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Post by alejandro on Dec 3, 2019 17:03:39 GMT
Why would you assume I don't? I just like, y'know, good Star Wars. Like what? Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Rogue One, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Jedi Academy...
Again though, even disregarding my thoughts on Star Wars as a whole, The Mandalorian just isn't very good even within this specific franchise. The Last Jedi, as flawed as it is, had more going for it. I don't think The Mandalorian is prequel-level or anything, but it's a bit of a wet fart so far, for all the reasons I stated earlier. Again, if you want a good western-tinged space opera in 2019, you're better off playing The Outer Worlds.
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Post by DSDSquared on Dec 3, 2019 17:08:44 GMT
Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Rogue One, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Jedi Academy... I find this show very similar in tone and look to Rogue One, actually.
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Post by alejandro on Dec 3, 2019 17:15:15 GMT
Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Rogue One, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Jedi Academy... I find this show very similar in tone and look to Rogue One, actually. I don't disagree, but I also don't think the series has demonstrated the craft Gareth Edwards has for creating tense, engaging and eye-popping set-pieces. Like Rogue One, the characters are an issue here as well, and there isn't the sort of collective comraderie hooking us emotionally to the protagonists the way Rogue One does with its own band of rebels and so on. Rogue One is also fashioned quite squarely as a war/western hybrid in space and it's in war films like Apocalypse Now, The Battle of Algiers and the likes that it takes its visual cues from, whereas The Mandalorian seems like a western that takes its visual cues from some hazy idea of "gritty war movie" as represented by Rogue One in its worst instances. It's a bad match for what so far seems to attempt to be a much more light-hearted, adventure-driven affair. It doesn't feel gritty or tense or anything, it just feels drab.
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Post by kuatorises on Dec 3, 2019 19:12:13 GMT
Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Rogue One, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Jedi Academy... I find this show very similar in tone and look to Rogue One, actually. It's nothing like Rogue One. It has humor and cute stuff. It's much closer to regular Star Wars in that sense.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2019 21:40:41 GMT
The complete show is pure sheiBe! Mickey Mouse man has ruined our Star Wars stories to the point of extreme!
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Dec 3, 2019 21:42:31 GMT
The complete show is pure sheiBe! Mickey Mouse man has ruined our Star Wars stories to the point of extreme!
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Post by DSDSquared on Dec 4, 2019 16:55:41 GMT
I find this show very similar in tone and look to Rogue One, actually. It's nothing like Rogue One. It has humor and cute stuff. It's much closer to regular Star Wars in that sense. Really? The look and feel are definitely similar.
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Post by DSDSquared on Dec 4, 2019 16:56:15 GMT
The complete show is pure sheiBe! Mickey Mouse man has ruined our Star Wars stories to the point of extreme! I love this mindset. Have you even seen Attack of the Clones?
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Post by alejandro on Dec 13, 2019 22:50:41 GMT
Oddly enough, this right here is a great breakdown of why The Mandalorian fails as well, from an aesthetic standpoint. It too suffers from a really drab grey palette, of an unengaging protagonist who's made less interesting by the fact that his face is concealed behind a static helmet and his body language is hardly ever emphasized through the framing or performance, of the general conflict between the cartoonish and the "realistic" throughout, and so on. Quite an interesting watch.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2019 4:09:02 GMT
Over 40 years to finally get this guy instead of Boba Flopp.
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