Mr. Vee

I don't even know how to respond to not liking the show after ep 3 unless you're just not into heists.

From the things I read while researching a new build a couple months ago I doubt you'd be able to run cyberpunk max settings with ray tracing on even if you did wait for the 40s. at least not 4k and >60 fps.

I read 'land on a negative note' as 'end with the dumpster fire that was WW2' rather than the intended meaning of something something internets.

Carano was supposed to be lead in Rangers of the New Republic. Not sure if that's still in development with her firing or not.

I wanna see how you get the sun to shine just right through the boom mike of Ra to open the chamber. Lightsabers are cheating.

Except from episode 4 on, it was the show they were looking for. If I weren't insane and compelled to watch everything from certain universes no matter what, I'd have tapped out early second episode. I'd also have never gotten to the good eps of Boba (i.e. the ones with Mando). There seems to be a school of streaming shows (not just Star Wars, some completely unaffiliated) where the old Aristotelian notion that the key to drama is to start slowly and build is taken as gospel. That's perfectly fine for a Greek tragedy where no one has anything better to do or for a two hour movie in the theater where the audience has already paid their money, but with a streaming series it really seems like you ought to do a little something early on to grab the audience's attention, especially since there's plenty of other stuff out there. It doesn't have to be action, just something to make the audience care about the characters and what's going on other than 'oh this is that guy from the newer movie that wasn't as horrible as eps 7-9'. The only thing particularly interesting for me from early Andor was the bit with the supervisor explaining the way the world worked to Syril.

The problem is there are a ton of people who'll never see eps 8-10 because the first 2 were so boring. There are some of us who'll suffer through anything just because it's star wars (hell I watched all of Resistance. Triple speed, but still.) but most people ain't got time for that noise and will drop something if it doesn't pull them in early on. It's too bad the Lucas/Disney people didn't put their foot down, as the first 3 episodes could easily have been 1 (I'd have cut the childhood scenes altogether, but if not they could've easily peppered it through the rest like the Better Call Saul Omaha scenes).

^&()*)% didn't see the post about the tag scene til i'd already deleted. Finale was indeed amazing.

If you feel like watching the whole thing but possibly suffering less, yoobs also has the rifftrax version.

Re bullet point #5 - exhibit a for why I never watch trailers for things I know I'll be watching 😄

Asking myself the implications of

That would explain why my Mondrian was turned right-side-up recently.

Turns out there's already a second new Thrawn trilogy after the one I read. Because of course there is.

This thread got rezzed from March of 2020. I really can't say how much rare salvage is going for these days, nor how long you have to wait to buy it.

That show (from OGDW's spoiler) isn't bad (at my speeds anyway), but I'm a sucker for the yet-another-teen-angst-in-supernatural-setting genre so your ymmv may vary.

First ep was really unnecessary. Practically counter-productive. And slow even at the 3x speed I wound up at. Rest of it was fine at 2.5x. Interesting story fill-in if not terribly entertaining.

I'm fine with him as a character but i really hope they don't let anywhere near the director's chair.

They're pretty good. Along with Tarkin and most of the Plagueis book they're my favorite of the new canon I've read, but I've not read a lot of it. Was audiobooking them as they came out until CoH came back and cut into my mindless puzzle game time 😀. The Thrawns are the only ones I've read since. They aren't as good as I remember the original Thrawn trilogy being but I've also not read that since I was a teen, so no idea about actual quality.

Re Brainy Smurf a lot of this is covered in the newer book trilogy.

One thing i noticed in this last ep is how ridiculous the ISB's pants are for spies. Sure these are the desk spies but could you imagine trying to follow someone quietly without knocking over everything in your path with those things Dedra had on?

The intro to ep 9 was worth the price of admission.

When that Mando ep came out I very nearly reinstalled SWTOR to compare the game area to the show. fortunately the innertubes had some screenshots to save me from myself. Also I've decided Doctor Quadpaw needs a spin-off where we learn the story of how his speculum-free gynecology practice was all the rage on Coruscant in the latter days of the Republic before the Empire's anti-alien policies forced him underground.