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So this season opener is basically the 7 samurai (Baby Yoda = 6) help the people of Deadwood and Sheriff Seth Bullock ally with the yak-riding Sandpeople of Rohan to kill Smaug, the sand worm of Dune that came to Tatooine from Arrakis. v nice
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Titus Welliver is in this one as holdout imperial captain, nice. I like how they have really solid actors in these small roles.
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Feels like the big names kinda phoned in meh performances and signed up to do the Mandalorian just to check a personal bingo box. You can tell none of them are trying too hard to rise above the wooden dialogue.
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The 9 movies really should be considered weak backstory/exposition for the Mandalorian as the main act. A bunch of short stories in a fragmented universe is really where the soul of this fictional universe lies. The footnotes are the main text. The main text is a big footnote.
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I’m a fan of languid post-climatic wandering as in a posthistorical narrative landscape when the main story is over. Bobba Fett just showed up. Love that sort of loose-end story. On this canvas he looms larger than life. On the main one he’s a footnote. 9 years after.
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If the 9-movies main story were better done this would feel like fan fiction. But here all the Mary Sues are in the movies.
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Another movie that does this well is Spider-Man: Homecoming. My favorite plot device is that the Vulture got his tech from the debris of the battle for New York in Avengers. Footnote >> big story.
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