Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

[Jim_Campbell]

Is this the same show that had a character called 'Stinky the Hutt'?

Yeah, but they had that half-season devoted to the thrilling 'banking regulations' story arc that was pretty damn grown up.

[SIP]

It generally played to the family audience, some of it was bad, mostly it was great.

I'm not aiming to be pithy, sarcastic or argumentative, it was just a generally solid piece of entertainment. Rebels was more of a children aimed show with lower production values.

It had genuinely great episodes, and some really poor episodes.  Bit when it was good, it was good.

[TordelBack]

its actively aimed at children where I don't feel clone wars ever was

Is this the same show that had a character called 'Stinky the Hutt'?

Tccch, his name was Rotta, which is far more mature. Only Sky Guy and Snips called him Stinky. Positively gritty, if you ask me.

But it's also the show where a fan-favourite character introduced in the second episode, the only survivor of a squad the show had followed since they were clone cadets, is condemned, gaslighted and then killed in cold blood just as he almost succeeds in warning the Jedi about Order 66. It could be pretty intense drama too.

[JOE SOAP]

I really don't like rebels, its dull, turgid and just plain boring in comparison to what clone wars offered.....and the production quality is way worse. It also plays to a much younger audience, its actively aimed at children where I don't feel clone wars ever was.

Clone Wars mostly seemed aimed at an older audience than any of the films – barring maybe Rogue One. The films didn't have Gungans getting stabbed; Undercover Kenobi forking a prisoner's hand to the table, or feature some of the horror vibe in later seasons with Maul's exorcism and slaughtering a village on screen. Rebels seemed to skew more towards the mostly general cert of the saga.

As for Rebels being boring, for me it has some of the best 'Star Wars' (Sabine and the Heroes of Mandalore) and one of the best endings.

[Professor Bear]

Rebels' ending was a massive cop-out, but at least it had one.

[TordelBack]

As so terrifyingly often, I begin to suspect that the Prof's rumblings about Disney and the Prequels may have been close to the target. In addition to 'new' CW episodes, there are Padme books and comics coming... as the most poorly served of any SW character, I wonder what's afoot.

If it's just an attempt to regroup the fractured 20/30-something fanbase, it's unlikely to work, since i'm already seeing calls for Filoni (formerly arch-Satan SW-ruiner and enabler of SW's first Mary Sue, aka "that mouthy bratty bitch showing her belly like a pedo's whore" and Lucas' most infamous bootlicking cuck, now recast as Fedora-wearing fellow bro coming to kick Kennedy in the cootie-hole) to be installed as Supreme Leader of LFL.

[Professor Bear]

the prospect of Resistance leaves me unmoved - and no-one else in my house has evinced any interest.

For some reason, my main takeaway from the single short description of Resistance to come out of Disney so far is that it uses no gendered pronouns anywhere in the description of the lead character.

[JOE SOAP]

i'm already seeing calls for Filoni to be installed as Supreme Leader of LFL.

If the scuttlebutt is at all to be believed, once the Fox deal is signed-off Disney'll address the matter of installing the new regime/creatives (down to 2 candidates and their people) while Abrams and Bad Robot handle Episode IX independently. Filoni is staying put but will have more creative control and Benioff & Weiss and Favreau are gearing up for next year.

[TordelBack]

Between the Kennedy and Gunn situations you do have to wonder where it will all end when the vilest shits on the internet seem to influence billion-dollar decisions. Imagine a world where Shapiro and Cernovitch (a man who probably belongs on a D Wing somewhere) are kingmakers of pop culture.

[Dandontdare]

i'm already seeing calls for Filoni (formerly arch-Satan SW-ruiner and enabler of SW's first Mary Sue, aka "that mouthy bratty bitch showing her belly like a pedo's whore" and Lucas' most infamous bootlicking cuck, now recast as Fedora-wearing fellow bro coming to kick Kennedy in the cootie-hole) to be installed as Supreme Leader of LFL.

I occasionally wonder if my nerdishnes is still within socially acceptable levels, or whether I've fallen down the rabbit hole, but I didn't understand a single word of that, so I'm reassured. 

[TordelBack]

Glad to be of service! 

[Professor Bear]

Once you acknowledge that billion dollar corporations know full well that they will be allowed to ply their trade under fascism, but not under socialism, their willingness to ignore lefties and embrace Nazis becomes a little clearer.

[JOE SOAP]

Bob Iger gotta eat! And intends to run for office one day after his mate Don sets things up for him, as 'good cop'.

[Tiplodocus]

Glad to be of service!

Me too.

Seriously, can someone explain it simple terms. X said Y and Z didn't  like it so sued X and B.

[The Legendary Shark]

Jeez, even the characters of the alphabet are arguing now?