The Mandalorian trailer

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Kaido

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ultimatebob said:
So... Baby Yoda now has an official name, and I don't like it. I think that I'm going to stick with Baby Yoda :)
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We took a vote between Grogu, Baby Yoda, and The Child. Baby Yoda won out lol.
 
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Fritzo said:
The metal is well known in the extended universe and very rare- it's a sacred metal from the Mando home world and moon. Any non Mandalorian ownership means it's been stolen, and since it's considered sacred they fight to the death to retrieve it.

Mandalorians were the only fighters that could counter Jedi and they were enemies for a long time. Some of the Old Republic games goes over that.
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I didn't know that, that was an awesome & surprising scene!
 
Kaido

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kage69 said:
I wish we could get some Star Wars production that didn't focus on kids, a la the first movies. Also wish the writing wasn't quite so lazy, with so much time devoted to credits. It's laziness posing as art. There isn't much about this show that impresses me to be honest. For this kind of budget they shouldn't be cutting corners, I don't care who the guest appearances are. With this kind of popularity some real talent should be at the helm, not people who present the audience with dreck like train-up montages or deflated, weak copies of a heavily used Kurosawa plot.

I hate to say it, but I may be done with the entire franchise. Had high hopes for some kind of much needed revival, but this ain't it. At least the kids are happy I guess. Hurry up Expanse!
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Same, I wish there was like, an adult Star Wars. I don't mean adult content-wise, but rather a mature storyline that is deeper. Even something like LOTR level of depth would be great! Granted, Disney is a kid company, and they make massive money off merchandising (I just got an awesome 36" ultra-wide print of Baby Yoda for my movie room, hahaha!), but still, for all of us who grew up with it, it would be awesome for them to just pump out deep story lines every week for the rest of time. Sign me UP!
 
Fritzo

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Kaido said:
"Laser swords" hahaha
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That's what George Lucas originally called them...the name was changed at the last minute before filming the first movie. I think there's a couple other characters that call them "laser swords" ;)
 
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kage69 said:
I wish we could get some Star Wars production that didn't focus on kids, a la the first movies. Also wish the writing wasn't quite so lazy, with so much time devoted to credits. It's laziness posing as art. There isn't much about this show that impresses me to be honest. For this kind of budget they shouldn't be cutting corners, I don't care who the guest appearances are. With this kind of popularity some real talent should be at the helm, not people who present the audience with dreck like train-up montages or deflated, weak copies of a heavily used Kurosawa plot.

I hate to say it, but I may be done with the entire franchise. Had high hopes for some kind of much needed revival, but this ain't it. At least the kids are happy I guess. Hurry up Expanse!
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The first movies literally had toys, cartoons, and were 100% geared towards kids (which you most likely were when you saw them)...

www.polygon.com

George Lucas reiterates Star Wars is for ‘12-year-olds,’ calls out ‘mean’ critics

We just can’t let the prequel trilogy go
www.polygon.com www.polygon.com
 
Aikouka

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I've almost always had this problem when I watch The Mandalorian. I don't dislike the show... it's like there's a nagging voice in my head that says "this could be better". I've been thinking about it more after reading some of the comments here, and I wonder if my qualms are that the show just isn't very deep... with the main qualm there being the characters. It just seems like every character is just so bland and uninteresting. They even cast Timothy Olyphant -- an actor who played a lawman on both Justified and Deadwood -- as a sheriff, and he just came across as stilted. Then you have Carl Weathers' character who spends most of an episode saying "Come on!".

Fritzo said:
The first movies literally had toys, cartoons, and were 100% geared towards kids (which you most likely were when you saw them)...

www.polygon.com

George Lucas reiterates Star Wars is for ‘12-year-olds,’ calls out ‘mean’ critics

We just can’t let the prequel trilogy go
www.polygon.com www.polygon.com
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Given that movies like Robocop also had a significant amount of toys geared toward kids, can we really use that as a litmus test for the focus of a movie... or that toy makers would gladly gear anything toward kids if they think it will sell?
 
Fritzo

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Aikouka said:
I've almost always had this problem when I watch The Mandalorian. I don't dislike the show... it's like there's a nagging voice in my head that says "this could be better". I've been thinking about it more after reading some of the comments here, and I wonder if my qualms are that the show just isn't very deep... with the main qualm there being the characters. It just seems like every character is just so bland and uninteresting. They even cast Timothy Olyphant -- an actor who played a lawman on both Justified and Deadwood -- as a sheriff, and he just came across as stilted. Then you have Carl Weathers' character who spends most of an episode saying "Come on!".



Given that movies like Robocop also had a significant amount of toys geared toward kids, can we really use that as a litmus test for the focus of a movie... or that toy makers would gladly gear anything toward kids if they think it will sell?
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That's not the same. Robocop was supposed to be a B movie and became a sleeper hit. After it appeared on corporate radar, it was retooled into a cartoon and toys were based off of it. The cartoon featured lasers instead of guns, and there was a whole "Robo team" of crime fighters.
 
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Got myself a little Christmas present for my home theater to go above the 1up arcades:

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Kaido

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Disney+ has the Lego Star Wars Christmas Special available for streaming. Watched it tonight, the baby yoda part was great lol
 
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JEDI said:
i wanted the Gauntlet 1up arcade but sold out. :(
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I'm up to 4 units now. Got them when they were on sale for $75 a pop a year or two ago. Easy to mod with Pi's, lots of premade images if you're into that.
 
ultimatebob

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Baby Yoda is getting pretty good at force choking people. Darth Gus Fring might turn him into a Sith lord yet!
 
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kage69

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Fritzo said:
The first movies literally had toys, cartoons, and were 100% geared towards kids (which you most likely were when you saw them)...

www.polygon.com

George Lucas reiterates Star Wars is for ‘12-year-olds,’ calls out ‘mean’ critics

We just can’t let the prequel trilogy go
www.polygon.com www.polygon.com
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I think you are confusing marketing and promotion with movie content, which is what I am lamenting. The originals didn't start to give in to marketing until Return of The Jedi, IMO, Ewoks were for kids. But as a kid I considered Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back as distinctly more "grown up" at the time, moreso than the typical TV content my demo consumed at the time. People getting limbs lopped off with futuristic weapons, entire planets being destroyed, stuff like that didn't show up much on Sat mornings.

I'm ok with merchandising (especially the flame throwers) but I cannot ignore the difference between the first movies and those god awful prequels, for starters.

11 days to go! Woooo!
 
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JEDI said:
wait.. what?
this is the 1st time i heard he had the magical metal?!?

was it ever mentioned in the 1980s movies that his suit was made of it?
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Not to my knowledge. I first read of it in some of the books published in the 90s.
 
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Was the motion/picture different on this latest episode? I don't think I changed the settings on my TV, but it definitely felt like there was some 'soap opera effect' going on that I don't remember from earlier episodes.
 
Starbuck1975

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JEDI said:
wait.. what?
this is the 1st time i heard he had the magical metal?!?

was it ever mentioned in the 1980s movies that his suit was made of it?
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Never mentioned in the OT although its kind of cool to see armor in the Star Wars universe actually perform the function of armor
 
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