Star Wars: Live Action TV Series (Favreau)

[Dukefrukem]

Fick yeah
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[Ezee E]

Fick yeah
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Needs more Werner Herzog and Carl Weathers casting, but this is on the right track.

[Morris Schæffer]

Fick yeah
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...lorian-1294788

Missed that. Such a cool actor.

[Morris Schæffer]

[Ezee E]

Not dying to see it, but I'll be curious.

[Dukefrukem]

What's the point of this story? Need more info to get interested.

[Skitch]

Guessing: Filling the vacuum of power left after Jabba's demise.

[Dukefrukem]

Guessing: Filling the vacuum of power left after Jabba's demise.

Which impacts....? What stakes are involved? Why do we care ??

[Idioteque Stalker]

We care because we used to play with Boba Fett action figures.

I turned it off as soon as Boba Fett, the most famous bounty hunter of all time, said "I'm not a bounty hunter."

[Skitch]

Which impacts....? What stakes are involved? Why do we care ??

I'm just spitballing...control of the underworld that stems from Tatooine. Stakes...wealth and power, I guess. Why do we care, why did we care about the Sopranos? That was basically Jabba's role, wasn't it? That took place in basically a tri-state area. I could see a mob show set in the tri-sector SW universe be cool. Maybe not, I don't know, I'm not defending it, I don't know whats going on with it. I was never that jacked up about Boba Fett when I was a kid, even being a ridiculous SW fan. Hell I didn't even think he was that cool until the Clones Wars cartoon, there he stood out way more than the movies.

[Dukefrukem]

Sopranos had actual characters. I'm not even sure what this has other than filler.

[Skitch]

Sopranos had actual characters. I'm not even sure what this has other than filler.

You very well may be right.

[Ezee E]

Sopranos had actual characters. I'm not even sure what this has other than filler.

We'll see what this does. If it's serialized like Mandalorian, or a little more focused.

I will say that the Mandalorian, despite the serialized nature, has actually made some neat characters that I'd like to see again. I wouldn't expect something grandiose to Sopranos-Wire scale.

[StuSmallz]

[Morris Schæffer]

[Wryan]

Pinhead's in this?? What a crossover! Disney is really pulling out all the stops.

[Ezee E]

Pinhead's in this?? What a crossover! Disney is really pulling out all the stops.

Ha, my same reaction.

[Morris Schæffer]

Every godforsaken, clumsily-plotted, thrills-deprived scene in this is mere filler leading up to, wait for it, [

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Anakin battling Obi-Wan again and it's a pretty good fight. Chilling even, although one cannot help feeling it's basically a retread of their showdown at the end of Revenge of the Sith.

] And it's literally the easiest scene for the makers to get right. Revenge of the Sith was the best prequel because of how closely it leads up to A New Hope. What they don't get right, what they should have gotten right is most everything prior to the big fight. That was the challenging part, that was the part that required actual inspiration and strong writing. Oh there are some good bits, like the casting of young Leia, and some of the nods to the original trilogy are cool like when the star destroyer is chasing the good guys, the music seems a carbon copy of a similar scene in the Empire Strikes Back. Although that's lazy too in a way.

It's truly hilarious how Obi-Wan manages to [

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smuggle out Leia out of a major enemy base.

] And not because that scene in itself couldn't be plausible, but because about 10 minutes earlier, when our heroes are discussing options, the base is made out to be some absolutely impregnable, insanely-difficult-to-invade stronghold. Compounding matters is that at 2 separate locations the character called Tala is appealing to the ridiculous dumbness of the bad guys and succeeds. [

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I'll allow the 'secret' underwater hatch to get in, can't have Star Wars without that.

]

Christensen's return to the franchise? Oversold. He adds to that final duel, no question, but it's the lighting, MacGregor, the make-up, the decision to criss-cross Vader's voice with Anakin's that lends that scene an eerie, somewhat haunting quality.

[StuSmallz]