hammerofglass wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:43 pm
For my previous preemptive complaint: Bane effortlessly beating Boba in a straight fight and then getting himself killed because he got cocky and stopped to gloat? That honestly works for me. Archetypal Spaghetti Western villain to the end.
This is like a reverse spoiler for me because I'm not sure if you're talking about what actually happened in today's episode or just referring to your own predilection (I haven't thoroughly followed your last 2-3 posts.) Effectively the son becomes the father, and I now take your predilection as consideration for my own.
BridgeConsoleMasher will return (after seeing episode.)
They did the thing I was worried they would do and it turned out it was awesome.
hammerofglass wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:43 pm
For my previous preemptive complaint: Bane effortlessly beating Boba in a straight fight and then getting himself killed because he got cocky and stopped to gloat? That honestly works for me. Archetypal Spaghetti Western villain to the end.
This is like a reverse spoiler for me because I'm not sure if you're talking about what actually happened in today's episode or just referring to your own predilection (I haven't thoroughly followed your last 2-3 posts.) Effectively the son becomes the father, and I now take your predilection as consideration for my own.
BridgeConsoleMasher will return (after seeing episode.)
They did the thing I was worried they would do and it turned out it was awesome.
Everything else on my prediction list was wrong.
The way they handled Bane and Fett was generally good and far better than I expected from what I'd read before seeing the episode.
Other than that, I thought the episode was actually fairly poor. It reminded me a bit of the Battle of the Five Armies film in the sense that it felt like something which was made purely to feature a number of "cool" moments but where very little actually happened in terms of the characters or anything that actually matters.
hammerofglass wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:43 pm
For my previous preemptive complaint: Bane effortlessly beating Boba in a straight fight and then getting himself killed because he got cocky and stopped to gloat? That honestly works for me. Archetypal Spaghetti Western villain to the end.
This is like a reverse spoiler for me because I'm not sure if you're talking about what actually happened in today's episode or just referring to your own predilection (I haven't thoroughly followed your last 2-3 posts.) Effectively the son becomes the father, and I now take your predilection as consideration for my own.
BridgeConsoleMasher will return (after seeing episode.)
They did the thing I was worried they would do and it turned out it was awesome.
hammerofglass wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:43 pm
For my previous preemptive complaint: Bane effortlessly beating Boba in a straight fight and then getting himself killed because he got cocky and stopped to gloat? That honestly works for me. Archetypal Spaghetti Western villain to the end.
This is like a reverse spoiler for me because I'm not sure if you're talking about what actually happened in today's episode or just referring to your own predilection (I haven't thoroughly followed your last 2-3 posts.) Effectively the son becomes the father, and I now take your predilection as consideration for my own.
BridgeConsoleMasher will return (after seeing episode.)
They did the thing I was worried they would do and it turned out it was awesome.
Everything else on my prediction list was wrong.
The way they handled Bane and Fett was generally good and far better than I expected from what I'd read before seeing the episode.
Other than that, I thought the episode was actually fairly poor. It reminded me a bit of the Battle of the Five Armies film in the sense that it felt like something which was made purely to feature a number of "cool" moments but where very little actually happened in terms of the characters or anything that actually matters.
I don't think there's much of a consensus of how this mini-series/movie format is really supposed to work.
I probably would have dispersed the Mandalorian plot throughout the episodes instead, but it didn't bother me that it took up like a whole third of the block.
hammerofglass wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:43 pm
For my previous preemptive complaint: Bane effortlessly beating Boba in a straight fight and then getting himself killed because he got cocky and stopped to gloat? That honestly works for me. Archetypal Spaghetti Western villain to the end.
This is like a reverse spoiler for me because I'm not sure if you're talking about what actually happened in today's episode or just referring to your own predilection (I haven't thoroughly followed your last 2-3 posts.) Effectively the son becomes the father, and I now take your predilection as consideration for my own.
BridgeConsoleMasher will return (after seeing episode.)
They did the thing I was worried they would do and it turned out it was awesome.
Everything else on my prediction list was wrong.
The way they handled Bane and Fett was generally good and far better than I expected from what I'd read before seeing the episode.
Other than that, I thought the episode was actually fairly poor. It reminded me a bit of the Battle of the Five Armies film in the sense that it felt like something which was made purely to feature a number of "cool" moments but where very little actually happened in terms of the characters or anything that actually matters.
So... just like everything else in the series then?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a simple woman with simple tastes who has genuinely enjoyed everything about The Mandalorian and its spinoff. But it's simple and episodic with very little character growth and blatantly just throwing in everything the creators think is cool, which in the kind of western-ish adventure series it's trying to be is a feature not a bug.
hammerofglass wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:43 pm
For my previous preemptive complaint: Bane effortlessly beating Boba in a straight fight and then getting himself killed because he got cocky and stopped to gloat? That honestly works for me. Archetypal Spaghetti Western villain to the end.
This is like a reverse spoiler for me because I'm not sure if you're talking about what actually happened in today's episode or just referring to your own predilection (I haven't thoroughly followed your last 2-3 posts.) Effectively the son becomes the father, and I now take your predilection as consideration for my own.
BridgeConsoleMasher will return (after seeing episode.)
They did the thing I was worried they would do and it turned out it was awesome.
Everything else on my prediction list was wrong.
The way they handled Bane and Fett was generally good and far better than I expected from what I'd read before seeing the episode.
Other than that, I thought the episode was actually fairly poor. It reminded me a bit of the Battle of the Five Armies film in the sense that it felt like something which was made purely to feature a number of "cool" moments but where very little actually happened in terms of the characters or anything that actually matters.
So... just like everything else in the series then?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a simple woman with simple tastes who has genuinely enjoyed everything about The Mandalorian and its spinoff. But it's simple and episodic with very little character growth and blatantly just throwing in everything the creators think is cool, which in the kind of western-ish adventure series it's trying to be is a feature not a bug.
I agree that the problems in the finale were in a way exemplary of problems in the series as a whole. Part of the reason this one stood out in the way I described is that I think the previous two episodes, which largely focused on the Mandalorian, were much stronger in my judgment. I think another reason it stood out is that honestly I thought most of the first 4 episodes were just dull and didn't really feel like much actually happened, so when I say that this finale seems like it was just a series of "cool moments" loosely strung together, that's coming off of a series which to that point I thought (Mandalorian episodes aside) didn't actually have any cool moments to speak of.
My opinion since I was able to sit down and think about it was that we really never got a sense of what Boba Fett was. The series made it very thin. He also did stand out as different from the OT too. Way too much even if Boba in the movies was barely there to begin with.
The cyborg biker group should have been left out honestly.
I did catch the 'spin' in the episode where the guy with the robot eye did a very pathetic and useless spin to fire his gun.
In the same spot.
Where he was standing.
Before he spun around.
He wasn't dodging anything.
He just spun.
Why.
Overall it was just bland to me. At least with the Mandalorian series he was jumping system to system doing stuff. Like a old Western traveling town to town.
I really hope the Kenobi series does something different since it might be located on Tatooine too.
