“’Aquaman’? Hah, no, my friend, I fear that you are mistaken. My name is Idaho. Duncan Idaho, of House Atreides.”

I kinda like the idea of whatever replaces the New Republic using some variant of the N-1.

United Artists 2.0.

I have not watched this show since the first episode, and just reading one paragraph of this recap is like eight kinds of exhausting.

The neon logo was an abomination.

Oh, that’s hilarious, I gotta see that.

I don’t see how I’m confusing them. Under Lucas the only “real” Star Wars was the six movies, and everything else was apocryphal. He may have made some allowances for Clone Wars (the Filoni show, not the Tartakovsky cartoons) near the end, but the idea was that everything else should be assumed as non-canonical, with…

I have to confess, I always preferred the first-wave MotU canon, in which He-Man was a wandering warrior who was recruited to defend Castle Grayskull, which felt a lot more Conan to me. I really hated the Prince Adam character, who seemed designed to appeal to small children. Of course, by the time the He-Man cartoon…

I’ve seen a good chunk of Clone Wars but not much of Rebels. They’re fine shows, overall, and do a good job of filling in details that the movies didn’t have the time to cover. But I don’t know if they’d appeal to people who know about Ahsoka mainly through her appearances on Mandalorian and Boba Fett. And again,…

I guess it was so he could finance High Rise 2: Higher Riser.

Have you ever read a Marvel comic from the 1970s? They had a lot of long, extended storylines in that era, but every issue had a fair share of exposition, recaps, capsule summaries of who the characters were and what their powers were, so if you were a casual reader picking up a series for the first time you could…

No one under 40 cares about kid stuff that Gen-X and elder Millennials grew up with.

Hey, you know what also came out on July 18, right?

Yep, Gen-X’er here, born in the early ‘70s

I’m not saying they *can’t*, I’m saying they shouldn’t all be obliged to. That’s why I brought up diversity of tone/content.

Ah, the horrible rapist “hero” Thomas Covenant from Lord Foul’s Bane (1977) (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) would like to have a moment of your time.

But I’m not the one complaining about not wanting to watch television shows that have been available for years, so...

This isn’t a good analogy for Ashoka. The Ashoka show is a direct sequel to Rebels and an indirect sequel The Clone Wars cartoons. A better analogy would be Guardians Vol. 2 or Vol. 3, which takes existing characters you already know and have emotional attachments to.

ok, but why does everything need to be those things? Why should Star Wars always need to be everything to anyone who might be watching it? Why does Ahsoka have to deliver everything Mandalorian did, or Andor, or Doctor Aphra?

To be honest the Peter/Gamora relationship was never really that central to the saga and it doesn’t really affect GotG 3 that much, since the central storyline is about saving Rocket and learning about his past. If Harrison Ford had quit Star Wars after Empire Strikes Back that would’ve been a much bigger deal.