jedi_bendu

That’s just forbidding political debate, isn’t it? Whenever I think ‘current affairs’, I think ‘politics’.

I don’t even live in America, but I was shamelessly playing ‘Victory Celebration’ on repeat today. Trump was sounding like an Emperor Palpatine figure himself this year, and it’s been the closest the US has ever come to fascism. Workers have been hurt by tax cuts favouring the wealthy and repeals in healthcare, the world has backtracked on progress combatting climate change, and closet racists have felt emboldened enough to become nastier and nastier. Finally, all the people who felt afraid or anxious for the last four years can breathe a sigh of relief.

And yes, I’m aware Trump can do whatever he wants in his final months in office, but that’s something to worry about tomorrow.

Nah, I’m sure we’ll get back on topic in a few weeks.

jedi_bendu said:

I just hope there are no more episodes like this which feel like they suddenly divert the story somewhere else.

I take that wording back after remembering that all The Mandalorian has been so far is Mando on a very important quest but he keeps getting sidetracked almost every episode. So it’s not that either. I think it’s maybe the sense that not all that much happens within the usual 40 minute runtime. But I’m overstating my issues with this episode, it’s still an enjoyable and only slightly terrifying space adventure.

A little disappointed with Chapter 10, and not because Boba Fett wasn’t in it as I was fully expecting. I felt it suffered from slow parts and, like the Razor Crest into a cave of angry ice spiders, the overall season story takes a bit of a nosedive. The relationship of Mando and Baby Yoda was developed, and I like the story of two parents doing whatever it takes to protect their children, but I don’t think you need a meandering episode to make character development happen. ‘Filler’ doesn’t have to be a bad thing, not even in an 8-episode season where every new chapter is precious, so I’m trying to figure out why this one didn’t quite hit it for me.

The extended sequence where Mando and frog lady are chased into the Razor Crest by the spider swarm was very good - or very good as in nervewracking, because of how they just keep coming. Me being an arachnophobe didn’t help. The scene where baby yoda walks among the eggs and the sweet music is playing, I was just thinking “oh god, I’ve seen Rebels and I’ve seen Alien… I know how this ends!”

‘The Passenger’ is just so different from Chapter 9 that I think I need to rewatch it in the context of the whole season. After all, chapter 2 could also be classified as ‘filler’ and I love that episode. I think I just hyped myself up for a planet like Ilum so much, or what I thought Mando entering the cave and the frog creature from the trailers was all about, that I ruined it for myself a bit. I just hope there are no more episodes like this which feel like they suddenly divert the story somewhere else.

LeperMessiah117 said:

I’m not exactly understanding the criteria here for what counts as a breast appearance.

Just joking about the ‘appearances’ section and how it lists ‘Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope’ as the first appearance of breasts. Inane, I know. Anyway I take it the criteria is just… women being in the movie

Man, I really need to stay off Instagram comments sections… Even in her Lego form, I’m convinced there’s a faction of extreme sequel-haters who get heart palpitations every time they see Rey. Can’t let negativity drag down this obviously light-hearted and wonderful project.

Some moments in the trailer I cringed at, other jokes were absolute gold. Looking forward to watching this soon.

New Holiday Special trailer!
https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/lego-star-wars.jpg

LeperMessiah117 said:

I like how it has an “appearances” section.

Breasts first appeared in 1977 in the film Star Wars

sade1212 said:
Other than the awful dialogue, my least favourite thing about the prequels is how clinical and plastic everything feels, so having Prequel-era designs displayed with 2020 CGI in real grungy sets is great.

I feel exactly the same about that

Anchorhead said:

I only saw Phantom once (in ‘99). I never bothered with the other prequels. I’m unfamiliar with the story or the actor Morrison. I didn’t know who that was at the end of the episode.

I respect your avoidance of the prequels - if you didn’t like The Phantom Menace, chances are the other two would disappoint you just as much as expected. But I recommend reading into the general story, because in my opinion the broad strokes of it are fantastic. Even though I think he missed the mark with writing and directing the prequels, I have huge respect for George Lucas as an ideas man.

I honestly really admire how new canon content like Rogue One and The Mandalorian is trying to bridge the massive divide between the originals and the prequel era. Both are totally “old-school Star Wars”, aesthetically and otherwise, but there are things that connect to other parts of the timeline and small things for prequel fans too.

Americans, how are you feeling tonight?

Hahaha, all you guys thinking that was Boba Fett… Temuera Morrison was obviously playing clone trooper CT-3634 from Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 2 episode 5, it makes perfect sense. I called it first.

Star Wars Instagram really turned into a Cobb-Vanth-fest today. The man’s got a lot of admirers.

It seems like a lot of viewers, maybe people who hadn’t heard of Cobb Vanth or knew of the rumours, were disappointed when it wasn’t Boba Fett, but their opinion of him went way up by the end of the episode and disappointment was easily overcome. Another nice aspect of Chapter 9, along with the ‘working together’ theme, is how Din Djarin moves from hostility to Vanth for wearing armour that isn’t ‘his’, to coming to trust him so much that he is willing to sacrifice his life for the village in the knowledge that Vanth will protect the child. I found that very powerful.

As Alex from SW Explained on YouTube mentioned in his review, perhaps Din is realising that it’s the actions a person takes that earns them the armour or the status of Mandalorian. This would be in line with some of the other themes of the series. At the end of the day, the Mandalorian creed is the Mandalorian creed, but I was still kinda surprised that Din didn’t let Cobb keep the armour.

No complaints though because now we’ll probably get an epic ‘Boba Fett reclaiming his old armour’ plot in Chapter 10.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Nothing’s stopping you from making that addition.

REALLY
Right, doing it now.

(Edit: altering that particular article is restricted to autoconfirmed users, due to ‘excessive vandalism’, which is no surprise)

I like the idea of two co-existing universes, just to reconcile how in a way all the great stuff in legends feels offically ‘irrelevant’ to the characters from the original trilogy and just modern mainstream Star Wars in general. I think the sequels are great films in their own right (with one, notable, exception, in my opinion) but the story direction of legends novels is in many cases much better, and those novels and comics deserve to be kept more mainstream.

Please tell me someone on this site is an editor on Wookieepedia. Probably along with a whole new section on breast milk, these images need to be added to the article on breasts as soon as possible.

canofhumdingers said:

Am I the only one who was a bit annoyed they retconned the Krayt Dragon to just be a Dune sandworm clone rather than the more lizard like creature it has always been in the old EU?

I wasn’t annoyed that they retconned the Krayt dragon design so much as that they went with the sandworm idea that just felt very un-original and “been there, done that”. Would’ve preferred something different. And you could easily accomplish the same story with a different creature design.

I actually thought it was an upgrade, not just because now the Krayt dragon is bigger. Having a comically large sandworm that can eat an entire building whole if it feels like it… just feels to me like the kind of exaggerated Star Wars creature design that Tatooine would have. In Knights of the Old Republic, there’s loads of setting up how big and difficult to kill it is, and we already know that the Tusken Raiders got the life scared out of them just by hearing its call in the movie… then the dragon emerges and is killed fairly easily. No harm to KOTOR, and it’s nice that The Mandalorian referenced that bit. I thought the new canon Krayt dragon was much more of a challenge, and fits the purposes of the story better. As a sand worm it’s better for it to be able to disappear and re-appear, constantly building and dropping the tension, and staying a step ahead of the characters.

Fantastic episode. Loved the themes of two peoples working together to defeat a common enemy. Timothy Olyphant’s performance was great, I found Cobb Vanth a really likeable character. The Western vibe has been nailed once again, and the action and effects in general have improved. And that character reveal! R5-D4 is back in Star Wars!

I just love how ‘The Mandalorian’ has main storylines that go throughout each season but Mando just keeps getting sidetracked. Season 2 will be everything we’ve been hoping for, it’s in very good hands.

Loving these new posters. Chapter 9 can’t come quick enough, even if I am restraining myself for an entire day to watch it in the evening. Here’s hoping everyone enjoys the new season!

Anakin Starkiller said:

A Mofference was a secret conference held by the Imperial Central Committee of Grand Moffs in the secluded Mofference room of their Moffship.

Surely this is one of the best things in the EU!

Possibly a tribe-specific thing. I saw something on Instagram which took a clip where Bryce Dallas Howard was talking about how in season 2 Din will find out things about the Mandalorians he didn’t know, things different from his way of life. This must have been on a 24-hour-lasting instagram story, I can’t find it now. But it looks like Din will be meeting other Mandalorians and he’ll be very confused when he sees them taking their helmets off.

Likely explanation is that whatever tribe or clan or whatever just took it upon themselves to be really religious about the Mandalorian creed, and that’s why it’s a rule never to remove their helmets - as their warrior/soldier identity is simply who they are.

Edit: I don’t think I can point you to any sources about the difference in Mandalorians though. I don’t think we really know anything yet, and this will all be explained soon.

It’s been a long while since I read this book, and hopefully someone knows what I’m talking about… is there anything in current canon that rules out some kind of adaption of ‘Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader’ by James Luceno? The novel mostly takes place starting 4 weeks after Order 66, beginning with a Republic attack on Murkhana, and ending with an Imperial occupation of Kashyyk.

I’ve often wondered what a film adaption taking at least the basic premise of the book would be like. The main story is two Jedi trying to survive in the wake of Order 66: Jedi knight Roan Shryne and padawan Olee Starstone, whose master is killed in a duel with Vader in the first act. A film would introduce these characters as a trio, marking out the master (Bol Chatak) as the most powerful, only for her to be killed confronting Darth Vader, which establishes how much of a threat he is. From that point on the film would be about the undisciplined Shryne having to rise to the occasion and becoming a mentor to Starstone; it would be a James Cameron-like storyline of characters forming a makeshift family unit while trying to survive, like what happens in Aliens. The two Jedi are also helped by a gang of pirates, who transport them offworld.

Vader would function as the villain, instead of a more Vader-centric story, but he is given his own separate character moments. As in the novel, he would be remastering the Force and coming to terms with his new identity, and at the end of the film, when Shryne confronts him on Kashyyk and is beaten, Vader tells him his former identity as Anakin before killing him. I always thought it was unusual of Vader to acknowledge his past so this moment deserves significance.

I would cut a lot of stuff in the 2nd act like visiting Alderaan and Shryne’s mother, and replace it, but that’s the basic premise. I also think starting with a Republic invasion and ending with an Imperial invasion would be a great way to visually compare the two - or show how the Republic had basically become the Empire long before the war ended.

I enjoyed doing the Best of TCW list so much that I’ve made a similar one for Star Wars Rebels. Only thing is, this is a list intended for someone who’s never watched the show before, wants to watch it but not the whole thing. For a movie marathon I would cut it down a hell of a lot.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PacOSzlvIeUqemyjDYEl5xv_EeYFipnK/view?usp=sharing

My absolute favourite episodes of Rebels would be:

• Spark of Rebellion 1 & 2
• Empire Day
• Gathering Forces
• Shroud of Darkness
• Twilight of the Apprentice 1 & 2
• Trials of the Darksaber
• Through Imperial Eyes
• Twin Suns
• Jedi Night
• Wolves and a Door
• A World Between Worlds
• Family Reunion and Farewell

And to be honest, if I was doing a movie marathon, I’d probably just watch Spark of Rebellion, Twilight of the Apprentice and the series finale. That would do it.

I like your casting list, and I like Peter Serafinowicz and all, but are you really telling me you wouldn’t cast Sam Witwer to voice Maul?