Online Series: Star Wars: The Mandalorian

[NyQuil]

Seriously. For a guy that was in the OT for all of about 4 seconds he was one of my favorite Star Wars toys as a kid.

My brother had quite the collection.

I can still remember all of their names despite the fact that most of them do nothing else.

Dengar, Zuckuss, Bossk, IG-88

Sometimes you don’t need exposition to like something.

 

[bleedblue1223]

Nien Nunb and Ackbar on the good guy side too. The OT had a way of creating a cult following for mostly minor characters.

 

[LarKing]

My brother had quite the collection.

I can still remember all of their names despite the fact that most of them do nothing else.

Dengar, Zuckuss, Bossk, IG-88

Sometimes you don’t need exposition to like something.

I know you said you don't need exposition haha but there was a book about most of these bounty hunters. I read it like a decade ago so I can't remember the name now but I bet you and others would really like it if you want some more on them. I remember the IG-88 story was especially good.

 

[NyQuil]

I know you said you don't need exposition haha but there was a book about most of these bounty hunters. I read it like a decade ago so I can't remember the name now but I bet you and others would really like it if you want some more on them. I remember the IG-88 story was especially good.

Yeah, they filled it all in, but at the time of the films, they just looked cool.

 

[MadDevil]

I know you said you don't need exposition haha but there was a book about most of these bounty hunters. I read it like a decade ago so I can't remember the name now but I bet you and others would really like it if you want some more on them. I remember the IG-88 story was especially good.

Didn't Dengar fall in love with a dancer and retire from bountyhunting in that book?

 

[LarKing]

Didn't Dengar fall in love with a dancer and retire from bountyhunting in that book?

I actually didn’t read that one but you might be right.

 

[Osprey]

I never really considered how briefly he was in the films. I'm pretty sure I had two or three Bossk action figures growing up.

Was that his name, Bossk? I'd forgotten. I wonder if the character was actually given a name in the movie or if the toy company had to ask Lucasfilm for a name just to market the action figure.

Speaking of toys, I had a few Ewok action figures, but, oddly, none of them were Wicket. They were characters that I'm not sure were even in RotJ. One came with a trebuchet that I'm pretty sure wasn't in the movie, either. Maybe it was in the Ewok TV movies; I don't remember. It's funny how some of the 80s Star Wars merchandising had little to nothing to do with the movies, but they were cool and you could imagine that they were in them.

Midichlorians: The Sequel

Star Wars: The Midichlorian, the streaming series that we would've gotten if George Lucas still owned the franchise.

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

My brother had quite the collection.

I can still remember all of their names despite the fact that most of them do nothing else.

Dengar, Zuckuss, Bossk, IG-88

Sometimes you don’t need exposition to like something.

How dare you forget 4-lom

 

[MadDevil]

Tales of the Bounty Hunters was the book I was thinking of. I had forgotten that in that book IG-88 took over the second Death Star's main computer and was going to launch a droid revolution until the Rebels blew it up.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Anyone know when the episode will be available? Will it be right at 12:01am?

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

Anyone know when the episode will be available? Will it be right at 12:01am?

I’m assuming it’ll be up at the same time as the Disney+ app goes up, which looks like 6AM Eastern/3AM Pacific based on their countdown clock.

 

[johnjm22]

Just watched the Mandalorian clip on MNF.

I don't have strong feelings on it. It was fine. It looks cool. I'm definitely going to be watching this show.

Looks like a straight up space Western that's for sure.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Just watched the Mandalorian clip on MNF.

I don't have strong feelings on it. It was fine. It looks cool. I'm definitely going to be watching this show.

Looks like a straight up space Western that's for sure.

I can't wait. I loved Star Wars growing up and really only dove into the "Tales of" series. I'm assuming this show'll take inspiration from those.

And if not, oh well. I'm just happy to have extra Star Wars.

 

[johnjm22]

I can't wait. I loved Star Wars growing up and really only dove into the "Tales of" series. I'm assuming this show'll take inspiration from those.

And if not, oh well. I'm just happy to have extra Star Wars.

I'm excited for it too. It's just the clip didn't really impact my feelings on it at all. I expected the clip to be cool and it was.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I'm excited for it too. It's just the clip didn't really impact my feelings on it at all. I expected the clip to be cool and it was.

I was actually underwhelmed by that clip:

"Oh cool... a bar fight because someone disrespected another."

But I'll certainly be waking up early tomorrow to watch it.

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

I was actually underwhelmed by that clip:

"Oh cool... a bar fight because someone disrespected another."

But I'll certainly be waking up early tomorrow to watch it.

They usually just give extended clips of what’s already been shown in trailers, which they did here. Shows the tone of the show, which is great.

Can’t wait!!

 

[Randy Butternubs]

They usually just give extended clips of what’s already been shown in trailers, which they did here. Shows the tone of the show, which is great.

Can’t wait!!

Same!

There's also not much "canon" story telling of what happened after Return of the Jedi. There's the battle of Jakku, but that's mostly it.

 

[HanSolo]

Anyone know when the episode will be available? Will it be right at 12:01am?

I just locked in my first month of D+ and the timer countdown says it will be available in 6 hours...

 

[The Hound]

I’m so excited for this.

 

[Power Man]

Currently watch It

it’s pretttyyyy good

 

[David71]

waiting for the app to drop see if theres alot of classic disney and new shows to watch.

 

[aleshemsky83]

it looks like a good deal in canada, $90 for 12 months. They're obviously trying to leech Netflix subscribers, but the price is so low I think people will stay subscribed to Netflix and they'll have to hope that when they inevitably raise the price in the next few years, their package will be good enough to take netflixs english speaking market.

Theres zero chance that they can leech any significant portion of netflixs international market though, their non-english language content has just stacked up way too high.

 

[HanSolo]

It's out for those still up that want to watch. I thought it was a pretty great start.

The Mando's first bounty was a little annoying. Not the greatest actor. Some sets had a cheap look while others looked fantastic. That's really my only complaint from the start.

The action was fantastic, a bit more humor than I was expecting off the top.

 

[Quack Shot]

Great episode I thought! Loved it!

Also, for the conversation earlier, I know all the bounty hunters and split second characters from all the movies from a Tabletop game called X-Wing Miniatures that I play a ton of. My profile pic is actually a Falcon model from the game that I got custom painted.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

It's pretty ridiculous that someone on a website I go to predicted what/who the first bounty would be.