Star Wars Misc. Catch-All

Veloxi wrote:

Y'all are wrong, the 2004 Clone Wars miniseries is still fantastic, if you can track down a copy.

The Gendy Tartokovsky (sp) series? that was amazing!

*you should turn on the sound to really enjoy it.

Are there books/comics (old or new EU) about the Mandalorians? I did a search and there are books about Boba Fett, but I remember comments on twitter saying he stole the armor. I'm on team Mandalorians after the 3rd episode.

The show Rebels dove into Mandalorian culture a bit.

Nevin73 wrote:

I thought the Purge happened before the Rebellion, before the show Rebels?

I'm pretty sure the Purge happens post-Rebels since during the events of Rebels:

Spoiler:

multiple Mandalorian clans still reside on Mandalore, and the Empire is actively developing anti-Mandalorian weapons. My guess is that Bo-Katan's rebellion failed and the Purge occurred shortly afterward, possibly as a direct retaliation.

thrawn82 wrote:
Spoiler:

wait, is the planet in episode 4 Lothar?

The planet in ep. 4 is called Sorgan.

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Just watched episode 4 .... rather a clunker in my opinion. The acting of several villagers was not great. The story was rather .... obvious I guess is the word. It was like we need to show the Mandalorian as a good harted person....how about if when he leaves a boy yells "Shane!!"....no too obvious. How about if we rip off about half the plots from early Stargate SG:1 episodes? Yeah that would work....

I took it as a 7 Samurai homage.

Er it is classic Seven Samurai style stuff which is what Star Wars is based on. I'm cool if this building up to where he is meeting all these people and he'll need to bring them all along at the end to beat this season's big bad.

Again, every story has already been told. The point is - is it told well in this world and this media? Is the adventure enjoyable? For me it has been so far.

Yeah, the whole warrior with a baby is very Lone Wolf and Cub if you're looking for Japanese references as well.

Feels like it's got some Spaghetti Western influences as well, particularly the big shootout in episode 3

muttonchop wrote:

Feels like it's got some Spaghetti Western influences as well, particularly the big shootout in episode 3

Well, Leone was influenced by Kurosawa, so it's all feeding itself

muttonchop wrote:

Feels like it's got some Spaghetti Western influences as well, particularly the big shootout in episode 3

Samurai movies, spaghetti westerns, and buck Rodgers sci-fi movies are a closed circle in that originating era.

thrawn82 wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

Feels like it's got some Spaghetti Western influences as well, particularly the big shootout in episode 3

Samurai movies, spaghetti westerns, and buck Rodgers sci-fi movies are a closed circle in that originating era.

Sounds good to me.

I seem to remember a Clone Wars episode with a similar plot, too. Them training a village to defend themselves.

MannishBoy wrote:

I seem to remember a Clone Wars episode with a similar plot, too. Them training a village to defend themselves.

Theres a Rebels episode with the same theme as well

thrawn82 wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

I seem to remember a Clone Wars episode with a similar plot, too. Them training a village to defend themselves.

Theres a Rebels episode with the same theme as well

As well as Magnificent 7.
And A Bug's Life.
Or Invincible 6.
An episode of Firefly, or Xena Warrior Princess, or Conan The Barbarian.
Or Three Amigos.
Or Battle Beyond The Stars.
Or pretty much the entire plot of The A-Team.

It's a ludicrously popular story, all pulled from Seven Samurai.

Yeah, Battle Beyond the Stars. You read my mind, Trichy.

and Seven Samurai is based influenced by even earlier Spaghetti Westerns. It's a good fun story.

edit: I def heard an apparently false story about another western movie Seven Samurai was based on, because i can't find the specific film i'd heard about. The point remains that there was a lot of cross influence going on between westerns, samurai movies, and early sci-fi films.

thrawn82 wrote:

and Seven Samurai is based on an even earlier Spaghetti Western. It;s a good fun story.

Eh.. not so much, nope. It's pretty well where the trope started, since Spaghetti Westerns didn't exist until about a decade later

That said, Kurosawa is very stylistically influenced by Westerns by John Ford from the 30s and 40s.

trichy wrote:
thrawn82 wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

I seem to remember a Clone Wars episode with a similar plot, too. Them training a village to defend themselves.

Theres a Rebels episode with the same theme as well

As well as Magnificent 7.
And A Bug's Life.
Or Invincible 6.
An episode of Firefly, or Xena Warrior Princess, or Conan The Barbarian.
Or Three Amigos.
Or Battle Beyond The Stars.
Or pretty much the entire plot of The A-Team.

It's a ludicrously popular story, all pulled from Seven Samurai.

That was the point of my post and several above it

Tanglebones wrote:
thrawn82 wrote:

and Seven Samurai is based on an even earlier Spaghetti Western. It;s a good fun story.

Eh.. not so much, nope. It's pretty well where the trope started, since Spaghetti Westerns didn't exist until about a decade later

That said, Kurosawa is very stylistically influenced by Westerns by John Ford from the 30s and 40s.

Which influenced Leone, which in turn, fed back into later US westerns and stuff like Star Wars.

Kurosawa's film The Hidden Fortress was a huge influence on Star Wars.

The Hidden Fortress Wikipedia's Page wrote:

George Lucas has acknowledged the heavy influence of The Hidden Fortress on Star Wars, particularly in the technique of telling the story from the perspective of the film's lowliest characters, C-3PO and R2-D2. Lucas's original plot outline for Star Wars also had a strong resemblance to the plot of The Hidden Fortress, which would be reused for The Phantom Menace.

I bet there's an ancient Greek play somewhere with the same "mercenaries save a small town from a local band of thugs" plot.

FWIW I enjoyed the Mandalorian episode, because, well, Gina Carano kicking ass.

So, end of this week's episode is:

Spoiler:

Boba Fett?

MannishBoy wrote:

So, end of this week's episode is:

Spoiler:

Boba Fett?

Spoiler:

Gave a cowboy vibe to me so I think it is Cad Bane. Fett doesn't wear spurs and dresses in armor. I guess he could have changed his look though.

Veloxi wrote:

Y'all are wrong, the 2004 Clone Wars miniseries is still fantastic, if you can track down a copy.

I think people must be getting this mixed up with the movie. Ahsohka never showed up in the mini-series.

Clone Wars the animated movie is the one with the baby fart Hutt. The Mini-Series is the one where Grievous is a terrifying force of nature.

Baron Of Hell wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

So, end of this week's episode is:

Spoiler:

Boba Fett?

Spoiler:

Gave a cowboy vibe to me so I think it is Cad Bane. Fett doesn't wear spurs and dresses in armor. I guess he could have changed his look though.

That would be so cool.

Baron Of Hell wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

So, end of this week's episode is:

Spoiler:

Boba Fett?

Spoiler:

Gave a cowboy vibe to me so I think it is Cad Bane. Fett doesn't wear spurs and dresses in armor. I guess he could have changed his look though.

Spoiler:

Fett does have a spur noise in his walk. That's partly why I suggested it.

Well...

Spoiler:

Ming-Na Wen didn't last long, did she?