timdiggerm

They could have had Din tell Fennec “I’ve got to go see the kid” at the end of one episode, and then he shows up at the Palace in the next episode, having visited the kid. Then in Mando Season 3, include all the stuff with him and the Armorer, him and Ahsoka, even the Luke and Grogu scenes (but probably less of those. It was gratuitous).

Sure, but why are these scenes in this show? Why aren’t they just in Mando s3?

This episode had a lot of cool things in it, but that doesn’t make it a good episode. What was the plot? Mando goes places, and then the camera stays in that place after he leaves, for some reason. Sometimes things happen (Gunfight at Freetown), sometimes things don’t (everything with Luke). Again, individually those things might be “cool”, but they do not together a cohesive episode make.

It’s possible they pulled out the old miniature, updated it, and intentionally shot it to match the old camera movements

jedi_bendu said:

Interesting how much they’re throwing in the prequel references. This latest episode featured Din flying a Naboo starfighter, which he built with the help of pit droids, through the Beggar’s Canyon podracer route. All Phantom Menace iconography.

and he said “Wizard!”

The real problem is that Victory Celebration is very bland and of-its-time, while Yub Nub is super cheesy, and increasingly so the louder the choir gets (and unbearably so once they switch to English).

Kingj3489 said:

adywan said:

There will be no post credits scene in ROTJ:R. I’m in the process of rewriting the change list for the first post which will go more in-depth as to the changes planned. But i can say that Yub Nub and Lapti Nek will be back. I’ve always hated the two new tracks that replaced those.

Oh wow, I don’t know that I’ve heard anyone say that before.
Yub Nub is great but the victory celebration track is one of the best tracks in the entire saga!

You may want to give this thread a read.

So, if the music at the end of ep 4 means what it obviously ought to mean, Mando (and maybe others??) are going to show up as hired guns soon. In-universe, it’s been several weeks, at the very least, since we left Mando, Bo-Katan, Fennec, et al on the bridge of their commandeered Imperial cruiser. What did happen after the end of Season 2, and how did Fennec then meet-up with Fett and head for Tatooine? Where is Mando now, and what’s the status of his sword-feud with Bo-Katan? Does this mean there’ll be a bit of a time jump between Mando seasons 2 & 3? What will that do to the tension between him and Bo? I have questions.

So…

Why is Boba doing this stuff? Why did he go back to Tatooine, kill Bib and declare himself Daimyo? It doesn’t take much Wikipedia to confirm that, in feudal Japan, daimyo served under shogun. If that applies here, who was Jabba’s shogun???

sade1212 said:

The slow car chase was hilarious though; between episode 1 and 3 of this and his Mando episode, Rodriguez does seem to struggle with action scenes.

The crazy part about this, to me, is that supposedly he’s an action movie director! However, I have not seen his films, other than Spy Kids.

Yeah, not only does the gang look like they belong on a different planet in a different movie, but the car chase was lame, felt too staged. It was bad.

The rancor feels a little silly

Rodney-2187 said:

I wonder if the original actors are still around. Can you imagine being cut from the first Star Wars movie. I think it would be nice if they at least got cameos somewhere in Star Wars, even of they’re just sitting at a bar or something.

Koo Stark and Anthony Forrest are indeed both still around

I think the differences in the Tusken camp & costumes from AOTC are pretty easily explainable: Different tribe, different customs

I got the impression that the Tuskens had the kid take Boba & the Rodian out into the desert specifically to show them the swoopgang problem in their area.

Oh, here is a painting from the Rinzler Making Of book

Says it’s by Joe Johnston, June 1981. Would never have guessed it reached the maquette stage of development. Seems like a reasonable guess at the inspiration for ROS’s orbaks.

I came across this auction from last summer and was extremely surprised to see this:

What is that furry thing? What are any of those things?

This could almost fit into the small details thread, but I don’t think it’s particularly obscure.

I wonder why they (Kershner?) decided it was so important to make sure Lando demonstrated proper safety protocols by wearing a safety harness & clipping in when getting onto the Falcon’s roof and grabbing Luke under Cloud City. It’s also such a shame any shots of Lando actually on the roof of the Falcon grabbing Luke were cut.

True, but then he has to escape without the armor, and the armor has to get off of his body while he’s still inside the Sarlaac. I think an extended recovery period with the Sandpeople is more plausible.

I figure the timeline is as follows

• Fett is eaten by the Almighty Sarlaac
• Within a few weeks or even days, Fett kills and, or at least escapes the Almighty Sarlaac. He is badly injured, unconscious, dying on the sands from the deed.
• Jawas come for any useful scrap from the sail barge wreckage. They also strip the immobile and barely conscious Fett.
• Sandpeople find Fett and bring him home, caring for him until he recovers
• Recovery takes awhile

I was thinking more about this, and I wonder if the Executor’s demise is from before Black Friday. It is infamously not all that good looking, but maybe have been deemed to difficult to recreate. Purely speculative, but it’s the one part of the extant space battle footage that looks bad.

timdiggerm said:

Does it shed new light on the DSII battle?

I just used Google to see if anyone had ever made a thread about this book (which I still have not actually gotten a copy of), only to discover that I already asked the question I am presently wondering about… seven years ago.

The Star Wars At A Glance posts are particularly intriguing/illuminating here (specifically the end of the Y-Wing post, the B-Wing post, and “Unsung Heroes of the Battle of Endor”). You have to wonder if the elimination of Vivienne Chandler from the film is a result of Black Friday (and not having enough time to re-do all the effects for her role), or maybe her performance wasn’t that good (see also: Dermot Crowley’s reduced role as Crix Madine), or if the Battle was just way too long and bloated. Unfortunately, it’s probably impossible to discern the truth as it may be a mixture of the effects & bloat (like why they cut Jerjerrod’s moral dilemma).

Hal 9000 said:

Imply that Palpatine possessed Kylo Ren during the opening of TROS by dubbing over in his voice and removing Palpatine from the rest of the film.

Wait wait this is in the wrong thread

RU.08 is correct. No one should donate to this guy until he has a plan for scanning and has already purchased the print.

This is very intriguing. Do we think the show is pretty much all set on Tatooine, or will it only start there, then move elsewhere as the new Fett Corporation expands to fill the void left by Jabba’s demise?

fmalover said:

So far the only change that really irritates me about the movie is gender-swapping Doctor Kynes. I suspect it was done to increase the female presence, but that could have easily been fixed by including the Fremen widow (Harath I think is her name) that is placed under Paul’s care.

Yeah, but she doesn’t really do much that I can remember.