The entire premise of the Mandalorian show is built upon plot points that originate in Attack of the Clones and the Clone Wars cartoon, and continued in Rebels. Death Watch, Bo Katan, the aftermath of Maul’s takeover of Mandalore, etc.

I can see you’re being a bit pedantic in one of your responses, to be precise…

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That’s a “you” problem. If you’re subbing just for Marvel, you’re always going to be wanting for new content.

There’s more solid streaming content than you could ever consume to entertain you while you wait for the next Marvel show. We discovered in the video game live operations space years ago that you can NEVER keep pace with the rate at which new content is consumed,  and tying to do so is burning out the creators, VFX…

About as much as your pedantic observation has to do with the article. :P

It’s even worse that the entire arc was condensed to two episodes shoved into another character’s show. Two seasons of buildup and then resolve it all in two bottle episodes designed to prop up a mediocre series.

They won’t. The cartoons are a line in the sand for many adult SW fans, where they can admit that they’re still addicted to a kids movie from the 70s, but watching cartoons is a bridge too far for some reason.

A casual glance at reddit and Quora shows plenty of people asking if any adults watch the cartoons. <shrug>

Casual fans who are in it for “Baby Yoda” (ie, the bulk of D+ subscribers) give zero shits about the lore, and don’t frequent nerd blogs like we do. To them, the show is standalone. On top of that BoBF was awful and Grogu shows up near the end - they’d have to sit through 5 episodes of content unrelated to Mando…

SNL has already beaten both Dunks and Sam Adams to the punch, with far more accurate depictions of Bostonians.

Dude has his own show now, he’s not taking Feige’s calls. :)

Still waiting for Stilt-Man to survive through pre-production in an MCU project, but for the real dark horse candidate, I’m going with Forbush Man.

Shows starting with a montage of scenes from the episode you’re about to watch is an old television trope that’s coming back around (it was a staple in 70s shows like Columbo). It was meant to hook people who started channel surfing between shows (“oh, this episode looks good”) and I imagine it serves a similar…

Yes it happens, but “all to often” sounds like confirmation bias. In the trailer, she presents as a gender-swapped Kal, right down to the stray strand of hair standing in for the iconic curl. This is a movie about multiverses after all, divergence is on brand.

Forget the late 90s and 00s - I think you’re just indicating the age in which you grew up and noticed it. This has been the standard playbook for discrimination forever.

This show place 200 years before the prequels (High Republic era)...if the show runs long enough to get to Revenge of the Sith, more power to ‘em. :P

Star Trek simply got the idea from real world fungi. The Fantastic Fungi documentary delves into this network...

Just want to give a shoutout to Melanie Lynskey, who’s been a fixture in some of my favorite media since Heavenly Creatures in 1994.

That scene transition was awkward...I chalk it up to the fact that the first cut of the episode was 2 hours and they had to trim it down somewhere. Given the incredible critical reception of this episode, I hope they release that cut once the season ends.

You are exactly right, and this article is mostly reductive correlation. Common factors in folks who favor support roles in games are that they enjoy the social aspect more than the competitive play, and they enjoy helping the group achieve goals over individual glory (putting others first, empathy). So far, studies…