Buggin’s “Youu have something I waaaaaaaant” read had me in stitches
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 10 January 2020 04:49 (four years ago) link
Cara & Mando made perfect sense to me - both disenfranchised former military loners trying to avoid the glare of the Republic and the ex-Empire, bump into each other on a faraway planet and recognise a kindred spirit, bond over a tussle, do a bit of work together, bond over baby Yoda, go separate ways as both still loners, reunite to help out baby Yoda again. Both hate the Empire and feel unwanted by the Republic. That's best friends material in Star Wars.
As for Moff Gideon's absurd monologuing, this is Star Wars and he's a villain.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 January 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I totally bought the Mando/Caro bonding, but agree that Gideon's "we'll wait until nightfall" was ridiculous, even by SW standards. You have an army surrounding the place, the people inside there have nothing to negotiate with, wtf do you gain by waiting for hours instead of asking them to surrender immediately or be shot to death?
― Tuomas, Friday, 10 January 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
half the time cara is all 'you can't go in there alone!' and 'i won't leave you behind!' and the other half is 'actually i'm going to start a new life with carl weathers' and 'see you when our paths cross'
also it makes no sense for the droid to bring the kid into town, among other bizarre motivations
i mean, i don't care that the ships make noise in the vacuum of space etc etc, i just wanted more internal coherence
i have spoken
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 January 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
Gideon doesn't want to shoot them to death cos he needs baby Yoda and baby Yoda at that point was AWOL cos IG11 had rescued him, so he's sweating them out until they surrender and lead him to baby Yoda.
Cara won't leave him alone in dangerous / combat situations because trained military / leave no man behind instinct. Soon as they're out of that she's happy to go their separate loner ways.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 January 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
I mean I can't believe I'm defending a Star Wars on the internet but this is not 'Emperor Palpatine grew a bazillion star destroyers undet the ocean with his mind' territory.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 January 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
Gideon's one of the first genuinely ominous characters from high in the Imperial ranks who's not played by a stuffy british man
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 10 January 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
have 'tracking fobs' been used elsewhere in this universe? i have some questions about that technology
Boba Fett put some sort of tracker on the falcon in ESB, not exactly the same, but close enough.
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 January 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
why then was gideon's initial move to have his dudes shoot the shit out of the bar (luckily leaving our heroes intact)? anyway if gideon knows everyone's name, and that baby yoda is elsewhere, and there are several dozen tracking fobs that can find him from planets away, i don't think he needs to sweat them out
good point about the territory tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 January 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
if you've got them pinned in, better to get them now than to go on some damned fool crusade across the sector if they manage to get out
appreciated that obviously he was the authority over all stormtroopers, but the local squad was not very good compared to his personal troops. no wonder he didn't mind just blasting a bunch of what appeared to be his own men -- they're the scrubs who got posted at the ass end of the region
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 10 January 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
"If you try to interfere, this becomes a much simpler matter. I will kill Cara. I will kill Greef Karga. I will kill the child."
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 January 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
Me to the 5yo this morning: “if you don’t get dressed right now I’m throwing your toys away”
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
She didn’t. I didn’t.
it makes no sense for the droid to bring the kid into town
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
he's there to nurse and protect, but the protection extends beyond the child imo
also we really needed that cool speeder/blaster fight
― babu frik fan account (mh), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
The only thing I really chuckled at was the lava-river gondola droid, who can apparently only row on the port side, yet the boat goes perfectly straight (as if, say, on a "dark ride" track).
― Don’t yell ‘Judas!’ in a crowded theater (morrisp), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
(I did also think -- "How conveeeeeeenient," at the "you have until nightfall" line)
― Don’t yell ‘Judas!’ in a crowded theater (morrisp), Friday, 10 January 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
gondola droid should really have been a permanent character, I love that R2 design. is it used elsewhere in the films?
http://static2.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mandalorian-ep8-r2-2.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
The only thing I really chuckled at was the lava-river gondola droid, who can apparently only row on the port side, yet the boat goes perfectly straightlike... a gondola?
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
over the last 40 years my mind never even conceived of a frankendroid like that existing and it kind of messed with my head to see it
― joygoat, Friday, 10 January 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
xp A gondolier doesn't switch sides? Then never mind, I don't know what I'm talking about.
― Don’t yell ‘Judas!’ in a crowded theater (morrisp), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
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