Mike N Eich posted:

A lot of this show is fan-service (like Herzog's door droid being the exact same thing as Jabba's, little touches like that)

Nucular Carmul posted:

Can someone help me out with what I'm missing in the Mandalorian? The protagonist really seems like he's just a protagonist doing protagonist things because he's a protagonist. It doesn't help that the few lines he gets are absolutely cookie cutter generic nonsense. Steps out of cover briefly to see the Schwarzenegger Special being rolled out, says "Okay..." because that's what people in media say when a situation gets more complicated unexpectedly. Guy uses a jetpack to go the same speed as a space craft looking to break atmosphere and go into orbit for a dumb salute so he can be the 23556th character to say "I gotta get me one of those." even though he never talks like that anywhere else. Also why is that jetpack guy wasting fuel to do a dumb salute? I got the impression Mandalorians are supposed to be tightly focused and don't do unnecessary poo poo and are just in general a very lawful sort of group. So why'd they go shoot up a whole rear end town and blow their cover? "ThiS iS tHe WaY" is not a loving explanation in any way. How'd they know it was their guy in a scrap? Why would they save him when he clearly got into a situation of his own making by betraying his employers and a whole rear end town? The whole premise of the protagonist saving the magic baby is shaky enough on its own, why is "the Empire did bad poo poo to us" justification for declaring war on some random backwater? Now they have to move and hide somewhere else because this dumbass got paid then regretted the job?

And don't get me started on the loving Jawas. We just out here reaming everything we know about them in the rear end because we have to have a scene to reveal that the magic baby is magic. We're really expected to believe the shrewd scavenger race who socially evolved to trade and loot since they're not great warriors are seriously going to give up a whole ship of salvage for an egg. That they're going to eat. Immediately. They really couldn't figure out how to gently caress up his ship then get him off the planet, the entire sequence feels like a major rear end pull from start to finish.

The whole show reeks of a very slimy corporate sheen. Hey you fuckin' nerds went bananas over Boba Fett right? Here's a whole show about those dudes, and we'll give you stormtroopers in the old uniforms, and it starts in a cantina with all the cool aliens! And there's jawas again, and hey here's a baby yoda thing, haven't you nerds always wondered about what species he is? We're gonna get into that, maybe! The writing is awful, every plot point is so transparent, I honestly wish it were animated because I literally watched three episodes of a Saturday morning cartoon. The protagonist is worse than a shonen anime hero. I feel like Roddy Piper in They Live. What are you guys seeing?

Panfilo posted:

I thought it was just hilariously anticlimactic how they give Mando this incredibly difficult quest only to take the egg and chow down on it.

zoux posted:

If I was fist fighting a Mando I'd do everything in my power to take off his or her helmet and own them permanently. Go ahead and kill me, I've already won.

Sash! posted:

100 percent of articles about plot holes do not describe a plot hole

Hazo posted:

I don’t think you misinterpreted me but I just want to be totally clear: I’m saying those people are the definition of toxic, and making fun of them is not.

I actually shouted at my bewildered wife “Holy poo poo he Top Gun-ed that dude!”

veni veni veni posted:

What is with people who like TLJ constantly projecting and assuming things about people who don't like it?

Reik posted:

Vintersorg posted:

Big adult man over here. With a HUGE dick.

ninjahedgehog posted:

My biggest question is now that he has the Darksaber, how many of the Mandalorians owe him fealty according to their laws. IIRC the wielder is the rightful Manda'lor, but only if he seized it in honorable combat. The other factor is if the Mandalorians will accept an outsider as their ruler -- when Maul claimed it in the TV show a sizable faction refused to see him as legitimate.

TK-42-1 posted:

I like how they tried to make Anakin quippy in the prequels but Lucas is such an unfunny dope that it fell horribly flat.

Not to mention Sleasebaggano. Darth Icky. General Grevious.

quote:

“I guess I’m just happy it was J.J. who changed my name, and not George Lucas, because then it would be Directorous Johnson or something else that’s really on the nose.” 

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

What’s the backstory on the dude to the left?