So I've seen a couple of the Young Jedi Adventures episodes -- fun indulgences! -- but the second season of Visions absolutely knocked it out of the park. Hell of a brilliant range of studios, approaches and interpretations, and they were not afraid to go deep on an anticolonial (even anticapital) front more than once. I do recommend a watch and then when you have, read this profile of LeAndre Thomas, the creator of the short "The Pit," which in its own way is almost a SW riff on LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," but with different contexts and results.
https://www.lucasfilm.com/news/leandre-thomas-the-pit-star-wars-visions/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 18:18 (ten months ago) link
not sure the right thread for SW merch that is O_o
$400 Dollars for a statue that looks like a naked Nien Nunb getting into a hot tub.
https://regalrobot.com/shop/star-wars/starwars-busts-statues-collectibles/nien-nunb-concept-maquette-replica-dave-carson-signature-edition/
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 11:13 (ten months ago) link
how did they know
what i liked
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 11:43 (ten months ago) link
A-Choo -Ta!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 12:25 (ten months ago) link
Navigating through that slideshow of horrors, I see that the same studio (and artist?) issued a full-body nude Max Rebo with apples covering his genitals. Although it doesn't look quite as much like a geriatric's scrotum as that Nien Nunb bust does so its erotic value may be somewhat diminished in comparison.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 12:52 (ten months ago) link
Release date late August:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-zia4oHuk
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:39 (nine months ago) link
hell yeah, thrawn time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qz9Uqk55Jo
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:51 (nine months ago) link
*Marvin the Martian voice* "Delays, delays..."
https://gizmodo.com/new-star-wars-movies-release-dates-delay-avatar-3-delay-1850533930
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:28 (nine months ago) link
jfc that we will still be dealing with Avatar until 2031!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:34 (nine months ago) link
I'm psyched for the Rey movie, but sounds like I'll have a while to wait......
― Day 1 fan (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 16:49 (nine months ago) link
oh come on, there's not going to be a 2031
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:48 (nine months ago) link
In the year twenty-oh-thirty-oneIf man is still the one
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:53 (nine months ago) link
by 2026, the full AI power grid will begin to fail and fossil fuel reserves will be accidentally destroyed by AI military. Movies will be a thing of the past, with gatherings in movie theatres morphing into gatherings where one person who saw a movie narrates what happened in it to engaged fans.
Initially these will be free until the movie studios commodify them and start charging $20 each for the opportunity.
by 2029 700 million people will be dead they won't be able to use WebMD to know it's time to go to the hospital.
by 2030 movies will return in the form of crude, gigantic 50 foot flip books, with pages flipped by employees getting paid $5 hour and offered no medical care for when they injure themselves.
by 2031, Cameron will die, sitting forlorn outside an abandoned movie, his last words being "if only they could have seen the world I built them"
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:54 (nine months ago) link
by 2032 every movie stars AI 22 year old Leo DiCaprio
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 17:57 (nine months ago) link
AI Scorsese finally directs the Grateful Dead biopic with the actual Jonah Hill as Jerry Garcia, but with AI Leo playing every other member of the band, including Donna. De-aged DeNiro to play Owsley Stanley and Bill Graham.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 18:00 (nine months ago) link
So Ahsoka kicks in here in half an hour...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:30 (seven months ago) link
prepping the couch and cranking the volume up
― mh, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:59 (seven months ago) link
blonde sith has a Keefe Chambers vibe
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 03:25 (seven months ago) link
Not a bad start! Pace felt a little too deliberate at points but otherwise a solid Rebels vibe extension.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 06:33 (seven months ago) link
Wondering how this landed for folks who never watched Rebels, cause this really felt to me like they just dropped you in the middle of that story.
Not really feeling Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera so far but otherwise, this was ok. A lot of backstory and setup to get through
― Roz, Thursday, 24 August 2023 03:44 (seven months ago) link
Yeah looked good but could've given a bit more stuff in general e.g. Thrawn tease. Agree with some criticism that Ahsoka is a little too stoic but my biggest gripe was after Reva surviving lightsaber impalement in the Kenobi show they did the same thing with Sabine here. They don't even have Rey-like healing powers!
― nashwan, Saturday, 26 August 2023 12:08 (seven months ago) link
Show seems slow and drab
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 28 August 2023 03:26 (seven months ago) link
I have only sketchy Rebels knowledge - my kids watched it so I absorbed a bit by osmosis - I enjoyed this new show without being poleaxed by it - I think they did a good job of making the characters accessible without prior knowledge, and am definitely inclined to give it a few eps grace period to find its vibe
It definitely wasn't as turgid as Kenobi / Boba Fett
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Monday, 28 August 2023 03:41 (seven months ago) link
I think it’s worse - every actor is doing the same energy
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 28 August 2023 03:45 (seven months ago) link
all these jedi huffing the same force. The master/padawan energy feels distinct, but yeah, lots of jedi being jedi like. I am enjoying the jedi focus, free of the obi wan and vader main storyline shackles.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 August 2023 04:13 (seven months ago) link
turbolasers
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 03:12 (six months ago) link
E3 captured the 8 year old's attention more than the first two. I think the energies of Ahsoka, Sabine, Hera, and Huyang are absolutely distinct. However, I may be missing some of the Rebels story that establishes Sabine as so distinct as a candidate for Jedi training (beyond being Mandalorian). It's clear that a major arc of the series will be Ahsoka's teaching approach, less chisel and more collaboration. But I'm guessing the Big Problem of Training Sabine is clearer if you come in with Rebels backstory.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 14:41 (six months ago) link
My 8 year old tapped out halfway through the first episode and told me to call him in when there was another fight scene.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 14:49 (six months ago) link
tbf Sabine felt the same way
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 15:36 (six months ago) link
zero interest in this even w rosario starringi just do not care abt Rebels at all & all these other sideverses - it was annoying when they dragged so much Rebels crap into Mandolorian, it’s so dull to me i hate it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:53 (six months ago) link
Oh wow. I feel the opposite. I am enjoying the sideverses so much more than the series closer to the mainline. Rosario seems particularly suited to this role. She can project an inner frustration or determination without much changing on the surface.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 August 2023 02:54 (six months ago) link
My 9yo and I had been watching Rebels for the last few months—he’s seen it all before but wanted me to watch it. We got almost through the second season befor le Ahsoka started. He claimed to be super excited about it but he seems to have completely bailed on it after two episodes. My 13yo on the other hand is totally hooked. He is a huge Thrawn fan—read all the books over and over—and he is full of anticipation for the reveal.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 31 August 2023 05:16 (six months ago) link
All three of us are united in thinking the space whales are dumb.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 31 August 2023 05:17 (six months ago) link
Aw I like them whales.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 August 2023 05:21 (six months ago) link
I keep seeing Wes Chatham turning up in the cast list in the early episodes. Is he a character yet to appear and they only wanted to set up one set of opening credits or something.
Think I need to refresh my memory of Rebelsand work out what the interval is.Her a has obviously had time to climb the ranks in the armed forces.Not sure how much older Sabine has got.
Also trying to think when Resistance was set.
― Stevo, Thursday, 31 August 2023 07:28 (six months ago) link
This has been ok so far, but it is curiously flat. The script can be a bit clunky, but the main issue is with the direction and editing. Filoni really drags scenes out - lots of extended shots of people looking serious - and doesn't deliver on the action. Ahsoka going for a space walk and slicing up ships with her lightsaber should have been a WOAH moment, but it didn't quite land. The Mandolorian really benefitted from strong action directors coming in, but this feels like Filoni is starting to make the same mistakes Lucas did with the Trilogy. Even if he doesn't direct every episode, it's very much his baby.
― Composition 40b (Stew), Thursday, 31 August 2023 11:24 (six months ago) link
Prequel trilogy that is.
― Composition 40b (Stew), Thursday, 31 August 2023 11:25 (six months ago) link
Filoni really drags scenes out - lots of extended shots of people looking serious
Lol there was a scene in the latest episode where the main evil Jedi directed his minions to do something and then he just stood there with his arms folded. I just thought “I’d you’ve got time to stand around you’ve got time to sweep the floors”
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 31 August 2023 13:20 (six months ago) link
if you've got time to scowl at Sabine, you've got time enough to clean
― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Thursday, 31 August 2023 13:31 (six months ago) link
Haha, yeah. One of the previous episodes had him standing looking at the star map for a few moments, which worked dramatically and also gave the audience something to pore over, but the scene you describe felt like a half-assed attempt at creating an ominous mood. Are they going to end every episode with him standing around brooding? Should clarify the latest episode wasn't directed by Filoni, but between the scripts and baggy editing there's a certain lack of energy.
― Composition 40b (Stew), Thursday, 31 August 2023 13:36 (six months ago) link
It looks and sounds fine but a lot of it really *really* feels like cosplayers trying to bring the gravitas.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 31 August 2023 13:40 (six months ago) link
what beyond sight and sound provides this feel? Smell?
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:03 (six months ago) link
ACTING!! (in Jon Lovitz voice)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:52 (six months ago) link
Love me a shiny Coruscant cityscape and a hearty droid “Blerrp” but these things alone do not a thrilling Star War make.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 31 August 2023 14:56 (six months ago) link
I, too, enjoyed a padawan's dogfight in whales
― cracked fixed view mire (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 August 2023 16:52 (six months ago) link
in Wales
― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Thursday, 31 August 2023 16:52 (six months ago) link
Can someone explain why the third episode in these types of shows is so often the only one under 40 minutes? Maybe sometimes it's the second ep. And yet this still felt padded at times - e.g. that needlessly lingering shot of Skoll at the end seemed to offer nothing.Cool to finally see a space walk of sorts in live action SW tho.
― nashwan, Thursday, 31 August 2023 20:26 (six months ago) link
"Once an Inquisitor hunting Jedi for the Empire, the mysterious Marrok now works as a mercenary hired by Morgan Elsbeth to carry out dark deeds. Fully encased in battered battle armour, the warrior still carries a red double-bladed saber with a circular hilt."
they're going to keep being mysterious about who the masked guy is for most of the season, right?
― mh, Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:18 (six months ago) link
their own Karl Ruprecht Kroenen
― cracked fixed view mire (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:56 (six months ago) link
hahwe’re supposed to think it might be Ezra, right? I have a long shot theory as to what his connection to an existing group would be but I’d rather just watch the show and find out
― mh, Thursday, 31 August 2023 22:46 (six months ago) link