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I totally forgot that.
The first time he touched his beard I thought he'd pull it off revealing it was a fake for some reason or other...
The Mandalorian (Star Wars Live Action Series)
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I totally forgot that.
The first time he touched his beard I thought he'd pull it off revealing it was a fake for some reason or other...
I liked season 2.. just that TV feel put me off.
Season 1 was a disappointment for me all around
Think I’ll like it more now.
Yesterday while I was watching a *shocking* video on HT's life size Grogu$$$ and the pathetic jaw issue -
Some Y-tuber had a mind-boggling collection of Baby Yoda. Had no idea of the *&^% that was produced.
I knew Baby Yoda went global viral but Holy Landfill!
Anyway - since Sideshow keeps having sales, picked up the IS Mando/Speeder. If someone had told me 4 years ago I'd own a Baby Yoda plushie, and a Boba Fett or any more SW I'd have laughed in their face.
Won't be revisiting this season again myself. Maybe cherry picking an episode or two though if it gets any better, just like the Mando chapters from TBOBF
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Ep1: meh
Ep2: fairly decent
Ep3: started well, atrocious middle, end was fine, just setting up the next episode I guess
Only 3 episodes in so far so we'll have to see what the rest of the season has to offer but if I ever rewatch this season, I'll be skipping the first 3 episodes.
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Imagine C3PO saves the rebellion but gets blown to bits (like on Bespin) and they make a statue to commemorate him and his brave act, but instead of just a sculpt of this now esteemed hero droid, they include 3PO's actual head, torso, and arm etc. .
So Luke and R2 can come up and stare at it, but it's 3PO's actual parts they're looking at - like his dead/unlit eyes and unmoving fingers - even though mixed with concrete depictions of other body parts.
Even stranger than that, the whole time it was not just possible but likely that they could simply bring 3PO back to life because flooded with concrete and bondo in the statue are all his still perfectly viable circuits, just sitting there.
So everyone can stand in front of the statue and say "wow, he was such a heroic drold..." yet all they had to do was take his parts and bring him back to life and they'd have a living hero instead of a statue.
This is the depth of sheer stupidity (the "doesn't even survive a cursory glance" type) you really have to go to BOBF to find.
And classic Western shootouts were more evenly matched, a inkling of possibility that the hero might take a shot or perhaps even die. Scooby Doo villians don't exactly make for a tense match-up.
Far, far stupider to me than the idea of a statue made of the actual corpse....is the fact that there was even a corpse at all.
WE SAW IT BLOW INTO ATOMS!!!
Oh...I forgot. "Somehow Palpatine returned."
Nobody's ACTUALLY dead in SW except Han, Luke, and Leia.
WE SAW IT BLOW INTO ATOMS!!!
Oh...I forgot. "Somehow Palpatine returned."
Nobody's ACTUALLY dead in SW except Han, Luke, and Leia.
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They were originally meant to be 'Super Troopers' but army building Mandos wasn't in the budget for ESB.
Not really since they get to show up anytime they want as ghosts, including Han who didn't even have to study the Force to learn Obi-Wan's trick.
"You can't win Darth. If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, just like Leia, that kid in white and that random pirate over there."
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Han wasn’t a Force ghost, Kylo just liked to drop acid.
Season 3 is off to a rocky start. Episode 3 was yawn inducing all the way. Not sure what the point of seeing the doc struggle with his ethics. Not a great episode.
Meh it’s a droid… no real attachment.. Lucky he got any memorial at all
Guess I see it as the equivalent of a Dino bone
And to that I say
Clint was always having these kind of shootouts with lesser villains in his westerns. Especially in his Sergio Leone films.
Not talking down to you. I’m sure you know that… but that scene you hate was just a tribute to those spaghetti westerns that this show is inspired by.
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A budget saving maneuver for some productions is to take a guest star and compact their scenes, as much as possible, into as few episodes as possible.
The other possible situation is if Moff Gideon is not available ( i.e. the actor , Giancarlo Esposito is doing something else, i.e. Coppola's Megalopolis, etc) , then the show needs to put Kane front and center and do it very quickly to create another semi-main antagonist.
It's pretty clear that Pershing is designed as being derivative of the knotty role of scientists during war or, more to point, post war. After WW2, plenty of former Germans in high ranking positions, were essentially given a pass for previous "misdeeds and crimes" in exchange for their work to advance things like the great space race. Also there were several characters in Lone Wolf And Cub that had murky backgrounds and conflicted motives.
A big theme of this show is the decay of the systems and structures that formerly upheld a type of code or honor amongst all participants. When society changes, the old rules changes, and many get swept up in the fallout of not being able to adapt. In that way, one could argue Mandalorian is also, in part, an homage to some very core themes of Gone With The Wind.
Favreau and Filoni are paying homage to Lucas, who lifted core concepts from not just guys like Kurosawa and Kazuo Koike, but also the luminary filmmakers of his youth, like David Lean, and literary influences like Joseph Campbell.
Gone With The Wind is timeless. It's an incredible book and an incredible film. Unfortunately some of it's sub themes and the back history of Margaret Mitchell makes it prime fodder for the cancel culture. But what makes GWTW timeless is it's a very simply but replicable kind of narrative about the overall human condition.
Djarin is, in effect, a man out of time. It's very simple effective storytelling. It's not like Kurosawa was reinventing the wheel. And Lucas himself was a shameless parrot when it came to "borrowing" from other filmmakers and artists in his youth.
Pershing struggles because he's both lost in the old world and equally lost in the new world. He operates, from a narrative standpoint, as a cautionary tale for Djarin. Part of the point of Grogu is that Mando was adrift without purpose. The Child gave him a real purpose. Grogu is the bridge between the old world and the new world. For Pershing, the thought would be that his skill and science could be that for him. But it's not enough. The morality dilemma that seeps all across the show is the purpose must come from a place of selflessness to be true. This is represented by the divergent perspectives of Djarin and Bo Katan. The latter is so power hungry and so driven by that lust, that her purpose is corrupted. The harder she chases it, the further it eludes her. But Mando suffers personal loss after loss for Grogu. And he doesn't care that it costs him. It's that casual indifference that opens up the entire universe around him.
The Mandalorian takes an entirely different spin through the lenses of what made Campbell so influential to modern artists.
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When you have to defend a show with a thesis, or numerous 20+ min YouTube vids to “understand”, that usually means it’s just not good content to begin with
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