Starting to pick up a pattern with Disney+ shows, whether they're Marvel or Star Wars shows, where they hit like, the three-quarters mark of the season, and they have to remind you forcefully that these shows are part of a shared universe by just airdropping pre-existing characters in, with wildly varying levels of success
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This episode had a bunch of problems.
I mean I know this is the pathway that led Luke to become disillusioned with the Jedi, but I feel it’s a real fuck your to be denied something of your culture. And frankly then teasing it for two episodes was just boring.
Them insisting on using a cg r2d2 was super distracting.
And I like the madalorian but why do we need two episodes essentially focusing on him in a show not about him when he has his own show?
I’ve often said that I feel Boba Flett’s biggest problem is that we don’t know what this story is. It started off as, I want to be in charge, then the fetts came and left and not the pykes are here, and they have absolutely no personality shown other than they’re the bad guys. I just don’t know what to care about in this show.
It was nice to see Timothy olyphant until he died, but I wasn’t really surprised about that. And to the shows credit, they really nailed the look of Cad Bane.
Raise them right.
Raise them to never forgive tros, a movie which makes sure to disservice every character old and new, other than Lando for the most part.
They. Put. Wedge. In. A. Turret.
Honestly, I was slightly more offended by how TLJ did Ackbar.
I just finished the episode and have some conflicting thoughts that I'm going to work through now. this post will not make sense.
k some groundwork
1) in general, I like when things feel connected, but not too connected in star wars. things that make the universe feel cohesive are good. sometimes these are cameos or reminders that things exist. a good example: the pyke syndicate, who we're familiar with, being the current Apparent Antagonist.
2) I don't like when every piece of media feels oversaturated with cameos. it makes the universe feel smaller than it needs too, and I appreciate the opportunity for other stories to be told within the star wars universe. mando season 1 did a good job of this.
3) I think Luke's a pretty boring dude (I have to say this for fear of coming off as someone who stans Luke Skywalker)
good things about the episode irrespective of how i feel personally about story choices: luke looks much better here than he did at the end of mando s2. cad bane looks great. i like the return of timothy olyphant's character, because they're on tatooine, I think it makes sense for him to be present if they're hyping this up as a planet-scale conflict.
I think Luke showing up at the end of S2 was a boring choice given some of the other routes they could have gone, but was fine. I didn't love it and I didn't hate it, and it made sense given what they had set up with Grogu that he would naturally have to come into contact with Luke at some point or like....die or disappear or something. They could have had it never happen altogether, but it was pretty clear he was steering towards Jedi, Ahsoka said no thank you, and if that's gonna happen Luke makes sense. no harm no foul.
consequently luke being in this episode didn't actually bother me either, it's again: fine. that's where grogu is. makes some sense, and honestly didn't hate seeing a little bit of luke trying to work through an apprentice. that's a gap in the story that hasn't been told, i'm ok with getting a little bit of meat there. whether or not The Book of Boba Fett is the right place to do it is a separate conversation that probably isn't actually worth having.
I think the actual thing that makes the galaxy feel claustrophobic is when Filoni over-cameos his own characters. I don't hate Ahsoka as a character, I actually think she's pretty cool, but I think the combo of her AND Luke AND Cad Bane in one episode made me go "ok. what are we doing here. Is Book an Avengers movie?"
I can't even really specifically pinpoint what I like or dislike about it all, there was just something about the amount of cameos in this episode that made me go "eh.....we could have cut one of these." I'm wondering if it's just the fact that Ahsoka was such a prominent part of Clone Wars AND Rebels AND we just had her in Mandalorian and now she also appeared here??? but it's a brief cameo so maybe I'm just being whiny??? I don't know. I just don't know.
I think Ahsoka OR Luke would have been fine. Maybe it's just that both were there? but like it probably makes sense that Ahsoka is there to help Luke build Skywalker's School for Gifted Youngsters so like....that's not fair from a story perspective either probably. I don't know!!!
cad bane appearing i liked because I will inherently skew towards preferring non-jedi cameos than jedi cameos. that's not a fair criticism it's just true.
shot called luke having yoda's lightsaber as soon as he was doing exercises in front of Grogu, I think red pill/blue pilling Grogu is boring.
all in all i probably liked the episode, but I just....I think Filoni, for all his strengths, already had a problem with being a little too insular and I think maybe this episode continues to walk further down that path in a way that ultimately doesn't matter to me, but that I think will put people off of star wars media, which is a bummer to me!
as predicted, this post didn't make any sense. and I don't want it to come off as an ahsoka hate post cause i like a lot of ahsoka stuff i just think....there were too many cameos in this episode. cut one of them. and cad bane was like 60 seconds at the end of the episode so i think if you cut one it's either luke or ahsoka, i'm probably indifferent to which.
sorry i actually missed something about the episode
nice to have boba fett make a cameo midway through
I can't get over the fact that those teenagers just live with him now. They deserve their own Hannah-Barberra-esque cartoon spinoff on Disney+
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Yeah, he looks much better but his voice seems like it's AI generated or something and is off putting. The nice thing about Luke in the sequel trilogy is a lot of Mark Hamill's personality and humor was allowed to spill into the character, and here he is just stoic, boring old hero. I get that he is Uber Jedi now but it's not like he gave up having a personality at the end of RTJ.
The Luke/Grogu stuff should be spliced together and released as a special released inbetween seasons. You can still have Mando's comment about dropping something off to a friend at the end of the last episode, and then start this one with him showing up at Fett's place and it's not super jarring. If the Jedi stuff isn't going to affect the Boba storyline, then it's wasted screentime.
Also, @T4CT , that would resolve your issue of "too many cameos in a single episode" complaint (which is absolutely fair). The only cameo in this episode would be Cad Bane and Timothy Olyphant, and the Jedi stuff is done this summer as a 60 minute special event to get you geared up for Mando Season 3.
Not quite as strong as last episode, but still a good episode. I figured the Duros who shot Timothy Olyphant was a character I should know, but I didn't, but still loved his arrival. Big fan of how that duel was just straight out of a Western. Just really good stuff, but sad to see Olyphant's character go.
The Luke/Grogu stuff should be spliced together and released as a special released inbetween seasons. You can still have Mando's comment about dropping something off to a friend at the end of the last episode, and then start this one with him showing up at Fett's place and it's not super jarring. If the Jedi stuff isn't going to affect the Boba storyline, then it's wasted screentime.
Also, @T4CT , that would resolve your issue of "too many cameos in a single episode" complaint (which is absolutely fair). The only cameo in this episode would be Cad Bane and Timothy Olyphant, and the Jedi stuff is done this summer as a 60 minute special event to get you geared up for Mando Season 3.
yeah i actually dig this approach. this would have been fine!
Not quite as strong as last episode, but still a good episode. I figured the Duros who shot Timothy Olyphant was a character I should know, but I didn't, but still loved his arrival. Big fan of how that duel was just straight out of a Western. Just really good stuff, but sad to see Olyphant's character go.
no way is he dead, right? looked like a shoulder shot and they called for a medpac. I feel like he's gonna be alright. I hope.
Who taught Luke that "no attachments" garbage. Obi-wan and Yoda didn't in the films, and I think Ahsoka would know better what that mindset leads to. I think the closest thing in the OT was Yoda telling Luke to stay and finish his training instead of heading to Cloud City, but that's not really the same thing. I thought they would know by now that that rule only causes issues
Who taught Luke that "no attachments" garbage. Obi-wan and Yoda didn't in the films, and I think Ahsoka would know better what that mindset leads to. I think the closest thing in the OT was Yoda telling Luke to stay and finish his training instead of heading to Cloud City, but that's not really the same thing. I thought they would know by now that that rule only causes issues
I think showing
Luke being a kind of shitty teacher adhering to the old Jedi ways is a good preview to show him fucking up the New Jedi Order in the sequels. I hate that he's being very strict about it all, but if the only things he's learned is from two dead mentors and a bunch of old books, I'm not surprised he's not great at it.
If the Sikh religion and most of its practitioners all of a sudden disappeared 30 years ago and I had to restart the religion based on two of my dad's old teachers and a bunch of old textbooks, I'm sure I'd fuck it up real hard.
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Who taught Luke that "no attachments" garbage. Obi-wan and Yoda didn't in the films, and I think Ahsoka would know better what that mindset leads to. I think the closest thing in the OT was Yoda telling Luke to stay and finish his training instead of heading to Cloud City, but that's not really the same thing. I thought they would know by now that that rule only causes issues
I think showing
Luke being a kind of shitty teacher adhering to the old Jedi ways is a good preview to show him fucking up the New Jedi Order in the sequels. I hate that he's being very strict about it all, but if the only things he's learned is from two dead mentors and a bunch of old books, I'm not surprised he's not great at it.
If the Sikh religion and most of its practitioners all of a sudden disappeared 30 years ago and I had to restart the religion based on two of my dad's old teachers and a bunch of old textbooks, I'm sure I'd fuck it up real hard.
"Just combine Hinduism and Islam, and a warrior caste? OK but why 5 Ks?!"
Yoda and Obi-Wan don't explicitly teach Luke attachments are bad, but I don't think either has really shaken that belief (or any of the many bad parts of jedi doctrine, really) by the time they meet. They purposefully keep him from finding out who his living family are, which nearly results in a total disaster or two
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I kinda loved how
Cad Bane
Refused to give his name. Like he could have said it and sent everyone going "should I know who that is well great now I have homework" but instead sticks to "mysterious bad guy. If you want more go for it but that's all you need"
Yoda and Obi-Wan don't explicitly teach Luke attachments are bad, but I don't think either has really shaken that belief (or any of the many bad parts of jedi doctrine, really) by the time they meet. They purposefully keep him from finding out who his living family are, which nearly results in a total disaster or two
Not explicitly.
But, Obi-Wan lived alone in a desert hut. And abandoned his hut along with almost all his worldly possessions at a moments notice.
And Yoda lived alone on a swamp planet in a hut. Seemed like his most valued possession was an old stick.
They may not be explicitly saying it, but it wouldn't take too much to read some implicit messages about being attached to people or things being against the Jedi way.
Cad Bane was very bad at his job. He knows everything cos his one character trait is "overpowered". Yet he takes pretty much the only course of action that will ensure that the townsfolk will rise up against the syndicate at a later date.
Luke's little Jedi hut resembles the same ones from TLJ on Ahch-To so at least that movie is still canon you can't rob me of it Filoni!
What? Why would he want to
Oh I know he won't, and I'm sure that all remains canon, just having a go. I am excited to see some lead up to The New Order and all that since it's something that hasn't been touched upon yet in their television stuff and super curious how they begin to approach it.
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I was not a big fan of today's episode. I want to watch the boba Fett show, not the almost completely unrelated stuff. Like just release another season of the mandalorian if that's what you want to do. They better go up to episode 9 in a surprise twist because we're missing 2 boba Fett episodes.
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Yeah I'm fascinated by the structuring of this show.
I want to get back to boba.
At the same time teacher Luke was my favorite part of tlj so I'm so filled with juice.
I think my heart stopped at, "I'm a friend of the family" and "so much like your father"
I think the Jedi stuff was bad. RLM's criticism's from the Prequel Trilogy were completely ignored by the Star Wars franchise, to its detriment. It turns out, everyone's Jedi training is just swinging on vines, lifting things near water, and playing with a remote. Those weren't just exercises invented by teachers dealing with limited resources/circumstances, no no! There's no way to feel the Force if you can't swing on a vine and then lift something out of water! It's so incredibly limited, it really makes me sad for the lost imagination (Tales of the Jedi comics have more imagination in one arc than every bit of Jedi training we see in the Prequels, the Sequels, and now the TV shows). You'd have to give the nod to the Jedi Academy novels over what these million dollar projects have come up with... pretty embarrassing, imo. I also think Luke swallowing Jedi dogma he was never exposed to personally as the basis of his training is very weird and not very good. I guess if you come at it from the angle of "his Jedi school sucked extremely hard and failed, as the Sequel movies stated", I guess that's something, but that was never my view of the school in the Disney canon. I took it as a quality attempt at training that was cursed by Snoke/(sigh...) Palpatine scheming and reacting to Force visions in a terrible way.
On the other hand, Cad Bane showing up and the Wild West showdown were amazing. The vibes and tension were great. It continues to be unfortunate that all of the best material in this show is directly from The Mandalorian but... at least it is making the show more interesting to watch. Just in a really bad way. Like, this good version of the show needs way more time to spool out. Like... a season, say. And they could name that season after the most important character... The Mandalorian. And the Boba Fett show lost time it will never get back hosting this much better show, so now it is just an inescapably bad show, no way left to fix that.
Looking forward to The Mandalorian finale next week, featuring his strange acquaintance Boba Fett slowly riding a Rancor, probably.
Okay, yeah, having everyone but Boba Fett show up in a significant capacity for the last two episodes of the Book of Boba Fett is a weird flex. But there was zero chance that they'd have Mando show up and not give him his own episode to get us caught up and plant some seeds for Mando S3, and Disney+ loves to flex its other in-universe properties that are coming up, so it doesn't surprise me they'd tease Ahsoka's show.
Having said all that, I really did enjoy the episode; it's nice to get a little post-RTJ Luke in the action, and having him bounce off Ahsoka is a dynamic I hadn't anticipated, and now I'm desperately curious to see more of it.
Luke leaning on the traditional teaching of the Jedi way definitely doesn't strike me as out of character. Dude's education in the Force was pretty... let's say informal and leave it at that, it doesn't surprise me that he'd fall back on classical theory, and it's a good (and heartbreaking) set up for where we find him in TLJ.
Cobb Vanth has to live, because I need Timothy Olyphant continuing to smirk and crack wise at Pedro Pascal for a very long time.
Bringing in Cad Bane... I think maybe that does a disservice to the Pykes, because the only reason we know the Pykes are bad is because the Pykes keep showing up in Filoni's various Star Wars shows to be a Sword of Damocles, and because they have occasionally shot at people we like in this show. I guess bringing in Bane to give us a familiar face to focus on makes sense, especially since his intro in this series is weirdly restrained, but I feel like you could've just had a Big Bad Pyke show up and do the same thing.
I dunno, I liked the episode, but it definitely feels like Filoni is leaning kinda hard on bringing in familiar faces to try and get some easy reactions from the audience, and while it is nice to see folks we know popping up here and there, it does feel like it does a disservice to the new characters we could be meeting instead.
Also: Pick the cuirass, Grogu, call Luke's bluff.
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Like, I think the biggest problem with show is that nobody feels like a person, they’re just all people doing things, and they aren’t really doing things due to their personality they are doing things because the story dictates it. Like you could swap anyone of the major characters out with any other character and I feel the writers would just not change anything.
Like, I think the biggest problem with show is that nobody feels like a person, they’re just all people doing things, and they aren’t really doing things due to their personality they are doing things because the story dictates it. Like you could swap anyone of the major characters out with any other character and I feel the writers would just not change anything.
I was thinking of why I think Boba is no good and it comes down to nothing of this has weight. There's just no heft to any decisions or reactions. No one really has a drive or personality, either. Like you said, they're all just kind of hanging out and things are happening but there's no importance.
Also the tone disconnect between the theme song and the actual show made me laugh. This whole episode they're hanging out with cartoon characters and have the slowest car chase in history (it looked like they were moving so slowly that you could have jogged up to see them) and then the huge primal yell starts the credits.
I don't think the latest ep is very good but I also had a blast watching it. It's such a weird place to fall. Like I'm enjoying my time immensely but coming away with criticisms at the same time.
Again though, keep trying stuff in the TV space, Star Wars. Run free. Be weird.
I think Mando is just the cutest guy
"make a little present for my cub plz I hope I get to see him soon"
And the armorer ties it in a little gift bag with a knot that leaves too big floppy ear-like lobes hanging out at the top.
I'm not sure if that was delightfully cute or cruel. But it was definitely intentional.
I'm just wondering what the life span for yodas is in Star Wars.
Yoda was 900 years old when he died, I assume that Yoda was at the top end of the age range, possibly beyond it as a Jedi master.
For comparison sake, and ease of calculation, compare Yoda to a 100 year old human. Far top end of the bell curve for human lifespan. So, 9 yoda years is roughly 1 human years.
Grogu is something like 50 years old. So if the development closely parallels human development, he should be acting like a 5-6 year old human. Speaking fairly clearly, walking well, wearing pants?
On the other hand, if they're essentially near helpless infants for a century, being quiet would probably be a considerable survival trait.
I do like terrible teacher Luke though.
"Hey, Grogu, I'm gonna weasel around in your mind, reawaken your most traumatic memories (being fairly confident they'll involve a lot of blasters), and then I'm gonna send this little ball of hate to blast at you with laser beams. Jump or burn, lil' buddy."
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It feels sort of wild
that we had a live action showdown with a character who started in animation against who came from interludes in a novel
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Them insisting on using a cg r2d2 was super distracting.
And I like the madalorian but why do we need two episodes essentially focusing on him in a show not about him when he has his own show?
I’ve often said that I feel Boba Flett’s biggest problem is that we don’t know what this story is. It started off as, I want to be in charge, then the fetts came and left and not the pykes are here, and they have absolutely no personality shown other than they’re the bad guys. I just don’t know what to care about in this show.
It was nice to see Timothy olyphant until he died, but I wasn’t really surprised about that. And to the shows credit, they really nailed the look of Cad Bane.
Satans..... hints.....
Honestly, I was slightly more offended by how TLJ did Ackbar.
I'm MORE offended by his son, Smooth Calamari, in
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You've doomed us
1) in general, I like when things feel connected, but not too connected in star wars. things that make the universe feel cohesive are good. sometimes these are cameos or reminders that things exist. a good example: the pyke syndicate, who we're familiar with, being the current Apparent Antagonist.
2) I don't like when every piece of media feels oversaturated with cameos. it makes the universe feel smaller than it needs too, and I appreciate the opportunity for other stories to be told within the star wars universe. mando season 1 did a good job of this.
3) I think Luke's a pretty boring dude (I have to say this for fear of coming off as someone who stans Luke Skywalker)
good things about the episode irrespective of how i feel personally about story choices: luke looks much better here than he did at the end of mando s2. cad bane looks great. i like the return of timothy olyphant's character, because they're on tatooine, I think it makes sense for him to be present if they're hyping this up as a planet-scale conflict.
I think Luke showing up at the end of S2 was a boring choice given some of the other routes they could have gone, but was fine. I didn't love it and I didn't hate it, and it made sense given what they had set up with Grogu that he would naturally have to come into contact with Luke at some point or like....die or disappear or something. They could have had it never happen altogether, but it was pretty clear he was steering towards Jedi, Ahsoka said no thank you, and if that's gonna happen Luke makes sense. no harm no foul.
consequently luke being in this episode didn't actually bother me either, it's again: fine. that's where grogu is. makes some sense, and honestly didn't hate seeing a little bit of luke trying to work through an apprentice. that's a gap in the story that hasn't been told, i'm ok with getting a little bit of meat there. whether or not The Book of Boba Fett is the right place to do it is a separate conversation that probably isn't actually worth having.
I think the actual thing that makes the galaxy feel claustrophobic is when Filoni over-cameos his own characters. I don't hate Ahsoka as a character, I actually think she's pretty cool, but I think the combo of her AND Luke AND Cad Bane in one episode made me go "ok. what are we doing here. Is Book an Avengers movie?"
I can't even really specifically pinpoint what I like or dislike about it all, there was just something about the amount of cameos in this episode that made me go "eh.....we could have cut one of these." I'm wondering if it's just the fact that Ahsoka was such a prominent part of Clone Wars AND Rebels AND we just had her in Mandalorian and now she also appeared here??? but it's a brief cameo so maybe I'm just being whiny??? I don't know. I just don't know.
I think Ahsoka OR Luke would have been fine. Maybe it's just that both were there? but like it probably makes sense that Ahsoka is there to help Luke build Skywalker's School for Gifted Youngsters so like....that's not fair from a story perspective either probably. I don't know!!!
cad bane appearing i liked because I will inherently skew towards preferring non-jedi cameos than jedi cameos. that's not a fair criticism it's just true.
shot called luke having yoda's lightsaber as soon as he was doing exercises in front of Grogu, I think red pill/blue pilling Grogu is boring.
all in all i probably liked the episode, but I just....I think Filoni, for all his strengths, already had a problem with being a little too insular and I think maybe this episode continues to walk further down that path in a way that ultimately doesn't matter to me, but that I think will put people off of star wars media, which is a bummer to me!
as predicted, this post didn't make any sense. and I don't want it to come off as an ahsoka hate post cause i like a lot of ahsoka stuff i just think....there were too many cameos in this episode. cut one of them. and cad bane was like 60 seconds at the end of the episode so i think if you cut one it's either luke or ahsoka, i'm probably indifferent to which.
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I can't get over the fact that those teenagers just live with him now. They deserve their own Hannah-Barberra-esque cartoon spinoff on Disney+
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Also, @T4CT , that would resolve your issue of "too many cameos in a single episode" complaint (which is absolutely fair). The only cameo in this episode would be Cad Bane and Timothy Olyphant, and the Jedi stuff is done this summer as a 60 minute special event to get you geared up for Mando Season 3.
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yeah i actually dig this approach. this would have been fine!
Who taught Luke that "no attachments" garbage. Obi-wan and Yoda didn't in the films, and I think Ahsoka would know better what that mindset leads to. I think the closest thing in the OT was Yoda telling Luke to stay and finish his training instead of heading to Cloud City, but that's not really the same thing. I thought they would know by now that that rule only causes issues
I think showing
If the Sikh religion and most of its practitioners all of a sudden disappeared 30 years ago and I had to restart the religion based on two of my dad's old teachers and a bunch of old textbooks, I'm sure I'd fuck it up real hard.
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"Just combine Hinduism and Islam, and a warrior caste? OK but why 5 Ks?!"
What? Why would he want to
Refused to give his name. Like he could have said it and sent everyone going "should I know who that is well great now I have homework" but instead sticks to "mysterious bad guy. If you want more go for it but that's all you need"
But, Obi-Wan lived alone in a desert hut. And abandoned his hut along with almost all his worldly possessions at a moments notice.
And Yoda lived alone on a swamp planet in a hut. Seemed like his most valued possession was an old stick.
They may not be explicitly saying it, but it wouldn't take too much to read some implicit messages about being attached to people or things being against the Jedi way.
Oh I know he won't, and I'm sure that all remains canon, just having a go. I am excited to see some lead up to The New Order and all that since it's something that hasn't been touched upon yet in their television stuff and super curious how they begin to approach it.
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At the same time teacher Luke was my favorite part of tlj so I'm so filled with juice.
I think my heart stopped at, "I'm a friend of the family" and "so much like your father"
On the other hand, Cad Bane showing up and the Wild West showdown were amazing. The vibes and tension were great. It continues to be unfortunate that all of the best material in this show is directly from The Mandalorian but... at least it is making the show more interesting to watch. Just in a really bad way. Like, this good version of the show needs way more time to spool out. Like... a season, say. And they could name that season after the most important character... The Mandalorian. And the Boba Fett show lost time it will never get back hosting this much better show, so now it is just an inescapably bad show, no way left to fix that.
Looking forward to The Mandalorian finale next week, featuring his strange acquaintance Boba Fett slowly riding a Rancor, probably.
Having said all that, I really did enjoy the episode; it's nice to get a little post-RTJ Luke in the action, and having him bounce off Ahsoka is a dynamic I hadn't anticipated, and now I'm desperately curious to see more of it.
Luke leaning on the traditional teaching of the Jedi way definitely doesn't strike me as out of character. Dude's education in the Force was pretty... let's say informal and leave it at that, it doesn't surprise me that he'd fall back on classical theory, and it's a good (and heartbreaking) set up for where we find him in TLJ.
Cobb Vanth has to live, because I need Timothy Olyphant continuing to smirk and crack wise at Pedro Pascal for a very long time.
Bringing in Cad Bane... I think maybe that does a disservice to the Pykes, because the only reason we know the Pykes are bad is because the Pykes keep showing up in Filoni's various Star Wars shows to be a Sword of Damocles, and because they have occasionally shot at people we like in this show. I guess bringing in Bane to give us a familiar face to focus on makes sense, especially since his intro in this series is weirdly restrained, but I feel like you could've just had a Big Bad Pyke show up and do the same thing.
I dunno, I liked the episode, but it definitely feels like Filoni is leaning kinda hard on bringing in familiar faces to try and get some easy reactions from the audience, and while it is nice to see folks we know popping up here and there, it does feel like it does a disservice to the new characters we could be meeting instead.
Also: Pick the cuirass, Grogu, call Luke's bluff.
Satans..... hints.....
I was thinking of why I think Boba is no good and it comes down to nothing of this has weight. There's just no heft to any decisions or reactions. No one really has a drive or personality, either. Like you said, they're all just kind of hanging out and things are happening but there's no importance.
Also the tone disconnect between the theme song and the actual show made me laugh. This whole episode they're hanging out with cartoon characters and have the slowest car chase in history (it looked like they were moving so slowly that you could have jogged up to see them) and then the huge primal yell starts the credits.
Again though, keep trying stuff in the TV space, Star Wars. Run free. Be weird.
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"make a little present for my cub plz I hope I get to see him soon"
And the armorer ties it in a little gift bag with a knot that leaves too big floppy ear-like lobes hanging out at the top.
I'm not sure if that was delightfully cute or cruel. But it was definitely intentional.
I'm just wondering what the life span for yodas is in Star Wars.
For comparison sake, and ease of calculation, compare Yoda to a 100 year old human. Far top end of the bell curve for human lifespan. So, 9 yoda years is roughly 1 human years.
Grogu is something like 50 years old. So if the development closely parallels human development, he should be acting like a 5-6 year old human. Speaking fairly clearly, walking well, wearing pants?
On the other hand, if they're essentially near helpless infants for a century, being quiet would probably be a considerable survival trait.
I do like terrible teacher Luke though.
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