Surprised that there's as much negativity out there about Kenobi as there is, but I gather that this is kind of par for the course for Star Wars fans. I think it's been really strong.

Yeah, a friend of mine was complaining that it’s, “just okay.” I told him to stfu and realize how spoiled with content we are.

Whatevs. I’m nothing but pleased with this star wars renaissance. Bring it on!

Yeah, I’m glad that it broke Disney+ streaming records, shows the franchise is in a healthy place. Seems like SW just has its own significant set of smarks who are certain to ***** and also certain to keep tuning in.

As much as anything, it’s odd for me to be in the positive camp, since I usually comfortably fill the grumpy old man role.

Lol, exactly. In the end, it’s always more fun to just give in and be a mark.

Re: Rebels, I think the experience I reported in this thread is a pretty common one, where most agree that season one is fairly slow going but - like Clone Wars - it rewards sticking with it.

I feel a greater fondness for Clone Wars, but I will say that Rebels manages to be incredibly consistent in a way that Clone Wars was not. Clone Wars has higher highs, but definitely has lower lows; Rebels basically never outright sucks in the way that Clone Wars sometimes does. Rebels performs like a very consistent B/B+ student who occasionally grabs A's.

Yeah, it does sound almost like Ahsoka will be Rebels Season 5.

I think the thing that made me like the show so much was that it had free reign with the characters. It was never like you knew they had to survive because they were in movies later in the timeline. Of course, that means they also have to spend time establishing characters that weren't previously in movies too.

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Strangely enough...yes.

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I remember saying this about Anakin. Meant to mention that Clone Wars also causes it to be a much more heartbreaking thing for Plo Koon to be betrayed and murdered during the Order 66 sequence. Even though it's quick and it seems he got only seconds to process that he had been betrayed before he was dead, Clone Wars did add layering to that moment as well. I think he was the only character that we know to have cared about the clones and also to have been killed during that large-scale attack.

This early moment in Clone Wars is what hooked me. Plo Koon was awesome. Order 66 is definitely so much more impactful having watched the series.

Looks like about nine seconds from the moment that he begins to realize what's happening. I realize it stops mattering to the person very quickly, but still. When I first just watched the trilogy before delving into Clone Wars, Plo Koon was definitely just another rando that I could only vaguely identify as a Jedi, so that aspect of the scene was whatever.

Having recently completed a rewatch of Breaking Bad, I gained an additional appreciation for Bill Burr's acting contributions, and it tended to make me think that I had the wrong reaction to seeing him pop up in The Mandalorian.

Just finished my second BB viewing with my boys who were seeing it for the first time.

Did you like El Camino? I fancied it as a series of Jesse Pinkman Zelda-esque side-quests.

I haven't seen El Camino. I've strangely assumed that I wouldn't like it even though its reviews aren't bad or anything. I liked Jesse as a chief supporting character in BB, but struggled to get interested in seeing him as the lead of a movie.

Of course, we know which show we have to credit with launching Breaking Bad.

It’s worth seeing IMO. Many flashbacks that set the context for the events surrounding Jesse’s escape.

I just finished reading Dark Disciple. Great book, couldn't put it down. No question that Clone Wars would have been an even better show if this arc had made it in.

Glad you liked it. Thought you would based on who you said one of your favorite characters was. Shame they left something that good out of the show and most people probably don't even know it exists.

Caught the back half of Last Jedi and most of Rise of Skywalker on whatever channel they were marathoning on this weekend. I still can't get past the discontinuity between the three movies. Spoilers from here on for anyone who cares...

I think the one thing I really enjoyed about Last Jedi was the battle against the Praetorian Guard. Saw a few things I didn't hate as much in the last movie or that I may have missed, like the absolute grief Chewbacca shows when he learns Leia dies and all his friend are gone. Or maybe it's because they got out while he still has to act in this stupid movie.

The Emperor becomes such a comical bad guy on a stick by the end of Rise too. Every movie he's in, he begs for people to strike him down. Someone give this guy the suicide prevention hotline number. And when does he finally realize that electrocution thing never works out the right way for him? And wouldn't it have been smart to try to drain their life first and realize that works better first, before asking Rey to kill him?

Also think the last scene would have been more fun if when Ben gives his life to revive Rey, she gave it right back to revive him and they kept going back and forth.

I disliked Rise of Skywalker so much that it killed my will to go back and rewatch any part of the sequel trilogy anytime soon. Will probably be years before I ever get curious enough to look back in. If the mood strikes, I can just revisit this one specific stunt that I loved:



The Dark Disciple plot not making it into Clone Wars is certainly unfortunate. Ventress just being gone from the franchise's chronology going forward without any sort of off-screen exit is a shame, and Quinlan Vos is much less memorable to people who watched the show than he would have been if he got this whole story arc.

I'm actually enjoying The Book of Boba Fett so far. It's not amazing, but it's very watchable and keeps my attention. I'm three episodes in, and I know that the episodes more people liked are still to come.

Granted, I'm sure it helped that I went in with:
(1) Low expectations; and
(2) Zero attachment to the Boba Fett character, as his fan following has always just puzzled me.

(2) seems particularly helpful in allowing me to not be too fussed about them increasingly spending these early episodes portraying Boba as an incompetent boob who is out of his depth (in the present-day sections at least).

This is all true. I popped for the cameos mostly, although I'm sure Krrsantan did nothing for you not being a book reader. But he makes Chewbacca look like a pussy cat. I just didn't care all that much for the Sandpeople stuff.

I'm delving into the books a bit now. Beyond Dark Disciple, I also read Leia, Princess of Alderaan, and thought it was a good addition to the overall Star Wars lore. It takes place 3 BBY and gives the story of her transition from kid to active member of the rebellion. Only after finishing the book did I poke around and realize that one of the key supporting characters in the book was Laura Dern's character from the sequel trilogy.

Now I've started in on Thrawn.

I didn't realize Krrsantan was a book character.

As a Godfather fanatic, one of the things that kept my interest the most in the early episodes is Boba trying to get his footing as the head of a crime family.

Mind you, I wouldn't have really expected that in many ways it amounts to getting to finally watch what would happen if Fredo had been allowed to take over as don, but that doesn't make it less interesting.

never read the thrawns but i'd read a lot of the star wars books as a kid

my favorites were the "tales of" ones which were short stories based off individual characters who had cameos such as in mos eisley or as bounty hunters

the more full blown novel versions of it seemed a bit more drab as it was harder to cover the fact the writing wasn't very good in a format that long of them and i barely remember any of them

been meaning to read the thrawn ones for some time though