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Man you're a rough critic.

-- Trailer for season 2 of Visions is out. I loved the first one, and this one looks pretty cool too. -- They also said Tales of Jedi would get a second season at some point For animated stuff I really couldn't get into Bad Batch, but these two series were pretty cool.

They haven't said as much-- but this movie has been in development for a year. I really get the impression that it's not ABOUT her per se, just that she's around. Kinda like how The Alliance is there and around for the OT, Rey's Jedi are around in this movie-- but it's not her story. She'll be like Yoda in the OT I'm guessing, a mentor to whomever the story is about.

-Lars Mikkelsen who voiced Thrawn in Rebels, will play him in live action on Ahsoka. -Rogue Squadron isn't dead., it just couldn't happen the way they planned-- which in Hollywood-speak means it was a time/money/schedule issue. They may recycle the material into a show, they may rework it into a more manageable feature, and it may or may not involve Jenkins. - Taika Wattiti's movie is still in the works as well, just not on the schedule as he hasn't turned in anything yet and is likely still writing.

Mangold is my first pick too... also my first guess as to which one will get dropped. Cause odds are, at least two of these will get cancelled in some way.

-This season of Mando is going to set up the Ahsoka series, starting with next week's episode. -Ahsoka is out this August. -Andor S2 in August 2024. -Acolyte coming sometime in 2024. -Skeleton crew has no release date yet, but a tease trailer was shown to the panel audience.

Looks a lot better than the last trailer. I'm keeping my expectations low, but it has all the checkmarks for an Indy adventure.

I thought Shaw was going to killed off in episode one so Seven, Picard, Or Riker would have to step up and take command. He's become one of my favorite characters. He's like the people's Captain-- very blue collar, and practical.

Well stuff has started to come pouring out... -THREE movies announced. A PRE-Pt prequel. A post OT/TV sequel. And a POST ST entry. -The prequel is James Mangold doing a movie about the birth of the Jedi. No one knows anything about it, but clearly they must be hap[y with what he did for Indy to let him do a Star War. -The post ST movie is the one Damin Lindelof just bailed from, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The big announcement today was that Daisy Ridley will be back as Rey, rebuilding the Jedi order. They didn't say, but my guess is that this is not the focus in the movie, but possibly in the background the way the Alliance was in the OT. -The OT sequel movie is going to be written and directed by Dave Filoni and be a sequel to all the Disney+ shows combined. There's been rumors for awhile about a Mando/Fett/Ahsoka team up miniseries-- which I have said for sure is going to have Luke. I'm guessing the money needed for this venture made it make more sense as a movie? Star Wars has lost it's foothold on movie screens, so this may be their big push to get it back. I'm kind of excited for this cause Filoni can do Star Wars better than most, but he has two big flaws that easily tank a movie. One, he goes too deep with the Force mysticism. I'm a less is more when it comes to the force, guy. I hated midichlorians, I hated the introduction of time travel. I hated the alt dimension Father/Son entities, still not sure how I feel about the Bendu and Nightsisters. TWO, he gets sentimental about his creations and won't kill people off when needed-- so he ends up doing a LOT of ret-conning. Case in point-- - They also dropped the trailer for Filoni's Ahsoka series. It looks badass to be honest, but it will always drive me crazy that these new characters are added in that are given major weight yet weren't part of the OT and should have been. There's always a coy explanation, but this is the problem with constant prequels and in-betweenquels.

You've just uncovered the basic problem with most thing Star Wars lol.

Good thing they did all that set-up to imply Bo and Din would have to face off some how. WTF has happened. I don't hate it-- but last season was MUST SEE TV. I couldn't wait for new episodes to come out. I mean I KNOW what has happened, it's just sad.

Exactly. They've lost THE WAY.

And we know Riker is still alive. And I'm pretty sure all the DS9 cast was held captive at some point. I'm over the WHAT IS JACK storyline. After couple weeks of momentum, this episode felt like a dead stop again. Probably my least favorite of the season.

Def felt a little more on track. I will say, I am far more interested in Bo's arc than Mando's Part of me thinks Grogu should have left with Luke, and Mando off into the sunset and this show could have been handed off to Bo. Maybe I'm a bit more invested having liked her in animated form,. I think Katie Sackoff really gives her a presence. If this season really is about the restoration of Mandalore, we shouldn't have had to dick around for 4 episodes to get to it.

I guess the Nx-01 is the not seen onscreen refit version they had planned for season 5 which gave it a secondary hull like the classic Enterprise.

Everything there is for sciency reasons. Daystrom is not like a normal vault-- so yeah, why would they have Kirk? Pretty sure Picard's body was stolen because something is up with his syndrom, that they now say Jack has too. There's something more to the visions and stuff, Picard's body being the goal seals it for me. I was really hoping we'd see more of the Ent-A in action... we still may! Also, thanks to internet nerd freeze frames, other ships at the museum include: The Excelsior, NX-01, Kronos-1, a TOS era Romulan warbird, and the Stargazer. Basically every hero ship we've ever seen in Trek save for the ones that were destroyed, and the Enterprise-E.

Well that episode had more Easter eggs and fan service nods than I’ve seen in an hour of TV.

Yes Prim— I was joking. He’d also post in depth thoughts!

You sure you’re not an Alias of Primebud?

I think they missed an opportunity to make the Titan's doc Alyssa. That would have been cool. My guesses as to who will show up: Janeway (she's been referenced multiple times) Kira O'Brien Hologram Sulu A recast younger/hotter Dax.

Same— maybe I’m wrong, but… I don’t know…

If the end credit easter eggs continue to pay off-- my guess is that the next move after hearing the whole fleet could be compromised-- they need ships and people they can trust. They're going to go to Geordi's museum and get the Enterprise-A, The Voyager, and the Excelsior and stack up more cameos to throw a fleet together.

All of that is true, but my problem is The Watch are presented as awfully culty, and a legacy character tells us clearly they are zealots, establishes they are in fact zealots via subtext and visuals. And now they are possibly reversing that.

I don’t love the fact that The Watch are zealots and our two hero Mandos are all in… but you know, voice over is a way to keep them hired for cheap long term. This episode was better, still no sign of a larger story. I also feel like this one was written after Favreau had been show episodes of Andor.

Not in the same way as Bill's, she's a main character, so I'd expect to see more of her past.