https://www.ign.com/articles/taika-waititi-doesnt-know-if-his-star-wars-movie-will-be-made?amp=1
It’s dead, Jim…
Sounds great! The fourth episode of the series was all filler, in hindsight, so glad to hear it’s been cut.
Sounds like my kinda ideal edit of this miniseries! Hope it all goes well 😃
I wonder if George Lucas saw this and if he likes it.
As much as I loved the finale, now that I’ve had the time to look back on the whole series with hindsight, I agree with many out there that this should’ve been a movie instead. That said, I did like how each episode “emulated” a different saga film from Episode I-VI, and I’m pretty sure the finale also had a few sequel trilogy references sprinkled in for good measure too, which was cool. Not sure if any of that has been discussed here yet!
I just watched the Kenobi finale… I’ve been a Star Wars fan for over 20 years, and I seriously think that may have just been one of the best Star Wars things I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s not perfect, but the good outweighs the bad for me by far. Also I think I forgot to mention this on here before, but I really liked Part V too.
Now one of you needs to edit this all down into a movie and cut out as much of the fifth brother as possible, please…
Finally got around to watching Kenobi episode 4. I thought it was pretty good! Kinda surprised it’s been getting mixed reception.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.