Star Wars: The Mandalorian

rewatched haywire recently and it holds up imo, but in hindsight its clear thats partly bc she is called on to do very very little acting or emoting

the idea of people in lives of wealth and ease spending time looking at their phones all day like every other phone addict and actually thinking up stuff to post and posting it the same way my old parents do, when theyre in a position be doing 9000 other interesting fun things every day is always depressing to me

Not that I feel inclined to defend her in the least, but surely being stuck at home the same as the rest of us isn't at all helping people like her susceptible to these brainworms.

I’ve got my quibbles here and there, but basically agree with this. https://t.co/oSnaVSdzQ8

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 12, 2021

Ffs she wasn't fired for "being conservative", Chris Hayes should be ashamed of himself for pushing that narrative. She was fired for a repeated pattern of inflammatory and hateful posts.

lol knew that was going to be a Chait piece

Seriously. The obvious retort many have already made is, ok, which "conservative" values did she espouse?

here's a good retort:

it's a neat trick to make all conservatives believe fevered conspiratorial nonsense so that firing someone for spreading fevered conspiratorial nonsense is punishing them for their normal conservative views

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) February 12, 2021

lol

Gina Carano Hits Back, Announces New Movie Project With Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire: “They Can’t Cancel Us If We Don’t Let Them” https://t.co/6mirYhffZK

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) February 12, 2021

motherfuckers seem to believe that no job comes with a code of conduct i guess

Have a little sympathy, her entire home planet was destroyed, iirc.

lol

xxxp Can't wait for Atlas Shrugged... in space.

Atlas Yeeted Himself Into The Sun

i remember thinking she was great in Haywire.

Today I learned (rumor has it?) she was actually largely dubbed by Laura San Giacomo!

"How could Gina Carano be so dumb as to throw away a potential massive acting career with her crazy social media opinions?" Well, it's less dumb when you realize she's an heiress to a massive family fortune spanning dozens of companies and billions of $$$: https://t.co/9nolxyr6aV

— Jason "David Wong" Pargin (@JohnDiesattheEn) February 12, 2021

it's not just an american thing of course but it feels especially american to do dumb shit simply because there are no repercussions for your actions.
frolic.mp3

Well there were repercussions, and I don’t think she realizes or accepts it’s dumb shit (which is the problem).

...Unless it was a “suicide by cop” move, and she already had this set up

So glad to hear that people can properly prioritise
https://www.mic.com/p/gina-carano-stans-petition-disney-to-ignore-her-transphobic-antisemitic-posts-rehire-her-asap-62151769?utm_campaign=mic&utm_content=1613489121&utm_medium=owned&utm_source

22k signatures Vs the most popular show on Disney isn't going to make a dent.

Have been watching a lot of Clone Wars and Rebels with my son recently and wondering if the "can't take my helmet off" thing is unique to this show? As there's lots of Mandalorian themed episodes (especially in Rebels) and no-one seems to have any qualms about removing their helmets.

Think it's remarked upon in The Mandalorian when he first meets Bo Katan and clan along the lines of "oh, he's one of those" but was wondering if it's come up anywhere before in the SW universe?

yeah just saw the Rebels with the trip to Mandalore and wondered what was going on.

The Way of the Mandalore “was first laid out in the 2019 live-action television series The Mandalorian.”

I finally finished the Mandalorian this weekend and I'm not sorry to see her go. Hardly anyone on this show can act (or, they are asked to act in a way that seems like they cannot) but she was particularly awful.

I didn't really object to the acting on this show until Bill Burr* came back and basically ran circles around the rest of the cast, at which point I started asking myself "am I really this enthralled by watching Hollywood people impersonate action figures"

* I liked Rosario Dawson as well but... I always like Rosario Dawson, her entire role could have been her farting on a light sabre and I would have been all "wow what nuance to those toots"

my thoughts exactly

if she farted on a light saber I'm pretty sure that would have brought imbalance to the force, and possibly also a cauterized asshole

just a step on the way to regularity

I liked Carano's character, and I thought she had the right kind of "bad acting" for this show, but I probably wouldn't have followed her to the new Space Rangers (or whatever) series even if she were the coolest person in the world.

when you're lauding Bill Burr as the best thespian in your cast, that's not a great sign for the strength of your ensemble. good thing i didn't come here for the acting; tbh I'd be okay with them bulk recasting everyone every year.

The Mandalorian finds Ahsoka outside the town farting on her light sabre and presents the child to her.

wow, you guys really don't like the title character?

I like him. Like I like the Littlest Hobo or Grasshopper. Wandering around getting in adventures. Saving villagers.

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

the Mandalorian is a fuckin bum

yeah I have no problem with Mando

He generally doesn’t have do much other than be stoic and murder people

i love Mando

He generally doesn’t have do much other than be stoic and murder people

― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, February 22, 2021 9:12 PM bookmarkflaglink

kinda like Sonny Crockett

surprisingly, no one appears to have created a Mando Vice parody youtube/meme/etc, goldmine waiting for exploitation imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJ1cw6mohw

kinda less excited for this after seeing the teaser tbh

I dunno I'm down, the design looks pretty good at least. Though all this lovey dovey cooperation and respect doesn't seem very in character for a fucker who Vader had to forbid from disintegrating people.

a photo thread for 2 BBY–5 ABY bounty hunters oozing sobriety and wisdom in the present day

I mean, yes.

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

Thrace!

And a few weeks to go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znsa4Deavgg

it's still so weird to me that amy sedaris is an active and canonical part of the star wars universe

Strangers with Droids

some of these process shots look... *searches for word* poor...