Yoda?
Around the age of 100, Yoda was ready to pass on what he had learned. Having attained the rank of Master, he spent the next eight centuries training and tutoring generations of Jedi. It was estimated that over his lifetime, he trained around 20,000 Jedi.
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
i thought he says 400 in empire (im not debating i'm sure the internet is right)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
I think he says “For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi” (and he’s nearly 900)
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
RIGHT
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
thanks for that info on Diana Lee Inosanto above
― Nhex, Saturday, 28 November 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
np!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
Maybe Yoda was training Jedis for like 760 years and he just rounded up.
― Ape Hole Road (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 29 November 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
Still great TV, but I felt unsatisfied by this episode, probably because it entangled the ongoing story with the Not-The-Movies-Verse in a way that didn’t do justice to our latest character and just opened a lot of new unanswered questions. 1. Anybody who’s watched clone wars and rebels knows Ahsoka is capable of winning the duel with the magistrate in a walk, I mean come on. 2. Who saved Grogu (obviously a brand of scandinavian yogurt) from the Jedi temple on Coruscant? What happened to him in the 30+ year interim?3. Mando’s quickdraw with the enforcer & his surprise droid would have been fun standing alone, but muddled together with Ahsoka’s duel it just ended up being overly predictable.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
I imagine your questions in point #2 will eventually be answered. Agree the action was somewhat predictable and clichéd (and the dialogue wooden). It was a “good” episode in terms of meaty and consequential developments, but maybe not so much in how it actually played out (as opposed to, say, the episode with the aerial hijacking).
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
we don't need The Child's backstory after that point, frankly. not really interested in seeing medical torture flashbacks
― Nhex, Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
"mirror, hand me"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
lol just now realizing how different my experience of this show is from that of real star wars heads
pretty impressive that it seems to have (largely) appeased both factions
also y'all are incredible nerds
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:38 (three years ago) link
it's the MCU formula frankly. suck in diehard fans with lore but just enough to keep it comprehensible
― Nhex, Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:41 (three years ago) link
perhaps shirley. who knows
― Nhex, Sunday, 29 November 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
Definitely this. It was bad enough when Adam Pally the stormtrooper hit him. I also think that too much backstory runs the risk of Mando becoming a side character in his own show, which I don't want. One of the things I like about it at the moment is that he drifts in and out of other people's stories, and some of the more Star Warsy people recognize some of those stories, and some don't. But Mando and Kid's forward motion is the focus, and I will be disappointed if that changes.
― trishyb, Sunday, 29 November 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
i think they’ll stick with that. the main appeal of it all is the relationship between the two. and got the impression that that glance between baby yoda and the jedi at the end was a shared acknowledgment that baby yoda had told her with his “feels” that the mandalorian needed baby yoda as much as the other way round.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 29 November 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
After a few days to live with it, I find myself surprisingly ok with “Grogu”.
― Kim, Sunday, 29 November 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
I love it
― Spottie, Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
the terrorists have already won
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Chatting with Rosario and Filoni about thingshttps://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/11/rosario-dawson-dave-filoni-mandalorian-ahsoka-tano-grogu
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
I don't really see the big deal with "Grogu" tbh, I mean, "Yoda" is a pretty dumb sounding name too but we've had 40 years to live with it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 November 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
It's no Yanno!
― Nhex, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
Yoda is much more euphonic than Grogu.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
Grogu will stifle giggles when a menacing figure steps out of the shadows and introduces himself as 'Boba'
― nashwan, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
"After the tea." "What?"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
My son absolutely geeked out over Ahsoka, lived up to the hype. I think I geeked out more for the mention of Thrawn, tbh, but I think Dawson did a really good job with the character.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
To find out more about why Ahsoka is searching for Thrawn, stay tuned for the entirety of Star Wars: Rebels on Disney+
― mh, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah, my deep-into-it pal had commented to me: "Filoni has this weird thing where he keeps turning his current show into his previous show. Rebels eventually just became an extension of the Clone Wars and now Mandalorian is becoming an extension of Rebels."
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Continuing plot threads, imo
― mh, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
If The Mandalorian was strictly a Filoni-led thing I think we'd have been there a long time back but he's only done one episode a season; Favreau is clearly the lead guy in this thing.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
Directing wise, sure, but I think Filoni has a stronger hand in this thing than that Ned. Considering his prominent place in the Gallery doc, he had more speaking time than anyone besides Favreau. I'm not complaining, mind, I don't think it's a bad thing to pick up these threads. I'd rather see Ahsoka than, I don't know, Poe Dameron's dad or something.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
"Yoda" is a pretty dumb sounding name too but we've had 40 years to live with it.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
my brother peeled baby yoda pic.twitter.com/JUj2kUGT8T— nebula should have killed thanos (@gwenstacying) November 26, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Gotta say, after watching The Vow, and Leah Remini's Scientology docu-series, all this Jedi talk about family attachments leading to fear/anger/the dark side reminds me a lot of cult behavior.
― DJI, Monday, 30 November 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
Given that I always thought that an unstated/understated theme of the prequels -- played out a little more in The Clone Wars -- was that the Jedi Order in specific was too wrapped up in themselves to realize what was happening, that's not far wrong!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
that's why I loved The Last Jedi, that theme
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
Do any of the TV shows or books get into how the Jedi initiates were taken from their parents when they were very young? How did the parents react when the Jedi showed up at the door, talking about M counts, etc.?
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Monday, 30 November 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
"Padawan Cruise?"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
The Jedi just explained to the parents how important it was to Clear the galaxy.
― DJI, Monday, 30 November 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
There is an episode with a bunch of force sensitive children who have been abducted. The idea that it was the Sith taking kids is met with “well this is bad, but...” *uncomfortable silence*
― mh, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
Not to mention a certain darksider who was basically bartered away as a kid who becomes a major antagonist!
― mh, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
His Daddy Warbucks got killed within days of adoption, so...
― Nhex, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
I thought this episode was really well done but I still wasn't always into it. It doesn't help when they establish Mando (or that Jedi, for that matter) as an unstoppable badass, but then end with an extended fight with the same people who were getting their ass kicked earlier in the episode (as well done as that fight was). Also didn't help that I know nothing about the cartoons, or books, or whatever; what I've liked about every episode so far was that they have not been particularly driven by myth, let alone plot, but this one seemed to be. And Mando must be pretty tired of hopping from planet to planet being told to find someone else. I honestly forget why he's doing this at all. Was it a favor for someone?
Again, well done! Just not what I'm into or hoping this show becomes. Oh, and I didn't even recognize Michael Biehn!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
otm, i think. i don't wanna know all the lore all the time, but it's nice if it's not obviously inconsistent with the lore upon further inspection. i just don't wanna be the inspector tho. that's for people who like, finish reading the silmarilion or whatever.
i kinda like the concept that he's a cultist, and obsessed with foundlings on principle, and a bit of a nutter, and that's sorta good enough for me. i mean no one is more perseverative than a nutter with principle/s, imo. that'll move teh story.
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
Why not leave baby with Ahsoka, and do a few episodes where she plays lone wolf and cub for awhile before she realizes gorguts is cramping her style and now she has to track down mando who has somehow acquired more force toddlers?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
I did kind of roll my eyes when she was like, "Now you must go to planet Blah blah blah...". The constant planet-hopping is starting to feel a little repetitive.
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
Her saying that seemed consistent to me, the speed with which he accepted it and flew the hell outta there was sorta convenient.
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fWbZHdE.png
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
I mean...episodic TV where characters go from one place to another, with a general goal that may get modified as it goes, and in each episode they help people with their Personal Problems along the way, is not unknown! And this is a series in a franchise where harkening back to various established forms of entertainment is constant! I'm not saying anything new here, I'm just surprised there's surprise about this.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Perilsofpauline.jpg
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link