The Mandalorian (TV series)
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Yup!
HMSwolfe
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Especially considering how short the “on-season” is with short episodes and short seasons. I’d rather have one great show with longer episodes and more episodes per season than five “ehhh” shows with 25 minute episodes (not including titles and credits) and eight episodes per season.
harrisonp
Sr Member
I realize these shows are expensive, but I really miss conventional lengths of shows in this genre or era of TV for lack of a better term. Imagine if GOT episodes were 25 minutes each. It keeps it feeling like some kind of cross promotional web show instead of an actual series. I'm having similar feelings with Wandavision. The Disney+ house style is showing its flaws IMO.
When I watched the episode a few weeks ago with "Blue Jeans Guy", having seen the pictures, I was looking for him, and not able to find him.....so looking it up, I see Disney has digitally erased him.
Poor guys legacy and hes now just a memory.
Hmmm... Something fans embraced & liked... Erased?
Maybe George is back in charge.
Lol
cboath
Master Member
I don't think anyone is giving them time limits. It's just what the episodes have worked out to be. Whether that's budget or story, i don't know. When it's just streaming only, the length is pretty irrelevant.
WandaVision is based on sitcoms which these days get 22 minutes of air time. They've been long than that. Dramas get 44. Mando has cross that number a couple times and come up short a number of times.
When's it's studio or defined run time for hopeful syndication those run times tend to be fairly consistent, these are not.
They should have added him holding a blaster or something. They could have made it blend in better....but NOoooo....
ghostryder
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azheat
Master Member
I've watched Chapter 16, "The Rescue", more than any other Star Wars video / film in my life. The more I think about it, the more I feel like "The Rescue" is referring to anything but the rescue of Grogu. That episode rescued the franchise and it rescued the fans; fans that were precariously perched on a jagged cliff with a raggedy worn out rope, praying that there was still hope, something that could save them from the trash we have seen over the last 20+ years. And my god if the Mandalorian hand didn't reach down and grab us in the nick of time.
Look, I was less than impressed with some of the acting, dialogue, and campiness throughout season 1 and 2, but that ending is more moving and emotional than anything I've ever seen in anything Star Wars, EVER! And what they did is exactly what a lot of fans, not all, both young and old, wanted. If you haven't seen the compilation video below, you need to, it sums up these feelings pretty nicely. I have never seen a reaction like this to a piece of 40 year old movie nostalgia that spans such a huge spectrum of ages, genders, and races. It truly is remarkable.
What scares me is where do we go from here? I was talking with some friends on what happens next and this is what I think: I want to see Han Solo in The Book of Boba Fett. Here me out on this, just a quick scene like what we got with Luke, something like this..........
Boba is tracking down some old bounty's, and he needs info on a smugglers ring, so he has to track down Han Solo because he knows his past and knows he might have info. He tracks and confronts Solo on whatever location these writers come up with and a fight ensues. After a cool fight scene, they draw down on each other simultaneously and we have the following dialogue......
Fett: "Wait!" (He slowly lowers his blaster to show he's not a threat, and in Temuera Morrison's cool amplified voice he says) "I've already collected my bounty on you smuggler..........I'm here for information."
Solo: "Why would I help you, you bounty hunting scum work for the Empire."
Fett: "I work for whoever's paying. Besides, you have a friend in danger".
Solo: "My friends can take care of themselves." (As he says this, Chewie comes around a corner, ready to unleash pure wookie rage on Fett).
Fett: "Not all of them." (Fett produces a holoprojector with Qi'ra and Han is stunned}.
They can figure out the rest, just a little fan fiction fun!
Anyway, if you haven't seen this video, give it a look. You really only need to start it at 10:40.
Look, I was less than impressed with some of the acting, dialogue, and campiness throughout season 1 and 2, but that ending is more moving and emotional than anything I've ever seen in anything Star Wars, EVER! And what they did is exactly what a lot of fans, not all, both young and old, wanted. If you haven't seen the compilation video below, you need to, it sums up these feelings pretty nicely. I have never seen a reaction like this to a piece of 40 year old movie nostalgia that spans such a huge spectrum of ages, genders, and races. It truly is remarkable.
What scares me is where do we go from here? I was talking with some friends on what happens next and this is what I think: I want to see Han Solo in The Book of Boba Fett. Here me out on this, just a quick scene like what we got with Luke, something like this..........
Boba is tracking down some old bounty's, and he needs info on a smugglers ring, so he has to track down Han Solo because he knows his past and knows he might have info. He tracks and confronts Solo on whatever location these writers come up with and a fight ensues. After a cool fight scene, they draw down on each other simultaneously and we have the following dialogue......
Fett: "Wait!" (He slowly lowers his blaster to show he's not a threat, and in Temuera Morrison's cool amplified voice he says) "I've already collected my bounty on you smuggler..........I'm here for information."
Solo: "Why would I help you, you bounty hunting scum work for the Empire."
Fett: "I work for whoever's paying. Besides, you have a friend in danger".
Solo: "My friends can take care of themselves." (As he says this, Chewie comes around a corner, ready to unleash pure wookie rage on Fett).
Fett: "Not all of them." (Fett produces a holoprojector with Qi'ra and Han is stunned}.
They can figure out the rest, just a little fan fiction fun!
Anyway, if you haven't seen this video, give it a look. You really only need to start it at 10:40.
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Egon Spengler
Master Member
They need an entire Luke series using Mark as Luke but with better deep fake. I'm 100% against Sebastian Stan playing the part. He doesn't look that much like Mark. Looks like he could be a relative, but people act like he's a clone.
Solo4114
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CelticRuins
Sr Member
Respectively disagree. The deep fake is so damn distracting. An actual person makes much more sense. And you're not going to get any closer than Stan. He's pretty friggin close. If they did some minor fx makeup work to his nose and added lighter nude eyeliner to his bottom lash line, it would be as close as you're going to get, and rather spot on.
I'd much rather see him take the roll, than ham fisting CGI into it, just because people can't let young Mark Hamil go.
I'd much prefer they leave Luke Skywalker alone. They already did enough damage to the character, do fans really want to see them do more because every time he shows up there's always that chance? One "cool" cameo won't redeem his arc if all roads lead to Jake. At least let him leave the scene with a shred of his dignity intact.
Besides he's had 6 movies to tell his story, that's plenty of screen time. It's time to explore other characters and stories. Stop recycling the past and trying to remix it. Do something new. Star Wars will never be vast if they don't go elsewhere.
Besides he's had 6 movies to tell his story, that's plenty of screen time. It's time to explore other characters and stories. Stop recycling the past and trying to remix it. Do something new. Star Wars will never be vast if they don't go elsewhere.
NakedMoleRat
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NakedMoleRat
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I never, ever, EVER want to see her like that again!
That's just plain rude. Then again, he is very small.
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