Quoted from rai:

Mando (imo) is very basic, only noteworthy or talked about because it’s in the Star Wars universe. Maybe in time it’ll get better but I’m not impressed.

Quoted from Deaconblooze:

I agree. I finally finished it out last night. I'll say that the last episode was probably the best of all of them. The banter between the scout troopers had me laughing. I purposely avoided any information about who Mando was played by, and I was surprised when it was finally revealed.
The whole show felt disjointed. The episodes never felt cohesive. It felt like a 90s scifi or fantasy show because of that, and I really didn't care for it. I actually watched everything twice... once with just my wife, and then our whole family. The kids loved it, but there were certain episodes I dreaded watching... the one in the village, and the prisoner heist, especially. They were painful to sit through a second time, and I actually fell asleep (I never do that).
All in all, enough eye candy and some decent characters to carry the first season of the show. I look forward to the next season, but not in the same way I did for GOT or I do for Westworld.
Oh, and I didn't even realize that one guy was an Ugnaught until they announced it in the last episode. That was sort of a cool realization.

Quoted from HoakyPoaky:

Well this was an interesting read to say the least. Colin Trevorrow's version of Episode 9 has leaked, and it's a million times better than what JJ came up with. But I seem to recall that Trevorrow walked as soon as he discovered Luke was being killed off in Episode 8, so I'm not sure if this script is legit. But it's very interesting. A long read, but worth it...
https://geektyrant.com/news/colin-trevorrows-star-wars-episode-ix-script-reportedly-leaks-and-it-might-have-been-a-better-film-than-jj-abrams
EPISODE 9 DUEL OF FATES Synopsis:
* First Order & Supreme Leader Ren have conquered entire galaxy with iron fist
* Resistance virtually crushed, launches one last mission for freedom
* Rey, Fynn, Poe & Rose sneak into Kuat shipyards, steal a Star Destroyer & escape
* Knights of Ren arrive, kill First Order Admiral for his failure
* Commander Hux rules Corusant now (central location of the First Order), plots to finally destroy Last Jedi Rey & the Resistance stragglers
* Kylo Ren on long search for great sith power, ends up on Mustafar at Vader's Castle
* Kylo Ren is constantly haunted by Luke's ghost, which he resists to point of madness
* He finds Sith Holocron from Emperor to Vader, which tells him to take Luke to Remicore to see Tor Vallum, ancient Sith Master & Emperor's teacher
* Holocron explodes with red lightning, further scarring Kylo's face
* Rey returns to Leia with Star Destoyer, confesses she's still haunted by Kylo & lacks strength to become a Jedi
* Searches Jedi Texts, learns of secret communication system beneath destroyed Jedi Temple on Corusant, an old-republic signal that cannot be traced & can reach all corners of galaxy to contact allies
* Luke Ghost helps Rey train, remove doubts & convinces her to embrace the force
* Resistance launches final mission to defeat First Order
* Kylo understands that love is what corrupted Vader, smashes Vaders helmet & leaves for Remicore
* Rey & Leia still hope Kylo can be turned to the light
* Rebels infiltrate Jedi Temple, turn on beacon, flee to underworld of Corusant
* Rey heads to Bonadan to find a seer to unlock her memories, runs into Knights of Ren & defeats them
* Kylo reaches Ancient "Lovecraftian" 7000 year-old Sith Master & trains. Confronted by memories of Han, has brutal fight with Vader in a vision, and loses.
* From the seer, Rey discovers she really is no one, also discovers Kylo's location, goes to meet him
* Allies hear beacon & arrive, along with Lando in the Falcon. A massive last battle erupts on surface & over Corusant. Chewie flys an X-Wing
* Rey & Kylo final battle. He reveals that he was the one who killed her parents. Luke/Obiwan/Yoda ghosts appear to help save Ben, but fail.
* Kylo resists the light, would rather die instead & he dies. He is not redeemed. The Sith are extinguished.
* Resistance defeats the First Order, good finally conquers evil.
* Roll credits.
At least this is a cohesive sprawling story with some serious character development for Kylo. I prefer him not being redeemed. Would have made his character arc all the more tragic. What a shame.

Quoted from taylor34:

It does feel a lot like Star Wars: TNG, lol. I'm just bummed about the droid, to me that was my favorite character in the whole series by far.

Quoted from Deaconblooze:

I think SW would really benefit from a larger scale military tactic style show... politics, positioning fleets, space battles. We see so much minutiae in the ground battles surrounding a particular character. I think some more space would help the show feel of a larger scale. The universe feels like it's gotten smaller over the years, rather than bigger.

Quoted from Deaconblooze:

I agree. I finally finished it out last night. I'll say that the last episode was probably the best of all of them. The banter between the scout troopers had me laughing. I purposely avoided any information about who Mando was played by, and I was surprised when it was finally revealed.
The whole show felt disjointed. The episodes never felt cohesive. It felt like a 90s scifi or fantasy show because of that, and I really didn't care for it. I actually watched everything twice... once with just my wife, and then our whole family. The kids loved it, but there were certain episodes I dreaded watching... the one in the village, and the prisoner heist, especially. They were painful to sit through a second time, and I actually fell asleep (I never do that).
All in all, enough eye candy and some decent characters to carry the first season of the show. I look forward to the next season, but not in the same way I did for GOT or I do for Westworld.
Oh, and I didn't even realize that one guy was an Ugnaught until they announced it in the last episode. That was sort of a cool realization.

Quoted from Methos:

I agree with this. Does it really warrant repeated viewings? Or a special edition? No. The only reason it was well received was due to the bar was set so low.

Quoted from rai:

Mando (imo) is very basic, only noteworthy or talked about because it’s in the Star Wars universe. Maybe in time it’ll get better but I’m not impressed.
However if you want to talk about money or eyeballs it’s probably doing very well.
I’m currently at Hollywood Studios waiting for the Rise of the Resistance ride. The park is packed. You have to be inside the park by 7am to register for a boarding group which are completely assigned out by 7:30 now you may need to wait 12 hours to get on the ride. If you aren’t physically in the park by 7:20 you won’t get a boarding assignment. It must be a gold mine for Disney. $4.50 for a souvenir coke or sprite grenade, blue milk drink, droid build store packed. Star Wars area is packed with at least half of the people wearing Star Wars shirts or sweatshirts old ladies and young kiddies alike.
I’ll report back after the ride to give my opinion....
Long wait but the SW ride is one of the best of all time up the HP Gringots and Avatar Flights ride.

Quoted from Methos:

It isn’t that great, although to Star Wars fans who are rapid, they might like it. I think it suffers from the poor trilogy characters and story. If it was based on the OT, it might have been better.

Quoted from gdonovan:

I give the Mandalorian a little slack as it is "just" a TV show so keeping up a consistent flow of good shows can be difficult. On the whole been decent entertainment for the format.

Quoted from Methos:

My guess is that Disney is going to do more tv serials and avoid any more films for now. Less risk and brand backlash.

Quoted from HoakyPoaky:

Well it turns out that not only was Trevorrow's Dual of Fates script legit, but there was a ton of pre-production artwork completed. This script was developed much further than anyone realized. Which begs the question... how on earth did Kennedy scrap this story & replace with JJ's pile of dogshit. Just look at this pretty dark version of Episode 9 & think about what we got instead.
Further example that Kennedy needs to go ASAP....
Trevorrow also said he had nothing to do with those images of the ancient "spider-baby-head" sith master mentioned earlier.
Force Ghost Luke training Rey
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First Order occupied Corusant
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Planet Bonodan
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Rey with Double Bladed lighsaber during Star Destroyer heist
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Rey battling Giant Monster
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Rey escaping from Knights of Ren ship
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C3P0 & R2D2 in the underground ruins of Corusant
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7000 year old Sith Master Tor Valum
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Quoted from wesman:

Instead they chose an awkward buddy movie, where little to no existing chemistry between the three leads existed.
Ugh.

Quoted from oktobernv:

Anyone watch PICARD ep1?
Wow.....
That got off to a SLOW start.
I fell asleep and I was JAZZED to watch it
Not holding out a ton of hope for this one......

Quoted from oktobernv:

Anyone watch PICARD ep1?
Wow.....
That got off to a SLOW start.
I fell asleep and I was JAZZED to watch it
Not holding out a ton of hope for this one......

Quoted from gdonovan:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/obi-wan-kenobi-series-delayed-indefinitely/

Part of the problem is that the Kenobi story was treading similar ground as “Mandalorian,” the Jedi master lending a protective hand to a young Luke akin to the way Mando took ‘Baby Yoda’ under his custody.

Quoted from Hobbypinball:

Is there anything in cannon that for sure identifies Kenobi never leaves Tatooine? The worst thing they could do at this point would be to somehow throw a young Luke into the mix on this. People want Kenobi developed. Have him taken off Tatooine for whatever reason. By Kenobi's design, against his will, whatever. Make it NOTHING to do with the Skywalker saga. Hell tie it to deep space and Ezra story line .........anything but staying in the ruts of the story we know. What's the point if you do - we already know the outcome. Makes for pretty anticlimactic story telling.

Quoted from Hobbypinball:

Is there anything in cannon that for sure identifies Kenobi never leaves Tatooine? The worst thing they could do at this point would be to somehow throw a young Luke into the mix on this. People want Kenobi developed. Have him taken off Tatooine for whatever reason. By Kenobi's design, against his will, whatever. Make it NOTHING to do with the Skywalker saga. Hell tie it to deep space and Ezra story line .........anything but staying in the ruts of the story we know. What's the point if you do - we already know the outcome. Makes for pretty anticlimactic story telling.

Quoted from Jason43:

Or just don't do a kenobi show.

Quoted from Hobbypinball:

There are literally 40 years of novels and comic adaptions to pull from. They shot themselves in the foot de-canonizing a bunch of stuff. Don’t really know why either. Probably had something to do with $$

Quoted from oktobernv:

Anyone watch PICARD ep1?
Wow.....
That got off to a SLOW start.
I fell asleep and I was JAZZED to watch it
Not holding out a ton of hope for this one......

Quoted from kvan99:

I just watched it, what a terrible storyline. I don't understand, old Picard, Stewart looks very aged all of sudden, they waited too long to roll this out. I think they would have been better off writing a story about a young Picard leaving the family vineyard and joining Starfleet and his time as a young officer. This is was such a bogus story....I was shaking my head.

Quoted from Jason43:

Star wars and trek both suffer from the same problem these days. They can't come up with new, interesting ideas, so they keep regurgitating the same crap.

Quoted from kvan99:

I just watched an episode of Mike Tyson Mysteries....that show was freaking hilarious. Holy shit, I can't believe they actually made 4 season of it. I highly recommend you guys watch a few episodes. Seriously, this show is true unicorn.

Quoted from fosaisu:

With Norm Macdonald as one of his pigeons, right? Still haven't seen it but I'm a big Norm fan, so maybe it's time to give it a spin.

Quoted from Jason43:

Star wars and trek both suffer from the same problem these days. They can't come up with new, interesting ideas, so they keep regurgitating the same crap. Ideally, I'd like to see something new set in the star trek universe, but CBS is too inept to come up with anything interesting, so we get Picard drinking earl grey and saying "make it so" and some dude with a beard playing spock.

Quoted from fosaisu:

With Norm Macdonald as one of his pigeons, right? Still haven't seen it but I'm a big Norm fan, so maybe it's time to give it a spin.

Quoted from Hobbypinball:

For Trek I think Discovery tried to do this. I think the Spore drive is an attempt that let's them dabble in the "familiarity" of the established Trek universe while having the freedom to create something new. It's just been poorly executed in some's view........but TBH those people might just be looking for another Kirk vs something fresh. Regardless - Trek has taken much more risk at creating something new over SW though. The audience is actually part of the problem though. Call it Kirk syndrome or Jedi syndrome.

Quoted from BC_Gambit:

One of the first rules for making money should be your customers are almost never the problem.
They sell entertainment. If the people buying that product don't find it entertaining or they are not enticed to even try it the customer is not at fault.

Quoted from gdonovan:

This looked interesting.

Quoted from Jason43:

That looks awful. Like bad fan film, with a budget awful. I did lol at the laser fight, where they were 5 feet in front of each and no one hit a thing. Jesus fuck on a cracker.

Quoted from Tiltboss:

wow you got a lot of time on your hands LOL I would assume your dissertation on the middle three movies would take a minute to read a long minute.. I think it’s very obvious that Disney purchased the franchise in they are trying to close down Skywalker at Cetera the Skywalker saga as they called it makes sense to me there’s gonna be a few dead ends they can’t explore every single possible thing because of the saga is over now they’re going to ram side stories in spinoffs down our throat until we stop paying to see them which probably won’t ever happen I for one have absolutely loved the new movies since rogue one and I am a diehard I’ve got a tat lol.. I was dressed up as Darth Vader in the movie theater when my parents took me to see return of the Jedi... In hindsight the middle three movies were so astonishingly bad I’m glad they grabbed ewan McGregor..If you could say that the middle three movies were saved it would be because of him although I still can’t bear to watch them. I am stoked that they are doing a kenobi series with him starring.:I thought Solo was bad ass and I liked all the other new ones solo was actually one of my favorites people were hating on it because they’re used to Harrison Ford but come on people what are you gonna do travel back in time and get a young Harrison Ford I thought the kids did a great job at in Woody Harrelson etc. etc. I thought it was bad ass I thought Solo was bad ass and I liked all the other new ones solo was actually one of my favorites people were hating on it because they’re used to Harrison Ford but come on people what are you gonna do travel back in time and get a young Harrison Ford I thought the kids did a great job ad in Woody Harrelson etc. etc. I thought it was bad ass‍♂️ But again it seems pretty apparent that Disney wants to schedule the Skywalker saga

Quoted from Jason43:

That looks awful. Like bad fan film, with a budget awful. I did lol at the laser fight, where they were 5 feet in front of each and no one hit a thing. Jesus fuck on a cracker.

Quoted from gdonovan:

This looked interesting.