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OT: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Thread - SPOILERS Part Three

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ultimately they will ruin Mando by connecting it to the larger world and the sequel movies
 
Hollywood Cannon said:
I mean it's been pretty obvious where the whole thing has been going since the first season with how they're going to tie it into the sequels.
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You gotta give Dave Filoni credit. Dude managed to basically use Mando to connect and utilize the stuff he created in a cartoon which wasn't even really thought of as 'canon' at the time (certainly not during Clone Wars, altho I think Rebels was thought of as being 'canon') and use the success of the Mando to resurrect the entire thing in live action (more or less)

Now while giving him credit it's basically doing the thing I hated the most about Comics and what turned me off.

When you need to read multiple different comics in order to get the actual arc of the ones you're interested in covered. Disney is doing that with the Marvel series as well.
 
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Flybynite said:
You gotta give Dave Filoni credit. Dude managed to basically use Mando to connect and utilize the stuff he created in a cartoon which wasn't even really thought of as 'canon' at the time (certainly not during Clone Wars, altho I think Rebels was thought of as being 'canon') and use the success of the Mando to resurrect the entire thing in live action (more or less)

Now while giving him credit it's basically doing the thing I hated the most about Comics and what turned me off.

When you need to read multiple different comics in order to get the actual arc of the ones you're interested in covered. Disney is doing that with the Marvel series as well.
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i think that is why my one friend just said he was pretty much done with Star Wars and Marvel..Disney
 
Awesome Mando finale! Some of the finest Star Wars action sequences to date. Overall, a solid season minus 2 episodes (the one following the short-haired awful actress and the Lizzo one).
 
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Rebels57 said:
Awesome Mando finale! Some of the finest Star Wars action sequences to date. Overall, a solid season minus 2 episodes (the one following the short-haired awful actress and the Lizzo one).
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Hold up now, now that this season is wrapped, if nothing happens further in the series with that character, was that truly a filler episode that had zero impact on the show?
 
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Lord Defect said:
Hold up now, now that this season is wrapped, if nothing happens further in the series with that character, was that truly a filler episode that had zero impact on the show?
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The Pershing episode, which I actually didn't mind and for some reason my older son loved, at least connected to the overall plot of this season. i.e. Gideon has a mole in the New Republic, is tying up loose ends, what his ultimate aims were. The Lizzo episode was a complete throwaway though. Surely Bo-Katan could have gotten her army back without going on a Scooby Doo sidequest with Mando just so that Lizzo and Jack Black (and Chris Lloyd) could make special guest appearances.
 
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mja said:
The Pershing episode, which I actually didn't mind and for some reason my older son loved, at least connected to the overall plot of this season. i.e. Gideon has a mole in the New Republic, is tying up loose ends, what his ultimate aims were. The Lizzo episode was a complete throwaway though. Surely Bo-Katan could have gotten her army back without going on a Scooby Doo sidequest with Mando just so that Lizzo and Jack Black (and Chris Lloyd) could make special guest appearances.
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Did the mole have any impact though? I don't recall if she did. Did she provide some kind of intel to Gideon that effected the plot?
 
Rebels57 said:
Did the mole have any impact though? I don't recall if she did. Did she provide some kind of intel to Gideon that effected the plot?
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Not sure of timeline of whole thing but... in theory what they had Pershing steal was used to clone Gideon.

Then wiping Pershing's brain made it so that the New Republic and others would not be able to successfully clone for themselves
 
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Hollywood Cannon said:
Not sure of timeline of whole thing but... in theory what they had Pershing steal was used to clone Gideon.

Then wiping Pershing's brain made it so that the New Republic and others would not be able to successfully clown for themselves
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Ahhh ok. That makes sense plot wise. Maybe it was me not paying attention, but I think that plot thread could have been handled better.
 
Surrounded By Ahos said:
I also found the recent Mandolorian episode a bit weird. Most cameos I can accept as actual characters, but all I could see in this one was Jack Black and f***ing Lizzo. Although, to be fair, I could say the same about Carl Weathers. I can't even remember his characters name, he's just Carl Weathers to me. Din kicking Super Battle Droids was a bit funny, I guess? But overall it was pretty weak.
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I'm still behind so I'll just quote this one.

My standard for Star Wars is that it entertains me without being so off or so badly executed that I am unable to be entertained. There was enough bizarre and amusing WTF for me to give that weird-ass thing a pass. Star Wars can be way worse.

I f***ing love The Secretion Thing. Maybe that's saving the whole episode for me. Jack Black offering Secretions right off the bat is goddamned hilarious and surreal. It's intensely debauched to sit around tripping balls off some animal's dirty bath water.
 
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Lord Defect said:
Hold up now, now that this season is wrapped, if nothing happens further in the series with that character, was that truly a filler episode that had zero impact on the show?
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Zero impact. I actually skipped it lol (didn’t even know I did) and was still able to follow along haha
 
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CanadianFlyer88 said:
She lures him to the scrap yard to have him collect the equipment she/Gideon needs for cloning. When he's arrested, she walks off with the equipment.
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Still seems unnecessary, especially considering how bland that portion of the episode was. Some horrid acting by both of them. They could have just had the
clones be a surprise for both Mando and the audience when they were discovered and destroyed on Mandalore. We really didn't need an episode setting up how he came to acquire the ability to create the clones.
 
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Rebels57 said:
Did the mole have any impact though? I don't recall if she did. Did she provide some kind of intel to Gideon that effected the plot?
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In addition to the clone stuff, she was also in place to feed info about the Mandalorians to Gideon, setting up the battle for Mandalore.

It also illustrated the flaws inherent to the New Republic, etc.

I understand people’s issues with it though. Tonally, it felt like a different show, almost like a subversive Black Mirror take on Romantic Comedy tropes that didn’t quite come together and instead left you scratching your head. But it was infinitely better than that stupid Lizzo / Jack Black episode.
 
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Rebels57 said:
Still seems unnecessary, especially considering how bland that portion of the episode was. Some horrid acting by both of them. They could have just had the
clones be a surprise for both Mando and the audience when they were discovered and destroyed on Mandalore. We really didn't need an episode setting up how he came to acquire the ability to create the clones.
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Tied everything back to the reason why Mando and Grogu became a thing in the first place, though.

It wasn't the best use of screen time, for sure.
 
Rebels57 said:
Still seems unnecessary, especially considering how bland that portion of the episode was. Some horrid acting by both of them. They could have just had the
clones be a surprise for both Mando and the audience when they were discovered and destroyed on Mandalore. We really didn't need an episode setting up how he came to acquire the ability to create the clones.
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There’s still likely a role to play in all of it. Snoke was a clone and Palpatine, I think, was a clone.
 
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Rebels57 said:
Did the mole have any impact though? I don't recall if she did. Did she provide some kind of intel to Gideon that effected the plot?
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she got Pershing off the board but there was really no reason imo for him to have been brought back into the show unless they do something in future seasons or other media. It and the Lizzo episode where the definition of filler episodes.
 
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The Mandalorian season 3 was the worst one to date. I liked the previous seasons a lot better. The story was all over the place with too many plot threads and there wasn’t enough time given to basically all of them to truly and fully develop. It was an okay season but previous seasons were a lot better.

I’m eagerly awaiting Andor season 2. That show is my favorite live action Star Wars TV series to date.


In other news, Is anyone else pre-ordering Jedi Survivor? I usually wait a week or two to see audience and critics reviews before deciding to buy a game.
 
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TB87 said:
The Mandalorian season 3 was the worst one to date. I liked the previous seasons a lot better. The story was all over the place with too many plot threads and there wasn’t enough time given to basically all of them to truly and fully develop. It was an okay season but previous seasons were a lot better.

I’m eagerly awaiting Andor season 2. That show is my favorite live action Star Wars TV series to date.


In other news, Is anyone else pre-ordering Jedi Survivor? I usually wait a week or two to see audience and critics reviews before deciding to buy a game.
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Hard to disagree with this, even though I enjoyed it for the most part.
 
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