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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 70 points 7 months ago (2 children)

please be like Andor please be like Andor please be like Andor

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Creating new characters is just sooo hard in an entire universe. /s

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] DrWorm@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wait, Andor was originally suppose to be five seasons??

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

D:

This is news to me, too.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

No way Andor could maintain that level of quality for 5 seasons. I'm fine with two of (hopefully) the best seasons of television I've ever seen.

[–] ArtificialLink@lemy.lol 44 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] mossy_@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You want another story set in Mos Eisley, got it

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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 5 points 7 months ago

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 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wouldnt mind a cocaine fueled acid trip in a space scifi again.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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@feddit.uk 7 points 7 months ago

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

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Is this edgy true detective start wars?

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More of that would be welcome, TBH

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong I loved Andor.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

And I want And-more.

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That was the wire start wars

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

The force is a flat circle?

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I need a southern gothic style Star Wars bayou murder mystery with a creepy secret cult lurking in the shadows, yes please

I would also just take a short film of Rust Cohle in Jedi robes monologuing about the Force a la Darth Kreia

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

... blood-magic-saber ... nice.

But that implies the existence of other bodily fluids sabres.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, anal discharge saber, wielded by Dy Aree-ah.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

The upgraded version is called the 'santorum-saber'.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Dyrth Arre-ah

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Cum sabre. An elegant weapon for an enlightened age.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 6 points 7 months ago

...they called it 'semen' in the high republic...

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

You know what we’re all thinking…

Snot Saber

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But spinal-tap-saber would be pretty metal.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How could it not be? It goes up to 11!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Sounds like a perfect blade for Grogu

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] HWK_290@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say... The acolyte?

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

I mean that's fair

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't look like a hilt from an actual character from any of the movies.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought it might be Palp’s at first but upon further inspection I think you’re right

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[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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...

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Darkness is eternal and was always there first. Light is an anomaly.

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

I believe the 2nd

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