My kids and I have been rewatching the first four episodes and I’ve now realised a few things that didn’t quite click the first time.
Forgetting the armor? Being in the Sarlaac for a start. Plus those two suns, really hot, he’s from an ocean planet. Getting smacked in the head with a blaster probably didn’t help.
He seems to become more pathetic and incompetent the longer he is away from the bacta tank so I guess some of the more questionable behaviors you could put down to his ongoing healing process. There are a bunch of examples, taking out some of the assassins, that multiple armed monster, the Nikto speeder bikers where he’s not bumbling. I guess the next episode will confirm or kill that one.
Re the Firespray thing. They should never have changed the name to begin with and the actual name, I don’t like it, but adult me probably would have thought Star Destroyer or Millennium Falcon was a pretty stupid name as well (bite my own tongue right now). There are lots of characters who refer to their ship by name, Han Solo does it in SW4, so while the line reading isn’t as cool and effortless, it’s not that big of a deal.
I’m Australian so the dialogue, you bugger and mate, don’t bother me in the slightest and seem natural. It’s not exactly Josh Lawson in Mortal Kombat (but he is a lot of fun in that).
I realized watching the latest episode that there is a lot more color than just the mods. The Flashdancers club for example. Which made me realize, Favreau is about my age. So he must have read the original run of Marvel Star Wars comics when he was young. Go and look at those. They are hysterically stupid at times with some of the most ridiculous, bumbling, colorful characters and scenes. Much more than this show.
I think I was ready with knives on this show. I adored this character as a kid, can’t really tell you why, and what they are doing didn’t work for me.
But i guess this show is about taking a niche legacy character and turning it into a fully fledged person for the first time in live action. What was it like in the Sarlaac. What would you do when you got out. Could you go back to your old life. How would you react when people take you in as a family after spending all that time alone and then get slaughtered. I know it’s really rough around the edges but I have come around to the fish out of water and into the sand, Post Sarlaac Stress Disorder of it all.
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Also and most importantly I can relate to this show. I am at the age and physical condition where every time I exert myself I just have to go and have a lie down afterwards.