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I loved Hunter falling through the trees like Rambo in First Blood. I'm kind of hoping we get a First Blood style ep next week, with him escaping, and being pursued, armed only with his knife
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Cheesus posted:This show is so visually beautiful. They have gotten so good at animation in this style, I can't wait for the next non-clone adjacent property to come out from this group.
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So wait I haven't kept up with bad batch, but Scorch was in an episode and didn't say two lines? I'm not sure if I'd be happy he didn't talk since they wouldn't get Raphael back and Baker doing his voice would sound wrong or if I'm sad he didn't quip like a dumbass manchild.
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I watched some more Clone Wars S6 The Clovis / Banking arc was good. Though the show is pretty consistently good at this point I wasn't expecting much and it was a pleasant surprise. It felt like someone heard the complaints about politics in the prequels and decided to write a story about a fight over the banks as a challenge. The story is very clearly getting close to Episode 3 and while it's not as overt as Ahsoka leaving or Order 66 being discovered, between the Republic gaining a huge victory and Anakin's rage and jealousy being prominent it's clear that we're in the home stretch. The Jar-Jar / Mace arc sucks. People will tell you "this is the one where Jar Jar is good" and nope, he still sucks. Aside from hating Jar-Jar (and not really liking Mace) I don't like it when the show diverges much from the way the movies present the Force. It's part of why I didn't like the Mortis arc, and part of why I hated most of the Nightsisters stuff, and it's fully on display here. The Indiana Jones stuff was cute I guess. Given I know the next arc has elements of both I'm really curious to see how I find it.
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I like the Jar Jar episodes as a way to troll people. I hate the Yoda arc that comes next though. Maul doing the Gollum routine was bad enough but the Yoda arc does it twice with different characters and it drives me nuts.
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I really haven't liked Maul much in Clone Wars, which surprised me since his stuff in Rebels was great (especially his first appearance).
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Maul is handled rather poorly in clone wars, but his season 7 appearance is pretty good. I dont think the writers really knew what to do with him, which is why they decided to make his brother a new Sith apprentice before immediately ditching that idea and going "why don't we just use Maul instead?" So Maul gets tossed around from plot to plot until they decide he'll be a crime boss but then he's also Mandalore but then he is a crime boss again and it just goes in circles. The only two things about Maul that really work in TCW and Rebels are his obsession with vengeance against Obi-Wan and his "only sane man" approach to avoid Sidious's coming purge. Inconsistency is what holds both shows back even if they're overall decent. You have a number of episodes that can be downright brilliant and several that are solidly good, but then you also have stretches where the stories just fall flat, or are downright bad, or it's clear that plots and characters are getting mashed together for little reason. Barriss, for example, was a victim of the show ditching half the supporting cast and failing to develop any meaningful relationships between Ahsoka and other characters after season 3. When the show pulled back from the broad view of the war to really focus on Obi Wan, Anakin and Ahsoka and their adventures it felt like the scope became more limited and because supporting characters could go several seasons without appearing it made certain twists feel cheap and unearned because they weren't built up. Fives, for example, only started developing as a character after literally every other, more interesting, member of Domino Squad died or vanished. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Maul is handled rather poorly in clone wars, but his season 7 appearance is pretty good. I dont think the writers really knew what to do with him, which is why they decided to make his brother a new Sith apprentice before immediately ditching that idea and going "why don't we just use Maul instead?" So Maul gets tossed around from plot to plot until they decide he'll be a crime boss but then he's also Mandalore but then he is a crime boss again and it just goes in circles. Like he knew Pre Visla was going to betray him and while he initially seemed indifferent to becoming the Mandalorian leader, once he had it the power of it appealed to him. Just as he was leaning into it, Sidious basically imparts onto him that Maul is becoming too big and that maybe he should just stick with crime boss.
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 quote:After the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Poe Dameron and BB-8 must make an emergency landing on the volcanic planet Mustafar where they meet the greedy and conniving Graballa the Hutt. The crime boss has purchased Darth Vader’s castle and is renovating it into the galaxy’s first all-inclusive Sith-inspired luxury hotel.
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That's already a comic book series, Tales of Vader's Castle or something like that.
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Aug 3, 2021 17:14
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Lol, I missed the part where it said it was Lego Star Wars and was about to post about how awful that sounded.
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Aug 3, 2021 17:16
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Is Dean Broom Boy?
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Aug 3, 2021 17:42
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thrawn527 posted:Sith….inspired…luxury……hotel…. It’s LEGO Star Wars, it’s not supposed to take itself seriously
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Larryb posted:It’s LEGO Star Wars, it’s not supposed to take itself seriously Oh, I know. But even knowing that, that part stood out to me as funny.
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That sounds awesome. Ditch the galactic cruiser hotel and replace it with a sith hotel.
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Aug 3, 2021 17:53
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Graballa was one of the best parts of Freemaker Adventures, so it’ll be fun to see him again.
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In old EU anakin solo, his weird girlfriend, the teddy bear jedi master and tionne go into vaders castle to recover obiwan's lightsaber and that story just sounds like that.
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Lego Star Wars Xmas special was pretty fun so I'll give it a shot.
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I find it amusing that (as far as I know) the only ones doing anything with the sequel trilogy currently (both in terms of shows and games) are the LEGO Star Wars series.
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Larryb posted:I find it amusing that (as far as I know) the only ones doing anything with the sequel trilogy currently (both in terms of shows and games) are the LEGO Star Wars series. I was about to counter argue with the Mandalorian but even that, after thinking about it, is still very much original trilogy. 
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Lego by it's nature is five steps removed from any actual expectations from fans other than the ones they set for themselves. They've been very wise to play loose with everything they've done in film and games and rely entirely on their existing brand cache. They're allowed to do things with other people's IP that not even the IP holders are allowed to do. When I worked at Disney I was always jealous of their freedom.
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Larryb posted:I find it amusing that (as far as I know) the only ones doing anything with the sequel trilogy currently (both in terms of shows and games) are the LEGO Star Wars series.
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Larryb posted:I find it amusing that (as far as I know) the only ones doing anything with the sequel trilogy currently (both in terms of shows and games) are the LEGO Star Wars series. Anita Dickinme posted:I was about to counter argue with the Mandalorian but even that, after thinking about it, is still very much original trilogy. I’m ready for Lego Mandolorian, make it happen!
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Cartoon Man posted:I’m ready for Lego Mandolorian, make it happen! Mando and Grogu showed up in the holiday special.
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Urdnot Fire posted:There’s also the Rogue Squadron movie coming up. FWIW, we don’t know when that’s set or any details about that yet. IIRC, the logo for it is an OT T-65 and not a ST T-70, but that’s still years away so who knows…
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Season 2 Announced: https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1423267557428039683?s=20
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Teek posted:Season 2 Announced: Inevitable but still 
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I knew this was going to happen but awesome nonetheless (only real question is if the next season is it or if the show will wind up going for more)
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Larryb posted:I knew this was going to happen but awesome nonetheless (only real question is if the next season is it or if the show will wind up going for more) Given how late this announcement came, looks like it's going to be decided on a season by season basis.
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How does Filoni keep getting the money to do this. How. I mean I'm really enjoying the Bad Batch now but still. I'm continually surprised by animated Star Wars' success.
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I figured they were running out of runway to make a good landing. Glad the Dad Batch will have at least another season of Dee Bradley Baker doing 80% of the voicework.
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thrawn527 posted:Given how late this announcement came, looks like it's going to be decided on a season by season basis. I don't think this is necessarily the case. If its going to be airing in 2022 its likely already in production. I think the announcement is just being made near the end of the season to get everyone hype. that being said, I want/need a show that is a bit more grandiose and mystical and force-adjacent with the same quality this team is putting into these bad batch episodes. Their shows are so loving good looking now and CWS7 was amazing so please give me a new show too!!
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Season 7 of Clone Wars is less than a year old, The Mandalorian season 2 just over six months. We've had quite a lot of big deal force stuff of late.
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Arquinsiel posted:Season 7 of Clone Wars is less than a year old, The Mandalorian season 2 just over six months. We've had quite a lot of big deal force stuff of late. Mando doesnt count its live action. I just want some gorgeously animated mystical poo poo to balance out the clone stuff. I was psyched when there were all those rebels rumors but it looks like that may end up just being part of the ahsoka live action.
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Jerkface posted:Mando doesnt count its live action. I just want some gorgeously animated mystical poo poo to balance out the clone stuff. I was psyched when there were all those rebels rumors but it looks like that may end up just being part of the ahsoka live action. Monkey's paw... You now have season 2 of The Resistance.
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Burning_Monk posted:Monkey's paw... You now have season 2 of The Resistance. Jokes on you I liked resistance  I want a rogue squadron tie in that uses the resistance animation style since it worked way better for the ship stuff at portraying speed. Resistance just needed to ditch Kaz, there was some good stuff going on in there!
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Larryb posted:I find it amusing that (as far as I know) the only ones doing anything with the sequel trilogy currently (both in terms of shows and games) are the LEGO Star Wars series. It's even more amusing when even the Lego specials try to avoid some of the plot elements from TROS, like Rey being a Palpatine or Rey using the Skywalker name.
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