Mr. Vee

If it helps, alternate reality you probably bit any of your old colleagues you didn't care for.

I almost dropped the series when i saw the runtime of ep 3. glad i didn't, as it was a strong ep.

I expect them to fluff until the last 2 episodes. Resistance was painful. I think they thought they could get away with mostly fluff then some actual plot movement toward the end of the season. That's not going to work in the sequel movie era setting. I'm glad it failed though, as a success might've hampered their mad dash to distance themselves from the sequel fever dreams.

Last season was mostly filler as well. I really don't think there's all that much meat on this particular bone.

So i guess

Wow even by cartoon standards that was a ridiculously pointless filler episode. Unless they think people wanted to see a palette swapped version of phantom menace? Maybe later in the season they can reskin the Chocobo races from Canto Bight.

It was good, though I haven't played the game so I have nothing to compare it to (my console gaming days are done). First ep is 80 minutes but felt well shorter than any random 50 minute Doom Patrol or even a 30 minute Moon Knight.

I was hoping for Jaime as I can't stand Kord due to the dad joke JLA years. Sounds like we'll get Jaime + dad jokes, because of course we will.

That's all well and good in the 60s when there were 3 channels. T'ain't nobody (else) gots time for that nowsadays.

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.