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DJSJ said:
That's awesome, love to hear it. I'm a huge fan of the character of Vernestra, Test of Courage is a great introduction. Even though it's written for middle-grade I didn't feel pandered to; it's basically the same tone as an episode of The Clone Wars.
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I have to admit I never watched clone wars
 
Jan said:
I have to admit I never watched clone wars
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It's a show you'll get a lot of divisive opinions on, but it's generally a good example of a medium made for kids that has enough depth and purposeful execution to be enjoyed by adults (at least the non-filler episodes). Just because it's all ages doesn't necessarily mean it's strictly for kids.

Edit: Also the fact that it was produced from 2008-2020 (with some breaks) really shows the increase in animation quality. It's hard to believe it was the same show.
 
So the season finale came back to the weaknesses (and a frew strenghts) of the series.
First and foremost:
The whole thing does not make any sense for a Boba Fett series. Besides the costume the character has nothing in common with the movie character. Leave Boba Fett out and make Cobb Vance ( maybe even in Bobas Armor) the main character and you get some plausible motivation for the fight against the pyke syndicate. Even the sand people back story does not plausibly make boba this hero who wants to die for the people of mos espa.
In Bobas final scene parading the scene he even says himself he is not made for this. So still unclear why he wanted to sit on Jabbas throne in the first place and went through all this.
The mandalorean parts were the reddeming thing of the series and with the luke cameo that was fan service that plausibly fit into the story. Also Grogu refusing jedi trainig and skywalkers othodoxy because of his attachment to the mandalorean might be interesting to see where they spin this in the future.
The big battle scene had some nice scenes but some rancor scenes looked like lord of the rings outtakes.
But mainly: that whole battle scene made no sense. There is this big battle about the future of the planet and theres about 15 people on each side: i understand limited funds for a tv production but then you have to write your material accortdingly.
Then both sides used the utmost stupid tactics possible: Team boba has some of his most recognizable people split up and standing in the middle of busy places as reconnaissance?
Team Pyke decides to first let half of its foot soldiers get slaughtered before they bring their gigantic killer robots in. and once the robots with their shields come in the rest of the footsoldiers stand handily before them to get killed.
Okay, the Pykes cross Boba by signing on the local clans to betray him, but then ambush the isolated team members in the dumbest way possible.
Fennec Shand a t least stayed in character and just slaughtered all the leaders in her final scene.
It´s kind of petty to criticise logic in a space opera but i hate it when fantasy or scifi stories can´t maintain a logic within their own framework
Overall, let´s hope for no more Books of boba fett
 
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DJSJ said:
That's awesome, love to hear it. I'm a huge fan of the character of Vernestra, Test of Courage is a great introduction. Even though it's written for middle-grade I didn't feel pandered to; it's basically the same tone as an episode of The Clone Wars.
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I like venestra but particularly like avon starts as a non-Jedi point of view. I am a scientist so I might be biased there
 
Me to Mando the entire episode: "You have a lightsaber, you dolt"

I also am desperate to know how many Trandoshans Krrsantan took out. Like are there any left in the city?
 
Jan said:
I like venestra but particularly like avon starts as a non-Jedi point of view. I am a scientist so I might be biased there
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In The Fallen Star there's some really interesting developments for Avon and her family, i'm interested to see how she will react in future books.
 
Where I used to be an absolute stickler for continuity, canon and the way things should be, I've found myself being a lot more willing to just shut the fuck up and enjoy the ride in my older age, while also being more selective of what and where I choose to spend time doing so with. As a result, I've enjoyed this series more than many, it would seem - while also being able to acknowledge where people's various beefs stem from and fully agreeing with many of them, while still enjoying things nevertheless.

That said,
the complete lack of consistency with Krrsantan's injuries and ability to move independently one second and the need to be helped the next, only to flip flop back and forth a few more times, was unreasonably frustrating for me!
 
I couldn't figure out why Luke's voice has been so stilted and awful this season. I figured it was Hamill doing some voice wizardry to de age himself since the majority of his middle years were spent doing voice acting. But this season Luke just sounded WAY off to me. So I find out yesterday that the reason for this is that Hamill didn't voice him this year. Or rather he did, but it was a fucking computer AI that pulled in a whole bunch of his previous voice work as Luke from various sources and fucking created that voice and digitally read those lines, and predictably IT SUCKED. I hate this more than I can possibly express. This is not the way forward.
 
The season finale was a grave reminder that this is in fact, still the Book of Boba Fett and not Mandolorian season 3.
Cad Bane was cool though. Filoni and co are good with fan service. It does bug me that Luke isn't setting up his academy on Yavin IV though. I get that's in legends, but its just so iconic to the EU.
 
mdmost said:
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Don't get my hopes up, don't get my hopes up, don't get my hopes up

"Kenobi" is one of my favorite stand-alone EU novels. It's the most interesting story where nothing really happens. There's absolutely no way that will translate to screen; it will be an all new story and I gotta temper my expectations. But Kenobi! KENOBI!
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It's the project I'm most leery about. If done well it could be great. Ewan is a great Kenobi. However, I don't like the idea if this is him taking on multiple force users or going Master Jedi on a bunch of people. I liked the idea that he sat on that rock for 18 years to safeguard Luke until he could teach him the ways of the Force. I liked the idea of him living a hermit's existence as sort of a self-imposed punishment for failing with Anakin. The Rebels storyline with him was great because it was very small. I worry about trying to fit too much into a story that, IMO, doesn't call for him to do a lot other than sit there and wait.
 
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There is a easter egg at the end of the credits of Ep7, any comments, no big thing ? please use the spoiler function.

Looking at the storyboards at the end they did seem to cut some things or not do them.
 
JohnnyCashFan said:
There is a easter egg at the end of the credits of Ep7, any comments, no big thing ? please use the spoiler function.

Looking at the storyboards at the end they did seem to cut some things or not do them.
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Cobb Vance in the bacta tank with Thundercat preparing some mods to keep him alive. So the Marshall lives. I also think Cad Bane lived as well given his chest plate was still blinking. Somehow Cad Bane returned.
 
mdmost said:
Cobb Vance in the bacta tank with Thundercat preparing some mods to keep him alive. So the Marshall lives. I also think Cad Bane lived as well given his chest plate was still blinking. Somehow Cad Bane returned.
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I could not quite see who was in the tank. Would be a shame for both those characters not to continue, so hopefully.
 
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