Star Wars: The Mandalorian

I’m an idiot who pays for an expensive verizon phone plan and got the service “free”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/11/15/why-are-we-getting-short-27-minute-episodes-of-the-mandalorian-on-disney-plus/#50c3703b6339

Disney Plus unleashed another episode of The Mandalorian today, its premium, live-action Star Wars show that is attracting good buzz and reviews from fans and critics alike. It will start premiering on Fridays for its eight episode, first season run, but if you go to play it today, you’ll notice something kind of strange.

It has a 32 minute runtime. That would be short as it is, and yet when you cut out the “previously on” scenes and four minutes of credits, the total runtime for today’s episode, The Child, is just 27 minutes.

I thought it was a little strange when the premiere episode said it was 40 minutes long, really just 36 minutes without credits. But 40 minutes is at least somewhat close to the 42-44 minutes you’d get in an hourlong network drama once you strip out commercials.

But today’s episode now has me and many other fans wondering if the entire series is going to be like this, if in addition to getting only eight episode for a season, if we’re going to be getting sub-30 minute episodes meaning the runtime of the entire first season is going to be something like 4-4.5 hours, at most.

class action lawsuit time!

some Netflix show runtimes are all over the map. Never really thought about it.. the format is probably a plus for the creators who just want to take the time needed to tell chapters of the story with minimal padding?

Or is Netflix signing deals for x minutes of show?

Isn't The Good Place half an hour (well, 25 minutes)?

most stuff is too long, this is a good development*

FLAVORFUL ORIGINS is exactly the right length per ep

*may not apply to LA REINA DEL SUR

on the other hand, lack of C plots is hurting an important sector of talent development? Hmmmm

Well, "Good Place" (or other network TV shows) is built around commercials in half-hour blocks. I suppose the argument that guy is making is that Disney is a pay service, and this Star Wars show is like the only top-tier new programming it has in that vein, so 8 potentially short episodes seems a little stingy and perhaps not enough to sustain a subscription service. (See: spike in torrents or whatever). Those other Marvel shows aren't due some time until some time in 2020, right? I mean, "apple/disney's core audience is not ultra tech savvy" is probably right, as a whole, but people subscribing just for this Star Wars show might not stick around or might find a workaround. Not that Disney is going to lose much of its base.

I still think this service is priced fairly. Even if this new show is "only" 4.5 hours or whatever, that's still two movies' worth, and two movies for $10-$14 or however much is not bad, especially since Disney lets you cancel any time.

pray they do not alter the deal

ACHUTA!

dip dup

One reason why they may be rolling it out episode by episode, instead of all at once, is to keep folks subscribing for a few months who signed up just to watch the show.

The thing that bugs me the most about the show is how relentless it is about showing you comfortingly familiar elements. In the first ep., I couldn't believe it when he was startled by something jumping into his viewfinder, just like Luke and the Tusken Raider... we've seen this exact thing before!! (Even fighting the mudhorn ep. 2 – which I liked – echoed Attack of the Clones.)

A friend of mine who’s really into Star Wars (he watches the cartoons and reads the comics and stuff) reports, “All three Dave Filoni projects have now had a "the Empire is tracking down Jedi babies" plotline.” Guess there are clichés I didn’t even know I was missing!

I mean, that's been nu-Star Wars's thing, right? "Remember this?"


xpost oh, they are totally going to hike prices after a year or so. Hulu's big price hike the other day came with no warning or even much of an explanation.

Yeah, I just thought they were promoting this is the series where we would finally “see new things.” Guess we have to wait for the new movie trilogy for that!

(We signed up for the 3-yr deal to lock in the $6.99/mo. price, or whatever it worked out to be.)

I missed that deal. I have a good friend who was going to share his login information with me, but I considered that I have done so many sketchy things on the download and streaming front, this is the one thing my kids are really going to be paying attention to, I want my name and our account up there.

Guess we have to wait for the new movie trilogy for that!

wasn't this already nixed

Uh, some of the torrenting will be a nation like me - I'd consider paying for this, but Disney+ isn't available in the UK until next Spring, so hoist the Jolly Roger and away!

The trilogy by the dinguses who made Game of Thrones is cancelled - the one by Rian Johnson is AFAIK still on.

It is indeed still on.

FOR NOW

Perfect:

Spoilers for people who haven't watched yet! But I had to do this homage to Lone Wolf and Cub for obvious reasons 😁 ---#themandalorian #mandalorian #starwars #lonewolfandcub #samurai #western #art #illustration pic.twitter.com/2xsJnyCPDa

— AndrewSebastianKwan (@theAndrewKwan) November 18, 2019

lol, nice

hopefully they tip their hand fully and just start referring to baby yoda as "cub"

If Pascal doesnt take his mask off all season I want my pirated money back.

Someone on Twitter theorized that the Mandalorian must ***POTENTIAL SPOILER***

be a woman; because that's what it always means when someone's face isn't shown in one of these things, it's like a rule.

xpost U criminal

heh.

Hah, my 8-year old came home from school last week and said that he heard the Mandalorian was "really a girl".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcMoL-9ph2g

http://ayay.co.uk/backgrounds/star_wars/rebel_alliance_characters/princess-leia-disguised-as-boussh.jpg

playground sketchy rumors about Star Wars? omg my heart

https://yt3.ggpht.com/a/AGF-l78fpd02vse8JgdR50h2a5kEQVu1SrzufiVT1w=s288-c-k-c0xffffffff-no-rj-mo

Me high looking at myself in the security camera at CVS pic.twitter.com/xfDALq7dmX

— eli (@eliyudin) November 18, 2019

So Boba Fett is going to have some kind of heartwarming journey with baby yoda and then ... get killed by Han Solo in the most humiliating way possible? I feel bad for the kids who are coming to this fresh.

it's not boba fett

this takes place years after Boba Fett is ostensibly dead

it's going to develop into a complex may/december love story between the 50-something year-old baby of yoda and the thirty-something child of boba fett
surely rule 34 already applies here somewhere (please do not link to examples)

It’s his son, Fetty Wap

http://i.imgur.com/foJ3VMO.png

playground sketchy rumors about Star Wars? omg my heart

Haha, right? I was doubtful those conversations existed any longer!

ohhhhhhhh

How dare you not know everything about the franchise.

My missus was getting all confused with the timeline of the movies when I was trying to tell her when this takes place. I told her she can look up a timeline on the web. She asked, there's that kind of stuff on the Internet?

I...admire your wife's sincere unawareness of that.

that is mostly what the internet is, I was heard to remark

she is a great time

I really should give it a couple more decades at least before assuming that people just kinda know that stuff's out there somewhere, just in case.

The chronology of these various things can be a little confusing, even if you are paying relatively close attn.

i just assume everyone knows the Prioress' story and get frustrated when they confuser her with the Friar.