Star Wars: The Mandalorian

Hell with it, let's do a separate thread. Final trailer now live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmI7WKrAtqs

I hope Werner's paycheck can cover a couple of new docs

I've no doubt.

the only way I'll pirate this is if the Herzog vs other actors' dialogue ratio is the same as in the trailers

Pew. Pew pew.

Cant wait for The Bobo Fat Show starring Bobo Fat

So they always freeze their prey in carbonite?

Also, "best in the parsec"?

This looks cool, but it's a perpetual annoyance that every new Star Wars release has to take these little details from the original movies and reframe them as if they were always meant to be canonical elements of this world.

Hey, why bother with world building if you're not going to show off the world you've built?

I hope there is an Ewok Assassin Squad in this.

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2018/2-7/FWeH8WjWdt-4.png

Moodles otm. Every moment where like a character says 'stop being so SALACIOUS, you CRUMB' and then turns to look directly at the camera while winking furiously and saying 'DO YOU GET IT, GUYS? DID YOU PICK UP ON THAT REFERENCE? ISN'T IT A HILARIOUS CALLBACK?' makes me retch.

meh, Herzog's only in one episode

the trailer is baller tho

Except maybe for parts of SOLO I haven't found the Disney-era fanservice to be all that winky and egregious? But I am a true SW stan and not to be trusted tbrr

My wife and I did the three-years prepaid Disney+ plan for the 20% savings, that's how ready I am for this.

Star Wars IX will be my last SW

may the Farce be with you

Which one was the last one? Is this new one the 9th one? I'm pretty comfortable being done. I don't think my wife has even seen the original trilogy, and my kids don't give a poop.

Whenever I see this thread (and the show title) my first reaction is always that it's an announcement for a Star Wars themed casino/resort. Which ... give it time, I guess.

The resort part is already happening

I was gonna say....

Dunno if I'll watch it, but it's kind of amazing that TV shows look like this now.

I meant like Vegas-style, not Disney style. Or is there a Vegas Star Wars resort opening, too?

I agree with Moodles that this should ideally be a musical, set in 1920s Chicago, and if possible called Chicago the Musical: a Star Wars Story.

That's exactly what I was saying

Start the speeder
I know a yubnub spot
Where the milk is blue
Cause Tatooine is hot
Bring a droid, you're a fool
And there's a nightly duel
And all
That
Jizz

xpost Except way, way gayer.

They really just need to keep piling on the gay until the toxic fans all collapse from rage strokes.

You didn't need the xpost there, really.

I realized as soon as I xposted.

I was born with stars in my eyes, watching the skies, asking myself why was I born with these feeeeeeeelings?
Dreams of death stars, outer space wars, battles that would leave you reeeeeeeeeling.
One of these days I will be one of them, one of these days I'll be outgunning them ...
One of these days I'll be outmanning them, every last one-man of them, again and again, you can't force me to stop when the heavens they have no clear ceeeeeeeeiling ....

The usual io9 breakdown of these things, ie trailers.

Every moment where like a character says 'stop being so SALACIOUS, you CRUMB'

real life lol

are they putting out the whole series on Nov 12 Netflix style or is it coming out week by week Hulu style?

Week by week

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/werner-herzog-the-mandalorian-star-wars-jon-favreau-disney-plus-1203400810/

URL pretty much gives it all away, no reason to even click.

Do you watch any television?

I do, I watch the news from different sources. Sometimes I see things that are completely against my cultural nature. I was raised with Latin and Ancient Greek and poetry from Greek antiquity, but sometimes, just to see the world I live in, I watch “WrestleMania.”

An unexpected choice.

You have to know what a good amount of the population is watching. Do not underestimate the Kardashians. As vulgar as they may be, it doesn’t matter that much, but you have to find some sort of orientation. As I always say, the poet must not close his eyes, must not avert them.

So you’ve been watching “Keeping Up With the Kardashians?”

I’m starting to discover it. I’m curious; that’s my guiding principal.

In all seriousness, there are so many great quotes in that interview that cutting and pasting is pointless.

Favreau has made some highly successful films recently; did you feel an element of pressure working with him?

I do not know what other films he has made.

You don’t?

No.

Yeah, Herzog strikes me as an abyss-gazer, for sure.

these things are only foreign to you if you let them be foreign

pretty sure underestimating the kardashians is a risk-free proposition, what a silly thing to convince yourself of. "It's important to keep tabs on what regular people are into", says the director of Fata Morgana

to confuse the mundane with the depraved is a common mistake

(I'm mumbling these in a Herzog impersonation voice as I type)

One must unflinchingly look into the dark heart of the culture to comprehend the behavior of the most debased among us.

Reminded of this old gem:

https://i.redd.it/e923cdvfu8yz.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYEQh9IkVXU

hits all kinds of genre conventions in a tight 40 minutes, excellent settings and costume work, would watch many more episodes

This was fun!

someone in my group dm made a salient point. herzog's future obits now to read: "star wars actor werner herzog dies age 95"

Imagine that : a Star Wars tv series that seems more attuned to what made the original films work than the current SW films do.

The blurrg CGI was... not good.

Oh Jesus Christ they're going to sell a zillion dollars in toys of the big reveal.

There were a couple of blurg shots that were off, true.

Getting some _Lone Wolf and Cub_ vibes off that ending.

It is good to know that Salacious Crumbs make excellent BBQ.

Yeah I liked it fine. My kids were bored to tears.

starting to think the new republic didn't execute a certain Moff and his troops are out there rallying

No problems with this episode, but it could have been shaved down by about 10 minutes and still have been just as fine.

This is long-game fan-canon pondering but if you've also been watching The Bad Batch like me, I think there's some clear groundwork being laid for a long-arc of secret Imperial cloning research/measures. The first season of that ended in Kamino's destruction, in essence, but keeping key scientists for further research, and there's been irregular moments and scenes throughout this season, which still has three episodes to go, have been building out something going on further with that. That series is some thirty years in the past to Mandalorian of course but there's a conceptual throughline.

I seem to remember someone making clones with force powers some decades down the line

It's pretty clear that's what's underpinning things!

I actually really liked this episode and how off course it went! Though I definitely not expect to see an episode about how The New Republic's very communist dystopia is only slightly better, but mostly the same, as the Empire's peak era in Andor.

It kinda fits in with that comment in the first episode from Carl Weathers about not wanting to be under New Republic control either. (Add in the long term stuff about how Leia has to kinda fund the Resistance on her own or whatever she ended up doing -- basically, 'winning' is messy and uneven even at the best of times.)

Caught that Bad Batch resonance too.

Funny watching this latest episode at the same time as episode 3 of Last of Us, where they both start with the main characters, shift to a verrrry long unrelated story, then go back to the main characters at the end. The difference being that Last of Us connected the middle story back to the main characters and in Mando I have no clue why it was included yet. (Possibly just payback for Mando hijacking two episodes of Boba Fett.)

On top of the obvious connection of Pedro Pascal accompanying a child on dangerous adventures

I think we’re being primed for the reappearance of the chicken man

everybody knows TIEs don't just appear out of nowhere - they have no hyperdrives. where was the imperial ship? worst. episode. ever.

Coupled with the "Mandalore was poisoned was a lie to keep us away" bit, I guess the implication could be there's an Empire base somewhere on the planet?

That's an interesting idea. Maybe just in the Mandalore System and not necessarily Mandalore itself.

I think we’re being primed for the reappearance of the chicken man

― mh, Sunday, March 19, 2023 10:37 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

He got blown up in Mos Eisley last night IIRC

The Chicken Man? Didn't he stay behind of the floating Lizard island?

well guess that kid that got swallowed by the big bird has got ptsd to rival grogu's now

"no jetpacks! ok, now that we've climbed up to the top, let's use our jetpacks"

cool to see Ahmed Best tho

Fun stuff this season - fx stuff has been excellent - but the lack of a villain makes these episodes feel like a whole lot of “ world building ” (yuck) and not much else.

Whereas I love a bit of world building and hadn’t even registered there wasn’t a villain

Just a bit is fine but not all of it!

I heard they blew up his droids too, Eliza

feel like the more that is revealed about mandalore mythology, the stupider it gets. it was better when we didn't know anything in season 1 except that it's cool to say 'this is the way' if you're a mandalorian.

I’m in the “ Mystery is good. “ camp but I’m old.

mythology spun out from an outfit people liked

seems everything is leading to Bo-Katan or Din Djarin riding a mythosaur this season, perhaps to defeat a rising group of Empire holdouts. The mythosaur stuff is maybe too GoT-like.

right now my theory is that bo-katan's name comes from boca raton, maybe because disney took the writers room there for a booze cruise or something

they're gonna ride the mythosaur but also the 3 dinosaur babies

looking forward to character "Mons Venus" showing up in later weeks

I for one am excite to eat all these designer treats that have been introduced in this show next time i am forced to go to disneyland

Why wait when you can make them at home?

https://www.starwars.com/news/yellow-travel-biscuit-recipe

But i want to pay 20 bux for a cookie

Mons Venus vs Mons Pubis using The Force

rose water in the travel biscuits no wonder

This show is all over the place with its runtimes, huh? about half the length of last week's

cool to see Ahmed Best tho

That's who that was! Cool indeed to see him

this was so dope. Baby Yoda bonking around for like 10 minutes plus a short Rodan movie. i love this show.

the flying rescue sequence near the end looked great for what must have been almost entirely CGI

"Hey wait you're not the guy from Rebels"

"Well I'm a guy from Rebels..."

Mandalorian Action Playset (by Kenner)

well there's our possible second reason the tie fighters were around. We loved this one. It tied into the earlier detours and raised some more questions.

This season of Bad Batch >>>> this season of Mandalorian

Are you sure it is 4 greater thans better and not just 3?

I really hesitated but yeah went with four

I’m relieved they killed off (he better be actually dead) talking seaweed man and his flying animal farm.
We deserve a better villain than that.

Yeah, I kept getting Pirates of the Caribbean vibes every time he was on screen

Disney gonna Disney

Mandoboringan

One thing about this show is that, in earlier seasons you have one brooding, masked guy playing off of other characters, and it's mysterious and cool. But now there are is a whole team of equally masked people we're spending time with, and last night I was like, "Fuck, this is Power Rangers, isn't it?"

this is what you kids get for liking that boba fett helmet

It was very “i have 6 boba fett action figures”

One thing about this show is that, in earlier seasons you have one brooding, masked guy playing off of other characters, and it's mysterious and cool. But now there are is a whole team of equally masked people we're spending time with, and last night I was like, "Fuck, this is Power Rangers, isn't it?"

― peace, man, Thursday, March 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I had this exact thought last week when they were all flying around fighting that dragon. Major Power Rangers vibes.