Posted on 11/14/2020 6:08:35 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
How many have watched The Mandalorian expecting a story with a beginning, middle and end with some common story line between episodes?
I have and I have been sorely disappointed as the Mandalorian wanders from planet to planet seeking to reunite the baby Yoda with some one or some thing for some unknown reason, getting into other people's squabbles and acting totally out of character in the process.
Well, it sucks. The Mandalorian is a disjointed cluster foxtrot of a "series".
LOL, forgot about that one.
Maybe I’ll check out Airwolf too.
Small Wonder, Charles in Charge and Silver Spoons are on the horizon.
Of all the things I am concerned about, some show of faggot loving Disney is not one of them. If you can be this concerned about a mandaloriam tv show, I would gladly trade places in life with you. Your a clueless vanity posting moron.
Star wars sucked after the empire strikes back. We knew that in 1980.
Hell, I posted it in chat. Isn’t that what chat is about?
Bonanza, the A-Team, Riptide, Knight Rider
As long as no one disses on MacGuyver
That is basically a description of half of the network TV “action/adventure” series since the 1950s.
Baby Yoda is cute
I'll take the "Holiday Special" over Disney Star Wars for that reason alone.
But if the Star Wars fanboys need another reason why the "bottom of the barrel" Holiday Special is superior to any of the slick zillion dollar CGI movies.... two words: Boba Fett.
To each their own. I’m enjoying it.
I have said it forever - there are only 3 Star Wars movies.
Anybody attempting to view a new movie that pretends to be a Star Wars movie, gets the full impact of the rancid tripe and woke sewage they deserve.
Why anybody would even attempt to watch a crappy new movie that pretends to be a Star Wars movie, is baffling to me.
Just say no. Otherwise, you get what you deserve.
Writing and plots seemed OK in the first season, now, in he second both seem to have taken a sharp nose dive into monsters and other inanities - will give it a few more weeks to improve, else BOOM
Their gay?
Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Gettin very scared and grabbin that Jedi and POW! Mesa here! Mesa gettin’ very very scared!
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Heh. Jarjar reminded me of a whole bunch of conversations I had with locals while stationed in the Far East.
We talky talky pidign.
I remember talky talky pidign Japanese (and Engrish)
I remember talky talky pidign Chinese
same for Korean, Thai and Filipino.
I thought Jarjar was hilarious and about dead on.
But, I’m weird.
There was a Golden Age of Star Wars that lasted from 1977 until the sequel movies started in 1999.
It was a time of full of imagination and great storytelling in comic books, short stories, video games, etc., that all built off of and stayed true to the original storylines and characters from those first three movies.
It became a rich treasure chest full of tested stories just waiting to be told on the big screen ... what a gift! Such a beautifully wrapped present sitting there waiting and waiting to be opened.
But thatâs not what happened and we got what we got with all they came up with, instead ... all tech and no story ... including some remarkably bad characters that canât be forgotten no matter how hard we try ... oh well.
However, for me, there have been a couple of worthy exceptions since then, with the same feel and storylines as in the beginning: Star Wars Rebels and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Rogue One was a good movie, but not a fun story. However, it did tell that story well, I had to admit.
Rebels, otoh, a kidâs cartoon, was one of my favorite TV shows when it was on. I always got a good Star Wars buzz off of that show each week.
I had to buy the DVDs for Rebels and I still have the old, original Star Wars VCR tapes around here somewhere from when they first came out on VCR.
I like it so far.
The Mandalorian is a man, not ambiguous at all. Getting John Wayne’s son to inhabit the suit was a master stroke. He’s got the Duke’s swagger. Pedro Pascal voices the character perfectly. So far so good.
The “child” is a great idea and really cute. Baby Yoda acts like a kid too. I like that.
It’s a TV series not a movie or mini series or soap opera. That’s why it has episodes around a theme and doesn’t have a constant narrative.
That theme is an outer space western. It reminds me of Red River if you want to compare it to a movie.
PS - I like the music.
Simply making a comparison. I would never disparage the high culture that was 80s TV shows.
You forgot to mention turned Obi-Wan into a freaking liar and manipulator, not to mention implied truth was relative long before ROTS used that stupid “Only a Sith deals in Absolutes” line.
And I’d just leave it at Ewoks, personally. At least the second Death Star had a completely different means of taking it out than the first, so they did that bit right (not to mention made a dang good trojan horse). Probably what sours me to the Ewoks even worse is that Lucas was blatantly trying to shill for the Vietcong there. The Rebels were based on the VC as well, but at least with them, you needed to find the development notes to find that bit out. What I hate more than anything else is depicting communist as heroes and outright manipulating audiences into rooting for the Communists. As far as I’m concerned, Lucas ruined Star Wars the minute he started making the heroes into communists, maybe as early as 1971.
Eh, I wasn’t fond of Rebels, as the show had the characters engaging in stuff that just wasn’t right, such as slaughtering a civilian mining company. Plus, I really don’t think depicting the Empire as a bunch of bumblers for the most part made the heroes actually look impressive at all. At least in the original movies, the Empire DID come across as genuinely threatening, which made the heroes exploits all the more impressive. It kind of cheapens things if the heroes constantly win against the villains, and not even by narrow margins, but because the villains with the exception of Thrawn, Palpatine, and Vader are depicted as grade A morons. There needs to be a bit of a balance to it.
Besides, if the Empire was as grossly incompetent as in Rebels, how the heck did they even last over a decade. Not even France under Robespierre lasted THAT long, barely managing to last four years.
Granted, I might have a bit of an Imperial bias especially after some tasteless revelations by Lucas regarding their inspirations, but even if I were still firmly on the side of the Rebels, I wouldn’t have been fond of the series due to seeing them as mary sue characters.
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