It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!

[Nintex]

The exciting possibilty of a Rose and Finn Sitcom spin-off called REBEL AND TROOPER 

[Uncle]

rey and kylo could've done something interesting joining together and forging a new path without the trappings of the old ways

except riann sabotaged his own idea before he even ended the movie by quickly returning the story to the status quo of good guys and bad guys


"join me rey btw I still plan on killing everyone you love  "

then rise of skywalker went ahead and brought them together anyway

[Joe Molotov]

I guess love can bloom on the battlefield!

[Great Rumbler]

"No, Rey. You are the Star Wars."

And then, Rey was a Death Star.

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"My four daughters watch this and obviously the world is like, 'It's the Baby Yoda show,' and I'm never jealous or have any problem with that, but I have to say, two of my daughters texted me and two of them [called] me: 'Papa, please don't hurt that baby. Don't hurt that baby,'" Giancarlo said. "And I said, 'I will squash that little big-eared bastard.'"

[Tasty]

"My four daughters watch this and obviously the world is like, 'It's the Baby Yoda show,' and I'm never jealous or have any problem with that, but I have to say, two of my daughters texted me and two of them [called] me: 'Papa, please don't hurt that baby. Don't hurt that baby,'" Giancarlo said. "And I said, 'I will squash that little big-eared bastard.'"

Gus

[Tasty]

Audience:

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[daemon]

https://twitter.com/VinnieMancuso1/status/1338902386518216705

I havent even seen this trash fire but this reminds me of people calling Star Trek Picard's scene where they have the Borg cube crash on a planet sooo cool and awesome

Like what. Who cares. It's CG. It has zero impact.

Fuck off with your special effects drivel.

If you look past all the bugs Cyberpunk is a great game with gorgeous graphics. 

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Then again cyberpunk can be fixed in a few months. Star War 8 is forever.

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Episode 8, the only movie besides Empire Strikes Back to do something interesting in the franchise.

I always wanted to see a glittering space-hovering grandma.

[chronovore]

[daemon]

Boba noticed luke on cloud city and prevented solos recovery. He fought luke but was nearly hit by deflected friendly fire. Solo got a cheap lucky shot. He was not shown fighting scrubs like in the mandalorian in the OT.

[Tasty]

Green Luke best Luke

[chronovore]

http://twitter.com/Rodriguez/status/1342349674334748672

[Sideshow Raheem]

I would have more respect for Star Wars if Rose and Finn both died in the speeder crash at the end of whatever movie it was with the slow-speed space chase.

A space technician could have examined the crash and maybe nudged some of Rose's body chunks with his foot. Then he could have shaken his head in disbelief someone could be so stupid, and walked away.

Oh, and Merry Life Day, fannerds.

[Tasty]

[daemon]

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Luke teaching a class of younglings: So today we'll learn about... - oh hey Ben... Why are you igniting your lightsaber?


"I'll finish what you started"


<Anakin force ghost looking at the scene>

[daemon]

This is a meme I did a few weeks ago

[D3RANG3D]

S2 of Mando was just a launchpad for shows they want to make. 

[Tasty]

S2 of Mando was just a launchpad for shows they want to make. 

The Iron Man 2 of Mando seasons.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

The last ep of Mando S2 seemed to be trying to do what the Defenders did with the Netflix marvel shows, except they rushed it because the big ensemble group didn't actually get their own shows yet for that to be the big epic team up.

Also on a story level, its kind of good I guess? that Mando gives up on his helmet only, final destination creed out of choice for baby yoda, but the whole thing being wrapped up by Luke Ex Machina is lame.

[Don Rumata]

The second half of the season had at least *something* happen.
The first 3 episodes were literally Z-tier fetch quest in an open world game.

This is basically a collection of pretty landscapes and props so far, there is 0 story and near 0 character development.

I'm not very familiar with the characters, but the episodes with Ashoka and punished Boba, had at least a little spark of life in them, so it makes me think the only way for this thing to have any arcs, is to indeed, borrow from other SW stories, which is sad in itself.
The Bill Burr guy had probably the most development put into, in the whole show, and he was in 2 episodes out of 16.
Mando in particular is awful, and a horrible main protagonist.
Gordon Freeman had more charisma.

[Nintex]

The first season was pretty good, will catch the second season at some time but not really in a rush.
I don't think this series really needed a second season to begin with.

[Don Rumata]

Even as side-quests, they just aren't interesting. The planets are pretty bland, the creatures are run of the mill, there are no interesting gimmicks, Mando doesn't come up with anything intelligent to get over obstacles... it's literally just pretty vistas and cool puppets.
Every action scene with Mando in it, is him walking (slowly) through a corridor, shooting at people as his shitty armor does the job for him (or everybody missing their shots because "lol Stormtroopers can't aim").
There are no stakes.

At least that Asian chick was doing rolls and shit.
I agree the second half is embarrassing with the fan service, but again, at least you're getting characters with a back story.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Yeah, I agree with Stro, I think I like the 'side quest' parts of Mando more tbh.
The sarlacc hunt was pretty good. So was the passenger delivery, and both seasons Bill Burr heist eps.

I think its pretty unfair to say he wasn't planning stuff, and then trying to recover the plans, and I quite like how understated his stoicism in the face of everything going to shit can be.
He just does that little shoulders down 'ugh' moment before trying to wing it when everythings gone to shit.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I mean, fuck, the whole show is Lone Wolf and Cub with a dash of Man With No Name in the Star Wars universe

[Don Rumata]

The dragon hunt was basic as fuck tho.
They just plant some explosives on the ground and then use the "let yourself get swallowed" trick to kill it.
Seems bottom of the barrel ideas to me. 

The Bill Burr episode is the only one i liked, the planet was nice looking (though again, just a regular forest) and not a fucking desert for once, and Bill Burr got some decent development, even though they once again undermine their own tension when they get discovered, and just mow down the whole base without a scratch.

Mando soft stoicism is like the boring PG version of Karl Urban's Dredd, only he's just completely non-threatening.

[Pissy F Benny]

I've only watched 1 ep of series 2 but anything that gives my boy Timmy O some shine is fine by me

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especially cuz he was pretty much just space raylan givens

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[BIONIC]

Imagine giving critical thought and analysis for Star War in 20XX 

[Pissy F Benny]

stro is a sasha banks mark?

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[Human Snorenado]

HOT TAKE: people are so fucking pissed and divided over star wars because they realize they were dumb as kids and this is their only way of getting revenge

[Don Rumata]

The idea that Star Wars is impossible to make into something decent is absurd, when you consider that it's just space fantasy, the simplest setting there is, to do some fun adventure romp.

The problem is they keep overthinking it as some kind of spiritual sacred cow about whatever the fuck, or get completely tangled in its own legacy (see the new trilogy).

Nobody wants Tolstoj from Star Wars, a competent adventure in three acts with some creativity thrown in, would make most people happy.

At least Mandalorian tried to do that in Season 1, despite working with terrible scripts and characters.
It was a step in the right direction, before season 2 immediately started connecting the dots with everything else again.

[Potato]

I'm cool with The Mandalorian just being a western/samurai show set in the Star Wars universe. I don't need deep character development and story arcs that go for multiple seasons. Just give me cool bad guys making hell for the townsfolk and Mando and friends solving the problem of the week. Wash, rinse, repeat.

[daemon]

Star War Bad. Except for the fact it genuinely made fx advances, audio advances, created ILM, THX.

The story is just a vessel for technological creativity surrounding it.

It's always been that way, and it should always be that way, without directors trying to bamboozle you with shyamalan twists. Sadly, that was the most enjoyable of the three sequels when it came to visual language and originality.

When it comes to the PT, the rise of Palpatine through sheer political manipulation is realistic af, as he literally divided the republic in two factions to just reap the winnings of either one. Dunno, pretty relevant almost two decades later.

The SW of Lucas can be odd at some points, but a single frame can convey so much information that it created a new piece of canon. You got a guy that stands out of the ordinary in Tatooine? Bam, that's an undercover Jedi named Quinlan Vos.

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At least better than the Benny Hill show in space that is Star Trek

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I'm cool with The Mandalorian just being a western/samurai show set in the Star Wars universe. I don't need deep character development and story arcs that go for multiple seasons. Just give me cool bad guys making hell for the townsfolk and Mando and friends solving the problem of the week. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Yeah, mostly this. Still, it's only normal there's an underlying plot. I understand them bringing

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Luke in because of the absolute disservice they did to him in the ST

[close]

[Potato]

Just finished The Mandalorian S2. Was pretty good.

Much better than anything Star Wars that Disney have put their name to since they acquired the franchise.

I didn't mind the fan service throughout, even though most of it went over my head (having only watched a smattering of The Clone Wars and none of Rebels). I also didn't mind the way they basically made it a series of pilots for the spin off shows they're launching either.

I guess it's done its job as I'm keen for more of The Mandalorian and I'm interested in trying out the new shows.

Haven't felt this positive about Star Wars since 2 June 1999.

[Pissy F Benny]

the best film in the franchise was released

[Tasty]

Not sure how much I trust this Filoni dude anymore

[team filler]

about as much as I trust a brand of salsa made in new york city

[BIONIC]

About as much as I trust stost

[Tasty]

Can you really trust a guy who wears a black cowboy hat at all times despite not  being a cowboy and being from a suburb of Pittsburgh?

Maybe he really wants to wear a fedora but knows how tainted that image is?

[team filler]

About as much as I trust stost

GET A ROPE!!

[Don Rumata]

Not sure how much I trust this Filoni dude anymore

Lo forward to seeing Jar Ja in S3.

[Pissy F Benny]

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So they made baby yoda into a dog

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[Joe Molotov]

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So they made baby yoda into a dog

[close]

[chronovore]

http://twitter.com/sequelmemes/status/1350479620307611651

[Nintex]

I missed it, but they cancelled Gina Carano.

https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/1359751520963747844

[chronovore]

I missed it, but they cancelled Gina Carano.

https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/1359751520963747844

Let's see - she publicly professed herself as pro-Trump, anti-democracy, anti-vaccination, anti-mask, and stopped short of TERF territory but balked at using people's preferred pronouns. This is just… consequences.

[team filler]

you can get away with damn near anything, but once you anger a certain group of whites 

[BIONIC]

She was getting away with saying bigoted vile stuff for months, but she says anti-Semitic crap and she’s gone the next day 

[benjipwns]

This is probably one reason you guys aren't allowed in the Taco Bell.

[team filler]

I was allowed in and said no thanks 

[Nintex]

It's a big hoopla over nothing. Since when do we look at actors as a moral compass. Let's face it, most of them aren't that bright and just repeat the cookie cutter opinion or take of one side or the other. Her take being herp derp this is just like the holocaust. Ken Levine is right firing her changes nothing.

[Don Rumata]

I missed it, but they cancelled Gina Carano.

https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/1359751520963747844

Let's see - she publicly professed herself as pro-Trump, anti-democracy, anti-vaccination, anti-mask, and stopped short of TERF territory but balked at using people's preferred pronouns. This is just… consequences.

Nah, this is just usual collective back patting.
Why are Disney so angry about Holocaust comparisons, when they sucked China's dick while shooting Mulan where they had literal, ongoing, concentration camps trying to genocide an ethnic group?

Gina Carano is a cunt, so no love lost, but this is, as usual, pathetic people on the Internet pretending the evil is defeated, while giving more and more power to it.

Bad Tweets > Actual genocide, as long as you get cheap labour and get to act as the hero all the same. 

[BIONIC]

To summarize: 

[Don Rumata]

I missed it, but they cancelled Gina Carano.

https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/1359751520963747844

Let's see - she publicly professed herself as pro-Trump, anti-democracy, anti-vaccination, anti-mask, and stopped short of TERF territory but balked at using people's preferred pronouns. This is just… consequences.

Nah, this is just usual collective back patting.
Why are Disney so angry about Holocaust comparisons, when they sucked China's dick while shooting Mulan where they had literal, ongoing, concentration camps trying to genocide an ethnic group?

Gina Carano is a cunt, so no love lost, but this is, as usual, pathetic people on the Internet pretending the evil is defeated, while giving more and more power to it.

Bad Tweets > Actual genocide, as long as you get cheap labour and get to act as the hero all the same. 

You can think hey fuck Disney and also hey fuck Gina good they fired her at the same time. Nothing is stopping you from doing that.

I am doing that, i don't give a shit about her, and just called her a cunt?

But i mean nerds have become the emblem of the idea of consumer as domesticated cattle.
I don't see a story like this as any kind of triumph, and there's people literally thanking disney on social media, to me it's absolutely a grotesque display.
And actions like this do nothing more than further create the illusion of these toy makers as benevolent forces, whether consciously or subconsciously.

Makes me want to eat the wrong side of a gun, for real.

Again, just in case it isn't clear, not because this moron was (understandably) fired, but because of the surrounding context.

[Pissy F Benny]

if you want a squeaky clean actor whos not gonna show you up with crazy facebook posts, why would you hie an mma fighter in the first place

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

where she fucked up, was in not making the more apt comparison between cancel culture and McCarthyism.

Even so, I find it hard to believe in peoples genuine offence at a "you guys are being total nazis about this" comment, or to see that as an expression of antisemitism.

[Don Rumata]

If this situation makes you want to eat a gun, maybe you should

I know, but atm i have people that depend on me to survive.

I could let them go homeless though, could get a free Disney+ subscription out of it, with a pitiful enough Insta Story.

[Uncle]

If this situation makes you want to eat a gun, maybe you should

unironically recommend that other bore members commit suicide 

[Tasty]

Cancel culture be like