wait the Obi-Wan show is gonna have Hayden Christiansen as Darth?
wtf - JEJ is still gonna do the voice, presumably, so....are they just paying him to walk around in the costume?
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
xp Me too
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
Supposedly he's retired from doing the voice, but I don't know if that was just a rumor or not. At the least there's been no handoff as with Chewie yet.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
oh god if Hayden does the voice
Darth "Stoned" Vader
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
this is a controversial opinion, but I think this is too much star wars
― silverfish, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
A Lando show is just too good, man i loved me some Solo.
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
Star Wars: The Bad Bitch
yeah gonna be a lot of demands for this now - Sy Snootles finally getting her due
― nashwan, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
this is like when as a teenager I went to a bookstore in the 90s and saw dozens of star wars books. Suddenly something I like becomes way too much and not something I want to keep track of.
― silverfish, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
The Star Wars franchise should just be non-stop announcements of things that are never delivered.
― jmm, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
every single one of these things is going to feature a puppet baby version of a preexisting character
― ✖, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Baby Palpatine
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
I can't believe this shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
Man, even as a huge fan of Star Wars, this is too much. And I really miss the days when this was all slowly revealed, not spat out in one massive investor call data dump.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Baby Jabba
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
Baby PalpatineThis would ... rule?
― lukas, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
I'm pretty cool with just continuing to treat the pre-Disney material and the Filoniverse as the only SW stuff worth paying attention to. Granted, wrt the latter that would still have me on the hook for half of these new shows.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
I feel like there's a very real chance "The Acolyte" will have baby Sheev.
― jmm, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
there's gonna be a movie about how Sheev conceived his son
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
called Palp Fiction
*Friction
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 11 December 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
Sheev's Gotta Have It
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 December 2020 04:51 (three years ago) link
Droid Six
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
The Emperor's New Groove
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 December 2020 05:29 (three years ago) link
Imperial Bedroom
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 11 December 2020 06:04 (three years ago) link
Sidious Kinky
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
holy shit a+
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:09 (three years ago) link
Why would anyone come onto a thread to express negative thoughts about Disney properties
― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:28 (three years ago) link
http://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/3f/33/c63f33f578bb17f7be8f96d6f9822b61.jpg
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yix_9g_Ob74
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Kind of interesting article (with a minor spoiler about future plans, if you haven't finished The Mandalorian yet): https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/disney-star-wars-marvel-studios-1234866986/
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Saturday, 19 December 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
I'm just going to post this now because I can see that I'm going to get a lot of requests - Yes, Rian's SW trilogy is still on. No dates or timelines because he has other projects going on, but it is happening.THAT IS ALL I KNOW ABOUT IT. 😁😁😁— Sariah Wilson (@sariahwilson) February 16, 2021
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 12:17 (three years ago) link
Not sure where this goes (it’s not tv or movie related, but relevant): https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/star-wars-high-republic-novels/2021/02/22/adbb4338-72e3-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html
― stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
The incredible cast includes Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie. pic.twitter.com/VltHs5Aw6r— Star Wars (@starwars) March 29, 2021
― groovypanda, Monday, 29 March 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
that is a pick names out of a hat cast there
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
Hayden C. unrecognizable in that pic
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
lol Benny really sticking out there
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
cast certainly is... incredible...
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
Edgerton returning as Uncle Owen. Nice. (and uh, Bonnie Piesse as Beru)
― Nhex, Monday, 29 March 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
So is Christensen gonna be running around sans mask and Scarred Eggplant Man makeup through most of this or will he be wearing full Vader gear? Which, if it’s Full Vader, means *anyone* could’ve played The Dark Lord. The mind boggles. Also, looking forward to more blue milk gags.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 29 March 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah - cool to see the "ROTS" Owen x Beru team back
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Monday, 29 March 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
xpost I assume it'll be like the scene in Empire where we briefly saw the back of Vader's helmet-free noggin only this time we'll briefly get to see the front, as well.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 March 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
Benny Safdie?!?
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
the second lead of Good Time, who's also in the new PTA?
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
I suspect Kenobi will be seeing a lot of Anakin's screwed up face in his dreams or some fucked up Force projection (as per Luke in TLJ). Hard to see how any direct confrontation with the real DV could be good in this.
― nashwan, Monday, 29 March 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Yeah - as someone in that Twitter thread commented, it feels like it would be weird for Obi-Wan to encounter Vader before ANH. Has that happened in the comics or anything?
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
Recently got through most of The Clone Wars over the last few months and ended up really enjoying those smart, tense final four episodes from the last season and how it links with events in ROTS.
― nashwan, Monday, 29 March 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
psyched to see Benny Safdie play Anakin's long lost mentally disabled brother
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 29 March 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
Can we also get him to direct an episode pls
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
sic yeah but in a Star Wars TV show? seems a little off-brand
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:08 (three years ago) link
After her turn in The Vow as the one of that whole bunch who figured out it was crap near the start and got out, hey, bring her back!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
Meantime…well then:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O77VTIAYGVA
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 02:02 (one month ago) link
Watching ESB for the millionth time and it is so frustrating that they keep rudely interrupting the ending luke / darth sequences with cloud city pew pew shootouts
― calstars, Monday, 3 June 2024 00:33 (two weeks ago) link
Also who waxes the floors of the Death Star? So shiny
On the other hand, Vader's helmet covered in greasy smears in some shots! (In Episode IV at least)
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 3 June 2024 08:25 (two weeks ago) link
Have free preview tix to see first two EPS of Acolyte on big screen tonight.
Guess we'll see if it good
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 June 2024 22:40 (two weeks ago) link
Nicely done. (I suppose I could have gone for that around here but I'm happy to wait to catch 'em tomorrow night at home.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 June 2024 22:41 (two weeks ago) link
So far I like! Star Wars as a wuxia by way of stuff like Five Deadly Venoms
I don't think I'll know how much I like it until ep 3 or 4
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 00:36 (two weeks ago) link
Yeah those first two episodes were solid -- I appreciate that it didn't quite go for the tone I expected from the trailer, it had all sorts of approaches going on. Also, I figured that there was some sort of initial twist or something that the trailers weren't showing but I wasn't expecting the twin twist, which hoary as a device as it is is still pretty fun, as well as making the logo of the series suddenly more understandable -- and I further appreciate that there's still more that clearly hasn't been shown yet, and I'm really suspecting that there's some further deep 'gotcha' that's going to emerge.
Also, Manny Jacinto as a dirtbag is just good casting, really.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 02:59 (one week ago) link
I had low expectations for this but thought the first two episodes were pretty good!
didn’t mind the early twist of killing off Carrie Ann Moss but do wish we had gotten at least one extra episode with her, I just love how she moves, she should have been cast as a Jedi years ago
― Roz, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:03 (one week ago) link
I suspect we're getting more of her in flashback scenes -- IIRC the trailers showed one with her already and there are definitely others, the Jedi master who offed himself in the second episode is clearly the kid in the one trailer whose eyes go black.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:16 (one week ago) link
definitely feel like this is a less adult, more family friendly show, compared to things like Andor, but one with a sufficiently dark storyline that is exploring a part of Star Wars history previously only explored in the EU or comics, so I'm here for it.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:26 (one week ago) link
Yeah in a weird way this feels like it could be a good setup (in terms of 'feel' rather than directly) for what Skeleton Crew is supposed to be.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:37 (one week ago) link
is this cool for a seven year old? my son has been plowing through the series, plus any cartoons that are available. he walks around whistling the theme song all day it's super annoying
― Heez, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:44 (one week ago) link
xpost wait JALEEL WHITE is in Skeleton Crew?
ARE WE GETTING SPACE URKEL?
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:44 (one week ago) link
Heez - I think so? all deaths are relatively bloodless (so far), much like the OG series, a few intense scenes of a character's homeland burning, but seems pretty tame compared to like Andor. also gets going relatively quickly, with an intense opening fight sequence in the pilot.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:45 (one week ago) link
xpost Character name is Spurkel
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:54 (one week ago) link
thanks xp. i just went on the assumption that since i watched these as a kid that it would be fine. he fast fwds a bunch of scary stuff
― Heez, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:56 (one week ago) link
https://media.wired.com/photos/59325f7d58b0d64bb35d130c/master/pass/o-STAR-WARS-facebook.jpg
Did I do that?
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 16:13 (one week ago) link
I like how they’re obfuscating a thing that happened in the purpose of revealing the truth of what happened years ago to kick off the events that led to this plot, but the plot is a little loosey-goosey so far and doesn’t know if it’s developing characters or teasing exposition and ends up falling a little short on both. The addition of “bit there’s THIS GUY” at the end of the first seemed like a clumsy course correctionYou know I love these little jedi/sithy tales, though
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 6 June 2024 02:32 (one week ago) link
The Jedi are sooooo boring! Obi Wan was kind of cool in the first film and Yoda was ok but that was plenty. All the ones we have met since then have been snoozefests.
Having said that I watched both eps of this happily enough - whereas I didn't get more than 1 ep into the Ahsoka one.
― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Thursday, 6 June 2024 04:54 (one week ago) link
every single Jedi who gets more than two minutes of screen time has beef with the order, is portrayed as a foot soldier or apologist of the order, or gets just flat-out eliminated in all the media, really. it’s a franchise that pays a lot of lip service to the nobility and neutrality of these warrior monks but that’s a pretty surface reading
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 6 June 2024 05:12 (one week ago) link
This was fun and easy-to-follow without being simpleminded like Mandalorian can be. I don't really know my Star Wars or High Republic lore -- I haven't even seen the JJ trilogy! -- you could have told me this was set in the present and I would've been none the wiser.
I don't think the lead actor (Osha/Mae) is very good at her line readings, but it's not getting in the way of anything. I don't think they did her any favours putting her next to Carrie-Anne Moss's great cameo in the first scene.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 6 June 2024 11:27 (one week ago) link
But this feels miles better already than Mando/Boba/Ahsohka. Andor, which I'm starting to think is one of the greatest TV shows of the 2000s (and I'm not a Star Wars fan) is a whole other thing.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 6 June 2024 11:29 (one week ago) link
Did we all watch the same thing? i thought this looked fine but was clunky as all get out. Liked the kung fu elements but that's about it. The end of episode 2 felt very Krofft Super Stars/ Far Out Space Nuts.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 6 June 2024 11:58 (one week ago) link
I was originally not interested in watching this at all but once I saw that Leslye Hedland directed and looked at some of the cast I got kinda intriguedI have to say I liked these first two episodes. Story is nice & contained & has enough tension & intrigue to keep me interested, characters are well defined but also fairly simply-drawn on the surface. no one stands around giving boring exposition-dumps & i don’t have to care about a fuckin magic sword or a trade embargo or a bunch of THINGS. of all the spinoffs i preferred 1st season Mando or the Andor series … this doesn’t have quite the same level of uniqueness stamped on it yet but at least it’s not trying to make me watch a cartoon no-one cares about except Reddit nerds. so yeah, i’m down for this so far. :D
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2024 04:31 (one week ago) link
Huh. Not sure how I felt about that one
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 01:43 (six days ago) link
I rather liked it! I appreciate that we still clearly don't have the full story. I mean my running assumption here is that those four Jedi did a bunch of fucking war crimes and all.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 02:53 (six days ago) link
That's the only way I'll come out happy with it in the end tbh.
I texted my friend JEDI ARE COLONIZERS during the ep
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 03:28 (six days ago) link
lol that’s exactly what I thought while watching it as well and I’m very much on board with that
― Roz, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:11 (six days ago) link
I struggled more with the execution of some scenes and the abruptness of the ending. what I did like was the clear depiction that the Jedi were lying that they thought the planet was uninhabited, showing Sol clearly tracking the sisters in the woods, as well as the depiction of non-Jedi interpretations of the Force, which felt very similar to themes explored in Last Jedi
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:26 (six days ago) link
the 'power of 1, 2, many' melody was hilariously weak
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 14 June 2024 21:59 (four days ago) link
the lyrics makes it a decent addition to the diarrhea song genre, however
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 14 June 2024 22:11 (four days ago) link
Yea I have no idea why they'd throw something so low effort into the episode
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 June 2024 22:48 (four days ago) link
almost like it slid right out of them with little resistance from the typical gatekeepers
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 14 June 2024 23:18 (four days ago) link
Interesting...
https://gizmodo.com/the-acolyte-star-wars-power-of-two-music-1851542440
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2024 01:43 (two days ago) link