So, here's the latest:
I haven't actually seen S1 yet, since Disney+ won't be available for another two weeks or so over here, but I'm really looking forward to it. I've heard good things.
Anyway, let's get a thread going...
[edit]: Huh, Twitter embeds are busted. Weird. Anyway, Season 2 on October 30.
https://www.starwars.com/news/the-mandalorian-season-two-october-30
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Pity they didn't crack that before the sequel trilogy.
With the Disney Trilogy they never mapped out where they wanted to go and let each director do their own thing. JJ rips off ANH and add set up for the following movies but does not care were it goes after he is done with his film. (The man calls himself a Star Wars fan.)
Johnson throw everything JJ set up out and does he own thing. Trevorrow does not get to see what Johnson is doing until just before it comes out.
With Fisher death, He asks for TLJ ending to be changed so he can work with Fisher death and is told no and to re-write his script. Which he does and is rejected and is fired.
They bring back JJ to fix to Johnson Mess. with no plan on who to do and it rumoured that with all the reshoots going on. the Budget ballooned to around $400 Million making it the most expensive film of all time. (That is not including Marketing costs as well.)
It should also be noted that Disney originally wanted JJ to film all three films. But he turned it down as he did not want to live in the UK for six years.
Now I no fan of JJ big screen outing, but with one person doing all the films. It would have been far better than want actually came out.
Anyway back to the subject of the thread. I loved Season 1. Is it the best show on? No. Is it the best scifi? No. But it is the best Star Wars to come out of Disney.
Now I am wondering if Disney are looked at the TV show that Lucas tired to get off the ground. Maybe put that into production.
All the work is done on a pre-production side and it has some of the biggest names in TV that have written scripts for it such as Ronald D. Moore.
Now when i say blown away i meant that it wasn't garbage, this isn't anything revolutionary (well the making of it was haha)... but this is kind of how tv shows used to be.. its really simple.. and effective... it isn't peppered with any of the politics you see in everything today. It just goes to show that with the right person steering the ship its possible to make a series about a guy with a bucket on his head who does talk much compelling.... I seem to hate everything at the minute, so actually enjoying something was a real treat....
i cant wait for season 2.
Because the Mandalorian S1 I watched was total dog doo. The story was crap, the acting was flat, the storylines for the episodes were WAY too compressed and a baby of Yoda's species causes all that mayhem? For the love of good fiction WHY? This show tried so hard to BE Star Wars it came out as a very weak attempt.
Annnndddd riiiiiiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhhhhhhhttt, a Mando warrior is gonna leave his ship unprotected without some kind of security system parked in Jawa country? Then he magically is able to recover every part and undo the "chop shop" damage? Many WTF moments like that throughout the season.
Too many plot holes of a stupid nature to call this anything other than what is was...Garbage. I'll agree it was better fiction and entertainment than eps 7 thru 9, but I was quite disappointed.
Frankly, I think we're being fed so much total garbage from Hollycommiewood anymore everyone's threshold of what's actually good vs. what we all would have said 15 years ago has dropped into the basement.
At best, it was "entertaining." The FX and CGI were the show's only real positive
But despite that i was entertained... which i'm just so happy about haha.. because its all too rare these days.. it was nice not having to pause it every 5 minutes to take a breath.. center myself and wonder why i'm torturing myself with this show... we're 8 episodes in...... its not going to get any better....
it remind me of sitting and watching airwolf, or the ateam when i was a kid...
What makes Star Wars fun is the action and the atmosphere. The original movie is almost nonstop action, starting right at the beginning with the Star Destroyer capturing the Tantive IV and the ensuing firefight aboard the rebel ship, and ending with the nail biting Death Star battle. (the ceremony at the end is just an epilogue) It's fun and exciting. Plus, you're treated to a whole world of cool devices, alien beings and awesome space ships. So, it's really easy to forget that the plot is very basic. It even has some really dumb dialog, like the much lamented "it's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs." Obviously, George Lucas meant for "parsec" to refer to a measure of time in the SW universe without taking into account (or maybe not even knowing) that a parsec is a real world measure of length. And, there are plot holes a plenty. For example, why can't Stormtroopers who are supposedly so precise hit a few humans and a Wookiee in a small(ish) corridor? But, at the end of the day, nobody cares. It's a fantastic movie, loads of fun and is considered a classic that helped make the Sci-Fi genre mainstream.
The point is, Star Wars isn't that deep. It has never had the best writing or the deepest plots. There are plenty of things you can pick apart from all of the movies and shows. But, we love the older stuff and people complain about the newer stuff, despite the fact that little has actually changed with Star Wars in 43 years. In fact, Sci-Fi as a whole and the way a lot of it has changed into fast paced action with little plot exposition and lots of things that go boom, is all due to the popularity of Star Wars. It's a formula that has worked all of these years for Star Wars, so other franchises are trying to copy it, with varying levels of success.
Then Lucas sold out and the downward spiral towards total garbage began. While Eps I thru III were far superior to anything from Disney they still fell short to capture the magic of the original three releases.
I stand by my opinion, the Mandalorian is total crap. You want proof that really good scifi can be and is being made?
The Expanse, The reboot of BSG, Farscape, Babylon 5 etc..There was no reason for Disney to turn the Mandalorian into a social politics statement and 40 min long toy sales commercial series. They could have gone deeper. I had high hopes for this series so perhaps I set myself up for disappointment.
But then again, what did anyone expect from a company that may as well be the official propaganda studio for China and American Marxism.
I'm still going to reccomend that guerrilla check out the mandalorian.. I have no comment on Chinese propaganda or marxism... I was just happy to watch something that felt more like star wars than anything I'd seen in a long time..
After two episodes, I'm rather enjoying it. This is the correct way to do Star Wars in my opinion. Tell smaller stories, and make it a western (or whatever classic genre), but Star Wars, instead of strip mining the original trilogy and hope you hit a nostalgia nerve somewhere.
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I've seen a few videos about internal politics behind the scenes of season 2.. but i'm going to do the same with season 2 as season 1.. have no expectations, i feel.... this is the way!!
I enjoyed it, but like the first season it a simple story. But I am glad it was 50mins instead of being 25-35 mins.
I'm really enjoying it, and the old fashioned episodic western is just the right format for a Star Wars story in my opinion. The original trilogy was all about putting a twist on Kurosawa and pulp magazines, so a traditional format and smaller stories work really well in the setting. Not everything needs to be end of the universe stakes. Those should be earned and built up to.
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He's been in several other movies and shows, but yes he seems to enjoy the "Marshall" type role. Justified, Deadwood and now Mandalorian. But he does it so well, so I forgive him for that.
The Marshal: I shared Mando's disbelief in having to return to Tatooine. What, again? Kryat dragon was a little too Dune. That was the only minor, minor, minor nitpicks I noticed. I did notice that Lucas used animals as a means to compete with technology, Favreau kills the hell out of them. They should have shown the Sandpeople pulling the remains of that one guy of theirs that got eaten out of the carcass. That would have been cool.
The Passenger: Loved how everything got worse and worse. Spider eggs a little too Alien. Would have been nice to see Mando get them out that situation, but I guess they had to tie up The Prisoner loose ends. Baby Jesus Yoda sure was hungry. You don't want to boil those first? Try them scrambled with mayo and cheese.
3PO must have been thinking, really???... this planet is literally the center of the universe!!!
The cruiser taking off was a really nice scene.
And the "landing" was incredibly funny.
This was the biggest complaint for the first season. When we got first episode of this season and it being nearly an hour long, I though sweet they were listening. But I guess not.