@RogerRoger Thing is, if they haven't cast him in that brief Mandalorian appearance only to make a fan-service reference to Episode 2, they could've gone with anyone for this one
He's just not good enough for a lead role, IMO - drags the whole thing down a bunch.
Futurama coming back but potentially without John DiMaggio is a real monkey’s paw moment. Although personally it ended in such a fantastic place that I’m not sure it really needs to come back.
The missus and I started Friday Night Lights on a whim tonight as it’s included in Peacock (which in turn is included on SkyQ). We watched it together back when we first met (like 16 years ago) and it’s aged well… we blew through the first 6 eps this evening and can’t wait to carry on over the weekend.
@colonelkilgore It really has aged fantastically hasn’t it? Also binged it when it came on Sky through Peacock, I have very fond memories of watching it after school when I was about 13!
Good thing I just bought another month of Netflix. Out of Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, The Punisher and Defenders, I only have like a couple of episodes left of the last season of Daredevil, and the entire second season of The Punisher. I'll definitely prioritise watching those shows now.
@RogerRoger@Indoorhero good evening both. I have had a very busy two days so I've just watched the finale (you know I'm not lying Rog as I've been straight on here every Wednesday!)
First the finale; it was decent. Had some good moments, felt the action was a bit lackluster at times, too much aiming like stormtroopers in ANH for me! However I loved the standoffs with Cad Bane. I genuinely felt tension the entire time. Seeing Boba use his training was a great full circle moment. I'm just said that it's the end of Cad Bane in live action. . What I will say though is I'm actually intrigued to see where it will go after that ending.
Now overall, I liked the series. Love it I definitely did not. It had pacing issues, the finale kind of felt inconsequential because we had a weird mesh of flashbacks and modern day, where the modern day fell a bit short. They didn't build up the series to the final battle enough, for me.
My favourite episode will probably be the same as most, Episode 5. However, if we discount that as it was basically Mando S3E0, then it has to be Episode 2. Rog, I remember us both being super excited after it. That episode really was a work of art! That's one thing these series have done amazing with, fleshing out parts of the universe we're in. I've seen debate on Temuera Morrison and I felt he did a good job personally, I can see why others wouldn't like him but I would've been bitterly disappointed to see anybody else cast as Boba. It would probably ruin the immersion for me. So in my opinion, they made the right decision!
Hope the post isn't too long! But yep, overall I enjoyed it, thought it was weak in a fair few areas but it was mostly good with some brilliant moments!
I've not been keeping up to date with this thread but I'm curious what others have thought of the Bobba series. I can see some of you really liked it and that's great. I'll skip back through pages and have a look.
Unfortunately it didn't really land with me. I never really connected with why he was so eager to take control of the city or his drawn out time with the Tuskans learning to fight with a stick in a universe of blasters and laser swords. I certainly have no issue with any of the actors I just wasn't in to the story they gave the character. They had to do something else because I think it's possible many fans of the character from the original films were probably expecting something too similar to ground that they have now tread with Mando.
I almost dropped the series with episode 3 when we got the 'mod' characters and their moped speeder bikes. Of all the places for these characters to exist they live on a desolate, desert planet with their shiny speeders and posh suits. I cringed every time they were on screen. It was only because my brother said the next episodes were good I went back to it. I liked those but they were basically Mando episodes put in the middle. Unfortunately the last episode went back to cringe for me too often. Mostly due to heavily contrived action scenes. Little things like why did the spice people even come out for a street shootout when they had 2 robo-tanks coming? And the allies continuously running straight down the main street to get away from them, they deserved to be shot. Mando lying on the floor for Grogu to force save him when he has rocket pack on his pack. Bobba being able to swing a stick from behind his back while also on the floor quicker than Cad could pull the trigger aimed at his head.
I'm probably sounding like a very bitter 'fan' nitpicking every little detail but it's probably just because I never felt invested with the characters as much that these little type of things stood out for me and stopped me from truly enjoying it.
My main concern is the way all the series are seemingly going to be interlinked that any parts that anyone(namely me) doesn't enjoy can drag down the parts you do. Anyway that's just some rambling thoughts on it from me. I will keep open minded about future stuff but if it's not me so be it. I always have my four film sci-fi saga.😉
@nessisonett Well I just didn't feel like writing anything more lol. But yeah, it happens every now and then where a thread is dominated by one subject and I just wanted to remind people that they could always create an own thread for that topic at that point.
@LtSarge Well it's finished now so probably won't get much more on it, at least until the next Star Wars series comes along 😁.
But to aid in the matter, are there any Lee Child fans who have watched the Reacher series on Prime. I thought they did a pretty good job, certainly a lot better adaption than Tom's films. I ended up binging them over a couple of nights as I was always eager to watch the next one. The final episode veered a little bit too far from the book into contrived TV (I think, it was a while since I read it) but hope it does well and they make more. There are plenty of books to go and several episode series allow for much better adaptions than films.
@BearsEatBeets I mean, I want you guys to keep talking, but I feel like it'd be more fitting to do so in a separate thread because there are so many people discussing about Star Wars that it's worth creating a new thread just for that. It makes sense considering we have a thread of Marvel, Star Trek and so on.
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