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Obvious Boba fanboy, here. It actually wouldn't bother me if he turned out to not really live up to his "legend", but rather be exposed as a fraud. Still as ruthless as he reputation suggests, but without any honor.
And that's what would make him a great counter to the Mando. He's kinda the opposite side of the same coin. Both were forged by the events of the Clone Wars with particular aspects of Mando culture.
Dyn Jarron was raised by honorable Mandos, while Boba started out being raised by a dishonored "fake" Mando than was left to the "wolves" of Bounty Hunter scum.

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 Eldarain wrote:

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 insaniak wrote:
Given the way Boba is portrayed in the Clone Wars cartoon, and his rather underwhelming overall presence in the movies, I've been saying since the EU was booted that it would be cool if they turned him into a bit of a fraud... He's built a reputation out of the armour, the name, and being in the right place at the right time, but is actually a bit of a screw-up just trying (and failing) to live up to dear old dad's standard.


I suspect that they'll just go with 'legendary bounty hunter' though.

if they did anything else the fanboy screaming would be audiable.

Sadly true but that would be an interesting approach to take.

Unfortunately Fett brings in an extreme amount of baggage, and no matter how they handle it its going to aggrieve a sizeable chunk of the viewership base.

Looks like they got Sackhoff as Bo Katan.

She’s the Duchess’s sister yes?

Interesting I wonder if they will do flashbacks to show how Gideon got the Darksaber or if she will appear in the current timeline the former seems more likely.

Sackhoff voiced her in the animated series so that's an obvious casting.

Yes Duchess Satine Kryze sister. Bo Katan Kryze to give her her full name.

I notice there is also speculation going around in the last day or so that the role Sasha Banks has been cast in is Sabine Wren and that Temuera Morrison will also appear as Rex. Both will appear in 1 episode.

And back to Fett while his role in season 2 is small he will have a bigger role in season 3.

Exciting stuff!

Sweet! So happy to have them back!

Ya know who else I'd like to see in a cameo role in the Mandalorian...eventually: Luke Skywalker in his prime.
If for no other reasons than TLJ crapping on his character arc from RotJ and the fact that an existing actor that already has close ties with Disney looks JUST like a young Mark Hamill: Sebastian 'the Winter Soldier' Stan:

Jesus!
Sebastian Stan has the same nostril shape, lips, and eye shape as Mark. That’s crazy! They even have the same chin.

 Ghool wrote:
Jesus!
Sebastian Stan has the same nostril shape, lips, and eye shape as Mark. That’s crazy! They even have the same chin.

Right! And if we don't get a full-on Luke Skywalker series on D+, the least they could do is a cameo in the Mando.

Seeing OT Luke interacting with live action Ashoka would be surreal, especially if they talk about Anakin

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That is uncanny!

Creepy. Voice would probably be the bigger issue though.

 Galef wrote:

 Ghool wrote:
Jesus!
Sebastian Stan has the same nostril shape, lips, and eye shape as Mark. That’s crazy! They even have the same chin.

Right! And if we don't get a full-on Luke Skywalker series on D+, the least they could do is a cameo in the Mando.

Seeing OT Luke interacting with live action Ashoka would be surreal, especially if they talk about Anakin

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Yeah...no.

Leave the JJ vs. Rian circlejerk out of the Filoniverse.

 LunarSol wrote:
Creepy. Voice would probably be the bigger issue though.

Maybe, maybe not. Luke doesn't really have a distinctive voice that would be hard to mimic. Plus the Mando is set 5 years after ROTJ. Luke's voice could have changed a little bit between the two films. Just be somewhat halfway between little squeeker OT Luke and gravelly old crotchety Luke.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:
Creepy. Voice would probably be the bigger issue though.

Maybe, maybe not. Luke doesn't really have a distinctive voice that would be hard to mimic. Plus the Mando is set 5 years after ROTJ. Luke's voice could have changed a little bit between the two films. Just be somewhat halfway between little squeeker OT Luke and gravelly old crotchety Luke.

I'd say 'Just get Hamill in to do a voiceover' but I don't know if he could still do non-gravelly Luke...

 DaveC wrote:
Interesting I wonder if they will do flashbacks to show how Gideon got the Darksaber or if she will appear in the current timeline the former seems more likely.

Sackhoff voiced her in the animated series so that's an obvious casting.

Makes it all the more annoying they didn't get Eckstein to portray Ahsoka.
She is Ahsoka at least as much as Hamill is Luke.

Wow, I mean, sack having luke in the Mando... We could have him in his own thing with Mara Jade and Kyle Katarn popping up with the moldy crow.

That could open up a complete can of worms though if mara and luke were married and had kids in regards to what was established int he sequel trilogy... It's a can of worms I want to open to be honest, but a can of worms all the same.


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He also has previous history of playing a dude with a robotic hand, it all lines up perfectly to be honest.

Just pretend the sequels don’t exist. That’s what I’m doing.

My main hope for Season 2 is that it gets a simultaneous world wide release.

I’d hate to have to avoid spoilers if the U.K. gets it later.

That seemed weird to me that they did that. In this day and age there is no good reason to have staggered releases of any media. Its not like they have to physically ship reels around the world any more.

There were probably contracts involved (that were cheaper for Disney to let run their course, especially if they only have a few months left to run) than to simply tear up.

Broadcast/distribution rights are a convoluted mess at the best of times.

One company not having distribution rights to certain pieces of music can throw a dvd release out by several years (as happened in Oz with several movies, that took up to 10 years to get a dvd release. Soundtrack issues.)

Apparently, the main reason for the delay was due to Disney+ launching later (duh, obviously), but that was because streaming services in Europe must have a library where 30% of its content has to be produced or acquired within Europe. So that took some time to sort out.

Week one they air episode one in the US.
Week two they air episode one in the UK.
Week three they air episode two in the UK.
Week four they air episode two in the US.
Week five they air episode three in the US.
Week six they air episode three in the UK.
Pattern repeats.

But yeah, staggered worldwide releases are dumb. It’s why everyone I know pirated the new BNA anime, as Netflix already released it in Japan, but were not due to get it here for some time yet.

There's a reason why sky atlantic would air GoT's and Westwolrd etc at 1am UK time on a Monday morning, as they were fighting against streamers/torrents having it up online within an hour of it airing in the US and that would significantly reduce the amount of people watching it on Sky Atlantic, as people don't want to wait 20 hours for it to air on the Monday evening.

I use to watch GoT's before work for example as otherwise I would be at the mercy of social media and students who have already watched it, and who desperately wanted to spoil it for someone (me).

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Just pretend the sequels don’t exist. That’s what I’m doing.

Oh, The Empire Strikes Back is better than the first one, but yeah, the next one sucked donkey balls Same with the next three.

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
Wow, I mean, sack having luke in the Mando... We could have him in his own thing with Mara Jade and Kyle Katarn popping up with the moldy crow.

That could open up a complete can of worms though if mara and luke were married and had kids in regards to what was established int he sequel trilogy... It's a can of worms I want to open to be honest, but a can of worms all the same.


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He also has previous history of playing a dude with a robotic hand, it all lines up perfectly to be honest.

Not a problem with continuity or canon anymore - the head of writing has said that canon exists for each individual fan, it's up to them to be able to choose what canon is. Especially as it's all "fake" anyway.

To which I say "yay!" as it means that I can just erase the sequels from canon and put the Thrawn trilogy back in!

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
Apparently, the main reason for the delay was due to Disney+ launching later (duh, obviously), but that was because streaming services in Europe must have a library where 30% of its content has to be produced or acquired within Europe. So that took some time to sort out.

Well thats dumb as heck. But still, you'd think Disney would have that covered since they film everywhere. I'm sure they've got hundreds of episodes of minor shows that used a European set location.

Timothy Olyphant is playing Cobb Vant a character from the 2015 novel Star Wars: Aftermath. He's the sheriff of a Tatooine settlement called Freetown and is the current owner of Fett's armour.

Are the novels crucial to understanding the wider narrative that’s going on? I keep meaning to look into them...

 Grey Templar wrote:

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
Apparently, the main reason for the delay was due to Disney+ launching later (duh, obviously), but that was because streaming services in Europe must have a library where 30% of its content has to be produced or acquired within Europe. So that took some time to sort out.

Well thats dumb as heck. But still, you'd think Disney would have that covered since they film everywhere. I'm sure they've got hundreds of episodes of minor shows that used a European set location.

Yeah, crazy really, but then consider.... 30% is a lot, and some of their libraries - animation mainly would have no EU production at all.

I may be incorrect, but you can use not yet produced/published content as well as part of the 30% allocation, so the delay they were mainly signing off multiple new shows.