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#1428419
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<strong>The Bad Batch</strong> (animated series) - a general discussion thread - * <strong>SPOILERS</strong> *
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I’m loving this so far. It was such a good call to continue with the visual style of season 7 of clone wars. The animation in this show is at times beautiful and lighting that you just did not see in rebels and pre disney clone wars.

I think this goes hand in hand with the more confident storytelling, as the visual storytelling is head and shoulders above what rebels and clone wars could achieve (early clone wars can be unwatchable during particularly action heavy episodes. Where the screen is just filled up with lasers and characters moving far too quickly. to the point its just not engaging).

Anyway back to bad batch. I think both episodes have been great and i’m already way more invested in hunter and omega, than I was grogu and mando.

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#1391494
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<strong>The Mandalorian</strong> - a general discussion thread - * <em><strong>SPOILERS</strong></em> *
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rocknroll41 said:

Didn’t like the directing style of this episode. Apparently James Mangold was originally supposed to direct this one, but had to drop out at the last minute to focus on writing for Indiana Jones 5 (lol!). So Robert Rodriguez replaced him at the last minute, and it shows. Directing felt very haphazard. Writing was good tho! Still looking forward to the next episode.

James Mangold is writing Indiana Jones 5?? I like this news. Logan was great and he’s directed alot of decent to good movies. Could be an inspired choice.

As for this episode, I thought it was the best of the season so far but do still agree with some of the criticisms. It did look like a star wars fan film you see on youtube at times. I think this was because the setting was just so plain. The description I’ve seen that the show is turning into “Favreau and Filoni playing with star wars action figures” is the best description of the show as a whole I’ve seen so far, that’s exactly what this is. Boba doesn’t feel quite right to me either. Since when was he honourable? Since when was he so good at fighting? Even so, Seeing him in his suit after all these years is great, I loved it. Even if it is fan service. Also Slave 1 😃

But either way, I think we are finally moving forward with the plot and I found myself looking forward to the next episode for the first time (I love Bill Burr and Ming-Na Wen so that could be part of the reason). I nearly laughed at the empire’s baby shackles. They are both adorable and disturbing. Of course the empire have shackles for babies haha.

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#1389381
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<strong>The Mandalorian</strong> - a general discussion thread - * <em><strong>SPOILERS</strong></em> *
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idir_hh said:

NeverarGreat said:

I definitely got Princess Mononoke vibes as well, and it was a good, evocative location.

Agree with RL in that the show is starting to feel disjointed in its desire to set up so many bigger players.

One issue that I have had with Filoni’s work in the past is that the main characters of his shows almost never feel like they are in danger, even when up against superior forces. I hoped that this problem would have been fixed by live action, but it seems to be getting worse. For example, twice in S2E4 the Empire’s ships had target lock on our protagonists yet they never managed to hit them, and in the latest episode there was not tension whatsoever that Mando and Ahsoka would clean house with this random town. I don’t know why Ahsoka hadn’t already dealt with them, honestly. Her final fight with the Magistrate could have ended in two seconds with her two lightsabers, and Mando’s fight with the enforcer could have ended sooner since he has blasterproof Beskar.

Finally, it was a nice change of pace for S1 to take a slower pace with the plot and fill it out with a bunch of side-quests, but in the middle of S2 I’m getting pretty tired of ‘Mando tries to do _ but problems arise and he ends up doing _ for the episode’. Rinse, repeat half a dozen times. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t so often ‘Mando goes to a planet seeking someone and has to fix a problem for them before they can regurgitate a new destination.’

I don’t mean to be too harsh on this show, since it has a lot going for it. But these issues are endemic across Filoni’s shows, and it’s becoming too much to ignore.

I’d direct most of that criticism down Favreau’s way. He the showrunner and writer.

I agree, but this season has really felt like a Filoni show so far. This is Favreau’s first foray into writing in the action/adventure/fantasy genre so maybe he is leaning into Filoni, with his star wars background, a little too much. Or maybe it is just a lack of experience.

This sounds like I don’t like Filoni’s shows which isn’t the case. I like Rebels and Clone Wars, but the individual episodes are generally more simple in structure and scope and that works for the 20 minute timeslot. This also means if an episode is a dud it’s a only a little bit of your time.

And thats where the problem lies at the moment. These episodes feel like Rebels episodes that are stretched out to fit a longer run time, so the pacing is awful. Oh and the characters just aren’t really much fun compared to Rebels. It’s not really working for me at the moment.

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#1385796
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Just watched it. It’s a big improvement, it now at least works as a crowd pleaser type film. In particular The force ghosts and the chatter on the comms and the “for Skywalker!” shouts actually had the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Previously these moments had me just shrug and rey’s delivery of “all of the jedi” actually made me roll my eyes in the cinema.

It’s still a subpar film but I don’t mean that to be disrespectful to the efforts of Hal and the other contributors on here. They’ve turned the worst star wars film into something watchable and as mentioned above, occasionally quite effective. So for that alone it’s a big thumbs up from me. Thank You.

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#1384933
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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TestingOutTheTest said:

Removed lightspeed skipping sequence. It made no sense given how hyperspace has always been depicted, as quick travel, not teleportation. Now, the Falcon bursts through the ice wall while jumping to hyperspace, and the pursuing TIEs peel off, ending the scene (visual FX by poppasketti)

As bad as that sequence is… the point of it is to reinforce Poe’s recklessness.

It’s not necessary though, that same recklessness can be inferred from him smashing through the ice and the general damage to the falcon on his return to base.

You don’t need another universe breaking use of light speed in the mix.

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#1379047
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Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers
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ChainsawAsh said:

thomwillecke said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Still gotta make a cover for Solo, too…

Have you gotten around yet to tackling a Solo cover to match your series? Great work, btw!

The answer is now yes! … or it was a while back and I forgot to upload it. I also apparently forgot to render out a “Saga Spine” version, which will have to wait, but in the meantime, here’s the “theatrical spine” version:

I absolutely love all your cover art. One of the best creators on here. I was wondering if I could be cheeky and ask about getting this Solo cover with the title as The Coaxium Heist. Digimods is my go to fan edit for that film and I also really hate the title “Solo”. Obviously using the logo digimod used for his fanedit.

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#1313128
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<strong>The Rise Of Skywalker</strong> — Official Review and Opinions Thread
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I thought it was awful. Kind of enjoyed it in the moment though, in that it was total cheese. But in the long run I won’t see these films as being part of my head canon.

Which is unfortunate as there are certain elements I thought they did get really right, Adam driver as kylo ren had potential to exceed Vader (mainly because we could see his face and really see his conflict).

I thought the rapport between the new main cast was excellent and fun. It was the one of the few times I felt something when they reunited at the end of this film.

That’s pretty much where my praise for these films ends though. The return of palpatine in particular is too much for me to take in stride. There were decisions made in The Last Jedi I didn’t really like, but I could live with because at least with the decisions surrounding Luke, they are somewhat rectified by the end of Last Jedi. He goes on a new journey to overcome his failure and realises he can be the spark of hope to reignite the rebellion or whatever.

Unfortunately, there’s no coming back from the fact that Vader, didn’t actually kill the emperor at the end of RotJ.

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#879952
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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Matt.F said:

For me, knowing that it has taken 7+ years to complete ESB Revisited, the idea of encouraging Adywan to work on the prequel trilogy revisited seems akin to handing down a life sentence. Portman and Christensen are such dullard planks of wood at the core of the films, add in the peripheral awful toon characters of Jar Jar, Boss Nass, Grievous, and that Monsters Inc guy from the Diner. Even normally reliable actors Terrence Stamp and Sam L Jackson seem barely awake. Can the prequels be improved, sure. Can they ever be great, no. No they cant, it really is as simple as that - and I think deep down every one of us knows that.

Spending 7-8 weeks cutting together a fan edit is one thing but the effort required and the perfectionism that we all know Ady would put into the PT revisited project… it feels irresponsible to encourage someone to waste possibly 10+ years of their life. The prequels aren’t worthy of him.

I’d love to see him complete the Revisited trilogy in HD for Star Wars, Empire and Jedi… and then let him sit back and take a well earned rest - that is service enough to Star Wars, by god it is and we are so thankful! The prequels just seem like such an exhausting amount of work, hours, weeks, days, years - and at the end of it they will still be crap because no matter what you tweak you cant recast Christensen and Portman.

Adywan seems like a really nice guy and he seems up for the challenge, but i’m not sure that I would wish that on anyone. Would you?

Gotta say I think I fall on this side of the argument these days, whilst there could be an interesting story in the prequels, I think it was so badly executed it is beyond saving. On the other hand I feel ROTJ is close to being a decent finale but just falls short and that Adywan could really do an amazing job. A bit of a trim to certain segments and a rejig of others and the film is really good. The scene at the shuttle between Anakin and Luke just before leaving the death star blows anything from the prequels out of the water and is up there with the best scenes in the whole trilogy for me.

I was just wondering, was the plan to cut out Boba Fett completely? Jedi rocks is going I assume, but will the old song be going back in? it’s not really much better. I really dislike the SE editions of Coruscant, Cloud City, Naboo and all that, Is that going to be kept in?