Originally Posted by dex14 (Post 13657281)

A reminder that Deborah Chow, who directed this episode and episode 3, will be directing the Obi-Wan series in full.

Originally Posted by OldBoy (Post 13659017)

Can someone please pm me, don’t want to read thread till I see, but this was finale, right? What’s listed in IMDb for 12.27 is probably some special, right? Thanks.

Originally Posted by The Cow (Post 13659018)

It's in the 3rd post. You can read that far.

Originally Posted by OldBoy (Post 13659017)

Can someone please pm me, don’t want to read thread till I see, but this was finale, right? What’s listed in IMDb for 12.27 is probably some special, right? Thanks.

Originally Posted by OldBoy (Post 13659017)

Can someone please pm me, don’t want to read thread till I see, but this was finale, right? What’s listed in IMDb for 12.27 is probably some special, right? Thanks.

Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt (Post 13657231)

Solid finale...assuming one isn't looking for answers to anything about Baby Yoda. :)

Who knew TIE fighters could land like that? My toys have been incorrectly designed for years! ;)

Originally Posted by Abob Teff (Post 13659107)

Oh hell yes ... Favreau figured out a way to redo The Holiday Special and backdoor it in to us! I’m going with that theory. 7 actual episodes and a modern Life Day Special out of nowhere!

Originally Posted by spainlinx0 (Post 13658439)

Do military leaders from other countries have superpowers that I’m not aware of?

I just always found the way the prequels were handled a little weird. The Jedi has a council that spanned millenia and they weren’t a secret organization. They were like intergalactic cops who had bright swords and were superhuman. Everyone knew them.

In less than 50 years, people acted like they were a myth? I never really got that.

Originally Posted by Noonan (Post 13658507)

You don't think there would have been many stories about him and how he led armies during the Clone Wars or fought the Emperor in the Senate chamber? If you're aware of major world events that happened in the last 50-100 years, I don't see why we'd assume that all of the Jedi have been forgotten across the "world" of SW.

Originally Posted by majorjoe23 (Post 13658523)

But these aren’t world events. They’re intergalactic events. Everyone on Coruscant might know about him, but characters in the outer rim? People are talking about planets like they’re other countries, but it’s not like someone on Tattooine would ever set foot on another world, or even hear much about another. If there are thousands or millions of other populated worlds, you might not keep track or whoever is the most powerful Zoroastrian or whatever millions of light years away.

Originally Posted by Mabuse (Post 12813418)

I just listened to a podcast that contained a tremendous amount of relevance to The Force Awakens, especially some of the things the film gets criticized for.

Some have been critical about the idea that Han, Luke, The Force, etc seem to have been forgotten, slipping into the realm of myth in a single generation.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radi...are?act=2#play

This episode of This American Life (it's part 2 "Who Wants to Know") is about two kids, brother and sister, whose father played a role in a rebellion against a superpower. The brother has no memory of his father who died before he was born, the sister has only the faintest of adolescent memories.

A key moment comes when the sister refers to her father's actions as now being a myth. This is a guy who died only 26 years ago and his own daughter regards his leadership and battles and the war he fought as now being a myth residing in a file cabinet that even she doesn't fully know anything about. Does that sound familiar?

Another criticism of The Force Awakens revolves around The First Order and how, after the Empire was soundly defeated, something so similarly oppressive and similar looking could come along and carry on. The podcast recounts the last 30 years of Iranian political history. It tells how after deposing of one evil, undemocratic "Emperor"-like dictator, the rebels cheered that peace and secular democracy would finally arrive only to find that in just a short matter of time an equally repressive group, with an even creepier more evil looking figure head (the Ayatollah Khomeini), would come to power and terrorize the rebels yet again.

Not only is the story of the two siblings very good, but I think it really lends credence to the screenwriters and proves that what we're shown in The Force Awakens is very much aligned with things that can genuinely occur in history.

Originally Posted by mewmartigan (Post 13661307)

The first 3 were a continuous story and the last 2 are a continuation. So more like 5/8 had a story. And I enjoyed the stand alone ones too.

Originally Posted by Noonan (Post 13658507)

You don't think there would have been many stories about him and how he led armies during the Clone Wars or fought the Emperor in the Senate chamber? If you're aware of major world events that happened in the last 50-100 years, I don't see why we'd assume that all of the Jedi have been forgotten across the "world" of SW.

Originally Posted by VinVega (Post 13661582)

Ep5 may be a factor later with the mystery character at the end of the episode.

Originally Posted by Mabuse (Post 13660182)

I feel like Favreu must have been a big fan of the SW toys. The Imperial Troop Transporter in this episode was one of those toys that didn’t actually appear in the movie.

I had a Yoda an IG-88 and a Bobba Fett. But I didn’t make them interact much. The Mandalorian is like somebody shook up the toy box. I love it.

Originally Posted by TGM (Post 13710476)

I'm hoping S2 has a huge transport in the shape of Darth Vader's head.