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Anita Dickinme posted:T-minus five minutes and I am so loving hype. It’s happening! Somebody get Temeura a Gatorade, he looks so thirsty in these desert scenes.
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Is that droid Matt Berry or am I projecting?
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Jet Jaguar posted:Is that droid Matt Berry or am I projecting? You are not! I hope he sticks around.  edit: and now for the cantina band song on this slick bass riff Cross-Section fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Dec 29, 2021 09:37
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I got everything I wanted by seeing boba fett crawl outta that sand butthole I’m in. Robert Rodriguez boba fett show lets fuckin go
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Dec 29, 2021 09:44
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That was Matt Berry? Amazing
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Dec 29, 2021 09:45
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I can’t wait a whole week to see the next episode. I need it now. 
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Dec 29, 2021 09:46
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Cross-Section posted:You are not! I hope he sticks around. That updated cantina song ruled.
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Dec 29, 2021 09:48
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Why are the episode lengths still so needlessly short? Give me an actual loving 50 minutes of Boba Fett: Fremen Inductee
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Dec 29, 2021 09:49
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God drat, off to a good start. Just inject every episode straight into my veins
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Dec 29, 2021 09:49
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Man, Boba sure got put through the ringer after ROTJ, didn’t he?
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Dec 29, 2021 09:50
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Seeing Matt Berry first in the credits confused me for a bit.
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Dec 29, 2021 09:59
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It's funny seeing Boba get so bloated immediately after getting out of the sarlacc lol
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Dec 29, 2021 10:32
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I never would have guessed that underneath his badass armor, ROTJ-era Boba Fett was rocking old school wild west prospector undies, including the butt flap. A solid first episode. It was nice to see some people being down with just paying the new crime boss the usual tribute, though with how booming business was in the casino they can certainly afford it. I hope the casino isn't behind the attempted hit, I want Boba to have at least one nice smooth revenue stream to build things up from that isn't causing him trouble. Let everyone else in the drat town, including the mayor, be trying to take him out, but I want him and that casino to get along amazingly. A few predictions for how the season will go: -Boba will build up a solid crew to help him run things bit by bit as we go along. -The Tusken Raiders will absolutely save his bacon at some point. It also wouldn't surprise me if he brings them in as his general ground crew/muscle to really shake up how things are run. -Boba's going to do some sick hunting/tracking at some point to show off those old bounty hunter skills. Maybe the casino will ask him to track down someone who owes the casino a pile of money, or he'll have to find the mayor after they've gone to ground and hidden somewhere. -We'll get a scene where Boba with ~prep time~ sets up a hell of an ambush and mercs at least 20 guys on his own, preferably more. -We'll get a new badass character from the New Republic teased for the next season (and maybe doing a bit this season) as an antagonist who's really good at the political/tactical side of things and who keeps making problems that Fett can't just shoot and rocket and flamethrower his way out of. Maybe throw in a dash of Luke Skywalker hero worship for that character too. He's probably way overqualified to be dealing with Fett, but he wants to clean up crime on the planet that the great Skywalker grew up on. I know something like that sounds pretty cringey, and I wouldn't want him creating lightsaber replicas or anything, but I think this team could pull it off. And honestly, Luke blew up the Death Star, fought the emperor, played a major role in saving the galaxy, and has wild space magic. I get that Luke flew under the radar for most of the galaxy, but I have to assume he's got folk hero status among the rebels who moved on to serving in the new galactic government, just like Vader built up a hell of a rep during his time in the Empire. It'd be nice to see that recognized a bit, even if it's from the very small number of people who saw him pulling off slick Jedi moves during the rebellion.
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Dec 29, 2021 11:07
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Who needs movies when these shows are so drat good? Now give me the adventures of adult cindel and wickett show already you mouse company cowards.
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G-III posted:Who needs movies when these shows are so drat good? 
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NowonSA posted:I never would have guessed that underneath his badass armor, ROTJ-era Boba Fett was rocking old school wild west prospector undies, including the butt flap. I thought this was amazing and totally in line with The Mandalorian and just love the idea of Mandalorians these days just being space cowboys. 
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Dec 29, 2021 11:23
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Dec 29, 2021 11:24
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Really surprised by the uh "restraint"? of this first episode. I think everyone on the internet was expecting a big reveal by the end of this and so it got me thinking that too but instead we got basically 35 minutes of boba integrating with the natives interspersed with just a bit of the modern day stuff. It ruled. Also maybe surprisingly, it was pretty funny! Edit: Oh oh also BOOK OF MAX REBO, MAX REBO LIVES  The Casino was great fun the new cantina theme, great, DJ R3X previously employed as Dealer R3X Jerkface fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Dec 29, 2021 11:24
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Cheesus posted:Holy hell that episode was amazing! Really don’t have much of value to add other than that. I did grin like an idiot at Max Rebo and the Bith with the Space Steinberger doing the updated cantina music.
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Dec 29, 2021 12:25
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Getting strong Ray Harryhausen vibes from that sand creature
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Dec 29, 2021 12:42
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Yes. Precisely this.
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Dec 29, 2021 12:46
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Maybe I'm a grump or something but I thought this episode sucked. The dialogue in the throne room was ridiculous, especially when Fennec leaned over and made the most obvious point in the world to Fett, who I guess has the intelligence of a six year old for that scene. The action was all toothless, the music aside from the main themes was forgettable (compared to The Mandalorian, which had a stupendous score), the story was uninteresting and went nowhere, there's apparently infinite water about 4 inches under the sand more or less anywhere you look on Tatooine, Fett thinks he has a better chance with the Tusken Raiders than heading over to that moisture farmer's place to call someone on the telephone... what a mess. It looks great, though - like with The Mandalorian it's fun to just watch what is effectively more '70s-'80s era Star Wars on the screen - and I can't fault the casting or the acting, although there wasn't much of either. It's kind of a bummer Temuera Morrison has to look like the engineer from Prometheus who had an accident trying to make French fries and who is burned all over, but I guess you gotta sell that sarlaac!
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Dec 29, 2021 12:56
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I'm still missing some kind of motivation for Boba to become a crime lord instead of going on to be a bounty hunter. Maybe it will be revealed in the future, but so far it's coming out of nowhere.
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Dave Syndrome posted:I'm still missing some kind of motivation for Boba to become a crime lord instead of going on to be a bounty hunter. Seemed pretty clear that he's getting old, his fighting skills are deteriorating, and his general physical condition isn't great. Gotta retire from bounty hunting sometime and Crime Lord is theoretically less physically strenuous and he can use his underworld knowledge.
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Dec 29, 2021 13:08
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Dave Syndrome posted:I'm still missing some kind of motivation for Boba to become a crime lord instead of going on to be a bounty hunter. That's felt odd to me since the S2 finale of Mando, but I guess we'll get a better idea of it in the flashbacks.
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Necrothatcher posted:Seemed pretty clear that he's getting old, his fighting skills are deteriorating, and his general physical condition isn't great. Gotta retire from bounty hunting sometime and Crime Lord is theoretically less physically strenuous and he can use his underworld knowledge.
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Thought this episode was great and I'm super excited for more! And Matt Berry! Also, daaaaang Ming Na Wen and Jennifer Beals. For future shows/movies, I wonder if those energy shields can block lightsabers? Could add some fun new fights. 10 Beers fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Didn't care much for this opener. Nothing really grabbed me. I may also just be bored of the Tatooine aesthetic.
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Admittedly Star Wars TV is going to the dried up Tatooine well too often. I'd be fine with Boba expanding to inter-system crime lording the very near future (Hi I run a cartel, but a cool cartel based on respect not like Crimson Dawn which is based on cutting out tongues) and making the Obi-Wan show the last Tatooine thing they do for quite awhile. I was fine handwaving the water fruit being around as an element of why having a moisture farm in the area made sense. I just assumed they were pulling it out of the atmosphere, and there's probably wookiepedia stuff to back that up, but it added up fine in my head. Maybe the water fruits help produce more moisture in the air in the area, I'd buy that. Also, it takes a lot of water (or water-adjacent products, such as delicious blue milk) to support any kind of population, so it doesn't really bother me that there's at least a few methods of finding water in the desert. It also nicely explains how the Tuskens can live at all and survive off the land with how they seem to not really use any technology.
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Wow this show looks like it's working with half the budget of the Mandalorian.NowonSA posted:I was fine handwaving the water fruit being around as an element of why having a moisture farm in the area made sense. I just assumed they were pulling it out of the atmosphere, and there's probably wookiepedia stuff to back that up, but it added up fine in my head. Maybe the water fruits help produce more moisture in the air in the area, I'd buy that. Your assumption was right. Even in A New Hope, Lars talks about vaporators and condensers. I think the fruit poo poo is just one of those things showing how the Tusken Raiders get by without all that technology. Jose Oquendo fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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I figured the water fruit was related to the creature there.NowonSA posted:I was fine handwaving the water fruit being around as an element of why having a moisture farm in the area made sense. I just assumed they were pulling it out of the atmosphere, and there's probably wookiepedia stuff to back that up, but it added up fine in my head. They talked about moisture vaporators a bit in ANH. It's why Owen bought Threepio.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Wow this show looks like it's working with half the budget of the Mandalorian. This too. Everything looked and felt very cheap. Which, yes, I know RR is known for working on shoestring budgets. But this is loving Disney lol.
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teagone posted:This too. Everything looked and felt very cheap. Which, yes, I know RR is known for working on shoestring budgets. But this is loving Disney lol. I don't know, the outside stuff with the buildings looked nice, but the practical creatures (Max Rebo as well as the Gamorrean masks) looked better in 1983 for some reason. Maybe it's the lighting?
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Dec 29, 2021 14:00
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Dec 29, 2021 14:06
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It sure is nice to get some good old fashioned Jizz-wailing again.
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Dave Syndrome posted:I don't know, the outside stuff with the buildings looked nice, but the practical creatures (Max Rebo as well as the Gamorrean masks) looked better in 1983 for some reason. Maybe it's the lighting? Maybe, yeah. The rooftop chase looked good, but everything else — especially the raider stuff — was pretty "oof" for me.
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Really? I thought the twilek and gammorean prosthetics looked a lot better in this than in The Mandalorian. Also the little pack of real world droids were a nice touch.
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Dec 29, 2021 14:09
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Lol, the hot takes are coming in fast! Glad to see the Mandoverse is back, the episode kicked rear end.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Really? I thought the twilek and gammorean prosthetics looked a lot better in this than in The Mandalorian. Yeah, the Lekku definitely looked less rubbery this time around. As a side note, I finally convinced my wife to watch the Mandalorian, and she's completely hooked despite only having seen the original trilogy and having played the KOTOR games decades ago. Wanted to see the baby, stayed for the rest. We just finished the first season last night, and she completely flipped at the darksaber reveal. "Ohmigod, he's a dark Jedi!" *grabs my arm* "He's a Darth!"  Bless her heart.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I figured the water fruit was related to the creature there. It struck me as the young Tusken (chieftan son?) using the slaves to dig for the fruit (eggs?) to rile the creature which is presumably seen as a rite of passage in the Tusken community. The kid probably thought he was legitimately going to kill the creature himself once it appeared but of course not. While the kid is telling everyone he slayed the creature, dad knew Fett did it which is why he offered the "fruit".
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