The Mandalorian

[BanosSwan]

I'm just glad they've made KOTOR canon again.

 

[JackSomething]

Better than any of the showers of shîte that were the Star Wars sequels.

That’s not a high bar though. I’m still trying to digest the five hours of complete nonsense that were The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. And when you consider that The Force Awakens was a remake of A New Hope them the sequels were a very profitable waste of time.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but only just read the more recent posts.

It still amazes me to compare what Disney did with Star Wars as opposed to the MCU. Disney bought Marvel in 2009 and allowed Kevin Feige to keep on the same path they were already on. Which was building a shared universe, hiring diverse directors but having them stick to a similar formula (for better or worse) and building towards the Avengers movies in each cycle. Whatever you think of the films, they've made Disney more than £18 billion dollars.

With Star Wars, they went into the new trilogy with no set plan for the 3 films. They let Abrams remake A New Hope, which to me was playing it too safe, but whatever. To then not have a plan for the next 2 films was just plain stupid. To let a director come in and basically reverse direction on a large chunk of the previous film but not have him do the next film as well was also stupid. To hire the original director back (once they realised Trevorrow wasn't working out) and have him spend large parts of the last film course correcting back to the first film was just mind-boggling.

The trilogy did around £2.1 billion at the box office, roughly the same as Infinity War alone, and a lot less than Endgame. If they hadn't been in such a hurry to make the Expanded Universe books non-canon, they could easily have put together a better trilogy using some of those stories. Let's see if they've learned their lesson when the next films come out.

 

[airedale]

What strikes me about the Mandalorian, doing what he does and people trying to bump him off, is that he needs eyes in the back of his head.

 

[BrynCartwright]

Just finished watching both series of Mandalorian on Disney+ and just really enjoyed it. The concusion to Series 2 is especially epic. Highly recommmended, and looking forward to series 3 and the Boba Fett series.