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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I watched Iron Man for no other reason than I could.

I already own the Iron Man DVD’s, F4, X-Men and everything else they sold. Time to put it all up for sale. I certainly don’t need it anymore. More importantly, I can watch Earth’s Mightiest Heroes whenever I want now!!

 Baragash wrote:

I was getting there After switching it on and off a few times the app eventually appeared, well into S2 of the X-men cartoon now

Some fun recollections there. I was all prepared to have to tolerate Jubilee but she's actually one of the least irritating kid avatar characters in old cartoons. That Morph guy though.... man, how did I stomach this show with him around.... oh, right....

HBMC - when it launched for you were all episodes of The Mandalorian available or or they trying to make it ‘weekly’ for you?

Or did it release at a point when it didn’t matter?

 Alpharius wrote:
HBMC - when it launched for you were all episodes of The Mandalorian available or or they trying to make it ‘weekly’ for you?

Both released episodes were already there.

Minor irritation that neither the Samsung TV app or the iDevice apps appear to have a continue watching/automatically tee up the next episode function like other streaming services.

There is a nice little category at the bottom of the Marvel section which has all the cartoons and MCU films together in chronological release order.

Seems they already patched some of the issues.

Continue watching now picks up on your last episode where you left off. It tees up the next episode. And it asks you if you want to continue watching/stops incase you fell alseep watching gak

Most of the quality of life features are now in. Quick turn around for that.

 Lance845 wrote:
Seems they already patched some of the issues.

Continue watching now picks up on your last episode where you left off. It tees up the next episode. And it asks you if you want to continue watching/stops incase you fell alseep watching gak

Most of the quality of life features are now in. Quick turn around for that.

Yep, the only thing I haven’t noticed/would like is a Continue Watching list like Netflix have instead of having to go to a watch list/search/memorise where something’s listed.

 Baragash wrote:

 Lance845 wrote:
Seems they already patched some of the issues.

Continue watching now picks up on your last episode where you left off. It tees up the next episode. And it asks you if you want to continue watching/stops incase you fell alseep watching gak

Most of the quality of life features are now in. Quick turn around for that.

Yep, the only thing I haven’t noticed/would like is a Continue Watching list like Netflix have instead of having to go to a watch list/search/memorise where something’s listed.

Yeah, either in the side tab or at the top where they put the Disney, Marvel, NatGeo etc etc...

Once they do that Disney Plus might even have a better set up than Netflix and move to the top spot.

Bright side to having to wait, hopefully all these issues will be fixed.

I started watching Star Wars Rebels, but then my bro-in-law said I should start by chronologically watching Clone Wars, THEN watch Rebels. So I've started to watch Clone Wars, but man, it's not the most compelling show.

Can anyone who's watched all of Clone Wars comment on if it's worth it?

Yes. Yes it is.

Much like it's predecessor Rebels, it takes a season to really find its feet - and the episode release order wasn't chronological, which left me scratching my head a bit. The recommended viewing order can be found here

You don't have to watch them in that order, but I feel it will enhance things somewhat.

But do stick with it. It adds so much to that period, and cues up quite a bit of stuff in Rebels and the OT.

Thanks, I'll keep giving it a shot for now.

Besides the not yet compelling aspect of the show for me right now, the other thing that I'm having an issue with is getting behind the clone troopers. They're portrayed as the good guys, but they're not really. Right? It just feels weird. I get that we should be cheering on the Jedi, but when the republic army and space fleet will go on to be the bad guys, then I feel like I'm just watching it to know what happens.

Yeah, prior to Disney buying Star Wars, Clone Wars was basically what kept SW moving in the right direction.

IMO, the Clone Wars made the prequel era FEEL like Star Wars. Once you get past the first season, the bulk of the show is great, with only a few "filler" episodes

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Particularly season 3-5. They really ramp things up with those ones.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I watched Iron Man for no other reason than I could.

, I can watch Earth’s Mightiest Heroes whenever I want now!!

The first season and a half was probably my favorite Super Hero stuff around..... then it fell off a cliff in quality for the last half of season 2.

Darkwing Duck, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, DuckTales, Tailspin..... I am sorely tempted. Am I the only one in the world who really wanted to play a Tailspin PNP RPG?

 Easy E wrote:
Am I the only one in the world who really wanted to play a Tailspin PNP RPG?

Wouldn't that essentially be Crimson Skies? Which they never made an RPG for as far as I know... thereby making this comment pointless... d'oh...

 bbb wrote:
Besides the not yet compelling aspect of the show for me right now, the other thing that I'm having an issue with is getting behind the clone troopers. They're portrayed as the good guys, but they're not really. Right? It just feels weird. I get that we should be cheering on the Jedi, but when the republic army and space fleet will go on to be the bad guys, then I feel like I'm just watching it to know what happens.

At the risk of skirting too close to spoilers, allow yourself to root for the clones. Many of the show's standout episodes follow their triumphs and troubles with nary a Jedi in sight.

 bbb wrote:
I started watching Star Wars Rebels, but then my bro-in-law said I should start by chronologically watching Clone Wars, THEN watch Rebels. So I've started to watch Clone Wars, but man, it's not the most compelling show.

Can anyone who's watched all of Clone Wars comment on if it's worth it?

Are you watching it in broadcast or chronological order? I highly recommend the latter, the first few seasons are extremely disjointed - there are lists around to follow.

 bbb wrote:
Thanks, I'll keep giving it a shot for now.

Besides the not yet compelling aspect of the show for me right now, the other thing that I'm having an issue with is getting behind the clone troopers. They're portrayed as the good guys, but they're not really. Right? It just feels weird. I get that we should be cheering on the Jedi, but when the republic army and space fleet will go on to be the bad guys, then I feel like I'm just watching it to know what happens.

They very much start out with the feel of Ra-Ra-Onward The Republic! propaganda newsreels, which is why you get that old timey newsreader style for the "recap" at the beginning of each episode. Over the run of the show it does a very good job of presenting everyone as both culpable in their own way, and victims of Palpatine's manipulations. Like Joystick says some of the best arcs end up being Trooper stories, and some of them get pretty dark for a kids show.

Also does a stellar job of showing Anakin’s downward spiral, and why Jedi should be peace keepers and not soldiers.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Also does a stellar job of showing Anakin’s downward spiral, and why Jedi should be peace keepers and not soldiers.

Not just Anakin's downward spiral, but we really get to see Anakin as a heroic figure, not a whiny creeper.

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 Galef wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Also does a stellar job of showing Anakin’s downward spiral, and why Jedi should be peace keepers and not soldiers.

Not just Anakin's downward spiral, but we really get to see Anakin as a heroic figure, not a whiny creeper.

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And a teriffic pilot, and a genuine charmer, and a good friend!

All with a little hint of a dark side.

 Galef wrote:
Yeah, prior to Disney buying Star Wars, Clone Wars was basically what kept SW moving in the right direction.

IMO, the Clone Wars made the prequel era FEEL like Star Wars. Once you get past the first season, the bulk of the show is great, with only a few "filler" episodes

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One problem that doesn't help that they viewing order got randomly shuffled (and I don't know if Disney+ corrects that or even warns of it).

Though there are few bat-guano crazy episodes as you go deeper in:
The weird-squirrel alien pacifists that somehow they try to paint as evil and victims simultaneously, and the leader who insists that outsiders trying to help them makes them guilty.
And all the Force Demigods nonsense. Those are eminently skippable, for being completely off theme, giving away the plot of the films to the characters, and being pants-on-head stupid.

 bbb wrote:
Can anyone who's watched all of Clone Wars comment on if it's worth it?

Yes.

Clone Wars is a schizophrenic show that spent it's first 3 seasons vacillating wildly between kids show and adult show. It had real trouble figuring out its tone, and it took a while to get to the much darker show it was by the end. But, despite this, it was still mostly great from start to finish.

And speaking of "start to finish", the first three seasons of Clone Wars are intentionally out of order. The first episode is actually the 16th episode of the 2nd Season.

Here's the proper order.

Then there's Rebels, which starts of as near unwatchable (IMO), being even more kidified than Clone Wars ever was. That all changes when Tarkin and the Grand Inquisitor show up. It's like someone flips a switch.

Voss wrote:
One problem that doesn't help that they viewing order got randomly shuffled (and I don't know if Disney+ corrects that or even warns of it).

It wasn't randomly shuffled. That's the way it was produced. I watched it week to week when it was airing for the first time, and that's just the way they chose to do it. I haven't the faintest clue why - maybe they were just making the stories that interested them most - but yeah, it makes for some odd time and location jumps.

Wow, that's so much worse.

Some of those episodes are direct continuations of each other (like the sequence with the Bounty Hunter and the Hutt rescue), and those are chopped up out of order to a crazy degree.

If some idiot produced messed around and caused problems, that's one thing, but if it was deliberate, that's just awful storytelling.

Thanks, guys. I'll keep plugging away at it for now.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Then there's Rebels, which starts of as near unwatchable (IMO), being even more kidified than Clone Wars ever was. That all changes when Tarkin and the Grand Inquisitor show up. It's like someone flips a switch.

It's pretty baffling how much the Inquisitor changes up that whole series. The season 1 finale really shows what they're capable of, even if that kind of peaks with the season 2 finale.

Indeed. Rebels did have a pretty ropey start in terms of plots. Possibly because it was our first (new) canonical vision of how the Rebel Alliance formed.

So having a scrappy handful, vs 'no we're actually really, really well organised' felt a wee bit jarring.

But when it gets good? It. Gets. GOOD.

 Lance845 wrote:

 Baragash wrote:

 Lance845 wrote:
Seems they already patched some of the issues.

Continue watching now picks up on your last episode where you left off. It tees up the next episode. And it asks you if you want to continue watching/stops incase you fell alseep watching gak

Most of the quality of life features are now in. Quick turn around for that.

Yep, the only thing I haven’t noticed/would like is a Continue Watching list like Netflix have instead of having to go to a watch list/search/memorise where something’s listed.

Yeah, either in the side tab or at the top where they put the Disney, Marvel, NatGeo etc etc...

Once they do that Disney Plus might even have a better set up than Netflix and move to the top spot.

Continue Watching section is a go

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Indeed. Rebels did have a pretty ropey start in terms of plots. Possibly because it was our first (new) canonical vision of how the Rebel Alliance formed.

So having a scrappy handful, vs 'no we're actually really, really well organised' felt a wee bit jarring.

But when it gets good? It. Gets. GOOD.

but to REALLY get rebels you definatly wanna have watched clone wars. as some characters, including ones who might suprise you, show up in early season 2 and are regularly reoccuring characters. SW rebels is effectively the "sequal" series to clone wars

 Baragash wrote:

 Lance845 wrote:

 Baragash wrote:

 Lance845 wrote:
Seems they already patched some of the issues.

Continue watching now picks up on your last episode where you left off. It tees up the next episode. And it asks you if you want to continue watching/stops incase you fell alseep watching gak

Most of the quality of life features are now in. Quick turn around for that.

Yep, the only thing I haven’t noticed/would like is a Continue Watching list like Netflix have instead of having to go to a watch list/search/memorise where something’s listed.

Yeah, either in the side tab or at the top where they put the Disney, Marvel, NatGeo etc etc...

Once they do that Disney Plus might even have a better set up than Netflix and move to the top spot.

Continue Watching section is a go

Yup, just saw that today. Way to fix every issue in 2 weeks Disney. Anyone got any interface complaints anymore? I can't think of any.