Yeah that droid freaked me out a bit. However I lost my shit with delight when the stormtroopers showed up in a troop transport straight out of the 1978 Kenner catalogue.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 11 January 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
Omg yes! I’m sure I had that
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 11 January 2020 03:08 (four years ago) link
I lost my shit with delight when the stormtroopers showed up in a troop transport straight out of the 1978 Kenner catalogue
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
Skies of Risewalker
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 12 January 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
The deepest confession
https://io9.gizmodo.com/adam-pally-tells-all-about-the-day-he-punched-baby-yoda-1840958370
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 January 2020 01:46 (four years ago) link
The circle is now complete.
pic.twitter.com/y121exIBtZ— Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) January 17, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 January 2020 02:24 (four years ago) link
<3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 January 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
Ned u should go do an intentional bad post now just for fun, you've earned it
― lukas, Friday, 17 January 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
Amazing
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 January 2020 04:15 (four years ago) link
Was wondering when we'd start seeing these:
https://www.slashfilm.com/the-mandalorian-stagecraft-photos/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
impressive how they were able to get nolte so small
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 24 January 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
he lost height for the role
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 January 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
nice tech!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 January 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
My daughter asked me if I wanted to start this tonight, so I figured, we have Disney, why not. And hey, the first two episodes were really surprisingly entertaining. Kind of reminded me of the stuff I used to watch on TV in the early '80s, but with better production values. I wonder if they actually sat down, jotted down a list of all the things the nu-Star Wars movies did wrong, and made sure to take a different approach?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:57 (four years ago) link
I’m pretty sure they must have done just that.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 January 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
Hopefully Witcher S2 will take some pointers from Mando S1. A few characters, a monster, there you go
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 30 January 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
We're watching episode 3, and this is like ... space John Wick?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 January 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
Oof, really didn't like episode 4. So corny, like an episode of Hercules or Xena.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 January 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
7 Samurai one and the one after are probably the two least good episodes but I kinda liked them both tbh. The corniness and Hercules-adjacentness is part of the draw of this show. I really like how tea-time it all feels.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Thursday, 30 January 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah, episode 4
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 January 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
... was the seven samurai one. Just kind of clunky and inert and not well acted or directed. Was that Bryce Dallas Howard's directorial debut? Maybe that's why.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 January 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
The A-Team episode? That was a highlight imo
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 31 January 2020 01:12 (four years ago) link
I wonder if that was the brief actually - do an “A Team” one, do a Xena episode, etc. That’s what Community did, and pretty successfully for the most part.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 31 January 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
lol yeah, the ep was totally A Team! Which fits with my first impression that this is like what I watched as a kid in the early 80s.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 January 2020 02:38 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
Whuh, Bill Burr?!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
After a few duds that was a really good one, like John Carpenter directing "Star Wars."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
don't forget Clancy Brown, baby!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 03:02 (four years ago) link
That was the worst one - you’re a madman, Josh !
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
(But you’re kewl for endorsing my “Hercules or Xena” observation from upthread, undoubtedly without having read it.)
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 03:05 (four years ago) link
Don’t listen to them! Prison break was my second-favorite one!
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
Hated the prison break episode, though not for Bill Burr. But the Seven Samurai ep was even worse. Remarkable those episodes were in the same season as the first few and last two
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
Why did you all hate the prison break episode? I thought it was a stylish action caper. Though I think I missed why Mando was even doing such a sketchy job in the first place. Or, for that matter, what his endgame is at all. He's just compulsively traveling the universe doing odd jobs with baby yoda locked in the bathroom? Anyway, a couple of episodes have been dull, Seven Samurai/A-Team sucked, a couple have been solid. At least these geniuses have figured out that it's smart to make the first few episodes of a new series strong, rather than drop one of those "it takes 5 episodes to get going" turds.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
The general charm of the show carried me through the three filler episodes. What show is wall to wall gold anyway?
― closed beta (NotEnough), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
xp It was full of corny, half-baked cliches and bad acting. (And please don’t “Welcome to Star Wars!” me; I know the difference!)My favorite detail was how those sliding doors apparently don’t have sensors, and will f up a lifeform if it’s standing in the doorway when it closes.
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
Ha, I actually liked that. It felt like a riff on a familiar SW trope (those fast sliding space doors) that no one's ever toyed with before. I mean, this is a show/world where apparently you can't set your phasers to stun, so it totally makes sense that they haven't invented the garage door opener safety space tech yet.
As for "corny, half-baked cliches and bad acting" (besides, well, yeah), this show is innately corny, so far, but the cliches and bad acting in this one were nowhere near as bad as the Seven Samurai episode, which will be my baseline going forward. And I thought the direction of this one (unlike that one) was super sharp.
I've noticed so far that there have been relatively few shots of Mando running, no doubt because it would highlight the cheapness of the costume, lol. Better to have him just move with purpose to control the illusion that all that cardboard and plastic has real heft and weight. (See also: "RoboCop".)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
They can set blasters to stun!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYelmcVoZg8
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
no one ever uses blasters on stun unless it's an important plot point
one of the funnier star wars things
― caucus fricked iowa account (mh), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
IIRC the only other time we've seen the stun setting used on-screen is when Leia stuns Poe in TLJ. (With the same pistol she used in ANH, no less.)
Here's another article similar to the one I posted above, but much more interesting and detailed, about the new hi-def LED screen technology allowing them to do on-set/in-camera effects: http://www.icgmagazine.com/web/a-new-hope/ . It's really fascinating, like a Cyclorama thrust into the future.
― Pete Swine Cave (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
xp Well, it's rare that anyone wants to stun (rather than kill), these are nasty wars!
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
In the jailbreak episode there is a standoff with everyone pointing guns at one another, and Mando is all "it doesn't have to be like this ..." No, because you could just set phasers to stun! (Ironically enough, the one dude is killed with a knife, though, so ... )
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
Last couple of episodes were solid! It's kind of wild how well this show both expands on the universe we know and introduces new stuff. I didn't see "Solo" or the most recent one, but without a doubt this is better than those other three. Good characters, good set-up and storytelling, and if I'm being honest I could probably watch a show just about his ship landing and taking off.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 03:12 (four years ago) link
Well get ready for spinoffs.
― dad genes (morrisp), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
Bill Burr's Galactic Masshole
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
xpost Ugh, no! Don't lean on the movies, bounce *off* the movies! Young this, young that ... who the fuck cares about whoever the fuck that guy is in Rogue One? Who cares about Young Obi? No one needs a Young Wicket prequel. They've spent all this time developing a world, it's time to play in it a bit, like this show does. Introduce new quests and questions, don't answer questions that no one really has. "It turns out Ben was a big fan of the rapper *Obie* Trice from D12 ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
I'm actually looking forward to the Cassian Andor show, because I love the idea of his Rebel secret agent character who had to do a lot of morally-compromised wet work. Plus I love Diego Luna.
Anyway, premium nerd collectibles company Sideshow Collectibles (I have a bunch of their stuff) just revealed a life-sized Baby Yoda that will be selling for $350 to the Star Wars collector with refined taste.
https://www.sideshow.com/collectibles/star-wars-the-child-sideshow-collectibles-400369
https://www.sideshow.com/storage/product-images/400369/the-child_star-wars_silo.png
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
Has the show confirmed it to be Yoda, or just, er, *a* Yoda? Because good luck un-naming it, show.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
how do yodae reproduce
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
Budding iirc
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:10 (four years ago) link
Curious to me that Jon Favreau wrote almost every episode of this (including the bad ones) but didn't direct any.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link