Tank Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Almost the entire day has passed and no one has made a thread about the trailer dropping!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 I think it looks really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 I didn't see anything about this anywhere online until about an hour ago! (I also didn't know X-Men 97 starts tomorrow, so maybe I'm just totally out of the geek loop) This looks great. Part of me wants to be mad about the yellow lightsabers but I'm not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 It looks a little Kung-Fu for me, but it's a new era we haven't seen, so maybe it's cool if it has a bit of a stylistic shift. I WISH it was the far future of the SW we know, but I;'ll take the past. As I mentioned before, I have a friend who wrote on this. She hasn't told me any details other than that for the most part it was a fun ride, but they wrote the whole season years ago at this point and she was nowhere near shooting-- but the main thing is that Leslie Hedlund, the show runner, is pretty big fan girl and she wanted to hit the familiar tropes and ideas, but also wanted to mix it up. So hopefully that comes across. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Droideka Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 More of the same. Average visuals, stunt/fight work we've seen a hundred times before in other flicks. No droids and way too many human characters for my liking. All of the costumes, particularly the extras look brand spanking new off the rack and seem to be created by the same person who works on all of the other ugly Disney Star Wars streaming shows. The whole thing looks and feels like fan fiction which is in line with everything we've been subjected to since 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Looks OK but Star Wars has burned me to the point where I will reserve judgement until after I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 I can agree with Choc, but also agree with both of you all at the same time. It DOES have that "fan film with a budget" vibe to it... but I remain (possibly foolishly) more optimistic about this over anything Filoni is responsible for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 I never go into a Star War hoping it sucks. I hope this is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue 3 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Fingers crossed for this one. Trailer was good to watch. 30 min episode will make it easy watching for those dreading getting sucked in to another show. Be fascinating to see what it’s like so far in the past. Hopefully we see some differences and it doesn’t just look and feel the same… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolis Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 I think or at least i hope that the next trailers will be more interesting. This trailer was okay, but didn't get me too excited. This is the chance you take when you stray from the Skywalker story tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 4 hours ago, Metropolis said: I think or at least i hope that the next trailers will be more interesting. This trailer was okay, but didn't get me too excited. This is the chance you take when you stray from the Skywalker story tree. You know they will shoe-horn Yoda in there somewhere, if this takes off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odine Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Of all the new ones this was the one I thought sounded most interesting. But judging by the trailer it's more of the same. Disney flogging a dead horse I'll prolly binge it once it's completely released through less reputable means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedigoat Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 5 hours ago, Odine said: .......through less reputable means. From now on, I am going to finish all of my sentences this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 When I say it looks really good Im not saying its going to end up in the pantheon of all time television shows or that itll be better than the best Star Wars movies. People just get so caught up in stuff, the one guy complains too many humans. I mean in ESB how many aliens are there? Chewie? Yoda? A few bounty hunters who basically get cameos? Is that it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Darth Hunter Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Seeing a knife fight in SW throws me off. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it. It’s similar to when they were on boats in The Mandalorian. When someone pulls a knife it takes me right out of the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Droideka Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Lucas was reluctant to show off a lot of aliens in the original trilogy. If you rewatch those films, most of the masked aliens are shown in carefully or dimly lit scenes; the Cantina, Dagobah, the Carbon Freeze Chamber and Jabba's Palace. Lucas was concerned that audiences would find the masks hokey, so he cut away from them or just showed them on screen very quickly. Prosthetics and animatronic mask techniques have greatly improved since 1979 and we've seen some amazing alien creature work in the prequel trilogy. It's a massive galaxy and seeing human after human is becoming a bit naff. It seems to be a Disney thing. It's far more economical to cast a bunch of human extras than it is to create an array of convincing alien masks. That's part of the problem with Disney. They're not interested in spending the big bucks to make Star Wars look grand and feel elaborate, which is what it should be. This is why they keep hiring mostly low tier directors and writers and why these streaming shows end up looking and feeling like fan fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted March 23 Author Share Posted March 23 1 hour ago, Lord Darth Hunter said: Seeing a knife fight in SW throws me off. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it. It’s similar to when they were on boats in The Mandalorian. When someone pulls a knife it takes me right out of the story. This is absurd. Also, makes total sense haha. I felt this way about the Jedi books/journals in TLJ. I saw a post about one of the newer shows having an outfit with a zipper and people were losing their minds. STAR WARS CANT HAVE ZIPPERS? Then somebody posted a clip of Luke zipping up his inflight suit in ESB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Droideka Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 It's not so much that Star Wars can't have zippers or that they don't exist in the SWU, it's just that Lucas didn't want them visible on his characters costumes which I can very much understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 I just dont get the whole knife thing. I mean people still have to like cut food and stuff like that, right? I don't think average people are using mini lightsabers to cut up their Life Day dinner. As for boats, we basically see a boat in TPM. It's essentially a submarine but close enough. As for Disney not spending money, I just don't think thats fair. The budgets for the movies I think have all been more than adequate. For tv shows Id expect the budgets to be smaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Anakin and Padme use a fork and knife in AOTC in one of their awkward dinner scenes man I just can’t bring myself to get worked up or give a shit about things like knives and zippers. Aliens, sure. But come on. What are we doing to ourselves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Most aliens in Star Wars are essentially scenery with a few exceptions like Yoda, Chewie and Jar Jar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Droideka Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 1 hour ago, The Choc said: As for Disney not spending money, I just don't think thats fair. The budgets for the movies I think have all been more than adequate. For tv shows Id expect the budgets to be smaller. Smaller budgets, smaller results. It's no wonder these streaming shows come off looking like fan films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Droideka Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 1 hour ago, Darth Krawlie said: man I just can’t bring myself to get worked up or give a shit about things like knives and zippers. Aliens, sure. But come on. What are we doing to ourselves? I get it. Things like that tend to break immersion for some people. I think a knife fight in Star Wars is pretty stupid, but I've seen (and heard) a ton of stupid shit in the last 10 years of Disney Star Wars, so it's right in line with everything else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 I feel like if a fan goes into a tv show expecting the same feeling as going to a theater and seeing "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." and then the music and all of that hitting they are just being unrealistic. The tv shows have been hit or miss for me. Andor was tremendous. Obi Wan was very entertaining. Mando has had it's moments and overall been good. Ahsoka and Fett not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Droideka Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 It's far from being unrealistic. When Lucas was planning Star Wars UNDERWORLD, one of his objectives with it was to "make it look as good as the features." There's no excuse as we've seen episodic TV like Game of Thrones delivering spectacle and thrilling audiences worldwide. Andor was incredibly bland to look at. Kenobi, Ahsoka and the Boba Fett show were all a waste of everyone's time. I agree that The Mandalorian had its moments, before Season 3 dove off of a cliff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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