Star Wars: Force Awakens Thread (Spoiler Alert)
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That's one of my big beefs with movies these days. Stuff like The Matrix set it in motion with mind-bending moves, CGI and action scenes. And that was ok, because that WAS the story, an alternate reality where your mind, not physics, determines reality. Ok, good story IMO. Now every single movie is packed with these types of action scenes, shit that doesn't make any sense, arcing laser cannons in space, dropping space-bombs, star destroyers that only have two cannons, just dumb shit that is there to show off the CGI instead of an actual thoughtful movie/story line that involves plot twists and not just dumb fillers. If you could use a spaceship to cut a larger one in half by going to lightspeed, hell, why didn't you just do that from the beginning and save all the trouble? It's the age of dumb fillers IMO. The fantastic-four/iron-man/whatever. These attempt to take it seriously and it just ruins the story every single time IMO. Yeah, I kind of geek out on these, but I love a good Sci Fi that challenges your mind and does something unique and new, without being cheesy or trying to fill a terrible story line with CGI.
rogue one....new hope....and so on
My take on this is "depends on your kid". My boys are pretty impressionable. Took them quite a while to be comfortable with this. My oldest in particular had nightmares for a week after watching Harry Potter. And he's 9. My youngest is 7. He watched it all, NFG. (though maybe Harry Potter is scarier because (somehow), it's more relatable, it feels more real). They both enjoyed SW, and are begging me to watch Rise of Skywalker. Somehow, my oldest has become an expert on all the various plot-threads. He's "only" seen what's on Disney+ since the beginning of the pandemic!
Also, we watched them in "chronological" order (Phantom Menace through to Last Jedi). Watching Rogue One and Solo at the right times also helped them understand the story-line.
he's pretty good at understanding when things are just pretend (ie fiction). although he usually is still ususally less interested in live action shows/movies than animated stuff. we'll see.
re: HP i'd say that's more relatable for kids because they're clearly younger.
My kids get a bit freaked out by the rock giants in Frozen 2 and other tame things, but somehow they handle the Harry Potter universe just fine. They've watched through the fifth movie, read books 1-5 with us (and then re-read obsessively by the elder child), and we're working through book 6 now.
See I told you
Live action Ezra Bridger being cast for a new series. 
Are they dropping the whole season at once or dragging it out? Anyone know?
I'm assuming it will be weekly like they did with season 1
Ah, OK - we must have waited until they had all aired, 'cause I vaguely recall watching them all in about a week.
"this is the way" is cool, up to some point.
Then, it just get annoying. I think they crossed that point.
Then, it just get annoying. I think they crossed that point.
It has a long way to go before reaching "I've got a bad feeling about this" status.
so there's rumors going around that pablo pascal left halfway through shooting season 2, and that the second half of the season won't feature him as a central character. i had a crazy thought last night, with ashoka appearing in season 2, and the mysterious hooded woman in the trailer, we might be seeing Sabine Wren as well. The timeline would line up,
since the end of rebels showed Sabine and Ashoka leaving for the outer rim / unknown regions in search of Ezra. Not only that, but if the rumors are true about pablo pascal leaving, perhaps the shift of the series would turn to Sabine, who is also a mandalorian.
I'm also not the only one with this theory. She could also be trying to retrieve the dark saber, which was once in her possession.
mandalorian S2 begins friday. i'm just about wrapping up a rewatch of rebels in preparation.
Happy Mandalorian Day! Wife and I will watch episode one tonight while eating pizza on the couch.
The Mandalorian vs The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog .
That was a fun episode I am a fan for sure. I like the simplicity of the show. Why did he not just shoot the guy, take the suite and not have to be eaten by the big beast. Is baby Yoda making him turn soft?