Guess we’ll have to disagree then. To steal another commenter’s analogy, I’m looking for a SW creator to build a sandcastle design I’ve never seen before.

Star Wars isn’t really about messages, putting a subtle one like that in a SW movie is just reaching for too much.

it’s the sci fi/western/samurai space opera style that makes Star Wars Star Wars and Filoni does that better than pretty much anyone else.

Watched all of Clone Wars. Pretty good overall, although still a decent amount of filler. Also watched Rebels S1 but it’s too kiddie pool for my taste. I’m happy younger fans get their live action stuff but I wish they’d treat these other series as supplemental and not required reading.

Many people still enjoy going to the movie theater. Not everyone has a 60-inch TV at home.

A big reason more horror releases hit in the middle/end of summer now, is that they bank on the VOD and physical media release sales to kick up by October/Halloween season. They miss that boat if they theatrically release the movie in October and have the horror movie hit home release around Xmas/winter.

Yep. Happens quite often these last few years.

Feels like they’re leaving money on the table, but what do I know?

In my day, it took an entire year for a movie to hit VHS and we hated liked it!

That’s like ranking the best venereal diseases

No one is as enamored of Filoni’s work as Filoni.  With the possible exception of Favreau. 

Yes and yes. 

Filoni content needs to die.  It’s not that I hate it, but we need new and different voices in SW, not just more strip mining of existing lore.  Let it go, man.  Sheesh. 

“Ahsoka” looks like the least essential, most up-its-own-ass of all the Star Wars series. Even moreso than “Book of Boba Fett.” Just more endless strip-mining of the lore. It makes “The mandalorian” look positively original by comparison.

I’m really curious how this show is going to work. I was “too old” for The Clone Wars when it came out and Rebels sort of came and went without me taking much notice. Last year, my wife and I started watching The Clone Wars because it seems to be the basis of so much of the new Star Wars canon. But we fell off…

Wellll, I’d probably lean back a bit from “unconcerned with fan service” even at the start; Grogu, as adorable as he is, is essentially a giant piece of fan service (albeit sui generis in that a baby Yoda wasn’t something anyone expected), and we sure did end up on Tatooine awfully fast. But agreed that it did quite…

Yup, this is what I mean; it seemed really unconcerned with the rest of the franchise or fan service. Then they’re introducing the darksaber, and here’s Bo Katan, and what are we going to do about the fate of Mandalore, and by the time we’ve got an entire episode trying to bolster a plot explanation for “somehow…

See, my entire thrust is Filoni invites this whole “Star Wars is clearly one thing” dogmatic thinking, and the conversation inevitably drifts to what “is” or “isn’t.” It’s not fun to me.

Heh heh, we’re probably of a similar generation of fan that remembers what it was like to grab at anything new in Star Wars; I was also all in on the EU books until the New Jedi Order. And I’d say the NJO was a really good example of the sort of deliberate franchise work that turns me off. Maybe I was younger and more…

Mandalorian is a hodgepodge of sci fi, western and samurai movie tropes, it’s about as Star Wars as you can possibly get.