xp His absence in the new movies (which are otherwise “all hands on deck” in terms of surviving characters) does sort of raise the question.
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
I think the whole series makes the case that there are just other stories/other people out there doing their thing on their own terms. If anything, the encounter with Ashoka -- pretty much on that path as well -- underscores it. Combine that with the fact that Grogu isn't going to be that much older comparatively by the time of the sequel trilogy and I'm good with it (because he's already 50 years old and still a baby).
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 November 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
That’s true, though the last movie gave a hint as to even Ashoka’s fate. I thought this series would very much be an “other stories” kind of thing, but it’s being pulled by the Filoni centrifuge back into the core narrative again!
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
A pal (who’s more into this stuff than me) theorized that the next Jedi reveal may be Ezra Bridger
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Would love an Ezra and Baby Groguda series with Rebels folks popping in
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 28 November 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
As somebody who has no knowledge of the Star Wars universe outside the main movies, I just want to attest that this series totally works if you treat all of what's apparently fanservice as "here's a new cool character."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 28 November 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
^ agree. that’s where I’m at
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 November 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
also btw Elspeth Morgan was played by Diana Lee Inosanto - a great martial artist in her own right (who I first came to know as Buffy’s stunt double in the tv series) ... she’s also Dan Inosanto’s daughter & Bruce Lee’s goddaughter, so she has the ~receipts~ so ALL the cool kids came to the party this week
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 November 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
Thanks for that — I figured she had to be some big deal!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 November 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
I have been excited seeing Mr Kim as an x-wing pilot.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
I loved this episode so much. Was anyone else stoked to hear Grand Admiral Thrawn's name?
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 28 November 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Yes, this is me too. I appreciate the tone of the conversation on this thread, where I learn the connections, but there is no "do you even Star Wars?"
― trishyb, Saturday, 28 November 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
Sorta want gorgu to die anonymously and basically unknown, as one who was secretly superpowerful but horribly damaged. Lost to history because of weird circumstantial bullshit, but whose cryptosuperhits will be revived by gnostic hipsters. also, weirdly adorable and charismatic.what?
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Saturday, 28 November 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
Was anyone else stoked to hear
You were definitely not alone.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 November 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
I'm satisfied that they addressed my earlier quibble of—how come Yoda was training others at 100 years old, and Grogu is still a “baby” at 50? Turns out he probably should be talking, etc., but has been traumatized by his ordeal.
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
400 years
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
Yoda?
Around the age of 100, Yoda was ready to pass on what he had learned. Having attained the rank of Master, he spent the next eight centuries training and tutoring generations of Jedi. It was estimated that over his lifetime, he trained around 20,000 Jedi.
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
i thought he says 400 in empire (im not debating i'm sure the internet is right)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
I think he says “For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi” (and he’s nearly 900)
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
RIGHT
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
thanks for that info on Diana Lee Inosanto above
― Nhex, Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
np!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
Maybe Yoda was training Jedis for like 760 years and he just rounded up.
― Ape Hole Road (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
Still great TV, but I felt unsatisfied by this episode, probably because it entangled the ongoing story with the Not-The-Movies-Verse in a way that didn’t do justice to our latest character and just opened a lot of new unanswered questions. 1. Anybody who’s watched clone wars and rebels knows Ahsoka is capable of winning the duel with the magistrate in a walk, I mean come on. 2. Who saved Grogu (obviously a brand of scandinavian yogurt) from the Jedi temple on Coruscant? What happened to him in the 30+ year interim?3. Mando’s quickdraw with the enforcer & his surprise droid would have been fun standing alone, but muddled together with Ahsoka’s duel it just ended up being overly predictable.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
I imagine your questions in point #2 will eventually be answered. Agree the action was somewhat predictable and clichéd (and the dialogue wooden). It was a “good” episode in terms of meaty and consequential developments, but maybe not so much in how it actually played out (as opposed to, say, the episode with the aerial hijacking).
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
we don't need The Child's backstory after that point, frankly. not really interested in seeing medical torture flashbacks
― Nhex, Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
"mirror, hand me"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
lol just now realizing how different my experience of this show is from that of real star wars heads
pretty impressive that it seems to have (largely) appeased both factions
also y'all are incredible nerds
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:38 (three years ago) link
it's the MCU formula frankly. suck in diehard fans with lore but just enough to keep it comprehensible
― Nhex, Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:41 (three years ago) link
perhaps shirley. who knows
― Nhex, Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
Definitely this. It was bad enough when Adam Pally the stormtrooper hit him. I also think that too much backstory runs the risk of Mando becoming a side character in his own show, which I don't want. One of the things I like about it at the moment is that he drifts in and out of other people's stories, and some of the more Star Warsy people recognize some of those stories, and some don't. But Mando and Kid's forward motion is the focus, and I will be disappointed if that changes.
― trishyb, Sunday, 29 November 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
i think they’ll stick with that. the main appeal of it all is the relationship between the two. and got the impression that that glance between baby yoda and the jedi at the end was a shared acknowledgment that baby yoda had told her with his “feels” that the mandalorian needed baby yoda as much as the other way round.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 29 November 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
After a few days to live with it, I find myself surprisingly ok with “Grogu”.
― Kim, Sunday, 29 November 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
I love it
― Spottie, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
the terrorists have already won
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Chatting with Rosario and Filoni about thingshttps://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/11/rosario-dawson-dave-filoni-mandalorian-ahsoka-tano-grogu
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
I don't really see the big deal with "Grogu" tbh, I mean, "Yoda" is a pretty dumb sounding name too but we've had 40 years to live with it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 November 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
It's no Yanno!
― Nhex, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
Yoda is much more euphonic than Grogu.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
Grogu will stifle giggles when a menacing figure steps out of the shadows and introduces himself as 'Boba'
― nashwan, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
"After the tea." "What?"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
My son absolutely geeked out over Ahsoka, lived up to the hype. I think I geeked out more for the mention of Thrawn, tbh, but I think Dawson did a really good job with the character.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
To find out more about why Ahsoka is searching for Thrawn, stay tuned for the entirety of Star Wars: Rebels on Disney+
― mh, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah, my deep-into-it pal had commented to me: "Filoni has this weird thing where he keeps turning his current show into his previous show. Rebels eventually just became an extension of the Clone Wars and now Mandalorian is becoming an extension of Rebels."
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Continuing plot threads, imo
― mh, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
If The Mandalorian was strictly a Filoni-led thing I think we'd have been there a long time back but he's only done one episode a season; Favreau is clearly the lead guy in this thing.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
Directing wise, sure, but I think Filoni has a stronger hand in this thing than that Ned. Considering his prominent place in the Gallery doc, he had more speaking time than anyone besides Favreau. I'm not complaining, mind, I don't think it's a bad thing to pick up these threads. I'd rather see Ahsoka than, I don't know, Poe Dameron's dad or something.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
"Yoda" is a pretty dumb sounding name too but we've had 40 years to live with it.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
my brother peeled baby yoda pic.twitter.com/JUj2kUGT8T— nebula should have killed thanos (@gwenstacying) November 26, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Gotta say, after watching The Vow, and Leah Remini's Scientology docu-series, all this Jedi talk about family attachments leading to fear/anger/the dark side reminds me a lot of cult behavior.
― DJI, Monday, 30 November 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link