Also who waxes the floors of the Death Star? So shiny
― calstars, Monday, 3 June 2024 00:33 (three weeks ago) link
On the other hand, Vader's helmet covered in greasy smears in some shots! (In Episode IV at least)
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 3 June 2024 08:25 (three weeks ago) link
Have free preview tix to see first two EPS of Acolyte on big screen tonight.
Guess we'll see if it good
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 June 2024 22:40 (three weeks ago) link
Nicely done. (I suppose I could have gone for that around here but I'm happy to wait to catch 'em tomorrow night at home.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 June 2024 22:41 (three weeks ago) link
So far I like! Star Wars as a wuxia by way of stuff like Five Deadly Venoms
I don't think I'll know how much I like it until ep 3 or 4
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 00:36 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah those first two episodes were solid -- I appreciate that it didn't quite go for the tone I expected from the trailer, it had all sorts of approaches going on. Also, I figured that there was some sort of initial twist or something that the trailers weren't showing but I wasn't expecting the twin twist, which hoary as a device as it is is still pretty fun, as well as making the logo of the series suddenly more understandable -- and I further appreciate that there's still more that clearly hasn't been shown yet, and I'm really suspecting that there's some further deep 'gotcha' that's going to emerge.
Also, Manny Jacinto as a dirtbag is just good casting, really.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 02:59 (three weeks ago) link
I had low expectations for this but thought the first two episodes were pretty good!
didn’t mind the early twist of killing off Carrie Ann Moss but do wish we had gotten at least one extra episode with her, I just love how she moves, she should have been cast as a Jedi years ago
― Roz, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:03 (three weeks ago) link
I suspect we're getting more of her in flashback scenes -- IIRC the trailers showed one with her already and there are definitely others, the Jedi master who offed himself in the second episode is clearly the kid in the one trailer whose eyes go black.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:16 (three weeks ago) link
definitely feel like this is a less adult, more family friendly show, compared to things like Andor, but one with a sufficiently dark storyline that is exploring a part of Star Wars history previously only explored in the EU or comics, so I'm here for it.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:26 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah in a weird way this feels like it could be a good setup (in terms of 'feel' rather than directly) for what Skeleton Crew is supposed to be.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:37 (three weeks ago) link
is this cool for a seven year old? my son has been plowing through the series, plus any cartoons that are available. he walks around whistling the theme song all day it's super annoying
― Heez, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:44 (three weeks ago) link
xpost wait JALEEL WHITE is in Skeleton Crew?
ARE WE GETTING SPACE URKEL?
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:44 (three weeks ago) link
Heez - I think so? all deaths are relatively bloodless (so far), much like the OG series, a few intense scenes of a character's homeland burning, but seems pretty tame compared to like Andor. also gets going relatively quickly, with an intense opening fight sequence in the pilot.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:45 (three weeks ago) link
xpost Character name is Spurkel
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:54 (three weeks ago) link
thanks xp. i just went on the assumption that since i watched these as a kid that it would be fine. he fast fwds a bunch of scary stuff
― Heez, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:56 (three weeks ago) link
https://media.wired.com/photos/59325f7d58b0d64bb35d130c/master/pass/o-STAR-WARS-facebook.jpg
Did I do that?
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 16:13 (three weeks ago) link
I like how they’re obfuscating a thing that happened in the purpose of revealing the truth of what happened years ago to kick off the events that led to this plot, but the plot is a little loosey-goosey so far and doesn’t know if it’s developing characters or teasing exposition and ends up falling a little short on both. The addition of “bit there’s THIS GUY” at the end of the first seemed like a clumsy course correctionYou know I love these little jedi/sithy tales, though
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 6 June 2024 02:32 (two weeks ago) link
The Jedi are sooooo boring! Obi Wan was kind of cool in the first film and Yoda was ok but that was plenty. All the ones we have met since then have been snoozefests.
Having said that I watched both eps of this happily enough - whereas I didn't get more than 1 ep into the Ahsoka one.
― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Thursday, 6 June 2024 04:54 (two weeks ago) link
every single Jedi who gets more than two minutes of screen time has beef with the order, is portrayed as a foot soldier or apologist of the order, or gets just flat-out eliminated in all the media, really. it’s a franchise that pays a lot of lip service to the nobility and neutrality of these warrior monks but that’s a pretty surface reading
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 6 June 2024 05:12 (two weeks ago) link
This was fun and easy-to-follow without being simpleminded like Mandalorian can be. I don't really know my Star Wars or High Republic lore -- I haven't even seen the JJ trilogy! -- you could have told me this was set in the present and I would've been none the wiser.
I don't think the lead actor (Osha/Mae) is very good at her line readings, but it's not getting in the way of anything. I don't think they did her any favours putting her next to Carrie-Anne Moss's great cameo in the first scene.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 6 June 2024 11:27 (two weeks ago) link
But this feels miles better already than Mando/Boba/Ahsohka. Andor, which I'm starting to think is one of the greatest TV shows of the 2000s (and I'm not a Star Wars fan) is a whole other thing.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 6 June 2024 11:29 (two weeks ago) link
Did we all watch the same thing? i thought this looked fine but was clunky as all get out. Liked the kung fu elements but that's about it. The end of episode 2 felt very Krofft Super Stars/ Far Out Space Nuts.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 6 June 2024 11:58 (two weeks ago) link
I was originally not interested in watching this at all but once I saw that Leslye Hedland directed and looked at some of the cast I got kinda intriguedI have to say I liked these first two episodes. Story is nice & contained & has enough tension & intrigue to keep me interested, characters are well defined but also fairly simply-drawn on the surface. no one stands around giving boring exposition-dumps & i don’t have to care about a fuckin magic sword or a trade embargo or a bunch of THINGS. of all the spinoffs i preferred 1st season Mando or the Andor series … this doesn’t have quite the same level of uniqueness stamped on it yet but at least it’s not trying to make me watch a cartoon no-one cares about except Reddit nerds. so yeah, i’m down for this so far. :D
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2024 04:31 (two weeks ago) link
Huh. Not sure how I felt about that one
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 01:43 (two weeks ago) link
I rather liked it! I appreciate that we still clearly don't have the full story. I mean my running assumption here is that those four Jedi did a bunch of fucking war crimes and all.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 02:53 (two weeks ago) link
That's the only way I'll come out happy with it in the end tbh.
I texted my friend JEDI ARE COLONIZERS during the ep
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 03:28 (two weeks ago) link
lol that’s exactly what I thought while watching it as well and I’m very much on board with that
― Roz, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:11 (two weeks ago) link
I struggled more with the execution of some scenes and the abruptness of the ending. what I did like was the clear depiction that the Jedi were lying that they thought the planet was uninhabited, showing Sol clearly tracking the sisters in the woods, as well as the depiction of non-Jedi interpretations of the Force, which felt very similar to themes explored in Last Jedi
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:26 (two weeks ago) link
the 'power of 1, 2, many' melody was hilariously weak
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 14 June 2024 21:59 (one week ago) link
the lyrics makes it a decent addition to the diarrhea song genre, however
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 14 June 2024 22:11 (one week ago) link
Yea I have no idea why they'd throw something so low effort into the episode
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 June 2024 22:48 (one week ago) link
almost like it slid right out of them with little resistance from the typical gatekeepers
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 14 June 2024 23:18 (one week ago) link
Interesting...
https://gizmodo.com/the-acolyte-star-wars-power-of-two-music-1851542440
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2024 01:43 (one week ago) link
A proper cliffhanger ending for this episode, smart move! Salute the serial roots of it all.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2024 03:32 (six days ago) link
yeah that was pretty good like ??? also that mask is cool as hell
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2024 04:33 (six days ago) link
force pushed the conclusion into next week
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 June 2024 04:53 (six days ago) link
I will say that if, as they weren't entirely shy about suggesting, Qimir is in fact our bad guy in the mask, the idea that Jason Mendoza is an evil Sith lord is kinda fantastic, and I await the endless memes.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2024 13:41 (six days ago) link
Darth Bortles
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 June 2024 13:52 (six days ago) link
that’s what i’m hoping!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:23 (six days ago) link
I think Jason Mendoza is a red herring and the real bad guy is the green skin bald Jedi. When she said they shouldn’t involve the high council all my alarm bells went off.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:25 (six days ago) link
I accept this argument! Guess we'll find out!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:34 (six days ago) link
My kids and I were debating whether this is the worst Star Wars tv show (they are easily swayed by the strong opinions of YouTubers). I argue that Obi-Wan and Boba Fett were both worse because not only were they generally unnecessary, but they also retroactively ruined or deflated parts of the original movies. This, at least, exists on its own merits and can be cherished or forgotten with relative ease.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:52 (six days ago) link
Feels inconsistent that any one force user is strong enough to force push that many other force users at once. For Jedi masters, they kind of suck at everything to do with using the force?
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:53 (six days ago) link
(this show is way more fun than any other Star Wars TV series I've watched, because it's goofy and moves right along... Andor was better but also bleak and depressing)
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:54 (six days ago) link
I'm just happy w/ Acolyte because it's exploring a time period in the universe that is mostly just explored in the comics. like it's thrilling for once to not have a goddamn legacy character in the damn thing.
well until we find out the Darth is actually little Sheevy Wonder
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 June 2024 15:51 (six days ago) link
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, June 20, 2024 10:53 AM bookmarkflaglink
"these are show muscles, not go muscles" - basically
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 June 2024 15:52 (six days ago) link
Given all the High Republic stuff so far in print/comics etc it does feel a little weird that their skills would have atrophied that quickly after the Nihil came through. But hey.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:05 (six days ago) link
maybe their teacher was Gareth Southgate
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:13 (six days ago) link
Timely!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 June 2024 17:13 (six days ago) link
I want to see a fleet of brand new Millennium falcons , like the most current model
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 June 2024 19:30 (six days ago) link