Glad to hear it - Disney’s sure been hurting for a hit lately.

And morons still claim that female leads don’t sell.

It’s good. I cried.

Just because you think the movie’s bad, doesn’t mean that it actually is, bud.

I have finished speaking.

Rogue One to me has more of a Dirty Dozen/Guns of Navarrone vibe going on. But a Star Wars take on the Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven trope (which admittedly was trod pretty explicitly in one arc of Clone Wars), either all-Jedi or a mix of GFFA archetypes, could be very, very cool :)

Yeah, Star Wars “Lone Wolf and Cub” is totally up my alley. I’ve been wanting a prestige series of that story for ages, and now we get it but with a Mandalorian instead of a samurai, and Baby Not Yoda instead of his own child. The second episode really pulled me in. 

Ya. Two episodes in, not even 44 minutes episodes either, and we already know so much about the character, his back story, community, drives, and predilections. All without being explicitly told ANY of it. You have to chock this up to Faverau’s direction and script. Brilliant on both accounts so far.

Clone Wars did a Seven Samurai episode

Faverau MADE TONY STARK. I know we think of Whedons script in The Avengers for quipy Tony. But nah it was Faverau who started the whole thing. Being able to do so much with so little. As you said the man has range as a director and I think he is very much under rated. Honestly, I think its only a mater of time before…

I second that, I was talking with my wife about how even the exposition was the sparse and I noted the part where they mention the foundlings. In a short exchange we learn:

I’ve been calling it The Mando With No Name. Seemed appropriate.

Especially considering that Favreau wrote it. I remember the first time I saw Swingers and the super-witty dialogue is what won us over completely. Dude has some range.

I am loving the sparseness of the scripts. So many series now wants to show how cool and clever they are with their dialogue. The Mandalorian is the complete opposite, it uses dialogue very sparingly and when it does its meaningful, helps the cast is stellar. Furthermore, the visuals are so rich and emotionally…

A while back io9 did a list of potential story ideas when Disney purchased Lucasfilms and there was talk of a new EU, and one of the ideas put forward was Star Wars Seven Samurai.

I seem to remember Wings, a sitcom about workers at an airport, had the first episode titled “The New Pilot, Literally” or something like that and it was about a new pilot working there.

It really bugs me when they do that. I always end up thinking of them as having the same title as the show proper instead, which is not ideal, but it’s better than “Pilot”.

Well, technically he is a pilot, so it is kinda a cool title if they went with it. And ep2 coulda been called "There is another", but thankfully not...

A ton of shows only name the first episode “Pilot” and then give every episode after a proper name.

What? Jon Favreau is a fantastic writer/director/producer. There is no way a lot of the MCU movies exist without his hand and no way this show exists in its current for without his hand.