The Porkchop Express said:
veryfuller said:
I guess I don't understand the complaint. The MCU has been doing that with movies and TV now, and no one is complaining. I could also see it being annoying to include characters from another show just to have them there but not have the story they are involved them impact them in any meaningful way so they can essentially return to their show as if nothing happened. If you are going to include them, it better matter, right?
Programmer's note - My rant is not directed at you TC
Thanks for being the voice of reason. This is one of the wussiest lines of complaining I've ever seen. It's not like the Book of Boba Fett was some obscure program that aired only in a foreign language at 4 a.m. 9 years ago and has 70 episodes.
The difficult task of catching up if you somehow never heard of the show and never heard that its second half included appearances by Mando, Grogu, Luke and Ahsoka would take a person 2 hours and 36 minutes to watch. That's it. You could do that in one evening. You could watch the show for 30 minutes a day while on your lunch break and be caught up in 5 days.
The real issue here is that people want to whine about stuff. And when some person who has a Twitter following realizes, hey I didn't know Grogu was on BOBF, instead of simply turning the show on and watching the episodes, they have to whine about it on the Internet. Because that's so much easier and more satisfying than the incredible toll of pressing a button to catch up on the show.
Favreau's given us some of the greatest Star Wars ever and the poor guy's having to answer the same question over and over about a bunch of self-entitled complainers who would rather rattle their sabers on social media than STFU and watch a few episodes.
If missed the BOBF and you're struggling so hard to understand what in the world happened, here you go.
1) Mando gets kicked out of the Mandalorians for taking his helmet off. He survives a duel with Paz Visla for possession of the Darksaber.
2) He gets a new ship - a souped-up N1 starfighter from TPM
3) He tries to visit Grogu at Luke's Jedi Academy but is dissuaded by Ahsoka.
4) Luke trains Grogu but worries he's not really wanting to be a Jedi. He lets Grogu choose a gift, Yoda's lightsaber or a Beskar shirt that the Armorer made for him.
5) Grogu chooses the armor, reunites with Mando on Tatooine. They both help Boba Fett win a battle with another crime syndicate.
Wow! YOU DID IT! YOU CAUGHT UP! AMAZING! Please, now run to social media and catch everyone up on all your complaints about the series so we can know how important your opinion is!
Germain - the guy who wrote that article/tweet - is one of the biggest Star Wars fans you'll ever meet (maybe even a bigger fan than you), but more importantly he's also one of the nicest, most down-to-earth movie journalists in the business. I've met him, and followed him for well over a decade now. He's a really good dude, who almost always tries to be positive, never rips anything apart, and is the last guy you'll find complaining for the sake of complaining.
Yet anytime anyone doesn't like the thing you like, or doesn't want to sit around the campfire, hold hands, and sing Kumbaya in praises of whatever you're a fan of, you have this habit of pegging them as someone who's either being irrational, or just wants to puff their chest and b*tch about it on the internet. For whatever reason, you never consider the third option, which is that when something people love just as much as you doesn't live up to its potential, it's cathartic to sometimes constructively criticize, and do so in communal fashion on the internet. It's not an ego thing, it's not "whining," and it's not them thinking their opinion is more important than anyone else's. You've decided that your love of Star Wars means enjoying every last thing they feed you, and never complaining about any of it. And that's fine! But it's really, really weird how you paint people who don't do the same; like they're these selfish, egotistical gremlins who are trying to steal your joy or something, when that often couldn't be further from the truth.
As for this issue, specifically, again, I now know *multiple* people who watched Mando but didn't watch BOBF. Others in this thread have mentioned knowing additional people who fit this category. It's a very real thing, and asking viewers of your show to do homework for the upcoming season is objectively stupid. Yes, people can easily catch up, but the entire point is that
they shouldn't have to. Good shows don't require that of their viewers. And it's ok to complain about it on a public message board, or Twitter, or wherever. You don't have to defend EVERY decision these guys make in order to like what you like, and in the process paint those in a negative light who don't.
