*****Official THE MANDALORIAN Season 2 Thread*****

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israeliag said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

Pedro is probably the coolest guy associated with Star Wars in the Disney era.





If Pedros political views bother you, I've got some news for you about Donald.


I am able to separate politics for other areas of life. I can enjoy music, art, sports, etc without agreeing with a particular person.
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I was talking about the sudden surge of first-time visitors to Mando-ville on Planet TexAgs.
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You can post in this thread regularly and still think Gina got railroaded.
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Decay said:

You can post in this thread regularly and still think Gina got railroaded.
Apparently I'm being too vague.

I am referring to people who never post about Mando, then have mysteriously appeared who to bang their political pots with posts that have nothing to do with anything about the show or any of its participants.

If you enjoy Mando and want to discuss the Carano situation, more power to you. Whatever your opinion is, I 100% support your right to have it and discuss it.

I just don't like the lemmings-over-a-cliff swarm that appears from F16 when something gets churned up on another board.
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Fat Bib Fortuna said:

I was talking about the sudden surge of first-time visitors to Mando-ville on Planet TexAgs.
I think if STAR WARS doesn't pull the hypocrisy, then they don't show up.
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I recognize most of the usernames as previous F/13 posters. There are a couple I'm unfamiliar with but not going to act like I keep a spreadsheet of approved F/13 commenters.
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fig96 said:

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I don't agree with firing her, but she also knew what would likely happen by continuing to do it.
She isn't being arrested, and she can still work as an actress. She just got fired because she explicitly did something her employer did not want her to do, that in their minds can harm their brand.

I'm not even saying you can't be upset about it, or I didn't intend to be if it came across that way.

I don't really understand people's obsession with caring what celebrities politics are in the first place. Especially actors, you are literally watching them pretend to be other people. Who cares who they are privately.

The picture Pedro posted is the same kind of **** you see other morons tweeting and thinking they are being extremely clever. I'm still going to enjoy the Mandalorian, I don't watch it to inform my view of the world. If Disney thought that would harm their brand, he would be fired too (would be harder since he is the main character, but that's just another thing that factors into it)
I think a few other factors play in here as well.

Pedro has posted some inflammatory things, but he's also targeting a group that routinely says things just as awful about Hollywood. He's also calling out a belief system or actions, whereas Carano literally asked what the difference was between persecuting Jews and Conservatives.

We also all know that Hollywood skews left and happens to be largely funded by the ethnic group she posted at best things in very poor taste about. Not a good idea.

When an entire industry is very aware of diversity and inclusion (whatever your opinion of that might be) you can't go around comparing political beliefs to ethnic cleansing (even if it wasn't a direct comparison) when you've already got a history of unpopular opinions like Carano did.

I don't necessarily think she should've been fired, but I understand why she was.
I'm not sure that repeatedly calling conservatives Nazis should be considered "some inflammatory things" but obviously a lot of people are perfectly fine with "punching up" regardless of how stupid that concept is.
But on the flip side, do we want to review what lot of conservatives routinely say about actors and Hollywood?

I'm also not super familiar with what Pascal has said, though the one post I've seen with the confederate and nazi flags isn't directly calling anyone anything except "losers" (though he's certainly connecting them).

Carano literally said "how is this different" when comparing the treatment of people because of ethnicity vs political beliefs, two things which are in fact very different. .


Pedro's tweet compared people put in cages in the 40's due to their ethnicity to people put in cages for breaking the law (illegal immigrants).
Sooo.....why was his tweet okay?
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Also if Disney decides to fire someone based on Twitter hashtags I don't have much sympathy. Criticizing them for that decision is not inappropriate.
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Making politically charged comments that her employers determined to be a threat to the popularity of their product?

It's not like she was good enough or popular enough to begin with, and she decides to cash that check? Meryl Streep could have gotten away with it, but her?

She's a dumb ass who absolutely deserved to be fired.

This is not the politics board. Let's get back to the main reason of this thread- staff

ETA - That's right, staff. It's Entertainment, not Politics. If only Gina Carano was smart enough to have understood this fact, she wouldn't have opened her gob and lost her job.
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It's not like she was good enough or popular enough to begin with
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Mr. White said:

Fat Bib Fortuna said:

I was talking about the sudden surge of first-time visitors to Mando-ville on Planet TexAgs.
I think if STAR WARS doesn't pull the hypocrisy, then they don't show up.
no one gives a ****
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Farmer1906 said:

israeliag said:

Farmer1906 said:

Brian Earl Spilner said:

Pedro is probably the coolest guy associated with Star Wars in the Disney era.





If Pedros political views bother you, I've got some news for you about Donald.


I am able to separate politics for other areas of life. I can enjoy music, art, sports, etc without agreeing with a particular person.
Exactly. What a person thinks or does (to an extent) on their own time doesn't affect how I feel about their art.
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Ghost91 said:

fig96 said:

Fenrir said:

fig96 said:

PatAg said:

I don't agree with firing her, but she also knew what would likely happen by continuing to do it.
She isn't being arrested, and she can still work as an actress. She just got fired because she explicitly did something her employer did not want her to do, that in their minds can harm their brand.

I'm not even saying you can't be upset about it, or I didn't intend to be if it came across that way.

I don't really understand people's obsession with caring what celebrities politics are in the first place. Especially actors, you are literally watching them pretend to be other people. Who cares who they are privately.

The picture Pedro posted is the same kind of **** you see other morons tweeting and thinking they are being extremely clever. I'm still going to enjoy the Mandalorian, I don't watch it to inform my view of the world. If Disney thought that would harm their brand, he would be fired too (would be harder since he is the main character, but that's just another thing that factors into it)
I think a few other factors play in here as well.

Pedro has posted some inflammatory things, but he's also targeting a group that routinely says things just as awful about Hollywood. He's also calling out a belief system or actions, whereas Carano literally asked what the difference was between persecuting Jews and Conservatives.

We also all know that Hollywood skews left and happens to be largely funded by the ethnic group she posted at best things in very poor taste about. Not a good idea.

When an entire industry is very aware of diversity and inclusion (whatever your opinion of that might be) you can't go around comparing political beliefs to ethnic cleansing (even if it wasn't a direct comparison) when you've already got a history of unpopular opinions like Carano did.

I don't necessarily think she should've been fired, but I understand why she was.
I'm not sure that repeatedly calling conservatives Nazis should be considered "some inflammatory things" but obviously a lot of people are perfectly fine with "punching up" regardless of how stupid that concept is.
But on the flip side, do we want to review what lot of conservatives routinely say about actors and Hollywood?

I'm also not super familiar with what Pascal has said, though the one post I've seen with the confederate and nazi flags isn't directly calling anyone anything except "losers" (though he's certainly connecting them).

Carano literally said "how is this different" when comparing the treatment of people because of ethnicity vs political beliefs, two things which are in fact very different. .

Pedro's tweet compared people put in cages in the 40's due to their ethnicity to people put in cages for breaking the law (illegal immigrants).
Sooo.....why was his tweet okay?
Actually, both are pictures of children separated from their parents and put in cages because of where they were from. He also didn't say "these are the same thing" or make any statement about it, he simply shared a photo showing a striking similarity. And even if he had, I'd like to think that we would all go "wow, we probably shouldn't separate kids from their parents and put them in cages" no matter what your stance on immigration might be.

Carano didn't see a difference between hating Jews for being Jews and hating conservatives for their political beliefs.

And, again, I don't really think she should have been fired, but I understand why she was.
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Carano didn't see a difference between hating Jews for being Jews and hating conservatives for their political beliefs
She made a comparison. You're making a reach to discredit her. Examine your motives.
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Decay said:

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Carano didn't see a difference between hating Jews for being Jews and hating conservatives for their political beliefs
She made a comparison. You're making a reach to discredit her. Examine your motives.
I was actually just trying to phrase it slightly differently because I've said the exact same thing 4 times now

Her statement was that government made people hate Jews for being Jews, then asked how that was different than hating someone for their political views. If you want to quibble about that being a comparison rather than her not seeing the difference we're getting into semantics that don't have any real relevance to the comment at hand for me.

I have already said, repeatedly, that I really don't think she should have been fired.
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Claude! said:

So (desperately trying to change the subject) what's the coolest weapon in the show (vehicles and Force powers excluded)? Mando's long gun? The Darksaber?

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Definitely the best sound in SW.
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Friends, TexAg'ians, Countrymen... lend me your ears (how yu doin' Ahsoka...)

We must stop this pettiness. This board has become burdened by corruption and bickering.
The powers that be have led us down a path of mistrust and hate.
Therefore, I move for a vote of No Confidence in the current leaders of this board. I promise, if you elect me to Supreme Chancellor, I will restore order, I will open the trade routes, I will fix the bevel problem, and stop this senseless bickering.

My first order as Chancellor will be the 'Friday Rule', where the only allowable posts are: (1) pictures of the Twi'lek dancer or Carrie Fisher from ROTJ (2) video (with sound) of the sonic charger being set off (3) montages of Chewbacca growling.

If you elect me, I promise to restore the powers back to an elected democracy within 5 days.

Sincerely,
Sheev Exitone


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I think Gina was making a comparison of how the government ( in reality it is the party) has picked out an aspect of something and is trying to propaganda it way into influencing the non party people to believe as they do AND to take action. Plenty of democrats have called for "dealing" with Trump supporters but is it bleeding over to conservatives that just don't have the same liberal views. This is no different than how things started with "hating" jews. Remember most German Jewish just left. The " final solution " was to polish and other jews in occupied territory years later after the average German had no idea, or thought they didnt.
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Give it a rest
Brian Earl Spilner
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Vote now!
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Doing my part to flush the last 200 posts:

Is there a canonical New Republic military? The presence of the X wing fighters in S2 seems to suggest there's some kind of peacekeeping force.

And if they did have a military, why didn't they go toe to toe with the First Order in the sequels?
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When the first order uses the Death Star / Planet 3.0 thing they destroyed the New Republic fleet.
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Zobel said:

When the first order uses the Death Star / Planet 3.0 thing they destroyed the New Republic fleet.


What he said...also the New-EU discussed briefly that the New Republic was promoting appeasement with the First Order and that is what caused Leia and others to form the resistance.
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Dekker_Lentz said:

Zobel said:

When the first order uses the Death Star / Planet 3.0 thing they destroyed the New Republic fleet.


What he said...also the New-EU discussed briefly that the New Republic was promoting appeasement with the First Order and that is what caused Leia and others to form the resistance.
Ah okay. Thank you both.

I also probably missed this, but did Starkiller base fire across the galaxy? As in from system A to system B? Or was it a navigable planet/base that jumped into the Republic system, glassed their planets & fleet, and jumped back out.
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Still a major failing of the sequels that they put no effort into explaining the New Republic, First Order, or the resistance.
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

Definitely the best sound in SW.


*Jennifer Lawrence sarcasm gif*

We DO need a SW sounds tournament. EVERY sound effect is perfect.
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1. Seismic charge
2. Lightsaber
3. TIE fighter
4. Vader breathing
5. Blaster
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Chewie arf
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Tusken Raider yell
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

1. Seismic charge
2. Lightsaber
3. TIE fighter
4. Vader breathing
5. Blaster
Millennium Falcon engines
X-Wing laser blasts
Chewbacca growling and making other sounds
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Yub Nub Bongos
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Millennium Falcon hyperspace fail sound
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Krayt dragon call
 
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