i’ll probably check this thread in full once i’m actually done but just to earmark it: andor is astounding in ways that are sorta blowing my mind rn. currently on episode 10.
sci-fi space-adenturer-guy-tales by way of gilo pontecorvo and le carré. what the hell. literally every planet, every place, every angle is just oozing with Real Stuff and yet they just keep going and going. it doesn’t stop. i wonder how many of the smaller stories in this show are previous star wars extented universe stuff or whatever and how many they just made for this. unbelivable
i just watched the new bad batch trailer and idk if i can go back to the filoniverse after andor lol. i tried one episode of tales of the jedi while andor was still airing and realize i at least need a buffer zone of some kind before attempting that again.
it’s not that i don’t like it, well, i didn’t love the bad batch and don’t think i will get too much out of tales of the jedi either. but i do like rebels a lot. it’s just very hard for me to imagine, like, this rag tag band of wisecracking superpowered clones existing in the same galaxy as andor.
at least with the mandalorian, they are kind of occupying the post-rotj sector of the timeline, which is relatively free of other star wars media at the moment.* i just think the rots-anh interval period is getting…very crowded and tonally incoherent lately
*(though there was that news story about how the rogue 1 team pitched a spiritual sequel about alliance agents hunting down imperial fugitives post-rotj, mossad style. which, honestly, does not sound like a great idea. but could have been interesting)
Forget if this ever got posted, but it’s p. dope. I’m sure the actual game isn’t great, but I do like how whichever LucasArts team they assign these games to takes the opportunity to make cool little Star Wars movies:
I rate it “pretty good” which is not great, but it’s the first game since 2003 and probably better than any Rogue Squadron if I’m being honest. The VR mode is fantastic and probably colored my impression quite a bit
okay so i finished andor a couple days ago. its a wonderful thing, really. the ending with all things converging to the same city is fine because its a cool dramatic thing when a bunch of different threads become one.
loved it to death. hopefully they’ll be able to maintain a similar healthy distance from all the star wars-y nonsense that could’ve made this a bad first season
. . . speaking of which i also watched season 2 of the mandalorian. i can’t stand all the quips and visual gags they hammer onto you multiple times per episode – it’s like, ok guys this is The Funny Baby Yoda Moment for this one, better make sure to sprinkle it throughout every scene in the episode. that’ll get people going. the dialogue is also so filled with techno-babble shit that i just know makes sense if you’re a huge star wars fan but like, doesn’t add anything.
then there the action stuff that’s cool in moderation but they just exteeeeeeeeend it for no damn reason. all episodes are just full of random guys getting punched or shot and although i genuinely respect this show’s acceptance of practical effects tokusatsu-style kinectic action and jank, those scenes just go on and on. oh and: why is it that basically all droids and aliens are coded either as incompetent lackeys or deceitful? it’s super weird!
this is what i deserve for having an inch of good will towards this crap after andor
The only part of Attack of the Clones I remember is a 00s era sprite-comic style webcomic that used stills from the prequel movies, and recast the events as tabletop gamers playing a campaign. In that comic the conveyer belt was when the GM was out for a week so one of the players took over, and wrote their own scenario that was so tightly tuned and railroaded that only their character (R2) was able to complete it.
