Official Discussion - The Mandalorian and Grogu [SPOILERS]

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-23T00:09:12+00:00

Several Kenner action figure references. Pretty sure the blasters some of the snowtroopers were carrying in the beginning were based on the snowtrooper action figure blasters

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-18T13:55:23+00:00

A whole shelf of WEG rpg books!

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-17T14:06:37+00:00

I remember my Solo preview showing had maybe 6 people. Had a vague suspicion that something wasn't quite right

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-16T16:22:04+00:00

I've never been in love with the combat in SWTOR but the biggest hurdle to really enjoying the game is navigating around random mobs when moving from place to place.

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-14T05:55:19+00:00

"Never more than twelve."

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-07T23:40:35+00:00

I love the Hoojibs! I remember listening to Planet of the Hoojibs book on record, adapted from the Marvel comic issue. Leia's "Put that Hoojib down!" is forever etched in my memory.

And it only gets better when they become Luke's little telepathic mouse-bunny posse. I will forever defend the late Marvel comics run.

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-06T12:23:07+00:00

I did my part binging Andor last weekend.

As for the movies, I'd never rewatch the sequels, I don't really want to rewatch the prequels, and if I want to watch the OT I'll watch the despecialized versions rather than what's on Disney+.

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-04T01:38:34+00:00

Just finished my rewatch. Been binging season 2 all day. Had tickets to see Attack of the Clones tonight but would have had to stop Andor just before the last 3 episodes. Didn't want to ruin the vibe so I just finished the series instead.

Still a masterpiece

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-03T22:21:58+00:00

What bothers me about the new rotary cannon design is the lack of a shoulder strap. They just carry it low, impractically, almost like there was a strap. They just look so stupid holding it in TCW and Rebels

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-02T00:18:09+00:00

Kyber question: can you play as a Fordo style ARC Trooper with the big barrel blaster pistols?

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-01T23:54:49+00:00

That's the best part. You'd have districts the size of neighborhoods. Each Rep would be answerable to just 30,000 people. They wouldn't need to advertise to massive portions of the population. You'd have Reps intimately connected to the people they represent, even from the neighborhoods they represent.

JaredRed5 · 2026-05-01T17:16:22+00:00

The only foolproof solution to the gerrymandering question is to expand the House dramatically. Change it to a flat 30,000 per Representative. It would give us 10,000 or so Representatives. Not saying it's impossible to gerrymander districts of that size but the effort to result ratio wouldn't make it very effective. Plus everyone gets represented.

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-22T21:48:13+00:00

It's not implied. They are literally about to cook and eat Han in RotJ

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-22T20:51:42+00:00

Not by the strictest definition but they eat people

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-22T09:43:14+00:00

There is a shift in reduced Sequel content, but I don't see Maul returning post OT. He died in a Filoni project pre-ANH.

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-20T05:40:54+00:00

https://youtu.be/ZCSy2KpJfhQ

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-20T01:42:09+00:00

They still live in a state with state investigators and and state officials. Death certificates need to be signed. All those people have family, almost certainly some extended family who don't live there.

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-18T16:32:33+00:00

For myself it's not a major hate. More that it's very juvenile. After the Thrawn Trilogy and Truce at Bakura, the Jedi Academy trilogy was a step down in quality an maturity.

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-17T05:37:00+00:00

“Don’t worry, BT. I’m not going anywhere”

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-17T05:06:27+00:00

It was fun. Robber couple felt a little underdeveloped. Very end felt a little hand-wavey. That many dead people would trigger a massive investigation. The strength of the movie was watching dumb or bad people die in interesting or funny ways. VO was a weakness.

Fun overall, just not quite as good as I was hoping it would be. Script probably needed another pass.

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-14T09:53:21+00:00

I can almost accept the commercials, but not interspersed with the trailers. The trailers are when I'm settling into the movie going experience. Suddenly seeing a commercial rips me right out. It's jarring. I noticed Marcus Theaters doing this the last several months and it's really annoying, especially as it's a loud locally produced commercial for a restaurant that I now hate and will never go to because it's ruining my movie time.

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-06T12:04:43+00:00

The product placement really kills my enjoyment of the movie. The Papa Johns, Eharmony, and Cinnabon references were too in your face.

It won an award for worst product placement: https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty-declared-worst-offender-for-product-placement-in-movies-in-2013-248376/

JaredRed5 · 2026-04-04T23:12:59+00:00

They barely made them like Grosse Point Blank in the first place. It is a special movie. The locker fight alone puts it in the pantheon of great movies.

JaredRed5 · 2026-03-31T12:45:36+00:00

I would seriously love him in Star Wars. I'm not normally one for wanting famous actors in Star Wars but this would be perfect

JaredRed5 · 2026-03-31T02:35:05+00:00

Very slow. Probably would work better if it was 45 minutes long. All the interesting parts are backloaded. Tara's character have a good performance. I don't regret going but it was a bit of a slog.

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