Yeah that was a strand I didn't expect!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 18:16 (eleven months ago) link
I really liked this final episode. The "Rebels" feel was strong and the fight scenes were good over all. Some allusions to Jackson's LoTR films, too, I felt.
Guess we'll see the full reunited Rebels crew - and maybe Kanan as Force Ghost? - in Filoni's film?
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 18:54 (eleven months ago) link
Can't help feeling this series was too slight overall and needed more stuff to happen.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 21:10 (eleven months ago) link
Kanan had...a different form at the end of Rebels, which actually would be cool to see in live action
Feel like these series all have good stuff, but ultimate end up a little too long and weirdly paced. Obi-Wan would've been a lot better as a film, Book of Boba Fett would've been better as a mini-arc in Mando (which it kinda ended up being), this had a good amount of time but soooo much of it felt slow and off, especially the pilot
That said, yeah, still worthwhile esp. as someone who has gotten through all of Clone Wars and Rebels, maybe less so if you're not that deep into it. Hopefully Mando stays good(ish) because I'm already kinda ready to wrap a bow on this entire era, bring on the High Republic show and the Rey movie
Again I'll say I'm pretty happy with the casting decisions and they will definitely continue to pay off into the future (though RIP Ray Stevenson, a shame... didn't realize until now he also voiced Gar Saxon in Clone Wars/Rebels)
― Nhex, Thursday, 5 October 2023 01:27 (eleven months ago) link
I’m on board with everything you just said
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:31 (eleven months ago) link
to an extent the entire Ahsoka series was fan service but that very brief Morai cameo was the extra bit I appreciated
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:33 (eleven months ago) link
oh yeah! the other bit articles are missing is the large statues at the end seem to include the Mortis daughter, but the sculpture is degraded or more likely defaced given the planet’s habitants
but you know who has a link
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 03:36 (eleven months ago) link
I would like to see Ahsoka and Mando stories/characters crossover because I thought most of Mando s3 was a dud. But mixing in Thrawn and Sabine (among others) into Mando’s plot might help that show recover.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 5 October 2023 04:13 (eleven months ago) link
they mixed in a little material from the new canon books because Thrawn was one of the few who met both Anakin and Vader and easily deduced they were the same guy
and that guy just blew through anything that tried to stop him
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 04:24 (eleven months ago) link
agree with everything Nhex said
i'm still stuck on what the hell ezra and thrawn did for the 10 years they were stranded - they did separate immediately, or did they try to kill each other several times or...?
cause it doesn't make a lot of sense for ezra to not be doing anything while thrawn was working with the nightsisters and building his army. not that i need them to go into detail or anything, just one or two lines of explanation would've been nice
there were a lot of moments in ahsoka that were like that. i get that star wars has never been particularly character-driven but these new shows really do often feel like people moving from place to place and doing things just because the plot says so, or so they can be all like "LOOK AT THIS COOL THING/REFERENCE/FIGHT SCENE". I really like the cast too, so it's a bummer that the character with the most energy and personality on the show so far is robot David Tennant.
― Roz, Thursday, 5 October 2023 05:35 (eleven months ago) link
like that short scene between Huyang and Ezra was nice, would've appreciated a bit more of that
― Roz, Thursday, 5 October 2023 05:38 (eleven months ago) link
Ezra was clearly just hanging out with the dandy turtles, living his best life
― groovypanda, Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:39 (eleven months ago) link
I appreciated that! The Ahsoka/Anakin force dream episode was kind of all over the place, but the key question was really "What does it mean to be a jedi?" and she grew up where it purely meant being a warrior. Being an itinerant jedi and just hanging with the turtles and helping them out would definitely be jedi stuff
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 5 October 2023 20:19 (eleven months ago) link
Sabine: I am finally on Peridea, where Ezra here has been trapped with a crazed monomaniac, Grand Admiral Thrawn, who'd like nothing more than to see Ezra dead. Tell us, how have you managed to stay alive all this time, Ezra?Ezra: I like turtles.
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 6 October 2023 01:00 (eleven months ago) link
TBF the animal force bonding thing is actually a key character trait for him going back to Rebels! it actually did make sense in a way, though i too hunger for details about what happened in those ten years which will probably be covered in some novel i'll never read
― Nhex, Friday, 6 October 2023 01:41 (eleven months ago) link
Real damn shame here:
https://gizmodo.com/shawna-trpcic-costume-designer-obituary-star-wars-1850909531
Basically all the Filoni/Filoni-adjacent TV series' work is her and her team. I know a couple of people who worked with her and my impression is she was truly great.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 October 2023 16:39 (eleven months ago) link
Meantime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUs57-Cz2Pg
(Am I seeing a screening of this a week from Monday? Oh you bet I am!)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:01 (ten months ago) link
but will they be screening the actual special?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 17 November 2023 19:33 (ten months ago) link
Fun fact: I watched the holiday special at my grandmother's house when it aired, I was a few months shy of 4 years old, but already a huge star wars fan. The recollection of it lingered at the edge of my memory for many years, as something that I only half believed was real. Later during my college years, a friend had a VHS copy that I watched, and I was amazed to learn that those hazy memories were indeed something that happened and not just a weird fever dream.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 17 November 2023 19:37 (ten months ago) link
Hahah Moodles that was very much me in ways. I was seven when it aired, so a little more conscious about it and definitely did watch it. But soon after it must have slipped my memory, and, believe it or not, it was while I was watching coverage of Clinton winning his first term back in 1992 and eating a celebratory pizza that somehow I found myself going for the first time ever "Wait...god wasn't there a Star Wars holiday special? There WAS, wasn't there, and I know I saw it. Why have I never heard about it again?" Forever grateful to the freaks with early VCRs who captured it for the ages.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:18 (ten months ago) link
When one of those Ewoks live-action specials aired, I watched it (as a little kid) and thought it was the first episode of a series. So every night, for the next few weeks, I would check for the 2nd episode, thinking – "Maybe it was Tuesday night... maybe it was WEDNESDAY night...," before finally giving up.
― low-sorbitol frootloop (morrisp), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:26 (ten months ago) link
(little did I know, I only had to wait ~37 yrs to be sick of Star Wars series.)
― low-sorbitol frootloop (morrisp), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:27 (ten months ago) link
Do you mean one of the two made for TV Ewok movies?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:28 (ten months ago) link
Yes... pretty sure it would have been the second one (Battle for Endor).
― low-sorbitol frootloop (morrisp), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:31 (ten months ago) link
Both Ewok movies are unwatchable
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:32 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, we had a VHS tape of Caravan of Courage, so I watched that a ton as a 9-10 year old, but I only saw the second once so have much fuzzier memories of that one, mainly just centered around Wilford Brimley.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:32 (ten months ago) link
Actually, now that I look at the Wikipedia pages, it was more likely that first one (in 1984). I didn't know there were two until more recently.
― low-sorbitol frootloop (morrisp), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:33 (ten months ago) link
Anyway, wasn't trying to call you out, just started wondering if I memoryholed a short-lived live action show too.. lol
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:35 (ten months ago) link
I have a deep, misguided nostalgia for Battle for Endor and Wilford Brimley. Definitely too afraid to go back and watch those movies now
― Nhex, Saturday, 18 November 2023 20:07 (ten months ago) link
I watched the ewok adventure far too many times as a young kid, we taped it when it aired.
― omar little, Saturday, 18 November 2023 20:55 (ten months ago) link
New VF interview with Filoni and Dawson about Ahsoka as well as Dave's promotion:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/11/star-wars-ahsoka-dave-filoni
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:51 (ten months ago) link
Heading to the big screen, ol' Mando and the kid:
https://www.starwars.com/news/the-mandalorian-and-grogu
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:46 (eight months ago) link
Sez Ahsoka season 2 is in development as well, so how intertwined they'll yet be...we'll see.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:47 (eight months ago) link
Catchy title
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 20:45 (eight months ago) link
Much A Din About Nothin'
― nashwan, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 21:17 (eight months ago) link
I would love for Ahsoka and Mandalorian shows to intertwine. Would really like to see Thrawn developed into a more central major villain. Mando needs a major shake-up.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 23:24 (eight months ago) link
I like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wB5NfBKSjw
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:43 (eight months ago) link
And back with three episodes of Bad Batch and it remains solidly entertaining. And then some: I thought the first episode in particular is one of the best things in the whole animated cycle in general.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:31 (seven months ago) link
Loved the first episode. The quiet tone was perfectly done. Haven’t watched the other two yet.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:22 (seven months ago) link
Relevant interesting convo on nostalgia and what gets degraded when IP holders continually sell you the same franchise shit forever https://techwontsave.us/episode/208_how_foreverism_degrades_our_culture_w_grafton_tanner
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 22 February 2024 22:03 (seven months ago) link
Looking forward to this series more and more, as well as the larger conversations it's opening. (I will say that I always thought it was pretty clear in the prequel trilogy that the fact that the Jedi were hidebound elitists was the whole point.)
https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-acolyte-disney-amandla-stenberg-jedi-bad-guys-1851288054
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:07 (seven months ago) link
I don’t like this idea, it sounds like a Twitter meme come to life, but whatever.
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:28 (seven months ago) link
(And it was definitely clear in the PT that the Jedi Counsel f’d up by being too detached and slow-moving, etc.)
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:30 (seven months ago) link
they were like that because they’d become aloof and resigned to their position for like the 1001st time!
kind of a political Lucas thing, the protectors of the galaxy become protectors of the status quo and are slow to notice it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:37 (seven months ago) link
it’s funny that every extended universe does this thing and the movies constantly allude to it and we’re all like “they are the guardians of what is right”
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:38 (seven months ago) link
I also feel like SW characters have been “morally ambiguous” since the first film, and the line between light & dark was always shown to be thin. Behind that, the “Jedi are really the bad guys!” thing feels like some Clerks sh1t…
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:51 (seven months ago) link
Eh, I don't think the series will go down THAT road.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:53 (seven months ago) link
It will be intersting to see fan reaction to this perspective. It seems like a lot of people despised the Karen Traviss Mandalorian-centric novels for having the audacity to paint the Jedi in a less than glowing light (P.S. they are good novels).
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 12:24 (seven months ago) link
Anyway I have an idea for Disney if they're concerned about making enough money via streaming
https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-chilean-beer-ads-cerveza-cristal-lucasfilm-1851306714
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 02:14 (six months ago) link
Bad Batch continues damn well -- meantime per a Lucasfilm announcement, trailer for The Acolyte appears tomorrow, start date June 4. And teaser image:
https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_1315/cb014d4428d432be199cc155676cd78c.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 01:18 (six months ago) link