Star Wars Misc. Catch-All

Watched all of Visions. Animation was great anime BS. I liked watching all the episodes but one or two were weak. Really liked that they changed styles for each episode. Didn't like that each episode was about jedi or sith. Would have liked some stories about storm troopers or bounty hunters (non force bounty hunters) or anything without force powers.

Interesting that all the episodes were different lengths from 12 minutes to 22 minutes. Also they changed the lore on light sabers. Kind of a odd change since the lore wasn't broken but they did some interesting things. I guess this episodes aren't cannon.

Favorite episode I think was the first episode. I liked the sith weapon and her design. The rabbit episode was the weakest but I still liked it.

muttonchop wrote:

The only episode I didn't really enjoy was The Twins - the animation was very pretty, but the story was kinda nonexistent and the majority of the dialogue was just the two main characters yelling exposition at each other.

I had similar feelings about that episode although I thought was kind of interesting as a completely different story using many of elements of the canon movies. I think there was more famous Star Wars lines in this one than any of the others I’ve watched. It was almost like it was a movie from an alternate universe where the scripts diverged in the drafting process.

I think my favourite so far was the 9th Jedi. Felt like the most complete story. I liked The Duel as well but it felt like a scene in a bigger tale.

MannishBoy wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

I really enjoyed the first episode of Visions, it's a pretty standard "wandering ronin saves a village from bandits" type story but it's got some very cool fight scenes and I really dig the art style.

Spoiler:

The minor twist that the protagonist was apparently a Sith who hunts other Sith was fun, I always like to see different takes on Dark Side force users that aren't just a straight-up supervillain. Also that lightsaber umbrella attachment was pretty neat.

Spoiler:

I took the fact that his character name was "ronin" to mean that he wasn't either Jedi or Sith. More like an Ahsoka Tano type. Yes, he had a red lightsaber, but he still seemed masterless.

I think you're right.

Spoiler:

I don't think he's Sith, but he goes around collecting Kyber Crystals from Sith he kills, so more of an independent force user, like Ahsoka as you say

According to Wikipedia

Spoiler:

Both of the characters were former inquisitors, and the episode takes place after the fall of the empire

Chairman_Mao wrote:

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The Resistance X-Wings buzzing over the water is the almost impossible to top great visual of the sequel trilogy.

Rat Boy wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

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The Resistance X-Wings buzzing over the water is the almost impossible to top great visual of the sequel trilogy.

The only thing that matches it, in my opinion, is the part with the Millenium Falcon at the beginning of Ep 7.

mudbunny wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

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The Resistance X-Wings buzzing over the water is the almost impossible to top great visual of the sequel trilogy.

The only thing that matches it, in my opinion, is the part with the Millenium Falcon at the beginning of Ep 7.

My agreement with both of you gives me hope that the kernel of joy I had for Star Wars is alive under the mounds of disappointment with the 3rd "trilogy" and that someday that kernel, nourished by the water of a solid story and sunlight of kickass X-Wing dogfights, will sprout into a tree of love for the series again.

That metaphor may have gotten away from me.

I do love how Episode 7, in the first Millenium Falcon scene, and the X-Wing scene really show off the flying skills that we all have wanted to see.

Am I the only one who kept accidentally calling it "The Ballad of Boba Fett" a while back?

Rat Boy wrote:

Am I the only one who kept accidentally calling it "The Ballad of Boba Fett" a while back?

Space Western

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Toss a coin to your bounty hunter...

Rat Boy wrote:

Am I the only one who kept accidentally calling it "The Ballad of Boba Fett" a while back?

You came up with a better title than Disney did.

Stupid article:
WHY LUCASFILM SHOULD NEVER MAKE ANOTHER NEW STAR WARS MOVIE
https://www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

I agree the article title has a good shot at being true, but the author’s reasoning is facepalm. He says that the shows like Mandalorian and Visions work because audiences have lower expectations than if SW stories are created for film. (And fails to discuss Clone Wars and other animated series, but ok.) His ideas are alluringly close when he discusses that a Solo series may have worked quite a bit better than that film did, by suggesting how much more culturally engrossing flirting between Han and L3 would have been if in a series and not just in a one-off film, but he is looking at a tree, not the forest; series storytelling is fundamentally different when you’ve got five or ten or 25 episodes to develop a story rather than 90 minutes to 3 hours. That is pretty much why series have become much more involving since The Sopranos so that shows such as Breaking Bad are sometimes considered socially required viewing, whereas far fewer films over the last decade are considered so. The biggest box-office draw in that time: Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that’s because it’s too many films long for me to even count.

/rant

All the Disney Star Wars films have been profitable besides Solo (and that only because of the whole redoing most of the movie) so the films will continue.

They just need an actual plan the next time they do a trilogy. All the problems with it can be traced back to taking the story one movie at a time instead of having a loose outline of the story already planned out. My main complaint was the suddenness of the Palpetine reveal, but I think they could easily have made that work had they known from the start that it was going to happen so they could work it into the first two movies.

Anyone Read SW Visions: Ronin? Need a audiobook for some holiday travel and this looked interesting, but SW books can have a wide range of quality.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Anyone Read SW Visions: Ronin? Need a audiobook for some holiday travel and this looked interesting, but SW books can have a wide range of quality.

No, but thanks for reminding me. Put it on hold for the audiobook at the library.

I have no idea who Natasha Liu Bordizzo is but she looks enough like the comic character that I am happy.

The news is more about the character (who is from a show, not a comic) than the actress. It suggests that Ahsoka's series will continue the story from the Rebels epliogue.

With Sabine cast, that to me says there will be some search for Ezra.

Stengah wrote:

The news is more about the character (who is from a show, not a comic) than the actress. It suggests that Ahsoka's series will continue the story from the Rebels epliogue.

Agreed. This is great.

That Eclipse video looks incredibly cool. Too bad I have zero faith in the studio.

Vargen wrote:

That Eclipse video looks incredibly cool. Too bad I have zero faith in the studio.

Yeah I got real hyped until the Quantic Dream logo popped up.
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Enjoyed the 1st ep of Book of Boba Fett.