I'm skeptical they'll manage to give each of these a distinct feel rather than following the proven Mando formula. I think I'd be more excited if there was one or two series in development rather than a half dozen.
― chap, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
Remember when 15 or 16 years would pass without a new Star Wars thing, that was pretty tight in retrospect
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
Well, depending on the media. That Timothy Zahn book in 1991 kickstarting the run of novels and the various 90s computer games were keeping interest pretty high.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
I remember as a young fan in the 80s/early 90s being convinced there'd never be another proper Star Wars thing...
xpost
― chap, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
average convo in a Gen X household in Dec
"bought $100 worth of Star Wars toys"
"oh, the kids will love that..."
"right....the kids..."
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
I hope, completely and unironically, that the Rangers of the New Republic series does nothing but remake old CHiPs episodes, and somehow stars Estrada, Wilcox, Dorn and Chris Pine's dad.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Yyyyyyyyeah, mandalorian is one thing as a fun retro treat but fuck if I’m clearing out a fucking mall size space in my memory palace for this avalanche of trademarks.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
misread one of the projects as Star Wars: The Bad Bitch
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
wait the Obi-Wan show is gonna have Hayden Christiansen as Darth?
wtf - JEJ is still gonna do the voice, presumably, so....are they just paying him to walk around in the costume?
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
xp Me too
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
Supposedly he's retired from doing the voice, but I don't know if that was just a rumor or not. At the least there's been no handoff as with Chewie yet.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
oh god if Hayden does the voice
Darth "Stoned" Vader
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
this is a controversial opinion, but I think this is too much star wars
― silverfish, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
A Lando show is just too good, man i loved me some Solo.
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 December 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
Star Wars: The Bad Bitch
yeah gonna be a lot of demands for this now - Sy Snootles finally getting her due
― nashwan, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
this is like when as a teenager I went to a bookstore in the 90s and saw dozens of star wars books. Suddenly something I like becomes way too much and not something I want to keep track of.
― silverfish, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
The Star Wars franchise should just be non-stop announcements of things that are never delivered.
― jmm, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
every single one of these things is going to feature a puppet baby version of a preexisting character
― ✖, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Baby Palpatine
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
I can't believe this shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
Man, even as a huge fan of Star Wars, this is too much. And I really miss the days when this was all slowly revealed, not spat out in one massive investor call data dump.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Baby Jabba
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
Baby PalpatineThis would ... rule?
― lukas, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
I'm pretty cool with just continuing to treat the pre-Disney material and the Filoniverse as the only SW stuff worth paying attention to. Granted, wrt the latter that would still have me on the hook for half of these new shows.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
I feel like there's a very real chance "The Acolyte" will have baby Sheev.
― jmm, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
there's gonna be a movie about how Sheev conceived his son
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
called Palp Fiction
*Friction
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 11 December 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
Sheev's Gotta Have It
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 December 2020 04:51 (three years ago) link
Droid Six
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 December 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
The Emperor's New Groove
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 December 2020 05:29 (three years ago) link
Imperial Bedroom
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 11 December 2020 06:04 (three years ago) link
Sidious Kinky
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
holy shit a+
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:09 (three years ago) link
Why would anyone come onto a thread to express negative thoughts about Disney properties
― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:28 (three years ago) link
http://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/3f/33/c63f33f578bb17f7be8f96d6f9822b61.jpg
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yix_9g_Ob74
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Kind of interesting article (with a minor spoiler about future plans, if you haven't finished The Mandalorian yet): https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/disney-star-wars-marvel-studios-1234866986/
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Saturday, 19 December 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
I'm just going to post this now because I can see that I'm going to get a lot of requests - Yes, Rian's SW trilogy is still on. No dates or timelines because he has other projects going on, but it is happening.THAT IS ALL I KNOW ABOUT IT. 😁😁😁— Sariah Wilson (@sariahwilson) February 16, 2021
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 12:17 (three years ago) link
Not sure where this goes (it’s not tv or movie related, but relevant): https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/star-wars-high-republic-novels/2021/02/22/adbb4338-72e3-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html
― stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
The incredible cast includes Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie. pic.twitter.com/VltHs5Aw6r— Star Wars (@starwars) March 29, 2021
― groovypanda, Monday, 29 March 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
that is a pick names out of a hat cast there
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
Hayden C. unrecognizable in that pic
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
lol Benny really sticking out there
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
cast certainly is... incredible...
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
Edgerton returning as Uncle Owen. Nice. (and uh, Bonnie Piesse as Beru)
― Nhex, Monday, 29 March 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
So is Christensen gonna be running around sans mask and Scarred Eggplant Man makeup through most of this or will he be wearing full Vader gear? Which, if it’s Full Vader, means *anyone* could’ve played The Dark Lord. The mind boggles. Also, looking forward to more blue milk gags.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 29 March 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah - cool to see the "ROTS" Owen x Beru team back
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Monday, 29 March 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
xpost I assume it'll be like the scene in Empire where we briefly saw the back of Vader's helmet-free noggin only this time we'll briefly get to see the front, as well.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 March 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
Benny Safdie?!?
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
New VF interview with Filoni and Dawson about Ahsoka as well as Dave's promotion:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/11/star-wars-ahsoka-dave-filoni
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:51 (five months ago) link
Heading to the big screen, ol' Mando and the kid:
https://www.starwars.com/news/the-mandalorian-and-grogu
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:46 (three months ago) link
Sez Ahsoka season 2 is in development as well, so how intertwined they'll yet be...we'll see.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:47 (three months ago) link
Catchy title
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 20:45 (three months ago) link
Much A Din About Nothin'
― nashwan, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 21:17 (three months ago) link
I would love for Ahsoka and Mandalorian shows to intertwine. Would really like to see Thrawn developed into a more central major villain. Mando needs a major shake-up.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 23:24 (three months ago) link
I like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wB5NfBKSjw
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
And back with three episodes of Bad Batch and it remains solidly entertaining. And then some: I thought the first episode in particular is one of the best things in the whole animated cycle in general.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:31 (two months ago) link
Loved the first episode. The quiet tone was perfectly done. Haven’t watched the other two yet.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:22 (two months ago) link
Relevant interesting convo on nostalgia and what gets degraded when IP holders continually sell you the same franchise shit forever https://techwontsave.us/episode/208_how_foreverism_degrades_our_culture_w_grafton_tanner
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 22 February 2024 22:03 (two months ago) link
Looking forward to this series more and more, as well as the larger conversations it's opening. (I will say that I always thought it was pretty clear in the prequel trilogy that the fact that the Jedi were hidebound elitists was the whole point.)
https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-acolyte-disney-amandla-stenberg-jedi-bad-guys-1851288054
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:07 (two months ago) link
I don’t like this idea, it sounds like a Twitter meme come to life, but whatever.
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:28 (two months ago) link
(And it was definitely clear in the PT that the Jedi Counsel f’d up by being too detached and slow-moving, etc.)
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:30 (two months ago) link
they were like that because they’d become aloof and resigned to their position for like the 1001st time!
kind of a political Lucas thing, the protectors of the galaxy become protectors of the status quo and are slow to notice it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:37 (two months ago) link
it’s funny that every extended universe does this thing and the movies constantly allude to it and we’re all like “they are the guardians of what is right”
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:38 (two months ago) link
I also feel like SW characters have been “morally ambiguous” since the first film, and the line between light & dark was always shown to be thin. Behind that, the “Jedi are really the bad guys!” thing feels like some Clerks sh1t…
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:51 (two months ago) link
Eh, I don't think the series will go down THAT road.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:53 (two months ago) link
It will be intersting to see fan reaction to this perspective. It seems like a lot of people despised the Karen Traviss Mandalorian-centric novels for having the audacity to paint the Jedi in a less than glowing light (P.S. they are good novels).
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 12:24 (two months ago) link
Anyway I have an idea for Disney if they're concerned about making enough money via streaming
https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-chilean-beer-ads-cerveza-cristal-lucasfilm-1851306714
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 02:14 (two months ago) link
Bad Batch continues damn well -- meantime per a Lucasfilm announcement, trailer for The Acolyte appears tomorrow, start date June 4. And teaser image:
https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_1315/cb014d4428d432be199cc155676cd78c.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 01:18 (one month ago) link
that's quite striking
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 01:58 (one month ago) link
I feel like BB is punching above the episodic-but-serial weight but the episode payoffs are still “but we’re getting there!” and too much deep lore for what is really a cartoon family show. idk, maybe this is what kids do now
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 03:26 (one month ago) link
they’re doing “but maybe we need the dark” across media in books and comics as well, now, btw. the book/comics arc has alluded to Yoda talking to a fallen Jedi about how to defeat a weapon the republic’s enemy is using that basically eats jedi
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 03:28 (one month ago) link
also we found out Luke’s lightsaber crystal was forced back to the light from the sith. seems a bit obvious
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 03:29 (one month ago) link
And here we go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtytYWhg2mc
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:12 (one month ago) link
Couple of good interviews with Headland here:
https://collider.com/the-acolyte-season-2-plans/
https://collider.com/the-acolyte-series-vernestra-rwoh-explained/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link
Meantime -- Bad Batch remains really solid this season, last couple of episodes hitting more of those darker tones pretty well (the Tantiss lab set one, eesh).
And speaking of darker things -- arriving in a month!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIST9t72kY
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 April 2024 19:33 (one month ago) link
The Bad Batch is plodding along too slowly imo - said the same re Ahsoka (tho tbh also with Andor at first but that paid off big time). The dark tonal shifts are interesting (the poor Camino scientist must be the most depressed-sounding animation character ever, understandably) but this isn't rubbing off on the story much. Wouldn't it be more exciting and cogent for example if the Emperor had witnessed Omega's escape from the base and so there was more pressure around the crew lying low trying to work out what to do next? Mebbe. Not seen the latest ep tho.
― nashwan, Thursday, 4 April 2024 20:15 (one month ago) link
Well that's the thing, pressure has, how to put it, ramped up as of yesterday's episodes (it was a two-drop day).
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 April 2024 20:17 (one month ago) link
I love everything about Bad Batch. I think its pace is just right and I really enjoy the occasional slow, quiet (and sad!) episodes like at the beginning of the season and this week.
My only two gripes is that for a cartoon, sometimes it's just *too* dark. Why?? And it's hard to believe there's just a few episodes left of the entire series, as I feel like they are only just beginning to reveal where Omega's story will go.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 4 April 2024 23:45 (one month ago) link
Well it may be the end of the Batch but maybe not for Omega...we'll see!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 April 2024 00:54 (one month ago) link
True, although Omega without the rest of the crew is… less appealing
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 5 April 2024 02:20 (one month ago) link
Uncle Squad
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 5 April 2024 15:54 (one month ago) link
GREAT episode yesterday -- and we get the Zillo Beast again!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 April 2024 19:16 (one week ago) link
My kids leapt out of their seat at that reveal.Coincidentally they’ve been rewatching Clone Wars with me (my first time), and we got to the episode where that plot element first appeared and they talked about utilizing it for cloning experiments… and according to my kids that never really came back around in the CW series so it’s pretty great to see it drop here.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 26 April 2024 01:26 (one week ago) link
And so The Bad Batch has wrapped up. I thought it was a good ending (a double ending, really) -- part of me had always hoped since they found that one isolated refuge that they'd end up there and just be able to live, and so it proved, and the final beat was a nice way to give a real sense that they actually DID find it, or most of them. If Omega shows up at some future point in something, I'd be all for it; Michelle Ang did a great job throughout.
One near-headcanon bit for me -- I was semi-convinced that the CX operative who found said refuge a while back, leading to Omega's recapture, might well have been a fully brainwashed/reprogrammed Tech, somehow, or perhaps a clone made from him or the like. So the fact that said operative wasn't and is now iced like the rest of Project Necromancer I really appreciated as a final beat, and similarly that Tech really is gone. Kinda rare in this universe, sometimes!
Anyway roll on Tales of the Empire this weekend and then a month to go to The Acolyte.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2024 20:17 (six days ago) link
Yes, great episode. Still feel like this show probably could have gone at least one more season but this was a satisfying wrap to the season and the coda was a nice touch to give it a bit more finality, for at least some of the characters.Ned, my kids were also convinced that there was going to be a Tech reveal, and I’m so glad there wasn’t. It would have nullified how well done season 2 was. I’m glad they allowed that plot to stand.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 3 May 2024 01:50 (five days ago) link
I really think it's remarkable that of the four major animated series under Filoni's care, three of them are top-notch fantastic both as entertaining TV and building up the universe. (Resistance absolutely has its moments but felt more like a random obligation for the sequel trilogy.) Much as I appreciate him doing more on the live action side too, I absolutely hope there's more to come from him and the wider animation team; he pretty clearly is the major creative voice post-Lucas.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2024 15:14 (five days ago) link
Happy Star Wars day!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day#History
The first recorded reference of the phrase being used was on May 4, 1979, the day after Margaret Thatcher was elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Her political party, the Conservatives, placed a congratulatory advertisement in the Evening News saying "May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations."
― StanM, Saturday, 4 May 2024 10:10 (four days ago) link
i fucking knew it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 4 May 2024 10:30 (four days ago) link
Roffle.
Speaking of dark sides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tzur6JrUEA
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 May 2024 16:11 (four days ago) link
Tales From the Empire was a nice little fillip -- especially liked the arc of Barriss Offee given her path in Clone Wars, it was a good way to show where it all led; the Elspeth arc had its good points too and I did like how it touched on everything from Mandalorian to Ahsoka to even a little bit of Andor, in its own way.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2024 18:27 (two days ago) link
Meantime…well then:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O77VTIAYGVA
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 02:02 (yesterday) link