Mondragon
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That is just so stupid looking.
LOL is that the Laura X-23 character, Dafne Keen Fernández? They should have but lightsaber blades on her feet!
Loved her in Logan, and was looking forward to seeing her again in Deadpool & Wolverine. Hope this doesn't taint it all.
While most of S3 was trash, that aerial battle at the end was epic.Mando started out good, yet should have ended with delivering the kid to Luke
All in on Andor, still the SW I'm most looking forward to.
Well it was what I envisioned the clone wars to be like in 77 not that AOTC mess so at least just give me that will you.No, it wasn't.
Parts of the Season 3 finale were mildly interesting, but there's nothing about the entire series that could come close to being described as "epic."
The attack on Death Star II was epic.
The Battle of Helm's Deep was epic.
Mando, good and bad, was just low-scale TV budget "content."
Not sure I'd draw a parallell between the risk-taking (in art, identity, syntax etc etc) a serious artist like Bowie did with what has happened to SW since the OT.Star Wars has become David Bowie for me. Kind of; it's not a one-to-one analogy.
I was lucky enough to see Bowie perform twice and have enormous respect for him as an artist. Yet in his lifetime he produced a massive body of work and took many risks -- most of which doesn't actually resonate with me. A glance at my Bowie playlist reveals 21 songs. One hour and forty-three minutes culled from a lifetime of work.
The bulk of his work that I don't appreciate has no bearing on what I do enjoy.
I enjoy the OT first and foremost. Appreciate Rogue One, Solo, and Andor plus some Mandalorian episodes on their own merits, and don't care about the rest. It is what it is.
Agreed on that, hence my disclaimer that it wasn't a one-to-one situation. Mostly the way I enjoy what I like and have learned to completely ignore the rest. Years ago I would write passionate screeds on this forum about content I disapproved of, but it no longer matters.Not sure I'd draw a parallell between the risk-taking (in art, identity, syntax etc etc) a serious artist like Bowie did with what has happened to SW since the OT.
100%[...] but in terms of Disney I'd argue it's the exact reverse: endlessly mining nostalgia, story-grafting to the OT or just outright story/sequence theft, and failing through near-total mediocrity. And this includes even the very best of Disney SW like Mando and RO.
That's just their AI art department data-scraping old images.Ironically, Disney is making Star Wars more strange "Bowie" every day... in fact, isn't one of the characters in Acolyte essentially Ziggy Stardust?
I was being nice for onceDiluted isn't the word I would choose.
Yes. He was lead designer across the whole thingI enjoyed The Mando seasons quite a bit (1&2 > 3), but I was getting tired of seeing early Macquarie and Johnston designs getting rifled through. Like, there’s no designers on staff? Didn’t they have Doug Chiang?
It'll eventually become known that Disney created the ST and much of Disney+ SW by feeding the OT into an early version of that Google AI that produced the black George Washington.At this point, nu-Star Wars could be put on AI-autopilot and I think the result might actually be better.
If HT did the concept art versions of Jedi in their ninja like outfits I would get them. Much better look than desert dweller robes for a knightThe new 25th anniversary TPM comic shows us Anakin's dream about freeing the slaves. And like all comics in the Disney era (except those labelled Legends), it's as canon as the movies.
It reminds me how much I would've liked the Jedi to have this style of costume:
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