Amazed more than 85 people in the world even cAre about the golden globe awards.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 31 May 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
I’m seeing The Clone Wars movie for the first time (my son is watching it); the “Huttlet” makes Baby Yoda seem a bit less... novel.
― OG Honeymoon Ave (morrisp), Saturday, 27 June 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
Finally watching this (thanks to a friend's D+ trial), and it's...ok? I guess I was hoping it would be better? We're halfway through. I wonder if they're purposefully mixing in some bad actors to get that o.g. Star Wars flavor, but dang, when there's actually dialogue, it is so bad.
A little less pew-pew action and more of a sense of humor would be nice, but oh well.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 July 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
lol I liked this, but I don't know why anyone would expect it to be better than just okay.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 July 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
REFUSE to watch FAN SERVICE mandaWHORian!does anyone know when s2 starts?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 July 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
First two episodes are proper good, best Star Wars thing since the 80s, then they go a bit samey.
― chap, Friday, 17 July 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
Oct supposedly
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 17 July 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
Ok the last two episodes finally felt like a decent show. Although I would prefer if it was just Amy Sedaris as a single mechanic babysitting Baby Yods and playing cards with droids. Or those two stormtroopers doing Waiting for Godot.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
jordan you didn't get any humor out of it? I thought that was one of its strong suits
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
I feel like the funny maybe came a bit later? Esp that one episode directed by Taika Waititi, that one was tops.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 July 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the only actually funny stuff was Taika-related (either his initial droid appearance or the last ep) imo. Or Amy Sedaris just being onscreen. Everything else felt pretty forced (no pun intended) or relied on a reaction shot from baby Yoda.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 July 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
Little yoda was funny af, what’s wrong with you
― calstars, Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
i didn’t realise until the kids pointed it out that that’s not actually yoda, since this takes place after yoda dies. i totally thought it was.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, my wife had the same realization after we finished the last episode.
Baby Yoda was great, but there was not enough Baby Yoda to substitute for writing decent dialogue and plots.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidSWiDnfsU
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
SORRY THIS FAN SERVICE IS DISGRACEFUL
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
That was from the episode Taika directed, does not count against my thesis
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
the Horizon Zero Dawn episode was pretty good i thought.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
haha, was that also the Xena one? Or the mudhorn one?
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
yes the xena one!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
the IG-88 one (or whatever this one’s name actually was) was sick af imo
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
I claim credit for christening it the "Xena one," lol
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
I didn't think anyone could describe that episode as anything else than the Seven Samurai one, since that's where the plot came from... But the Seven Samurai plot has been done so many times in American media, starting with The Magnificent Seven, so I guess Xena might've had an episode like that too?
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 July 2020 11:14 (three years ago) link
I dunno, it's not even about the plot specifically - it just had the look & feel of a cheesy mid-'90s syndicated show, like Xena or Hercules.
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
(and I guess the plot did feel like something that would happen on Xena, but I don't know all the episodes by heart, I was always stoned with my roommate when watching it.)
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
Credit due, it's totally apt (in terms of tone/acting/premise). The pretty widow having a crush on the Mandalorian just because he was...there, so bad. Also, maybe it was a Seven Samurai reference, but their big plan was to get the AT-ST to step in a river?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 July 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
IIRC there's a scene in the SS where the samurai allow some of the bandits on horseback to ride into the village, only to be met by the villagers who they didn't except to be armed and fighting back... So the AT-ST trap scene was probably meant to be equivalent to that. Tho of course in SS the bandits attack in several phases, and the battle takes up the entire second half of the movie, whereas here they obviously had much less time available, so they had to compress the villagers' gambit into a single make-it-or-break-it trap.
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 July 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
And the romantic subplot comes from SS too, where one of the samurai the villagers hired and a girl from the village have a budding romance, but in the end they can't be together (though in SS it's because of class differences).
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 July 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
there was not enough Baby Yoda to substitute for writing decent dialogue and plots
could also apply to every other star wars property
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 July 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
The Xena/ A-Team ep was one of my favorites precisely for its Xena/A-Team-ness.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 24 July 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
it all feeling very saturday afternoon tv is a big part of the charm
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 24 July 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
This was fun to burn through in a single weekend. How do Mandalorians get haircuts?!?
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
They must have really bad skin
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
They could teach many in this world about proper mask wearing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
Obviously:
http://i0.wp.com/gopostore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Gopostore_Movie_The-Mandalorian_SYE1604008_2_fma_fl.jpg
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
They take off their helmets, just not in the presence of outsiders, right(?)
― Washington Foosball Team (morrisp), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
He makes it pretty clear he’s never taken it off in front of anybody.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Huh, I guess he must cut his own hair then.
― Washington Foosball Team (morrisp), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
xp except the emmy voting academy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
he fucks with the helmet on
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
oh, definitely
― Nhex, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
that's the space kink for ya
Is the Taika episode worth watching by itself?
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
It's the final one of the season and builds on just about everything before it so I'd be hesitant.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
No prob, he did 5/12 of the US remake of The Inbetweeners and I'm never going to tick those off.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
sic you put yourself through countless hours of Doctor Who episodes that you find execrable, just watch the show, it’s over in no time
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
nah
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
I skipped from Caravan Of Courage in the cinema to Last Jedi in the cinema, there was just ambient chat about Waititi's ep being characteristically funny
*except for one single comic book with short comedy stories by Tony Millionaire, Beto Hernandez, Peter Bagge and Jason
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
Honestly I don't think there's much you need to know in the final episode that you won't pick up instantly
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
That's what I figured! There's a metalfaced bounty hunter / ronin dude with a yoda cub in his baby cart, and he's on a fetch quest, right?
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link