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The non movie characters, Ahsoka & Cad Bane, are from the Clone Wars cartoon which I watched with my kids, and it was actually a good show. The Clone Wars is where George Lucas basically handed off the creative torch to Dave Filoni, before selling the commercial side to the Devil Mouse corporation. Filoni is one of the director/producers of Fett & Mando.
This Boba Fett show is fan servicey mess, but it is still better than the last 3 movies.
Edit to say; I like being serviced
Cad motherfucking Bane. A worthy adversary for Boba Fett. Fuck yeah.
Filoni better keep Hondo out of this. Hondo will be his JarJar if he's not careful. This series has enough badasses in it that Hondo would just be a clown.
Clone Wars is required viewing at this point. It completely fixes Ep. 1 2 & 3 and connects it all together. And it makes the servicing feel wonderful.
LOL...I thought the exact same thing. In fact, Hondo and Cad Bane kinda had some overlap in my memory archive for some reason. But Hondo was goofy as fuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by This End Up
I guess it never occurred to me that Cad Bane survived the whole Clone Wars series, because this show takes place like one year post-ROTJ, right? Probably wise to put a limit on the animated series cameos.
Maybe some Sabine Wren/Asohka girl-on-girl action could save this. The Bo-Khatan thing was kinda cool, except she was a dick as only Starbuck could play.
Did we ever learn how Gus Fring got the dark saber?
BRB gonna order my Nite Owls 1/6 scale action figures.
https://www.sideshow.com/collectible...cid=21k6_4zbuz
Lol
I wonder if Cad Bane and Fennec still have issues after their face off in the bad batch?
The marketing is totally working on my kids. Mostly lego, but their wish lists includes some high cost action figures.
One of my kids points out that the Armorer has a spiked helmet, like the death watch mandalorians that worked for and followed Maul. He points out that this will probably lead to remeeting solo’s old girlfriend because she presumably took over the crime syndicate that controlled the pykes after kanobi killed Maul. It’s unclear where that’s headed unless this brings in lando or solo or chewy into the orgasmic servicing.
Will Tano reappear in the boba fett series as one of the “muscles?” There have been press releases about who will play Sabine Wren in the Tano series, but maybe they will both show-up sooner…
A theory in my household is that grogu will go back to mando. Possibly, after mando and Luke are long dead, he may return to Jedi training. He’d be a tween at that point.
No details, other than he just bombed the entire planet and found it in the rubble.Quote:
Originally Posted by bio-smear
I am sad they killed off Jennifer Beals’ character. Casting her as a Twilek Madam was a stroke of genius. Somebody should digitally add Twilek head thingies to her in Flashdance.
Disney needed a luv triangle between Fett, Beals’ character and Fenic Shand. This would keep the “shippers” happy.
To be fair we don’t know if she’s dead yet…Quote:
Originally Posted by This End Up
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Initially I imagined my 6 year old positing this theory and then realized your kid is probably older....right???Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
It came from the 11 year old.Quote:
Originally Posted by bio-smear
I’m gonna have to watch that again. I may have to go watch some clone wars though. Was it just total mayhem fun or did we put an important story arc from the cartoon to bed there at the end?
Mods
Heh
King Kong!
Mods are dumb.
I thought it stunk. Started to feel like one of those Doctor Who episodes from the Matt Smith era where the action just gets gratuitous and boring. The rancor biting Mando's helmet? Twice? The scooter kids? Everyone running around as a group? I thought we'd moved into better territory since ep5. Even Luke was too disgusted to show up.
Really hoping for a better show with Asohka.
It had moments, but the entire thing felt like it was written by a high school freshman. Also the big set-piece at the end kind of sucked. I expected better from Favereau and Filoni.
When The Mandalorian was announced, I didn’t expect to find this new character much cooler and interesting than Boba Fett, but here we are.
Surprised the Kenobi trailer didn't get posted here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWTfhyvzTx0
I had mixed feelings about the whole BF. The mods = Jarjar. It looked so out of place on Tatooine for them to be riding around in their bright candy colored Italian scooters. Boba didn't seem like much of a badass either. He was always getting his as kicked. The highlight was the train episode.
Once again, The Auralnauts fix the latest in Star Wars. May I offer up, The Book of ICE CREAM
And if you haven't seen extential troopers 1 and 2, do that as well. It's pretty much a padded room conversation in the star wars world
I thought it looked pretty promising.Quote:
Originally Posted by adrenalated
Empire
Star Wars
Rogue One
Return of the Jedi
Solo
The Force Awakens
Revenge of the Sith
The Last Jedi
Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones
The Rise of Skywalker
O noes, Obi One is out the same day as Stranger Things 4. Can Obi defeat the Demogorgon?Quote:
Originally Posted by adrenalated
Watching Clone Wars with my kid is great Obi-Wan prep
So, How is it?
Obi Wan - Excellent.
Yeah. Clone Wars was awesome. I haven't seen the later "3D" series, but the old cartoon network stuff was surprisingly great. Kids and I knocked that one out recently too. Wish I had watched it before because it explains a LOT about what takes place between Star Wars Eps 2 and 3.
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Rebels is also fantastic as an animated series. Took a few episodes, but it's a great compliment to Clone Wars.
Really? Just got done with the 2 episodes….and think it’s pretty awful. Little Leia is not a 10 year old..Flea?…..The new characters don’t seem to blend in….Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
I’ll keep watching cuz it’s Star Wars….
That actress was maybe 8 when that was filmed, right?
So far, the only two times to our knowledge that obi-wan came out of hiding was to save Princess Leia.
Question: How did Sevander (? Black female Inquisitor?) know about Leia's heritage and pull on Obi-Wan? Seems like if they know about Leia, then shirley they know about .... Luke??
Unlike The Mandolorian, this show relies too much on the deep SW cultural infrastructure for me, so I tend to lose patience and get fidgety.
One of my 12 yo’s theory is that she simply knew that kenobi was very good friends with bail organa and was not aware of her true origins. And that she’s one of the kids in the opening scene of EP1.
Yeah, me too. I feel exactly the same way I did about the beginning of Book of Boba Fett- skeptical but still hopefulQuote:
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Originally Posted by PB
They said so explicitly. She said her research in the archives revealed a connection between Obi Wan and Senator Organa.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Excellent focus there, Sir! I just saw her as a hate driven chatter box and kind of tuned her words out.
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Originally Posted by Woodsy
It's been said before, but I'll say it again: The Clone Wars animated series is the glue holding this newly developed franchise together. It is good enough that it completely redeems episodes 2 & 3 and moves them into the top half of SW films. If you watch episodes 1, 2, [all seasons of the animated clone wars], and then 3 and you're not moved by the ending of it, you're completely and utterly dead on the inside. It changes everything. Padme isn't a worthless character. Obi-Wan and Anakin aren't just acquaintances. The love between Padme and Anakin is real. Palptines politics and manipulation of the Jedi and Senate is masterful. The Jedi aren't just simpleminded dolts that fell into Palpatine's trap. Yeah, the acting still isn't great in the movies, but the characters now have all the depth they lacked before and you realize episode 3 is just a brief moment in a 7 year long story. The overall story is much richer for once you watch Clone Wars, it just needed to be ret-conned in. Not only all of that, it gave all the depth needed to launch all of these spin off series with enough background to be meaningful. Mandalorian, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan, and soon Asoka are all direct spin offs from Clone Wars.Quote:
Originally Posted by MontuckyFried
All that said, Obi-Wan's reaction of hearing the news was visceral. Excited for what comes next, and excited that they're keeping it to just 6 episodes. Flea was a little distracting, but at the same time he did a good job of being a dangerous looking bounty hunter. My kids had no idea who he was though. Not sure how they're going to fix up the Grand Inquisitor situation though. He's not dead. Then again, Sith don't seem all that bothered by lightsaber wounds.
The Inquisitor is named Reva Sevander, aka Third Sister.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
The deep infrastructure isn't all that deep. See above about the Clone Wars animated. And Mando is about to go balls deep into infrastructure Clone Wars set up. They were just dipping their toes before.
I love your balls deep enthusiasm, but I think you just demonstrated my observation ;)
https://deadline.com/2022/05/obi-wan...ey-1235034293/
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Full of kidnapped pint-sized princesses, Outer Rim workplace monotony, crises of confidence, well-timed throwbacks and plot holes, the opening of the six-episode series is a soiled mosaic of its influences — which, no matter how much Lawrence of Arabia you mix in with the original Blade Runner, some Matrix and an unseen Home Alone sequel, wilts faster than an orchid under the grueling twin suns of Tatooine.
That demise is made all the more scorched by the fact that significant swaths of Obi-Wan have a mid-1990s syndication cheapness to them, with slightly better lighting.
If 22 minute cartoons are too much for you to handle and makes you fidgety, I can't help you. This isn't some 'you need to read 8 novels to get it' level of Star Wars nerddom. It's about ~50 hours of the best Star Wars has to offer in bite size pieces. Maybe 40 hours if you skip season 1 when it's a bit too campy.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
If you've been on the ride for what, 11 films and 3 seasons of live action TV with Mando and Boba, do yourself a big favor here.
Or at least just the original "2-D" Clone Wars series to start with. That's all I did and it still filled in a ton of gaps I was previously ignorant to. Only takes a couple hours total to knock out both seasons since each episode was bite sized. Neat how Disney+ strung them together into being like a movie. I have yet to watch the computer animated stuff, but def looking forward to it. In my queue for sure.Quote:
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Is no one watching Kenobi? Holy shit today was good.
Crap, didn't realize the new episodes drop on Wednesdays. I'm ducking out until Friday night then.
Haven't watched the 3rd episode yet (I usually watch with the family on the weekend), but the first 2 were awesome. I only care about being entertained, not Canon consistency, etc. They delivered in spades.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless
The last time I saw flea live was with boingo. It was an amazing show that I’ll never forget. But usually when I think of flea, I think of this performance
https://youtu.be/OclUfLjOsPc