MANDO

I want Star Wars The Godfather. With flamethrowers and knee missiles.

I mean that's sure what it looks like, but *shrug*

I want to see EV-9D9 complaining about being pulled back in when she thinks she's out

I have simple needs

Adrenaline said:

Do you really think the purpose of that shot is NOT to establish that Boba is taking over the organization?

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I's a long walk to Jabba's Palace. Dude needs a sit.

Yeah, I can't see him staying on Tatooine or resigning himself to the throne. Also, that would make a boring-ass show. Either the shot was setup for further adventures or it's going to be a show where each episode is a different story tied to Boba Fett in some way. "Here's another Boba Fett story". Similar to Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt, shows like that.

...oh my God I want a Boba Fett hosted Tales from the Crypt now.

Just started Season 2 of this and I have to ask: is Timothy Oliphant contractually obligatwd to only ever play marshals?

He's always been at his best playing a lawman who's got his own idea of justice

Just wrapped watching S2. Somehow I actually managed to avoid most of the spoilers! (I saw Ahsoka name-dropped somewhere, but amazingly never saw the fact that Luke showed up, so that scene was fun.)

Anyway my partner and I both really liked it a lot. Looking forward to more though I have no idea where it goes from here... but that's exciting too. As for the now-confirmed-different Boba Fett show... honestly I'd only be mildly interested in general, but I really can't say no to more opportunities for Ming-Na Wen to shoot some fools.

Incidentally I caught up on the thread and agree with Wist's assessment as someone who hasn't actually seen Clone Wars or Rebels but has some very vague notions of what went on in them - the crossovers from there hit a perfectly good amount of interest and bringing-up-to-speed on the relevant lore from my perspective.

I binged the first season of this last week and it was pretty good. The last - the last person I expected to see in this show was Bill Burr. But there he is! He wasn't too bad either. "Nice shoes."

The highlight of the evening was me trying to explain to my friends why corinithian helmets are corinithian. "Typical. All we want is to sit down and enjoy a star war and you gotta beleaguer us with another peloponnesian war lecture."

Isrieri said:

The highlight of the evening was me trying to explain to my friends why corinithian helmets are corinithian. "Typical. All we want is to sit down and enjoy a star war and you gotta beleaguer us with another peloponnesian war lecture."

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I don't think I've ever been as proud of another person as I am of you right now

You know, after watching Andor, Mando doesn't quite cut it anymore. The season premiere was mostly fine but by the end I was thinking, is that all there is?

Adrenaline said:

You know, after watching Andor, Mando doesn't quite cut it anymore. The season premiere was mostly fine but by the end I was thinking, is that all there is?

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Grogu coo'd so Andor could brood.

Also lemme have my fun Star Wars timez. We're getting more sturm und drang from Cassian & Co in due time.

Adrenaline said:

You know, after watching Andor, Mando doesn't quite cut it anymore. The season premiere was mostly fine but by the end I was thinking, is that all there is?

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Meanwhile I was the opposite lol. Mando feels much more like a classic Star Wars rhomp. I think Andor is an interesting show, and it does interesting things. It took me a while to get it, but it's alright. It pushes the envelope of what Star Wars is and can be, but it's also so far removed from almost everything I originally come to Star Wars for that it's nice to have it complemented by a show like Mando that still does the same things I fell in love with Star Wars as a kid.

Coming to things from the perspective of a primarily Star Trek nerd, who also loves Star Wars in its own capacity, I feel like my heart is big enough to embrace a multitude of things and different forms of expression. I don't have to choose between a War or a Trek like so many BBS-warriors in the past would have led us all to believe we had to. They can coexist as different things that do different things and appeal for different reasons. Star Wars itself, ought to be able to accommodate such variety and is honestly stronger for it.

Going back to my default Trek frame of reference, that franchise is thriving and firing on all cylinders right now IMO, and a big part of that is because each show does its own thing, has its own vibe/style, and exists to fill its own niche. If all of the five ongoing Star Trek shows felt exactly the same, and followed the same formula, I would probably be bored to tears and frustrated right now. Instead, every show feels like something fresh, despite this current age of Trek being six years in and airing something almost nonstop for at least the last 2-3 years with little to no downtime in between. And I relish each show coming back because they all do something unique the others don't.

That sameness and consistency of tone and style is a big part of why I think the MCU is experiencing a bit of doldrums at the moment. People are bored of the same movie with the same plot beats and the same tone repeated over and over and over for decades on end at this point. I think it's not just wise, but critical, for Star Wars as a franchise to embrace a more varied and diverse range of expression between its different shows/films, if they're going to make this a big, ongoing, media super franchise.

I'm fine with different Star Wars things being different, I just don't think it was a very good episode.

I thought it was a little disorganized, but that was mostly because it was a season opener, where they spend time reestablishing the scenario for the sake of the audience. It was fine, and it was fun.

I only want to say that it's genuinely hilarious that the only way to know whats going on in Mando S3 is to know what happened in the book of BOFA DEEZ NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Disorganized is my feeling as well. Still a lot of fun, but this first episode at least feels very much like 'a bunch of stuff that happened'.

Was a bit weirded out by Bo Katan just sitting alone in a massive throne room, slouching in her chair like a space Dracula. So her army ran off and she just sits there all day? Was she waiting for Mando to show up like some NPC quest giver? It was a weird look for someone who should be a pretty go-getter character, is all.

But hey, we get more Mando, we get more Baby Groda, and we even see more of literally the only good thing to come out of Rise of Skywalker: Babu Frick. Or, his people anyway. It may not be the same sort of show as Andor, but I'm on board for the ride.

"Hey Mando!"

Rascally Badger said:

"Hey Mando!"

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Sitting alone on the big Mandalorian throne is a time-honored tradition dating at least back to Maul

This weeks episode was equal parts Dungeon Crawler and Mad God.

Which I did not foresee from a Star War

It's nice when a Star War remembers that they should be going on ADVENTURES from time to time.

Adrenaline said:

Everyone: Mandalore is poisoned and uninhabitable!

Mando, five minutes after landing on it: No it's not.

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"Common Sense" versus actual facts.

It's a very good way to start him really doubting the dogma of his insular little sect, to have something so huge and verifiable simply be false. If the armorer was wrong (or lying) about this, what else might she be wrong (or lying) about?

A steady theme of the series is the friction between Din's upbringing and faith in The Way vs. the reality of the galaxy and his wants.

To be fair;


it's definitely not very inhabitable

Oh, not at all.

But not literally toxic to stand on.

I liked the weird blood-sucking eyeball spider cyborg thing, I want to know how that came to be, but it's a good one-off critter as it is.

A veritable Russian doll of cyborgs piloting bigger cyborgs. I love it. But I was kinda half hoping Bo would toss off some info about what it used to be before it went mad in the ruins or something.

Also did the beast in the water grab Mando, or did he just blindly step off a thousand foot drop because he trusted he was where he was supposed to be.