New Star Wars stuff announced
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Yep, Cameron Monaghan. Mainly known for playing the gay brother on the US version of Shameless, and playing the Joker in the Gotham show.
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Finished both season of Mando. I maintain my opinion of it being alright but not spectacular, it certainly has it's moments. Sure it's got a bit of a western vibe to it but I was hearing people compare it to Leone and Lone Wolf and Cub, I don't think those people have ever actually seen those.
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Each episode is basically an hommage to classic film. Or an attempt to do so. You will have to wrestle through the Book of Bobba Fett if you want to follow the Mandalorian story.
I asked this before but what is up with Bobba fett's teeth
I asked this before but what is up with Bobba fett's teeth
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Anyone comparing Mando to Leone is not to be trusted.
They probably also don't play video games with red headed protagonists.
Sadly, you need to slog through the Book of Boba Fett to get to the rest of Mando's story.
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You don't have to watch the whole Boba Fett show. Just watch the last three episodes and skip the rest. You won't miss anything worthwhile.
As far as the canon shows:
Clone Wars > Andor > Rebels > Tales of the Jedi = Bad Batch >>>>> Mando >>>>>>>>> Resistance >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Obi Wan > Boba Fett
As far as the canon shows:
Clone Wars > Andor > Rebels > Tales of the Jedi = Bad Batch >>>>> Mando >>>>>>>>> Resistance >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Obi Wan > Boba Fett
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There are actually seven episodes, not six.
And yeah, exactly zero people on this planet wanted to see Boba Fett leading a teenage cyberpunk scooter gang.
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Yeah, only other thing I liked about it was the flashbacks with Boba befriending the Sand People, showing what he learned from them, and humanizing them more than the simple 'animals' they were portrayed as in ANH and AotC.
It was just neat backstory to show how Boba sorta shifted from the unscrupulous bounty hunder jagoff to someone who sorta has a sense of justice.
But yeah, honestly just watch the episodes that actually feature Din Djarin. They (along with the whole concept of the dark saber) hit harder if you've watched Clone Wars and Rebels.
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Two of the final three episodes are just straight up Mando episodes and have almost zero to do with the rest of the Boba Fett show. The finale is about 50/50.
It's like they realized how much the show sucked halfway into making it and decided to cram two and a half Mando episodes into it to make people watch.
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Nah, Clone Wars is as good as it gets and there are lightsabers in almost every episode.
As with most things, it's the quality of the writing that makes the difference. Andor wasn't great because of the lack of Jedis, it was great because it was written by people with actual talent.
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Star Wars is a better movie than Empire Strikes Back.
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I’m inclined to agree with this.
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Its really not. It may be the best star wars *movie*, but it's not the best thing in the franchise.
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ok. You've piqued my interest. What is the best?
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As far as canon stuff, story/writing wise, Id say Andor.
"ooh pretty lightsabers" would probably be Rebels.
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I re-subbed to Disney+ (as part of the bundle) to get out of market hockey, so I need to get around to watching Andor, probably over the holidays.
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Andor's great, man. I know the character seemed one-and-done because of Rogue One, but that was the point, we all knew the people in that movie were gon' dah.
But its cool to see more development on the character, and Diego Luna is a big SW fan, and Mexican (I'm half) so it's cool to see more hispanics (read: RAZA)* in the SW universe.
*as cool as he is, Jimmy Smits doesn't count
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The best thing in the franchise is Luke’s interactions with Vader in Jedi.
Luke’s the best Jedi.