Topic: Everything Star Wars discussion thread| How you doing, you old pirate?

Lol they just announced like 7 new Star Wars TV shows and movies:
https://collider.com/disney-plus-new-star-wars-shows-marvel-s...

I have a slight suspicion Disney have realized that they're terrible at judging the audience's preferences with Star Wars, so they're just gonna do a bit of everything and let the market decide which ones survive and become long-term series.

Probably a fairly good idea really. The Obi-wan show is the only one I'm really interested to see though, cos I think having the same actors returning will make it feel more legitimate. They've apparently got Hayden Christensen involved too. Although I'm not sure how they'll handle that given that he's supposed to be in his black suit at that point. Either flashbacks to pre-episode 3, or maybe they'll do some workaround where he has a second suit that allows him to show his face. That's kinda what this dude is, afterall:

@ToadBrigade

To be honest, Ahsoka is probably the only new character they came up with after episode 3 that I actually like. So I'll probably give it a try!

@Dezzy
That's actually a pretty good suspicion (or theory) to think of. I didn't think of that myself.
I mean, Disney did say that the next few years of Star Wars would be TV show/Disney+ focused, with a few movies as well.
IIRC, I believe that Hayden Christensen was in the suit for Episode III, and for Rogue One as well.

@ToadBrigade
Yeah, I definitely agree with you on that, regarding the comparison with TGA.

Also, can you guys either put spoiler marks in your responses, or at least put in the title (SPOILERS), please?

@Shadowthrone

Yeah I dunno about the continuity. Is it ever actually stated that the Mustafar scene is supposed to be the last time Obiwan and Anakin saw each other?

Cos the thing Tarkin said about Obi-wan must be long since dead, could easily mean that they saw each other several times in the years after that, but then maybe had like 10 or 15 years before Ep4 where they'd kept apart.

To be honest, I don't even care that much about continuity any more. They kinda stopped me caring about that with the sequel trilogy. Also, we already have the fact that Obi-wan didn't recognize the droids in Ep4, which made no sense at all, given the prequels.

@SM3DASislit
I think in Episode 3 Hayden Christiansen's eyeline was looking through Darth Vader's chest area as the suit was too tall for him (David Prowse was around 6 inches taller than Hayden is).

I definitely hope that a stuntman does Darth Vader in the "duel of the century" if Hayden does do more than appear in flashbacks and maskless Vader in his chamber.

Haha. Are you on the Lucasfilm clean-up-crew payroll?

@Shadowthrone, @Toy_Link
Okay, thanks for letting me know. 👍
Also, those are interesting facts. 🤔👍

Everything Shadowthrone says is fair. There's no contradiction in what Obi-Wan says. He's just a shady mofo.

Heh, @Shadowthrone .... So, who shot 1st?

Wow looks like I made a mistake by not watching the Mandalorian. I hadn't watched any of season 1, but I randomly watched a couple of episodes in Season 2, and then I watched the finale yesterday.

DAMNNNN that was the best Star Wars thing they've made since the original trilogy! I'm gonna have to go back and watch the rest of it now, Lol.

God I wish they'd put Jon Favreau in charge of the sequel trilogy. He obviously understands what made Star Wars great.

The Mandalorian is great, but in all honesty its mostly style over substance (and some fan-service). Storywise its pretty flimsy, but its still a joy to watch. I will watch the finale tonight.

But about all the Star wars projects in the pipeline: It sounds like they are milking the franchise completely dry, though in all honesty they are all future projects and probably won't be dropped all at the same time. Besides they all have different people working on them wich might keep things fresh. Ahsoka could be fun, as could be the Obi wan mini-series. Andor is something we don't really need. I mean is there that much love for Andor and K2, I think not. And the bad batch: Yeah, that's just another batch of Clone wars. As for the movies: I am more interested in the future trilogy then in Rogue squadron. I mean, what will Rogue squadron be about? Will it just follow the plot of the last Rogue squadron game, or will it be more Top gun in space? Maybe great action, but I also need some kind of story.

@ToadBrigade I think it was awesome. I am NOT a Star Wars fan but I watched the movies because everyone who likes movies should. Just like LotR. For me the Mandalorian is amazing!

I genuinely think they're expecting quite a few of them to only get 1 season or 1 movie. It's a smart tactic when they suck at understanding the audience's preferences. Just make a bit of everything and let the audience decide which succeeds and fails.

It's pretty obvious Disney are just using Star Wars to bolster their boxset output on Disney+ rather than they are not sure what the audience wants. Most of them look like they are using the tone/style of The Mandalorian by having the same showrunners.

There's a severe lack of big profile tv shows on Disney+ worth watching and boxset binging is the first thing I think of with streaming so this is just an easiest way to solve it. Initially I wasn't going to get Disney+ until Mandalorian and the Marvel shows had started coming out but I ended up getting it free thanks to phone contract freebie. Tbh I'm glad I didn't pay for it as after going through the classics movies in the first few weeks there's not much to watch. I was looking forward to watching Young Indiana Jones as I had only watched an odd episode here and there but that's not even on there. I'm surprised with them buying Fox they didn't put a loads of those show on there to fill out those gaps.

Sounds good to me. I've still not watched it all, but from the few episodes I've seen so far, Mandalorian is by far the closest thing we've had to the original trilogy.

@Dezzy To be honest it reminds me more of old skool samurai and western films than it does Star Wars.

@Dezzy I'm kinda surprised you hadn't watched The Mandalorian yet. Shame you spoiled yourself

But yeah, it's been one of the better SW things to come out of Disney, along with Rogue One. Knowing Jon Favreau is behind The Book of Boba Fett, I'm looking forward to that as well.

@jump Thematically you're right, but there's a budget-y feel about the Mandalorian that kinda matches the Star Wars film. It fits the universe better than the prequel and sequel trilogies.

@Octane

Yeah well I'd kinda decided I was done with it. The sequel trilogy was just so far away from what I wanted out of Star Wars, that I just thought Disney would never really "get it" and it would be better to just forget about it and move onto other stuff.

I can't resist checking it out when old characters make cameos though.

Given how big Star Wars is I'd be worried if there wasn't backlash about things, even with The Mandalorian I see people complaining about how Baby Yoda is ruining it. I mean literally the guy that created Star Wars wasn't able to create something Star Warsy enough to keep fans happy.

As side from the last one & Solo which were pish I actually really like Disney's output of Star Wars more so than the original movies which I like but never loved. Maybe it was because they were out before I was born but I found the originals very clunky with it's dialogue & characters and the set pieces were kinda boring like the duel between Vader and Obi Wan to truly capture my imagination the same way other things did when I was a kid. Then again I always thought the best thing from Lucasfilm was Indiana Jones.

Baby Yoda is an infinitely better approach to comic relief than the annoying Marvel-style jokes they included in the sequel trilogy when they were trying to lighten things up. Poe telling a "your mum" joke during a battle completely breaks down the pretense that you're seeing a serious story, because it's so obvious he's doing it for the audience.