More bad news for Star Wars fans...

[Jordy]

"The EU is no longer a part of the star wars universe because we want to have the freedom to create our own thing."

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"No one likes our movies. Let's steal stuff from the EU!"

[Cedric]

Think they just announced Andor 2nd season a few days ago. There's a trailer here, haven't watched it.

First season was good. Nothing mind-blowing but great stuff given the usual slop.

[traxtan]

Think they just announced Andor 2nd season a few days ago. There's a trailer here, haven't watched it.

First season was good. Nothing mind-blowing but great stuff given the usual slop.

They announced it years ago, just only released a trailer now. It's not bad because it's the furthest thing away from star wars lightsabers, jedis and such.

[Tangerine]

"The EU is no longer a part of the star wars universe because we want to have the freedom to create our own thing."

[afewmomentslater.jpg]

"No one likes our movies. Let's steal stuff from the EU!"

There's an alternate universe where their first move was to adapt the Thrawn trilogy to film. I wonder what it's like there?

[Jordy]

"The EU is no longer a part of the star wars universe because we want to have the freedom to create our own thing."

[afewmomentslater.jpg]

"No one likes our movies. Let's steal stuff from the EU!"

There's an alternate universe where their first move was to adapt the Thrawn trilogy to film. I wonder what it's like there?

They put Thrawn into one of the TV spin offs didn't they?

[Tangerine]

"The EU is no longer a part of the star wars universe because we want to have the freedom to create our own thing."

[afewmomentslater.jpg]

"No one likes our movies. Let's steal stuff from the EU!"

There's an alternate universe where their first move was to adapt the Thrawn trilogy to film. I wonder what it's like there?

They put Thrawn into one of the TV spin offs didn't they?

Yes, as a step above a bumbling cartoon villain.

[rusty_shackleford]

There's an alternate universe where their first move was to adapt the Thrawn trilogy to film. I wonder what it's like there?

They put Thrawn into one of the TV spin offs didn't they?

Yes, as a step above a bumbling cartoon villain.

Incredible levels of based, ******** on star wars nerds

[rusty_shackleford]

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[MrTwinkls]

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[Finarfin]

I'm curious if Zero Company will be somewhat good. The trailer was nice and the main cast seems all male.


Got more info about Zero Company.
A Mandalorian, Jedi Padawan and an astromech droid are in your squad. Hawks (Player Character) is fully customizable meaning race and voice. Tell is the Jedi Padawan who is on a quest to finish her masters final mission.

[Reichspepe]

I'm curious if Zero Company will be somewhat good. The trailer was nice and the main cast seems all male (except I can't place that jedi)

*If* this is good and not pozzed, with men only, then I am very interested in something like this. Very cautious about this though. From the shot at 1:42, I'm pretty sure the that's a womandalorian.
Hope I'm wrong but it looks like the "bodytype B" type of ******-woman-from so prevalent recently.

And oof, it's by EA.

I read you can customise your squad as well, so that's good at least.

[logincrash]

I'm curious if Zero Company will be somewhat good. The trailer was nice and the main cast seems all male.


Got more info about Zero Company.
A Mandalorian, Jedi Padawan and an astromech droid are in your squad. Hawks (Player Character) is fully customizable meaning race and voice. Tell is the Jedi Padawan who is on a quest to finish her masters final mission.

Zero Company? More like Zero Hypeforit.
Every single Star Wars product post 2012 has to be treated with extreme prejudice and considered utter **** until proven otherwise. Andor S1 was literally the only competent thing to come out since Lucas sold his legacy to kiked Disney. And even then it was full of non-Whites and **** and girlbosses. And it's barely a Star Wars show.

[J1M]

I'm curious if Zero Company will be somewhat good. The trailer was nice and the main cast seems all male (except I can't place that jedi)

*If* this is good and not pozzed, with men only, then I am very interested in something like this. Very cautious about this though. From the shot at 1:42, I'm pretty sure the that's a womandalorian.
Hope I'm wrong but it looks like the "bodytype B" type of ******-woman-from so prevalent recently.

And oof, it's by EA.

I read you can customise your squad as well, so that's good at least.

By customize your squad they probably just mean pre or post op.

[Statesman]

AI can actually make better Star Wars content than Disney...

[DecadeRiptide]

Looks amazing to me.
I might actually go to cinema for this one. I haven't been in a while.

[Cipher]

Looks amazing to me.
I might actually go to cinema for this one. I haven't been in a while.

Alright, alright. Fine. You have impressive levels of sarcasm, we get it. Very clever! No need to brag about it posting stuff like that.

[DecadeRiptide]

I'm serious.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Didn't the actor get fired?

[logincrash]

Looks amazing to me.
I might actually go to cinema for this one. I haven't been in a while.

How do you consistently manage to deliver the most dogshit takes possible?

[Tangerine]

Looks amazing to me.
I might actually go to cinema for this one. I haven't been in a while.

How do you consistently manage to deliver the most dogshit takes possible?

He's spiritually brown.

[DecadeRiptide]

Looks amazing to me.
I might actually go to cinema for this one. I haven't been in a while.

How do you consistently manage to deliver the most dogshit takes possible?

Season 1 was amazing. Idk how people don't like it. I'm not even part of the "grogu cute" trend.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Idk how people don't like it.

I remember being told that it was great and checked it out. I thought it was forgettable.

It is a 8 episode long show with hour long episodes. That is a large time commitment. In that span of time I could have watched 4 movies, or two full single cour animes that told good stories. Or read one or two fantasy novels. So how good are those 8 hours of Mandalorian? Is actually 8 hours of fun all the way through? I thought that the plot of the first season could have been a 90 minute or a 2 hour long movie. The only plot relevant stuff happens at the beginning when he finds the baby Yoda and then leaves, and then towards the end when he comes back and the shootout happens. The 6 episodes in between are filler, and I cannot recall any of the filler plots, nor the characters of the day. They are mediocre compared to classic episodic TV show episodes like Bonanza or Star Trek, where a lot of the plots and actors were memorable.

The story never got me particularly invested in the guy or in the baby Yoda or what was going on, and the show ends on a to-be-continued rather than having a definitive, satisfying ending. I knew right there that the story would be dragged out for years until it was unprofitable and then end on a meh note, or end after so much filler so as to make it a more time investment.

The next major issue is the forgettable aesthetics. Oh boy, it is the umpteenth rehash of the original movie's aesthetics. Wild west desert towns with sandstone houses and grey metal doors. Block utilitarian spaceships with the paint chipping off. Grotesque aliens. Stormtroopers. AT-ATs. Etc. I had already grown up playing N64 and PC Star Wars games, flipping through the artbooks, etc, and was over and done with that. The prequel trilogy reignited my interest because Lucas didn't rehash the same old stuff. He came up with new aesthetics and settings that were novel but also looked good. But this does not look novel, and the designs and the image on film doesn't look as appealing as the old movies.

The soundtrack was completely forgettable too. I think that John Williams has had an unintentionally bad effect on the industry as for a long time big orchestras were glamourized as being the most "important" or "highest" form of soundtracks at the expense of chamber music and synth stuff, but his scores for the Star Wars movies - which is 12 and a half hours of movies - were memorable. Lots of good tunes were worth adding to a favorite's playlist. Meanwhile, Mandalorian was 2/3rds of the length but I cannot recall any tracks whatsoever.

[Cipher]

I'm serious.

Huh? Wait, wait... oh... wait, oh... no...

[Acrux]

Looks amazing to me.
I might actually go to cinema for this one. I haven't been in a while.

How do you consistently manage to deliver the most dogshit takes possible?

He's spiritually brown.

It's not just spiritually.

[logincrash]

Idk how people don't like it.

I remember being told that it was great and checked it out. I thought it was forgettable.

It is a 8 episode long show with hour long episodes. That is a large time commitment. In that span of time I could have watched 4 movies, or two full single cour animes that told good stories. Or read one or two fantasy novels. So how good are those 8 hours of Mandalorian? Is actually 8 hours of fun all the way through? I thought that the plot of the first season could have been a 90 minute or a 2 hour long movie. The only plot relevant stuff happens at the beginning when he finds the baby Yoda and then leaves, and then towards the end when he comes back and the shootout happens. The 6 episodes in between are filler, and I cannot recall any of the filler plots, nor the characters of the day. They are mediocre compared to classic episodic TV show episodes like Bonanza or Star Trek, where a lot of the plots and actors were memorable.

The story never got me particularly invested in the guy or in the baby Yoda or what was going on, and the show ends on a to-be-continued rather than having a definitive, satisfying ending. I knew right there that the story would be dragged out for years until it was unprofitable and then end on a meh note, or end after so much filler so as to make it a more time investment.

The next major issue is the forgettable aesthetics. Oh boy, it is the umpteenth rehash of the original movie's aesthetics. Wild west desert towns with sandstone houses and grey metal doors. Block utilitarian spaceships with the paint chipping off. Grotesque aliens. Stormtroopers. AT-ATs. Etc. I had already grown up playing N64 and PC Star Wars games, flipping through the artbooks, etc, and was over and done with that. The prequel trilogy reignited my interest because Lucas didn't rehash the same old stuff. He came up with new aesthetics and settings that were novel but also looked good. But this does not look novel, and the designs and the image on film doesn't look as appealing as the old movies.

The soundtrack was completely forgettable too. I think that John Williams has had an unintentionally bad effect on the industry as for a long time big orchestras were glamourized as being the most "important" or "highest" form of soundtracks at the expense of chamber music and synth stuff, but his scores for the Star Wars movies - which is 12 and a half hours of movies - were memorable. Lots of good tunes were worth adding to a favorite's playlist. Meanwhile, Mandalorian was 2/3rds of the length but I cannot recall any tracks whatsoever.

The first episode of the first season was alright. The rest quickly turned into slop. Second season and onwards it became the most ******** **** ever. Well, the most ******** at the time. The bar for retardation has been leaped over and raised at least three times by at least three separate other Star Wars TV shows.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

@DecadeRiptide what did you think about The Mandalorian? I kinda feel like my criticisms might have shut down the conversation, but I am interested to hear points things I might not have thought about. These days on the internet it seems that there is a tendency for people to avoid talking about the things they like for fear of ridicule and I don't want to be part of that. So threads usually become about how much stuff sucks.

[DecadeRiptide]

@DecadeRiptide what did you think about The Mandalorian? I kinda feel like my criticisms might have shut down the conversation, but I am interested to hear points things I might not have thought about. These days on the internet it seems that there is a tendency for people to avoid talking about the things they like for fear of ridicule and I don't want to be part of that. So threads usually become about how much stuff sucks.

Oh I meant to give your reply @ read and honestly forgot.
I'll read it though soon.

But as for Mandalorian I loved season 1 and thought 2 was ok. Wasn't a fan of how the main character got sidelined for that woman in 3.

The remember the CGI being some of the best I've seen for a TV show and the soundtrack was amazing. Many of characters were really well written and the battle scenes were great.

I get why people might hate the CGI though. A lot of it is clearly green screens and the creatures or whatever like grogu sometimes look a bit silly, but still I feel like they pulled this of reay well. It was very consistent and looked very polished.

The visuals combined with the soundtrack and SFX gave it a lot of character and charm.

Then you have the people who are old school star wars nerds. I'm not one of those people so I can't really comment from that perspective but the TV show is most likely very different from those older movies. I imagine a large portion of hate comes from that

I feel like it's main issue is there was not only one director. I'm pretty sure every few episodes another director was given a chance to work on it. Maybe this is why it went downhill in season 3. Idk.

[DecadeRiptide]

I remember being told that it was great and checked it out. I thought it was forgettable.

Is actually 8 hours of fun all the way through?

No, you are right, much of it is kind of forgettable. I also don't think it was fun all the way through, it definately had some episodes which I didn't really enjoy. I mostly just put it down to the director situation, there are so many: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls082400339/. I don't actually know if this was the cause of some episodes being boring, there must have been a head director or something to ensure everything stayed consistent at least.

and I cannot recall any of the filler plots, nor the characters of the day

I can think of many:

► some character clips (spoilers)

Paz Visla for one. Early on he showed a lot of resentment and jelousy to Djarin, but throughout the series he became one of the best characters in the entire series and ended up being my favourite in the entire show:


Moff Gidean:


R5-D4:


IG-11:


Boba Fett:


Battle Droids investigation:

The story never got me particularly invested in the guy or in the baby Yoda or what was going on, and the show ends on a to-be-continued rather than having a definitive, satisfying ending. I knew right there that the story would be dragged out for years until it was unprofitable and then end on a meh note, or end after so much filler so as to make it a more time investment.

True, I hated the ending. It felt rushed and abrubt without a solid conclusion. However I think the show actually stopped supposedly because of writers going on strikes (something to do with something called the Writers Guild Amercia?). Probably explains why the ending felt rushed.

The filler episodes were also actually annoying yeah, I hate being drip-fed the main story in TV series. The ending of each episode were always left without a conclusion to force you to come back for the next one - that ****** me off every time. That being said, I still found many of the filler episodes to be quite enjoyable.

The next major issue is the forgettable aesthetics. Oh boy, it is the umpteenth rehash of the original movie's aesthetics. Wild west desert towns with sandstone houses and grey metal doors. Block utilitarian spaceships with the paint chipping off. Grotesque aliens. Stormtroopers. AT-ATs.

Season 1 was set in that dry desert lands, but there was loads of episodes that took place in other themed areas too:

► some location scenes

Some ice world:


Coruscant:


Plazir-15:


Morak:


Idk what the planet was called but it was cool:

And loads of other places I probably forgot.

But this does not look novel, and the designs and the image on film doesn't look as appealing as the old movies.

That is what I kind of mean, I never watched the old ones so I don't really have something to compare it to and believe it is worse. I just simply love what I saw in this TV series.

The soundtrack was completely forgettable too. I think that John Williams has had an unintentionally bad effect on the industry as for a long time big orchestras were glamourized as being the most "important" or "highest" form of soundtracks at the expense of chamber music and synth stuff, but his scores for the Star Wars movies - which is 12 and a half hours of movies - were memorable. Lots of good tunes were worth adding to a favorite's playlist. Meanwhile, Mandalorian was 2/3rds of the length but I cannot recall any tracks whatsoever.

I agree, they are 100% forgettable. But they also sound really good when you do listen to them. It sounds great in that trailer I posted earlier. The little flute sound they scatter around the scenes too are awesome. I like it.

[Irenaeus]

We need to bring old school Star Wars back...

[J1M]

@DecadeRiptide what did you think about The Mandalorian? I kinda feel like my criticisms might have shut down the conversation, but I am interested to hear points things I might not have thought about. These days on the internet it seems that there is a tendency for people to avoid talking about the things they like for fear of ridicule and I don't want to be part of that. So threads usually become about how much stuff sucks.

I liked the premise of digging into Mandalorian culture, but it was obvious that the usual suspects would ruin it quite quickly by falling into obvious traps (too much focus on the puppet, taking off the helmet, lots of filler (which is not the same thing as episodic adventures), stakes that were too high, introducing too many Mandalorians, and then deciding to make them fight each other, locations only serving as nostalgia bait).

It's very clear nobody had a 5-year plan for the show.

For those of you willing to watch whatever nonsense they are making these days, you should just go play this game instead: