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No hints of Bo, or Ahsoka, or even Gideon. Hmm...

Keeping this one very close to the vest it seems.

We in the UK won’t have to wait like last time will we? Please tell me we don’t have to wait.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
No hints of Bo, or Ahsoka, or even Gideon. Hmm...

Keeping this one very close to the vest it seems.

I thought we did see Ahsoka?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
No hints of Bo, or Ahsoka, or even Gideon. Hmm...

Keeping this one very close to the vest it seems.

I figured the female Jedi who vanished from the Bristol docks scene was Ahsoka.
Just for 'conservation of characters' logic. There aren't exactly a lot of them running around at this point in the post-RotJ timeline.

I like the trailer. The part where Baby Yoda battons down the crib hatches made me laugh. I still haven't seen the first season but maybe I'll jump onto Disney+ for a month after this season is done to binge it all at once. Now that I know what I'm looking for, the projection screen set effects are a bit more obvious but I really like the tech.

Voss wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
No hints of Bo, or Ahsoka, or even Gideon. Hmm...

Keeping this one very close to the vest it seems.

I figured the female Jedi who vanished from the Bristol docks scene was Ahsoka.
Just for 'conservation of characters' logic. There aren't exactly a lot of them running around at this point in the post-RotJ timeline.

That's Sasha Banks in the robes so it's not Ahsoka it might be Sabine but it's still not clear who Sasha is yet.

Apparently there has been trouble behind the scenes. Rumour has it Pedro Pascal hates wearing the helmet and suit and wants a lot more unhelmeted scenes. He threatened to walk if it didn't happen and he was basically told no walk if you want so he did. They had to rejuggle things in the latter half of the season to finish it. A bit silly if true as his role is easy enough to recast, they already have 2 stunt actors on set for the action scenes and then get a voice actor to mimic him.

https://cosmicbook.news/star-wars-pedro-pascal-difficult-mandalorian

Mmmmmmmmm.

Sasha Banks.

Love a lass that can sling me round the room!

 DaveC wrote:

Voss wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
No hints of Bo, or Ahsoka, or even Gideon. Hmm...

Keeping this one very close to the vest it seems.

I figured the female Jedi who vanished from the Bristol docks scene was Ahsoka.
Just for 'conservation of characters' logic. There aren't exactly a lot of them running around at this point in the post-RotJ timeline.

That's Sasha Banks in the robes so it's not Ahsoka it might be Sabine but it's still not clear who Sasha is yet.

Apparently there has been trouble behind the scenes. Rumour has it Pedro Pascal hates wearing the helmet and suit and wants a lot more unhelmeted scenes. He threatened to walk if it didn't happen and he was basically told no walk if you want so he did. They had to rejuggle things in the latter half of the season to finish it. A bit silly if true as his role is easy enough to recast, they already have 2 stunt actors on set for the action scenes and then get a voice actor to mimic him.

https://cosmicbook.news/star-wars-pedro-pascal-difficult-mandalorian

I've heard that those rumors are complete hogwash and I've never heard anything negative about Pedro Pascal in general. Sure, there's always a first, but I have a hard time believing an actor would jettison a lead role in a commercially and critically successful series unless they had massive ego issues. Between Oberyn and the Mando (and soon WW84) Pedro is a legend in geek media.

Also, gordonramsay.jpeg "Finally some good fracking Star Wars".

Sasha Banks does look like a good fit for Sabine. And she appears to have a high, snug collar under that robe, which could be an armour undersuit.

On the other hand, maybe Ahsoka has assembled a small band of leftover Jedi.

 DaveC wrote:

Apparently there has been trouble behind the scenes. Rumour has it Pedro Pascal hates wearing the helmet and suit and wants a lot more unhelmeted scenes. He threatened to walk if it didn't happen and he was basically told no walk if you want so he did. They had to rejuggle things in the latter half of the season to finish it. A bit silly if true as his role is easy enough to recast, they already have 2 stunt actors on set for the action scenes and then get a voice actor to mimic him.

https://cosmicbook.news/star-wars-pedro-pascal-difficult-mandalorian

Given that the sourcing on this is thinner than tissue paper at a wet t-shirt contest, color me dubious.

 insaniak wrote:
Sasha Banks does look like a good fit for Sabine.

I'd argue that so does Tiya Sircar. If it is Sabine I'd be surprised they didn't use Tiya.

 warboss wrote:
I like the trailer. The part where Baby Yoda battons down the crib hatches made me laugh. I still haven't seen the first season but maybe I'll jump onto Disney+ for a month after this season is done to binge it all at once. Now that I know what I'm looking for, the projection screen set effects are a bit more obvious but I really like the tech.

That's pretty much what I did for the first season (which coincided roughly with December & New Years holidays). Waited for the last episode, went for a free trial, watched Mando and then watched the Rebels episodes I hadn't seen.
Poked about a bit for other things and let it expire without subbing.

They haven't started begging me to come back with another free trial (in stark contrast to both Hulu and Netflix), so apparently Disney+ is doing well.

Disney+ and Amazon dropped their free trial not long after the COVID gak kicked off.

Voss wrote:
That's pretty much what I did for the first season (which coincided roughly with December & New Years holidays). Waited for the last episode, went for a free trial, watched Mando and then watched the Rebels episodes I hadn't seen.
Poked about a bit for other things and let it expire without subbing.

They haven't started begging me to come back with another free trial (in stark contrast to both Hulu and Netflix), so apparently Disney+ is doing well.

I did the same with Star Trek. I watched STD season 1 after it finished during my free week and was turned off enough to not be interested in season 2 or Picard season 1 until they extended a free month to everyone at the start of the pandemic in the US. That was quite generous on their part (no sarcasm) and I did appreciate it even if I didn't much like the actual shows.

Since the Mandalorian by all accounts doesn't suck, it might be worth it for me to pay for a month if there isn't a free trial. Two seasons of Mando plus whatever behind the scenes stuff for it along with the Marvel and Star Wars movies I chose to skip will be a sizeable amount of content.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Disney+ and Amazon dropped their free trial not long after the COVID gak kicked off.

I never knew Amazon had one (I sub to them and Netflix so don't pay attention to their offers) but I didn't know Disney axed their's. I wonder with all the financial doom and gloom they're having (most recently with Mulan bombing in China) if that'll make them want to offer it again.

Its only $6.99 so for a couple months its not bad.

 warboss wrote:

Voss wrote:
That's pretty much what I did for the first season (which coincided roughly with December & New Years holidays). Waited for the last episode, went for a free trial, watched Mando and then watched the Rebels episodes I hadn't seen.
Poked about a bit for other things and let it expire without subbing.

They haven't started begging me to come back with another free trial (in stark contrast to both Hulu and Netflix), so apparently Disney+ is doing well.

I did the same with Star Trek. I watched STD season 1 after it finished during my free week and was turned off enough to not be interested in season 2 or Picard season 1 until they extended a free month to everyone at the start of the pandemic in the US. That was quite generous on their part (no sarcasm) and I did appreciate it even if I didn't much like the actual shows.

Since the Mandalorian by all accounts doesn't suck, it might be worth it for me to pay for a month if there isn't a free trial. Two seasons of Mando plus whatever behind the scenes stuff for it along with the Marvel and Star Wars movies I chose to skip will be a sizeable amount of content.

True, true. I just hadn't realized they cut it.

I was waiting for a least a couple of their promised shows to surface (either season 2 of this, Loki or maybe the Scarlet/Vision show) before I went back, so had no reason to pay attention to them. So the free trial getting the axe escaped my notice entirely.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Escaping a Sarlacc looks kinda difficult. Without its tentacles, beak and muscles (peristaltic motion I think?) it’s still a long, slippery climb up the sides and out it’s mouth.

But Fett went in with a damaged jetpack. Get that working again, if only for a few seconds, and with good aim you could be up and out with relative ease.

And we know the Sarlacc must have weak sauce for stomach acid, given how long it’s said to take to digest it’s meals.

Really the only thing to contend with (thanks to the special editions) is the beak. We’ve seen it to be prehensile, and we can reasonably assume it leads to the stomach. Perhaps you can cut your way out from the inside. Maybe you need to blast your way out. Failing that, pretty sure Fett’s flame projector could give the beast some serious indigestion, possible causing it to vomit or otherwise remove the source?

Eh. In the old canon he escaped by just detonating a thermal detonator inside of it and then climbing out with a combination of those forearm knives Jango used to climb up the wall in AotC and that wire he shoots out of his wrist mount. Considering how much crap he's equipped with at any given time, it doesn't come as a surprise to me that he might have escaped.

I would really like if they brought back Temuera Morrison for the role if Fett makes an appearance though. It would be a very fun dynamic to me for him to portray a clone of his original self. The only real problem I guess is his age, since Boba explicitly did not have the rapid aging that the other clones did.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
The only real problem I guess is his age, since Boba explicitly did not have the rapid aging that the other clones did.

Not really. He would have been 36 when Jabba is killed. The Mandalorian takes place 5 years after the Empire falls. So Boba would be 41-42ish. Temuera may be 59 but he could certainly pass for early 40s. Plus I'm sure the Bounty Hunting lifestyle is pretty rough on your body so you're going to age prematurely.

And even if Boba wasn't deliberately aged, cloning has potential issues just by default. Real life cloning in animals is known to sometimes have premature aging, so even if Boba was not subjected to deliberately accelerated aging he could still suffer inherent accelerated aging because cloning just might cause it.

Of course its all moot anyway. Its not like Boba ever takes his helmet off either so it really doesn't matter what he looks like.

The trailer looked awesome, I'm hyped the next season.

Still haven't seen Ep 9, but damn am I ready for the Mandalorian.

I want Boba Fett in the show as I think it'd be interesting to use his character as a way of exploring the concept of "stolen valour". Fett very specifically isn't a Mandalorian. Neither was his father. But he certainly trades on that image, and even if he never actually tells people he is, I suspect he'd never correct someone if they said he was a legit Mando.

But in truth I'd rather have Temuera come back to play Rex.

 Vaktathi wrote:
Still haven't seen Ep 9...

Nothing good will come of watching that, so you don't need to.

That's actually a really good and interesting point about Fett. I was already aware that he would be a foil to Mando, but didn't think of it in the 'Stolen Valor' context. He definitely profited off the reputation of Mandalorians, at least as warriors. It'll be an ugly day in Star Wars fandom if the two fight each other...no matter who wins a lot of fans are going to be pissed.

That was a good trailer in the sense it showed and gave away almost nothing.

Sounds silly, but I just loved seeing the original T-65 X-wings flanking his ship, gave me chills!

 Grey Templar wrote:

 BlaxicanX wrote:
The only real problem I guess is his age, since Boba explicitly did not have the rapid aging that the other clones did.

Not really. He would have been 36 when Jabba is killed. The Mandalorian takes place 5 years after the Empire falls. So Boba would be 41-42ish. Temuera may be 59 but he could certainly pass for early 40s. Plus I'm sure the Bounty Hunting lifestyle is pretty rough on your body so you're going to age prematurely.

And even if Boba wasn't deliberately aged, cloning has potential issues just by default. Real life cloning in animals is known to sometimes have premature aging, so even if Boba was not subjected to deliberately accelerated aging he could still suffer inherent accelerated aging because cloning just might cause it.

Of course its all moot anyway. Its not like Boba ever takes his helmet off either so it really doesn't matter what he looks like.

Not so much premature aging - it's just that cloning copies the animal from that point in it's life. So if you clone a 20 year old, it's still genetically a 20 year old when it's born, even if physically it's only a newborn.
If you can fix the telomere issue (it's the degradation on those that causes all of the age related replication fails. As you get older, they get shorter and more prone to 'misfires') then it shouldn't be an issue and given that the Kaminoans were supposed "masters" at cloning, they might have had that problem licked.

Temuera Morrison never played Boba Fett, at least not in a Star Wars movie.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Temuera Morrison never played Boba Fett, at least not in a Star Wars movie.

He didn't wear the suit, but his voice was dubbed over the original in Empire.

 insaniak wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Temuera Morrison never played Boba Fett, at least not in a Star Wars movie.

He didn't wear the suit, but his voice was dubbed over the original in Empire.

Not on my copy.

Ok. Not watching it doesn't mean it didn't happen, though...

It would be an interesting angle to see if Moff Gideon hires Boba to hunt down the Mando, seeing an equivalent of Jason Todd and Batman facing off against each other since they both have an arsenal of weapons than just a blaster.

 chromedog wrote:
Not so much premature aging - it's just that cloning copies the animal from that point in it's life. So if you clone a 20 year old, it's still genetically a 20 year old when it's born, even if physically it's only a newborn.

If you can fix the telomere issue (it's the degradation on those that causes all of the age related replication fails. As you get older, they get shorter and more prone to 'misfires') then it shouldn't be an issue and given that the Kaminoans were supposed "masters" at cloning, they might have had that problem licked.

This is also Star Wars, and I don't think that was even considered when they were inventing the clones.