Star Wars: The Mandalorian

no one ever uses blasters on stun unless it's an important plot point

one of the funnier star wars things

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.

xp Well, it's rare that anyone wants to stun (rather than kill), these are nasty wars!

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 ... )

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.

Well get ready for spinoffs.

Bill Burr's Galactic Masshole

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 ... "

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

Has the show confirmed it to be Yoda, or just, er, *a* Yoda? Because good luck un-naming it, show.

how do yodae reproduce

Budding iirc

Curious to me that Jon Favreau wrote almost every episode of this (including the bad ones) but didn't direct any.

when you're showrunner these days those credits can be half-formality

I'm torn between "ugh this entertaining television show really only exists to create merchandising opportunities" and "I must protect him"

I'm halfway through this. Distracted at times by how much Mando's voice & dialogue sounds like a Tom Cruise soundboard.

I thought he sounded like Clint Eastwood, by design.

Yoda is the exemplar of a species only known as Yoda's species.

Perhaps its just a child of Viridihomine yodalensis.

Josh otm about exploring the world not dragging out the same tired characters - it’s exactly why this worked. And Rogue One despite the shoehorned cameos.

Has the show confirmed it to be Yoda, or just, er, *a* Yoda? Because good luck un-naming it, show.

The show takes place after the fall of the Empire in RotJ, i.e. after Yoda's death, so the kid is merely a member Yoda's species. There's some speculation whether it's related to Yoda tho, mostly because his species is so mysterious and rare that previously we've only seen two members of it onscreen (Yoda himself and the female Jedi in the prequel trilogy).

that's fucking YADDLE u savage, put some respect on her name

One of my friends has a young daughter (she's 6, I think) who drew this beautiful portrait.

https://i.imgur.com/ldaKUMF.jpg

A 6 year old drew that!? It's great!

looks like a Sun Ra cover

if you find Luke boring, just the same old Force thing

finally catching up to this - just watched the seven samurai vs the at-st episode and it was GRATE, the haters itt are nuts

the scary-monster at-st and the terrifying unstoppable darth vader at the end of rogue one are both great examples of how treating star wars as a place rather than as endless extensions of the skywalker saga can refresh and revitalise the extremely over-familiar

Ha i’m 6 mins into ep 1 is the mask reveal that he’s ancient clint eastwood

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/star-wars-series-leslye-headland-disney-plus-1234587493/

A new “Star Wars” series is in the works at Disney Plus, Variety has learned from sources. The series hails from Leslye Headland, the co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series “Russian Doll.”

Details of the exact plot of the series are being kept under wraps, but sources say it will be a female-centric series that takes place in a different part of the “Star Wars” timeline than other projects. Headland is said to be attached to write and serve as showrunner on the series, with the show currently staffing.

yaddle please

Finally, the Young Maz Kanata spinoff we've all been waiting for!

I had been hearing conflicting reports, but noticed this line in a NYT article about the state of the Disney empire in general:

The production shutdown will almost certainly delay Marvel shows like “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” which was supposed to arrive in August. But the service’s big hit, “The Mandalorian,” finished shooting its second season before the pandemic spread to the United States and will arrive in the fall on schedule. Mr. Nathanson estimates that Disney Plus will lose $2 billion this year, with programming a major expense.

that's actually a relief

D+ sucks is the thing

Idk, I def have concerns about Disney becoming one of our sole entertainment overlords the same as everyone else, but I'll say that Diney+ has more than paid for itself a hundred times over in trying to keep an 8 year-old entertained during quarantine.

First episode of the making-of documentary now live IIRC? Was going to catch it tonight.

To the extent D+ suxx, it's due to the lack of new content (plus, to a lesser extent, some UI issues)... the production delays obv. won't help, but it good (for them, and I guess "us") that Mandalorian S2 will arrive on time.

I get the lack of big name new content, but tbh getting Onward early was huge for my son.

We watched that too -- and have watched Frozen II many times. Getting those films on the service early, due to the circumstances, was welcome for sure.

i just have to catch up on the current season of Clone Wars, but after that I'm not sure what I' going to watch. it's been worth it to be able to watch 6 seasons of that show, though!

Clone Wars ended strong

tbf the entire draw of D+ is kids who haven't seen any of the back catalog and families that will watch it together

I can't hate on Disney otherwise, as far as streaming crap goes, because they've tossed FX's back catalog on Hulu and are doing some collaborative Originals program over there

I haven't yet but i understand that watching Rebels is the thing after finishing Clone Wars. Same showrunner as CW and The Mandalorian and it takes place between those two shows.

I have a three your old. We were generally pretty good about not watching too much tv but isolation and general anxiety has kind of changed that. Disney+ is pretty crucial as we go through everything classic and not so classic movie most weekends.

oh yeah. Rebels! i should definitely watch that. I've heard less good things about Resistance.

Have any of you watched the "Forces of Destiny" cartoon? I saw it promoted on there and thought I may check it out, I like the idea of it (but I guess they're really short?)

Resistance is for younger kids and was kind of boring. I watched a couple episodes

Rebels is pretty much the best Star Wars animated thing they’ve done, although my memory of Droids is haphazard

Rebels is indeed great and I need to finish it

As for the first part of the Mandolarian documentary -- light but enjoyable, basically had all the directors in a round table and then interviewed individually. Some good Dave Filoni stories.

I will watch and enjoy but I was watching some cooking show on netflix, the Skywalker Ranch episode (btw their garden is lit) and when Filoni showed up and started riffing with Jon Favreau I had to shake my head and mumble “neeeeerds”

I mean, I enjoy the little nods in episodes and Star Wars minutiae but all the “peel the curtain back” things I’ve seen, and this is a judgment of my own nerdery, are people chuckling over things I’ve read

I'm hoping they'll let each episode director do a full-episode commentary at some point. It's trivial now with streaming media to just record the thing and make it an audio track option. I'd love to hear Bryce and Deborah esp. talk more at length about their experiences as the first women to direct live-action SW.