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Post by Somny on Dec 18, 2020 21:43:10 GMT
The classical-tinged end credit music appropriately evoked the elegance and majesty of a more civilized age. A subtle choice but a major highlight for me.
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Post by smittysgelato on Dec 19, 2020 5:30:50 GMT
The final scene in today's episode reminded me of the above movie scene.
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Post by smittysgelato on Dec 19, 2020 5:33:38 GMT
And this one of course:
Anyone else get similar vibes?
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Post by jppiper on Dec 19, 2020 6:09:06 GMT
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Post by Somny on Dec 19, 2020 7:38:03 GMT
smittysgelato, I felt this vibe a bit (starting at :40) during a certain someone's appearance.
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Post by smittysgelato on Dec 19, 2020 20:25:37 GMT
smittysgelato , I felt this vibe a bit (starting at :40) during a certain someone's appearance. Yes! Totally felt like a god had descended to rescue the pathetic mortals. LOL When I saw the X-Wing I was like...Oh man these Dark Troopers are about to get totally wrecked!!!
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Post by Cryogenic on Dec 20, 2020 6:46:46 GMT
Well, at least now I know what you guys and the rest of the Internet are talking about!
Epic Mando crossover vid:
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Post by smittysgelato on Dec 21, 2020 21:38:29 GMT
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Post by Ingram on Dec 22, 2020 11:02:01 GMT
So I just finished Season 2 pretty much in one binge. The first four episodes last night, the latter half tonight, just now. And, okay then. There it is.
I suppose I warmed up a bit towards the latter set of episodes and the final was admittedly "fun"...in a removed fashion. Sitting through this 2nd Season, though, I had myself something of a stupid epiphany. This show -- this, the ST, the spinoffs, all of it -- is just EU stuff. Unofficially, of course, and certainly not canonical with the studio labeled EU content leading up to Disney, but EU stuff in just about ever other sense both practical and even a bit philosophical. This is the novels and comics and console game lore in practice. I'm not making an argument for what counts as Star Wars in terms of continuity; who cares on that front, right? But once separated from Pulp Cinema, Star Wars is more formlessly a mere sponge for media content. I was always in it chiefly for the original Hellenism—for being a singular prolonged consummation of pop-art. Now? Now it's a network. The whole thing is just kinda odd for me. I gleamed some surface delights from Season 2 yet I can't generate any lasting thoughts or feelings about the show one way or another. It exists. Seeing characters resurrected from a film Saga I've held so dear for the better part of my life has a way of snapping my mind in two:
"Hey, there's Luke Skywalker, from Return of the Jedi. Basically. Huh. And he's doing cool shit I always imagined him doing amid adventures outside the Saga storyline. Huh. Why do I feel like I'm not watching this, but my clone is?"
Something like that.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Dec 24, 2020 22:56:55 GMT
Is this from The Mandalorian? A friend posted it, but doesn't know what it's from. And I am curious.
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Post by Somny on Dec 24, 2020 23:13:29 GMT
Is this from The Mandalorian? A friend posted it, but doesn't know what it's from. And I am curious. Yeah, from the penultimate episode.
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Post by Cryogenic on Dec 25, 2020 0:11:25 GMT
Is this from The Mandalorian? A friend posted it, but doesn't know what it's from. And I am curious. Yeah, from the penultimate episode. It describes TFN in a nutshell.
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Post by Anthony on Jan 16, 2021 18:41:49 GMT
I really enjoyed this series so far. As far as I'm concerned, the best nostalgic thing wasn't Luke but Morrison playing a Fett again
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on Feb 12, 2021 16:33:59 GMT
OK Disney you filmed a recent movie, Mulan, in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), in full knowledge that there was a concentration camp programme for China's ethnically distinct Uighur muslim population. Essentially we have cultural genocide taking place. Recent reports from the BBC also pointing to systemic rape of Uighur women.
And now you want to claim the moral high ground by firing one of your Star Wars actresses for comments on Twitter? All while you did damn squat to the lead actress in Mulan for defending the actions of the authoritarian Han supremacist regime trying to takeover Hong Kong.
Fuck off.
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Post by Ingram on Feb 12, 2021 20:29:26 GMT
OK Disney you filmed a recent movie, Mulan, in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), in full knowledge that there was a concentration camp programme for China's ethnically distinct Uighur muslim population. Essentially we have cultural genocide taking place. Recent reports from the BBC also pointing to systemic rape of Uighur women.
And now you want to claim the moral high ground by firing one of your Star Wars actresses for comments on Twitter? All while you did damn squat to the lead actress in Mulan for defending the actions of the authoritarian Han supremacist regime trying to takeover Hong Kong.
Fuck off.
Get into the habit of laughing at the superficialism of it all. It's what I do. It's all anyone can do. You're better off that way. It's healthier.
And maybe start learning Mandarin.
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Post by eljedicolombiano on Feb 15, 2021 1:24:05 GMT
OK Disney you filmed a recent movie, Mulan, in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), in full knowledge that there was a concentration camp programme for China's ethnically distinct Uighur muslim population. Essentially we have cultural genocide taking place. Recent reports from the BBC also pointing to systemic rape of Uighur women.
And now you want to claim the moral high ground by firing one of your Star Wars actresses for comments on Twitter? All while you did damn squat to the lead actress in Mulan for defending the actions of the authoritarian Han supremacist regime trying to takeover Hong Kong.
Fuck off.
I wish I could like this comment 1,000 times
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Post by Seeker of the Whills on Jan 1, 2022 9:42:20 GMT
So I just finished Season 2 pretty much in one binge. The first four episodes last night, the latter half tonight, just now. And, okay then. There it is.
I suppose I warmed up a bit towards the latter set of episodes and the final was admittedly "fun"...in a removed fashion. Sitting through this 2nd Season, though, I had myself something of a stupid epiphany. This show -- this, the ST, the spinoffs, all of it -- is just EU stuff. Unofficially, of course, and certainly not canonical with the studio labeled EU content leading up to Disney, but EU stuff in just about ever other sense both practical and even a bit philosophical. This is the novels and comics and console game lore in practice. I'm not making an argument for what counts as Star Wars in terms of continuity; who cares on that front, right? But once separated from Pulp Cinema, Star Wars is more formlessly a mere sponge for media content. I was always in it chiefly for the original Hellenism—for being a singular prolonged consummation of pop-art. Now? Now it's a network. The whole thing is just kinda odd for me. I gleamed some surface delights from Season 2 yet I can't generate any lasting thoughts or feelings about the show one way or another. It exists. Seeing characters resurrected from a film Saga I've held so dear for the better part of my life has a way of snapping my mind in two:
"Hey, there's Luke Skywalker, from Return of the Jedi. Basically. Huh. And he's doing cool shit I always imagined him doing amid adventures outside the Saga storyline. Huh. Why do I feel like I'm not watching this, but my clone is?"
Something like that.
Lucas' Star Wars: The Complete Saga is subtitled "The Tragedy of Darth Vader", and is such a personal, focused story of Anakin and his children. Even The Clone Wars was partly about Anakin. All this extra content, the new Disney movies and shows, feel completely tangential and thus optional. I like to think of them as how the old EU was described, as a window into possible events that may have happened outside of the main saga. It is fun to spend some more time in that galaxy, and explore new corners, but somehow it feels a bit hollow and perhaps soulless. Lucas had a special touch, with his pulp influence, that gave a unique feel to Star Wars. Now, they're doing it in a more modern sort of style, with a different style of acting and dialogue. It's competently made (aside from the sequel trilogy), but lacks the heart of Lucas' Star Wars. It's really true what Lucas said, that 'Star Wars is not about the spaceships.' This new content definitely has the trappings of Star Wars, but not the heart and soul.
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Post by Darkslayer on Jun 24, 2022 17:03:28 GMT
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Post by Somny on Feb 24, 2023 20:44:09 GMT
...and we're back!
Who's watching this upcoming season premiere?
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Post by stampidhd280pro on Feb 24, 2023 23:12:17 GMT
I just subscribed to Disney+ yesterday and I've just been falling in love with this new era of Star Wars. You can count me in.
BTW Light and Magic has been a joy to watch. I'm only half way through but it's the first time I've seen anything like it. As a side note, George looks tired. He's old. And I wish him health and long life. And as a side note to that side note, this documentary hasn't aggrandized George as much as I'm used to seeing, and he even seems to let the mask slip in these recent interviews. Is this documentary a hit piece, or is there regret and humility in his face that wasn't there before?
Hopefully, Disney has learned from its missteps in the ST. In retrospect, it was messy and a bit careless, but it didn't wreck anything permanently, to me, aside from Finn's and Rose's potential within the films themselves. The creatives at Lucasfilm clearly want the best for the franchise, and it's almost as if some of the creators began a correction course with The Mandalorian, anticipating the disappointment in the sequel trilogy as a whole. The writing was on the wall, after all.
Also, hopefully George has made guidelines for the future of Star Wars and made specific references to anything egregious that has been done so far. Maybe a certain amount of cynicism is healthy, but between this Light and Magic documentary, as well as the better aspects of the Kenobi series, and what I've seen so far from The Bad Batch, my despair has been greatly ameliorated.
Final thought: Filoni isn't Lucas, and neither is anyone else, but I'm very thankful he's being given so much creative control. Something feels so right about everything he's giving us.
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