What Are You Watching Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Started watching The Mandalorian earlier, too.
I'm seriously liking this so far. There is so much lore being filled in.
I'm not far enough in to have much opinion yet.
Totally agree with JB. It's been great so far
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Started watching The Mandalorian earlier, too.
I'm seriously liking this so far. There is so much lore being filled in.
I'm not far enough in to have much opinion yet.
This is where I stand.
Personally - it's moving so slow! it's also currently episodic, when I am finding to like less and less in drama based shows. Sure there are some arcs, but they are pretty long and drawn out...
I guess I'm a product of the Netflix age, waiting weekly for 44 mins of show is annoying as hell! yet waiting until the season is done means it will be completely spoiled for me by social media.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
Personally - it's moving so slow!
Only through two episodes, so not too surprised that it is moving slowly. But yeah, from what little I've seen it's dragging a bit.
Overall my first impression is... I enjoyed it while I was watching it, but the moment I'm not, I forget about it until we discuss it here. So it's good, but not yet good enough for me to have enough interest to be thinking about it once it isn't on. So definitely not drawing me back, but more than willing to watch it if it is a offered.
So from what little I've seen, it's like Friends. Watchable, but not "seek outable".
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
I guess I'm a product of the Netflix age, waiting weekly for 44 mins of show is annoying as hell! yet waiting until the season is done means it will be completely spoiled for me by social media.
It's true, that I know that I won't be able to finish it makes me less likely to want to put it on. If I don't like it, what's the point. And if I do like it... what's the point. I can't watch it. It's not conscious, but as there is so little of it, I guess that that is affecting my impression of it. Since I can't catch up, I have no desire to catch up, either.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
I guess I'm a product of the Netflix age, waiting weekly for 44 mins of show is annoying as hell! yet waiting until the season is done means it will be completely spoiled for me by social media.
I guess I watch enough weekly released TV (Japanese mostly) that I have no issues with the format. I would love to be able to binge, but then I know I won't see anything for a year+ anyway.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
Personally - it's moving so slow!
Only through two episodes, so not too surprised that it is moving slowly. But yeah, from what little I've seen it's dragging a bit.
Overall my first impression is... I enjoyed it while I was watching it, but the moment I'm not, I forget about it until we discuss it here. So it's good, but not yet good enough for me to have enough interest to be thinking about it once it isn't on. So definitely not drawing me back, but more than willing to watch it if it is a offered.
So from what little I've seen, it's like Friends. Watchable, but not "seek outable".
I have to say I agree with this. It's only seek outable for me because I'm an avid SW fan. If it wasn't for that, I could see this easily moving to not seek outable.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
I guess I'm a product of the Netflix age, waiting weekly for 44 mins of show is annoying as hell! yet waiting until the season is done means it will be completely spoiled for me by social media.
I guess I watch enough weekly released TV (Japanese mostly) that I have no issues with the format. I would love to be able to binge, but then I know I won't see anything for a year+ anyway.
Well, frankly - so do I... yet, for this show, there isn't enough given to satisfy my hunger for the long wait of another week. I'm guessing this comes back to the slowness I see in the show.
Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying it..
I wonder if I'm so used to movies for my SW fix (I haven't watched much of the cartoon series) that I'm just expecting more or something - or expecting it to finish by the time the credits roll. I haven't gotten into TV viewing mode with it yet.. who knows.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Started watching The Mandalorian earlier, too.
I'm seriously liking this so far. There is so much lore being filled in.
I'm not far enough in to have much opinion yet.
Why are you only 2 episodes in? 5 have been released.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
I guess I'm a product of the Netflix age, waiting weekly for 44 mins of show is annoying as hell! yet waiting until the season is done means it will be completely spoiled for me by social media.
I guess I watch enough weekly released TV (Japanese mostly) that I have no issues with the format. I would love to be able to binge, but then I know I won't see anything for a year+ anyway.
I saw someone post that Disney should release 2 episodes a week instead of one. I do think this would make a huge change in my impatience for the show and would allow it's currently slower pace to not annoy me as much, as the story would be progressing at a more reasonable rate (in our minds).
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
Started watching The Mandalorian earlier, too.
I have yet to see this series.
It's on the list for sure though . -
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: very few would think it very good if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ. It is cute, very meme-able, and has next to zero story or progression. If Star Wars fans weren't starving for anything that is above the level of a flaming pile of garbage they would not be so excited about. That said, I will keep watching it, but a good chunk of that motivation is driven by wanting to keep up with peers/friends in what they're talking about.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: very few would think it very good if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ. It is cute, very meme-able, and has next to zero story or progression. If Star Wars fans weren't starving for anything that is above the level of a flaming pile of garbage they would not be so excited about. That said, I will keep watching it, but a good chunk of that motivation is driven by wanting to keep up with peers/friends in what they're talking about.
aww, the sharing with TLJ is because TLJ is so bad - the desire for something better is astronomical.. ok got it.
I think the little things, the tid bits from previous movies/shows is one of the major things that makes the show a good one.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: very few would think it very good if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ. It is cute, very meme-able, and has next to zero story or progression. If Star Wars fans weren't starving for anything that is above the level of a flaming pile of garbage they would not be so excited about. That said, I will keep watching it, but a good chunk of that motivation is driven by wanting to keep up with peers/friends in what they're talking about.
aww, the sharing with TLJ is because TLJ is so bad - the desire for something better is astronomical.. ok got it.
I think the little things, the tid bits from previous movies/shows is one of the major things that makes the show a good one.
Listen to yourself @Dashrender
From what you've said, you're watching the show because it is Star Wars and it has fan service. Not trying to pick a fight here, just finding it funny. I am in the same camp for the most part. -
And it is a cultural phenomenon. There are very few people who don't know anything about Baby Yoda at this point even if they have never watched the show.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
I think the little things, the tid bits from previous movies/shows is one of the major things that makes the show a good one.
Actually, for me, those are the worst parts. That's one of the things I like least in the Star Wars universe is the constant nods to nostalgia instead of stuff being original or standing on its own. Obviously I want a consistent universe, but I can't stand key characters popping up and doing cameos in every scenario. It's supposed to be this giant universe, but it plays out like it's all happening in a tiny village of maybe 3,000 people. There are apparently only about ten droids in the whole universe, every important person happens to drink at the same remote bar in the middle of nowhere a bazillion light years from anything else, no one every goes somewhere obvious, yet everyone runs into each other.
It's all just so over done. There isn't any "normal life" in the SW universe as shown, just one amazing coincidence after another.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: very few would think it very good if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ. It is cute, very meme-able, and has next to zero story or progression. If Star Wars fans weren't starving for anything that is above the level of a flaming pile of garbage they would not be so excited about. That said, I will keep watching it, but a good chunk of that motivation is driven by wanting to keep up with peers/friends in what they're talking about.
aww, the sharing with TLJ is because TLJ is so bad - the desire for something better is astronomical.. ok got it.
I think the little things, the tid bits from previous movies/shows is one of the major things that makes the show a good one.
Listen to yourself @Dashrender
From what you've said, you're watching the show because it is Star Wars and it has fan service. Not trying to pick a fight here, just finding it funny. I am in the same camp for the most part.Are you saying it's not great? and in doing so perhaps thinking you're picking a fight? lol no reason to think that.
I haven't said it's great - I said I'm enjoying it... it's definitely not great - I wouldn't call it slow if it was great.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: very few would think it very good if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ. It is cute, very meme-able, and has next to zero story or progression. If Star Wars fans weren't starving for anything that is above the level of a flaming pile of garbage they would not be so excited about. That said, I will keep watching it, but a good chunk of that motivation is driven by wanting to keep up with peers/friends in what they're talking about.
aww, the sharing with TLJ is because TLJ is so bad - the desire for something better is astronomical.. ok got it.
I think the little things, the tid bits from previous movies/shows is one of the major things that makes the show a good one.
Listen to yourself @Dashrender
From what you've said, you're watching the show because it is Star Wars and it has fan service. Not trying to pick a fight here, just finding it funny. I am in the same camp for the most part.Are you saying it's not great? and in doing so perhaps thinking you're picking a fight? lol no reason to think that.
I haven't said it's great - I said I'm enjoying it... it's definitely not great - I wouldn't call it slow if it was great.
I am saying it isn't great. My comment about not starting a fight is because I have seen too many discussions go from zero to "you're an idiot" way faster than I expected them to.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
I think the little things, the tid bits from previous movies/shows is one of the major things that makes the show a good one.
Actually, for me, those are the worst parts. That's one of the things I like least in the Star Wars universe is the constant nods to nostalgia instead of stuff being original or standing on its own. Obviously I want a consistent universe, but I can't stand key characters popping up and doing cameos in every scenario. It's supposed to be this giant universe, but it plays out like it's all happening in a tiny village of maybe 3,000 people. There are apparently only about ten droids in the whole universe, every important person happens to drink at the same remote bar in the middle of nowhere a bazillion light years from anything else, no one every goes somewhere obvious, yet everyone runs into each other.
It's all just so over done. There isn't any "normal life" in the SW universe as shown, just one amazing coincidence after another.
When it's that obvious, I completely agree, like going to Tantooine - again.. ug! But there are other things, like the icecream bucket, I love this 'nod' as it were. Most people will have no idea that that relates to a previous bit in ESB, even though the supposed purpose is entirely different.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
I think the little things, the tid bits from previous movies/shows is one of the major things that makes the show a good one.
Actually, for me, those are the worst parts. That's one of the things I like least in the Star Wars universe is the constant nods to nostalgia instead of stuff being original or standing on its own. Obviously I want a consistent universe, but I can't stand key characters popping up and doing cameos in every scenario. It's supposed to be this giant universe, but it plays out like it's all happening in a tiny village of maybe 3,000 people. There are apparently only about ten droids in the whole universe, every important person happens to drink at the same remote bar in the middle of nowhere a bazillion light years from anything else, no one every goes somewhere obvious, yet everyone runs into each other.
It's all just so over done. There isn't any "normal life" in the SW universe as shown, just one amazing coincidence after another.
When it's that obvious, I completely agree, like going to Tantooine - again.. ug! But there are other things, like the icecream bucket, I love this 'nod' as it were. Most people will have no idea that that relates to a previous bit in ESB, even though the supposed purpose is entirely different.
I got a kick out of the "She's no good to me dead" line. I do hope that they keep Boba Fett completely out of the series.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: very few would think it very good if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ. It is cute, very meme-able, and has next to zero story or progression. If Star Wars fans weren't starving for anything that is above the level of a flaming pile of garbage they would not be so excited about. That said, I will keep watching it, but a good chunk of that motivation is driven by wanting to keep up with peers/friends in what they're talking about.
aww, the sharing with TLJ is because TLJ is so bad - the desire for something better is astronomical.. ok got it.
I think the little things, the tid bits from previous movies/shows is one of the major things that makes the show a good one.
Listen to yourself @Dashrender
From what you've said, you're watching the show because it is Star Wars and it has fan service. Not trying to pick a fight here, just finding it funny. I am in the same camp for the most part.Are you saying it's not great? and in doing so perhaps thinking you're picking a fight? lol no reason to think that.
I haven't said it's great - I said I'm enjoying it... it's definitely not great - I wouldn't call it slow if it was great.
I am saying it isn't great. My comment about not starting a fight is because I have seen too many discussions go from zero to "you're an idiot" way faster than I expected them to.
yeah, I really try not to be one of those. I know SW isn't perfect - TFA was a total rip off movie from ANH - and I was super disappointed by the need for yet another bloody deathstar! Come on, there were/are tons of other ideas for super weapons, none see on screen, but for whatever stupid reason, apparently SW can only have Deathstars. 
