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Gert wrote: TBF the news around anything Star Wars seems a bit crazy right now.
Acolyte was canceled then supposedly not canceled, there was a big rumour that there was going to be a super crossover and then nothing from the Star Wars Celebration confirmed that.
A single source for a cancellation to be fair.
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Which combined with the huge issues we're seeing in the film/TV industries right now was considered a plausible event.
Look all I'm saying is that in terms of Star Wars stuff gets banded about and people believe it largely because Disney is all about the almighty dollar. Crossovers sell big to the more casual fan who can look at all their favorite characters in one place and that's the majority of any audience. If the Big Wigs believed a Baby Yoda/Boba Fett/Ahsoka movie would sell then chances are it would happen which is why that rumour was so easy to believe.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Good casting for it. Hope its good
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
That is what I blame for the decline of X-Wing and similar SW TTGs. Old SW movies were full of space battles. Nothing for years.
And then AMG takes over the 'running' of X-Wing, and there is nothing on-screen to bring in new players, or make current players way to buy stuff.
That is what I blame for the decline of X-Wing and similar SW TTGs. Old SW movies were full of space battles. Nothing for years.
And then AMG takes over the 'running' of X-Wing, and there is nothing on-screen to bring in new players, or make current players way to buy stuff.
I feel a bit sorry for X-Wing. FFG made a good fist of it, drawing on the old EU and the new. Then of course they were bought out, and palmed off.
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That is what I blame for the decline of X-Wing and similar SW TTGs. Old SW movies were full of space battles. Nothing for years.
And then AMG takes over the 'running' of X-Wing, and there is nothing on-screen to bring in new players, or make current players way to buy stuff.
I feel a bit sorry for X-Wing. FFG made a good fist of it, drawing on the old EU and the new. Then of course they were bought out, and palmed off.
It's main issue was just that FFG waiting too long to launch second edition into a more sustainable format. By the time they did, they'd bled the Rebellion era completely dry, both making conversion kits pricy and leaving no real new content to release for players in the new edition. They're STILL trying to release 2nd edition repacks of the 1st edition ships to this day. The new faction starters are overall a good idea but there's been so much card content even if you wanted to get back into the game I'm not honestly sure how you do it at this point.
Part of the problem is just the sequels didn't give them as many toys to sell as they clearly hoped and Clone Wars didn't really get its redemption when the game really needed to introduce it to space out their releases of Rebellion content. Instead you had a game that once demanded players collect everything try to convince players they could affordably upgrade about a quarter of their collection to the new edition.
Rumours that Lucasfilm has a contingency plan for if the writers strike drags on and they will combined season 4 of the Mandalorian and season 2 of Ahsoka into a film that take takes place after the current series but before the planned "Heir to the Empire" film so as to tie up loose ends and set up that film.
I don't know why they don't do that in the first place. Makes no difference to me, but 9pm ET has got to find a much larger audience than unlocking stuff at 3am ET.
Letting the rest of the world enjoy something while America is still sound asleep doesn't seem like something American companies would aim for when they premiere stuff.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Gotta say the first two episodes live up to the hype. Still don't really care about Cassian's character (*dead man walking*), and especially not this continuing obsession Disney has with blander than bland poor child origin stories, but damn. There's a subtlety and a nuance to this show that Disney has desperately needed to instert into...
Well basically every piece of milquetoast gak show they keep putting out.
I gotta give special props to ep 2 and 3 though, for how it builds this rollercoaster of a godzilla threshold. Atmosphere like the metal clangs of the town. Characterization gak thugcops lying through their egos because they're literally too stupid to realize they have no idea what they're doing. Especially nice touch, I feel like harping on because the story handles this while still portraying the characters involved like people rather than bland cardboard cutouts. They're fallible more than evil. Clever characters are defined as much by their luck and quick thinking as any sort of special ability. Unclever and even unlikable characters still have qualities that make them compelling to watch.
Show deserves its reputation so far. If all the rest of the Disney+ programming were even close to this good, it would have more than my banal curiosity.
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Andor was compellingly dull. Yes, that's contradictory, but Andor (the show) was contradictory. It was simultaneously the best of new SW and the worst of new SW. You could have episodes of abject boredom punctuated by some of the best moments in the series ("Never more than twelve..."), you could have characters that give tremendous speeches (Luthen) and characters who spend every moment of their screentime doing sweet feth all with no plot advancement at all (Mon Mothma).
Entertaining. Frustrating. But not frustrating like every other D+ show, which are generally frustrating for their lack of actual plots, terrible pacing, endless side-questing, and abysmal runtimes that leave you half-way through acts or even scenes like the people in charge have never heard of script structure in their lives.
Geifer wrote: Letting the rest of the world enjoy something while America is still sound asleep doesn't seem like something American companies would aim for when they premiere stuff.
Especially when you're a company that's not making a whole lot of money, is experiencing negative North American subscriber growth (for two consecutive quarters!) and want to shift over to a paid advertiser mode.
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It definitely comes through where the episodes after the first 3, are nowhere near as good as the first 3.
Episodes 4, 5, and 6 in fact have no reason whatsoever not to be 1 episode. 2 at the absolute tops. 7 has the same issue and I won't be surprised is I feel 7 and 8 could have been one episode.
For the quality of the writing and the great attention to details that matter, it's amazing how the show lost momentum fast to focus excessively on tedium.
It's still better than most of the stable by the pure virtue that the plot actually makes sense and isn't bending over backwards to suck its own dick, but yeah. Those first three episodes are of markedly better quality than the next 4.
Good news: Kevin Kiner is doing the music for this. He did the music for Clone Wars/Rebels, and is the only composer (IMO) to have ever captured the style and use of themes that Williams did for the original films.
Opening scenes are really strong. Republic fleet looked beautiful. And some decent Jedi action.
Interesting on the “run a match on their lightsabers”. Never considered they’d be so unique. And they’ve certainly the right Droid for the job.
Clancy Brown! Yay! Lothal looking gorgeous. E-Wings missing the upper gun, but looking great. And always nice to see a bit of the old EU recanonised.
Ooooh! Night sisters! Dare I hope this is a way to bring back Asajj? They did her dirty and she deserves better.
And what may be an Inquisitor? Certainly that’s an Inquisitor’s lightsaber on that background character.
Also really liking the music here.
Ahsoka’s shuttle is very very cool.
Overall the design work here is super strong.
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Part 2
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Correlia! New ship type! Some decent lightsaber action! The fear they were gonna say Yuuzhan Vong!
It’s implied Elsbeth wanted Ahsoka to find the map thing, despite clearly knowing where it was. I’m guessing she’d been disarmed, this was her saving time whilst incarcerated, having had some contingency in place to bust her out. That way, less to no time wasted.
Oh that big old ring ship! Reminds me of the hyperspace rings used in the Prequels. Either this is a ship designed for a super long haul jump (which between galaxies, it would be) or something is gonna use it as a hyperspace ring.
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Now to wait a whole sodding week for more.
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My expectations were high after Andor, and this one takes the SW spinoff series back to their mediocra and forgettable roots. sigh
I had a bad feeling about the trailer, and the first episode confirmed my suspicions. But hey, at least its made for the female audience, inclusivity and all that..
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"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
First impression: it's ok. The "puzzles" straight out of a video game were kind of lame and could have been brute forced in a few minutes, making the characters all look like idiots. But I guess if you had something genuinely difficult to open the map it wouldn't be possible to show it on-screen, so meh. Overall it seems to be doing a decent enough job of bridging the gap between the end of the OT and the dumpster fire of the sequels, so far as such a thing is possible at all. So far I guess I'll rate it not as good as Andor or Mandalorian S1, better than the mess of Boba Fett and Obi-wan?
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tauist wrote: But hey, at least its made for the female audience, inclusivity and all that..
Lolwut? Do you think that having female characters is "made for the female audience" or was there something else you're referring to here?
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At some point some military/security force needs to implement anti-Force firing regimens where someone counts off and they all fire in simultaneous waves of multiple blasts at the same time instead of the stream of fire that lets them deflect each bolt individually.
I’m really curious to find out why an ancient map is pointing to the location of a recent individuals location.
I wonder if they’ll stick with Sabine being ungifted in the Force the whole time or if she’ll unlock her secret hidden potential and get OP during the climax.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Felt like some of the best episodes of Rebels easily. Some really great choreography that's a nice mix of OT heavy swings with a little more acrobatics. Tons of little beloved toys brought to life. Story so far is quite solid with a really compelling cast of villains.
I really liked how the villains have more of a hard defensive stance and heavy overpowering strikes when they go on the offensive. Mixing in the cloak is also a nice flair that gives the apprentice an instant niche.
One main complaint:
Spoiler:
I know she's the everyman, but Hera talking about Jedi like this unknowable enigma comes across as super weird when her understanding of Kanan was one of the best written relationships in the franchise in Rebels.
Overall though, this is as good as it gets. Probably not quite as good as Andor, but everything I'd want out of Star Wars when focused on the Jedi side of things.
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AduroT wrote: At some point some military/security force needs to implement anti-Force firing regimens where someone counts off and they all fire in simultaneous waves of multiple blasts at the same time instead of the stream of fire that lets them deflect each bolt individually.
I’m really curious to find out why an ancient map is pointing to the location of a recent individuals location.
I wonder if they’ll stick with Sabine being ungifted in the Force the whole time or if she’ll unlock her secret hidden potential and get OP during the climax.
I think if you count off you're not going to get a chance to fire at all, but realistically this is just part of the trope of a guy fighting off a room of baddies that face the hero in waves rather than dogpiling.
I'll be very curious to see what the state of things are at the end of the road. Given why they're out there, it could be as simple as a map of space whale migration routes. Maybe a sect of Nightsisters worshiped them and put up a temple in their spawning grounds or something?
A good question. Her arc is clearly focused on unlocking her potential at the moment, but given her history it would probably be more appropriate to have her find her own path forward.
And what may be an Inquisitor? Certainly that’s an Inquisitor’s lightsaber on that background character.
He's apparently a new character named Marrok (though since he's got a mask everyone is convinced he's Ezra). I just hope there's a reason he looks so similar to Eighth Brother. Interesting enough, Filoni already used that name in Clone Wars for the dog of bounty hunter he likened to Snake Eyes. This guy is definitely cut from the same cloth as the Joe.
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Only one grumble from me. And make no mistake it is a nitpick.
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When the baddies have boarded the New Republic Cruiser, we see a pair of troopers blasting off screen, down a hallway. Only for their own mates to cos running it up first.
Gives the impression of “they can’t kill you if you is already dead. It’s a mercy, really”.
And now some praise. We see a fair few survivors of that attack being patched up. In terms of ruthlessness that tells us something about our Ersatz Sith. That they may favour efficiency over brutality.
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By count off I mean like one guy setting a steady beat/pulse, something that the rest of their men all time their shots to so they all fire at the same time.
AduroT wrote: By count off I mean like one guy setting a steady beat/pulse, something that the rest of their men all time their shots to so they all fire at the same time.
Alternatively you can program it into your vats of grown soldiers with brain chips. Seems like it worked pretty well last time.
I honestly just don't think its something common enough for people to put time into despite us seeing it regularly. I mean, if you're not even going to program it into Dark Troopers, what hope do you have with rotating security details.
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