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Been really enjoying Andor, not watched much other SW TV show stuff, but I kinda liked the Mandalorian seasons one and two and Book of Boba Fett was at least... you know it bounced along. Fine. So I checked out Ahsoka today - I kinda know who some of the characters are though I've never properly watched the cartoons or anything - and... god. This is just - it just seems really quite boring. Like. I got 2/3rds of the way through and I was like, man, I'm bored. These characters seem fine enough and the actors are great for the most part but - oh god. This is just Slow. Is this a common opinion? I quite *like* Star Wars I guess but it just feels like the TV shows, really not so good. (I mean I guess the films are a mixed bag too to say the least so I don't know what I expected.)
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Snooze Cruise posted:Star Wars is fabric spiders to me and I want my webbery management video game >
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May 11, 2025 18:36
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Gargamel Gibson posted:When Vel pointed out Melshi's blaster did she say "Who belongs to this?" That was weird. Seemed pretty idiomatic to me.
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May 12, 2025 18:36
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We rewatched today after seeing Andor and it was great. It isn't the same thing at all but I did like seeing how it all came together. I also had a new appreciation for the Mon scene where she's like "if the council says no, then we can't, sorry  " to Jyn... because she 100% then goes and starts getting the fleet ready for an attack on Scarrif anyway, and it feels very much like the thing that happens at the end of Andor where she basically works on the council leaders, especially Bail, to reverse course and send Andor off to the Ring at the start of Rogue One. Basically I really like Mon as the nominally liberal senator with radical sympathies who is really trying to get all the other wets to eat their militant vegetables. I want more Kleya stuff I think. Most interesting character in the show for me.
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May 15, 2025 23:07
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It rules that Saw conducted a year-long operation on Jedha which probably delayed the Death Star project to a crucial degree. He must have known about it in some capacity for years and years, right? Because he knew Galen. Really casts a new light on things now I think about that.
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May 16, 2025 05:44
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I enjoyed Obi-Wan even though or possibly because it's basically nonsense and bad.
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May 17, 2025 14:57
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1st AD posted:So this is probably in the neighborhood of gossip, but Joanna Robinson, one of the authors of "MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios" which revealed a lot about Disney and Marvel's internal workings as it relates to the MCU, was on an Andor-related podcast recently. What she said about Filoni (the conversation picks up after discussing differences in Mon Mothma's speech in Andor and Rebels): The idea that people at Lucasfilm broadly don't like Andor is so depressing. gently caress. Though it's kinda cool that K Kennedy was like "Tony you can do whatever you like, don't let the nerds kill your dream".
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May 31, 2025 00:40
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Bar Ran Dun posted:The climb climb bits might really be an intentional parallel too. It’s an ascension compelled by a self sacrifice, and each starts a new phase of the rebellion. anabasis innit
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I don't think anybody said that.
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Tankbuster posted:no the point everyone keeps making is that finn was sidelined for the chinese mass market. Then the only evidence provided is an alternate poster for made for china which has no finn. The sequels did badly in china because there wasn't a big star wars audience in china, and TFA got outcompeted by another disney movie. I think that would be the fault of Disney if it happened and not particularly Chinese people (they might have market preferences or they might not, I don't know, but that's different). Marsupial Ape posted:George Lucas is such a storyteller that the Neimodians and Watto are just intuitively racist. No one race or stereotype is actually being invoked, your subconscious is just being stimulated as if they were. I was just rewatching some of the Neimoidian scenes and I have to say their accent is definitely at least reminiscent of a somewhat exaggerated version of a Japanese-speaker's English accent. Obviously in appearance this isn't the case (maybe you could make an argument for costumes but that seems like a stretch) but I can see why some people object to it. My memory is of Watto getting weirdly worse in the second film but I haven't watched that in so long so I can't really remember. lines fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Jul 15, 2025 |
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Jul 15, 2025 13:16
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GimpInBlack posted:They are literally a white dude mimicking a Thai accent (or at least Nute Gunray is). I've seen conflicting reports over whether a Thai actor was originally cast and replaced because his accent was deemed too strong or whether it was always just a reference track while they were exploring different accents for characters, but either way it was very much a white dude doing a fake Asian accent. Right like it doesn't pass the test of "Would I feel comfortable doing this voice as a white person". I wouldn't! It would feel Bad to me.
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Jul 15, 2025 14:07
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Tankbuster posted:Yes, but the nemoidians looked like Star Wars' spin on the classic Greys. Them and the tall aliens who made the clones. Like I said I'm not talking about what they look like.
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I don't think being cast in the lovely wizard TV show makes someone a TERF. I guess I think less of them for it for sure but I would imagine most of the actors getting cast just don't really know much or care about JKR's beliefs.
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