• @Igloojoe@lemm.ee
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      Andor was great because disney didnt oversee the production. The Gilroy bros were allowed to just make. They filmed in real locations. Had actual characters with personalities. The bad guys seemed like a threat and not just bland targets.

      When disney oversees production the entire set is CGI (“the volume”). All the characters are very bland and vanilla to appeal to the most amount of people. Antagonist are narrow and usually a joke in terms of a threat.

      I haven’t really looked into this series and how much disney is forcing the hand of the director.

      • @WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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        That, and it was a good story set in the Star Wars universe rather than a Star Wars story where entire universe is the same 3 characters and their friends - every. goddamn. time.

    • gregorum
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      253 months ago

      Except don’t get cut off from a full five season run because of a global pandemic.

  • @ArtificialLink@lemy.lol
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    Please don’t be bad. All I have ever wanted is Star wars to delve into all of their rich lore. That isn’t surrounding that like 60 year Skywalker period. We are forced to consume. Please don’t fuck this up disney.

      • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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        You joke, but “Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina” was legit great. Everything that I hoped would be on film when Disney bought Star Wars…

        Edit: autocorrect

        • @bcgm3@lemmy.world
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          Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina

          I loved that book as a kid! Tales of the Bounty Hunters, too. I’m excited for the possibility that Acolyte could be something like those, and branch out into some new territory. I also know Disney is terrified of the possibility of alienating even the most casual watcher, so I’m also emotionally prepared for this to turn into GONK: The Beginning or some other OT prop origin story.

    • @batmaniam@lemmy.world
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      We want more of grandpa wookie watching porn in the living room on lifeday, Disney. The people have spoken!

        • @batmaniam@lemmy.world
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          Grandpa wookie is the most badass character in starwars. “the space nazis are trashing my apartment looking for my renegade son. I should put on some porn in the living room”

          Starwars was at its absolute zenith with the holiday special.

    • UKFilmNerd
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      Sort of agree. A whole universe to play in and we have to follow the same characters all the time.

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      My trust in Filoni and Favreau is absolute. those motherfuckers can do no wrong!

      This series is some SWEU adaptation, and deals with (among other things) the rise of Palpy and related characters. It’s supposed to take place outside the timeline of The Skywalker Saga (finally!)

  • @Num10ck@lemmy.world
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    premise from wikipedia:

    The Acolyte is set at the end of the High Republic era in a world of “shadowy secrets and emerging dark side powers”,[1] approximately 100 years before Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).[2] A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.

  • g0d0fm15ch13f
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    If you’re the star wars fan that knows whose saber hilt that is, would you respond to this comment so I can know without having to come back?

    • DosDude👾
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      Doesn’t look like a hilt from an actual character from any of the movies.

        • @roofuskit@lemmy.world
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          This is set 100 years before the fall of the Republic during the High Republic Era when Jedi were at the height of their power.

    • @sunbytes@lemmy.world
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      It’s from before any of the movies (100 years apparently) so it’s probably not a lightsaber we’ve seen before.

      Not definitely, but it’s less likely.

      Also probably no characters we know.

      Though there’s some characters that were alive back then, most notably Yoda and Chewbacca.

      So it’s not impossible…

      Edit: oh and 8 Huyang, the lightsaber-building instructor…