I'm over 30 and I don't see the point. I grew up with my dad wanting to watch Rocky, and Alien and Predator, as well as Trek and Wars. Doesn't make the movie any more appealing to me, then or now. IDIC everyone.
Did anyone see it? ANy spoiler free reviews? Not ready to subscribe...but if wondering how it portends for future productions?
Some may find it slow. I found it intriguing with a good hook and potential season-long mystery both in character and plot. It does potentially set things in motion for future stories outside of this series should the story go a certain way. Hard to know until the season is over.
Sometimes you're just not interested in a film........I'm 48 and JUST made myself watch The Godfather movies about a year ago. I enjoyed them very much and was amazed at how many "in jokes" and pop culture references come from them. I just never had the desire to see them when they were released.
I liked it. Like others have mentioned, it's a 'Space Western' which is fine. I did think that during the whole first bounty sequence, the Madalorian seemed a bit TOO self confident; and for a person who dislikes Droids, it's interesting that he has a ship that can auto fly itself when he's out of the Pilot seat dispatching a creature that's grabbed a landing strut and won't let go. I also think he took the 'half-payment' situation a bit too easily - and he seemed to pass most of it onto the armorer who made his Pauldron piece - so yeah, how IS he covering his fuel costs with deals like these? I did like the Mandalorian/Bounty Droid teamup bit. As for the Yoda species - yeah, if after 50 years it's STILL a toddler; that would seem to make Yoda maybe a teenager at 900 - He must have really let himself go to die so young, Overall, simple, straighforward, with good production values. I already found it more enjoyable then the Lucas prequels and TLJ. - YMMV.
So I'm just spitballing here, because it's fun to speculate when we have no useful information to go on, and this doesn't in any way have to be the case, nor will it be. But. We have the 50 year time span so they could misdirect us, and because Yoda lived a really long time we can kind of hand wave it away. But maybe they'll go really, genuinely alien here. In which case there isn't any reason they couldn't go completely off the rails with this one. Maybe the species is basically an infant for a century, but then rapidly accelerates through an abbreviated adolescence in a handful of years and spends 750 years as an adult. Hell, maybe the infant stage isn't even the first in it's life cycle. What if it has some kind of larval stage that it has spent most of that 50 years in? It's an advanced age caterpillar become a really young butterfly. We tend to think of such metamorphoses in terms of the final version being fully matured, but there isn't any real reason it has to be (Ok, maybe from a realistic evolutionary standpoint there is, I'm not a scientist, doctor or expert of any kind. But why bring realism into it?) I don't actually think they'll be that bold, or waste precious screen time getting any further into the life cycle of the Asset than they absolutely have to. But I'm sure we could No-Prize something up if we really had to.
No joke: I've had The Godfather on DVD for like a decade and *still* haven't gotten around to it.. "Because I don't feel like it" is a totally valid reason for a person to choose not to consume a piece of entertainment.
Indeed, I must say, I was sucked in quickly and thought "ohhhhhhhhhh NOW I see what all the fuss was about!"
And I'm sure the same will probably happen to me if I ever get in the frame of mind to actually put it on. Indeed it's what happened when I got around to watching the likes of 'Casablanca', 'Seven Samurai', and 'North By Northwest'. ...But not today.
So I had the day off and was going to play some SWTOR this morning, forgetting there was maintenance today. And still wanted my Star Wars fix. So I finally capitulated and signed up for Disney. (I didn't even know about the Hulu bundle.) Anyhoo, I just finished watching literally a minute ago. I loved it. I thought the pacing was spot on. It allowed the set pieces to breathe and gave time to soak in all the Star Warsy accouterment. And there was more than enough character revelation and development for a pilot episode. I mean how much did you know about Captain Kirk after WNMHGB other than he used to date a blonde scientist and his middle name started with "R"? I also loved the spaghetti western of it all - as I love spaghetti westerns. Is it derivative? Of course. But like 90% of all Star Wars is other genres in glow-stick drapery. So what? I'm curious as anyone about the "baby." But I'm just as interested in how it wound up with a bunch of Nikto. And I had a little chuckle seeing the rotisserie monkey lizard, which immediately turned into a sad after the camera panned over to its partner in the cage.
Judging by where it was, I don't think they actually knew what they had. Wild guess: they're pirates that raided some old Imperial lab, or stole a cargo shipment from a Remnant faction or something and the "Asset" just happened to be amongst the loot. It's possible said pirates were in the employ of one of the ex-Imperial factions to get the Asset away from the other faction and the pirates just opted to keep it all for themselves, hence the discrete bounty. Or the buyer was someone else entirely and the Imperials somehow found out about the exchange. One has to wonder if this is going to be a new recurring gag in Star Wars. If so it's way darker then wilhelm screams. I approve.
I saw it as an easter egg (one of many in the episode) - much like the Droid escorting the Mandalorian in the short hallway to the meeting room where he had the face to face with "The Client". That was a droid that was in the Jawa Dessert Trawler in the original STAR WARS that was walking around when they cut to the inside with the Droid junkyard and R2D2 and C3P0 find each other) ^^^ And if you wonder how I remember that - I probably saw STAR WARS 100 times in a theater between May 1977 and December 1978 (sat through two showings back to back during the Summer months on 1978 - and yes, you could do that back then as they didn't come through and clear the theater after each show. )
Gonk droids have shown up dozens of times in Star Wars media. Very popular Easter egg fodder. And yeah, this episode was LOADED with Easter eggs. We'll see if that was just the premiere only, or if the whole season is going to be like this.
Apparently when main character is down in the Mandalorian hideout there is someone in what appears to be Boba Fett's armor in the background. Not necessarily, even on Earth animals can develop at vastly different speeds, some are born as fully self sufficient mini-adults, and others can take over a decade to fully develop. We can't really make this kind of determination until we know about them.
Salacious Crumb on a spit kinda made me laugh and cry at the same time. The other Kowakian Monkey Lizard that was still in the cage next to the one roasting on a spit seemed so despondent.
There was a great Q&A with the cast and directors yesterday AND the audience got to screen 2nd and 3rd episodes..........if you have time it's worth a watch.