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@rapido said in TV Serieseseses:
As opposed to above.
I re-watched all of IT Crowd once I got Netflix. Loved it. Along with Community the top 2 comedy series ever IMO (that I can think of). Maybe also with Young Ones, but I watched them so many times when I was younger that it no longer surprises me etc.
Edit, wait. And Spaced.
Community, Spaced, IT Crowd. Probably also Young Ones and Blackadder if your are youngish and never thrashed them.
I'm loving the in-jokes on Mandalorian. Like Richard Ayoade from the IT crowd as a smarmy droid.
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@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
Do you have to be up with the rest of the Star Wars canon to appreciate it?
I can't remember when I gave up on the Star Wars movies but it was a long time ago. I think I saw maybe one of the prequal movies.
Quite disappointing as Manalorian was the main reason I subscribed.
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@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
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@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
Do you have to be up with the rest of the Star Wars canon to appreciate it?
I can't remember when I gave up on the Star Wars movies but it was a long time ago. I think I saw maybe one of the prequal movies.
Quite disappointing as Manalorian was the main reason I subscribed.
Me too, watched two episodes then haven't bothered with any more
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@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
Do you have to be up with the rest of the Star Wars canon to appreciate it?
I can't remember when I gave up on the Star Wars movies but it was a long time ago. I think I saw maybe one of the prequal movies.
Quite disappointing as Manalorian was the main reason I subscribed.
i never thought you needed to know star wars canon, until the second season most connections are either broad...like the empire and the force or easter eggs so can be largely ignored...but maybe im wrong
do you generally like westerns? it draws a lot on that vibe, lone gunslinger, man with no name stuff
My wife rolls her eyes at star wars stuff generally, humors me, but she got into it
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@machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
Do you have to be up with the rest of the Star Wars canon to appreciate it?
I can't remember when I gave up on the Star Wars movies but it was a long time ago. I think I saw maybe one of the prequal movies.
Quite disappointing as Manalorian was the main reason I subscribed.
Me too, watched two episodes then haven't bothered with any more
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@crucial said in TV Serieseseses:
@machpants said in TV Serieseseses:
@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
Do you have to be up with the rest of the Star Wars canon to appreciate it?
I can't remember when I gave up on the Star Wars movies but it was a long time ago. I think I saw maybe one of the prequal movies.
Quite disappointing as Manalorian was the main reason I subscribed.
Me too, watched two episodes then haven't bothered with any more
@Virgil give this man a GIF nomination, STAT !!!!
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@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
Do you have to be up with the rest of the Star Wars canon to appreciate it?I told my wife you didn't as I don't care about canon but still found it entertaining. Mrs Antipodean on the other hand would "leave me alone to my nerd stuff".
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I get the western stuff I just find it ... lame.
Mind you I seem to find the target audience for Star Wars is around 9 year olds. Definitely pre-pubescent boys.
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@dogmeat ouch...that feels like an unnecessary dig
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@kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@dogmeat ouch...that feels like an unnecessary dig
pretty fair though
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@kiwiwomble sorry didn't mean it nastily. I watch lots of shit that's juvenile in the extreme. Just never got into SW
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@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
Do you have to be up with the rest of the Star Wars canon to appreciate it?
I can't remember when I gave up on the Star Wars movies but it was a long time ago. I think I saw maybe one of the prequal movies.
Quite disappointing as Manalorian was the main reason I subscribed.
Well you do have to like Star Wars...
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@dogmeat I went easy
It's definitely aimed at 10-15 year olds, but they have a great nostalgia payoff at the end of season 2. That's for us old fluffybunnies.
The final episode is some of the best TV i can remember, even had my wife and daughter watching by then and they could take or leave star wars.
After the terribly made sequels, just watching something well written and thoughtfully put together was a mild relief.
But it's all subjective, no worries if you and Machpants don't like it. You just might be a little dead inside
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@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
Do you have to be up with the rest of the Star Wars canon to appreciate it?
I can't remember when I gave up on the Star Wars movies but it was a long time ago. I think I saw maybe one of the prequal movies.
Quite disappointing as Manalorian was the main reason I subscribed.
I gave up on Star Wars too, after Phantom Menace.
The Mandalorian starts kind of slow, from episode 4 it starts really lifting and Pedro Pascal plays it pretty lean (Kingsmen II, Great Wall, GOT, Wonderwoman 1984) so you may find him boring. But I like the cameos (Nolte as grumpy old imp etc) the landscapes, etc and near end of series 1 (especially the prison episode) if you approach it as E E Doc Smith type light soap opera playing with SW tropes I think it is watchable and each episode seems directed by different directors (some guy called Taika Waititi for instance) but conceived by the Iron Man guy, yeah. There's worse on tv/channel. Add a Red Dwarf writer and I'd be a happy camper. -
@nostrildamus said in TV Serieseseses:
@dogmeat said in TV Serieseseses:
@nostrildamus I could not get into The Mandalorian. Found it as boring as bat shit.
Do you have to be up with the rest of the Star Wars canon to appreciate it?
I can't remember when I gave up on the Star Wars movies but it was a long time ago. I think I saw maybe one of the prequal movies.
Quite disappointing as Manalorian was the main reason I subscribed.
I gave up on Star Wars too, after Phantom Menace.
Imagine dragging a girlfriend along who is uneasy at this new development; realising her boyfriend is an avid Star Wars fan. Then making her sit through two of the prequels after (slightly) convincing her the first one wasn't a reflection on what I grew up with and would surely be fixed for Episode II. One of which she fell asleep in (Attack of the Clones). I waited until Revenge of the Sith was on DVD. By then we were married and she left me to witness what remained of my SW childhood be ruined.
