Posted on 12/01/2020 7:47:52 AM PST by Kaslin
Exactly!
First rule: make sure your directors are fans of the content. You could tell they didn’t understand or care.
Favreau and Filoni obviously love Star Wars.
Whoever was responsible for the last trilogy obviously hated Star Wars.
Favreau is very aware of the fact that the main character doesn’t show his face and the way they pull off knowing exactly what his emotions are is brilliant and hilarious.
I have never been left wondering what Mando is feeling or at all disconnected from his story.
I watched the Gallery series D+ had on it and while some of the episodes were junk, I appreciated how deeply Favreau and Filioni scrubbed through every detail on what could make this series successful and the inspirations they drew upon.
In regard to the helmet, they designed it with Clint Eastwood’s facial structure in mind. clint only has about 3 facial expressions, yet we never wondered what he was thinking.
I think that’s a cheap reason to not attempt to enjoy a fantastic show.
One suggestion with Clone Wars -- look up "Clone Wars Chronological Order" and follow it for episodes. The first couple seasons were bad about jumping around in time, but if you watch them in timeline order they make a much better and cohesive story.
Also, don't get turned off by the Bratty Little Kid Ahsoka Tano early on, the character finally "grows up" as the series progresses.
Imagine if, instead of giving Rey the Millenium Falcon they had given her Baby Yoda.
It’s also The A Team and The Incredible Hulk and a bunch of other 70s TV shows.
My wife & I started watching it last weekend. After hearing so many raves about it, I decided it was worth $6.99 for one month to see all the episodes. We are enjoying it but I cannot say we're blown away. The show is basically a space-western, and it relies on many tried and true tropes from western films.
As soon as Season 1 episode 4 started out with some marauding bad guys attacking a peaceful village and stealing their food and supplies, I told my wife "this episode will be The Magnificent 7*. It was, except that it was really a Magnificent 2 with Mando and a female former warrior training the peasantry and taking on the baddies.
* Or Seven Samurai, if you prefer.
Jeremy Bulloch, the actor who played Boba Fett always said he based how he played that character off of Eastwood’s Man With No Name.
Obviously Boba Fett is not the same character as the Mandalorian (or even a Mandalorian if you want to get really nerdy), but the same essence is there.
I tried and got bored after 3 episodes. I’m sure it’s good, I think I’ve just outgrown the genre.
I was telling my wife, if it was as easy as that, you would have seen light-speed torpedoes being used.
I sincerely doubt that NOBODY before her thought "I wonder what happens when something crashes into something else at light speed?"
Rey is CENTRAL to Disney culture.
Think about EVERY Disney movie since Snow White and Cinderella: they are all about a female protagonist. Disney caters to Disney princesses.
Rey is no princess. She has no story no progress. She is “perfect” and only obstructed by patriarchy.
I stand by, Save Star Wars = erase Rey.
Disney star wars is Star Wars for people who hate star wars by people who hate star wars.
Send them to Hoth.
Oh wow. I never played Galaxy. That’s cool. They’ve really mastered their Easter Egg game.
This blend of science fiction and western hails back to Star Trek, originally pitched by Gene Roddenberry as “Wagon Train in space”. The Mandalorian is more Have Gun, Will Travel in space, built neatly on the Star Wars canon developed by the original movies and Clone Wars series. This is not at all a bad structure, though perhaps a little unfamiliar to a modern audience. (An aside: if you haven’t, give old western TV series a chance. The storytelling is much better than the average show today, and the themes are usually strongly conservative without preachiness.)
The Lone Ranger belies that.
The Mandalorian is a good series. One of the few my son and I look forward to watching together.
That was explained in the original trilogy as Han explains he can't just jump to light speed without first programming in the coordinates, or route. Says you don't want to fly through a star.
The game had multiple player classes and you had to build a life for yourself under the shadow of the Empire.
Unfortunately a couple years in they got the great idea of creating a path to becoming a Jedi/Force user and it turned the game into a GRIND GAME to unlock force Sensitivity. For while you could still play your character as originally designed so it was only the true hard core players that attempted the close to impossible grind.
Then after a year or so of that they decided EVERYONE CAN BE A JEDI and the game became a sad shadow of itself.
Then at about the same time a little minor game called WOW came out, and the rest is history.
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