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quirk6 said:
Wow, you made some progress there. Yeah, that went out with a bang. Fucking great.
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haha ya i was waiting till the final season was complete before i binged it all yesterday. The middle with ashoka was kind of meh, but god damn the animation/music and production went up 10 fold at episode 9. wasn't expecting that. so many framable shots throughout each episode.
 
ABSTRACTlegend said:
i'm half way through season 3 and it's like a chore trying to watch each episode now. good to know about season four though
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The first half of season 3 wasn't good, but I thought there were some gems in the second half of the season. It definitely gets better.

ABSTRACTlegend said:
I just finished the last four episodes of the clone wars,


HOLY FUCK! That was beautiful.
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Damn, I was waiting for the season/series to finish, can't wait to binge it this weekend!
 
ABSTRACTlegend said:
haha ya i was waiting till the final season was complete before i binged it all yesterday. The middle with ashoka was kind of meh, but god damn the animation/music and production went up 10 fold at episode 9. wasn't expecting that. so many framable shots throughout each episode.
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The use of the music was fucking great the last few episodes.
 
It's sort of surprising how the last season of the Clone Wars managed to capture the wide variance in quality of the show's run, which I'm sure wasn't intentional but feels completely appropriate.
  • First 4: Completely fine, the most interesting developments go understated (i.e. signs of Anakin's inevitable fall)
  • Middle 4: Complete trash, the very definition of filler
  • Final 4: Incredible, you can tell this was the story Filoni really wanted to show
Really good stuff overall though, and it will be weird to rewatch Revenge of the Sith and try to reconcile whiny Anakin with the character that was developed in the show.
 
Rumors of Hayden returning as Vader in Kenobi. Would be nice for him to redeem that whiny Anakin stigma with a solid performance.
 
LurchingBeast said:
Boba Fett in Mandalorian. Vader in Kenobi. Why do they need to keep bringing back legacy characters? Mandalorian s1 proved they could create a successful original SW story without the incessant need to tie it into the fabric of the OG trilogy.
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I mean, you know why. If Thing 1 was popular and Thing 2 is popular, just imagine if they teamed up! And to that point, would The Mandalorian have been as well recieved if there was no Baby Yoda?

Which is to say that The Mandalorian traded on nostalgia from day one and it was still good (even great, in parts). I don’t blame Disney for wanting to fold in even more popular parts.

Hell, Filoni has enough good will with me that I would entertain the re-introduction of Jar Jar Binks. Let’s say Boba shows up like Rocky in Creed. I could be okay with that. I know it reeks of stuntcasting but I’m optimistic.
 
dan said:
I mean, you know why. If Thing 1 was popular and Thing 2 is popular, just imagine if they teamed up! And to that point, would The Mandalorian have been as well recieved if there was no Baby Yoda?

Which is to say that The Mandalorian traded on nostalgia from day one and it was still good (even great, in parts). I don’t blame Disney for wanting to fold in even more popular parts.

Hell, Filoni has enough good will with me that I would entertain the re-introduction of Jar Jar Binks. Let’s say Boba shows up like Rocky in Creed. I could be okay with that. I know it reeks of stuntcasting but I’m optimistic.
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Nostalgia is different than continuing to tell the same story though. Baby Yoda isn't Yoda. You can have throwbacks, references, and random fan service without leaning on the Skywalker saga yet again. I loved Mandalorian s1 because it was a new adventure in the vast universe. Mando fighting a new empire in s2 would be pure crap. Kenobi fighting Vader in a prequel show is something I'm not remotely interested in.

It furthers the criticism that Disney is incapable of telling new stories with the IP they acquire.
 
Done right it's very good though. I think that's the carrot on the end of the stick.

The Kenobi/Maul bookend in Rebels was great.
 
quirk6 said:
Maybe Disney needs to tie their IP together with a X Men Star Wars crossover, Jean Grey: Darth Phoenix.
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LurchingBeast said:
Nostalgia is different than continuing to tell the same story though. Baby Yoda isn't Yoda. You can have throwbacks, references, and random fan service without leaning on the Skywalker saga yet again. I loved Mandalorian s1 because it was a new adventure in the vast universe. Mando fighting a new empire in s2 would be pure crap. Kenobi fighting Vader in a prequel show is something I'm not remotely interested in.

It furthers the criticism that Disney is incapable of telling new stories with the IP they acquire.
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I honestly thought the Kenobi show was pulled. I also hadn’t heard about Anakin possibly being in it. And I agree that all of that just screams laziness.

I mean, if Boba shows up in one episode? I would be curious. But, no, if it turns into Mando and Boba: Back In the Saddle, I’m with you 100%.
 
Just watched Rise of Skywalker. Definitely some big-time groaner moments but that's Star Wars. I'm not a huge fan by any means (if you averaged them all together I've probably seen each movie <2 times) but even so, TLJ seriously lowered my expectations as a whole, so I didn't leave this one a bit disappointed. Abrams just has a way of making cheese more acceptable/accessible to a cynical prick like me. My favorite moment in the whole movie was when the red-eyed C3PO delivers his ominous message, and in the dead silence as they are all processing the information, the little droid hacker dude goes "heyheeeeeeey!" b/c he's happy it worked lol. The sweeping shot over the battleship as the whole world shows up to fight the fleet of baddies was pretty good too. Rogue One still the best.
 
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