One thing works for Disney and they go all in, flooding the zone with a laughably endless amount of new announcements along similar lines.

Plus: Patty Jenkins directing a ROGUE SQUADRON movie...meh.























Also nothing new here:

So, they are basically stating that a RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK spinoff called "BANTU WIND!" about the exploits of everyone's favorite lovable RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK pirates Mr. Katanga (George Harris) and the other guy (Eddie Tagoe) is a viable option. Hey, it could tie into the 40th Anniversary of RAIDERS next year and is very "diversity-ready"

Notice what was missing in all those Star Wars announcements? Any mention of Rian Johnson or J. J. Abrams.

I still think The Mandalorian is a terrific show and easily better than any of the Disney produced feature films. Hopefully these new series will be closer to it than the movies.

That's the thing with Disney - they generate one success but then clobber you with a sledgehammer with a dozen things just like it. It's never enough to have one. They have to have 30, most of them connected to the one success they have ("Coming Soon: Ashoka With Rosario Dawson!" "Coming Soon: A Janitor in the Background Gets a Talk Show!"). They could have given the movies a really long run but instead, after THE FORCE AWAKENS hit the magic box-office billion number, they decided to rush full on with movie after movie, and burned the whole IP out in the span of a couple of years so it's now streaming city for the most part.

I don't care for The Mandalorian myself -- I found what little I saw boring and cliched -- but I get that it's quasi-competent in a way most stabs at this material aren't and has gotten a fan base going. Yet they can't just do a couple of things on the same level, they're going to flood the zone with "more!", and chances are -- given their batting average -- some of them are going to be terrible, and the same thing will eventually happen.

AndyDursin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:02 am
I don't care for The Mandalorian myself -- I found what little I saw boring and clched -- but I get that it's quasi-competent in a way most stabs at this material aren't and has gotten a fan base going.

I couldn't really get into it either. I don't think it is bad...but it isn't Star Wars.

Star Wars is about old fashioned good guys vs. bad guys, thrills and romance, with a mythological demension. The Mandalorian is a spaghetti western with spaceships and blasters. The only thing that makes it "Star Wars" is the design style. It seems to me they could use the visual style of Buck Rogers or Babylon 5 and it would be the exact same show.

I really enjoy the Mandalorian. So does my wife and 8yo. The stuff with "The Force" was always my least favorite part of Star Wars. My favorite Star Wars things growing up was the Dark Forces games, the Tie Fighter/xwing games, and novels. I want cool ships, fights, planets, action, and a plot that I can't really predict what will happen next. The fact that they are including the best parts of the old Expanded Universe (Dark Troopers, Admiral Thrawn, Boba Fett surviving, etc) is just an added bonus.

The effects are movie quality, the score has slightly grown on me, and I haven't been let down by an episode yet.

Now, as for all the upcoming shows/movies, I'm cautiously optimistic. The Obi-Wan show and the Rogue Squadron movie could be good!

I know I'm the only one here who enjoys this show, but the finale- HOLY CRAP! I was hoping they would do what they did, but didn't think they would. This series just shows how out of touch JJ Abrams and Rain Johnson were with the franchise.

I won't spoil anything, but at a certain moment, I sat upright on the couch and felt like I was 12 years old again.

And the post-credits stinger was just a perfect added bonus.

You're not the only one. That was a pretty amazing finale.

Heard the last 10 minutes were amazing but the rest of the episode was not particularly strong.

Either way, I recognize this is more what should've been done with the Disney Star Wars movies. It's a huge galaxy. Tell a story centering on fresh characters and not some horrid fan fiction like their extension of the original characters. Nobody ever said you had to have Skywalkers as the focal points to make Star Wars. They completely missed that boat there and not understood that fans would've been willing to go along for that ride, but this is Disney we're talking about and they didnt create this IP, they only bought it.

Doing a remake trilogy essentially was lazy and that's essentially what Kennedy and Abrams set out to do, but at the same time, they pissed all over the original movies and grafted woke revisionism with a feminist/diversity bent all over them. So they failed all over the map really. Anything with the brand was going to make money but they diminished the overall IP in the process as they tried to refashion the material for young girls in a transparent pandering/merch move (knowing they already had the young boy market covered).

Good for these guys that they understood the need to go someplace else with the material, but it shouldn't have been that difficult to figure out.