The Mandalorian (TV series)

[bassman]

Trailer for Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian: Star Wars has had many highs and lows with the fans recently, but I’m super excited for this show!

[Neil]

Fingers crossed!

[MinionZombie]

Ooh, that does look good - and Werner Herzog is in this?!

[bassman]

Ooh, that does look good - and Werner Herzog is in this?! Herzog, Carl Weathers, Giancarlo Esposito, Pedro Pascal, Taiki Waititi, and even Nick friggin Nolte! Crazy cast, and all of it under Favreau’s direction?? Could be something special!

[blind2d]

It looks cool, sure, but only on Disney+? BS.

[Neil]

Taiki Waititi? Nick Nolte? Really?

[shootemindehead]

Trailer for Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian: Star Wars has had many highs and lows with the fans recently, but I’m super excited for this show! Looks good and the tone seems to be to my liking. Werner Herzog, LOL. As someone who was merely meh about 'The Force Awakens' and thought 'The Last Jedi' was absolute rubbish, I've long since abandoned Diswars. The only thing they've done that's been any way good was 'Rogue One', which I thought was an excellent film. But I couldn't care less about 'The Rise of Skywalker' and when the sequel trilogy is over, I won't bat a single hair on my eyelid. But this show promises a lot. The main problem with Star Wars, though, is Star Wars, which can be brilliant one the on hand and also utter shite on the other. It's a ying and yang and to paraphrase a certain idiot, "you never know your going to get."

[bassman]

It looks cool, sure, but only on Disney+? BS. Disney is making a huge push to dominate the streaming war. With their insane amount of properties, including original content such as this, they may very well win... Taiki Waititi? Nick Nolte? Really? Waititi is helming an episode, I’m not sure of his acting involvement, but I would imagine it’s a smaller role. Maybe an alien voiceover?

[blind2d]

Disney is making a huge push to dominate the streaming war. With their insane amount of properties, including original content such as this, they may very well win... What a dystopia that'll be. But hey, what can you expect from capitalism, amIright?

[EvilNed]

What a dystopia that'll be. But hey, what can you expect from capitalism, amIright? Competition. Anyway, this looks great. But I won't watch it, because I'm not really into Star Wars anymore, and I won't get Disney+ either. One curious thing, releasing this a month before the next Star Wars film, is that really a good move? I think after the last film a lot of people are on the fence on whether to watch the new one or not (It'll still make huge bucks, of course) but there is definetly a theory called "Theatricality" - essentially, people will not go to watch films that they feel that they can see at home while streaming. This show seems more interesting than the film they're putting out the next month. It's got to hurt the box office somehow, even if just a little.

[bassman]

What a dystopia that'll be. But hey, what can you expect from capitalism, amIright? One curious thing, releasing this a month before the next Star Wars film, is that really a good move? I think after the last film a lot of people are on the fence on whether to watch the new one or not (It'll still make huge bucks, of course) but there is definetly a theory called "Theatricality" - essentially, people will not go to watch films that they feel that they can see at home while streaming. This show seems more interesting than the film they're putting out the next month. It's got to hurt the box office somehow, even if just a little. I’d thought the same thing, but I’m guessing their plan with Star Wars will be similar to their plan with Marvel, which is to alternate between streaming and theatrical premieres, creating very small windows of downtime without content. If not handled well, it can quickly turn into content overload, but we’ll see...

[shootemindehead]

One curious thing, releasing this a month before the next Star Wars film, is that really a good move? They're trying to use it to generate enthusiasm for 'The Rise of Skywalker'. They'll have a hard time doing that with a lot of folk, including myself.

[blind2d]

Lol, nice. But Ned, innovation can exist (and does, far more easily and quickly) without the need for competitive pressures getting involved. So I'll ask you to stan some other facet of capitalism, if you wish, but yeah, it's completely evil and y'all need to realize that. I would think that Dawn of the Dead had already taught us all of this. Anyway, yeah, I don't see this going well. The whole Disney+/Star Wars thing that we're actually talking about.

[EvilNed]

Lol, nice. But Ned, innovation can exist (and does, far more easily and quickly) without the need for competitive pressures getting involved. So I'll ask you to stan some other facet of capitalism, if you wish, but yeah, it's completely evil and y'all need to realize that. I would think that Dawn of the Dead had already taught us all of this. Anyway, yeah, I don't see this going well. The whole Disney+/Star Wars thing that we're actually talking about. Capitalism made it possible for you to express your opinion freely. So I guess that's another point in favor of capitalism.

[MinionZombie]

Please do not derail this thread any further with politics. Thank you.