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Everybody is losing their mind over another episode of fan service and I’m not impressed with what was behind the red door at all.

Yeah— great points about Bo’s past. Also, the New Republic is issuing badges to former imperial and giving them shock treatment? These are the good guys?

They are the Klingons of Star Wars. Realistically speaking, a culture built around war isn't ever going to get to space, or solve hunger or illness. That said, the CARE shouldn't be coming from their culture (which to be fair is shown as flawed and all but wiped out), it SHOULD be coming from Din Darjin as somebody who has adopted this culture as his own even though he is not technically one of them. Using the Klingon parallel-- it wasn't until TNG that the Klingon's started being seen maybe as 2-3 note characters as opposed to the 1-note way they were in TOS and the TOS movies. That all came down to Worf. Without Worf, you wouldn't have gotten all the more nuanced Klingons, even the ones seen in TUC. Worf himself though was very concerned with being less than Klingon. He was raised by humans, in Starfleet, and over-compensated by acting like an uber-Klingon. One of my favorite Worf bits was him insisting to Guinan that warriors do not laugh, and she calls BS on it and points out Klingons belly-laugh better than anyone. Point-being, Worf was so concerned with proving his Klingon-ness, it often got in his own way. This was his arc, to find himself. Mando literally has a catch-phrase of "this is the way" and him being challenged on what the way is has been very passive-- essentially getting pissy when other Mandos take off their helmets. The idea of him being an outsider in a sect he discovers also to be outsiders to the Mandalorian way should be his drive. Instead, this season he's doubled down on the fundamentalism of The Watch, and handed off all responsibility of unification to Bo. It's his show and story, he should be the one to unite these opposing factions. We don't care because they've given him no real stake in this struggle to restore the Mandorians. If it landed on him and he was trying to teach these factions to work together, while trying to raise Grogu, and realize his self-proclaimed judgement of character being what he holds value to, and that he should step up to lead as opposed to just hunting down wayward criminals, this season would make sense. When he ended up with the darksaber by default, this was what was being set up. But they've been so freaking passive about it, we just don't care.

Yeah-- this was probably the first episode of the season that really lived up to the last season. And I agree, sooner would have been better. So little has happened they could have easily made this the midpoint of the season-- or hell, even the second or third episode. And I also learned my current Star Wars angst problem with this episode. It came to me when Gideon was talking about combining Death Troopers, and Mandalorians, and Jedi and whatever else into one SUPER COOL THING. And don't get me wrong, the Mando-troopers were cool and all... but... It took me back to the old days of being on this site and people theorizing about what was going to be in the PT. People always claimed to be in the know, AICN and force.net were always pumping out rumors, and I felt like the bad ones were always easy to spot. The people making up the fake ones could never resist doing this sort of thing-- coming up ONMG SO COOL idea. The kind of people playing SWRPGs and making combo bounty hunter / Jedi characters. The other thing they would do, is say WELL IT HAS TO BE X BECAUSE IN THIS RANDO EU NOVEL Y HAPPENED. I'd be rich AF if I had a nickel for every time I posted on here that no filmmaker, first Lucas, and later Abrams/Johnson or whomever, would ever be restricted by something done in a spin off novel or cartoon. Anything not on screen would end up getting retconned or de-canonized. And what happened? Everything written before the ST was cut loose. Now we've reached a point where these things are no longer true. Filoni is becoming the lead creative more and more-- which on the one hand is good, the guy does know Star Wars. He gave us the Clone Wars we wanted. He's added nuance and pathos to Lucas' tone deaf ideas. But on the other hand-- he is also a guy writing those animated spin-off stories and assuming everyone has seen them. He is giving is the OMG SO COOL concepts that are a bit over the top. I tend to watch most things Star Wars, and the kid in me loves how big and expansive the universe is becoming. But at the same time, I am weary of the constant retcons, changes in rules, addition of concepts I don't think fit, and in general the de-specialization of Star Wars away from being event-driven movies.

She’ll get a quick exposition dump, same way Wanda did in MoM. Watching Wandavision wasn’t required, though it certainly adds to the experience of you do. Sidebar— the girl they cast as Ms Marvel is great and may steal this movie.

Membership has been asked to vote on strike authorization. It’s getting real. Remember the last time this happen and all our stories got short season and stuff? This one may not last as long, but it’s going to be felt pretty hard.

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?