Octopus Overlords

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 1:59 pm Wouldn't the collapsing iris door in the bar retract if there was a person in it? Otherwise would be a lot of sliced up patrons.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 1:59 pm Wouldn't the collapsing iris door in the bar retract if there was a person in it? Otherwise would be a lot of sliced up patrons.

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:56 pm More to think about (with a Rise of Skywalker spoiler or two):

Spoiler:

Gideon sawed through his TIE Fighter hull with some weird looking sword. I read up on it and it is a Darksabre that is super old and there is only one of them. Was Gideon ever a Mandalorian? There seems to be a lot to that guy that we will soon discover and I'm excited that we'll get more Giancarlo Esposito.

TIE Fighters are tough. As we've seen in The Mandalorian and The Rise of Skywalker, they can explode and leave the pilot unharmed. Must have some kickass airbags.
Did all TIE Fighters have wings that folded, allowing the pilot to get in and out on their own? I'm guessing they didn't considering Kylo's old-school TIE was shown standing straight up in The Rise of Skywalker, but maybe that one had it's collapsible wing mechanism damaged when that Death Star blew up and crashed into the ocean moon, where it sat untouched for decades. I mean that's a reasonable bit of damage, right?

edit - Never mind. It's an Outland TIE, which was a new model never seen in the films.

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 12:19 pm I really liked this show. It gives me hope that Disney will see that the Star Wars universe has so much potential for stories that don't involve Skywalkers.

One question I have that some of you more well-read fans might know:

Spoiler:

The Armorer said that the Jedi were the enemy of the Mandalorians. Where did this come from? The only Mandalorians ever shown were Jango and Boba Fett. Jango was an enemy of the Jedi, but was Boba? He was just a bounty hunter, so somewhat neutral, right?

Also, she explained the Jedi as though this was some secret that few people knew about. The Jedi were basically the police of the galaxy only a few decades earlier. How would so few people know about the Jedi or the Force? That's like the general population not knowing that World War 2 every happened.

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:00 am If they spent the same amount per episode as HBO did for the last season of GoT, then something was out of whack in one of those productions. Regardless of how you felt about the quality of plot of the seasons, I don't think the quality of production on The Mandalorian was anywhere close to GoT*, and as you noted the GoT episodes were much longer. I thought the space effects were fine, but planetary CGI seemed to be lacking to me, particularly speeders. One early scene that really stood out as sub-par to me was in the first or second episode (I think) where there was a far-off shot of multiple speeders going over barren terrain. It just looked really hokey. And some of the practical effects/costumes were pretty bad (such as Hellboy and tentacle-head-woman).

* The possible exception being the battle for Winterfell, where I couldn't actually see much to determine the production values.

morlac wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:19 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:00 am If they spent the same amount per episode as HBO did for the last season of GoT, then something was out of whack in one of those productions. Regardless of how you felt about the quality of plot of the seasons, I don't think the quality of production on The Mandalorian was anywhere close to GoT*, and as you noted the GoT episodes were much longer. I thought the space effects were fine, but planetary CGI seemed to be lacking to me, particularly speeders. One early scene that really stood out as sub-par to me was in the first or second episode (I think) where there was a far-off shot of multiple speeders going over barren terrain. It just looked really hokey. And some of the practical effects/costumes were pretty bad (such as Hellboy and tentacle-head-woman).

* The possible exception being the battle for Winterfell, where I couldn't actually see much to determine the production values.

Yea, I didn't see a single Starbucks cup in the Mandolorian...disappointing

wonderpug wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:41 pm The Star Wars universe in general doesn't appear to have very stringent safety standards.

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:37 pm I thought there were representatives from every known planet in the galaxy in the Republic. So even if you had some poor planet, if it was colonized it had membership. And since the Republic used the Jedi as their police/negotiators, everyone would know about them. I guess not though and I can actually see that not happening. I don't think information flows as freely in Star Wars and we would think.

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:37 pm I thought there were representatives from every known planet in the galaxy in the Republic. So even if you had some poor planet, if it was colonized it had membership. And since the Republic used the Jedi as their police/negotiators, everyone would know about them. I guess not though and I can actually see that not happening. I don't think information flows as freely in Star Wars and we would think.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:25 pm $350 can get your own baby Yoda.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:32 pm Probably not even soft and cuddly.

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 3:11 pm Someone will make a sex toy out of Baby Yoda. Mark my words.

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 3:49 pm Don't forget the Bea Arthur attachment!

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 4:22 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 3:49 pm Don't forget the Bea Arthur attachment!

Would that be the head or the genitals?

The Mandalorian season 2 will debut in October.

The Meal wrote:That seems very... 4/20.

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:37 pm OK, we got Disney Plus and my kids started The Mandalorian immediately.

A few days later, when they made me sit and catch up with them, I fell out of my chair when I realized I was seeing Werner Herzog as a post-imperial bureaucrat/warlord or whatever the hell he was.

I think now I have to make the kids watch Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

2) It’s all about loot grinding



When Mando does jobs, Mando gets paid in Beskar, the mystical metal at the heart of his near-extinct culture. And once he’s stacked up enough of this conveniently generic metal, he takes it to the Armorer, a lady who holds a dual role as a blacksmith and a priest of some kind. Based on the amount of ingots he’s collected, she’ll make Mando new bits of armour, that will increase his stats.