CopperRevan
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Darn Right!!!
The Book of Boba Fett
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That was scary AF!
And as Paul Harvey said... "And now you know... the rest of the story."
HMSwolfe
Master Member
If the show is a union job (almost certainly) they won’t let him get anywhere near the camera unless he’s part of the right guild/association/etc. One of the many, many downsides of working in Hollywood.
I hated the idea of them doing that, but... it worked out nicely. Of course, it's going to be kill only bounties from now on. Maybe the droid socket has a refrigerator unit... for storing stacks of frozen bounty heads.
Bloop
Sr Member
Okay, I've been lurking/catching up with this thread (glanced over some, but got the jist). I'll just comment on the Mando episode for now.
The starfighter comments - yes, it's small and he can't live out of it, but I had some thoughts:
The starfighter comments - yes, it's small and he can't live out of it, but I had some thoughts:
- He can stay in hotels/inns. In keeping with the cowboy vibe, it could add that element of a stranger coming to town, looking for lodging. You'd also have more interaction with hotel/saloon/brothel types.
- If he's in a place too remote for lodging, I'm sure he can store camping gear. The Star Wars universe must have some tricked-out tents or geodesic domes that can be easily transported and quickly assembled.
- His new ship is FAST. He can travel to and from places much quicker, either from spot to spot on each planet or from system to system in the galaxy. He may be able to set up a more permanent home someplace since he can commute much quicker. And, if he can still use the previously mentioned hotels and camping gear in situations where it's needed.
I disagree that her sister was a bad leader. However, she wasn't the Mandalorian leader of old. She tried a peaceful style of life and rule for her people, and it worked... until the day it didn't... in blaster fire. Choosing the path of peace is harder than wading in with a blaster. But for a former warrior society, it must have been a tough pill to swallow.
I'd be interested in seeing the obligatory flashback showing Bo losing the darksaber. I imagine the fight involved more than just Moff Gideo taking it from her. I wouldn't be surprised if subterfuge/explosions/stun blasts/battle droids were also used.
Maybe he’s completely done as being a bounty hunter…I hated the idea of them doing that, but... it worked out nicely. Of course, it's going to be kill only bounties from now on. Maybe the droid socket has a refrigerator unit... for storing stacks of frozen bounty heads.
I too would like to see how she lost it.. I’m wondering if she actually surrenders it to Gideon.. and Gideon didn’t even beat her in battle.. if he showed up with 30 troopers, and told her to surrender and she did.. i would rather put my faith in a leader who would go down with a fight then surrender no matter the numbers.. I can’t see Gideon beating her in physical battle
ConvergencePro
Master Member
A Titanium blade might be a fun option
That underlaying silver hue is pretty close to fresh cut titanium tooThis is one of the big things they've hands down started to do right again with R1 and The Mandalorian . For a long time there through the Prequels and Clone Wars, and even the ST to a fair degree, blaster designs got downright stupid and lazy, and as a result it made them look far less believable looking to the human eye at a glance
Part of the magic of OT StarWars props being made from foundparts and real WWI/WWII weapons and model parts is that all the pieces of everything on them are still real engineered mechanically sound design in some form. You can tell everything on it has purpose, or insinuated purpose. While some people may not be as intuitively mechanically savvy as others in terms of understanding how the physics of mechanical systems work, our tool intuitive monkey brains have still evolved an innate ability to subconsciously understand to a fair degree, even if not completely at first, how something more or less should/would function if we were to pick it up.
In essence StarWars Blasters and sabers, and even the ships to a fair degree are more akin to our Mechanical engineered systems than they are a static fantasy computer/electronic driven exchange system, and every time they start to step away from that it really does starts to show in the end product and clash with what was originally subtly going on in the background visually. I really hope they're smart enough to keep the trend going because its one of the few things they're absolutely hitting right out of the park, and I genuinely wonder who in their prop department over there was finally able to talk them back to thinking this way. Would buy them a beer, lol
It was great to finally see a chink in Smaug's armor for the first time in a long time, but wow was it goofy that it had to be a self inflicted wound rather than... idk.. the guy who was shooting him in the back but chose to aim at beskar instead of any of the exposed areas on him
Its like Disney characters are just too 'pure' to really ever be touched/harmed by an enemy, let alone just some random guy... It always feels like its got to be an extra special bad guy character when it happens for whatever reason..
.Mando really needs to stop acting like his armor is just automatically going to save him no matter what, and start acting more like he did in S1 where 'hey I may be wearing body armor cause its kinda helpful in my job, but that doesn't mean I ever wanna get ******* shot..'
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Bloop
Sr Member
Just had another thought: Mando could always hook up one of these to his starfighter for his longer trips:
I think the Airstream fits his preferred esthetic. Hell, the prop department wouldn't have to do much to make it look like it fit!
Riceball
Master Member
Ian of Forgotten Weapons (aka gun *****) has a video on this gun and goes into the inner workings as well.
CopperRevan
Master Member
CelticRuins
Sr Member
I didn't really say she was bad leader, but she ended up splintering her people right down the middle and allowed for Maul to come in and claim the thrown, thus resulting in not only her death, but that of Pre Vizla and many Mandalorians that didn't pledge allegiance to Maul. And then the Empire claimed everything.
I actually admire her pacifist state, but unfortunately in the world she resides in, it didn't play for her favor in the end. She needed to be 50/50.
CelticRuins
Sr Member
This.
Everyone is complaining about how illogical the N-1 is for a bounty hunter...except he's on the path to leaving that life behind. Specifically now that he's officially kicked out of the clan.
Fett's whole idea this season, is to take bounty hunters and make them more respectable figures; to stop working for all these seedy syndicates and work for themselves. Not to mention Din has a fatherly calling now, as well as potential uniter of Mandos. He pretty much officially dumped that title when he picked up Grogu. He's only still now doing it because the baby is no longer with him.
...Which won't last very much longer.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
To be fair… that’s not a long drive.
Bloop
Sr Member
I was thinking, like everyone else, that this episode really is an episode of The Mandalorian, and how odd it was to hack it into TBOBF. It made me first think of "back-door pilots" in TV, but those were episodes of an established series where they basically made a pilot episode for an unmade spin-off series. This is a spin-off of a spin-off going back to an episode of the original spin-off (I think I spun myself in a loop on this logic).
It would make more sense if both shows were running concurrently, like cross-over episodes of TV shows. Like when Law and Order crossed over with Homicide: Life On The Streets to tell one longer story, but mostly keeping the casts on their original shows (old reference, but I can't think of anything more current - maybe a those "Chicago PD/Fjre/etc" shows have done it).
It also makes me think it's more in line with comic books, when they had crossover stories. Again, though Mandalorian isn't running now, it would've made more sense if this just was a Mandolorian episode. The whole idea, though, is the same: to try to introduce fans of each show/comic to the other show/comic to try to increase viewers/readers. Though I'd guess that most of the fans of The Mandalorian are watching TBOBF - or were, if they jumped off already. I doubt the series creators just suddenly changed the story to include this Mando stuff - the planning and shooting time of making a series like this for streaming makes it unlikely. I'd guess it was planned from the start, but I can also see Jon Favreau looking at what's been happening and saying, "okay, this isn't going the way I wanted, let's try to reset without completely trashing everything."
It would make more sense if both shows were running concurrently, like cross-over episodes of TV shows. Like when Law and Order crossed over with Homicide: Life On The Streets to tell one longer story, but mostly keeping the casts on their original shows (old reference, but I can't think of anything more current - maybe a those "Chicago PD/Fjre/etc" shows have done it).
It also makes me think it's more in line with comic books, when they had crossover stories. Again, though Mandalorian isn't running now, it would've made more sense if this just was a Mandolorian episode. The whole idea, though, is the same: to try to introduce fans of each show/comic to the other show/comic to try to increase viewers/readers. Though I'd guess that most of the fans of The Mandalorian are watching TBOBF - or were, if they jumped off already. I doubt the series creators just suddenly changed the story to include this Mando stuff - the planning and shooting time of making a series like this for streaming makes it unlikely. I'd guess it was planned from the start, but I can also see Jon Favreau looking at what's been happening and saying, "okay, this isn't going the way I wanted, let's try to reset without completely trashing everything."
Joek3rr
Master Member
So I couldn't help but notice that shortly after leaving Mos Eisley Din is flying through the podrace course from TPM. And is quickly flying through Beggar's Canyon. So the podrace course starts near Mos Espa. So does that mean that Mos Eisley and Mos Espa are much closer together? Is this a retcon? Or was it TPM that retconned that, by having the race going through Beggar's Canyon?
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
Too bad he didn’t wack any womp rats in the canyon.
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