nah

This seems to be the fundamental break between me, and I suppose other people like me, and the people who have expressed frustration with the timelines. I didn’t know from the figure it out in the first episode, and I was confused, but I think that being confused is ok, and part of the process. You were supposed to…

I’m just trying to imagine what you could do in an Obi-Wan show beyond the most fan service-y stuff — encounters with Jawas and Tuskens, trips to Mos Eisley, encounters with pre-teen Luke and the Lars family, the Tatooine underworld, etc.

Internal memos show that it was considered, but some of the executives associated with Star Wars felt there was too much IP overlap with the First Order.

The excerpt from this book that was published in The Washington Post this morning is enough to make you want to beat the ever loving shit out of anyone, male or female, that you see or hear defending this crass, stupid, proudly ignorant buffoon. The fact that the man selected by white folks to lead this country is so…

Honestly, I don’t really see “fanservice” in the Mandalorian. Rather, I see a show trying to be consistent to the world it is set in. Hence why it reuses species and ship models and weapon design, but not specific characters or specific scenes (that boardroom scene in TROS made me groan.) It fels very much like an EU…

I’d also argue that what a lot of critics tag as “fan service” is just “the hallmarks of a consistent world.” Jawas showing up doesn’t have to be fan service. They’re scavengers, space raccoons — it makes sense for them to have spread around the galaxy, living in shitty little holes to find the best garbage. That…

Yes. Yes. To Wraithfighter, you listen.

I think it's key that a person could watch, understand and appreciate The Mandalorian without having watched any other Star Wars.

This. You add fan service to a solid film/game/show.

It was watching Solo that I came to a good rule of thumb when it comes to the fanservice:

One is clearly better than the other in my opinion.

The Mandalorian adds much to Star Wars lore. The prequel trilogy, though executed terribly, added lore and had a solid story.

I know, I purchased Sword of Shanara based on the cover art by them.

You know what would have been fantastic?

You know, maybe I would have liked to see this on film.

The story might be Elon Musk-adjacent, and presumably if he fathers a child at this late stage in his fame, fortune, and nuttiness, he’ll do some kind of weird tech thing to it. He might put a cybernetic datajack in its skull right after birth, raise it in a pressurized vault to give it super strength, or put it on a…

Remember when saying something like “I had really expected TFA to be more than a rehash of ANH” got you burned at the stake around here? Good times.

Big #tbt to making a post like this (most specifically the “I’m glad others are enjoying the rebooted NuEU, but I’m quite sad that I can’t enjoy one of the things I had very recently [at that point] loved most in this world” sentiment) after seeing TFA and getting absolutely obliterated in the io9 comments section by h…

SW:TROS in the worst list