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jedi_bendu said:

That sounds right to me!

Cool! We have an exciting year and a half ahead of us then 😃

I thought episode 3 was pretty good. Not perfect, but good! Looking forward to more. This show is a breath of fresh air after Boba Fett.

So this is the new release schedule (for now), right?:

2022
August - November: Andor Season 1
Summer: Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation (post-TRoS Finn story)
Fall: Tales of the Jedi
Fall - Winter: Bad Batch Season 2

2023
February - April: Mando Season 3
Spring: Ahsoka
Spring: Young Jedi Adventures (High Republic cartoon for pre schoolers)
Summer: Visions Season 2
December: Taika’s movie (for now)
TBA: Andor Season 2
TBA: The Acolyte
TBA: Skeleton Crew

NO YEAR YET
Rogue Squadron
Feige’s movie
JD Dillard’s movie
Rian’s trilogy
Lando
Mando Season 4
Mandoverse “big event”
A Droid Story

Anything wrong/ missing?

Hal 9000 said:

The Grand Inquisitor “Pumpkinhead” is an imposter. You heard it here first.

Starting to think this as well.

Just finished the first two Kenobi episodes.

Episode 1 review:

Really good! Not perfect, but good.

Episode 2 review:

Welp, rebels isn’t canon anymore lol. But aside from that it was a great episode! I now see why they released these back to back. While part of me still wishes this was in theaters, the pacing of it is starting to make me more and more happy that this is a show instead.

RogueLeader said:

Deborah has had a decent track record before this. Makes me think that the a big chunk of the budget just went to drag these big name actors back into the franchise.

My thoughts exactly.

https://www.gamesradar.com/star-wars-movies-kathleen-kennedy-celebration-interview/

Kennedy clarified that Taika’s film will be first and that they’re still aiming for Xmas 2023 and that it’ll be the start of “a new saga,” it sounds like.

Some news. Looks like Taika’s film might be post-TRoS after all:

https://www.empireonline.com/movies...around-sequel-era-kathleen-kennedy-exclusive/

Turns out the grammar rodeo show is really called Skeleton Crew and it’s not actually about Luke’s academy. Instead it’s about four kids and an adult (Jude Law) who come from a remote planet and “get lost in the Star Wars galaxy and have to find their way home.” Sounds to me like they’ve never heard of jedi or whatever.

Also looks like Rogue Squadron is delayed indefinitely (again) of Taika’s movie is coming first now.

Hopefully we get answers to everything at Celebration next week.

Looking back, this is my least-favorite piece of live-action Star Wars aside from the holiday special and the two Ewok movies.

I enjoyed the Moonknight finale. Not perfect, not terrible. Still the best mcu show so far imo.

MCU show ranking so far:

Moonknight

Wandavision

Hawkeye

Falcon & Winter Soldier

Loki

What If?

Been enjoying Moonknight a lot so far. Oscar Isaac is doing as great job playing multiple personalities at once, and Ethan Hawke is great, as always.

Having never read the comics, I originally thought that Steven Grant was the person he was born as and Marc Spector was the alternate personality he created to escape his “loser” life. Glad the show proved me wrong, cause what they did instead was much better.

My new theory going into the finale now is that Khonshu somehow caused the rainstorm that led to Marc’s brother drowning, cause he knew that would eventually lead to Marc finding his tomb. I think he also did something similar to Ethan Hawke’s character at some point in the past, and that’s why Ethan Hawke hates him so much.

yotsuya said:

Unlike a lot of people, I was very disappointed in TFA. It had two great points. Great character introductions and some really great scenes, but there really wasn’t much of a story there. People compare it to the 1977 original, but the original was a self contained story with a solid end. TFA felt incomplete and open ended. Especially when the tacked on Rey meeting Luke to the end. So I don’t consider it an echo of ANH in the slightest. It failed some basic film making tasks and for me it is the worst of the saga films.

I think the trilogy redeemed itself with TLJ and rose to the occasion with TROS. Those two films for me are the best saga films since ROTJ. For both of those films, I was glued to the screen and mesmerized in my first viewing. Not many films can do that so I consider them very well made.

With the way the saga developed, I can deal with TFA. It has flaws, but it is a solid introduction to the characters. It is like a prologue to the following 2 parter.

I agree that TFA is overrated and TLJ/TRoS are underrated (TLJ especially gets too much hate).

RotS is overrated. People give it a pass cause it did the “OT setup” things it was going to have to do anyway after TPM and AotC “kicked the can,” in that regard. And it doesn’t even do those things well. Anakin’s turn to the dark feels very forced (pun intended).

Visually-speaking, TPM is my favorite of the three.

I grew up with the PT, so I have a soft spot for it. That said, I think my entire generation lost IQ points because of these three movies…

I also think TFA wouldn’t have played it so safe had the PT not been so asinine, which therefore would’ve led to a less-confused TLJ and TRoS.

ZkinandBonez said:

Mocata said:

ZkinandBonez said:

It looks a lot darker than Mando and BOBF, which is something that I’m very on board with.

Your eyes can deceive you, don’t trust them.

Considering the story they’re telling I don’t even see how it can be too light-hearted in tone or style similar to what BOBF ended up becoming, and I’ll be perfectly happy it ends up being similar to Mando. And of course without Grogu to “cute-ify” scenes I suspect it’ll be more Rogue One like in style. I’m not exactly expecting grim-dark or anything like that, but seeing as it’s a miniseries I trust that it won’t try to overly soften things for the sake of future seasons.

Future seasons? This is already confirmed to be a one-season thing.

Mixed-to-positive feelings on the boba finale, from my side.

I gotta say: I’m really starting to hate the spice arc in the boba show. It rips off dune, for starters (which starwars already does too much as is). Also it makes Tattooine more important than it should be. What made Tattooine cool before is that it was a backwater world. The biggest thing tho is that why would boba, a crime lord, want to stop CRIME?

Hmm a lot to unpack there. Overall I think I liked it. But once again, the most interesting parts of the Boba Fett show are the parts that have nothing to do with, well, Boba Fett…

EDIT: Im starting to come down from the high now. I still think it’s weird that they keep shoving you-know-who into everyone else’s story.

Burbin said:

You could say the same of Bespin, seems like just the one city surrounded by endless clouds. Same for Hoth & Endor, they’re all very basic. Yeah Tatooine is a bit more fleshed out, but likewise Jakku seems pretty alive, the masive wreckages tell the story of a battle long past, we get a day in the life of a scavenger that shows the regular routine on Niima Outpost (which looks pretty alive and busy), and there’s also talk of Sinking Fields, Kelvin Ridge & the Goazon Badlands.

The one thing Jakku doesn’t have much is wildlife, which I feel is intentional in making the planet feel desolate, but still we see that red-eyed “Kojima” alien, that pecking vulture creature (a literal “scavenger”), and the giant pig drinking the water, though that one seems more domestic.

Saying Jakku is only a junkyard and a village is like saying Tatooine in ANH is only a Moisture Farm and a Spaceport. And as you said Ahch-to is like the inverse of Jakku, teeming with all sorts of wildlife, including those cool skeletons that made Tatooine feel so alive.

Those are all good points actually! I appreciate the added perspective.

Burbin said:

The Sequel Trilogy is full of these same type of random nods to events and places though, off the top of my head I can think of the Trillia Massacre, the Battle of Chyron Belt, the Pits of Griq, etc. As well as all of the techno jargon such as ingnition line compressor, thermal oscillator, dedicated power breaker, complete redactive memory bypass, etc. On this aspect I think the ST is on point with the living universe vibe of the OT & PT.

Yes, the ST got the “jargon” part right but I was referring more to how the planets “feel.”

In ANH, Tattooine has Tuskens, Jawas, a dragon skeleton, a city, a moisture farm, mentions of Tosche Station, etc. In addition, Yavin IV has the ancient temple that the rebels occupy plus a bunch of other ancient temples in the background. Both planets feel “alive.”

Now compare that to TFA. Jakku has the junkyard and that one other village that gets attacked. Maz’s planet feels like it’s just her castle surrounded by an endless forest. Leia’s planet feels like it’s just her base surrounded by endless grass. Luke’s planet feels like it’s just his island surrounded by endless ocean (TLJ added a bit more “life” to it though). You get the idea.

CarboniteSolo said:

Anthony Daniels’ C-3PO will be appearing in an upcoming series, but he’s in a mo-cap suit, instead of a physical suit that he normally wears.

It could be Kenobi, or it could be Andor, or he could be with Skywalker at the end of the Book of Boba Fett, right now it’s unknown.

My guess is the Obi-wan Kenobi series, due to Anakin creating him, and also rumors that he visits Leia, so the droids will be nearby.

Pretty sure it’s just for that “A Droid Story” project we heard about awhile back.

rocknroll41 said:

For me TFA is the only piece of the franchise that has this issue of the planets feeling “empty.” The nostalgia overload and pointless mysteries and lack of political context don’t help that movie either…

Adding to the above; rotj’s worldbuilding could’ve been a bit tighter too, now that I think about it.

For me TFA is the only piece of the franchise that has this issue of the planets feeling “empty.” The nostalgia overload and pointless mysteries and lack of political context don’t help that movie either…