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Kesper North posted:The general contention (and i'm just summarizing a branch of critical theory here) is that white savior narratives may on the surface appear to return identity and self-determination to native peoples, any actual appeal to those (small, marginalized) outgroups is largely accidental. This show was design for mass appeal to a primarily white audience, and white savior narratives became popular as propaganda for white people because it teaches them that the only way for other cultures to succeed is to become like them. In fact, it makes it morally obligatory for us to "help" them become more like us. Which is also called "cultural imperialism". I just finished rereading Leigh Bargudo's The Ninth House and one passage kind of stuck with me during this episode: quote:Alex knew it was probably a mistake. Better not to be noticed, remain the quiet girl, in over her head but no threat to anyone. But, like most mistakes, it felt good. This Sand People tribe has now proven itself beyond doubt to be a threat to those spice runners. The truth is that the smarter bit of "White Savioring" would have been for Boba to head into civilization, do a little digging and find out the train's general route and schedule so that the tribe wouldn't be in danger the next times it went through. Yeah, it would suck to have to hide from the damned thing on their own lands, but they'd be alive and so would their Banthas. Instead, with Boba's encouragement, they wrecked and robbed the train, making a really, really enjoyable mistake. Given that this show has six more episodes, figure that mistake will bite them in the rear end.
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Everyone posted:I just finished rereading Leigh Bargudo's The Ninth House and one passage kind of stuck with me during this episode: That's an excellent point, and is why I said in one of my earlier posts that I have faith in their storytelling. There are lots of ways this could still turn out.
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I was initially sceptical of the theme music but it's growing on me. Oh wait Kieron Gillen made up that Wookie character? I thought it was a deep pull from EU.
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Jan 12, 2022 02:43
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As far as I'm concerned stuff originating from the comics is a deep pull from the EU.
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BigglesSWE posted:Oh wait Kieron Gillen made up that Wookie character? I thought it was a deep pull from EU. Yup he originated in the MCU era of star wars comics in the first darth vader run.
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Space Vespa scooters!
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i love that the star wars galaxy is populated entirely with comedic actors edit: holy fucjk black krrsantan is a monster edit: holy gently caress 2 Space Danny Trejo! Jerkface fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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Jerkface posted:holy gently caress 2 Space Danny Trejo! And Space Stephen Root, too!
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Jan 12, 2022 09:31
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Lol Danny Trejo as the Rancor master is dope. Fun episode. The cyborg biker gang seems cool. Really hope that wasn't the last we see of Black K though. Hope Boba hires him or something, lol.
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Stephen Root! Danny Trejo! That speeder chase looked like dogshit though and I kinda hate everything about the Vespa gang. They just don’t fit the setting.
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teagone posted:Lol Danny Trejo as the Rancor master is dope. Fun episode. The cyborg biker gang seems cool. Really hope that wasn't the last we see of Black K though. Hope Boba hires him or something, lol. I think Krrsantan is almost certainly gonna help out Boba in a future episode due to Boba showing him mercy and not feeding him to the new Rancor or selling him back to the gladiators in very much an “honor amongst criminals” sort of way.
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This show owns so much. I was skeptical after the first 1/3 of this episode especially due to the pacing of how some story elements were told, but oh my god did the other 2/3 make up for it.
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They trained the rancor to eat boba didnt they?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Stephen Root! I like it because it’s another genre mishmash into the already mishmashes genre. Alita fans should like it as it’s very Alita
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Big Mean Jerk posted:
It was worth it for a space vespa crashing through a big painting of jabba held by 2 people moving it through the street. Great gag. Continued to be wowed by the production values, but definitely feeling this one "directed by RR"
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Robert Rodriguez is a cheapo low budget director. I’m down with his trash.
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lmao was Fett's comment about riding bigger creatures in the past a reference to the Holiday Special cartoon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsNwP_1kTZQ
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Necrothatcher posted:lmao was Fett's comment about riding bigger creatures in the past a reference to the Holiday Special cartoon? He meant this https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Yarna_d%27al%27_Gargan/Legends
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The space Vespa with the half dozen of rear mirrors should have been ridden by a Dyplotid or a Talz
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I absolutely loved in this episode that Rancors are actually space pitbulls, they're just big misunderstood puppies!
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If they set up Fett riding a Rancor into battle like that and then never deliver on that promise, I will be writing my Congressional representation. The chase where things were moving at the speed of a shopping cart was kinda sad, but I swear that was a crate of meiloorun there at the end.
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I just remember that with the original Hasbro Toys, the Banthas had this piece on their back with a spring attached which you could push down to put an action figure in so they could ride them. Sad they didn‘t have the foresight to do the same with the Rancor
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Jet Jaguar posted:If they set up Fett riding a Rancor into battle like that and then never deliver on that promise, I will be writing my Congressional representation. Oh they will absolutely deliver on that.
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So, what's the over-under on Boba fighting Darth Maul at some point?
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Hipster Occultist posted:So, what's the over-under on Boba fighting Darth Maul at some point? Darth Maul died to Obi-Wan in a duel on Tatooine when Luke was 15.
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Hipster Occultist posted:So, what's the over-under on Boba fighting Darth Maul at some point? Pretty much zero unless it's some kind of flashback. as witness here in this scene which occurs like 2-3 years before Star Wars: A New Hope.
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Jerkface posted:It was worth it for a space vespa crashing through a big painting of jabba held by 2 people moving it through the street. Great gag. It reminded me of Solo, which is not a positive comparison.
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Everyone posted:Pretty much zero unless it's some kind of flashback. as witness here in this scene which occurs like 2-3 years before Star Wars: A New Hope. I thought that came later for some reason, I have all of my timelines mixed up I guess. It seems like they were setting up a big bad (bad enough to scare the Hutts off) and this Pyke gang doesn't seem like they're the ones in charge.
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Jehde posted:It reminded me of Solo, which is not a positive comparison. The solo chase was a lot faster and pretty cool! Solo is actually good if you ignore all the dumb callbacks to stuff han said in the OT. The chase in this episode was waaaaaaaaaaay slower, very weird choice to film it as if it was a kinetic high speed chase but then not actually be high speed. I like Boba Fett just landing via jet pack at the end, like he prolly could have flown the guy down! I actually really liked all the bits showing the city or weird denizens as they did the chase, but the chase stuff itself was like eh. Overall though its a fun episode, but it had a weird vibe. Given all the light hearted dialogue just having the tuskens wiped off the map off screen is strange. So far episode 1 was ok, episode 2 ruled, and episode 3 was a mix of "haha yes!" and "ha ha... yes?"
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Gonz posted:Darth Maul died to Obi-Wan in a duel on Tatooine when Luke was 15. What if Darth Maul shows up but his left half is also all robotic to match his bottom half so he is just 1/4 real boy?
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Hipster Occultist posted:So, what's the over-under on Boba fighting Darth Maul at some point?
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Boba needing to get bailed out by the Captain Planet crew. Shameful. He needs to start projecting strength
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I knew I’d heard the phrase Kintan Strider before; it’s one of the dejarik chess pieces.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I knew I’d heard the phrase Kintan Strider before; it’s one of the dejarik chess pieces. The skeleton of one was their gang symbol it was on the back of one of their jackets! Pretty sure a goon posted it up in this very thread!
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I was hoping that the Rancor tamer was spouting a bunch of bullshit and it was just sedated, leading to it immediately trying to kill Fett as another Hutt plot.Tars Tarkas posted:What if Darth Maul shows up but his left half is also all robotic to match his bottom half so he is just 1/4 real boy? gently caress, I mean I wouldn't put it past the SW crew to do something like that. But yeah, not gonna happen. So far the show doesn't have that same Mando magic for me, and this episode felt like the weakest one so far. If they can stick the landing though that'll go a long way towards improving the show though. As a bit of a tangent, I have a good feeling about the Ahsoka show in particular, but a big part of that is because I'm a big Thrawn fanboy. I don't think they'll have all my long-term Star Wars book fan dreams come true and give me an unlikely alliance of Thrawn, the Chiss, and some Jedi vs. the Yuuzhan Vong (saving the galaxy from a threat they never really even knew about), but that's the show that seems like it has the most potential to recapture the wonder of the original trilogy in a way that nothing since then really has. Basically, I think Mandalorian is still the finest overall production to come out under the Disney Star Wars umbrella, but they're taking so many swings now that I feel something's going to be properly head and shoulders above the rest of the stuff. Maybe Rogue Squadron will be the thing to pull that off, who knows.
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Jerkface posted:having the tuskens wiped off the map off screen is strange. Re: tuskens, we saw the chieftain's body and Boba putting the kid's staff on the pyre, but did we actually see the lady tusken's body anywhere?
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Jerkface posted:The skeleton of one was their gang symbol it was on the back of one of their jackets! Pretty sure a goon posted it up in this very thread! Bad News/Good News/Better News. Bad News: Boba's tribe got murdered. Good News: Which means we can stop talking about whether or not he's a "White Savior." Regardless of his "whiteness" none of the Tuskens were saved. Better News: Roaring Rampage of Revenge in the near future AKA relatively recent past
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