Star Wars: The Mandalorian

ballard’s criticism that the massive casual violence (including genocide) is a big problem with star wars remains true.

one of the virtues of the mandalorian is that it showed a somewhat politically equivalent and scrappy system, including imperial remnants and went some way to humanising stormtroopers - their armour looks scrappy and a bit unclean iirc in the first episode, and they’re jumpy, and boba’s caving in of a stormtrooper helmet was quite effectively and it seemed to me deliberately humanising (it was quite a lingering shot) - there’s a skull in there basically.

so to use them so consistently as polystyrene pew-pew fodder is not v appealing tbh.

I guess everyone’s pretty accustomed to seeing stormtroopers blown away like that (which doesn’t make it cool) - but the screen in s1 where mando sniped half a dozen Jawas just to send a message was a real WTF moment for me when watching with kids!

*scene

yes, it's a rather moralistic argument to make, and seeing people zapped is fun! ofc mandalorian and original star wars is v much a western. don't want to finger wag, but i do remember watching star wars again relatively recently and really feeling the casualness of 'let's zap an entire planet' and got it a couple of times in the mandalorian as well.

Thousands of Gungans died in Episode 1...and for what?1

No Blood for Kyber!

I'm shocked Mando didn't give Gogurt that metal ball as a parting gift.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, December 23, 2020 4:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the ball went up in flames with the rest of the razor’s crest :(

i could swear he did manage to save the ball for him

-the Lance Armstrong story

He did save the ball. (Not that ball.)

Mando -- has only got one ball!
Grogu -- has two but very small

when baby yoda becomes a sith, he’ll find the burnt out husk of that ball, put it on display, and speak to it like kylo did with vader’s mask

Holy shit definitely

Mando totally dug it out and rescued it from the ruins of the ship. Chekov's Ball did not deliver.

i do remember watching star wars again relatively recently and really feeling the casualness of 'let's zap an entire planet'

I really liked how this series examined the (psychological) aftershock of Alderaan’s destruction, though.

(I liked the Cara Dune character in general; too bad the actor is a wingnut.)

when oh when will there be star peace?

xp totally agreed. it's a shame - i liked her when she left the UFC and started out in Haywire

I could not stop laughing at the rock 'em sock 'em robot punching.

same, that was very amusing

"We didn't want to spoil the surprise during the big Kathleen Kennedy announcement of all the shows [during Investor Day earlier this month], so they let me keep this one a secret, " Favreau says. "So this is actually separate from The Mandalorian season 3. But what we didn't say in that announcement is the next show coming up — what Kathy called 'the next chapter' — is going to be The Book of Boba Fett, and then we go into production right after that on The Mandalorian, back with the main character that we all know and love... pretty soon following that. There's a lot of Star Wars content coming out, I think they announced 10 projects, I think this will be 11."

This raises the possibility that The Mandalorian itself won't air until 2022.

I read that somewhere too – S3 planned for 2022.

The Marvel shows start debuting in 2021, right? So Mandalorian should be back just in time for the Marvel movies to start belatedly hitting theaters.

Yeah, Wandavision hits Jan. 15, Falcon/Winter Soldier March 19. Loki in the summer. I'm sure Disney+ will drop something else for November.
Book of Boba Fett should be December, guessing there will be some kind of crossover with Mando S3 or one of the other announced SW shows.

one of the virtues of the mandalorian is that it showed a somewhat politically equivalent and scrappy system, including imperial remnants and went some way to humanising stormtroopers

I thought the most effective example of humanizing stormtroopers in this season was Chapter 15, where Mayfield and Mando dress up as Imperials and when they make it safely through the pirates to the Imperial base, and all the stormtroopers are cheering for them and clapping them on the back. It showed a kind of camaraderie and warmth you usually don't associate with stormtroopers.

Yeah, also it felt like a sly meta-commentary on how many stormtroopers get casually slaughtered in the movies (and this series): they're super happy and surprised to find out some of them actually survived an enemy attack.

I forgot about the Tron:Legacy youth cgi. This has been around for awhile.

Finally watched the Season 2 Gallery thing. While I don't think it warranted another full season, I did find myself still wanting more. Interesting that they didn't talk at all about the Luke scene. Spoiler tags juuuust in case.

Yeah I was noticing that as well -- wonder if they had some other character somehow standing in, or just did a reallll skeleton crew situation for that part.

Hamill said something about how well they kept it a secret (for a year?), but I don’t know the specifics.

My wife and I were just hanging out with The Last Jedi on TV; the scene came on with those Jedi temple “caretakers” cleaning up after Rey shoots a hole in the wall. My wife (who also watched this series) was like, “Is that the same frog people? Is that the son of the frog who....”.

I thought that was pretty funny.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

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 (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

This dude cruises around my area on a skateboard; I saw him today and he gave me a nod: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/masked-mandalorian-los-angeles-toluca-lake-burbank-street-baby-yoda/2508293/

A mask is a mask is a mask, I guess.

BREAKING: Lucasfilm fires Gina Carano from The Mandalorian after “abhorrent and unacceptable” social media posts. https://t.co/jlv1F3bxq1 pic.twitter.com/TD7fRJIQTU

— IGN (@IGN) February 11, 2021

surprised they finally pulled the trigger on this honestly

Her post today seemed legit over the top, even by her standards. Glad they finally did something, though I'm sure this will feed her persecution complex.

Recast her with Lucy Lawless

I bet Ronda Rousey's agent is making some calls. "Hi, yes, I have a client who may prefer getting cast in a successful Disney franchise to getting repeatedly pummeled in the head, please give me a ring."

yeah no that's ok

Man, I have been a fan of hers since the American Gladiators reboot, this is disappointing (I had no idea any of this nonsense was going on)

WHY YOU CRUSH HAERT

i see what you did there

the irony of getting fired from a show starring a mask

Did she delete a load of tweets or am I looking at the wrong twitter I cant see anything extreme.

The article I saw said the big thing was an IG post, which was deleted.

Ah, right. I never think to look there. IG baffles me.

Ugh found it. What a tool.

Seriously. Like, you're an actor working for Disney in 2021. There is literally no reason you should mention the word "Holocaust" in anything you post.

also an astonishingly bad actor

i mean it's star wars and it doesn't take much at all but jeez

Virtually everyone on this is “bad” but yes, she is partic disconnected