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A decent if unremarkable premiere, imo.
Cool to see the Sarlacc bit, though.
Cool to see the Sarlacc bit, though.
I think they got the memo that almost nobody liked the redesign.On a positive note, the Trandoshan looked worlds better than the two from Mando 1x2.
I think, to some extent, it felt a bit underwhelming simply because its only point of comparison is The Mandalorian, which had Possibly The Greatest First Episode Ever. Nothing could ever match the impact of meeting the Child by surprise ( and trying would fail for feeling like a deliberate attempt to duplicate the impact ).
I love the Mando, but no. Of the top of my head, BSG, Justified, The Americans, GoT, Hannibal, Invader Zim, Stranger Things stomp it into the ground. Heck it isn't even the best Star Wars first episode on Disney+. The Bad Batch has that on lockdown until at least Obi.I think, to some extent, it felt a bit underwhelming simply because its only point of comparison is The Mandalorian, which had Possibly The Greatest First Episode Ever. Nothing could ever match the impact of meeting the Child by surprise ( and trying would fail for feeling like a deliberate attempt to duplicate the impact ).
We got a name for that multi-armed creature yet?
I mean we all pictured something over 30 years ago,This episode kinda makes me think of that Patton Oswald bit....
I mean we all pictured something over 30 years ago,
Just imagined it'd be more epic and intense.
Pit should have been filled with half digested and rotten still living beings. Clutching at him, and begging him to kill them.
While acid eats at him and his armor, and tendrils try to attach themselves to him, and down his throat and through his ears to his brain, to keep him alive in stasis and slowly digest him. This struggle should have been terrifying.
With nothing working, grapnel fires up, but nothing to grab, darts absorbed, blades ineffectual, flame thrower useless. While it piece by piece, strips him of his weapons and armor, and spits them out (how the Jawas got them), till his final chance is a last ditch suicide detonator and an explosive jet pack rise out of the abyss, as a relentless swarm of tendrils lash out and rise in pursuit, engulfed in flames, suddenly severed by the explosion, and fall away dead around him, as he falls back to earth...
A group of Tusken nomads in awe having just witnessed the impossible.
Instead of crawling out like a bloated frog.
The Snyder Cut of pointless scenes. I think Rise of Skywalker points shows what happens when you bring the old EU to the big screen.
I can see this. I just wish it hadn't got hacked down and they didn't ditch all the legit weird stuff. I liked KJA's books.All of it was just one big KJA novel come to life.
I thought it was made fairly clear he crawled out with the last bit of oxygen in his lungs, long gone. You expected him to be able to do all of what you suggested? Also, we already knew he lost his gear. How was that suppose to happen?He could have at least remote called Slave-1, then launched a grapnel line to it's opening ramp. Fired up his Jet-Pack torching the living **** out the Sarlacc on his way up to dignified freedom.
Anything would have better than that phoned in "escape" scene, and crawling out like a slug.
You don't have to like it. I was a little underwhelmed. But what you suggested made zero sense in context, but be mad bro.By writing and filming an actual interesting escape scene.
For a 30 years anticipated and imagined survival nightmare and escape scene meant to bridge the gap, what they delivered seemed phoned in and forgettable.
If you loved great.
By writing and filming an actual interesting escape scene.
For a 30 years anticipated and imagined survival nightmare and escape scene meant to bridge the gap, what they delivered seemed phoned in and forgettable.
If you loved great.
I say this as a Fett fanboy. People treat him like he's a Jedi or something. He's not. He's incredibly skilled, a complete badass, and as we have learned a lot recently, a man who believes in ruling with respect. But he's also not a superhero. He wasn't going to leap from the depths of the sarlacc, as fireworks go off in the background. If he was capable of that ,he would have never lost his armor.He came out like he went it. Seems like perfect writing to me.