if hayden plays the split-off force “ghost” of whatever remains of “anakin skywalker” after all the child murder and planet destroying and he silently glowers at obi wan milking a procession of ever more strange and exotic placental space mammals until one day episode, finally, he steps forward to help with a particularly laborious milking chore then and only then will we have a “obi wan has a mole now” limited series worth all of the time and labor put into it
i think this was my favorite episode from this season yet, in part because they actually managed to change the formula a little bit and it didn’t depend all on some kind of big reveal. also to me the action was a little better than it has been but i don’t know these things too good. i like it when the space man shoot each other
did they seriously reveal his precious bescar can parry a lightsaber not a year after that asinine souls game that made them into blunt weapons
i dont know what the deal with the game is but i think that has always been the case for mandalorian armor
bringing his character back reminded me of the ridiculous @Father.Torque fever dream stunt casting of bill barr and gina carano
kind of surprised they resisted playing CCR during a specific scene in that episode
console command g_saberRealisticCombat 1 does nothing
Sweet, that salvage walker in the latest ep was a practical effect, done with stop-motion:
also i did not expect bill burr to be the second best actor on this show after werner herzog but its true
the casting on this show is ridiculous, but worth it just for those two
I am watching The Clone Wars for the first time and I am bewildered by many decisions.
Doubling down on Jar Jar himself but also adding more racist caricature. It’s bizarre. Twi’leks being French is a Trek-style Anglocentric shortcut but some of the others? Oh no.
The art style is occasionally using a brush stroke style on the textures but very inconsistently. The last episode we watched, s1e21 on Ryloth, had very poor ground textures. They looked like an original Xbox game without anisotropic filtering. But what was weird is that they were low resolution photorealistic textures. I can’t think of a reason to see those kinds of artifacts in a commercially rendered animation unless they were deliberately budgeting for 720p broadcast and did not intend for it to be scaled up 9x 12 years later, but the painterly/impressionist texture style would have looked much better. I can’t imagine this Lucasfilm prestige project was hurting for render time but I’m at the limits of my knowledge.
The show appears to very clearly present the Republic as fascists employing a slave army to maintain their protection racket. It’s bizarre because it makes me hate every character on this serial adventure series. I understand Ahsoka becomes the main character at some point and is critical of the Republic and Jedi, but in the first season it’s jarring, like Verhoeven Starship Troopers. Did they intend this tone?
I wonder to what extent Lucas and his acolytes intended the Jedi as a reflection of failed Boomer radicals.
It’s very messy in ways that could be talented people toiling under an auteur losing interest or something else. I’m curious to see how long I stick with it.
On reflection, it is also incredibly strange that this survived the 2014 decanonization. It’s so full of quotidian detail that must be incredibly annoying or at least difficult to adhere to.
Every time I get into this show it grinds to a halt with either a Jar Jar episode or My First West Wing in which some senator must deliver an implausibly dispositive speech about pacifism a la 2007 US liberals.
The latter is strange because the Mandalore arc is straightforward in criticizing that POV.
Production values have improved to probably best in class since S1.
its funny cuz i keep getting updates from a right wing anti sjw news website about star wars for some reason and since the very first episode theyve been making up news about bow pedro pascal hates playing the mandalorian, wants to remove his helmet and the show is actuslly going to be about boba fett because temeura morrison hates kathleen kennedy snd sjws and loves star wars
these people are so pathetic
S4E1 contains topless kit fisto thirst trap. A fish man with abs you can grate bonito on
lol they wild for that one
also of all the returns the word “macklunkey” was the best one tbh
having sasha banks ddt boba fett is pretty funny
idk if i’m just a rube, but this show has managed to wash out all of the bad taste in my mouth from the last film
On a scale of Cal Kestis to Mace Windu I’ll give that cameo about a 6.5
It does have some very obvious and sad implications but I suppose this will be addressed in some form eventually
Also everyone should know they decided to do a post credits scene in that episode which is… Also interesting
Amazed at how limp and formless He’s Back Fans! The One You Love! Doing What You Wanted! At Last! played. I’m not even talking about fisher-price my first deepfake! The way they found the perfect point between intensity and underchoreography? Obviously wandering down a plastic and/or unreal engine 5 hallway waving a coat hanger at invisible robots has to be hard, but who was breathing down Peyton Reed’s neck to Get This Done, Now? Was Corvette Summer’s body double not allowed to touch the baseball bat energy of the original performance? Were they going for “a Jedi master is perfectly balanced and sleepwalks through everything, but also does some real glowstick-at-a-product-launch-rave-on-kamino shit because of the adhd they got locked away behind one weird breathing trick?”
I know this is all just fan service in a very stupid Eye Pea that usually revolves around space wizards. I’m just disappointed that Fans will spray this much bacta all over my internet when the service is this poorly executed!
it lines up almost shot for shot with the vader scene from the end of rogue one
i found it kind of corny but also charming in its way. my main takeaway from the mandalorian at this point is that future star wars movies should have the budget of about two and a half mandalorian episodes. that’s enough. i mean its still enough to make things at least as spectacular as the original trilogy, but not so much that it’s just like bogged down in cgi blobs bouncing off one another. i think i would prefer a film trilogy of low key practical effects based things that aren’t like overtly ‘retro’ looking than the endless cavalcade of limited serieses that are about to be unleashed upon us
i mean i’m still watching all of them, finding out what happens next in star wars is like on the top five list of things keeping me alive at the moment. i still find it consistently weird how much the people who get put in charge of making star wars are able to entertain me personally on a kind of moment by moment basis. like honestly portraying the new republic as a bunch of bored cops is so fucking hilarious and perfect. i love it. but at the same time all of the grand gestures they make to really “WOW” the fans, bring kevin smith to tears, etc., very often leave me cold.
i honestly would have been over the moon if mace windu showed up and boba fett instantly tried to kill him, but i guess it isn’t that kind of series.
I learned from youtube auto play that the sith star destroyers in TROS are literally just the model from Rogue One scaled up with new! hat - including windows, bays, lasers, etc.
Seeing pink all over the place these days
the more i think about this, the more likely i think it is that it is just teasing the 3rd season of the mandalorian. the buzz on the internet seems to suggest that boba is going to become the new main character, but i think it’s more likely that boba is going to end up being the new Quest Giver for din djarin, and the show will alternate between that and the hugely unresolved filoniverse dark saber content. don’t know if they will ever be able to create anything as universally beloved as baby yoda again though, it’s hard to top