The Mandalorian - This is DEFINITELY NOT the Way 

I'm still excited for your discord server.

I missed you Plat, can’t wait brother!

So happy to see TLP is back!!! 🎉

opening crawl and i'm already ded 🤣

Was i the only one who thought the camera would swing around to show a face during the fum advertisment??? I forgot that that was a no no otherwise weirdos like me would stalk and haunt little penis forever if we just get the shape of his head from his shadow... Don't worry little spatoon, i promise I'll only chase you around till you're 55, generous offer, I know but I'm kind like that, it's a problem, and I'm a stalker of my words, I'll only chase you for 60yrs... Nice legs tho and wonderfully smooth hands... And by the way, I'm straight, so you can understand how great this compliment is... Although I'm a really disturbingly serious anglophile, brits and aussies should visit me with an army, the accent is the only aphrodisiac i need to do something the world would regret... Male, female, dog, fridge, delusion, mirage as long as you're not a minor and you have the accent, i would sell my family to buy a ring...

You and me both pal!

How do you know it'll be that long?

@@MegaSpideyman timestamps are in the description

Do what I do, skip the actual show bc it failed to be interesting about 3 eps into s1 show up and laugh at how much worse it has become

Work is an 8 hour shift. Plenty of listening time

Holds is the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of, but I have heard of her.

No BrO sHe WaS dOinG iT inTeNtioNaLly

This is the funniest thing I have read today. Cheers.

How not to do shared universe From the same company that managed to nail it with Marvel for a while

It's to be expected with Disney. Thor was replaced with Mighty Thor. Iron Man was replaced with Iron Heart Captain America was replaced with Captain Falcon Mando was replaced with Bo Katana. Ashoka was replaced with Sabine. Boba Fett was replaced with whatever the hell that Tusken Lover imposter was.. That is the way. Subversion.

@@amandahuginkys7878………..you have spoken

@@amandahuginkys7878 Even Doctor Strange was sidelined by Scarlet Witch in his movie. Somehow Disney is mortaly scared of making the character in the title the main character of their movie/show.

@@EskChan19 This "subversion" theme they keep chugging along with, least imo, showing abysmally diminished returns. Why can't they just make a good product? If profits aren't coming forth, yet they continue to hold the line, then profits aren't the goal. It must be, THE MESSAGE. And if that is indeed their goal, then let them burn to ashes; for nothing shall be lost with their absence.

Also, TLP experienced a great vowel shift while talking about Lizzo, and I’m all about it.

Andor was boring

​@@TSF15152masterfully made TV. The writing doesn't come close from any star wars project.

​@@TSF15152sorry it didn't have enough key jangling and pretty colors for you

@@TSF15152i know right? They didn’t even have darth vader in it? And as we know, every show that has darth vader in it is amazing 10/10 masterpieeece!

She’s a nuke

Calling Lizzo a moon sized super weapon is extremely hurtful to moon sized super weapons.

A single Twerk can collapse and entire star system

What? It's not accurate at all, no moon is that massive. Really,a "celestial" body like Lizzo's would put that dumbass Death Planet from episode 7 to shame

Imagine the size of her bacta tank

That's why I love Andor. Some of my favorite stuff in the prequels is the political intrigue. It's my kind of "boring".

Yes indeed. The difference in delivery is really perspective. The OT gives us glimpses of this galactic order (and even those couched in familiar real-world concepts), but doesn’t ever distract itself from plot and character. We learn the bare minimum required to understand place, but the story is personal much more than it is political. The prequels step up and back. It’s impersonal. It’s debatable whether the films even have protagonists in the traditional sense. They’re stories about a galaxy more than they are stories within the galaxy. That’s, off the bat, less compelling and relatable. Married to the failures in dialogue, decisions, basic logic, and unfortunately you’re left stranded outside the thing looking in. The intent was clearly to try and make it an epic tragedy in the Greek mould. The delivery was sorely lacking. But the intent is admirable and some of the ideas and concepts are great.

@@TheLittlePlatoon god Platoon.... even your comments on comments are far superior to disney writing, your awesome man, Im enjoying this video, thank you!

"What makes something fundamentally entertaining - is to have it speak the truth about something ... if not specifically diadectic, to approach interesting topics that give people a foothold to engage." -Hugh Monahan

@@burna2650 The politics in Andor are actually thrilling. That scene with Mon Mothma and her old flame where she talks about "how she's learned from Palpatine..." man...absolutely incredible.

Season 4 (Like that's ever going to happened) is probably going to be like: "Fuck it he somehow got the keys back but is in jail for driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter so let him stay there."

The man was always drunk. Shame how only now people are starting to get it when it's far too late.

Luv, he isn't drunk. He is just impaired.

lol ! truth

@@ShredderPeek Nah, he had the right idea with Clone Wars, but he flew to close to the sun and Disney gave him too much freedom

That last Ahsoka episode seemed to be trying to confuse that ‘anyone can use the force’ nonsense by saying the real reason Ahsoka stopped training Sabine was because she was afraid she was training for the wrong reasons (her anger over the Mandalorian Massacre), and Ahsoka was afraid she’d be too powerful. Maybe I misread it but that’s what that conversation between Huyang and Ezra seemed to be implying: secretly powerful all along and only held back by Ashoka’s purposefully instilled doubt.

@@footthumb Canaan observed that Sabine was blocked - long before Ahsoka showed up.

It really depends. Considering how few Jedi there were relative to the population you probably needed a 1 in a million to a 1 in a billion ability. Sabine might have a 1/1000 ability and still be far below the expectations for a Jedi. Gideon might have a completely average ability, or a 1 in 1000 where he doesn't have the Patience or training to foster a relatively weak connection to the force

​@christinearmington who the fuck cares. She looked like a cheap whore and he acting was that if a high schooler. stoicism from all characters isn't character development neither is giving her powers just cause you want more jedi when it wasn't even done in a way we could all swallow it. This is the problem with their star wars is we have to sit here and convince ourselves this isn't hot garbage. I could have written a better show with the same parameters. We all could of. That's the problem to me. I'm just a minority tho so it doesn't really matter what I think. Just tired of lame brai. STar wars i want to think . Not to make excuses but to celebrate genius. Not eat Another McDonald's burger

​@@christinearmingtonI feel like that should have been mentioned in Ahsoka instead of Huyang saying her aptitude is so shit.

They run into that problem earlier in S3, when he picks up the R5 droid. The big booster engine under the N1 makes it impossible to get the droid in and out, so they get around it with a jump cut.

Shhhh... Shhhh... Don't think about it. Just consume product and get excited for next product.

The bizzaree thing is that they set jim up with the razorcrest for those very reasons but decided fuck it. I dont know how its even possible to care so little about something

He puts a suction cup on his butt, and the shit floats out into space. Duh. Leave Dave Filioni alone! You just don't understand his genius. :^P

He ain't a Bounty Hunter Anymore.

Well, if half of Darth Maul can be Mandalore, who knows?

Probably it couldn't do worse than Bo-katan.

Well that one eyed cave monster was native to mandalore so in some ways it’s more worthy than mando

Well, if we want to take it further, that's wrong; wasn't even Din's or Gideon's in the first place. It's whoever gets credit for blowing up the second death star since Palpatine defeated Maul when the saber was his.

@@nobody2996 so lando is the rightful mandalore?

She also has lost it more than once... Din would've made sense, someome who wasn't destined to be great, but proved throughout the series his ability to make people unite like the Tuskens and tatooine people, in the quest lf just a place for grogu him then becoming a ruler would,'ve been badass, people also forget Bo was literally a space terrorist who didn't cared abt her sister nor the cause until it was comvenient

The whitewashing of Bo is INSANE. She's an absolute sack of crap. A terrorist and a fraud.

And then it got trashed by the same guy who five minutes ago was demanding she hand it over.

​@@TheLittlePlatoonDamn you studiet that Season... I feel bad fir you 😢😢😢❤

​@@TheLittlePlatoonAdd to the Darksaber problems is Bo's personal Mando history with it... Bo has never won the Darksaber in combat. It's been given to her... Twice now. The first time she became a joke because it was taken from her. Hence when Djinn offered it to her she refused to take it because she 'needed' to defeat it's owner. And she couldn't defeat a man willing to give it away. Yet later she just takes it like she's learned feminism and discarded her personal principles that stopped her taking things in a way that would have repercussions... Since she's now being written as a Mary Sue who will never face the consequences of her actions.

I really hated the fact that armorer made a big deal about removing their helmets and then 2 episodes later makes an exception by having bokatan remove her helmet just because of this mythosaur sighting. I was like wtf ?

@@crownedgambit Yeah fully. They have these rules that are like the most important things ever & then nek minute are like 'oh yeah that doesn't matter anymore' 🤷‍♀

Nah man we better get the same exact woman who failed twice before to lead again. She has “Royal blood” you see. Who’d want to see a foundling Mandalorian rising to leadership and dealing with all the issues that come up? That’d be so boring!! /s

​​​@@AdamC_465Yeah guess your right who wants to watch a bounty hunter who fights only for cash learn to fight for a cause larger than himself. Then after a watery tart throws him a lightsaber he has to step up to plate, learns responsibility and become the leader he was always meant to be

Just about the only good quote from Ahsoka show

That’s not as marketable as a little baby green alien.

Even with all its problems in season 2, I was still on board with Mando, *if* that was the direction they were going to go in. Book of Bobby Fatt disabused me of any notion that Kennedy's fuhrerbunker knows or cares about good storytelling. Or, much of anything else, it seems.

Thank you for the gifted membership ❤, and it’s the biggest insult to slavers since they were inslaved.

The amazing thing to me is how drastic kathleen Kenedy’s failure has been. If she wanted to subvert starwars she would have at least made it tolerable by normies.

THey are Diverse Slavers! Which is a good thing in some strange way? lol

@@knobgobler2639 look up archival footage of Lucas reflecting on Kennedy being their note taker- she would often not take notes, and instead, interrupt the meetings, often with the dumbest ideas )"What if he doesn't get the girl, but does get the dog?"). She's always been awful at her job. It's just more visible here.

Slavers were generally arabic.

Because Mando has become a non-character in his own show. Pedro is literally phoning the role in, and the narrative uses Mando as a sidequest NPC, he's there to help with the fight scenes and make an occasional comment, but otherwise he's basically scenery. If anything, having an actual character-based reaction at that particular point would feel weird and out of place.

@@DrMcFly28 So he's like the protagonist in Final Fantasy 14 🤣

Or you could have him go into a blind rage over it and he uses the dark saber to hack it into nothingness with the whole room being covered in slashes from how wrecklessly he’d been hacking

I can still happily watch a fair bit of Season 1. It was a wonderful premise and a half-decent introduction. But yeah, it became painful pretty quickly after that!

@awhellnah__ Yeah no. I'm not and that's not the problem. It would be a problem if I was still defending it but I'm not.

Their target demographic thinks that "strong" just means physically powerful and incapable of doing wrong or being incorrect, and when a show is changed to appease the fictional modern audience, who are actually just a foul minority, we get horrible characters who cannot admit that they are wrong, in a universe that will never call them out. We would have gotten it much sooner with Rousey's character if she hadn't voiced some tepid fence-sitting sentiment online.

@@TheLittlePlatoon Moreover, Season 1 entirely is just a huge introduction full of little premises. They show us images and pre-characters, relying on people's imagination and experience, that we would extract something from just looking at them, even tho the characters and some themes were never really preestablished by those who created them. It looked welcoming, but nothing welcomed after you enter the door.

On re-watches, Mando season 1 isn't good. It is fun. It embodies the spirit of what A New Hope was. It captures the imagination. Season 1 sets up a series that absolutely had potential. But if Disney has mastered anything, it is wasting potential and turning hope into raw sewage ripening in a sunny gutter.

Progressive Disney made the inclusive Mandalorians into racial supremacists.

I pray they never touch the kaleesh.

Let's hope they don't delve into the Old Republic era. I'd hate for them to somehow fuck up Malachor V.

Whether or not this was ever "cannon" it is a more interesting idea.

@iivin4233 Technically, nothing of the EU was 'canon', Lucas signed off on it sure, but until he used it himself, it never counted to him.

Oh yeah, I would love to see TheLittlePlatoon tear Ahsoka show apart. I liked the character, Ahsoka, as well as the rebels to some degree. That show showed me Dave Feloni should not write scripts nor dialogue; what a wasted potential, and the show's quality frustrated me to no end.

On it!

Ask and ye shall receive

A capital ship large enough to have an insane number of pieces of shrapnel. This would have been a better excuse to not pull a Holdo maneuver than "it's one in a million"

Given the sheer scale of the distances involved it's fairly unlikely that any of that debris would actually hit anything.

Having read your original comment and the reply to it you made, that's actually a sick concept: A technique so powerful and so destructive that people actively avoid using unless they get desperate. If Disney had better writers they could've taken that somewhere, maybe a cult of kamikaze pilots that keep destroying planets with Holdo Maneuvers that need to be stopped? Would be a great show.

​​@@S3Cs4uN8 *cut to Poe warping to random points in space and each time being on a planet or something* The Star Wars universe doesn't obey real space logic. Apparently everything is super close and huddled up so OP has a point if you think about it, unless Star Wars also doesn't obey the laws of momentum

Am I the only one pedantic enough to point out that those fragments aren't "shrapnel"? Very probably.

Would’ve been pretty cool, wouldn’t it! Instead…

And its funnier when they get called out for doing those, they deny and/or avoid it Making them look like delusional asswipes

andor did it well

"To make something fundamentally entertaining is to have it speak the truth."

Andor was a tax write off that KK didn't care about. That is the only explanation for it being as good as everyone says. I haven't watched it because the only way I will watch Disney SW is if they retcon the ST and as they decided that we wanted a Rey movie that clearly isn't in the books until at least KK's retirement. No I am not going to give a shit about Disney's shit as they didn't give a shit about characters I enjoyed from when I was a kid probably under ten to someone in their early thirties. I want my OT heroes to have had a proper send off. That wasn't too much to ask. At this point I am glad they ended the old EU. They can't hurt it because of it.

Anti-hero? Are you retarded? The bitch was so far up her own ass that she took to murdering defenseless villagers with a bunch of jagoff terrorists to undermine her sister's efforts to maintain neutrality in a FULL BLOWN CIVIL WAR That's not even going into the fact she cut and ran to the Republic when Maul defeated Vizla in honorable combat and acquired the Darksaber instead of her.

I found season 3 to be much better. The first two were pretty bad, but the third one had a couple of interesting episodes (3 and 6 in particular).

That’s Filoni trying to protect Rey, and I hate it

Actually Lucas himself said anyone can use force with training…. Furthermore in phantom menace quigon explains midichlorians to young Anakin and says that midichlorians exist in ALL living cells (thus everyone has them) The fan base misunderstood this concept and somehow thought it excluded people? Idk y’all are idiots

​@@kalancosta7650no you halfwit, just because People have midichlorians doesnt mean everyone can do what palpatine or fucking rey can

@@kalancosta7650 You are just everywhere defending these trash disney shows. IF anybody could use the force, then why would the Jedi Temple have a list of "force sensitive children" (PER SEASON 2 of TCW "Holocron Heist"). You are just wrong man, not EVERYONE can use the force. EVERYONE is bound by the force, it surrounds everything like YODA says in ESB. In order to be force SENSITIVE (To be able to manipulate the force) you must have a high concentration of midichlorians. The reason Anakin was taken into training, even though he was too old, is because he had such a high midichlorian count, higher than any being in existence. This was Jedi Prophecy. Giddeon's entire plan was to harvest Grogu's midichlorians and enable himself to manipulate the force. If ANYONE can manipulate the force, why doesn't Giddeon just try harder?

@@RealTonyMontana the Jedi only take exceptionally talented people…. Ask yourself if you were the head coach of basketball team would take a 5.10 over waiver white dude or a 6.7 physical specimen on the level of MJ??? Sure the 5.10 can play basket ball but why take even more time and effort to get him up to level when the better candidate is much less work…. Every CAN use the force ….. this doesn’t mean everyone can be a Jedi…. For example leia is not a Jedi but Luke trained her and she can use the force, the blind guy in rogue one also uses the force (how else you think fights while blind)

Effort should always be appreciated. Good for you!

“If you don’t like it, make your own.” Okay, sounds good to me. “Wait, come back…”

​@@sherlockstreamgamesno

@@thefiendish186agreed there are exceptions, I struggle with choosing my path mainly because I find it morally hard to decide in between two things, or even harder, to somehow balance them out in this „modern“ world; 1. being morally / ethically „good“ after the best ability of my own judgement and 2. being (especially financially / influentially) successful So I am sure everyone needs to not look very far to find people who DID indeed try to be successful, put in their effort, maybe even „achieved“ a lot of „success“ in their eyes at least, but morally / ethically have done only „bad“ or „wrong“ things in this world, that were only self-serving. Should that kind of effort be appreciated? Definitely not

Yeah, that’s a point I’ll be raising in the Ahsoka video. I believe we’re still around 30 years short of the Sequels, but even were they to make short work of Thrawn, relapsing within the space of a couple of decades just isn’t really believable.

@@TheLittlePlatoon Remember though, these are the people who "forgot" the Jedi existed within the space of 19 years at most...!

I think the Republic was busy listening to Blue Monday. By the time they finished the song, the New Order was already in power.

​@OsellaSquadraCorse This is a huge topic. The military downsizing may or may not make sense, though. Immediate downsizing has followed most wars I can think of. Despite the Cold War, the US tried to economize around the bomb. Eventually, they did economize around their air force. Meanwhile, they made it law for the defeated nations to disarm. There's a concept called the peace dividend. This is a savings resulting from military downsizing immediately following the Cold War that stimulated Western economies. Counter to this, for the Republic the war clearly isn't over. And finally, to add to this (and drive home the complexity of the subject of decomissioning), France after WW2 did not upsize their military relative to what they had prior to WW2. They did rearm, and they did so with leftover American and German equipment. That is, until they realized panthers were not worth their time and they decommissioned that part of their inventory.

@@OsellaSquadraCorse Yeah that also bothered me. The Star Wars timeline has always been rushed.

Just say her name, nobody would do a dang thing as they duck out most of the conservation.

Captain Ph-olds-like-a-piece-of-tissue-paper-asma?

Gina Carano, who played Cara Dune. It's a shame that she attempted to appeal to the humanity of leftists.

Gina Carano deserved to be let go from Disney. Cara Dune WAS a great character, and I wish she could've stuck around, but the stuff she was saying on Twitter, the things she was projecting out into the public did not reflect well upon her. Not just anti-vax sentiment, which is a special kind of dumb. She echoed election conspiracies under the guise of "muh freedom." She compared her plight and the plight of "cancelled" conservative to Jews during the Holocaust. I could go on. I'm not saying she didn't have the right to say that stuff (even though almost all of it was incredibly, demonstrably wrong). I'm just saying that if you're going to become the face of a major Disney character, you need to pick and chose what you project. Hell, she could have just waited until AFTER the Mandolorian wrapped up to let loose with her righteous-but-persecuted-conservatism. There were a hundred smarter ways she could have spoken her mind. But Disney would anyone go who said the types of things she was saying - I don't care if you're Pedro Pascal or Ewan McGregor or Werner Herzog or Rosario Dawson, Disney is a known entity and we know how they do business.

@@blackpajamas6600 in hindsight Disney did her a favor.... nobody connected with modern Lucasfilm looks to have a long and successful career in their future....

Ahsoka doesn’t even have that excuse, though. Filoni made the damn shows!

@@TheLittlePlatoon Agreed, Filoni did a Jake Skywalker to his own characters

They're really gonna just pretend that Sabine is worthy of being a Jedi, when she made a weapon of mass destruction that was used on her own people. I liked her being trained to use the Darksaber by Kanan. But that's where it should've ended. He wasn't training her to be a Jedi, just use the saber.

@@GhostLink92didn’t they make her, or misused the tech or something? And yeah I’d be much happier if Sabine were simply able to sort of use the force, and instead of needing to be a Jedi, she could wield the Darksaber and be sort of a dual threat. I’ve liked Bo Katan but it might even be cool if she had a heel turn and Sabine had to defeat her. Mostly I’m just sad at how the Ahsoka show made Sabine awful and silly.

@@GhostLink92 Kanan said that Sabine was “blocked”. I took that as “blocked” in her ability to use the Force.

The problem is that current Disney writers don’t know how to write Complicated or compelling stories or characters with believable loyalties. They’ve already written that the New Republic has been nothing but a bastion of corruption and stagnation, but failed to deliver as to why it was so. There are plenty of instances of Regime Changes where governments are replaced or switch loyalties to a new regime, but the Underlying institutions and industries remain unchanged. Yet Disney’s writers are depicting the entire system of the New Republic as being corrupted by people who served the former government, rather than the new system of government becoming corrupted on its own, because Diswars still has to portray the ‘good guys as good guys”… They’ve Teased and Hinted at opportunities to show Empire Soldiers/Officers/citizens as actual people with goals and motivations, but the always stumble at the last minute and resort to ‘empire am bad” because ‘Nuance is hard, key jangle Better”… There are so many Heroes in Star Wars Stories that were at one point or another affiliated with the Empire, even Leia Organa’s Adoptive Father was a member of the Imperial Senate. But now anything and everything that has to do with the Empire is in all ways every way evil and bad, and anybody on the good guys side who is corrupt is secretly a greedy imperial sympathizer… It’s so boring.

I honestly look at this like the Baath party in Iraq or the NSDAP in Germany. True believers are easy to spot/weed out from the people who took an oath to maintain employment at a civil service job. Totalitarian regimes do this as form of establishing dominance. It isn't all that surprising.

Also, like Worf, he enables someone else to take the throne of his people. In Worf's case, Gawron was the right choice over the house of Duras (a treacherous family who were in league with the Romulans), but proven to be a weak leader over time. Perhaps this would have played out similarly with Bo-Katan if the writers had any good sense...and if either they or Disney didn't want to push the story to be more about her than the titular character...

Ah but that would require good writing and not rehashing a failed leadership arc for a 3rd time just because she has “royal blood” Imagine the timeline where we got a foundling as the new leader of Mandalore. If only. lol

@@Gunnberg85 That would also require Filoni to cease his relentless favouritism and start writing stories in which his characters are actually allowed to be flawed.

Ashoka’s coming next! I’m hoping I’ll have time to do the rest of RoP before Season 2 starts.

TLP and Redlettermedia are comfort channels. I usually watch your Barbie video the most for it's pointing out of the inconsistencies.

@@TheLittlePlatoon Honestly I wouldn't bother with the rest of RoP, what more is there to say?

Despot of Antrim also has some great long-form critiques.

​@@TravisHi_YTWe get 10 more hours of content. Not complaining.

Don’t give them ideas!

​@@TheLittlePlatoonThey could use them by the looks of it. Then again that OG trio dream will probably come off as more of a nightmare in Disney's hands.

That’s very nice to hear. Keep it up!

Oh, it could be that, sure. It just seems so vague and out of place and not supported by the acting, etc. I erred on the side of general incompetence as opposed to linguistic incompetence!

Or they coulda had them gang up on him and still give him a badass ending, could do a whole Emile thing where even after getting thoroughly stabbed he finishes off his killer too

@@Abysalss That could work too. ''I'M READY! HOW 'BOUT YOU?

@@HolyknightVader999 yeah like I’m a real sucker for heroic cool deaths, like he wins a fight against one straight up and then 2 v 1s the rest and while killing one of them the other gets a mortal shot on him and he turns it on that guy and takes him with him. It’s a bit goofy and stereotypical but fuck would it be cool while not being total bull

@@HolyknightVader999 ya know after realizing Paz was the chunkylorian and not the dude they had take over bo katans old group after they got disillusioned I take back what I said. They shoulda just let one of them dunk on him

I still have a few of his videos to watch, so I have that to enjoy.

I was about to die from the withdrawal

Thank you very much! Yeah, it’s a shocking suggestion I know, but sometimes it really does help if you give a shit about the things you’re writing.

I’m sure your wife wouldn’t mind listening. I get on very well with wives ;-)

@@TheLittlePlatoon the room asked what is this garbage and i turned you off. they couldn't figure out why you were crying so much

@@ryank9782 you say this while ur crying all over the comment section

@@AdamC_465 nah just laughing at you and his simps

@@TheLittlePlatoon Calm down there, Little Platoon, ya chancer, ya!

from the little I watched of Ashoka (critics on RU-vid xD) it's the latter

She’s just so dull and stilted in this. Then again, that’s a pretty consistent problem with Disney Star Wars. Nobody is allowed to have fun.

given what an atrocity the 'acting' in ahsoka is, i'm starting to think that's a stylistic choice by someone within Lucasfilm, so maybe Sackhoff has an excuse.

She's great in Longmire. I'd chalk it up to bad direction.

​@@shanehudson3995Agreed, Vic is a great character and she does very well with it in Longmire. That show is outstanding compared to Disney Wars

Ah, that could well be where they filched the idea from. Still no reason for droids to have them, but a nice bit of trivia.

My wife was watching that episode in particular with me. During the bar scene, she said, "Wait, so droids are just people? They go to a bar after a hard day and worry about being scrapped? THAT'S AWFUL! Are they slaves? Is this whole society built on droid slavery!?" Well done, dear. That would be the implication, yes.

@awhellnah__ Except in that universe ruining episode they are people. They go to bars after work, have drinks with friends, hit on other bots, worry about the future… they’re sentient individuals in every sense that matters. I’m not saying they should be, or have ever been presented that way before, but in that episode that’s exactly what they show.

​@@professor_artooI mean... they kinda have been though. I'm not saying I agree with the decisions made in that episode, but I feel like whether or not droids are sentient beings has always been a pretty gray area in Star Wars. All the way back in the OT C-3P0 and R-2 have had very distinct personalities, motivations, quirks, and the people around them have treated them as, well, people. Kind of.

​@@Lesquidliestone except they specificly reference them having their memories wiped for new owners, implying that if they retain the same personality afterwards, it's something programmed in them, à la Marvin the Paranoid Android and other a.i. equipment in Hitchhiker's Guide.

Remember, praises are good, criticisms are better and both at the same time is god sent...

I may have got my timelines mixed up - reffing the 03 rather than the 08 cartoon. The point stands, though. It was a dumb decision and it’s George’s fault.

Mando is an inconsistent character, has no personality, is stupid, and has literal plot armour. What a huge waste of Pascal's talents.

they didn't even have to quit, they were at a perfect junction to dump the little gremlin and stop backdooring a pilot every other episode. They could have complete reset with Mando, having realized how aimless his life had become thanks to his experiences with baby yoda, actually deciding to do something with his life. Get the story on to some sort of track and actually give the show a purpose. but no, they had to choke to death on memberberries instead because there is nobody with talent left at Lucasfilm....

God, I’d have to go back to Season 1, but I think the Children of the Watch (the cult he’s part of) left Mandalore long ago. He was picked up by them during a battle in the Clone Wars and became a foundling, so he was never baptised on Mandalore and had only heard about it second-hand. At least I think that’s his backstory.

exactly this. why is this so hard for people to understand? in universe politics are engaging and interesting. having contemporary politics half heartedly shoved into our entertainment for no reason other than to preach is where I feel the need to take a hostage.

​​@@darthgamer9861cuz muh headcannon/fan fiction/ship😂🎉

If I may, what I believe you are saying is that you much prefer the presence of older, foundational, and pragmatic politics in _Star Wars_ to modern, idealistic, inapplicable, and self-congratulating politics. The politics you have referred to continue to exist despite their age because they have been proven to work through vigorous testing across the ages: resource management, border control, national identity, cultural identity, patriotism, solidarity. By definition, politics are an ancient philosophy discussing the best methods by which groups of people are capable of living together, which can encompass a spectrum from mere tolerance to brotherhood and sisterhood. In systems like these, stories naturally spring up because of the depths to which different nations explore and apply these ideas and more. Modern writers, meanwhile, have only a superficial grasp of how these processes occur and have conditioned themselves to believe more strongly in hyper-individualistic perversions of potentially solid ideals: gender identity, self-expression, self-importance, autonomy, moral equality. By placing their reliance on these concepts in their writing, which can be extremely vague when divorced from context, they may be capable of writing well-defined characters, but they also run the risk of portraying those ideals in something that is less a character and more a mouthpiece. They also blunder their world building, as they fail to realize that what they write for one nation may not be the case in another, as it is with our world. Their experience only pertains to their local environment, which is poison to a creative world rife with possibility. TL;DR, these writers fail because they write what they know, which is highly personalized, rather than branching out and exploring other possibilities, be they based in reality or otherwise.

Eh they bothered me less than Denning's obsession with the barabels. Goddamn I wanted to kill off the Jedi master barabel he created in the least awesome way I could think off and have no one miss her in the process if I had ever wrote a SW book.

Agreed, it’s baffling given how important planning is to success that practically none of Disney Star Wars gave any of their projects much thought before rushing them out (I suspect some of this is due to the poor leadership and behind the scenes drama but still). You would think a multi billion dollar franchise would warrant a little more thought. Platoons outline also has the benefit in my view of not directly trampling over old EU material, and consisting largely of new characters from the Filoni-verse and Favrou who can be molded into whatever they want without implicating for lack of a better word OT or Prequel favorites in unbefitting ways like the sequels did.

Yeah, the stylistic changes and the regularly reported rumors of KK getting in internal tussles with Favreau the whole time tells me the Kennedy Klown eventually got her way by season 3 after trying for so long. Kathy Sue's hackman, Filoni, took over a large part of S3 and Favreau likely didn't bother much with the effort after losing primary creative control. Understandably.

Also. "They don't fly, now!"

Depends on if you have an energy shield or not. .... and distance.

​@@BobMcBobJr either way the gun will win unless there is a large skill difference

She was basically cast by the sw fanbase. They had voted her the one to play that character and it seems like Disn went with it hoping it would be appeasing.

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​@@rottenhead8385no fkn way people voted for that.

@@captainrob9044Not for the portrayal that they got but, for the character they loved to look like her in live action. Is what I am figuring..

Credit goes to Auralnauts for that one!