The Mandalorian (TV series)

[cboath]

CGI can be good, but why not just recast? Dumbledore was recast after Richard Harris's death and no one batted an eyelash. If it's necessary to have a legacy character come back to Star Wars, what's the big deal if they have someone new play the role? Hell they recast Han freaking Solo. Or better yet..... tell new stories instead of relying on the past. I thought this universe was supposed to be so "vast."

Massively massive difference between recasting someone like Luke in the mandalorian for 2 minutes of screen time vs recasting Harris for SIX different movies.

People complaining should look back on the history of movies. Efx all started out poor and had to work their way up. For all those people who say the bad effect took them out of it, just as many will say the change in actor did the same thing. Every time i watched a HP movie 3-8 (the last book was 2 flicks!), i stop and think harris' vesion was so much better an inline with the books. I just never wrote anywhere knowing there wasn't anything more they could have done. If you have to recast like that, better to let the new guy do it a bit different so there isn't a direct comparison I guess. But it was what it was in that case.

If they recast for that, odds they get Shaw are very slim, so you get just as many people bitching they could have done a better job in casting the guy. It's a no win situation. I mean, look at Solo. There were pages and pages of they cast the wrong guy and it should have been this guy. I don't think they'd have gotten more complaints if they cgi'd or deep faked Fords head over his for 2 hours.

 

[Psab keel]

That Solo movie was totally unnecessary and added nothing to the character we didn't already know by watching ANH. It was a checklist more than a movie from everything I predicted (and subsequently read about after it's release.) My overall point was that why keep telling stories with Luke and company or any known legacy characters for that matter? Why not try something new? Mandalorian had something going for it in that it introduced us to new characters. But eventually we got The Gondolorian in season 2.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

People handling the financing don't like change. That's why we have Fast & the Furious 22 coming out and with games we have Call of Duty 427. I think there were some really good SW novels that showed that non movie characters can work as well as the old characters IF they had a good writer. I would bet there are Disney executives still saying The Mandalorian might be a fluke and they need to concentrate on the main characters. A lot of these people aren't fans and don't get the properties they are handling.

 

[HMSwolfe]

People handling the financing don't like change. That's why we have Fast & the Furious 22 coming out and with games we have Call of Duty 427. I think there were some really good SW novels that showed that non movie characters can work as well as the old characters IF they had a good writer. I would bet there are Disney executives still saying The Mandalorian might be a fluke and they need to concentrate on the main characters. A lot of these people aren't fans and don't get the properties they are handling.

Disney’s been scrambling for what, five or six years at this point, to prove that their 4 billion dollar investment was worth it. To have anything working for them, with the mindset they have, it’s no wonder they’re choosing to double down on the aspects that audiences responded to. I know I rant about Filoni a lot, but a lot of fans like his work. Doubling down on him (and on his content) makes sense from a “desperate corporation trying to save a failing brand” point of view. Same with Mandalorian’s success on D+. Luke appearing in the Mandalorian was definitely reactionary to the backlash against TLJ, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was an idea by Favreau and Filoni. It could have been a studio mandate to “give the masses what they want”.

 

[Usagi Pilgrim]

 

[harrisonp]

CGI vs recasting Luke aside, I really wish that he had been the post episode stinger instead of the full on reveal we got. If Mando and Co had found their own way to save Grogu from Gideon and then in the final scene before the credits we cut back to Tython and see a hooded Luke at the meditation stones before a cut to black it would have created a ton of anticipation for me. As it stands it's now just a question of how Grogu inevitably gets back to Din, which is a little boring IMO.

I guess the underlying thing for me is that I feel it devalues Din's struggle a little bit when a space wizard shows up to save the day.

 

[ghostryder]

 

[Psab keel]

Oh that was brilliant! freaking brilliant! hahaha Best new Star Wars content I've seen in decades. lol

 

[ScourgiousJinx]

CGI vs recasting Luke aside, I really wish that he had been the post episode stinger instead of the full on reveal we got. If Mando and Co had found their own way to save Grogu from Gideon and then in the final scene before the credits we cut back to Tython and see a hooded Luke at the meditation stones before a cut to black it would have created a ton of anticipation for me. As it stands it's now just a question of how Grogu inevitably gets back to Din, which is a little boring IMO.

I guess the underlying thing for me is that I feel it devalues Din's struggle a little bit when a space wizard shows up to save the day.

As fun as it was to see younger Jedi Luke Skywalker back in action I have to agree. Sometimes less is more, a lesson Disney really needs to learn.

 

[PantheraGem]

I guess the underlying thing for me is that I feel it devalues Din's struggle a little bit when a space wizard shows up to save the day.

To be fair, he's had his butt saved many times these two seasons. Some rescues being barely less fantastical than a Jedi showing up.

 

[CelticRuins]

I am still laughing, several days later at "Grogury St. John" and "Robert Fett"!

This is prime content.

 

[joberg]

CGI vs recasting Luke aside, I really wish that he had been the post episode stinger instead of the full on reveal we got. If Mando and Co had found their own way to save Grogu from Gideon and then in the final scene before the credits we cut back to Tython and see a hooded Luke at the meditation stones before a cut to black it would have created a ton of anticipation for me. As it stands it's now just a question of how Grogu inevitably gets back to Din, which is a little boring IMO.

I guess the underlying thing for me is that I feel it devalues Din's struggle a little bit when a space wizard shows up to save the day.

Or Din going back to Grogu I don't think it devalues Din's struggle/quest by any means. It's just that when a Jedi shows up you can now compare their level of skills vs the other character's.

 

[JediMichael]

Just spent the last week watching all the episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 with my brother, Mom and Dad. Final 4 just tonight. I see why everyone has said its a good show. Definitely the best Star Wars product Disney has produced so far.
Not going to read all these pages here, maybe skim over a few.
A lot of the story ideas each episode goes through has been done plenty of times, just maybe not in the Star Wars universe. But it was done pretty well and over all a fun show to watch. Sure, theres a visual effects shot here and there that might look a bit odd, and Luke definitely looked like something from a video game, but TV shows typically have a smaller budget than a movie. With all this deepfake technology, seems that sometimes people at home can do better.
But, hoping season 3 can keep it up.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Wait, if Grogu St. John is playing a character called The Child, why is the series called Grogu Pains?

 

[RodanAZ]

 

[Usagi Pilgrim]

I'm seeing reports that say Lars Mikkelsen, Mads older brother had signed on to play Grand Admiral Thrawn in the Ahsoka series. The deal would include possible appearances in other projects as well.

He voiced the character in REBELS. I'm only familiar with him from playing Magnuson in the 3rd series of SHERLOCK.

 

[Somerset]

He was also the Russian President in the US House of Cards, and a wizard in the recent Witcher series. I've not seen any of his Danish work.

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

I'm seeing reports that say Lars Mikkelsen, Mads older brother had signed on to play Grand Admiral Thrawn in the Ahsoka series. [...] He voiced the character in REBELS.

Rebels' Thrawn was probably the part of the series I liked least. I could not stand his voice. Of all the characters I was hoping would get recast for live-action, he was at the top of the list.

 

[CelticRuins]

I actually thought his voice was quite creepy...

Dude has the cheekbones for it, just needs some forehead prosthetics.

 

[James Kenobi 1138]

Off-topic, but since we're posting SW Deepfakes and talking about re-casting OT legacy actors....