#Walking Droids

[samsdisneydiary]

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Droid Playtest

When Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge first opened in 2019, it kicked off a new era of immersive entertainment and expanded the boundaries of what theme parks can achieve. The combination of cutting-edge special effects, pioneering attraction technology and classic Disney storytelling makes for a captivating guest experience featuring an unforgettable journey across the galaxy. Constantly evolving, Star…

[sticks-and-souls]

I genuinely do not understand the dismissal of the Plaizir-15 storyline as “bad writing” when every single aspect of it was intentional absurdity designed to be comedy for us because we know we’re watching star wars.

If the too-happy jingle as bo katan lost control of her ship didn’t make you feel like you were entering a weird star wars dystopia, then Dark™ C-3PO and R2-D2 greeting them should have made you realize that it was deliberate. I commented to my partner that the Star Trek vibe was making it feel so weird well before we got to Christopher Lloyd wearing a fucking Star Trek uniform.

The fact that every single human character was an outrageous cameo was on purpose—probably to take their behavior from being interpreted as cheesy (not ideal), and into the territory of being absurdist. On top of being silly characters, (which we experience through Bo Katan’s spot-on “is this really happening”performance), there’s an extra joke for us that our main characters aren’t in on, which is that it’s freaking Jack Black and Lizzo. The director is winking at us. This is absurd!

Same thing when grogu got “knighted”. A silly, cute moment, that we once again experience through Bo’s barely held in smile. But the background music was the same music as the season 2 finale when he went to be a Jedi knight with Luke Skywalker. That was an extra joke just for us! It was hilarious!

Because our main characters experienced the ridiculousness of what was happening to them in a way that was true to their characters and there was a plausible plot reason for them to go along with it (i.e., complete quest in order to go see the other mandalorians), then it was still reasonable to transition back to the main season arc by the end of the episode.

I guess my point is that, just because it may not have been your brand of humor or you didn’t catch some of them, doesn’t make it bad storytelling or sloppy writing. It was deliberate and we still got to see our main characters work as a team in ways we haven’t seen before in a fun romp of an episode.

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I love gonk droids so much

[inonibird]

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[robotsandramblings]

in The Bad Batch, we had Bracca in S1, this week was a treasure hunt with a lot of Zeffo-like references, and we know we’re going to Kashyyyk this season too.

these are all exactly the places you’d find one (1) Cal Kestis

so i say fuck it, let’s just have him in the background. every time. in any and all Jedi Fallen Order -esque locations. he never left Bracca? he did now. does it make sense with the timeline? who cares. Cal is everywhere, everywhere is Cal. a blurry Bigfoot-like figure in the background, his only distinguishable  feature is poncho.

[loveoaths]

i think about the droid/automaton temple guardians a lot. like--

they aren't alive, but they aren't not alive, either. they have varying degrees of sentience. they remember the jedi, some of them outlive the purge, knowing the jedi are gone save for whatever knowledge they've squirreled away in their memory banks.

cator, the droid guarding the jedi temple archives with jocasta nu, had a personality. he was serious about protecting and sheltering the jedi's knowledge and their history, so dedicated that he stood up to darth vader in an attempt to keep the list of force-sensitive children safe. sure, it was in his protocol to guard the archives, but he didn't have to care, or love it, or want to do this; we see many droids across star wars who do not give a single shit about their programmed duties, while still executing them.

but cator works hard, diligently and carefully, because cator loved his work, and he loved the jedi.

T0-B1 loved his jedi master so much! and his master loved him so much that he powered T0-B1 with the kyber crystal from his lightsaber! of course jedi wants to be a jedi. of course he wants to fight and protect and preserve life, not because he was programmed for it, because he wasn't, but because he wants to honor the man who gave his life to save him -- him, a "meaningless droid"!

then there are the tomb guardians on zeffo.

thousands upon thousands of years they've stood guard over the secrets of their creators, a species so powerful and gifted with the force that they were their own undoing. do the guardians know they're guarding tombs, or do they believe their masters will return some day from the other side of the veil, and the guardians will be there, waiting, stalwart sentinels ready to welcome them home? if they do know, did they mourn? could they have walked away from their posts but instead chose to stay, to keep the zeffo graves from being desecrated, because they'd rather the world forget their masters than allow them to suffer indignity?

did the guardians love the zeffo? surely they must have, without question.

the real question is: did the zeffo who whispered metal ore from the stone and gave them shape, gave them sentience, gave them purpose, love them back? they must have, in the way we all love the work of our hands.

but perhaps the most pressing question is:

long after their circuitry should have degraded, their power cores cracked and dripped empty, their shiny metal carapaces rusted off like so much disease -- what could it be that keeps these machines moving but their love for those who no longer exist anywhere but their memory?

how could you not love and be loved by something that made you, purposefully, in its image?????????

[jewishcissiekj]

can't take the Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire book too seriously because of course as Vi is arriving she has to go through all the famous locations on Batuu and describe the drinks at Oga's Cantina in excruciating detail and it feels like she has a checklist of things to go through and say because SHE DOES. BECAUSE THIS BOOK IS AN AD. FOR GALAXY'S EDGE. IT HAS TO DESCRIBE EVERYTHING THERE. BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO SELL A PRODUCT.

[catfur-and-greenscales]

Gifs that feel 10/???

[communistkenobi]

I have to say. seeing the way imperial authority and prisons are depicted in andor and then watching other live action star wars shows is so jarring

[zebracakesarecopingmechanisms]

6 year old me was actually so right for fixating so intensely on C-3PO. One decade later and he’s still a skrungly pathetic little beast of man.

debilitating anxiety and bad knees? AND he’s gay?? just like me fr

[inthecityofgoodabode]

November 2023: In The Waning Days Of November

Robin, House sparrow & Dark-eyed junco:

Robin & White-throated sparrow... hat tip to anyone who spots the sparrow:

Peas are doing well:

"Boy, what you goin' do?":

"Act a fool!":

Seen while dog walking:

[3lix13]

Another quick little process video of rough animation through to final render in Toon Boom Harmony for a recent walk cycle that I jazzed up a bit with some robots and Ron Cobb vibes.

[iconac]

hey not to be that annoying kotor fan but the hk-series droids in ahsoka seem to do pretty much anything but any of hk-47's techniques to kill jedi. where are my sonic and poison gas attacks. my collateral damage. these guys think they're magnaguards with their spears and shit. y'all deserve to get hacked to pieces by ahsoka's lightsabers smh.

[flyingthesky]

me, for most of this season: i'm actually enjoying this and i think it's very funny that nobody else seems to be enjoying this season. they show me the baby and i'm happy. i literally only care about the baby and also, i guess, star wars. me, in episode 7: nevermind. teddy huxspin's dad showed up and this season is trash - also me, in episode 7: THEY GAVE THE BABY A MECH HAHAHAHAHA THE BABY HAS A MECH!!!!! THE BABY IS LOOSE AND HE HAS A MECH!!!!!!

[seven-dragons]

Finally watched the Mandalorian with Lizzo, and it was awesome, but also aside from that awesomeness pretty much the closest thing I have ever seen to a live action episode of Futurama.

[zulfikaryassim787]