Mandalorian Season 3
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Am I the only one? I twinge a little when they use earth terms sometimes.. spelunking? Call it something more Star Wars-ey. Andor used a few terms that just brought me out of it now and then too.
squirk
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I suppose every single word they use on this show is an “earth term,” no?
ScourgiousJinx
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The Mythosaur reveal makes me slightly concerned that Mando and/or Bo-katan are going to do a BOBF and ride them in a future episode.
Riceball
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The problem with using made up terms is that, more often than not, you end up having to somehow explain what keelbob means when you could instead just use spelunking and the majority of your audience will know what you're talking about. Besides, Star War has a long history of not using made up words, they use blasters, senate, speeders, etc. instead of making up gobbldy gook for these things. About the only time they use gobbldy gook are for a few things that have absolutely no real life counterparts and no other real words to use to name it, like bacta.
On the bright side, at least they've been largely consistent, throughout the franchise, with naming their creatures. Unlike Star Trek which likes to add real life animal names to their animal, ie Vulcan hawk, Klingon rat, etc., Star Wars typically gives it a single name and no descriptor word. We get things like Rancors, and Minocs. Banthas to name a few.
Riceball
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I'm actually kind of surprised that no one mentioned Bo's shield in this latest episode. I think that this is the first time that we've seen hand held shields (in a live-action production) being used since the prequels. I wonder how close her shield looks to the ones that you can buy at the Star Wars hotel/fake cruise. If they do look close, is this going to result in a lot more people wanting to buy these to mod for their Mando costumes?
squirk
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Exactly. Seems like a balancing act - you want to be “otherworldly,” but if you go too far with the exotic names, you become inaccessible to a mainstream audience.
Case in point - Dune ‘84. If you have to literally hand out a glossary to audience members in order to follow the film’s dialogue, there’s a problem.
But in all fairness, we have “Loth-cats” and “Akk dogs” and “monkey-lizards” in SW, too.
As far as “spleunking” goes, it already sounds like a weird word on Earth, so it didn’t throw me when Din used it.
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squirk
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The shields on the Halcyon are much bigger, and are more of an analogue to Cap’s shield, with handles on the back.
They have sections that are supposed to be metal, so they are not designed to look like they are “pure energy,” as Bo’s gauntlet shield does.
But didn’t Paz pop this same shield when he was fighting Din on BoBF?
Oh sure, but using that word to me it's a bit like saying "tennis" or something.
squirk
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Yes. It made no sense that he would go from Nevarro to Kalevala (in Mandalore system) to Tat and then double back to Mandalore.
No reason he had to go explain his plan to Bo before trying to secure the chip.
I loved it, but it reminded me of the doctor at the end of the Lost in Space movie.
Three of us independently thought the recent Lost in Space robots straight away on first sight.
squirk
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I didn't even watch "Lost in Space" and I still thought about the robot straight away on first sight.
Riceball
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I was just waiting for it to say, "Danger, Will Robinson" at some point.
TazMan2000
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I found the creature that was in the robot.
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squirk
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That, or the lens is really, really high-powered magnification.
I thought the eye looked like a Dianoga. Maybe the one in the trash compactor on the Death Star was just out of it's exoskeleton?
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Didn't Paz Vizsla use a shield when he challenged Din for the Darksaber?
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