What Are You Watching Now
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@Kelly They could have ridden this thing out for another 6 movies easy and had old fans bringing in new fans by the thousands
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Watching Now:
They had Timothy Zahn's best selling trilogy in hand and had to build a ramp, drive a JLG up and add a ladder to see past it. Sometimes....
This was the most frustrating thing about TFA.
"Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be."
I'm getting tilted just rereading that.
I'm with you. She was clearly on drugs and had just forgotten about the EU. Not that they had to go that direction, but damn.. another deathstar? /sigh.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Watching Now:
They had Timothy Zahn's best selling trilogy in hand and had to build a ramp, drive a JLG up and add a ladder to see past it. Sometimes....
This was the most frustrating thing about TFA.
"Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be."
I'm getting tilted just rereading that.
I'm with you. She was clearly on drugs and had just forgotten about the EU. Not that they had to go that direction, but damn.. another deathstar? /sigh.
LOL, yeah. So many options and THAT'S what they came up with?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
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...
This is because it is a TV show and not a movie. In general, no one has consumed StarWars like this before. It is a new format for the mass market.
I'm not a super fan, but I do really like the StarWars univers, and I have a lot of EU books. But I have still never watched Clone Wars or Rebels. I seem to be in the majority of Star Wars fans.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.
WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
I'm probably in the minority. But so far the pacing of The Mandelorian has been pretty decent. It throws a ton of lore in there without going overboard, and gives you plenty of time during the show to digest what's going on.
It also, bizarrely, doesn't play the audience for stupid. Which is a nice change of pace.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ.
They have nothing to do with each other.
There is ~25 years between The Mandalorian and The Force Awakens. I believe The Last Jedi is within a year of The Force Awakens. -
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ.
They have nothing to do with each other.
There is ~25 years between The Force Awakens and The Mandalorian.Our timeframe, not the Star Wars timeframe.
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@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
I'm probably in the minority. But so far the pacing of The Mandelorian has been pretty decent. It throws a ton of lore in there without going overboard, and gives you plenty of time during the show to digest what's going on.
It also, bizarrely, doesn't play the audience for stupid. Which is a nice change of pace.
And most of the actual lore is about the Mandalorians and the Bounty Hunters Guild so far.
Tidbits about the resistance in Episode 4 with Cara.
Obvious bits about the down and out Empire remnants driving the whole plot with the entire "The Child" thing seeming to be the over arching storyline. -
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
This has nothing to do with me wanting to binge the show. I actually like the pacing overall. I like having time to think about it and having the episodes be a separate thing. What I do want, that I haven't seen much of is for there to be some kind of advancement of someone's story. So far <spoiler> Mando has more armor and baby Yoda has joined him </spoiler> nothing else of significance has happened in either of their stories.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Watching Now:
They had Timothy Zahn's best selling trilogy in hand and had to build a ramp, drive a JLG up and add a ladder to see past it. Sometimes....
This was the most frustrating thing about TFA.
"Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be."
im just gonna hop in here for a second :
There are Comic Books, and Novels for starwars. I own 4 different star wars book right now. and have read over 50 comics...
That's all i gotta say about it : carry on.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
This has nothing to do with me wanting to binge the show. I actually like the pacing overall. I like having time to think about it and having the episodes be a separate thing. What I do want, that I haven't seen much of is for there to be some kind of advancement of someone's story. So far <spoiler> Mando has more armor and baby Yoda has joined him </spoiler> nothing else of significance has happened in either of their stories.
The Mandalorian betray his people the bounty hunter's guild and forced his people to have to go into hiding elsewhere is not a big development?
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
I'm probably in the minority. But so far the pacing of The Mandelorian has been pretty decent. It throws a ton of lore in there without going overboard, and gives you plenty of time during the show to digest what's going on.
It also, bizarrely, doesn't play the audience for stupid. Which is a nice change of pace.
And most of the actual lore is about the Mandalorians and the Bounty Hunters Guild so far.
Tidbits about the resistance in Episode 4 with Cara.
Obvious bits about the down and out Empire remnants driving the whole plot with the entire "The Child" thing seeming to be the over arching storyline.And that is my primary complaint. They are at 5/8 for Season 1 and all we have are tidbits and bits and pieces.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
This has nothing to do with me wanting to binge the show. I actually like the pacing overall. I like having time to think about it and having the episodes be a separate thing. What I do want, that I haven't seen much of is for there to be some kind of advancement of someone's story. So far <spoiler> Mando has more armor and baby Yoda has joined him </spoiler> nothing else of significance has happened in either of their stories.
...You're missing the entire plot line of the Mando's coven now having to find a new home? The Mando betraying the guild? The Mando has grow significantly in 5 episodes.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
This has nothing to do with me wanting to binge the show. I actually like the pacing overall. I like having time to think about it and having the episodes be a separate thing. What I do want, that I haven't seen much of is for there to be some kind of advancement of someone's story. So far <spoiler> Mando has more armor and baby Yoda has joined him </spoiler> nothing else of significance has happened in either of their stories.
The Mandalorian betray his people the bounty hunter's guild and forced his people to have to go into hiding elsewhere is not a big development?
No, because we have no idea why the Mandalorians are in hiding (from the context of the show, can't use EU because Kathleen Kennedy). Why are they on the same planet as the BHG?
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Watching Now:
They had Timothy Zahn's best selling trilogy in hand and had to build a ramp, drive a JLG up and add a ladder to see past it. Sometimes....
This was the most frustrating thing about TFA.
"Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be."
im just gonna hop in here for a second :
There are Comic Books, and Novels for starwars. I own 4 different star wars book right now. and have read over 50 comics...
That's all i gotta say about it : carry on.
I specifically called that out. Those mediums have barely ever been more than core fans really. I have probably 50+ EU books But I know i'm an exception to the norm. Most people only watch movies and TV.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
This has nothing to do with me wanting to binge the show. I actually like the pacing overall. I like having time to think about it and having the episodes be a separate thing. What I do want, that I haven't seen much of is for there to be some kind of advancement of someone's story. So far <spoiler> Mando has more armor and baby Yoda has joined him </spoiler> nothing else of significance has happened in either of their stories.
The Mandalorian betray his people the bounty hunter's guild and forced his people to have to go into hiding elsewhere is not a big development?
No, because we have no idea why the Mandalorians are in hiding (from the context of the show, can't use EU because Kathleen Kennedy). Why are they on the same planet as the BHG?
We know of something called the Purge, it's talked about in the first episode. We know that Besskar was taken from the Mandelorians for use by the Empire.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?
Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.
That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.
It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.
Huh - I was totally expecting this post directed at me after I said it was slow, lol
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ.
They have nothing to do with each other.
There is ~25 years between The Mandalorian and The Force Awakens. I believe The Last Jedi is within a year of The Force Awakens.Way less than a year, unless Finn was in a coma the whole time. I'm guessing a few weeks at best.
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I get that @coliver and @JaredBusch think it is good. I'm happy for you. I am glad that they're going deeper into the lore and might be building a large story. My patience is very thin given TLJ and what it is, so I have been hoping that after nearly 2 hours of screen time that we would have something more than we do. Maybe my expectations of what this show is are wrong.
