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bedlamsbard · 1 year ago
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I totally understand your rage quitting now, although it's exactly the opposite for me! I was *very* into the Asgardian storyline in MCU and I hated Ragnarok with a passion - and the fandom sure made certain I knew everybody who didn't like the movie was an Idiot. Then IW and EG happened and killed all my joy for the MCU. I kinda sorta look at it without flinching nowadays, but it took somewhere around 5 years...
I think I know more people who went MCU --> Star Wars than the other way around! Weird couple of years for both fandoms. I'm a little bit of a weird outlier because I got back into Marvel well after Endgame, but a lot of what people criticize about the MCU is what I find interesting (the puzzle piece aspect). I am well aware that if I'd been consistently in Marvel since 2014 (which is when I drifted off) I'd probably have had the same rage reaction as like...everyone else I know.
I guess it's been a minute and my SW history isn't common knowledge to people who weren't around here between 2013-2021, so the lingering fury is probably confusing to people who only know me from the MCU. I was big into Star Wars from 2013-2021, from 2013-2015 on the PT/TCW side, then from 2014-2021 on the Rebels side (there's crossover), though I was also familiar with...everything. I have forgotten more about Star Wars than your average SW fan has ever known. (I was also in and out from 2007-2013, which is when some of my earlier fic like Oxygen and Rust dates from, but this is a period of time when my big fandom was actually Narnia) I'm quote-unquote "known" for Wake the Storm and Queen's Gambit in the PT/TCW, which have very consistently garnered negative responses since Wake started in 2013, and On the Edge of the Devil's Backbone in Rebels; I also used to do liveblogs of TCW and Rebels and the comics, for a while, so some of those posts are still floating around. I had a very, very bad breakup with a close fandom friend in 2016. I bounced off the ST, had an extremely negative reaction to Rebels S4 (to this day I have refused to do a full reaction post because I hated it so much I can't think about it coherently, and there were years where I couldn't think about it without spiraling), was okay with Resistance, R1, and Solo, hated Mando, hated TCW S7, hated the comics, hated the High Republic, and was still grimly hanging onto the fandom in utter misery in 2021 when the combination of hating TBB's sheer mediocrity (and the way they retconned Rebels) and the first episode of Loki hitting all of my favorite tropes like a fucking train finally knocked me out of Star Wars, to the extreme relief of everyone who knew me.
to this day I have fannish friends (who I met through Star Wars!) ready to stage an intervention if I ever seem even vaguely interested in getting back into Star Wars. I am the only person I know who looked at the Marvel fandom post-Endgame (and the Loki subfandom at any point in time, but especially while the show was airing) and went "this seems like a nice soothing place to immigrate to!" and honestly it is, people aren't as crazy anymore as they were around CW and Endgame. (Except in the Loki subfandom, which has made even me go "hmm. that's a bit much," but then I remember the egg genocide and you guys are fine, actually.)
very amusingly I actually speed-ran the Rebels experience with the Loki show -- really liked the first half, really disliked the second half -- but by that point I'd already gotten back into the rest of the MCU. I hadn't had a dramatic MCU breakup at all; I'd kept up with the films from 2008-2014 (CATWS was the last one I saw in order), but I just hadn't gotten around to seeing more than three odd ones out between 2014 and 2021 (Ragnarok, Captain Marvel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and then I saw WandaVision early in 2021). I fandom osmosed some weird stuff that turned out not to be true.
anyway for those that don't know, that's the short version of my sordid Star Wars history! also sorry, you didn't actually, uh, ask for this.
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twilightofthe · 1 year ago
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gonna put my random liveblog reactions for Ahsoka Ep 1 here
okay so the rebels fam are literally some of my favorite star wars characters i've loved and missed them since 2018 and if anything this show will give me them
i am going with zero expectations except a plea, a plea to just not make me hate it lmao idc what happens just let me have fun
just press the start button coward ass come ON
okay i'm startiiiing Now!
oooh they didn't name it interesting
kk cool drums that's neat we like that
whoa was that sabine's helmet in the intro????
OPENING TITLE SCROLL?????
WE REALLY LIKE THAT????????
y'all the new republic's about as stable as a human jenga tower don't u have anything better to do than find thrawn i'm p sure even the imperials didn't like him THAT much they were xenophobes
former jedi knight? HMMMM
why is it always a secret map
also appreciating the OG "let's open up on big ass ship in space" makes you feel small
ok have i heard this new republic(?) captain actor before he seems familiar
bitch literally anyone could have an old jedi clearance code clearance codes were passed around like
yeah he doesn't trust it either
but i feel like he's actually dickish and we're not supposed to like him so
ah yes rebel soldiers and their stupid-ass egg helmets
wait old white bearded guy you ain't obi wan you AIN'T a jedi
his voice sounds familiar too
i have such face blindness lmao
oh whoops that's a darkside saber his friend has!
she kinda looks like Merrin from JFO
Eh probs some kinda Nightsister of sorts
I'm guessing he's some Inquisitor who got forgotten
Hmm we really paralleling ANH with darkside guy slaughtering all the egghelmet guys on a ship xD
Ok his name is Baylan
And hers is Morgan and the intro crawl mentioned her but my memory is shit so I don't quite remember what she was about except vague Thrawn-related reasons
ooooh name drop!
aaaaaAAAAA RIGHT IN THE EMOTIONS NOOO NO THE AHSOKA AND ANAKIN LEITMOTIFF TWILIGHT OF THE APPRENTICE THEME
ok i'm good lol
ohh wait so there IS a title
master and apprentice
alas it seems like the thing i didn't want is gonna happen but we are staying OPEN MINDED we are going to SEE
ok lots of tall pillars in what looks like another fuckin desert lmao
ey there's Snips
something on the ground? That kinda looks Sith-ish but also I have like no clue
hmm did they kinda fix her montrals or not i can't tell
Ehhhhh slightly
eyyyy wait are those the world-between-worlds lines
the statues kinda look like nightsisters but also like old sith statues
mmm caress the whispering pillar
ok indiana jones time to get your ass out of there before the booby trap
what am i saying she's anakin and obi wan's spawn she LIKES this shit
oh hey she made something happen
i feel like all of these pillars should have been turned at once
the force likes teamwork and that kinda thing
but it also kinda echoes maul and ezra's little teamwork exercise lifting those walls in the sith temple that one time
ope she found something
guessing it's the Magic Maul Map
ooh it's one of those bakugon balls or whatever they were we played with as a kid i had one that turned into a dragon
H U Y A N G
SHOW ME MY ROBOBITCH
armor person hello
what's the mask that's not a mando is it
nah i don't think it is
nah
is it a person in armor or a droid i can't tell
oh subs say droids they're droids
you poor bastards curbstomping droids was her high school internship job she is WAY more qualified than you
wasn't quite expecting ahsoka to play whackamole but good for her that sounds fun
oh hell yeah we stan the droids that self destruct xD
waiiiit yeah i forgot she had a B-wing they're cool!
STILL LOVE ME HUYANG
ahsoka there was NO way you didn't wait till the last moment to jump away from that explosion except to be dramatic
"the order doesn't exist anymore" you shush missy we KNOW you know who luke is he's trying his best
ahsoka lbr do you even know what standard jedi protocol is
Fulcruuuuum
DAMN FUCKING RIGHT HUYANG IS FULCRUM HE DESERVES IT
also he looks so good in live action i forgot to mention that!!!!! <3
"T-6" girl u need to name your SHIP anakin would be APPALLED
well if that's the same ship with the darksiders on at least
h3ERA
HERA
HERA HERA HERA
HERA MY BELOVED
wHERES CHOPPER
WHERES CJASON JACEN WHATEVERTHE FUCK
H E RA
oh right this is mary elizabeth winstead oh boy i hope she does well!
i wonder if ewan was there
aNYWAY HERA
ok unpausing sorry had a Moment
General
Ok so the voices aren't quite matching but we'll see
ooooh hera has a patch on her jacket let's go back to that later
"abilities like you" hera kanan told you what darksiders were like inquisitors tried to kill y'all
she has sabines firebird on her jacket
don't mention thrawn around hera she'll just think of ezra ;_;
oh so morgan was thrawn's
EZRA NAME MENTION
GONNA DIE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
ok this is nothing on mary's performance she's doing fine but hera's dialogue doesn't quiiiite seem her? we'll see
oh yeah and rosario's doing better this time more natural
IT’S LOTHAL LOTHAL LIVE ACTION LOTHAAAAAAAAL
ITS BEAUTIFUL SO SO BEAUTIFUL
wait who's speaking
THEY SAID EZRA AGAI
THAT'S FUCKING RYDER
RYDER AZADI HELLO YOU WONDERFUL BASTARD YOU LOOK GREAT
Hi Clancy Brown good to see you do you know you have an evil Devaronian twin who's running around bothering Din Djarin as we speak
well at least sabine still hates politics
my dude ryder you know her tf did she say to make you think she was coming at all lol
WAIT JAI
JAI KELL HELLO EZRA'S EX BOYFRIEND
YOU'RE SO HANDSOME MY BOY ALL GROWN UP WONDERFUL
wait ryderrrr c'mon don't be a dick again you were so well
OH HELLO GWEN STACY SPIDERVERSE VIBES
not quiiiiite liking how sabine grew her gay haircut out in this but still digging the bike fit
also hello Natasha good luck pls treat my dear well i love her greatly!!!
hmmm not sure how much i like other non-OG ghost crew giving themselves Spectre callsigns yes i AM being gatekeepy fuck off
good sabine is running from authorities we do love that
hey her voice kinda matches that's great!
oh i'm liking her acting already
i think
SHE HAS A LOTH CAT ON HER HELMET
that's my GIRL
also it's very interesting how the pilots call each other by their spectre callsigns but address sabine--an ORIGINAL spectre--exclusively by name
lothkitty LOTHCAT
LITHCAT WITH THE FOOOOOFYTAIL AND LITTLE SPINDLE LEGS
im gonna DIE
it's so cute i can't even
also getting Emotions(TM) at ezra's old tower
hmm you think sabine has depression
FUCK OFF WITH THAT SABINE SEES EZRA MUSICAL CALLBACK
oh hey hey it's his original message to theeeeem
wait shit yeah it's the new one just to her
ooh it's eman! i can't see his faaaaace expressions but the voice sounds similar? like it seems like he's tryna match taylor's way of speaking good for him
ok yes but ezra is a jedi show pretty please for me don't go there with sabine
ok ok that's enough complaining from me lmao
ACTUALLY NO WAIT ONE MORE *inhales*
i would prefer sabine and ezra to stay platonic friends. no hate to shippers but i just personally would like them to be friends/siblings, that's what would make me happiest because i like to imagine sabine as a lesbian and also their dynamic as friends/siblings just makes me happy
but shippers are of course still welcome here and if they do become a couple i won't begrudge you your fun :')
ok ok ok ok ok NOW i'm done lmao
back to Best Boy sorry bby you were speaking and i interrupted you <3
oh hey hey he did say sister! i'd like that!!!
but also ezra when tf did you have the time to record those both weren't u a bit busy planning the attack on lothal
oh it's darkside goth girl
nice smoky eye
oh wait fuck she's got a PADAWAN BRAID
heyyyyyy i was RIGHT about the temple statues looking like nightsisters!
but wrong about darkside goth girl being one then tho
well masked emo fucker following bryan or whatever his name is is probs an inquisitor
wait wait wait does MORGAN have gold eyes?
ooooooo
oh no wait darkside apprentice has gold eyes again
ugh okay so we ARE getting force sensitive sabine then
alright fine i'll make my peace with it this episode
even though it makes no SENSE
no no pe not going there we are going to have FUN
aaaaa repeating ezra's final dialogue from the rebels finale ;_;
love the mirroring shots to rebels ep 1 RIGHT DOWN TO SABINE WEARING EZRA'S ORANGE
ahsoka and anakin leitmotiff coming back hmmm
oh wait fuck i think ezra drew those lothcats oof ;_;
ok good good we going back to sabine being the rightful art expert in the gffa take second place and DUNK urself thrawn
ok i get they're tryna make them ex master and apprentice but imma say it. imma SAY IT
ahsoka and sabine give awkward exes vibes
BIG awkward exes vibes
m a s t e r
you both know damn well she's gonna take it anyway or at least try who are y'all even kidding urselves
oooh surprise surprise the darksider are former jedi-associated
oh right his name's baylan not bryan
WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED
oh there's goth darkside girl
if anyone hurts sabine's cat i will kill the entire world and then myself
i swEAR TO GOD
WHY DOES THE SHOW KEEP MAKING AHSOKA AND SABINE SEEM LIKE ANGRY EXES LMAOOOO
COME ON
ahsoka ur being emo so hera is allowed to make a dig at anakin
hera you're trying your best girl lmao
it's always rule of three it seems
kinda gives me that mortis trinity vibe
this reminds me of the time i got one of those 3D puzzles from barnes and noble and i was supposed to take it apart and put it back together and failed utterly
ope she did it!
again if someone even TOUCHES that fucking cat wrong i go full john wick
bitch NO SHOOTING NEAR THE CAT
ope they smashed the map
ahsoka my dude i'm guessing you know where sabine lives why didn't u just go find her lmao
wait does sabine have ezra's green lightsaber i can't tell from the hilt because i'm shit at recognizing hilts
i can't even appreciate the duel because i am admittedly pouting but they are both very pretty at least
sabine how r u not getting ur hair chopped off
oh fuck she got stabbed?
maybe shoulda worn ur mando armor
oh and she's still MOVING
oh nope there she goes
oh wait who's Ray? :(
okay
okay okay okay
dave my dude.........
okay so i am going to take some time like a few minutes or so
and process this sabine thing
like if i cannot find a way to come to fucking terms with it i will not be able to enjoy this series
ik ik that sounds dramatic i'm just
hmm ok five minutes
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wantonlywindswept · 2 years ago
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mando liveblog 3.7 ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
i am both mad and disappointed, if ultimately entirely unsurprised
oh good, we get to watch bo-katan get the darksaber again
oh right gideon’s bullshit
still calling that they’re going to take all the storylines into other series and turn the mandalorian into a ‘din and grogu run from gideon’ thing bc that’s what worked for them before
oh god are we on coruscant again? with the imperial bitch? ughhhh not againn
he’s already got his outfit back? lame. you just got busted out of prison, suffer bad clothing choices!
oh no he actually looks MORE vader-y, what a poser
i do hate (which i understand is irrational) that the show has to be beholden to the sequels, bc. well. the sequels sucked.
PROJCET NECROMANCER ASDKLJFSG
oh so if gideon’s interest wasn’t in the clones shenanigans does that mean i can fuck around with him wanting to become the next dr demagolka? Forcibly Assigned Jedi At Experimentation
yeee bitches feel fear at thinking about mandalorians
‘the spies’ oh no
poor nevarro civvies, ‘ah shit not the empire again’
i wanna know how painting that giant mythosaur on the underside of the cruiser worked
ARE WE FINALLY GONNA SEE WHAT THE WHOLE WALKING TWO WAYS BULLSHIT WAS ABOUT? INDOCTRINATION YEA OR NAY
ahh hordes of mandalorians my beloved
din. din get on the side of the covert. din.
‘paz bout to start shit TIME TO USE THE TALKING HAMMER’
oh god the droid we all forgot about. again.
OH NOT A DROID IT’S A FUCKING JAEGER IM FUCKING CRYING ASLDKJADG
OH IT’S FOR GROGU??? IM FUCKIN
oh lord baby with a murder exoskeleton
OH
ONIDSFJAG
LETS THE BABY SPEAK???
runaway baby so happy ‘yessss i can murder now!!’
okay i know this is supposed to be funny but clearly the baby should not have the exoskeletON ARE THEY ROASTING THE BABY BIRDS???
man they just got a home and they’re already needing to leave again?
i’m sorry GROGU AS WELL? what. what. YHOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE NEVARRO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SO THEY COULD KEEP THEIR KIDS SAFE
big spartacus vibes here
oh ho ho, the armorer too?
lmfao everyone chillin and then there’s paz with his ginormous gun, love that for him. also wonder if my hc about him never actually setting foot on mandalore before despite being a vizsla is correct?
did we. at least land somewhere significant? and not just in the middle of nowhere?
ah good on top of a city at least.
oh
oh my heart
‘do you have food’
the first question asked
mandalorians have been here all along??
okay this hurts me but i feel like not for the reason they want it to, bo-katan DID abandon you in the end
are these the spies, this is going to Hurt Me
oh she admitted it
wait did we know about this deal before or is this new info? bo-katan cut a deal with gideon? i have not watched any of the animated series
oh thank christ finally confirmation the tribe is against Death Watch, even if descended from it
hmm does sound like a good reason for joint leadership
I SERVE YOU? WHAT?
what are these vibes my brain suddenly just sidestepped into the Mad Max universe
is the armorer gonna die to traitors
lmfao paz fucking down to fight over fucking checkers im sobbing
really ‘primitives’? i know we’re supposed to be like ‘oh assholes on both sides’ but paz is like 100000 times better than woves
BABY????
the fuck DID he learn from you then, din
oh wait
i know there’s the assumption it was din (and i mean. fuck yeah dinluke. but.)
what if all the stuff about grogu learning things
was from kelleran?
mythosaur?? pls??
no mythosaur :(
PAZ MAKING SURE THE BABY GOT OUT
what is it with mandalorians and giant lizards anyway
MY HEADCANON IS CORRECT, PAZ NEVER LIVED ON MANDALORE GO ME
nope not survivors
bigger vibes that they were led here THEYRE WEARING WHAT. FUCKIONG IMPERIALS IN BESKAR?? FLAMES! ON THE SIDES OF MY FACE!!
vanguard paz my heart
yeah this was totes a trap
OH SHIT DIN SEPARATED FROM THE BABY
wow the worst vader wannabe
...din forced down on his knees doe unf
somebody cut off this dude’s head
I WAS SO RIGHT HES THE NEXT DEMAGOLKLA PUT TOGETHER IT ALL AND YOU GET JEDI MANDO...clones? something. w/e
UH YEAH, YEAH YOU SHOULD HAVE BO
ah paz it about to die isn’t he
sigh
oh for fucks sake it wasn’t even a smart death you coulda closed it and then gone through
oh fake jedi bitches
i know this is supposed to be a badass honorable death but i’m too busy being mad about it
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businesstiramisu · 2 years ago
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Finally got an opportunity to check out The Mandalorian, and not sure if I love the story yet but yeah this is some Well-Made-TV!! Particularly it feels like they were trying really hard to recreate the old look and feel of Star Wars (1979) with the puppets and practical effects*, but maybe updated?? I'm pretty impressed.
Also I am in love with this soundtrack
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*no idea how much of this was actually practical effects, vs. just CGI that fooled me. All i know is the aesthetics FEEL like the original trilogy in a way that I don’t remember seeing from other newish star wars stuff I’ve seen. And, like, I’m assuming this is intentional??
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zolusbian · 3 years ago
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THIS PROGRAM CONTAINS BRIEF NUDITY????
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bo-katan · 4 years ago
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I live my days by whether I have work that day or not so I didnt even realize it was Saturday 😩😩
About to watch the 3rd episode 😅
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francesderwent · 4 years ago
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my favorite thing about the Mandalorian is that Mando hates droids almost as much as I do.
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johnbottoms · 4 years ago
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just thought abt the fact that we're getting more mando so soon which means more baby yoda which means more dad and his weird son moments...this is just simply all i will care abt for the next 2 months again
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ooccoo · 4 years ago
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ok so is cobb’s speederbike just a seat strapped to a podracer engine
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tarisilmarwen · 1 year ago
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Ahsoka "The Jedi, The Witch, and The Warlord" Liveblog
Woo boy, there were certainly some Choices in this.
Yeah yeah, I'm late and spoilered to hell I know, look, I have been Going Through It out in realspace and my priority has been finishing Whumptober fics, cut me some slack.
Anyway.
Lars Mikkelson continuing to crush it as Thrawn.
"Even I fell victim to the... heroics of a single Jedi." Looooooool another bit for my collection of Pissy!Thrawn moments.
We're not going to get an explanation for why the Nightsisters and Thrawn are so tight, are we?
Morgan looks a little bit trepidacious about all of this ha ha.
All right, a point in this show's favor, this look at Nightsister rituals and culture is interesting.
And the flaming sword is cool, I'll admit.
Ngl, the editing really needs to be tightened up in this scene, we really only needed the one or two establishing shots before cutting into the interior.
Eman continues to be the perfect Ezra. I love him. 10/10 no complaints.
Ngl, this is sweet on the surface that Ezra's new saber has pieces of Kanan's buuuuuuuut *waves Green Saber Ezra Supremacy flag*.
Sabine, let him borrow y'all's lightsaber and YOU build a new one.
Ah goody, an Exposition Reveal.
-_-
This... doesn't actually explain Baylan's "Your family is dead because your Master didn't trust you." line btw. JUST SAYING.
I don't even know what the narrative wants anymore re. Sabine's choice to gamble Thrawn's return for Ezra.
Aaaand please not to be reminding me of the Wrong Jedi arc kthnx.
Oh good an action scene.
Ezra and Ahsoka being cool Jedi together, nice. Could be more emphasized and staged even more coolly tho.
Well poop, I guess that's the reason why we had to risk stowing away on Thrawn's ship.
Oh good! This holomap thing is exactly the kind of plot device I actually needed for one of my Sabezra Week fills.
Lol Thrawn be taking NO chances lololol.
Oh hello finally some of Thrawn's theme in the score here. Thrawn using the men's loyalty and fanaticism towards him personally to achieve his goals, fits the culty vibes, sure.
I am liiiiiviiiiiiiiiiiing for the subtle nervousness in Ezra's voice when talking about Thrawn finding the Dathomir castle and waking the witches. PLEASE CAN I HAVE A THOUSAND WHUMP AND ANGST FICS ABOUT THE IN-BETWEEN BEFORE EZRA'S ESCAPE FROM THE CHIMAERA?
His arms are so comfortably around Sabine awwwwww.
Thrawn be all srs bznss and I'm loving it.
Yeah no, Jedi!Sabine is REJECTED, she did not have any kind of necessary mental or emotional breakthrough, she wasn't shown calming her mind properly, sorry Dave THE LEGWORK AIN'T THERE, Imma fix this to be Ahsoka in the inevitable rewrite/fixfic that I've apparently decided I'm doing.
Oh Ahsoka is helping too, well I'm still not having Sabine be able to do it.
HAAAAAAAAAA THAT PISSED LOOK OF THRAWN'S OH MAN THE SNARLING LIP CURL, THE RAGE, YES PLEASE MORE.
The struggle to recompose himself OH MAN.
This is peak Mirrorverse!Thrawn and I'm here for it. I love seeing my headcanons playing out onscreen.
Aaaaaand this would have been the perfect scene to have Ezra and Sabine sharing the Our Lightsaber, meanwhile Sabine should be fully kitted out Mando style.
*simmers*
STAGE THIS DIFFERENTLY SO THAT SABINE'S BESKAR IS NOT CONSTANTLY LITERAL PLOT ARMOR PLEASE.
Aahhhhhhh Ezra my love! <3
Should have either let him use the Our Lightsaber or continued with the Force martial arts though, pick a lane. Or have a conversation about why they need to actually get him another saber.
Eman is... waaaaaaay better at this than Rosario, sad to say, lol.
Look at him GO THERE'S MY BOY.
I love him.
Oh what are we doing now?
Ohhhhh the zombie!troopers!
Lol Ezra must have left before the Nightsisters could show Thrawn their zombie techniques.
Eman makes this look flawless, I am in love.
Battle Couple Sabezra moment, awww.
"I missed you."
FAKSJHFAKJFHHKKHHHFHFH OKAY DEAD.
DEAD AND DECEASED.
LIKE THE ZOMBIES LOL.
Aaaaaaaaand I'm gonna adjust this in the fixfic, because right now it looks like they were waiting to actually dock.
And my typing is being slowed down hang on a second.
Still dumb.
Okay back.
Thrawn basically telling Morgan, "Right, so you're going to have to go fight the Rebels and stall die for me, mmkay?"
She's looking like she might regret all of this now lolol.
I do like how the finale is making it very very easy for me to fix later lol.
Like here. Morgan should have attempted to stop Ezra and Sabine. Just a small attempt, and then blocked by Ahsoka, and Ezra and Sabine run around and outmaneuver them.
BATTLE COUPLE SABEZRA. :D
Aaaaand final trailer shot accounted for.
Okay, can there be a little more effort on the choreography there please?
Oh no Sabine, EZRA SAVE HER.
Or we could retcon Sabine into actually legitimately being Force Sensitive and have her pull the Our Lightsaber.
SIIIIIIIIGHHHHHHH.
*grumbles, takes down notes about how to fix this in my rewrite*
Oh come on Ezra, you can jump that.
Catch me melting at the sheer and utter trust Ezra has in Sabine's abilities.
(But also, screw this, she's getting a jetpack in the rewrite.)
Aaaaaaaaaand I do hate that they got separated again, screwing alllllll of that.
Nice of the troopers to just politely stop shooting.
Yeah so, this is basically gonna be a 1 v 100 for Ahsoka when I rewrite it, let my girl have a hard fought climactic battle, she can take it.
"Your friends are dead." Uhhhh nah they ain't what does this bit of dialogue even connect to?
Lol Ezra gets to put on the big boy stormtrooper armor.
The vaaaaaaaaaguely panicky twitches that Thrawn has here. A+, excellent, no notes.
No kill like overkill LOLOLOL.
Thrawn, internally: Shitshitshitshitshitshitshiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Ah Thrawn is going to try Break Them By Talking. Ezra tanked this let's see if Ahsoka can do the same.
Nope, she's Affected.
Aaaaaand he out.
Bye Thrawn!
Hmmmmgh, yeah no, because in my rewrite I'm axing the entirety of Sabine actually becoming a Jedi it's going to be better that she goes with Ezra on the Eye of Sion instead of stays with Ahsoka, if she stayed a Jedi then yes that's what the conclusion should have been that makes narrative sense now that I see it.
But also again, I Do Not Like That Plot Point so--*grumblegrumble mumble*
Hi Morai!
Bandit queen Shin? I could dig it.
Baylan chilling with Mortis god statues.
I STILL DO NOT SEE ANY SOLID EVIDENCE THEY'RE GONNA DO ABELOTH GUYS, SORRY.
And Thrawn is setting up base on Dathomir. Lol wait til he finds out that there's basically nothing there anymore lololol.
Those uh... those be a lotta dead troopers. Probably most of the Chimaera crew.
...Cripes did they die naturally, did Ezra kill them, or did Thrawn pull some kind of Jonestown thing in order to enact his eventual revenge?
Oh maaaaan what if it's that last one, that would fit with the cult-like chanting in his intro omgghghhhggkajsfkjh.
Frick man, Thrawn fixing to unleash an undead army on the GFFA that can really only be taken out by lightsabers.
Oh come on, you're telling me Ezra was on the Eye and didn't pull some last minute shenanigans before he left?
Didn't screw Thrawn over one last time for nostalgia's sake?
(He and Sabine are blowing up some engines before they skedaddle, in the fixfic.)
HERA AND EZRA SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED A HUG, FILONI.
The attempt at bookends here is cute but no. LET HERA HUG HER SON.
THIS DOESN'T EVEN REALLY WORK AS A BOOKEND.
YES THE PART WHERE CHOPPER RECOGNIZES HIM IS CUTE BUT THIS IS WASTED DRAMA. THERE'S NO REASON FOR THIS.
LET HERA HUG HER SOOOOOOONNNN.
This whole scene just doesn't work because we're trying to shoehorn it into being a bookend for the opening, it doesn't wooooooooooorrrrrk.
THEY SHOULD HAVE HUGGED.
*furiously taking down notes on how to rewrite this scene*
*grumbling*
Blah blah Sabine can feel Anakin there but Ahsoka can't? blah blah blah.
Aaaaaaand closing us out with "As The Sun Sails And The Moon Walks"
Well.
Where do I begin?
Okay so... final verdict... I DO actually like this show.
THAT BEING SAID.
There was soooooooo much about the execution and so many of the narrative choices that I just NEEDED to be better and it frustrates me. Because this show by all rights should have been a spectacular emotional thrill ride like Kenobi and it just wasn't.
A lot of the problems and nitpicks I had with Kenobi are exacerbated here, especially under Filoni's brand of, "I didn't care for what Lucas did with the Prequels, here let me fix it." NO FILONI IT DIDN'T NEED FIXING IT WAS FINE! HOW THE FORCE WORKED WAS FINE! THE JEDI WERE FINE!
But there's such GOOD STUFF in here that I can't discount it all fully like I can with the Sequel Trilogy. (Which, believe me, I have attempted to workshop and fixfic but ultimately gave up on.) The purrgil lore! The Ancient Dathomiri! Another galaxy! Whatever Baylan was up to! Sabezra being adorable! Thrawn!
Soooooo yeah, basically join me sometime in the future for when I inevitably create a fixfic AU for this show like I did for Aldnoah.Zero because unfortunately I can't give up on this show I need to fix it, just hand me the characters and story and I can fix it.
Can't do much for the camerawork, choreography, and occasional stiff acting (Not you Eman, Natasha, Ray, Evan, and Lars, you're all great.) but I can at least salvage that part lol.
Ultimately... mid. Excellent premise and cool concepts brought down by subpar execution and some frankly baffling narrative decisions. But gimme like a week and I will workshop a Fanon AU that I can be completely happy with.
Hopefully we get a Season Two? Maybe? Or resolve everything in the Mandoverse movie?
Peace out, y'all.
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communistkenobi-archive · 5 years ago
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lmao does din also hate droids because he was rescued by death watch
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twilightofthe · 4 years ago
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Chapter Twelve liveblog of The Mandalorian Season 2!  Let’s go!!!
Ok so I already see Greef on the thumbnail for this and the summary mentions old allies, guess we’re meeting back up with Greef and Cara
Once more Din’s Space Honda is a wreck
You better not be asking the baby for ship advice dude
ALSKDJFLJSKDK YOU ACTUALLY ARE
DIN THAT IS A CHILD
EARLY FATHER/SON BONDING????
DIN NOOOOOOO XD XD XD XD
HE’S GONNA SHOCK HIMSELF
HE FUCKING SHOCKED HIMSELF DIN NO YOU BITCH
Ok good he got a reward for his troubles
Aw poor single dad
Whoooop someone’s remodeled the Mando covert
Hey space squirrel!
Oop dead space squirrel
Lol these dudes are dead 
Oh Cara, was expecting Din, but my opinion stands
Ok she’s still a human wrecking ball
Aaaaand now she’s got an animal sidekick xD
The Siege?  That don’t sound good at all lol.  
Oooof I swear this ship wasn’t as junky when we first saw it
SAME GREEF THE CHILD IS EVERYTHING
LISTEN TO HIS BABY TALK
Awwww there’s a school!!
Din c’mon it’s not like you haven’t left the kid with total strangers like five times already
Awwwww Yodito’s making FRIENDS
Lol wait is that kid eating macarons?
LAKSDFLKDSKLJK BABY FUCKING STOLE THE MACARONS THAT’S IMPROPER FORCE USAGE XD
Heyyyy it’s Mythrol!!  Lol and he basically pissed himself
Hah this is why you don’t come back to visit family Din, they always have favors for you 
Lol I kinda love these dicks bullying Mythrol for absolutely no reason
Ok if y’all are tryna scare Mythrol into coming w/ y’all cuz lava tide, why aren’t you at all concerned with your only ride out getting fried by it?
Aw I hope Mythrol doesn’t die from all of this he doesn’t deserve thiiiiis xD
There’s no guard rail on this WELCOME TO STAR WARS MYTHROL
Wtf are in those tanks
LAKSDJFLKSK ARE THOSE DEADASS SNOKE CLONES??!?!?!??!?!
HOLY SHIT THEY’RE ACTUALLY GETTING INTO THE PALPATINE CLONING CLUSTERFUCK
“Pardon me” hah I love Mythrol
M COUNT?
MIDICHLORIAN COUNT?!?!?!
HOLY SHIT THAT’S HOW THEY’RE TYING THIS INTO THE SEQUELS
THEY WANTED BABY YODA BECAUSE HE’S GOT HIGH MIDICHLORIANS SO THEY CAN TRANSFER THEM TO THE PALPACLONE SINCE REY’S DAD WAS BORN WITH NO FORCE JUICE
Baby Yoda is deadass a donor baby they created
Wait a sec but since when can you transfer midichlorians between subjects?
Or maybe you can’t and that’s what Pershing and the likes are experimenting with rn
OOP OH NO YEP YOU BETTER GET YOUR SON MANDO
“There they are!  Blast ‘em!” is like legit 80% of the dialogue in all of STar Wars
Oh damn so that’s how Cara drives
And awww Mythrol’s speeder!!!!
Oh whoop that’s a bomb that other trooper has
And Greef has em
Oop TIES
Aaaand now they don’t have a gun
Wait “almost there” so those TIEs are just gonna what, stop at some imaginary land boundary?
Oh hey it’s Din!  And his ship’s fixed
And Baby Yoda I would Die For You but that’s nothing new
LAKDSJFLKSDJKFSLK HE STILL HAS HIS LIL BLUE MACAROOOOOOONS!!!!!
HE LOOKS SO HAPPY WATCHING HIS FATHER DOING VIOLENCE
Uhhhh Din ur ship’s kinda trash idk if it’s built for ur fancy kind of stunt flying......
Eh if it works it works
Din craves validation from his-- EW VOMIT
Aaaaand Din has Dad Duty and can’t go for drinks xD
Noooo Greef mention the Palpaclones!!!!!
a “’gram?” what’s that?  Space telegrams now???
Cara’s squirrel friend again!!!
Listen to the officer Cara u gotta let them know before Palps can come back
Aw shit right she’s from Alderaan jeez that has to suck
Ooooop that’s a Star Destroyer
Oh I feel like I’ve seen this actress
OOOP THAT MECHANIC WAS A SPYYYYYY OH NOOOOOOOO NOW THEY’RE TRACKING DIN’S SHIP AAAAAAAAAAA
Ok I love Gideon’s musical theme
Wait what are those things are those the sith troopers???
Hey and Carl Weathers did this one!!!  Good on him acting AND directing it
Ok this is gonna be very interesting, it seems like The Mando Show is actually gonna try and attempt to patch up some of the holes in the sequel trilogy like how the First Order was able to form AND how Sidious was able to return if I’m right and Baby Yoda is one of the cogs in the cloning project
Next episode’s probs gonna be the Ahsoka episode but gah I’m still really hmmmm about her showing up, but eh don’t mind me
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wantonlywindswept · 2 years ago
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mando 3.6 liveblog (frustrated)
oh ho ho more mandos and the darksaber and mandalore in recap?? please give me these things that i want to see yes
das a weirdass ship
why is she the only one in the fishbowl??
‘imperial friends’ oh sweetheart wrong faction
woves, eh?
woves i’m sorry but in this universe your accent means that you are evil and you are not helping challenge that view
THERE IS SO MUCH DRAMA PUT IN THIS EXCHANGE BUT ITS JUST TWO  FISH
still don’t like koska!
hm is this gonna be the Bo-Katan Episode
oh no din is also there! sweet
FASLDKHSDFG THE DOCKING ELEVATOR MUSIC
ah, the high-speed public transit that we all dream of...
i still also hate chain codes!
din you always have to blast your way out of everything, it’s your go-to plan of action
ahh rich people
JACK?? JKACK BLACK??? SIR!!! HELLO!!!!
nooo don’t make jack black an imperial he deserves better
DO NOT TOUCH THE BABY
GROGU PLEASE
din please take the baby back i do not trust this woman
oh word’s out that mandalore’s coming back huh
oh so she’s actually abandoned it? OHH SHE ASKED DIN???
....din please
omfg hibachi droid i’m crrying
din pls smack the big red button
hmm does that mean the ugnaughts are once again enslaved? din don’t take that shit
lawls bo
nnngh din taking charge so sessy
....where is the baby??
oh noooo is din gonna have some flashbacks, poor bb
din pls
din i thought we’d gotten over this
look i’m not gonna feel sympathy if the problem is that droids are snapping when being mistreated
like, it’s running? it’s not fighting back??
dafuq is a spark pad
Do Not Let Her Do The Talking In There
nevermind let bo do the talking. not really enjoying this little regression in din’s character development, but i spose it can be explained away with them being specifically sep droids
am enjoying all the droid characters tho
YEEEEE DARK SABERRRRRRR
oh now droids have chain codes too
so security guy makes droids malfunction to show that they still need security?
thank you bo
GROGU DO NOT EAT THE BALL
oh no he’s cheating instead rofl
we’re gonna use the quacta thing forever now huh
lmao din ‘what the fuck is the key thing and do i have to touch it’
KNIGHT GROGUADFSGIFJ LDGHHHHH
this entire government is ridiculous
YOU’RE THEIR LEADER NOW DIN WAVE THE DARKSABER AT EM
oh that’s not a good place to start bo
challenge? CHALLENGE? DO ITTT??
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
huh wonder if challenges are diff in diff creeds, or if the tribe just has regulations for duels like it does everything else. din and paz were much more uh. calculated with theirs.
OH BITCH YOU’RE REALLY CITING BLOOD TIES? YOU’RE REALLY DISRESPECTING FOUNDLINGS LIKE THAT??
din please stop trying to give the saber away
hmm interesting take. don’t like it. don’t want mandalor bo.
ughhhhhh but that’s what i’m getting isn’t it
ugh ugh ugh
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girlbossk · 5 years ago
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anyways next up is a mandalorian episode or maybe multiple mandalorian episodes, i don’t remember and i already closed the site, and i do NOT care about any mandalorians except for The mandalorian so. yeah! that’s a problem for tomorrow me
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daisyachain · 4 years ago
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i love how universal The Mando s2 is. over the course of this season i’ve seen complaints from Rebels fans, Clone Wars fans, show-only fans, Ahsoka fans, Fett fans, and Din fans
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meandmyechoes · 3 years ago
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TBOBF finale liveblog
yes i know how competent R2 is
yes i do not think it’s a good idea to send a toddler into space alone
haha just realized Bane’s about to die (i hope he does)
how much are they gonna rip off Mando S1 finale shot by shot
*poke* *poke* *falls off cliff* that is about. the driest suit fight I’ve ever seen.
I think a problem might be the trandoshans are not wearing flight suits/camoflague vests but robes constructed like the Jedi’s witg thick belts? and I glimpsed one in an almost star trek and not-subtle-at-all red uniform among what supposed to be random people - all of whose costumes can’t show a thing about their job?
Did he just say “tablet”??!? It’s an actual wooden tablet???
Well, at least they know Oba Diah has obsidian cliffs
Well, at least we know Boba is a quick poet
Wait is that guy actually wearing suit and tie? (+ hoodie we’ve seen on a dozen extras by now?)
this should’ve been the first epiosde
thanks narrator Din. Always eager to help out no-reason-to-stay newbies and knew-better-than-you diehards learn about star wars weapons.
These street hawkers sure seen enough not to pack up first thing and leave
if they give us girlfriends i’m willing to forget 5% of its faults
Wow beast vs droid. what keeps me from turning up a real episode of godzilla
Yesss Yesss that face. Sorry Bane you should’ve showed up earlier but at least salvaged a moment even though we’d never know what perosnal beef there is between you two BECAUSE TCW IS CANCELLED
oh i see the monster movie tribute isn’t over
ohh. okay feels like a bingo announcement at this point for how predictable the whole ep is
ha another shot concept art worthy
ohhhhh the la pykes looks like blue lanternnnn. Saint Walker GLTAS. down to the emblem
oh my for a second i thought the Ithorian got force-choked and thought it was Maul
Fennec MVP
haha a New Look with Starry Night prints and cheap support?
Haha feels no better than finishing a cartoon
oh so the suit guy was a regular moped ranger
Ah Rob Roz guy again no wonder so dull
Vanth…? They’re going to…? Hunh? *face of disgust*
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