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Galaga Galaxian posted:So he's gonna be Warlord Zsinj, got it. I mean he could just be playing Gar Saxon again too.
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Marsupial Ape posted:Filoni is going to gently caress around and re-canonize Triclops, Palpatine’s mutant son, much to all our dismay and delight. But Rise of Skywalker already is a canon Jedi Prince story...
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Sash! posted:The thing to keep in mind here is that the people running the USCPSC twitter are insane. Holy (recalled for safety issue) balls, you're not kidding. https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1628913693147684866 https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1631078498432434176 https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1631093524648062977
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ecureuilmatrix posted:Holy (recalled for safety issue) balls, you're not kidding. It's like DaShareZone, but serving a tangible public good.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The kid Mandalorian helmets looked very plasticky for some reason It looked exactly like this 
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nine-gear crow posted:We're probably still half a decade, maybe 10 years away from a fully AI resurrected or de-aged actor-led show or movie made by Disney. Boris Karloff brought back from the dead to play characters also brought back from the dead.
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Animal-Mother posted:Boris Karloff brought back from the dead to play characters also brought back from the dead. I was gonna say remake Plan 9 From Outer Space using a Digital Boris Karloff in the role Ed Wood already tried to posthumously revive him with using late 50s cinema tricks, but that was actually Bela Lugosi that he did that with.
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CelticPredator posted:It looked exactly like this I think it IS that. Or at least they moulded their own without the divot in it. The T-Visor is identical
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The wider visor definitely gives it more of a kid's roleplay accessory vibe, since safety regulations require a toy helmet to have enough room for general visibility, while adult helmets often need different amounts of padding to even get the slit to eye level, and even then visibility is going to be fairly limited.    It makes sense that Mandalorians would do this too, a child would need a visor that they could see out of as their head continues to grow, until they get an adult helmet. It's probably not actually just a repainted toy though - there's some molding differences like different pieces being flush on the toy but not the prop or vice versa, and the border around the visor not extending all the way down to the chin on the costume piece. It's different enough that it would be easier to just make one design that they can fabricate for as many kids as they need rather than buying a bunch of toy helmets and modifying them each by hand.  And weirdly enough, this scene actually seems to contradict Season 1, where Mandalorian kids seem to just wear whatever helmets happen to be lying around (or maybe they're just really non-standard designs), and getting an actual Mando helmet would presumably be a rite of passage that happens during adulthood. 
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Robot Style posted:And weirdly enough, this scene actually seems to contradict Season 1, where Mandalorian kids seem to just wear whatever helmets happen to be lying around (or maybe they're just really non-standard designs), and getting an actual Mando helmet would presumably be a rite of passage that happens during adulthood. You forget another part of season 1; Din brought home a shitload of Beskar, and they even specifically mention it'll be used for the Foundlings iirc.
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Maybe I am just too old and curmudgeonly now or something but that whole opening scene with the Mandalorians in a cave seemed to highlight, or at least confirm, my feeling that they way they've gone with the whole "culture" thing is so very dumb. Mandalorians not removing their helmets seems to be entirely derived from Boba Fett never removing it in the original movies because he was cool and mysterious. But no, its just a whole race of dudes, kids and all wearing dumb T-shaped visors on-top of their normal tunics or something. Oh and all of them have cool jetpacks and flamethrowers too. Our religion is one of cool helmets and flamethrowers. The more its expanded upon the stupider it seems to be to me. CelticPredator posted:Has to be.
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mitochondritom posted:Maybe I am just too old and curmudgeonly now or something but that whole opening scene with the Mandalorians in a cave seemed to highlight, or at least confirm, my feeling that they way they've gone with the whole "culture" thing is so very dumb. Mandalorians not removing their helmets seems to be entirely derived from Boba Fett never removing it in the original movies because he was cool and mysterious. But no, its just a whole race of dudes, kids and all wearing dumb T-shaped visors on-top of their normal tunics or something. Oh and all of them have cool jetpacks and flamethrowers too. Our religion is one of cool helmets and flamethrowers. The more its expanded upon the stupider it seems to be to me. I dunno, the fact that the rest of the galaxy constantly goes "that's kinda dumb" helps a lot.
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I feel like the helmet thing is a Jon Favreau invention - Filoni definitely didn't make it part of his Mandalorians, and it was never part of the Karen Traviss stuff or even the pre-Traviss depictions of them from the 90's. And when they did reintroduce Boba Fett in live-action, he wasn't even a part of the helmet subculture, which means they created an answer for a question that they ended up discarding anyway. I don't remember where I read it, but I think there was a pre-prequel EU story where someone asked Fett why he never took his helmet off, and he said something like "I've got the kind of face the whole galaxy used to recognize", implying that he had some sinister past where becoming the most notorious bounty hunter in the galaxy was actually a step down in terms of his reputation. Obviously with the prequels the clone army would give that idea new meaning, but either way it's an explanation I like more than Fett being Orthodox or whatever.
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mitochondritom posted:Maybe I am just too old and curmudgeonly now or something but that whole opening scene with the Mandalorians in a cave seemed to highlight, or at least confirm, my feeling that they way they've gone with the whole "culture" thing is so very dumb. Mandalorians not removing their helmets seems to be entirely derived from Boba Fett never removing it in the original movies because he was cool and mysterious. But no, its just a whole race of dudes, kids and all wearing dumb T-shaped visors on-top of their normal tunics or something. Oh and all of them have cool jetpacks and flamethrowers too. Our religion is one of cool helmets and flamethrowers. The more its expanded upon the stupider it seems to be to me. I'd be very interested in seeing the schizm of a schizm that lead to never taking helmets off, when before most of Deathwatch didn't give a poo poo about it. But yeah the real life justification is another one of those "OT Star Wars characters are the ideal iconic version of their race or creed", see Obi Wan's hermit robes becoming Jedi robes, all Mandos being bounty hunters for a while ect. I dunno why I can't think of more examples for some reason.
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Hutt gangsters Mon Calamari admirals Position of s-foils
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There's also the whiplash between the very grounded, well considered, well produced Andor and then back to this... Disjointed collection of cameos, callbacks and groups of chubby armoured dudes in a circle shooting a crocodile. Something about it felt very contrived and off. I can't decide if Mandalorian was always like that though.
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Man, literally all the other mandos fancy up their armour with cool paintjobs and what have you then you've got Din just pootling about in bare beskar. Inject some colour in there, son!
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nine-gear crow posted:We're probably still half a decade, maybe 10 years away from a fully AI resurrected or de-aged actor-led show or movie made by Disney. Almost there now https://twitch.tv/unlimitedsteam
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mitochondritom posted:There's also the whiplash between the very grounded, well considered, well produced Andor and then back to this... Disjointed collection of cameos, callbacks and groups of chubby armoured dudes in a circle shooting a crocodile. Something about it felt very contrived and off. I can't decide if Mandalorian was always like that though. The episode was disjointed, but Mando has always been a fairly goofy space western.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Yaddle is a female member of Yoda's species, she's in a bunch of the Jedi Council scenes in the prequel trilogy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ic3kAlh7t0
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the show only kind of works when they rip off Lone Wolf and Cub and old westerns. the more it becomes about the side characters and overarching plot the worse it gets.
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The part that the helmet thing fumbles is the implication that they're all human. If the "helmet always on" thing was more driven by nothing knowing what's under that helmet, it might work better.
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mistermojo posted:the show only kind of works when they rip off Lone Wolf and Cub and old westerns. the more it becomes about the side characters and overarching plot the worse it gets. Ironically, Book of Boba Fett only really worked when it focused on the side-character's over-arching plot 
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You think they will show any of the peaceful reformed Mandolorians Duchess Satine(Obiwan's secret wife) was leader of? An episode of Bo-Katan's clan and and the Children of the Watch united in their disgust of them.
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mitochondritom posted:Our religion is one of cool helmets and flamethrowers. The more its expanded upon the stupider it seems to be to me. Weapons are (canonically) their religion. And yes, it is stupid to get fanatical about poo poo like that. thousand yard stare at the camera Shoehead posted:I'd be very interested in seeing the schizm of a schizm that lead to never taking helmets off, when before most of Deathwatch didn't give a poo poo about it. But yeah the real life justification is another one of those "OT Star Wars characters are the ideal iconic version of their race or creed", see Obi Wan's hermit robes becoming Jedi robes, all Mandos being bounty hunters for a while ect. I dunno why I can't think of more examples for some reason. The Creed aren't Deathwatch though. Neither is Bo-Katan for that matter. She hasn't been since before the end of the Clone War. Edit: I misread your comment, my bad. jassa fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Toplowtech posted:A whole Tale of the Jedis episode is about her death: And how dumb she was. She's singularly responsible for the Clone Wars *and* the formation of the Galactic Empire.
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Eh it was a bit reckless but it’s not too different from what Luke does at the end of RotJ (putting the whole mission at risk to pursue his personal quest), except for a friend instead of father. It may not have been a smart thing to do, but it was a very Jedi (the good kind, not the lofty ivory tower, detached prequel kind) thing to do. Sadly it didn’t work.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Wanna know what a gaping hole in the SW franchise is that could be expanded on and repair some of the damage done to Anakin/Vader's character by the prequels? is this a joke post or are you seriously advocating for a star wars solely about the toil and suffering of slavery
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nine-gear crow posted:Yeah, the reason why Rian Johnson's Star Wars trilogy keeps getting pushed back is because Johnson keeps getting other jobs like Knives Out, Glass Onion and Poker Face and LucasFilm has to keep shuffling the schedule around to accommodate that. I thought Taika got tapped to direct a Star Wars movie or was that just talk? If not then I don't know what else he's got going on that would prevent him from reprising IG-11 (Inshallah)
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:is this a joke post or are you seriously advocating for a star wars solely about the toil and suffering of slavery You're right, it wouldn't work as they've already used up their Werner Herzog allowance.
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mitochondritom posted:Maybe I am just too old and curmudgeonly now or something but that whole opening scene with the Mandalorians in a cave seemed to highlight, or at least confirm, my feeling that they way they've gone with the whole "culture" thing is so very dumb. Mandalorians not removing their helmets seems to be entirely derived from Boba Fett never removing it in the original movies because he was cool and mysterious. But no, its just a whole race of dudes, kids and all wearing dumb T-shaped visors on-top of their normal tunics or something. Oh and all of them have cool jetpacks and flamethrowers too. Our religion is one of cool helmets and flamethrowers. The more its expanded upon the stupider it seems to be to me. I mean that's literally the point, they're the weirdo extremists of a culture that already fought a civil war over whether nuking your own planet into oblivion was a bad idea
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nine-gear crow posted:They've all but said Ray Stevenson is going to be Thrawn on Ashoka. He's currently listed as playing "a villainous admiral" in a show where Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren, Hera Syndulla, Chopper, and Ahsoka Tano all show up in, and the last big thing Ashoka's seen doing is screaming "WHERE THE gently caress IS THRAWN?" at some lady, so the math is relatively easy to do. Also huh Ray Stevenson isn't quite what I had in mind for Thrawn but he's real good anyway. Maybe Admiral Pellaeon?
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It's actually going to be Ray Stevens. He's going to stop Ashoka by making her laugh to his hit song "Little Blue Haired Lady in a Big Black Oldsmobile"
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nine-gear crow posted:They've all but said Ray Stevenson is going to be Thrawn on Ashoka. He's currently listed as playing "a villainous admiral" in a show where Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren, Hera Syndulla, Chopper, and Ahsoka Tano all show up in, and the last big thing Ashoka's seen doing is screaming "WHERE THE gently caress IS THRAWN?" at some lady, so the math is relatively easy to do. Most sources have said he's playing an evil Admiral, but definitely not Thrawn. Don't get me wrong, Thrawn is almost definitely in it, and he may be playing him, but the stories are saying otherwise on that last part so far. No reason a Grand Admiral couldn't have another Admiral around him.
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Lars Mikkelsen is the recent rumor for Thrawn's casting. But then there's this, too: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2023/01/lars-mikkelsen-claims-he-did-not-receive-offer-to-play-live-action-thrawn.html
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Lars Mikkelsen is the recent rumor for Thrawn's casting. He makes the most sense to me. And actors have lied about not taking roles with Disney before. But yeah, who knows until they make an actual announcement.
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