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I don't want to sound like I'm hating for hating's sake, but god damn, this is literally just Look at me, Dave Filoni: The Movie.

I'm positive about it for now. It looks like the kind of movie Star Wars could do with right now, which is to say primarily a fun adventure movie.

The hope is that it will turn out out better than the show due to the shorter runtime forcing some focus, mostly through severe restraint on side quests.

Looks fun.

No interest in this.

Do I have to watch:

Ashoka? Book of Boba Fett? Rebels? All of Andor?

To enjoy this?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Do I have to watch:

Ashoka? Book of Boba Fett? Rebels? All of Andor?

To enjoy this?

I'd be surprised if you even need to watch the Mandalorian.

 LunarSol wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Do I have to watch:

Ashoka? Book of Boba Fett? Rebels? All of Andor?

To enjoy this?

I'd be surprised if you even need to watch the Mandalorian.

After the nightmare of MCU and Disney+ overlap, I assumed you had to watch 936,636² hours of TV shows to get an inkling of what's going on.

Ultimately? We dunno. We don’t know what the overall story is.

We can guess some plot beats (taking out Imperial Remnants, dealing with Jabba’s son), but no more than that.

Star Wars has always played its cards close to its chest with trailers. At least in the Disney era. I enjoy that myself, as I’ve a growing preference, in this era of rampant spoilers and dreg level memes, to go in knowing as little as possible about a movie. But I get it’s not to everyone’s taste.

The mention of Jabba’s son takes me back to a simpler time, when the worst line in Star Wars was “Surrender the Huttlet or die.”

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Ultimately? We dunno. We don’t know what the overall story is.

We can guess some plot beats (taking out Imperial Remnants, dealing with Jabba’s son), but no more than that.

Star Wars has always played its cards close to its chest with trailers. At least in the Disney era. I enjoy that myself, as I’ve a growing preference, in this era of rampant spoilers and dreg level memes, to go in knowing as little as possible about a movie. But I get it’s not to everyone’s taste.

There's not a LOT of plot threads to resolve. Season 3 kind of reset the status quo to "muscle for hire and his adopted Jedi child". I can't really think of anything they could bring up that would be that difficult to pick up unless they decide to make the Darksaber a thing again after they rather clumsily resolved it.

I expect it’ll be a launch point for future shows. Not just Mando S4, but Rogue Squadron and all that stuff. Maybe even a retooled Rangers of the New Republic etc.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Do I have to watch:

Ashoka? Book of Boba Fett? Rebels? All of Andor?

To enjoy this?

You should be watching Andor anyway.
As for the rest, at the very least you will need to have watched Mando and likely Boba Fett.

Hot Take Alert! Level: Alpha. Approved Eyes Only

And Skellington Crew.

Skellington Crew kicks all kinds of rear ends.

Doing Andor again from the top, as I don’t think I’ve done that since S2 concluded.

I continue to be blown away by it. It absolutely is Star Wars, just in an entirely new and gripping way.

It’s a more mature take on the setting, dealing with intrigue, subterfuge and just…y’know, more mature themes. But it never forgets to be fun. It’s just fun in a different way.

And I love the structure of the first season. It’s essentially four mini-series, each with its own three act story.

Star Wars entirely aside? It’s just a damned good spy/political thriller. That it’s managed to integrate itself fully with what are essentially a bunch of Kids Movies is just the cherry on the top.