Star Wars: The Mandalorian

so we can assume the child was swaddled in a exogorth silk cocoon* that it only emerged from when yoda passed, hence the sudden rush to find it. it's all obvious if you think about it.

*cocoon sold separately

A who what now

http://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/6/65/SpaceslugAnat-woswfg.jpg

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

can i just say how amazed i am that they've managed to suppress any and all pictures of the puppeteers of baby yoda for so long? Can someone provide me visual evidence that it IS a puppet? I mean I get that it's a mix of puppet and CGI but disney has somehow managed to make sure no one has seen any of the imagineering for the past few months and that's a real feat!

also, apropos of nothing, here's a fun alternate universe:

The Yoda puppet in The Empire Strikes Back was controlled by puppeting legend Frank Oz, who in his career not only controlled and voiced the Star Wars icon but also characters like Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster and some of the many creatures from the film Labyrinth. However, that character too was nearly not a puppet. According to J.W. Rinzler's book The Making of The Empire Strikes Back, the character was nearly portrayed by a trained monkey in a costume.

However, a crew member who had worked on the ape sequences at the start of 2001: A Space Odyssey reportedly warned them about all the trouble a monkey would cause on set, leading them to abandon the idea.

YODA: That is why you fail.
- YODA flings shit at LUKE -

"Fuck this. going home to Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen"

"Dead, that are."

"Be that as it may..."

*they

most of the time you only see his face so he’s likely 90% remote controlled facial servos

I think the arm movements are all manual puppeteer movements because he only does them in close-up

For the scenes where he’s being punched or dropped, they used a human toddler in a rubber suit.

That makes sense

I want to know what kind of gigantic food sources the space slug happens to drift by that it needs a mouth like an orca but known whatever wookiepedia tells me will be disappointing

Really liked this piece. It touches on some things my girlfriend's noted (she loves the series deeply).

https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-never-knew-how-much-i-needed-a-star-wars-tv-series-be-1840725748

the show had a massive $15 million budget per episode

still, the speeder bike troopers sequence at the start of the last episode was great. Bendis-y dialogue works well in live action star wars universe shocker.

I should watch Rebels then, I guess.

This was a blast IMO. Favorite bits were the A-Team episode, the prisoner heist, and the siege in the last ep. The whole western-meets-samurai movie worked well and the lack of interest in an overly complicated overarching plot were positives. All the bounty hunters looked cool, and Mando was a sufficient badass but not so much so that he didn't get in way over his head pretty regularly. Herzog was great, Esposito was unexpected. I irl lol'd with Weathers' "he's trying to eat me" line. Not paying any attention to this pre-release really made it a fun surprise.

I was today years old when I learned that the aw shucks nice guy that Buffy befriended on her first day of college who was immediately turned into a vampire was played by a 24-year-old PEDRO PASCAL pic.twitter.com/5q7jAZiDWm

— Brett White (@brettwhite) December 31, 2019

The stuff with Amy Sedaris reminded me of the Holiday Special (in a good way).

I’d like to think she styled her own hair

kinda wish she'd just gone full Jeri Blank on it, overbite and everything.

I flew through the season this weekend. imo this is the closest a SW property has gotten to the tone of the originals: the adventure, the half-explained culture/mysticism, and also not afraid to slow down the pace (something the new trilogy really missed). I couldn't believe how bad the three middle less-plotty eps were in comparison to the rest though, like below-average eps of Farscape. I guess the prison break one was ok. If they can tighten the quality next season, this could be a truly excellent show

I liked this much more than any Star Wars film I’ve seen - though I didn’t watch any post phantom menace.

You liked it much more than the original movies? That’s certainly a take!

you know what, i'll cosign that take! Maybe not the first time I saw them, but I like the best of the mandalorian more than i like the best of SW1 or whatever the fuck the numbering system is.

Not sure where to put this (the SW9 thread is full of “toxic fandom” or something), so I’ll put it here... kind of interesting rumor:

https://makingstarwars.net/2020/01/the-next-star-wars-film-saga-to-be-set-during-the-high-republic-era/

didn’t that site go full-on into publishing salacious rumors in the run up to the recent movie? the theory being that site traffic was going to peak before the movie release so anything for clicks was game

I dunno, it was linked somewhere else (CBR.com). If it’s not reputable, I retract my post, lol

They won’t rest til adult Yoda is a baby once more

Nobody has mentioned it but I also thought Ludwig Göransson did an amazing job with the score. Sometimes a little distracting but some really cool sound design and ideas

I was listening to some of the episode scores on Amazon Music and they really are terrific. He is definitely doing some very different things for Star Wars, even more so than Kevin Kiner did on Clone Wars.

i have both mentioned it and nominated the theme for the ILX Song poll!

oops so you did!

Yeah the score is awesome.

Loved the score. The processed recorder stuff is wonderful.

Nothing was ever concluded re: the mysterious figure at the end of the Amy Sedaris speeder bikes on Tatooine episode, was it?

Moff Gideon knew a lot about who Mando is, so do we assume it was him? Or just a bounty hunter tailing them?

At the time everyone was assuming it was somehow Boba Fett but pretty sure it was Gideon

(although redditors are still convinced it was BF based on the sound effect used)

in one of these episodes (maybe the last one? can't remember) someone flat out calls Gina Carano a 'human'. Have they used this word in Star Wars before? My son was like "WTF they're humans????"

Are the people in the Star Wars movies humans?

xpost -- yeah was wondering this myself. BF seems...a reach. Has he been resurrected in the Disney EU yet?

Eliza probably knows better than I, but after consuming nearly all Star Wars media for the last two years in a final round before I theoretically walk away, my knowledge says: no

Anyway, yes please. (Updated from an earlier version.)

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

heh that's great.

as with almost everything star wars, this was fine but should have been a lot better. any little bit of originality at all might have been nice too

have 'tracking fobs' been used elsewhere in this universe? i have some questions about that technology

special props to the cara-mando relationship making no sense and giancarlo's entire strategy in town being absurd -- i mean holy shit 'i'll wait until nightfall for your decision' is beyond bond-level

liked that pillboi from the good place was one of the hapless villagers tho

Buggin’s “Youu have something I waaaaaaaant” read had me in stitches

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.

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?

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

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.

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.