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Honestly, I think Danny Trejo's cameo would have been funnier if he just showed up, said nothing, was in the scene long enough for you to go "Oh hey, that's Danny Trejo", and then left.
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Jan 12, 2022 21:48
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nine-gear crow posted:Honestly, I think Danny Trejo's cameo would have been funnier if he just showed up, said nothing, was in the scene long enough for you to go "Oh hey, that's Danny Trejo", and then left. i dunno, i laughed pretty hard at it "its depressed. rancor's are emotionally complex creatures."
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Jan 12, 2022 21:49
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Jerkface posted:i dunno, i laughed pretty hard at it "its depressed. rancor's are emotionally complex creatures." I’ll give it that. This was the most weirdly funny episode so far. I went into this show reluctantly like “God, please, no more Star Wars.” and have been pleasantly surprised by how un-Star Wars it is. I like it.
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Jan 12, 2022 21:57
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Sash! posted:He could have ejected!
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Jan 12, 2022 22:01
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I'm seeing a lot of complaints online about this show saying "Why does Boba Fett get his rear end kicked so much? why does he suck so bad? He just lets everyone disrespect him to his face and walk all over him!!" And you know, given BOBF is not a documentary I am coming around to the idea that maybe the show isn't quite here to tell us that boba fett is a badass amazing guy, or maybe the show is building up to him losing his poo poo and going on a rampage or whatever. The current events of the show are a little at odds with the marketing of the show, but maybe that bodes well for the latter occurring by end of season. also after seeing all the pictures of british mods on twitter for the influence of the speeder gang i gotta say I like them a lot more. edit: these tweets especially https://twitter.com/LilFormers/status/1481318515802054660 https://twitter.com/MitchyDelta/status/1481366532118642690 https://twitter.com/nerdfollowing/status/1481347833307582472 the space vespa cyborg squad is good now - obviously they are VERY star wars - both because they are a reference to a popular culture of the past as well as Lucas-interest adjacent being a bunch of mod bikers. Jerkface fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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Jan 12, 2022 22:19
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G-III posted:This show feels like dumb fanfiction... and I love it. So far RR's episodes definitely have had the "fan film" vibe. I didn't mind the vespa chase, but yeah, the pacing/speed of it was a bit off for me as well. It's whatever, you could tell RR was deliberately working on a shoestring budget lol. I really dig the idea of a cyborg hipster biker gang on Tatooine though. It's so weird. teagone fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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Jan 12, 2022 22:46
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:He's either busy on Endor or dead at this point in the show. When Boba enters town to talk to the Pikes he sees a bunch of Stormtrooper helms on, well, pikes. I took that to mean the news of Battle of Endor had recently hit Tatooine and whatever minor presence the empire had there was overrun by some crimelords/the mayor looking for a rep bump for taking credit for dismantling their presence now that there was little fear of reprisal. The Empire didn't exactly let the spice flow so I suspect the Pikes would welcome their removal the most, one fewer party to bribe at least.
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Jan 12, 2022 22:48
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I can't tell if this tweet is sarcastic or not considering the prequels have a ton of 50s drag racer imagery, which is the most boomer poo poo imaginable and 100% within Lucas's vision, hello American Graffiti and the Millennium Falcon.
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Jan 12, 2022 23:08
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I can't tell if this tweet is sarcastic or not considering the prequels have a ton of 50s drag racer imagery, which is the most boomer poo poo imaginable and 100% within Lucas's vision, hello American Graffiti and the Millennium Falcon. If you read through he is absolutely serious, I like that tweet because its a good photo of the different bikes where you can see they are all modded differently, and because its an obviously ridiculous statement.
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Jan 12, 2022 23:13
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To be fair that one shot, if you said "what show is this" I wouldn't have said star wars. I like the idea of the mod bikes. I just wish they were a bit more patch work.
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Jan 12, 2022 23:15
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Jerkface posted:I'm seeing a lot of complaints online about this show saying "Why does Boba Fett get his rear end kicked so much? why does he suck so bad? He just lets everyone disrespect him to his face and walk all over him!!" And you know, given BOBF is not a documentary I am coming around to the idea that maybe the show isn't quite here to tell us that boba fett is a badass amazing guy, or maybe the show is building up to him losing his poo poo and going on a rampage or whatever. The current events of the show are a little at odds with the marketing of the show, but maybe that bodes well for the latter occurring by end of season. The fact that they are themselves a pun makes it even better. What else would you call people who modify their bodies with machine parts but Mods?
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Jan 12, 2022 23:18
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vesper the vtuber should watch fast and furious
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Jan 12, 2022 23:19
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it must be asked when we're talking about star war grognards with strong opinions: is he objecting to the color of the bikes or the color of the actors?
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Jan 12, 2022 23:21
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I object to watching the slowest car chase ever filmed. Also I too have no idea what they are doing with this. This Boba Fett character who emerged from the sarlaac pit bears no resemblance to the Boba Fett we saw in the prequel trilogy and the OT. The flashbacks take place on the other end of Boba's appearance in The Mandalorian where his motivation was 'I want my armour back'. He doesn't appear to be on any kind of character journey, and to the extend he is on a mission it appears to be 'be a nice crime boss' which doesn't track with anything we know about this character. Fennec is equally a non-character. I don't know whether they keep coming back to water as a useful measure of poverty/wealth or whether the show telling us that Tatooine used to be covered in oceans is the show slowly gearing up to pull some STAR WARS story magic on us.
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Jan 12, 2022 23:33
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Episode 1: 7.5/10 Episode 2: 10/10 Episode 3: 8.5/10 The good: holy poo poo Black Krrsantan in battle, an awesome Danny Trejo cameo, a new rancor, and the possibility of Boba riding it into battle, and the old storyline is eventually going to meet up with the Mandalorian (he'll probably find Shand's corpse in the next episode). Also, I didn't see Ninja Tusken's corpse, so hopefully she survived. The bad: I get the premise, but the more we see Boba playing a diplomat, the less it works. This was why Episode 2 was so successful - he destroyed the biker gang, learned some Tusken moves, and stopped the Pyke train, and all around lived up to his reputation. Why is he loving around making appointments and walking into offices? Just smoke those mofos. The Vespa gang was cool but the chase itself was lackluster and the colors seemed out of place, IMO, so no points for bad execution of a good idea. The Majordomo is annoying and most scenes with him were wasted screentine after the first episode. So, overall good but I hope that it'll regain some of the grittiness in the upcoming episodes given that we're halfway through.
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Jan 12, 2022 23:35
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Was genuinely wishing the rancor trainer would be credited with a name like Maw'Shettayy or something. Rodriguez did promise we'd see him in space
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Jan 12, 2022 23:40
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I like how they use a hover pallet jack to move the rancor then force a dozen schlubs to carry around two slugs.
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Jan 12, 2022 23:43
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I like how they use a hover pallet jack to move the rancor then force a dozen schlubs to carry around two slugs. The schlubs carrying the slugs is to send a message. The hover pallet jack to move the Rancor is practicality.
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Jan 12, 2022 23:45
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IT BURNS posted:Episode 1: 7.5/10 Imma go 1: 5/10 2: 4/10 3: 3.5/10 But then add one extra to each for nostalgia and one extra to each because I'm a sucker for silly sci-fi/fantasy stuff and there's not enough competition for it on TV.
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Jan 12, 2022 23:49
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I truly don't understand "this is incongrouous with what we know of the character" complaints. His whole live action appearance is defined by like 3 lines and three and a half scenes in the films. From that we learn that he is a bounty hunter, kind of clever, has a cool hat, and fell into giant evil space pussy. Honestly we don't learn a ton about his "character" as such until Mandolorian, where we learn he is also a Mandolorian, values getting his armor back when he learns where it is, and feels honor-bound to see a deal through and help Din. I could see that character casting about for what to do next and deciding to depose a gross goblin man and struggle to deal with weilding that power trying to be a more stand up man of action and genuine "theives honor." The character is very bland and I'm mostly enjoying the setpieces and world building happening around him. But not really inconsistent if for no other reason than there's hitherto little to be inconsistent with. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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Jan 12, 2022 23:50
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prequel trilogy boba is just a little kid - theres hardly any characterization there other than he got traumatized by the death of his father
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Jan 12, 2022 23:58
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foxy lady, some pig men, a pack of modded mods and now danny trejo the rancor whisperer, the gang is really coming together.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:02
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Jerkface posted:prequel trilogy boba is just a little kid - theres hardly any characterization there other than he got traumatized by the death of his father And he had a laugh.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:07
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Jerkface posted:prequel trilogy boba is just a little kid - theres hardly any characterization there other than he got traumatized by the death of his father They may be scooping the animated material where he's an angry devious fella. But I'm right there with you that "Boba Fett is a vicious capable badass" is fanfiction headcanon.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:09
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The chase was definitely bad and needed to be at least 1.5x faster. The Mod gang isn't bad in theory but seem just so utterly out of place in the setting and story. If this was set on a more cosmopolitan world, they'd definitely fit in a lot butter, but here it feels like taking a bunch of models from Cyberpunk and dropping them into RDR2. The design aesthetic of the scooter also feel extremely off compared to the vehicles normally seen. Stuff like them having a more metallic paint instead of something more matte or textured as is more typical. They're also too curvy with panels that don't have the typical stuff (there's a term for it that I can't think of) that also tends to adorn stuff in universe
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Xelkelvos posted:The chase was definitely bad and needed to be at least 1.5x faster. The Mod gang isn't bad in theory but seem just so utterly out of place in the setting and story. If this was set on a more cosmopolitan world, they'd definitely fit in a lot butter, but here it feels like taking a bunch of models from Cyberpunk and dropping them into RDR2. The design aesthetic of the scooter also feel extremely off compared to the vehicles normally seen. Stuff like them having a more metallic paint instead of something more matte or textured as is more typical. They're also too curvy with panels that don't have the typical stuff (there's a term for it that I can't think of) that also tends to adorn stuff in universe I think "greebles" is the word you're looking for? I figure they're just imported from Naboo or Couscant or one of the other Art Deco Planets.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:15
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the scooters are about as "off model" as anything from Naboo in the prequels, most star wars vehicles are utilitarian or military so matte paint makes sense. this is a kit scooter gang most likely from off world repping custom bikes the design essence makes sense imo they also follow the general speeder bike design philosophy we have seen, smooth paneling interrupted by some "greeble" spots, you can see on the back end side of the bike they have the typical panel work of a star wars vehicle.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:16
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Jerkface posted:the scooters are about as "off model" as anything from Naboo in the prequels, most star wars vehicles are utilitarian or military so matte paint makes sense. Yeah, it's no more egregious than Bail Organa riding around in a Tucker in Episode 3.  
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Jan 13, 2022 00:24
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Check out Dookus bike from AOTC , the Vespas are like that bike had a baby with the Naboo star cruiser. Then check the endor speeders, smooth body still but then more greebles or whatever. Finally Enfys Nests bike from Solo is one of my all time favorites and definitely has more pure OT design sensibilities. The Vespas are pure prequel design ethos. The endor bikes end up sitting in between.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:25
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“The Mods don’t fit Tatooine.” They don’t want to fit in, they want to be shiny and flashy.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:26
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I’m surprised to NOT see people complaining about the way Boba talked to Black K. I’m not familiar with the character, but from reading the thread, I know they have a history together. Yet the way Boba talked to him in the show, it was like they were strangers.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:33
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OldSenileGuy posted:I’m surprised to NOT see people complaining about the way Boba talked to Black K. Because 90+% of the audience's reaction to him is ALSO "wait, who the gently caress is this big badass black wookie?"
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Jan 13, 2022 00:35
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Yeah I had no idea who he was but he owns and I hope he comes back on Boba's side and wrecks some Pyke Syndicate poo poo
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Jan 13, 2022 00:37
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Fett dropped that he knew Santy was a gladiator in episode 2. He knows who he is, but when he says "no hard feelings" he's talking as someone whose been out of the bounty hunter game for at least five years at that point.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:42
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Owlbear Camus posted:I think "greebles" is the word you're looking for? Yeah. It needs more greebles or something or they need to be on a core world and not Tatooine.
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Jan 13, 2022 00:51
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what if they're from mos eisley but want to look like they're from coruscant instead of a sand covered hillbilly?
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Jan 13, 2022 00:59
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Yeah you don't necessarily put a lift kit, flood lights, and a trailer hitch on a lambo because it belongs to a rich kid in Kentucky who's trying to flex cosmopolitan.
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Oh god it’s worse than I thought They’re burners
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