, original, character-driven series. The ideas were there, but they needed so much more organisation and better execution.

jarbear said:

Oh I hope this show is good … I have to admit I was a bit let down with Bad Batch and Boba (not saying they are bad/trash/etc. … just a bit let down.)

I agree. Thankfully there are some fresh writers on this series I believe, and a director who has really proven herself with some of the best episodes of The Mandalorian. I’m still iffy on the idea of Vader and Obi-wan duelling again, but I’ve come to accept it will happen, and have a lot of hope for the series in general.

Latest rumour is that we will see Rupert Friend playing the Grand Inquisitor from Rebels. I think he’s a great pick, but it’s a shame they couldn’t get Jason Isaacs to reprise the role.

They wasted no time announcing this after the Book of Boba finale aired.

I actually thought the finale was great. But I don’t like the show very much overall - it is absolutely messy and lacking in focus. We start off with some interesting character development for Boba, which gets gradually less interesting over the course of two episodes until the writers give up and give us Mandalorian season 3 content instead. What’s more, it’s ESSENTIAL Mandalorian season 3 story content, and it’s in the wrong show.

I’m glad we returned to touching on Boba’s development in the finale, as Cad Bane tells him he can’t escape his past but Boba symbolically kills him with the Tusken gaffi stick (which reminds me, I still think killing off the Tuskens was a major, major misstep). I also really liked Cad Bane’s death scene. He had to die at some point, he was probably headed for the retirement home soon anyway.

It just so happened that a local cinema was screening Close Encounters for John William’s 90th birthday today, so naturally I went to see it. The screening was dedicated to him and it was a joy to see his work on the big screen once again.

A true pioneer.

New poster for the series. Reminds me of one we got towards the end of Mando season 2, although I like this one more.

Good to see Luke finally showing up in some marketing.

LexX said:

Interesting topic and I agree with the OP and other posters as well. Mostly it comes from writing and how all the trilogies have been written in different eras. In the 70s and 80s if you left your hometown without a map you really were lost, and the world was a big place just behind a corner. Now when you have Google Maps, GPS and you can track anyone around the world, this place has gotten a lot smaller. And it shows as the writers are living in this world, everything is a click away so that is how they also write, unintentionally.

This is a really good point which I’ve never considered.