Has anyone else fallen out of love with Star Wars? Don’t want to be a downer, but serious question. Maybe it was about “what it could have been?” But also clone wars tv shows felt right from someone growing up with episode 4-6 and seeing 1-3 in theaters as a teenager was cool.
I only watched ‘Attack of the Clones’, and didn’t get the hype.
I’m still all in.
What has been your favorite recently?
100% Andor but I enjoy the Mandalorian and a lot of the other recent stuff.
Andor
I heard that was the pretty good compared to the rest of Disney content.
Andor is genuine meaningful storytelling. Disney hasn’t the slightest clue what Star Wars was about and it’s only when they accidentally give someone creative the reins that they get good content. Based on actions in the last years, if Disney had actually figured out the message of Andor, they would have stopped it to avoid upsetting investors, shareholders, and consumers.
Rogue One was also well done, as a classic WWII movie painted lovingly in a glossy coat of Star Wars. It was the epitome of what “A Star Wars Story” should have been: classic tales and tropes done well in a galaxy far, far away. You want to print money? Remake classics like Home Alone or Die Hard in the SW universe.
Mandalorian S1 was a solid telling of the lone wolf & cub trope, with great acting through the helmet. Then it became a Grogu marketing vehicle that was also tied in to the travesty of the ST and all other point was lost.
Believe it or not, Skeleton Crew was a good “kids on bikes” tale, with exactly the right energy for the “it’s a kids’ movie” crowd. It’s not flawless, but it has heart and joy.
Otherwise, I can’t think of a Disney offering that isn’t flashing lights, jangling keys, and memberberries.
The OT and PT were for kids, but also had deep meaning that clearly connected with multiple generations into adulthood. No other franchise in nerddom is close to being the cultural touchstone that is classic Star Wars.
“Nobody hates Star Wars like Star Wars fans” is like “if you won’t respect me, I won’t respect you.” Same words, but used wrong. Fans hate what has been done to Star Wars because it’s like seeing the decaying corpse of a loved one used as a fist-in-the-ass puppet in a commercial for hemorrhoid cream.
I’m with you. I can’t believe how many shows, movies and everything that are out there. I just don’t really care anymore.
I still enjoy the originals and some parts of the prequels, but Disney has done their thing and made it into a Disney universe.
I’m with this guy.
Star wars is ruined. It used to be regarded as our society’s mythology, literally it was on that level of being revered, but now it’s just another oversaturated commodity on the grocery shelf made bland by corporate committees
I was a massive Star Wars fan but the prequels dampened my spirit a bit.
Force Awakens, which is basically Star Wars Greatest Hits album, I really enjoyed but episodes 8 and 9 disappointed.
It felt like, well it shows, they had no plan for the trilogy. Abrams makes up a story and then Rian Johnson has to figure out how to continue it etc.
Then we all thought that Mandalorian was going to be the coolest TV show ever and then they introduced Grogu. You obviously can’t expect Disney to pander to 40 something year old nerds exclusively but I can’t deny it was disappointing.
Obi-Wan show was a story that didn’t really need to exist and felt like fan pleasing.
Boba Fett was fan pleasing onto a whole new level and then turned into Mando season 2.5.
I couldn’t get into Ashoka, the Acolyte was really disappointing and Skeleton Crew was basically Star Wars Goonies but was really enjoyable.
I’m hoping the Ryan Gosling film turns out to be good. I wish wish we had the Rogue Squadron film as well.
More content set in the Star Wars universe that isn’t connected to stories we’ve already had please.
You took it a step further than I did. I saw 7-9, the first two seasons of Mandalorian and rebels. It was too much and saw the signs to just stop, but kept hoping. Rogue One was the hope in the right direction.
Does anyone actually give the slightest shit about Grogu?
Shhhh don’t hurt the little shit’s feelings. It doesn’t know it’s in a shitty productions and it’s made up…
It feels like this movie is coming too late and has missed the boat for the fans who enjoyed the show. I don’t even remember most of it now and I long since removed it all from my Plex server.
It doesn’t help that the last season was terrible.
Fun western styled isolated adventures? No! Epic tie in to all the rest of the dumb new SW storyline!
I loved the first season and really enjoyed the second. Then fired up the third only to discover that a chunk of related action had taken place in a whole other show, and that was the point at which I gave up on caring about anything Disney have their hands on. I won’t be made to do homework just so I can enjoy a fucking TV show.
The only exception was Andor, because Rogue One was top notch and I wanted to see how they got to it.
Mando season one and two and all of Andor was fantastic. Obi-wan was passable and fun.
All the rest of it doesn’t exist.
Kenobi was absolute trash. Disney should go to jail for that travesty.
Except for the Abednego species. They’re canon no matter what IMB (so far) 🤘🏼
And also Babu Frik’s species.
“It is the broken.”
That li’l bodger can babble at me any day of the week. He needs an Accidental Badass scene, IMHO. 🤘🏼
It feels like this movie is coming too late and has missed the boat for the fans who enjoyed the show.
You’re right, we all died.
Yeah there is a certain amount of time before it just feels like a rehash of things im over with. I mean when there is a large pent up call for more content because it was dropped before fans got their fill. Like firefly. I mean makes some sense but even that is tough after so much time.
You remove things from your Plex server?!
Not all of us have infinite space for stuff.
Tell me more about this plex server.
Man. The only reason to watch this might be Pedro. Maybe. Grogu is rapidly approaching Minion level.
I’ll probably see this but watching the trailer, it just doesn’t feel like a film. It looks like expensive TV footage.
I’ve been saying this for a very long time but this show always seems to remind me something done a while back:
Did that kid genocide some frog people for giggles too?
Just what the world needs. More Star Wars slop.
Ever thought of just not watching it?
The Star Wars Mandalorian and Grogu
The stylisation of the title lends itself to pulp-adventure stories, as if an old-timey radio announcer was about to tell you what happened “Last Time on… THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU!”.
The poster that this logo is on looks like a grey mush.
They don’t know what they want this movie to be. It is going to be mush.
Ah soulless, just the way I like my manufactured corporate sentiment.
“Sentiment”
Honestly, Grogu is the worst thing about the Mandalorian…
It’s just Disney’s attempt to Lone Wolf & Cub the shit outta the OG fandom for Boba Fett (fuck that series and the shite “prequels”, btw) and this is clearly a dressed-up precursor to even more Grogu merch. Simple as.
Yeah I was so looking forward to a bounty hunter show, somehow they made 2 shows with bounty hunters without bounty hunting…
Does anyone else find it bland, washed out, and upsettingly unbalanced?
Neat detail of an Imperial Walker being reflected on the bottom-right of Djarin’s helmet.
Maybe it’s the bloom, but there’s this contrast in relative crispness that make the end result seem like a digital hand painting added to a photo.
