Star Wars Saga (OT/PT/ST) Discussion Thread

[Mondragon]

Mando started out good, yet should have ended with delivering the kid to Luke
And Mando wandering off into the sunset alone, to his theme music.

All in on Andor, still the only compelling SW, what I'm most looking forward to.

Ahsoka seems a mostly inoffensive extension of the somewhat enjoyable cartoon, though the more it goes on the more it flies in the face of the OT.

Acolyte will be a flag waving virtue signaling message-hammer.
Likely unsubtly about how the Jedi (read as straight white(ish) males) keeping lesbians from expressing their love, is what lead to their downfall and failure, in case you didn't know.

 

[jye4ever]

Mando started out good, yet should have ended with delivering the kid to Luke

All in on Andor, still the SW I'm most looking forward to.

While most of S3 was trash, that aerial battle at the end was epic.

 

[Otomofan]

No, it wasn't.

Parts of the Season 3 finale were mildly interesting, but there's nothing about the entire series that could come close to being described as "epic."

The attack on Death Star II was epic.

The Battle of Helm's Deep was epic.

Mando, good and bad, was just low-scale TV budget "content."

 

[jye4ever]

No, it wasn't.

Parts of the Season 3 finale were mildly interesting, but there's nothing about the entire series that could come close to being described as "epic."

The attack on Death Star II was epic.

The Battle of Helm's Deep was epic.

Mando, good and bad, was just low-scale TV budget "content."

Well it was what I envisioned the clone wars to be like in 77 not that AOTC mess so at least just give me that will you.

Help me Khev-Gar, Otto is being too picky again lol

 

[ZE_501]

Not sure I'd draw a parallell between the risk-taking (in art, identity, syntax etc etc) a serious artist like Bowie did with what has happened to SW since the OT.

Agreed on that, hence my disclaimer that it wasn't a one-to-one situation. Mostly the way I enjoy what I like and have learned to completely ignore the rest. Years ago I would write passionate screeds on this forum about content I disapproved of, but it no longer matters.

[...] but in terms of Disney I'd argue it's the exact reverse: endlessly mining nostalgia, story-grafting to the OT or just outright story/sequence theft, and failing through near-total mediocrity. And this includes even the very best of Disney SW like Mando and RO.

100%

 

[ZE_501]

Ironically, Disney is making Star Wars more strange "Bowie" every day... in fact, isn't one of the characters in Acolyte essentially Ziggy Stardust?

That's just their AI art department data-scraping old images.

 

[Sixth Scale Man]

I enjoyed The Mando seasons quite a bit (1&2 > 3), but I was getting tired of seeing early Macquarie and Johnston designs getting rifled through. Like, there’s no designers on staff? Didn’t they have Doug Chiang?

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Diluted isn't the word I would choose.

I was being nice for once

 

[choombaz]

I enjoyed The Mando seasons quite a bit (1&2 > 3), but I was getting tired of seeing early Macquarie and Johnston designs getting rifled through. Like, there’s no designers on staff? Didn’t they have Doug Chiang?

Yes. He was lead designer across the whole thing

 

[Wor-Gar]

At this point, nu-Star Wars could be put on AI-autopilot and I think the result might actually be better.

 

[Prime Clone]

The new 25th anniversary TPM comic shows us Anakin's dream about freeing the slaves. And like all comics in the Disney era (except those labelled Legends), it's as canon as the movies.

It reminds me how much I would've liked the Jedi to have this style of costume:

 

[jaztermareal]

The new 25th anniversary TPM comic shows us Anakin's dream about freeing the slaves. And like all comics in the Disney era (except those labelled Legends), it's as canon as the movies.

It reminds me how much I would've liked the Jedi to have this style of costume:

If HT did the concept art versions of Jedi in their ninja like outfits I would get them. Much better look than desert dweller robes for a knight

 

[Otomofan]

That's a deep cut. I completely forgot about those Power of the Jedi figures that were based on unused concept art.

I could do without the yellow sabers though. They've been turning up everywhere lately.

 

[jye4ever]

Those costumes look bad ass.

 

[wormlander]

Those costumes look bad ass.

Agree, Those costumes look bad. They also look like ass.

 

[wormlander]

Mando started out good, yet should have ended with delivering the kid to Luke

It did end with Luke rescuing Grogu though. There are only two seasons of The Mandalorian...

 

[Mondragon]

It reminds me how much I would've liked the Jedi to have this style of costume:

Funny, for all the bizarre nonsensical stuff Marvel 1977 Star Wars put out there (poor Chewie), at least they didn't imagine the past Jedi all dressed as Tatooine Hermits.
Young General Kenobi was a total badass!

 

[abake]

Star Wars has become David Bowie for me. Kind of; it's not a one-to-one analogy.

I was lucky enough to see Bowie perform twice and have enormous respect for him as an artist. Yet in his lifetime he produced a massive body of work and took many risks -- most of which doesn't actually resonate with me. A glance at my Bowie playlist reveals 21 songs. One hour and forty-three minutes culled from a lifetime of work.

The bulk of his work that I don't appreciate has no bearing on what I do enjoy.

I enjoy the OT first and foremost. Appreciate Rogue One, Solo, and Andor plus some Mandalorian episodes on their own merits, and don't care about the rest. It is what it is.

Big fan of Bowie here.
I kinda like stuff throughout his entire career, from Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs to Modern Love to Heathen. The man was a true giant.

 

[ZE_501]

Big fan of Bowie here.
I kinda like stuff throughout his entire career, from Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs to Modern Love to Heathen. The man was a true giant.

Absolutely. I wonder if we'll see his like again.

My list is taken from Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, "Heroes", Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), Let's Dance, Tonight, Earthling, Blackstar.

Saw him solo and also with Nine Inch Nails when he even did a duet with Trent Reznor on 'Scary Monsters'.

(Sorry for the off-topicking)

 

[Mondragon]

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Star Wars has become David Bowie for me. Kind of; it's not a one-to-one analogy
....have enormous respect for him as an artist. Yet in his lifetime he produced a massive body of work and took many risks -- most of which doesn't actually resonate with me.

UnIronically - https://screenrant.com/rise-skywalker-david-bowie-star-man-pilot-art/

Glad it wasn't in the film, as even as homage it would have marred his legacy.

On the otherhand-


They only have themselves to blame. Yes somehow Grace Slick, Darth Vader and Chewbacca's son Lumpy, all exist in the same universe. Let that sink in.