...😂😂😂....all they really wanted was the OT back in a sense. We are getting loads of fan service with classic storm troopers, Jawas, tattoine, Yoda species, classic ships and hardware, bobba fett type characters, etc. Etc. Etc....the show isn't even as good as some are making it out to be.(it's ok but nothing special) There is even a strong female presence in it, a female who bested the Mandolrian and NO ONE COMPLAINED...
Just goes to show that most fans just want the look and no substance beyond that....
If the last trilogy had been all about Luke, Leia, Han etc....and a weak story everyone wouldn't be complaining nearly as much....😂😂😂
The increasing backlash against the terrible clusterf*ck Di$ney Wars trilogy was encouraging but the way so many people have been so "EXTRA" about The Mandalorian which I have said is just "okay" is pretty telling. It seems all it takes to win these people over is quality sets & designs with a decidedly OT fan service aesthetic. The minimal plot and character development will suffice & many will call it amazing.
I watched "The Mandolrian" to about episode 3, nothing really that special about it. Baby Yoda is the main attraction, but that is again quite superficial. It does not deserve the high rating it got so far.
I haven't seen this show at all yet, but I guess that Baby Yoda is a cynical ploy by Disney to try to get Star Wars fans back on their side, those who left, that is. It really is a rather cheap way to get high ratings.
The point is that it works. People want to see the old cast, this trilogy's box office numbers proved it, JJ Abrams's strategy is right on the money. The difference between box office numbers of "Rogue One" (with Darth Vader in it and box office number is almost as high as the first 2 movies) and "Solo" (No original cast member, a net loss) made the comparison quite easy.
"The Mandolrian" has only baby Yoda, which is a derivative character, in it and other than that there is nothing special, and has 8.9 IMDB rating, that is better than all Marvel TV series, the only recent show has better rating is "Game of thrones", that is how much of draw the original cast has.
So you are OK that the energy shield could stop X-fighters in Rogue One and logically should have made the death star invulnerable to Luke's attack in ANH? What about Darth Vader killing a bunch of soldiers? Was that great too? Or maybe you can tell me your memorable moments in that movie?
K2SO is the best droid to come out of Star Wars. The movie wasn't a love story disguised as something else.
I'd say it's a war movie first, Star Wars second. Maybe having been to war makes it more relatable to me.
It was a movie about sacrifice. These people knew they were paying the ultimate price for something they believed in. We even see them going from first not believing to believing (character development).
There wasn't some story book Disney ending--everyone died.
So K2SO as an imperial droid performed significantly better than storm troopers on just about every level never made you feeling ridiculous and thinking:"why would they still use storm troopers?"
You never thought about how they contacted outside with radio communication but could not send technical data until shield was down?
Even our phones are password protected, but imperial communication tower can be used without even basic authentication?
I am also a military enthusiast and those problems (and many more) bug me no end.
If you favor the sacrifice theme I guess I understand why you like it, but it says nothing about the quality of the movie. It is and it will always be a ridiculous movie.
Correction. The OP is implying that ST complainers are being disingenuous about their complaints with female characters in the ST because it doesn't fit their vision of Star Wars.
Actually Gina in the Mandalorian fits perfectly the vision.
Strong, trained female character that can fight on equal grounds. That's a big yes.
Untrained female that can beat anyone and do everything without a bit of training OR prior knowledge that she can do that or even that thing was real? That's a big no.
We had to see Rey's entire childhood to know as a scavenger just to reassure us w/o spoon-feeding us tat she had some resourcefulness and technical skill?
Oh yeah, because having some technical skill makes any auto mechanic knowledgeable on how to pilot commercial and jet planes.
Makes sense.
And the same technical skills makes her a master in light saber skills, enough to take out THE BEST in the galaxy without any training. And i mean ANY training.
And the first moment when she encounters the force, not even knowing what that is she is suddenly a master and can overcome ... again, the best in the galaxy that was actually trained.
Makes sense. For idiots.
"- we need a heart surgeon
- make way, i'm a scavenger and i have some tech skills, so i'm the best heart surgeon in the galaxy. Oh and i'm a woman so you have that too"
"And the same technical skills makes her a master in light saber skills"
She wasn't a master at it. She defeated wounded Kylo in the first movie and that's it. Chewie did the heavy work.
"And the first moment when she encounters the force, not even knowing what that is she is suddenly a master and can overcome"
In TFA she overcame the force power of influence. But its been well established that power typically only works on the weak minded. Also, that whole thing was Kylo testing her.
Rey was indeed a Mary Sue, but she was a Mary Sue that made sense. RJ wanted to throw out the explanation but JJA brought it back.
In the Mandolrian has EQUAL characters which is great!
All the main character are basically equal.
I am HAPPY to see Carl Weathers, older black guy!
The Gina girl is cool.
Mando is a guess a Hispanic actor, and he's great and cool.
NONE of these people are being promoted as a "black" "Hispanic" or "Woman" they are just cool characters.
Everyone liked Star Trek for the same reason in the 60s. It wasn't in your face and everyone was ADMIRABLE. Science fiction fans are idealists and WANT everyone to be cool. They don't want a black guy to act like a retarded coward and then be gay on top of it! They don't want all the males to be secondary to females, they want everyone cool.
The Mandolarian has cool characters who aren't stupid.
Disney's in this for a profit, the money's in the merch, and the merch ain't selling. If you're retarded enough to enjoy eating the shit that Disney's feeding you, then you might need to be reminded that you have to support the team.
Here, I'll dumb it down so you can understand: You've gotta feed the mouse, or the mouse won't feed you.
I'm with ya' buddy, and I'm happy for the fans, but I still bet Disney's scheming on ways to work-in 'WOKE!' by the tail end of Season 2.
Although, I'm very cynical on Disney, as well as the culture at large, in case you didn't pick-up on it.
It took some big hairy kosher balls and some very slimy uncircumcised cunts to laydown $2 billion in cash & $2 billion in stock for Star Wars, and then purposefully drive it off the rails, and then set the fans against each other in the name twat equality.
The social engineering shit has gotten really old, now to the point of absurdity in the normalization of mental illness.
I'm old, however, and have no skin in the game. I just follow it now for the entertainment value.
As George Carlin once said: "When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.".
Yep, it was all set in motion long before we were born.
But, who's to say what the future holds?
Still, the usual suspects do seem to be working rather more feverishly than as was usual in other decades, almost as if there is a time pressure to their little project for their disgusting god - a schedule which if not met, portends failure for them.
That my own race/ethnic group is content to commit suicide following the Pied Piper in pursuit of 'equality' and mammon, however, is long past being my problem.
Let them all have their way, and live in the sewer to come that they themselves willingly created.
I believe social engineering a jewish conspiracy to destabilize the family unit in the population.
That's a myth.
Of course, Jews use to focus in Academia and media. Wokeness have invaded Academia and media, and the logical consequence is that you'll see lots of woke Jews promoted in those fields. There's a pattern... but it's a consequence, not a cause.
Think that one of the victims of wokeness is Israel, and that the campaign against Netanyahu is quite similar to the campaign against Trump.
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You've never been to University, have you? Liberal arts was Marxist decades ago. Marxism is a conformist cult. It spread from there, especially student government. Then came SJWs, "thought crimes" and "diversity police". These assholes become management and subject employees to the Cult.
Has nothing to do with Jews, other than they have higher IQs so they go to university. Intelligent people have more money and they influence anything they own.
Then Trump comes along a tells them to all Fuck Off!
The thing is, she bested him due to her ex-shock trooper skills and it wasn't really bested, they were sort of on par. Also, she didn't go "SEE? I'm a strong woman. A man has nothing on me" or some other bullshit mantra woke crap like Batwoman. She shows how cool, skilled, and tough she is and we all know without cringing at some line she spouts or whatnot.
but she kept on punching a guy with shiny new armor that is supposed to be high tech with her BARE hands. also she arm wrestles with men. so yeah, that's exactly what "SEE? I'm a strong woman" looks like.
That's the only reason why you like the Mandalorian. I bet if the prequels and sequels had OT Stormtroopers ,Star destroyers etc....you would lose your load....😂😂😂😂😂