She definitely is there to attract kids to her character, and then matures as you would imagine the audience of the show matures. It's a great thing. If you look at Luke's actions for the first 20 minutes or so of the movie, he's not so far removed from Ahoska, he whines and complains about everything until tragedy strikes.

I remember some artist, maybe Doug Chiang, having a mockup of Jar Jar for Episode II where he had been altered by the Battle of Naboo and turned into a warrior, seeing the death of all those Gungans and what not sobered him up and turned him into a Chewbacca-esque character, but of course Uncle Toy Seller didn't want that.

I'm pretty sure this is the video I mentioned

Came across this yesterday. Not sure I prefer it per se, but interesting how the tone completely changes.

I still remember vividly Gareth excitedly showing me the first cut of this. No music or VFX, wires still visible, but even in that nascent form it was clear that it was going to straight-up murder audiences. As I recall Peter Jackson was on set that day also losing his shit. https://t.co/IsPSNtLpvf

— Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) February 21, 2022

My brother and I discussed that Vader by that point is just s message boy for Palpatine, going around intimidating people. The occasional force choke. Having a hallway full of guys with guns trying to stop you is a real cut loose and shred them feeling for anakin.

Y'all need to go watch the movie version of all the Fallen Order cut scenes. The payoff has a ton of Vader wrecking shop and it's incredible.

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The choice to let the scene rest on the darkness for 4-5 seconds, and then you hear his breathing machine a couple times before he turns on his light saber....just so well done.

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You definitely get chicken skin watching that.

And soon it'll be Obi-Wan's turn. He will get his hallway scene, just watch.

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I still remember vividly Gareth excitedly showing me the first cut of this. No music or VFX, wires still visible, but even in that nascent form it was clear that it was going to straight-up murder audiences. As I recall Peter Jackson was on set that day also losing his shit. https://t.co/IsPSNtLpvf

— Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) February 21, 2022

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Man, if it was me at the 0:16 mark; I'd have been "G&$ D@$&% , we told Kevin to fix this 4 days ago!!!"

Give me an Obi Wan trailer so I can move on with my life

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I still remember vividly Gareth excitedly showing me the first cut of this. No music or VFX, wires still visible, but even in that nascent form it was clear that it was going to straight-up murder audiences. As I recall Peter Jackson was on set that day also losing his shit. https://t.co/IsPSNtLpvf

— Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) February 21, 2022

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Man, if it was me at the 0:16 mark; I'd have been "G&$ D@$&% , we told Kevin to fix this 4 days ago!!!"

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There's a theory that Vader was force holding that door so it wouldn't open.

An interview with Ian McDiarmid on Star Wars News Net has some speculating that The Emperor might appear in Obi-Wan as well.

Moving towards Mando 3.0, I'd like to hear anyone's thoughts or theories on how it all eventually shakes out.

I have a lot of curiosity about the fate of Mandalore - is it completely barren or are their survivors living there now?

How many Mandalorians are there total in the galaxy? How many have armor enough to be in a fight?

How many are non-human and will we see them? They seemed to have no qualms about Grogu being a foundling - I'd love to see some alien Mandalorians.

Even with the Dark Saber, Mando doesn't seem like much of a leader. Not knocking him, but he's more of a 'get the job done" kind of guy. They wouldn't have brought in live-action Katee Sackhoff without having a bigger plan for her, I would assume. She clearly wants to be Mandalore, but what does being Mandalore even mean? Seems like they could go live anywhere and have whatever society they want with the Empire gone.

Does Fett's little side note at the end of the last episode mean he would make a good Mandalore? That happens in one of the legends arcs. He seemed like a giant moron when it came to politics in the show.

Am I ever going to get even one damn reference to Clan Ordo?


Also, as we get closer to the Ahsoka series, the fact that Hayden is in it means assuredly at least a few flashbacks. Would you rather her show be a mix of new and old like BOBF (but better), or just one continuous adventure with the occasional flashback? Or will she try to turn Anakin back to the light pre-ANH and that be part of the show?

Also curious about James Earl Jones involvement in the TV stuff. He was in Coming to America 2 last year at age 90. He turned 91 last month. Did they have him record stuff or are they going to synth him like they did LUke?

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I still remember vividly Gareth excitedly showing me the first cut of this. No music or VFX, wires still visible, but even in that nascent form it was clear that it was going to straight-up murder audiences. As I recall Peter Jackson was on set that day also losing his shit. https://t.co/IsPSNtLpvf

— Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) February 21, 2022

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Man, if it was me at the 0:16 mark; I'd have been "G&$ D@$&% , we told Kevin to fix this 4 days ago!!!"

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There's a theory that Vader was force holding that door so it wouldn't open.

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Possible but why wouldn't he force close it?

Valid point, but he at least opened it when he needed to.

That's awesome.

Here's a preview of it from a fairly well known Disney World youtuber.

George Lucas clone at the 17 minute mark!

When they jump to hyperspace just makes me think of the "they've gone to plaid" scene from Spaceballs.

I've heard all the review delays and holds should've ended this morning so we should be getting information on it now.

And that is an awesome as hell gift!!

I like the fact that the cast members aren't wearing masks. We're set to hit up Disneyland in Anaheim in April and I'm hoping that the cast members aren't masked up there.

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If I paid $10000 for an immersive Star Wars experience and Luke Skywalker was wesring a ****ing surgical mask I would lose my *****

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Well one thing I have been looking forward to is the hilarious irony of Thor wearing a mask.

Just announced today for LA County...

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A milestone nearly two years in the making has arrived in Los Angeles County.

California's most populous county relaxed its public health order on Friday to allow unmasking indoors at restaurants, bars and other businesses for people who show proof of vaccination. Employers also can permit their workers to remove their masks if they are vaccinated.

The revised rules went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Friday, hours before the CDC released its update on make guidelines.

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Anaheim is in Orange County, which is more conservative than LA County, so I can't see OC County holding onto to any kind of mask mandates much longer, if they haven't dropped them already. Point being, if masks are still being required at Disneyland for some ridiculous reason, it'll be a Disney thing, not a California thing (which, as a state, dropped mask mandates earlier this month).

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Just announced today for LA County...

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A milestone nearly two years in the making has arrived in Los Angeles County.

California's most populous county relaxed its public health order on Friday to allow unmasking indoors at restaurants, bars and other businesses for people who show proof of vaccination. Employers also can permit their workers to remove their masks if they are vaccinated.

The revised rules went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Friday, hours before the CDC released its update on make guidelines.

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Anaheim is in Orange County, which is more conservative than LA County, so I can't see OC County holding onto to any kind of mask mandates much longer, if they haven't dropped them already. Point being, if masks are still being required at Disneyland for some ridiculous reason, it'll be a Disney thing, not a California thing (which, as a state, dropped mask mandates earlier this month).

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Ya Disneyland dropped it's mask policy last week but I wasn't sure if Disney would keep it in place for employees or not.