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Post by Piper on Dec 2, 2020 2:03:47 GMT -6
So far this season has far excelled the previous season (which all things considered was some pretty great Star Wars). It's a fun series. I've been enjoying it. It's nice to see the SW Universe without a Skywalker or the Jedi save the whole d*mned thing from destruction. There's a lot than can be done with the milieu, Mando and Jon Favreau seem to be having a blast showing it to us. |
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Post by Piper on Dec 4, 2020 2:51:47 GMT -6
Well, I didn’t expect Bobba Fett and Ming Na’s “dead” bounty hunter character to show up. Seeing the Slave I again was cool, though. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2020 18:29:07 GMT -6
There's more. Someone translated the little holo transmission of Boba's bloodline, and EU characters like Jaster Mareel are canonized again. |
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Post by Piper on Dec 4, 2020 21:43:29 GMT -6
Wow! I didn’t know that. Another layer of “cool” for this episode. It was a short episode, but they packed a lot into it. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2020 5:08:40 GMT -6
My big pet peeve with this show is that fans of the show seem to think Moff Gideon's name is "Moff". I guess this is their first or primary exposure to Star Wars and they don't realize it's a title, but it crawls all over me. Gideon is an awesome main antagonist, though. As hyped as I am to see Grand Admiral Thrawn , I kind of hope that's a cameo and they save him for a spinoff show. After all, his relationship with Ahsoka is a continuation of Rebels, and it's its own story. It belongs adjacent to the story of Din Djarin, not part of it. I like when different elements of the Galaxy cross paths occasionally but I like these smaller, individual stories to be their own thing. Ahsoka has her own story and it's awesome, but it's not part of this story. |
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Post by thomden on Dec 8, 2020 23:15:30 GMT -6
I finally feel like Star Wars is in good hands. Give Filoni and Favreau all the Star Wars and get Robert Rodriguez to direct as many as he's willing to.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 15:56:32 GMT -6
I finally feel like Star Wars is in good hands. Give Filoni and Favreau all the Star Wars and get Robert Rodriguez to direct as many as he's willing to. Holy hell are his action scenes something to behold! I would never tire of seeing Boba splitting skulls with that gaffi stick, for my tastes. |
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Post by thomden on Dec 10, 2020 19:04:40 GMT -6
I finally feel like Star Wars is in good hands. Give Filoni and Favreau all the Star Wars and get Robert Rodriguez to direct as many as he's willing to. Holy hell are his action scenes something to behold! I would never tire of seeing Boba splitting skulls with that gaffi stick, for my tastes. He directed Alita, which was amazing. I don't know why it didn't make a billion dollars at the box office instead of that dud, Cpt Marvel. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2020 4:40:34 GMT -6
Holy hell are his action scenes something to behold! I would never tire of seeing Boba splitting skulls with that gaffi stick, for my tastes. He directed Alita, which was amazing. I don't know why it didn't make a billion dollars at the box office instead of that dud, Cpt Marvel. I suspect Alita will become a cult classic as the years go by and people will forget about Cpt. Marvel. These things have a way of equalizing over time. Anyway, just watched Mando chapter 15 and it continues to amaze. Great, great episode. Very different from the last one, but a critical piece of the puzzle. |
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Post by thomden on Dec 11, 2020 13:44:02 GMT -6
Chapter 15 was excellent. It advanced the character development so well.
And I love how Mando threw Moff Gideon's words back at him.
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Post by thomden on Dec 11, 2020 13:45:00 GMT -6
how do you make words hidden by a Spoiler click?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2020 15:46:20 GMT -6
how do you make words hidden by a Spoiler click? Sandwich them between [ spoiler ] and [ / spoiler ] but without the spaces between the letters and brackets. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2020 15:47:10 GMT -6
Chapter 15 was excellent. It advanced the character development so well. And I love how Mando threw Moff Gideon's words back at him. Didn't expect Bill Burr's character to be such an emotional center to the episode, for that matter. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 4:33:19 GMT -6
This episode just got better for me. |
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Post by thomden on Dec 12, 2020 12:04:55 GMT -6
This episode just got better for me. I was wondering why that shot looked so good. It felt really authentic. I just rewatched it and got to appreciate how well crafted the whole episode was even more. There were themes within themes that played out, and everything was tightly and well told. No waste. Great character arc too. The director & writer Rick Famuyiwa really gets it. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 12:18:29 GMT -6
He directed two season 1 episodes, as well. All the directors in this show have been awesome. I enjoy this "director of the week" format a lot more than I expected to.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 19:00:51 GMT -6
Okay I want this guy to GM me in a Star Wars tabletop game. (Spoilers for latest episode) |
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Post by thomden on Dec 14, 2020 4:04:01 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2020 15:50:58 GMT -6
This show is a labor of love by true fans, but also an officially licensed product with a huge budget. You get a show like this as a sci fi fan maybe once in a lifetime. If you'd told me ten years ago we'd have an excellent Star Wars tv show starring a Mandalorian warrior, one of my favorite aspects of the EU, I'd call BS. And yet here we are. |
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Post by thomden on Dec 18, 2020 9:05:32 GMT -6
What a way to end a season! What a banger that was. As soon as that X-Wing showed up I sat up in my chair and kept saying no way, no way! The deep fake technology is getting so good I was hardly bothered by it. Though I was hoping they'd cast Sebastian Stan as Luke and give us an Adventures of Luke Skywalker series.
But those end credits! I was just reaching to turn off the TV and almost missed them. So is Book of Boba Fett going to be Season 3 of The Mandalorian, or a whole new show? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2020 16:43:25 GMT -6
I won't lie. I couldn't stop crying for the last ten or fifteen minutes.
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Post by Malcadon on Dec 19, 2020 5:16:41 GMT -6
I did not know that that men were equipped to have multiple orga.. eh.. climaxes until I saw the finally of The Mandalorian. 
While I never smoked a cigarette a day in my life, this was me after the show ended:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2020 14:25:54 GMT -6
Honestly, even though a third season has been greenlit along with some spinoff series, this would have been a perfect series finale in and of itself
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2020 19:52:00 GMT -6
And next season...now that the underling has been handled, the true big bad can appear |
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Post by thomden on Dec 20, 2020 12:39:39 GMT -6
Sadly the skank in the scud pie is that Grogu has a doomed fate. Kylo Ren kills Luke's students and Luke becomes a bitter old hermit. Which makes me hate the sequels even more. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 16:02:43 GMT -6
Sadly the skank in the scud pie is that Grogu has a doomed fate. Kylo Ren kills Luke's students and Luke becomes a bitter old hermit. Which makes me hate the sequels even more. Not necessarily There's several years, I think over a decade and a half, to spare here, and Luke only said he wanted to train the Child enough that he's not a danger to himself and others. Kind of give him the foundations. Luke instantly sensed Grogu's bond with Din so he may very well return him a season or two from now. ALSO Based on the logo for the Ahsoka show, I think they're bringing back the concept of the World Between Worlds from Rebels, meaning a split or redone timeline is possible. |
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Post by verhaden on Dec 23, 2020 20:31:51 GMT -6
Filoni and Favreau have my full permission to retcon the sequels.
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Post by thomden on Dec 23, 2020 22:06:17 GMT -6
Filoni and Favreau have my full permission to retcon the sequels. It is painfully obvious, and increasingly so, just how awful those sequels were. What is most disturbing though is the names they called those fans who spoke up about it. Including actual LF employees joining in on the name calling. I think the Mandalorian shows that SW fans actually aren't that hard to please. All they want are good stories and good characters that fit in the established SW universe. Throw in the occasional nostalgia bone for good measure, just don't really on them as crutches. Sadly though, Star Wars land (Galaxy's Edge or whatever) in Disneyland/world is permanently crippled by the terrible terrible decision to not use any of the classic Star Wars locations and characters. Billions of $$ wasted. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2020 7:05:52 GMT -6
Anyone else watch Disney Gallery series on this show? I had only seen the first episode before finishing all of season 2 of the actual show, and this thing is amazing. Behind the scenes, in-depth looks at how the show was made from all angles. I'm on the special effects episode now and it's amazing to see the love and passion that went into this whole project.
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Post by Vile Traveller on Dec 25, 2020 11:24:36 GMT -6
I want to re-watch season one prior to the release of season two. Maybe my feeling for some of those episodes will have changed this time around. I re-watched season 1 before bingeing on season 2, and if anything I enjoyed it more. I was a bit unengaged the first time, but that could have been because of what was going on where I lived and worked at the time. Now, in full retirement, my mind is free to unwind and unreservedly enjoy stuff. |
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