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Reply #315 on: September 02, 2020, 02:43:04 PM

We are bingers, but it just means we'll watch the first 3-4 around turkey day and the rest about xmas. This fall has been good for TV, with Umbrella Academy, The Boys in a few days, this... and a few others we haven't watched yet.
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Reply #316 on: September 03, 2020, 07:26:32 AM

If you haven't watched the Gallery series (making of the Mandalorian), it's really interesting from many angles. I learned a ton about classic SW I didn't know, and the making of the show itself I find fascinating.
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Reply #317 on: September 03, 2020, 07:30:29 AM

I will unreservedly second that recommendation for the Gallery series. It’s so good.

Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #318 on: September 03, 2020, 10:56:32 AM

1. thank you for surfacing the return date.
2. thank you for the Gallery recommendation, new to me.

I'm gunshy of being a fanboi, but I really dig this show on multiple levels, and I feel happy (grateful?) it's coming back. Puts me in a real kid mindset (in a good way).
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Reply #319 on: September 03, 2020, 11:29:31 AM

If it weren't for pandemic-related job insecurity (tax income is down, costs are up, libraries are easy to cut), I would be getting the set of sixth scale figures Hot Toys put out. I'm still signed on for the art book, but it's pretty cheap. I'm in fanboy mode, for sure. Though not by millenial/gen z measures, I've learned through them that I'm not a geek or a fan of anything at all :D

There is a segment where Carl Withers is talking about how the new screen tech is so much better than having to play make-believe in front of a green screen. He was using the scene where


and how the tech allowed the actors to react in real-time and play off each other and the set. Nailed for me why I love the tech part so much, I've always despised how fake green screen looks in general, but the doofy 'pretend this tennis ball is an orc' kind of thing is so obvious and terrible, no matter how good the actor is.
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Reply #320 on: September 15, 2020, 09:32:28 AM

Season 2 trailer:  https://youtu.be/eW7Twd85m2g
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Reply #321 on: September 15, 2020, 01:01:02 PM

Looks great. Rosario Dawson is Ashoka and original actor for clones is Boba Fett.

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Reply #322 on: September 15, 2020, 03:02:51 PM

Boba Fett is a rumor still, though with support - I think he (also?) may be playing Rex, the Clone (who would look just like Boba/Jenga).

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Reply #323 on: September 15, 2020, 06:53:07 PM

Says “Bobs Fett” in the IMDb All Cast in 2020.
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Reply #324 on: September 15, 2020, 07:14:42 PM

Says “Bobs Fett” in the IMDb All Cast in 2020.
IMDB has been wrong before - but again, there is support for it being Boba Fett.  It just isn't a lock.

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Reply #325 on: September 16, 2020, 06:30:44 AM

I feel like that is what Star Wars should have been with everything after 1983.
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Reply #326 on: September 16, 2020, 07:36:14 AM

I love the idea that it's Bobs Fett, the clone who is a used landspeeder salesman.

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Reply #327 on: September 16, 2020, 08:17:42 AM

Says “Bobs Fett” in the IMDb All Cast in 2020.
IMDB has been wrong before - but again, there is support for it being Boba Fett.  It just isn't a lock.

Imdb is just random Internet people guessing. I don't believe this thread would have missed it if there was any public info supporting it.

Rex seems much more likely in the absence of anything from Disney.
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Reply #328 on: September 16, 2020, 11:11:52 AM

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Imdb is just random Internet people guessing. I don't believe this thread would have missed it if there was any public info supporting it.

Rex seems much more likely in the absence of anything from Disney.
We didn't miss it - the epilogue on episode 5 is a strong hint of Boba Fett returned.  Go listen to it, then go listen to Boba Fett in ESB at the start of the dinner scene.  The spurs that jingle jangle jingle...
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Reply #329 on: October 21, 2020, 12:35:10 PM

Season 2 "Special Look" (another teaser/preview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICuqzhViWAI
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Reply #330 on: October 21, 2020, 02:09:59 PM

9 more days.  Fucking long time.

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Reply #331 on: October 30, 2020, 05:38:27 AM

He's back.  Not the best episode so far, but quite enjoyable.  They definitely did not cut the budget.  I keep hearing this called another "great western" episode, and the first half is, but the second half is a fantasy blockbuster.
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Reply #332 on: November 01, 2020, 06:12:22 AM

It was fine. I enjoyed it more than most of S1 because of tempered expectations. Also last time I binged it and I think this is better watched one episode at a time.

Found it helped a lot having seen the documentaries of how they make the show with the big screens. First season I found the sets and backdrops distracting because they just seemed 'off' and I couldn't work out why. Watching this time the break between set and backdrop is sometimes very obvious, but knowing how they do it stopped it bothering me.

I guess it is an uncanny alley thing.

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Reply #333 on: November 01, 2020, 04:02:56 PM

I didn't even pay much attention to the big "surprise" at the end. I guess I'm willing to just let them tell a story and figure out if there were cool Easter Eggs later. I think that's key: letting the Easter Egg substitute for a satisfying experience is bad fandom.
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Reply #334 on: November 01, 2020, 05:06:03 PM

I have a lot of confidence that they'll tell a good story that happens to be crafted around fan favorite material.  I will be shocked if they mess this up even with so many major 'fan service' elements coming.

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Reply #335 on: November 02, 2020, 06:16:31 AM

I didn't even pay much attention to the big "surprise" at the end. I guess I'm willing to just let them tell a story and figure out if there were cool Easter Eggs later. I think that's key: letting the Easter Egg substitute for a satisfying experience is bad fandom.


What does that mean "I didn't even pay much attention to the big surprise at the end." It was just a 1-2 second clip of someone turning to the camera and fading to credits.

Are we doing spoilers in this thread?
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Reply #336 on: November 02, 2020, 07:53:47 AM

That 2 seconds was something that the producers hyped up a lot in talking to reviewers, that's all.
 
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Reply #337 on: November 02, 2020, 09:29:25 AM


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Reply #338 on: November 02, 2020, 10:48:02 AM

Tend to think the specific armour in The Martial is so clearly Boba Fett's that there is only one possible interpretation.

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Reply #339 on: November 02, 2020, 11:48:45 AM

I mean it's obviously Boba Fett.

It's just going to be interesting how they weave him in to the story.

That's why I asked why you "didn't even pay much attention to". There wasn't much to pay attention to.
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Reply #340 on: November 02, 2020, 01:23:38 PM

One thing to consider - the final shots of Rebels show Sabine Wren giving an update on the characters.  She talks about how Rex and Hera fought in the battle of Endor.... and then at some point down the road she realized that she was meant to find Ezra Bridger.  That would put the timing of her search for Ezra, which she leaves for when Ahsoka shows up at her door, would be in the ballpark of the timing of the Mandalorian.  That absolutely is not coincidence with Filloni being responsible for both, and with the freedom he'd have had about when to set the Mandalorian. 

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Reply #341 on: November 02, 2020, 02:05:49 PM

But also, it could be Boba Fett.
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Reply #342 on: November 02, 2020, 02:35:28 PM

But also, it could be Boba Fett.
NObody is arguing that it is not Boba Fett. The question is what else is going on this season.  For example, I think there is a good chance we see (or perhaps just hear) Sabine Wren, Hera and Rex. 

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Reply #343 on: November 06, 2020, 07:51:46 AM

There are some rumors swirling around that Disney is going to start shooting a Boba Fett spin-off soon, before season 3 of Mando starts shooting.
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Reply #344 on: November 06, 2020, 08:12:18 AM

There are some rumors swirling around that Disney is going to start shooting a Boba Fett spin-off soon, before season 3 of Mando starts shooting.
… as a mini series.  One short season.

Episode 2 was ok for the Mandalorian.  Not great.  Special effects were again amazing, but both episodes 1 and 2 were a tad of a let down for me, but I had insanely high expectations.

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Reply #345 on: November 06, 2020, 08:18:05 AM

That krait dragon meat looked fucking delicious. Speaking of meat baby Yoda trying to genocide an entire people with his mouth was not as cute as they were hoping for.

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Reply #346 on: November 06, 2020, 12:06:25 PM

...Speaking of meat baby Yoda trying to genocide an entire people with his mouth was not as cute as they were hoping for.
Geesh.  This is no worse than someone eating the ovaries out of a person.  Get over yourself.

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Reply #347 on: November 06, 2020, 07:25:14 PM

I thought Baby Yoda slurping up frog caviar was goddamn hilarious.

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Reply #348 on: November 06, 2020, 11:49:44 PM

I'm with Threash on this one. Just felt like bad writing to me. Can't really try to make us empathize with the frog lady afraid of her line dying out and then repeatedly playing it for laughs with scenes of the child eating the eggs. It would probably bother me even more but the whole episode was kinda crap really. Not much progressed with the overall story arc. Not much progressed with the characters. A more self-contained episode is fine, especially at this point in the season, but even then the plot can be summed us as Mando crashing on an ice planet and fighting some spider creatures. Probably the worst episode of the series to me so far.
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Reply #349 on: November 07, 2020, 12:25:11 AM

Uh, this is clearly an episodic more than serial show so I never get that criticism.  The overall plot is really simple (take thing A to unknown point B) and just a tool to hang a bunch of weekly adventures on.

And if you have the future of your "line" then don't leave it just sitting around alone or take it for a walk in an unknown environment. Some species deserve extinction for being evolutionarily stupid.

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