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Star Wars thread (Ahsoka)

PhDeac said:
So I assume there will be less debate about the Mandalorian Season 1 finale.

Excited for season 2. It’s like a mini-movie every week.
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Meh. It's Star Wars. I've never seen any faction of nerddom go full Comic Book Guy and hate the thing they purport to love quite like Star Wars nerds.
 
PhDeac said:
So I assume there will be less debate about the Mandalorian Season 1 finale.

Excited for season 2. It’s like a mini-movie every week.
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The finale was mostly cringeworthy. The stormtrooper discussion especially. I did chuckle when they were having target practice and couldn’t hit anything though.

The droid returning to town made no sense. He had what he was programmed to protect. Going back put it in danger.

What was up with the shitty looking saber? Does that indicate weakness in the force or no more CGI budget?

The show is mediocre with an occasional good episode. I think a Kenobi series has far more potential.
 
That was the Darksaber. It’s the Mandalorian version of a lightsaber that was introduced in the Clone Wars and Rebels series. It was an “Oh Shit!” reveal for anyone who followed those shows or bothered to look up the significance. Whoever holds it is considered the leader of the Mandalorians. You can read a lot more about it but the key points are that it was forged a millennium prior by the first Mandalorian to become a Jedi. It was wielded by Darth Maul during his takeover of Mandalore and then returned to Mandalorian hands near the end of Rebels. Most likely Moff Gideon acquired it in the Purge.
 
Holy shit that’s the nerdiest thing ever posted on these boards and I’m including the entire hearthstone thread. Kudos to ph.
 
You can look it up on any number of articles explaining the end of the episode. I only remembered the basics from Rebels. It's nice to see the show reward canon. I assume they'll explain why Mandalorians in those shows had no problem taking off their helmets but not removing them is The Way now. My guess is things changed after the purge.
 
I saw it and don't get the nonsense about the girl on girl kiss. If I didn't know there was one, I probably would have missed it.
 
just saw it. a whole lot of meh. was like a stupid comic book movie.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
What was up with the shitty looking saber? Does that indicate weakness in the force or no more CGI budget?
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My two boys immediately knew the significance of the dark saber and they are 13 and 10.
 
Rise of Skywalker was really disappointing.

Mandalorian S1 was good, and Ep8 was great. Can't wait for S2.

Obi Wan Kenobi show has sooooooooo much potential.

I have spoken.
 
Mandalorian Ep 8 was a blast. Sad to see IG-88 go, but he was an overpowered get out of jail free card and that's not sustainable for long-term plotting.
 
Just saw the movie; no means a Star War nerd but I thought the first 90 or so minutes were quite entertaining. However the last 30-45 just simply fell off the tracks.
They seem to be going for high drama and missed the mark, totally.
 
I'm tired of Star Wars. Not the movies, not the shows, but how the discussion has the same bitterness and toxicity of, well, everything else in the world. It was once a space opera (let's not call it sci fi so it's nowhere even in the discussion of "best sci fi") that provided a fun escape but now it's another battlefield where Rose freakin' Tico causes the same level of rancor used for discussing the highest office in the land. Just tired of it.

As for this latest movie, I'll say "it's fine". It's heartbreaking that the culmination of the saga is "fine", It really needed to be "amazeballs" but such is the way.

Some stray thoughts
I really liked Chewie's reaction when receiving the news of Leia's death. That was heartbreaking and props to whoever was doing that voice work. Poor Chewie's lost all his homies now but I guess he's used to that at 200+ years old.

Wtf was up with the audience in Palpy's throne room? Did he sell tickets knowing Rey was going to show up?

I've always been in the "give Chewy a medal for Yavin" army but screw how it was executed - some 3rd tier character passing down a trinket from a dead guy. Yeah I know it was no doubt valuable to Han but it's still Han's hand me down and not Chewy getting recognized for his heroism. That was perhaps the most blatant fan service-y moment and it couldn't even get that right.

Now to my biggest complaint - how can you have the biggest property in movies (at least in 2014ish, probably surpassed by now but Disney's happy regardless) and not have a plan to make a coherent narrative that flows across all 3 movies. After I left, I wondered "what would someone who skipped TLJ have been confused about after ROS?" and the answer seems to be "nothing." Maybe they'd wonder why Ackbar, Jr. was a thing. Say what you will about TLJ, but at the end, there was a sense of true desperation that left me wondering how they could continue from there. For ROS though, they start off plucky underdogs like they always have been, I didn't get the desperation from the prior movie. Even the Holdo Maneuver was hand waved with a "oh we couldn't do that again". Kathleen Kennedy is supposed to be the grand overseer of all things Star Wars, right? She gets an F. I'm sure while she gets gold sinks installed in her eastern Mediterranean yacht (not the one for Monaco) she'll be heartbroken to hear my grade.

Oh yeah, I have a gripe with the all of the JJ crew, they just sort of make me think I'm watching a JJ movie more than a Star Wars movie. Then again that happens with the JJ trope of go to the place to get the thing so you can go to the next place to get the next thing. Whatever debt he owed Keri Russel has been paid in full after giving her a major credit for a movie she did some VO work for and then showed her eyes for a scene. At least Greg Grunberg's character has been waxed.

Enough of that. If today's 12ish year olds love it, then cool, it's for them anyway. I'll just re-read the Thrawn trilogy and convince myself that's the canon for 7-9 like it was (unofficially) in the 90s.

Mandalorian - awesome from start to finish. Werner Herzog met my ridiculous expectations in very limited screen time, every utterance he gave was memorable culminating with "I would like to see the baby".

It's a long wait for Fall 2020

 
Saw it again today. I enjoyed it more the second time. Agree it was "fine" but not great. Several scenes could have been cut and not affected the story. For example, there was no point to the initial chase scene between the Falcon and the Tie fighters. You could throw a line in the opening crawl about a mile within the first order and how Poe and crew are getting the message to the Resistance. Saves 10 minutes right away.

The scenes with Carie Fisher were about as good as one could hope, but they remind me of the American version of Godzilla that cut Raymond Burr in to scenes talking with Japanese actors from the original.

Overall, at times it was really good but others it was boring. A good escape nonetheless. I'll buy the box set of this trilogy though, which is more than I can say about the prequel trilogy
 
Kathleen Kennedy may be done. They need a "Kevin Feige" type to oversee a clear narrative/plan. Make movies. Focus on story.

This trilogy was messy and unplanned. That's the biggest problem.
 
Yeah. The potential is there to build a broad Lucasfilm Star Wars universe. They just need to go for it.

Interesting thought about the end of The Mandalorian. Mando has to find a Jedi. What Jedi? The ones we know are around are Ezra Bridger (Rebels) and Ahoska (Clone Wars and Rebels). It's possible Season 2 could introduce live versions of Ezra and Sabine Wren, the Mandalorian from Rebels. There's only a 9 year gap between the end of Rebels and The Mandalorian. Sabine would be a very different take on Mandalorians.

Watching the series finale of Rebels with my little one. Thrawn says something like "the rest of the Jedi are beaten, in hiding, or poorly trained children" so there are more out there. Mando, a raw Jedi, and Baby Yoda would make a good show.
 
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PhDeac said:
Yeah. The potential is there to build a broad Lucasfilm Star Wars universe. They just need to go for it.

Interesting thought about the end of The Mandalorian. Mando has to find a Jedi. What Jedi? The ones we know are around are Ezra Bridger (Rebels) and Ahoska (Clone Wars and Rebels). It's possible Season 2 could introduce live versions of Ezra and Sabine Wren, the Mandalorian from Rebels. There's only a 9 year gap between the end of Rebels and The Mandalorian. Sabine would be a very different take on Mandalorians.

Watching the series finale of Rebels with my little one. Thrawn says something like "the rest of the Jedi are beaten, in hiding, or poorly trained children" so there are more out there. Mando, a raw Jedi, and Baby Yoda would make a good show.
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Do we know if she’s specifically talking about Jedi or LBY’s race of aliens? Or is it the same thing? I interpreted it as the latter.
 
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