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I'm so stupid Jesus Christ I should've figured it out to begin with. What other Mandalorian would be living on Tatoonine???? Of course it's loving Boba Fett he's looking for!!
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Cartoon Man posted:
I like the new version of the dragon - it feels more coherent with the skeleton in ANH than the other versions in Legends.
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Oct 30, 2020 18:43
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Them not using the same model and texture for it from KOTOR1 is a huge misstep.
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Oct 30, 2020 18:44
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I forget if it was mentioned that W. Earl Brown played the Weequay bartender, but here's a little thread from him about it: https://twitter.com/WEarlBrown/status/1322225936075378690?s=20
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For the record, I would be one million percent okay if the Fett cameo at the end of the episode was absolutely just that, and we never saw him again, but I understand that no writer alive has the restraint needed to not follow up on that, so I'm okay with that, too.
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Oct 30, 2020 18:50
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Dank ferrick
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Oct 30, 2020 18:54
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Cross-Section posted:I forget if it was mentioned that W. Earl Brown played the Weequay bartender, but here's a little thread from him about it: I love Earl Brown, I had no idea that was him, and I'm glad he got to do it
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 Another Krayt Dragon from old EU. KOTOR:  
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Oct 30, 2020 18:58
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You're all forgetting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV-oXomI_98
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Pops Mgee posted:Boba was always going to come back, there’s money to be made! I’m surprised Disney had the restraint to wait 8 years after buying the franchise instead of making him a main character in the sequel trilogy or something else dumb like that. I'm honestly surprised he didn't turn up in Solo, the one place where he would have actually made sense showing up.
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jivjov posted:I'm really baffled by this attitude of "introducing concepts and characters that existed in the universe, in a logically consistent way with other stories in the universe, is actually a bad thing" I slept on it and warmed up to the episode. Problem is I watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre right before hand, and obviously 70's art house misery porn isn't the best lead up since I went into this with a "Subvert my nipples, daddi" mood, which obviously isn't what Star Wars is about (most of the time). I'm about Boba now. As for the HDR, I'm not sure why Disney never does a proper HDR/Dolby Vision grade for this show. My quick fix last season was turn up the vibrance and crush the blacks in my settings by 5%, so that should do it.
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Oct 30, 2020 19:35
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Sash! posted:I'm honestly surprised he didn't turn up in Solo, the one place where he would have actually made sense showing up. I actually applaud their restraint for not using him in Solo. I always thought Han and Boba having some long standing rivalry was one of the dumber parts of the EU. Like, he was hired by the Empire to find Solo. He just happened to ALSO have a life long rivalry against the guy the Empire hired him to bring in? Seems weird.
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Getting to rehab actual Boba Fett has been Filoni's long game this whole time...
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Just occurred to me those of us who thought "he will tell Cobb he earned his spurs and give the armor back" might still be correct, given their habit of taking what could work just as well as one-and-done characters and ensemblizing them.
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Oct 30, 2020 19:40
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thrawn527 posted:I always thought Han and Boba having some long standing rivalry was one of the dumber parts of the EU. It's probably at least one of the less stupid coincidences, since at least Han and Fett run in the same circles, what with both working for Jabba.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Just occurred to me those of us who thought "he will tell Cobb he earned his spurs and give the armor back" might still be correct, given their habit of taking what could work just as well as one-and-done characters and ensemblizing them. Oh, definitely. He's coming back.
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Yeah, I could easily see another finale like the last one and Mando recruiting Cobb and giving him the armor. Especially since the two of them looked so cool working together with the jetpacks.
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Maybe Mando doesn't give Cobb Fett's Armour. Maybe Fett does.
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Oh my god Earl Brown! God, I wish I could have seen this exchange: https://twitter.com/WEarlBrown/status/1322229004183564289?s=20 https://twitter.com/WEarlBrown/status/1322229189601239040?s=20
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Jon you loving coward https://twitter.com/wearlbrown/status/1322229100879126528?s=21
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Oct 30, 2020 20:14
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Everyone keeps mentioning KOTOR but my ear-to-ear grin was from memories of mobbing up to go on Krayt hunts in SWG and having to worry about some rear end in a top hat snaking the loot at the end.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Everyone keeps mentioning KOTOR but my ear-to-ear grin was from memories of mobbing up to go on Krayt hunts in SWG and having to worry about some rear end in a top hat snaking the loot at the end. My guy was good enough at space karate to tank one as I recall.
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thrawn527 posted:He just happened to ALSO have a life long rivalry against the guy the Empire hired him to bring in? Seems weird. He was already hunting Han for Jabba when Vader called in for bounty hunters. As much as I don't want to mention the Holiday Special, Han Solo-Boba Fett was always a thing from Boba Fett's first appearance.
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jivjov posted:Episodes don't have to "advance an arc" to be enjoyable to watch. Things can just be Fun. I can tell most of these posters are babies who didn't grow up watching 80's and 90's tv shows because holy poo poo, hardly ever were there actual story arcs for more than a handful of espiodes a season.
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Owlbear Camus posted:My guy was good enough at space karate to tank one as I recall. Yeah, after a while it got to the point where someone good enough (especially if they had Legendary weapons) could drat near solo one, and only the best weaponsmiths and richest Jedi could get the best modified weapons and highest-quality pearls. Soonmot posted:I can tell most of these posters are babies who didn't grow up watching 80's and 90's tv shows because holy poo poo, hardly ever were there actual story arcs for more than a handful of espiodes a season. Yeah, I kinda half-heartedly expected a tongue-in-cheek 80s-quality toy commercial after this instead of the credits art. "Tell Mom and Dad to buy you the Krayt Dragon Hunt set, complete with Spraying Stomach Acid that *totally* isn't leftover Ninja Turtle Ooze!" BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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Oct 30, 2020 20:52
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I love boba Fett and Temuera Morrison so I’m all for this. Zero negative aspects.
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Also, I'm fine with it NOT being Fett, but rather just a clone that either A) has his memories, or B) has taken it on himself to carry on his name/legend.
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Fett is a clone. It’s just boba Fett. And that’s okay. Darth maul came back and people liked that.
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Sash! posted:He was already hunting Han for Jabba when Vader called in for bounty hunters. As much as I don't want to mention the Holiday Special, Han Solo-Boba Fett was always a thing from Boba Fett's first appearance. Yeah, I try to pretend the Holiday Special doesn't exist, so I forgot about that. And I'd like to point out that it's not canon. But fair enough, the EU was just picking up something and running with it, I guess. BIG HEADLINE posted:Also, I'm fine with it NOT being Fett, but rather just a clone that either A) has his memories, or B) has taken it on himself to carry on his name/legend. All the other clones would be way older than that by this point. Fett was the only clone created to age like a normal human, so he'd be the only one to be the right age now. It's Fett.
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Hell yeah. Star Wars. Very straightforward episode without a lot of surprises aside from the stinger, but it's a season opener so I'm not gonna complain. The :tunnelsnakes: (edit: what happened to the tunnelsnakes gang tag) didn't look like they did anywhere in the EU but I guess they had to canonize it eventually and they had to reconcile it with the skeleton in ANH. Also, I had the dumbest grin on my face when I realized the Tusken Raiders were always shown traveling single-file 
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Hazo posted:Also, I had the dumbest grin on my face when I realized the Tusken Raiders were always shown traveling single-file Ha, nice catch.
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Timothy Olyphant is always welcome to show up on TV. It was a good episode, except for all those poor banthas.
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Just wanna make an appreciation post for the aspect ratio opening up during the krayt battle. I had to rewind it during that part to watch it again because the transition was executed perfectly. I remember the same feeling during The Hunger Games Catching Fire when the AR transitioned to full IMAX at the part where Katniss rose up into the arena during the countdown. Are there any other movies or shows that have done the same thing? It's a pretty effective filmic technique to indicate poo poo's about to get real. Love that.
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I said this in the last thread and I'll say it again: not every TV show needs to be "prestige" with every episode being drama and plot twists. Not only because it's easy for that kind of show to start breaking down (because it's almost impossible to plot things out for dozens of episodes in advance and eventually you have to start getting into asspulls or repeating plots and character beats), but because that kind of show also makes it hard to just be fun. This is Star Wars, man. You get the overarching plot but you're also here to see a badass in gleaming silver armor fly around on his jetpack and shoot a bunch of people, or get into dogfights with his cool spaceship. It's also doing a great job of fleshing out the setting in a way that you normally had to dive into EU novels or even the RPG sourcebooks to see (Sand People culture, graffiti-covered slums, actual boats). The willingness to do things that are "un-Star Wars" has made the setting as a whole much richer and feeling more organic. As someone who loves doing things like tabletop RPGs and writing fiction and really wants to do a Star Wars game (once I figure out what to do), The Mandalorian really invigorates me and makes me feel like a kid again.
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chitoryu12 posted:It's also doing a great job of fleshing out the setting in a way that you normally had to dive into EU novels or even the RPG sourcebooks to see (Sand People culture, graffiti-covered slums, actual boats). The willingness to do things that are "un-Star Wars" has made the setting as a whole much richer and feeling more organic. As someone who loves doing things like tabletop RPGs and writing fiction and really wants to do a Star Wars game (once I figure out what to do), The Mandalorian really invigorates me and makes me feel like a kid again. I just wanna say as a guy who runs tabletop starwar games, Hell Yeah. It's nice to have some touchstones that players will have in common that flesh things out a bit.
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teagone posted:Just wanna make an appreciation post for the aspect ratio opening up during the krayt battle. I had to rewind it during that part to watch it again because the transition was executed perfectly. I remember the same feeling during The Hunger Games Catching Fire when the AR transitioned to full IMAX at the part where Katniss rose up into the arena during the countdown. Are there any other movies or shows that have done the same thing? It's a pretty effective filmic technique to indicate poo poo's about to get real. Love that. Christopher Nolan famously did it for The Dark Knight for the opening bank robbery scene, and a few other scenes if I remember correctly. Pretty sure he did it in Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar, too. Grand Budapest Hotel changes aspect ratio all over the place in fun ways, changing with the decade to reflect how things were filmed at that time, but I'll never recommend people watch that movie, because the aspect ratio changes are the only things I liked about it. But I do mean it does it well, focusing on the vertical more for less wide ratios. Still though, ugh that movie.
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With so many mandos still around by the time of the show how come they never tried to take boba fetts armor back when he was a famous bounty hunter?
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teagone posted:Just wanna make an appreciation post for the aspect ratio opening up during the krayt battle. I had to rewind it during that part to watch it again because the transition was executed perfectly. I remember the same feeling during The Hunger Games Catching Fire when the AR transitioned to full IMAX at the part where Katniss rose up into the arena during the countdown. Are there any other movies or shows that have done the same thing? It's a pretty effective filmic technique to indicate poo poo's about to get real. Love that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci1u68ZVcag (2:20 in)
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What if it’s actually Jango with a robit body and he finally tracked down where his dipshit son died and left his armor.
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banned from Starbucks posted:With so many mandos still around by the time of the show how come they never tried to take boba fetts armor back when he was a famous bounty hunter? The implication is that the group Din belongs to is hyper fundamentalist, what with the "never remove your helmet" rule and the "this is the way" call and response.
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