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Gonz posted:Let’s be real. The kid probably sold the autograph years later to buy more Star Wars merch. Ewan McGregor merch to be exact
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Alan Smithee posted:Ewan McGregor merch to be exact A small plastic sealed container of authentic Mustafar High Ground dirt.
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Alan Smithee posted:Ewan McGregor merch to be exact "It's May of 2022 and the value of this merch is about to skyrocket!  "June of 2022 "Oh no!  "
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cptn_dr posted:Getting Andor methodone by watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) on one screen and Kenobi on mute on the other. Luthen is very consciously a Smiley type as much as he is an Obi-wan type, that was one of the first things that clued me in that this show was going to be really good and not just pretty good. The ISB guy with the subplot is definitely going to end up getting Spy Who Came in from the Cold'd. Speaking of, I'm finally up to date with watching Andor and back to writing about it: quote:The finest scene, to my mind at least, is the one that closes out the second episode, where the prisoner Ulaf, who has been struggling and often confused at the work desks, has a stroke while heading back to the cells. As above, there is no sentimentality here. Ulaf doesn’t get to deliver a final speech, rousing his friends to action. It’s not even clear that they have a friendship other than the basic compassion shared between human beings. Conversely, there’s no cartoonish unpleasantness. No-one gets shocked or zapped or punished because the old man collapses. But it’s still horrible. The inhumanity of the institution fills the whole scene. https://josh04.medium.com/dream-a-little-dream-andor-andor-episodes-8-9-10-e43b25190aff
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I was talking with a friend the other day about how Andor's maturity relative to the rest of Star Wars could put a bit of a spanner in the merchandising machine that is Disney. There's a Lego set based on Andor already, with that Ferix drop ship, but given the rest of the show its hard to imagine how they could put out some more sets. I'm sure the adults would love Kino Loy and Deadra minifigures, but are they really going to produce an ISB set or totalitarian hell prison set?
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Alan Smithee posted:even the butler droid whose name I forget is hardly a BB-8 Don't worry, Luthen will turn out to be the temple guard that got grogu out
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mitochondritom posted:I was talking with a friend the other day about how Andor's maturity relative to the rest of Star Wars could put a bit of a spanner in the merchandising machine that is Disney. There's a Lego set based on Andor already, with that Ferix drop ship, but given the rest of the show its hard to imagine how they could put out some more sets. I'm sure the adults would love Kino Loy and Deadra minifigures, but are they really going to produce an ISB set or totalitarian hell prison set? I was gonna make this exact same post. Maybe if Luthen's ship sees some action in the last couple of episodes that would be the obvious choice? Apart from that yeah I can't really imagine kids fighting each other for the last Mon Mothma's apartment play set.
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mitochondritom posted:I was talking with a friend the other day about how Andor's maturity relative to the rest of Star Wars could put a bit of a spanner in the merchandising machine that is Disney. There's a Lego set based on Andor already, with that Ferix drop ship, but given the rest of the show its hard to imagine how they could put out some more sets. I'm sure the adults would love Kino Loy and Deadra minifigures, but are they really going to produce an ISB set or totalitarian hell prison set? Lego Revolutionary Action Set with Lego Little Red Book and Lego 'Crushed by Capitalism' Crate Now Free when you purchase limited edition Authentic ISB Uniform! (well there's the Fondor Haulcraft that Luthen has...)
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Has there been any explanation for what Grogu did between the temple and Mando? Who were the people protecting (maybe) him in the first episode?
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Butterfly Valley posted:Maybe if Luthen's ship sees some action in the last couple of episodes that would be the obvious choice? Based on trailers we'll at least see it using its lightsaber corkscrew poo poo.
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PriorMarcus posted:Has there been any explanation for what Grogu did between the temple and Mando? Who were the people protecting (maybe) him in the first episode? So far, no. It also hasn't been explained why Werner Herzog's character was gunned down by Moff Gideon's people when as far as we know he was about to deliver Grogu into Gideon's hands.
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There's been so much Star Wars of late that I'd completely forgotten Werner Herzog was in the first Mandalorian episodes. I think the abysmal Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan soured it all for me. I remember thinking the scenes with the Client were really good.
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a bad part of Rise of Skywalker that everyone doesn't mention is the festival on yet another sand planet (I know, there have to be multiple ones in a galaxy besides Tattooine, but they just did Jakku) that takes place every 41 years, the same amount of time between A New Hope and Rise of Skywalker. I liked that planet's scene with Rey force-healing the snake and finding some National Treasure clue dagger, though
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josh04 posted:Luthen is very consciously a Smiley type as much as he is an Obi-wan type, that was one of the first things that clued me in that this show was going to be really good and not just pretty good. The ISB guy with the subplot is definitely going to end up getting Spy Who Came in from the Cold'd. Hot take: Luthen isn't Smiley, he's Karla
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LividLiquid posted:They did. That's not what I meant. I'm old enough to remember Dark Empire, where the cloning rules were different for super powerful evil dudes. Palpatine's body was cloned but the mind driving it was definitely the same guy that got chucked down a hole. They made a beeline to the same rule in RoS, but it might have been interesting to play with it
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galenanorth posted:a bad part of Rise of Skywalker that everyone doesn't mention is the festival on yet another sand planet (I know, there have to be multiple ones in a galaxy besides Tattooine, but they just did Jakku) that takes place every 41 years, the same amount of time between A New Hope and Rise of Skywalker. I liked that planet's scene with Rey force-healing the snake and finding some National Treasure clue dagger, though Never watched this trash but I can totally imagine how disjointed and unconnected and hurried with arbitrary plot interests it is, because that's how all JJ Abrams movies are all like
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Shageletic posted:Never watched this trash but I can totally imagine how disjointed and unconnected and hurried with arbitrary plot interests it is, because that's how all JJ Abrams movies are all like I am generally more forgiving than most goons when it comes to film/TV, so believe me when I say that TROS is so unbelievably bad, stupid and cowardly in practically every possible way that it’s a grotesque failure to not just the ST but as a capstone to a 40+ year saga. The only fun thing about it is dear old Ian hamming it up for all he’s worth but really, he shouldn’t be there at all. It’s boring, empty spectacle without a single coherent thought applied anywhere. Thank gently caress I managed to get to a cinema again after things opened up because going to one’s grave knowing that poo poo was the last ‘film’ I’d seen in one would just be wholly unacceptable. Anyway, how about that Andor, eh?
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Andor good make Andor movie
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Alan Smithee posted:Andor good I’ve got really good news for you.
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Burning_Monk posted:Can't wait for the sequel! make the loving Bothan movie, Disney
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StashAugustine posted:make the loving Bothan movie, Disney Both An(dor Seasons)
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Palpatine, cackling, in front of a pair of cloning tubes: "Congratulations! You have been... rescued! Heh heh heh heh!"
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what is the point of an exact clone couldn't he like go into a Jango bod it would dumb as gently caress but funny
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Alan Smithee posted:what is the point of an exact clone Look at this blessed soul who doesn't know about midichlorians.
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Seldom Posts posted:Look at this blessed soul who doesn't know about midichlorians. Why don't they just clone midichlorians? Force powers are the new designer drug
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Can you become force sensitive if you get a blood transfusion from a Jedi?
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StashAugustine posted:Hot take: Luthen isn't Smiley, he's Karla drat, you're totally right. Season 2 ends with him miserably walking over that bridge to the ISB building as Dedra watches.
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Azhais posted:Why don't they just clone midichlorians? Force powers are the new designer drug That seems to be what those Imperial Remnants wanted Grogu for
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josh04 posted:drat, you're totally right. Season 2 ends with him miserably walking over that bridge to the ISB building as Dedra watches. wordlessly dropping a khyber crystal in the snow. (Actually a blackmail plot could be an interesting twist on the old Imperial defector character) And obviously Andor isn't 1:1 with le Carre, but I think the most interesting differences are, first no one seems to have deep personal attachments. Smiley has Ann, Karla eventually is revealed to have his daughter, and most characters have someone they actually care about; but Deedra and Luthen appear to have no personal lives and Syril's is deeply hosed up. Writing it out I do see that Mothma does and there's the new subplot with the imperial mole, and obviously we're not done with most of these characters. More important is that as grim as Andor is there's not a lot of fundamental moral ambiguity- le Carre is about Soviet fanatics trying to believe they're the good guys versus British technocrats who don't care one way or the other. Here everyone seems committed to their side- the Imperials don't show any doubt or even really apathy, and as ruthless as some of the Rebels are its still 100% clear that they're the good guys
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I guess it's very small thing but this camera move really caught my eye as it started as both of them kind of equal but ended with Andor being a lot bigger persona in the frame and Kino's face not confident in his conviction.    Anybody here with technical knowledge how camera works in movies/TV? Because don't remember any camera works in a dialog in SW (for along time if not ever) hitting me in a good way as this as usually it's just static talking heads.
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StashAugustine posted:wordlessly dropping a khyber crystal in the snow. (Actually a blackmail plot could be an interesting twist on the old Imperial defector character) The thing that really feels like le Carré most to me is that even the people on the 'good' side are conflicted about what they're having to do. Like in the books Smiley believes very strongly about defending Europe (*not* the UK) from the Soviet Union but he feels awful about what is necessary in order to do that. Luthen is kind of a volume-turned-up version of that where he hates the Empire (for reasons we've not yet seen) and wants to fight it but doesn't feel great about what's necessary to wage that conflict effectively. By the time we see him in Rogue One, Cassian is more or less like JIm Prideaux or Lemas from le Carré's books as a person who has had to actually go and do a lot of awful poo poo and hopes it is somehow genuinely worth something.
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Jerkface posted:snokes, not sith lords
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Alan Smithee posted:even the butler droid whose name I forget is hardly a BB-8 
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LividLiquid posted:Snoke is a sith lord, yo. no. just... no. Edit: you are just saying this to hurt us aren't you? Blackchamber fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Nov 13, 2022 |
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Look, if there's some distinction made between evil Jedi and sith lords on a lore level, I super don't give a poo poo. He's an evil Jedi the same as Palpatine was, you know exactly what I meant, and frankly I'm not going to argue about this.
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