The mandalorian [Spoilers]
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Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
I went to one of those terminals where all you have to do is show you face and you can get anything.
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
Interview with Star Wars RPG writer Bill Slavicsek about The Mandalorian:
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"Star Wars" insider Bill Slavicsek on how "The Mandalorian" has redeemed the universe
Longtime game developer on "playing in George Lucas' driveway" and how "The Mandalorian" has rescued "Star Wars"
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doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Bill's work definitely defined post OT Star Wars, for me.Interview with Star Wars RPG writer Bill Slavicsek about The Mandalorian:
"Star Wars" insider Bill Slavicsek on how "The Mandalorian" has redeemed the universe
Longtime game developer on "playing in George Lucas' driveway" and how "The Mandalorian" has rescued "Star Wars"
The broader Galaxy is all Tapani nobles (and saber rakes), sky slicers and swoop bikes, Red Shift Limit on the data stick, running from Imperial Inquisitors in my YT-1930, Corellian Whiskey, etc.
Zardnaar
Legend
YT 1930 why not the 2000 or 2400?
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
the 1930 is the coolest light freighter in the galaxy. I never liked the look and feel of the later models.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Why does everyone assume that Grogu will get aged up? He's not Groot. He's already fifty years old. Ten, twenty years later, he should be mostly unchanged. Maybe he'll start talking, sure, but that's about it. I don't think there's a way for him to be aged to a teenager without Mando being an old man.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
growth spurts are a thing.
Imaculata
Hero
On the topic of illusion of depth, this is one of the reasons when I write a D&D campaign, that I write a lot more backstory than the players will ever explore. It creates a feeling that all the individual elements are part of a greater whole, but there are purposefully puzzle pieces missing. It is a puzzle that the players can try and put together in their head, although it is not meant to be solved.
Many of those background elements are just window dressing; never meant to be stories of their own. In that respect, I feel exploring the clone wars and Vaders backstory was a mistake. It is not as interesting to show the audience what happened, rather than leaving it to the audience to fill in the blanks. Vader was written as a villain, and never meant to be a protagonist. So you have to jump through a lot of hoops to make him one.
Likewise, showing the Spice Mines of Kessel in Solo feels creatively bankrupt. I enjoyed the film, while a lot of people seem to hate on it. But the way these spinoffs blow up George Lucas' table scraps into full blown stories, feels extremely uninspired to me.
The trilogy of The Hobbit movies had the same problem. Peter Jackson tried to transform a simple book into a fullblown epic trilogy, by filling it with left overs from the Silmarillion: details that were never meant to be full blown stories of their own. Transforming the window dressing into the foreground of a grand adventure, means taking away some of that mystery, and the feeling of depth. Sure, he's filling in the missing pieces and creating actual depth. But what is inserted is not necessarily better than what we had in our heads. And some puzzles are intended to remain unsolved. I did not need to see the clone wars, or the spice mines of Kessel, or the battle of the 5 armies.
Many of those background elements are just window dressing; never meant to be stories of their own. In that respect, I feel exploring the clone wars and Vaders backstory was a mistake. It is not as interesting to show the audience what happened, rather than leaving it to the audience to fill in the blanks. Vader was written as a villain, and never meant to be a protagonist. So you have to jump through a lot of hoops to make him one.
Likewise, showing the Spice Mines of Kessel in Solo feels creatively bankrupt. I enjoyed the film, while a lot of people seem to hate on it. But the way these spinoffs blow up George Lucas' table scraps into full blown stories, feels extremely uninspired to me.
The trilogy of The Hobbit movies had the same problem. Peter Jackson tried to transform a simple book into a fullblown epic trilogy, by filling it with left overs from the Silmarillion: details that were never meant to be full blown stories of their own. Transforming the window dressing into the foreground of a grand adventure, means taking away some of that mystery, and the feeling of depth. Sure, he's filling in the missing pieces and creating actual depth. But what is inserted is not necessarily better than what we had in our heads. And some puzzles are intended to remain unsolved. I did not need to see the clone wars, or the spice mines of Kessel, or the battle of the 5 armies.
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Assuming that species ages the same way that humans do.
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