George retained ownership of the archives. Disney can't just dip into it. (Although I'm sure it could be arranged.)Doesn’t Lucas Film have a huge vault of props from the movies? I’m sure there’s a few hundred trooper rifles in there.
Actually, I'd say, remove the magazine. Most guns that are "Star Wars-d" have the magazine removed or cut down.Give it a scope, give it a funky/definitely non-AK heat shroud in the front, and toss the distinctive magazine. Presto, blaster time.
My thoughts exactly, I will most likely not even watch thisTwo things are keeping me from getting all too excited…
One, the last two SW D+ shows have been lackluster at best as well as outright deceitful as to who the focus of their show was. Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean this show will follow that trend, but it’s a possibility made more likely by frequency of occurrence.
Two (and this is more pertinent), they are having a three episode premiere. This tells me
a: Disney still doesn’t know how to make a television show in the modern era, and therefore the first episode or two will play like the first act of a movie. Acceptable in a movie, unacceptable when you stretch it out over half a month.
b: Disney has no hope that this show will do enough to pull in viewers, possibly meaning the show is no good.
c: Despite Disney’s insistence otherwise, Disney+ is an experiment that still has yet to pay off. When you have hard numbers that can be verified independently (like a box office), it’s easy to say “this movie succeeded” or “this movie failed”. It’s a lot harder to do that with vague viewer counts that have no way of being verified that also don’t necessarily have a tangible connection to profits.
I hope this show is good. But I haven’t necessarily seen any indication that this is a story someone wanted to tell, the Disney+ shows have gotten cheaper and cheaper looking, the music hasn’t been all that great in all but essentially one of the D+ shows and that same composer did a crap job on a different D+ show, and it’s just tiring to come back to the same stuff over and over again and have the same forum discussions over and over again, with no consensus because the content isn’t that good.
Once I decided that was giving up on this Star Wars, I started going back to the EU. And as I dip my toes back into that. I've come to realize how they bait us with nostalgia. I mean I've heard people complain incessantly about how the Sequels were just money grabbing, nostalgia baiting films. And they are to some degree. But nothing to degree the Disney+ shows have been. Particularly those touched by Dave Filoni. I mean The Mandalorian brought us in with cool, mysterious, hard as nails Mandalorian, with sweet armor. When we had two of those already. Before "THE Mandalorian" we had Boba Fett and Jango Fett. They in effect co-opted those two characters. We get the orphan angle and slick silver armor from Jango, and the man with no face, from Boba. Before Rex, we had Alpha-17. And Captian Fordo.The exodus of longtime SW fans from D+ is growing.
I would love to see something like that!Now I’m getting ideas for a good mash-up. A Hoth rifle, built off an AK body instead…
They didn't really gussy up those rocks though. A little bit too "earth rock" vibe for me. Would have been nice if they'd put scopes on them, or maybe rockets. Yeah. Give those ewoks rocket propelled rocks.Ewoks had spears and rocks. They did well enough.
I hadn’t thought of that. Maybe on the addended, remastered and modified special edition.They didn't really gussy up those rocks though. A little bit too "earth rock" vibe for me. Would have been nice if they'd put scopes on them, or maybe rockets. Yeah. Give those ewoks rocket propelled rocks.
Except we see a main protagonist holding it right up front in the foreground.I'm going to laugh if that AK is only ever seen in the background for a split second.
And that's not the only Dave has done that goes against George's "vision" of Star Wars. After the company sold, the Mandalorians made a 180. Suddenly they were looking and sounding a lot more like EU counterparts, contrary to George's vision.
IMO it kinda doesn't matter. A lot of background/split second stuff in SW is exciting, and taps into our imagination, enough to get a lot of fans (especially here) to look into it, and deconstruct it, and if it's cool enough; the build it - or make builds of it. That's why most of us are here.I'm going to laugh if that AK is only ever seen in the background for a split second.