What Are You Watching Now
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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.
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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.
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I'd add that they are being knowning hunted (found) </spoiler> -
@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
@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.
8? that's all - man, yeah, in three remaining episodes, they really need to turn a page, else this will get dull real fast! and I wonder how long until the next season comes out? I know they are filming season 2 already.. hopefully we don't have to wait a year!
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@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.
Comics is likely the least taken in form of star wars - I'd say
Movies
TV shows (mainly cartoons)
video games
TV comercials
Toys
Books
comics
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@Dashrender little factoid that you likely already knew..
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@JaredBusch that's awesome.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch that's awesome.
That was from an article earlier this year
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The 501st has been called in to do several things like this in the past.
it's also a big reason why Disney had the 501st march in their Star Wars Weekend parades for about 10 years for their Star Wars Weekends events... our costumes were actually better than most of the Disney ones for the same characters. Of course this was hugely beneficial to Dinsey at way below normal costs for something like this.
Each person who marched received 1-2 tickets (it started as two park hopper, then went to one park hopper, then down to a single ticket single park - cheap ass bastards). for this, the marchers had to arrive by 7 AM, wait around outside in the boiling sun - often with zero shade until 11:30 AM, then get suited up and stand around, again in the direct sun from 11:30 - 12:30 when the parade would start. So in the early days, people were getting around $200 worth of tickets for 5.5 hours of onsite time, not horrible pay for only 20 mins of actual work. But in the end, a single ticket worth around $100 cut that down a lot!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
GhostBusters Trailer
As I mentioned in the other thread. fuck yeah. I love how they are making this an actual continuation with what happened before being a once off thing.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
GhostBusters Trailer
As I mentioned in the other thread. fuck yeah. I love how they are making this an actual continuation with what happened before being a once off thing.
Great! Looking forward to that. The 2016 movie had some great people in it and a good director but for some reason it turned out to be rather mediocre. Not horrible but not something worth watching again. Hopefully this one will be better.
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@Pete-S said in What Are You Watching Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
GhostBusters Trailer
As I mentioned in the other thread. fuck yeah. I love how they are making this an actual continuation with what happened before being a once off thing.
Great! Looking forward to that. The 2016 movie had some great people in it and a good director but for some reason it turned out to be rather mediocre. Not horrible but not something worth watching again. Hopefully this one will be better.
I liked the 2016 movie. But I like a continuation of the original story even more. There was barely a connection between 1 and 2 IMO. Just some passing references. This, seemingly, makes it all a cohesive story.
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@Pete-S said in What Are You Watching Now:
Great! Looking forward to that. The 2016 movie had some great people in it and a good director but for some reason it turned out to be rather mediocre. Not horrible but not something worth watching again. Hopefully this one will be better.
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
I liked the 2016 movie. But I like a continuation of the original story even more. There was barely a connection between 1 and 2 IMO. Just some passing references. This, seemingly, makes it all a cohesive story.
I don't know what movie you guys watched back in 2016, but if you're talking the girl version of GB, that thing was crap! Super dumb gadgets (though this likely came because of the cartoon - from 20 years earlier) it was just horrible from the get go - more like a saturday night live skit than an actual movie. Only saw it cause it was on broadcast TV and the wife was like - I want to see this.. ug fine.
I'm not against an all female crew of GBs, I just wanted it much less dumb - but I fully expected nothing less once I saw that Melissa McCarthy was in it. Her humor is something I just can't stand.
