Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****
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Ok, haven’t read the thread today as haven’t watched BoBF yet, but I just saw this
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@mn5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Some cool scenes but otherwise a complete jumbled mess. Killing Cad Bane was a bit shit IMHO. Plenty of other characters that deserved a good killing.
Has a second season been greenlit for Boba? Hard to see where they go from here.
Yeah all those “kids” survived and the Gamoreans bit the dust. What exactly were they guarding ?
I know they’re not the sharpest tools in the shed but surely someone could have given them a couple of guns ?
The action scenes were cool as fuck though, how good was it seeing a Rancor go nuts like that ?
Apparently you only need to blow fire at its face to scare it off.
The whole series has been weird in terms of weapon selection. A well placed sniper could have taken out evil Cheewie but they attacked him with blades? You'd think the Pigs should have at least had those staffs or axes that could also be fired? Like Lando in disguise in ROTJ.
The ideas were decent for this series but unfortunately the execution was pretty poor.
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@kiwiwomble said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Ok, haven’t read the thread today as haven’t watched BoBF yet, but I just saw this
I read that the release date will be on the 45th anniversary of Star Wars.
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Right, watched it…really enjoyed it,
not to say there weren’t things to critique (happy evil chewie survived and I bought him shaking off the dog pile and turning back up but yeah, takes too many shots, killing off bane, I feel his character would have cut and run once the tide turned, grogu just using his powers to save the day like season 1 of mando, mods are just a bit weird)
But, using the “how much I looked at my phone” measure, I enjoyed it a lot
Boba didn’t look twice at the dark saber so maybe bo and mando will be the ones leading the way back to mandalore
I did kind of want to see Jedi grogu though
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Had another thought, we’ve seen Ahsoka found like, I wonder if here series is going to show where she was during the original trilogy
Edit: another thought re the finale, strikes me as the perfect opportunity for a two parter with a cliff hanger, maybe leave evil chewie’s return a bit longer and cut it with mando off in one direction, all the others in another, boba had disappeared, we think evil chewier is dead….
Could have meant they could have had a bit more build up at the start rather than them just finding out the war had started
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
I missed that when I saw it. What a piston wristed gibbon
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Live-Action Darth Maul Disney Plus Series Reportedly In The Works
A live-action Darth Maul Disney Plus series focused on the iconic character is reportedly in the works at Lucasfilm.
Love action maul series? Could be great but quite a lot of his story was told in clone wars and rebels, so are we going to see his story leading up to us seeing him in menace or are they going to start the telling stores from the animated series?
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Thought it was a fun series, too much crossing over which was padding?
They could have done more back story on Boba if they needed storyline surely?
Nice little earner for Tems retirement though I guess!
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@taniwharugby said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Thought it was a fun series, too much crossing over which was padding?
They could have done more back story on Boba if they needed storyline surely?
Nice little earner for Tems retirement though I guess!
I've come to the conclusion that it should have been called "The Mandolorian - Book of Boba Fett" as the expectation that it was simply a BF tale didn't pan out.
It really was Mando 2.5 with a poorly managed flow.
Mando needed a gap to re-unite with Grogu and set up Mando 3. It was good that they didn't stretch that out. They took the chance to flesh out what happened to BF before Mando 2 and show what he was then going to do but much was padding.
In other words I get what they were doing but don't think it was done that well. Enjoyed watching it though (as long as I used my child brain) -
@mn5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Shit that is Gold!
I wonder who actually captured them at the start. The palace was empty and it seems that the only people working for Boba were Fenic and white droid. Seriously, Boba is up there with Rick Grimes in terms of leadership and complete and utter tactical incompetence. Fenic is more Boba than farking Boba is. This series reeks of Disney just wanting to pump out more SW content for Disney+. Right now the only cash cows are Mando and Grogu. The sequels are already forgotten.
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I’ve sat down and had a good think about the series…….and overall it was good but far from great…..I loved the attention to detail, Easter eggs, sound effects, special effects, Cad Bane, Bad Chewie, the Rancor, the Gamoreans, the little rat catcher droid, Fennic, Mando, Grogu and the Marshall were all terrific.…Boba was at times too.
….but the story wasn’t that amazing, compelling or original. The pykes were a very ho-hum bunch of bad guys ( in the end they were basically stormtroopers who looked different ), no compelling lead villain ( when you take into account Cad Bane was a henchman more than main protagonist and the mayor was instantly forgettable ), the mods were offensive and sooooo irritating and the mechanic lady was a pain too.
But then I’m 44 years old, this is a show I might have absolutely loved if it came out in the mid to late 80s it’s probably too much to ask for it to really wow me.
Being the Star Wars fan I am I’ll eagerly await the Obi Wan show ( a wonderful character who everyone loves )…..and less eagerly await the Cassian Andor show ( a guy with no lightsabre, armour, force powers or any unique skills )
We’ll see how they pan out.
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@crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Kenobi will be the big test. Get that wrong and they will kill the goose.
Yeah fair call, it SHOULD be amazing but that’s not a given.
I’m far more worried about the Andor show, that has the potential to be a real fizzer
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@mn5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Kenobi will be the big test. Get that wrong and they will kill the goose.
Yeah fair call, it SHOULD be amazing but that’s not a given.
I’m far more worried about the Andor show, that has the potential to be a real fizzer
No one cares about Andor. That’s just a filler in the SW universe. May include the odd piece of information between Rebels and Rogue One but no worries either way.
Kenobi is a character that fans care about and with Vader being part of the story this one has to be good or the mob will March on Disneyland -
@crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@mn5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Kenobi will be the big test. Get that wrong and they will kill the goose.
Yeah fair call, it SHOULD be amazing but that’s not a given.
I’m far more worried about the Andor show, that has the potential to be a real fizzer
No one cares about Andor. That’s just a filler in the SW universe. May include the odd piece of information between Rebels and Rogue One but no worries either way.
Kenobi is a character that fans care about and with Vader being part of the story this one has to be good or the mob will March on DisneylandIn true MN5 fashion I can’t remember if I’ve said this or not but the Andor series MAY be good because he is so “normal” and situations that others would scoff at are genuinely dangerous for him ie hemmed in a shootout with five stormtroopers might be really tough going.
