The Mandalorian trailer

[igor_kavinski]

ftfy

I guess you aren't afraid of DrPizza

 

[Homerboy]

Those edits were big improvements, they removed not just Jar Jar but most of the fluff awkward romance scenes between Anakin and Padme in the 2nd and 3rd movies, and just cleaned up the flow and pace a bit.

I also like the 'Harmy's Despecialized Edits' for the original trilogy. It takes out all the extra nonsense that Lucas had added to the originals in the specialized editions. I really didn't like the changes that he made, and prefer the original theatrical releases.

Silver Screen Edition (my favorite of them all) and 4K77, 4K83 is where it's at.

 

[Homerboy]

Also get "Obi-Wan Kenobi - The Patterson Cut"
Boils it down to a movie more or less and makes the series much better (still unneeded though)

 

[Pohemi]

Silver Screen Edition (my favorite of them all) and 4K77, 4K83 is where it's at.

Yeah I have 4K77 and 4K83 versions as well. Good stuff.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Although in Kenobi, this scene was pretty cool:

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What was cool about that?

Making Kenobi look like a cowardly pussy?

Or Vader being so lame that he can't detect a Jedi's presence? (though he may further ahead. Haven't seen it. I think I stopped at Ep2)

 

[GodisanAtheist]

What was cool about that?

Making Kenobi look like a cowardly pussy?

Or Vader being so lame that he can't detect a Jedi's presence? (though he may further ahead. Haven't seen it. I think I stopped at Ep2)

-Kenobi was hot garbage honestly on the same level as BoBF. It didn't need to happen, and when it did happen it didn't need to happen the way that it did. The whole thing was a very poorly constructed vehicle to get Obiwan and Vader to fight again, and even that was executed as badly as it possible could have been.

I can't believe the kind of money spent on this show, then it looks and feels like something from UPN 20 years ago with schlocky dialogue, sassy child actors, cramped sets that look like they were filmed in the dirt lot behind someone's development, cheap sets and costuming.

It was so simple: small quiet story about Ben Kenobi slapping down a Tusken Warlord or Tatooine Crimelord that posed a threat to luke without drawing attention to the fact that he was Jedi, if anything at all.

Instead we get what was obviously supposed to be a Sequel Trilogy tier 1.5 hour dump of a movie watered down and down and down till we end up with a 7 hour shit tier series. I mean did anyone think about how ridiculous the whole scene with Leia running away from her kidnappers would look? The frankly farcical "kid under a trenchcoat" escape from the inquisitor fortress? Vader has been hunting Obiwan forever but 5 feet of fire stops him from pursuing Obiwan after their initial confrontation (Did he forget he can use the Force)?

And then Obiwan, after being perfectly willing to leave Anakin to die on Mustafar... just walks away at the end after defeating Vader AGAIN, tacitly becoming responsible for every horrible thing Vader would do from the end of this series to the start of ANH.

I honestly couldn't believe what I was watching was greenlit and then people actually really went through the effort to put all that together and at no point stopped and said "are we making pure garbage?"

Once upon a time I would have said Disney and SW was a match made in heaven, but now I think its the other place. Good SW content is a fluke, not the norm or seemingly even the goal.

 

[Homerboy]

Yeah I have 4K77 and 4K83 versions as well. Good stuff.

Get the Silverscreen too
there's just a great nostalgia to it. Looks like film

 

[Homerboy]

-Kenobi was hot garbage honestly on the same level as BoBF. It didn't need to happen, and when it did happen it didn't need to happen the way that it did. The whole thing was a very poorly constructed vehicle to get Obiwan and Vader to fight again, and even that was executed as badly as it possible could have been.

I can't believe the kind of money spent on this show, then it looks and feels like something from UPN 20 years ago with schlocky dialogue, sassy child actors, cramped sets that look like they were filmed in the dirt lot behind someone's development, cheap sets and costuming.

It was so simple: small quiet story about Ben Kenobi slapping down a Tusken Warlord or Tatooine Crimelord that posed a threat to luke without drawing attention to the fact that he was Jedi, if anything at all.

Instead we get what was obviously supposed to be a Sequel Trilogy tier 1.5 hour dump of a movie watered down and down and down till we end up with a 7 hour shit tier series. I mean did anyone think about how ridiculous the whole scene with Leia running away from her kidnappers would look? The frankly farcical "kid under a trenchcoat" escape from the inquisitor fortress? Vader has been hunting Obiwan forever but 5 feet of fire stops him from pursuing Obiwan after their initial confrontation (Did he forget he can use the Force)?

And then Obiwan, after being perfectly willing to leave Anakin to die on Mustafar... just walks away at the end after defeating Vader AGAIN, tacitly becoming responsible for every horrible thing Vader would do from the end of this series to the start of ANH.

I honestly couldn't believe what I was watching was greenlit and then people actually really went through the effort to put all that together and at no point stopped and said "are we making pure garbage?"

Once upon a time I would have said Disney and SW was a match made in heaven, but now I think its the other place. Good SW content is a fluke, not the norm or seemingly even the goal.

It was complete garbage.
I don't get how the same company can make BoBf/Obiwan and also make Andor/Mando.

You forgot about how Obiwan was in the fire, but somehow he never actually caught fire. Yet his skin was (sorta?) burned.
OMG that Leia running through the woods scene... almost as bad as the biker gang scene in BoBF

 

[Kaido]

Wow. I didn't experience that. Maybe coz I loved the actress so much in that role.

She was a perfect fit for it! I just had a hard time with the pacing for the first half of the season. Granted, I have a very short attention span lol.

 

[Kaido]

What was cool about that?

Dang, I thought Vader's entry in that scene was pretty dope!

But on Kenobi's part, yeah...I mean, he literally roasted him once, step UP bro! Granted, he had a child to protect & he had been out of the game so much that he had lost his confidence, but I kept hoping that he'd throw all that to the wind & go out & confront him lol.

 

[Kaido]

he whole thing was a very poorly constructed vehicle to get Obiwan and Vader to fight again

Honestly, the split face-mask portion at the end of the fight made it worth it for me because it reconciled youth-Vader voice with Vader-Vader voice lol.

 

[PingSpike]

I watched the first episode of season 3. It kind of seemed like it sucked to me. I didn't watch the Book of Boba Fett because I don't really care much about Boba Fett and I'm not really a huge SW fan. I liked the Mandalorian S1-S2 though. So I'm immediately annoyed and think I must have accidentally missed a season (it apparently has been like 2 years since last season so I think I can be forgiven here) because I can't figure out why Grogu is back with him or why there's like 50 dudes in his Mando clan when last I recall they were almost completely wiped out. I don't even really remember him getting that ship he has. I'm not watching 100 different star wars shows just to keep up with one of them. I tried watching Obi-wan but bailed after about 3-4 episodes. They didn't even give a 10 cent "previously on a show you didn't know you were suppose to watch" intro. The only thing in the intro was the the armorer giving him an honor restoration quest, which then happened in the episode itself 5 minutes later anyway.

Then just kind of dumb stuff happens. The guy running the old planet has two droids carrying his cloak which makes him look like a spoiled bum, so they have to have him quick draw waste a guy to undo the damage they did. The space pirates of the caribbean seemed like complete idiots and were apparently there so Mando had some one to stomp on this episode. Then he insists on resurrecting that dead droid which doesn't make sense. What kind of self destruct sequence leaves the torso and head intact? It seems weird and perverse to make a hero's corpse into a statue. And then defile his corpse further by trying to make a frankenstein monster out of it.

 

[Kaido]

I watched the first episode of season 3. It kind of seemed like it sucked to me. I didn't watch the Book of Boba Fett because I don't really care much about Boba Fett and I'm not really a huge SW fan. I liked the Mandalorian S1-S2 though. So I'm immediately annoyed and think I must have accidentally missed a season (it apparently has been like 2 years since last season so I think I can be forgiven here) because I can't figure out why Grogu is back with him or why there's like 50 dudes in his Mando clan when last I recall they were almost completely wiped out. I don't even really remember him getting that ship he has. I'm not watching 100 different star wars shows just to keep up with one of them. I tried watching Obi-wan but bailed after about 3-4 episodes. They didn't even give a 10 cent "previously on a show you didn't know you were suppose to watch" intro. The only thing in the intro was the the armorer giving him an honor restoration quest, which then happened in the episode itself 5 minutes later anyway.

Then just kind of dumb stuff happens. The guy running the old planet has two droids carrying his cloak which makes him look like a spoiled bum, so they have to have him quick draw waste a guy to undo the damage they did. The space pirates of the caribbean seemed like complete idiots and were apparently there so Mando had some one to stomp on this episode. Then he insists on resurrecting that dead droid which doesn't make sense. What kind of self destruct sequence leaves the torso and head intact? It seems weird and perverse to make a hero's corpse into a statue. And then defile his corpse further by trying to make a frankenstein monster out of it.

This is what I mean about their target demographic:

1. Adults AND kids
2. Americans AND International audiences

You end up with these marshmallow storylines. Like, the Easter Grass Pirate? All Mando did was punch it to escape?? The pirate was like grrr, he escaped our clutches by the power is speeding away!! lol

The best part of Fett was the Mando stuff. Cliff's notes: he got a cool spaceship & went back to babysitting duty.

 

[Kaido]

Yo, that was some freaky stuff with the droid there. Reminded me of when a roach suddenly decides to fly after you try to kill it lol. Also, le homage:

 

[dank69]

 

[Linux23]

season 3 finally started! only 800 days after season 2 got over.

Omfg it's been that long???? Since Dec 2020????

I honestly thought that season 2 last episode was last year. 😳😳😳

Oh man where has time gone? I just watched the episode last night and I found it odd that yoda is back with Mando. Like wtf happened???

 

[Kaido]

Omfg it's been that long???? Since Dec 2020????

I honestly thought that season 2 last episode was last year. 😳😳😳

Oh man where has time gone? I just watched the episode last night and I found it odd that yoda is back with Mando. Like wtf happened???

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[igor_kavinski]

Like wtf happened???

Watch Book of Boba Fett to find out.

 

[brianmanahan]

Omfg it's been that long???? Since Dec 2020????

I honestly thought that season 2 last episode was last year. 😳😳😳

Oh man where has time gone? I just watched the episode last night and I found it odd that yoda is back with Mando. Like wtf happened???

well book of boba fett and obi wan were in the meantime, so that made me not feel like it had been that long

neither of those was as good as the mandalorian, but the last 3 or 4 episodes of book of boba fett had important mando crossover material from season 2 to season 3

 

[GodisanAtheist]

well book of boba fett and obi wan were in the meantime, so that made me not feel like it had been that long

neither of those was as good as the mandalorian, but the last 3 or 4 episodes of book of boba fett had important mando crossover material from season 2 to season 3

-Pretty sure there were 2 episodes of just Mando in BoBF, which managed to also be the best episodes of the series.

Felt like the whole reason that series even existed is to give us a bit more Mando, Fett felt like an afterthought in his own show.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Fett felt like an afterthought in his own show.

Their choice of actor was also weird. I always envisioned him as lean and muscular, not old and bulky.

 

[brianmanahan]

Their choice of actor was also weird. I always envisioned him as lean and muscular, not old and bulky.

well he was lean and muscular 20-some years ago when he was in the star wars prequels

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Their choice of actor was also weird. I always envisioned him as lean and muscular, not old and bulky.

-Temura Morrison was literally the actor that played Jango Fett in the prequels (Boba is Jango's clone). I mean it was more or less the perfect casting, but he just doesn't have the chops to carry a show on his own.

Great "badass that drops a couple lines" but carrying a whole show on his shoulders he could not.

Not like he was given great material to work with but that just made it worse I think.

 

[brianmanahan]

Felt like the whole reason that series even existed is to give us a bit more Mando, Fett felt like an afterthought in his own show.

yeah i get they were trying to make it seem like boba fett cared about his new planet instead of being a bounty hunter

but they kinda went overboard with the dude being too beat up by everyone

and those kids on "speeder" bikes? no, just no.

 

[igor_kavinski]

but they kinda went overboard with the dude being too beat up by everyone

Yeah. That's not the Boba Fett I've read about in the SW novels.