Star Wars TV Megathread: No more Karga, just Greef.

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FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Piell posted:

Forest chase scene was so bad
https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1530712746001432576

Funniest thing about this tweet is that it made Brandon Bird lose his mind in the replies

Yes, THAT Brandon Bird

# ¿ May 29, 2022 05:15

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 20:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

MLSM posted:

Did anyone else laugh at the �content warning� thing before the show began? Like, what the gently caress about Star Wars warrants that? Unless they�re referring to Reva�s bad acting here.

Was it because of the Stormtrooper being cut in half?

# ¿ Jun 7, 2022 14:47

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

So far I would say Child Leia because no kid talks the way she does

# ¿ Jun 7, 2022 14:53

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The disguise thing didn�t really bother me, because j don�t think it was intended to really fool anyone. Nobody was really paying attention due to the distraction caused by the Rebel operative.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2022 14:24

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

ThatWhiteGuy posted:

I get the feeling that Kennedy is like the Star Wars equivalent of the NFL Commissioner. Half of that guy�s job is to be the face of unpopular things that the owners want and take all of the heat from the fans. Kennedy might just the public face that gets all of the hate from the superfans while Disney/Lucasfilm rakes in billions.

It's definitely part of it

Personally I feel like you can blame the TV issues on Filoni or Favreau more than her. However, she was clearly very involved in the new sequel trilogy, and as of right now there are zero Star Wars films under production, with the last one being by far the most poorly received of all of the films.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 02:35

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I think Hayden has had maybe a minute of actual screen time so far

# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 05:13

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Push El Burrito posted:

Rise of Skywalker ruled because it had Babu Frik which is one of the funniest Star War names.

I don't know, it's not better than Dexter Jettster (who runs a 50's diner on Coruscant)

# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 22:54

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Bulky Bartokomous posted:

It's annoying that the Venn diagram for people that hate the ST and internet racists has so much overlap because I think TLJ and ROS deserve every bit of mockery and derision they get.

Agreed

This is also a problem with Star Trek Discovery fans

No, I don't dislike the show because it has a lot of diverse characters. It's because it's an average Trek show on a good day.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2022 01:09

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Way too much of this show is cribbing from Jedi Fallen Order. Which I enjoyed, but did we need to have a very similar episode where the protagonist has to infiltrate and then escape from the same place?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2022 15:07

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The writers of this show really enjoyed Jedi Fallen Order, huh

# ¿ Jun 16, 2022 04:54

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Hakkesshu posted:

Why the gently caress did Indira Varma save the thermal detonator for when she was near death. When they opened the hangar door there were like 40 stormtroopers clumped together and I kept saying "wow I bet they really wish they had some grenades right about now, you could take out all those guys in one blow" and then she loving pulls one out two minutes later just to make a heroic sacrifice for no reason

Insanely stupid show

Also thermal detonators must suck if they can�t even collapse a tunnel like that

# ¿ Jun 16, 2022 12:53

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Necrothatcher posted:

I feel a bit sorry for people who get genuinely hung up on "why didn't X logical thing happen" because it seems like a really exhausting way to consume fiction.

Like, I know Leia can fix electronics because I'm watching her fix electronics.

It was also established in the first episode that she knows how to do these things

# ¿ Jun 16, 2022 13:08

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Bip Roberts posted:

So I missed if it was shown: Can someone give me the route Obi Wan took from being surrounded by storm Troopers to getting on the exit shuttle at the end of the episode? Is he on a different transport or did he skip around Vader somehow?

He was already in the tunnel and moving towards the hangar when Vader entered the tunnel. He had a head start of at least 30 seconds.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2022 13:34

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

How are u posted:

drat, this episode was pretty great! I loved Obi Wan's manipulation of 3rd Sister, I really ended up liking the flashback with Padawan Anakin, and the Vader flexing at the end was fantastic.

Fun stuff!

*taps the thread title*

# ¿ Jun 16, 2022 16:19

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I definitely think one of the show�s biggest failings is using the Volume as a crutch and not just to help in certain scenes. The last episode in particular was mostly shot in the Volume and you could really tell.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2022 18:55

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I can�t believe the balls of this show to have Obi-Wan defeat Vader again and once again walk away, for no other reason than continuity.

That�s not even getting into how a severely wounded Reva manages to not only get to Tattooine, but get there like an entire day before Obi-Wan, somehow?

It�s frustrating because I think the Obi-Wan character stuff is mostly good, along with the Vader stuff, but at the end of the day did this show actually add anything to the story? The answer is a strong no.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2022 05:25

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I�m struggling to see the point of a Season 2. The only issue left unresolved is what happens to Reva, which would only be interesting if they had bothered to explain what she was even doing in the finale. Her character just felt very underdeveloped and clearly the priority of the producers was the Vader/Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan/Leia relationships over anything else.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2022 12:49

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Jedi Fallen Order is just a much better version of this exact same story (Jedi in hiding has to reconnect with the Force and regain his powers in order to do a thing).

I had problems with the ending of that game but it�s still better than what we got here

# ¿ Jun 23, 2022 13:34

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Barry Convex posted:

if they absolutely had to make an Obi-Wan series set in between episodes III and IV, they should have just told a self-contained story about Obi-Wan coming out of hiding to protect Force-sensitive kids from the Inquisitors or whatever, and limited Vader and any other characters from the OT to the periphery. but making the whole thing revolve around OT nostalgia is perfectly in line with the frequently bankrupt way Disney has managed the Star Wars IP

but hey, it wasn't as boring as Book of Boba Fett, at least!

Nope he had to save Leia

# ¿ Jun 23, 2022 17:08

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Reva is just kind of there

She�s only really the main threat for like one or two episodes

As you said, the primary story is Obi-Wan finding out Anakin is Vader and dealing with that

# ¿ Jun 23, 2022 18:23

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Josuke Higashikata posted:

she also just forgets she has the force for a while so that the regular humans have a chance of defending themselves for the extremely contrived drama.

like considering she's in a rough state because ~~vader~~ darth entirely clowned her with the force alone, you'd think she'd be like "i'll just take this pole off this farmer so he can't stab me"

i think the stupidest thing about obi going to see leia is how he just travels the entire galaxy to spend 5 minutes on a helipad with them??? he just saved the dude's daughter, they could have him be invited in for food, a hot shower (he lives in a cave, i think he'd enjoy one), maybe some inconspicuous clothes, other supplies for living in a cave, gently caress maybe even take some poo poo back to make luke's life a bit better in his lovely little house.

jimmy smits really did luke dirty by saying "we always wanted to adopt a daughter... the boy can go live in actual destitute poverty lmao" in ep3

A very big problem with this episode is that the entire Reva/Tatooine stuff has zero tension. We know none of the characters that she runs into will die. I also knew that there was essentially zero chance that two moisture farmers were going to do much damage to Reva, even with her injuries. Then you think Obi-Wan is going to show up just in time to fight Reva, but no, everything's already done by the time he gets there.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2022 22:33

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

As far as I can tell his only job was constantly telling Obi-Wan that they didn't have enough time to repair the hyperdrive instead of, you know, actually shutting up and helping to fix it himself

# ¿ Jun 24, 2022 02:32

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

It's amusing that all of Episode 5 is about how Anakin easily gets overconfident, which allows Obi-Wan to best him, but then when he and Vader have their final confrontation in Episode 6 Obi-Wan just beats him with sheer strength. This show doesn't even take its own lessons to heart.

It would also have been better if there was less of the Obi-Wan/Leia stuff and more flashbacks to Anakin and Obi-Wan before RotS

# ¿ Jun 26, 2022 21:22

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

NoneMoreNegative posted:

All the way through the series everytime they lit up a lightsaber I thought this looks awful - Took awhile before I remembered - way back when I was photographing live shows, it would be a coinflip if the lighting rig was OG bulbs or a new LED setup - if it was the former, great, photos would come out just fine. If the latter, loving awful - the LED bulbs put out an incredibly narrow band of color that murders shadow and contrast and leaves almost absolutely nothing left that you can use to rebalance a shot. Pretty much exactly why Obiwan's face looked so washed out in every fight.

Also - did I miss a trick or did Reva get to Tatooine real loving quick? Stabbed and left for dead, she finds Organa's message - at this point Vader is on his shuttle heading to pick up the chase on the Star Destroyer. Then she has to find a ship in this abandoned planet, crawl aboard, fly to Tatooine, land etc - and the chase between the Pathers and the Star Destroyer is still going on; have they really been evading Vader for multiple hours? I thought maybe they were doing some slipped timeline stuff, but nope.

No you didn�t miss anything. She somehow got to her ship (I assume) and made it all the way to Tatooine well before Obi-Wan did. This was all with what should have been a fatal injury.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2022 02:10

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Smythe posted:

All the way thru the last frame I was waiting for some badass cameo to come and make me say hell yea but it didn�t happen

What, Qui-Gon isn�t enough?

# ¿ Jun 28, 2022 15:17

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

That DICK! posted:

reva raises her lightsaber to kill luke skywalker. "we don't think so." the whole gang's here - wedge antilles, pando baba, the bandana guy from bad batch, W. Wald, a teenage Nien Numb, quarsh panaka. they all take turns doing wrestling moves on her

Don�t forget Bigger Luke

# ¿ Jun 28, 2022 17:59

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

That DICK! posted:

lol did someone tell george lucas it was bad optics to give the jewish alien a big scene about his coin

Episode 1 was pretty cringeworthy in that regard, between Watto and the Neimoidians

# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 00:46

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Robot Style posted:

Yeah, according to Lucas:

The concept art book for Solo actually had an image of a previously unseen "missing link" Falcon that's incorporating the new shape while also keeping some of the Tantive-style design elements.

Lucas' notes from around the time of the redesign refer to the Han's (then nameless) ship as a "pirate manta-ship", so there might also have been some animal influence. The ship's mandibles and wide flat shape definitely have some manta ray to them, even if it's something that was realized after the fact. I think at one point, Lucas was leaning into the aquatic nature of the ship - in the backstory he provided for the ship to licensees he said:

So Corellians were originally flying porpoises who built starships shaped like manta rays.

This sort of looks like the ship you get in the old X-Wing Alliance game which is another unique Corellian freighter

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Otana

# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 01:02

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Top 5-

1. Jar Jar
2. �I hate sand�
3. All of the Lucas additions to the original trilogy in the Special Editions
4. Nooooooooo
5. �If you�re not with me, then you�re my enemy�

# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 14:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

jisforjosh posted:

Vader footsteps and breathing emerging out of the background during the final Trilla fight in Fallen Order and the antagonists having no idea what the gently caress

I feel like Vader showing up kind of messed up the conclusion of that story

He�s not really involved in the plot much until that point

# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 19:52

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Not sure what my top 5 would be but the failure is not the end/new saber bit on Ilum in Fallen Order is one of them.

JFO does such a better job with almost the same 'Jedi redemption' plot as the Obi-Wan series

# ¿ Jul 1, 2022 02:24

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

That wouldn't have been a bad idea since there is apparently a big timeskip between the two games?

# ¿ Jul 1, 2022 02:27

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Definitely interested in seeing how Andor turns out. Darker Star Wars is something that I think can work pretty well.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2022 19:44

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

So Mon Mothma mentioned that there is someone she wants to bring into the resistance. Clearly there is only one acceptable option for who it is.

Get me live-action Starkiller, stat!

# ¿ Oct 3, 2022 22:07

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

No Mods No Masters posted:

Maybe this is my controversial view but I just don't want it to be jimmy smits. Sorry jimmy, I've had enough of you for the time being

I would also prefer if it's someone new

Maybe a Legends character like Garm Bel Iblis? He was supposed to have been a Senator at one point.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2022 22:21

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Oh Jar Jar will be at the dinner party alright

�.as the main course

# ¿ Oct 4, 2022 13:18

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

So what is the over/under for how many of the rebels die during the heist? I would say it�s 2.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 14:32

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Madurai posted:

Before, I never thought "Hey, I wonder if Mon Mothma had a family," and even if they're jerks, I am experiencing tension on what's going to happen to them.

After seeing her lovely family I can see why it was easy for her to go all-in on the Rebellion

# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 22:02

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

DJ_Mindboggler posted:

I really like Mothma as the coffeehouse intellectual/discontented liberal member of the regime sort of revolutionary to contrast with the on-the-ground terrorist streetfighters. Not sure if that characterization was already present in older EU stuff, but it's a good idea to use here.

Apparently she is later responsible for disarming the New Republic, which leads to the First Order almost taking over the galaxy. Good call there Mon.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 22:10

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 20:56

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Jinnigan posted:

didnt The Americans writer have either this show or Rogue One before they left and Tony Gilroy picked it up?

Yes it was a guy who worked on The Americans

# ¿ Oct 8, 2022 19:36

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