The Kristian Harloff Show - The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 8 Spoiler Discussion!

Episode Date: April 19, 2023

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What's going on? Everybody, welcome back. It's Sith Council. We are going to be talking about the Mandalorian season finale. And the good news for a lot of you people is that Mike's not here. So, Jeff and I'll actually be able to speak. No, I'm just kidding. No. We love Mike. We do love Mike, but let's call it what it is. Anyway, we're going to be talking about the Mandalorian, and we are going to be diving deep into season three. The finale, obviously, what we liked, what we didn't like,

all those different things. If you're looking for a hate fest, you come to a wrong channel. If you're looking for a love fest, you come to the wrong channel. If you're looking for a show that we're going to talk about both what we loved and what we didn't, then you've come to the right show in Star Wars Sith Council. Big thing. So thanks for joining us here today. find us on Spotify. We're on Spotify on video, obviously. We're also on Apple, Apple, what's it

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Today's show, we're also going to be talking about some Andor Season 2 news, the Asoka buildup. Damon Lindelof wishes luck to the future team of his project that he called The Labor of Love. We'll go into all that more on Sith Council. It is Sith Council. It's myself. It's Steph Sabra. Here we go. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

It's Sith Council. It's myself and nobody. Steph Subras I'm Grogu's adopted mother You are They just didn't say it in the show But you are But I am

What did you say? You said it would be I guess Grogu Sabra or Sabra Yeah Subra Gros Yeah So I mean

Semantics here He can go by Din Grogu Until he realizes What's what Who's mommy Yeah right I understand

You're like Ray Ripley You don't know what that means No Okay That's funny I'm excited to fall off the table. I'm excited to do a live show with you. We've never done that before.

Like a full in-person type of show. That's where the three of us, me and you and Mike on stage, is going to be trouble. Oh my gosh. It's going to be trouble. Especially with all of you at home who watch this show. They get it.

You get it. Yeah, you know what's going to happen. It's going to be me and you making fun of Mike laughing. And everyone's going to be with us. Yeah, Mike too. What? What? Yeah, go ahead.

What? And then go ahead. You start. What is you? Oh, yeah, so I love this year. Hold on, Seth for the minute. Okay. Yeah, so the thing is, the thing is it's, okay.

Savage. Now, if you watch this particular thing, there's too many lightsabers in Star Wars. Can you believe it? Well, I love Star Wars. I mean, I love it too, but that's what's going to happen. He was great. He was great at the wedding, by the way. He was a lot of fun.

Oh, really? Yeah, we hung out. He's a great time. It was fun to hang out with him and Shannon. It was good to see Shannon again. But anyway, let's talk about this episode. And like I said, up top, because I saw some people last week on Twitter. And people were saying, like, oh, you guys are negative all the time.

I was like, that's not negative. We talk about the things we love. We talk about things we don't. And you guys got to understand what show you're watching. If you were looking for the everything is awesome, there's a lot of everything is awesome shows. There's a lot of people who just hate things. And too, there's a lot of those channels. That's not this.

We're just going to talk about things we liked, things we didn't like. And like I did on my spoiler review, I want to start with the things that I liked. You walked in and said exactly what I was feeling, and that this show delivered on the stuff we wanted, this episode delivered on what we wanted it to this week. It stayed consistent with a lot of stuff it has been doing. The action was fantastic. The overall, it gave you, it had lightsaber fights, it had the four, or dark saber fights. It had the force. It had space battles.

It had, it had fights. it had drama, it had all the science fiction elements to it as well. It delivered on that aspect for sure. Do you agree? Yeah, definitely. I think it gave a great finale for what the show has given the season. It was a finale for this season. Yeah.

And I think that that's what it starts out, again, spoiler-heavy. But the other thing that I said to you that you agreed with is that this episode to me could have been one episode combined with seven. Because someone posted, well, it was 40 minutes. It was not 40 minutes. It was 32 minutes. If you cut out the two minutes up top of the what happened before and then the five or six minutes of credits, it's a 32, 33 minute episode. But inside of that 33, again, keeping it positive, it was entertaining from start to finish and starts with Boatat and the whole crew running out. And it was just pure organized chaos.

Yeah, I did love the action and I love the shots. It was kind of giving me TLJ vibes and how it was shot a little bit. And I thought that like the scenes where all of the Mandalorians are flying in just looked sick. And then versus the Stormtroopers who now are like all in Mandalorian gear going at each other is awesome. Yeah, because you pitched out to me. I'm like, hell yeah. Yeah, and threats. And they had and you believe that they were actual threats that it wasn't.

Yeah, it was actually on the edge of my seat. for a lot. Yeah, because it didn't seem like stormtroopers where like, well, they can't shoot anything stormtroopers. This is not a threat. Nobody's, nobody's going to die. We saw what happened to Pas Vizal. Like it's clearly there is a threat. I didn't love that they didn't even mention Pas Vizal once. Even his son just got kind of put in the water, but like, didn't give, anyway. Yeah, there's not that depth. No. And we'll, we'll get into that in a second. But the, but the stuff that we, this, again, the stuff that was really good was the threat was there for sure the action was there you know what i loved no stupid spy thing of the armor being bad yeah i would

have hated that it would have been so stupid it would have made no sense but who is so they just put the spies plural the spy the spy was katie o'brien yeah but why was it the spies i think that there was someone to mention that and probably they'll put it in the comments here too there's another one i guess was it a someone on the inside from the empire or something or something i can't remember what it was. Someone said there was some kind of breaker or whatever. I don't remember. But either way, it wasn't any of the Mandalorians. It wasn't Axe.

It wasn't the armor. And that made so much sense. Or the newbies, the pirate mandos. Why in the world would the armor be a spy? I agree. I just think that they set it up to be like there's someone on the inside who's a spy. Yeah. And it was

but I think, but Katie O'Brien's character was the main spy because she was the one who, without her intel, you wouldn't have known that the mandolians were even going to be there. Another thing that I loved, and I'll stick to the positive part of what I loved about it,

was that the cloning idea of with Moff Gideon, when he's going, this is not, you guys have your own thing you want to do. You want me to do cloning? Okay, I'll do cloning. And he starts cloning himself. Great storyline. I wish it would be.

been built up a little bit more through the season. I wish we would have seen that earlier because it was so abrupt. It's like, here's all his clones and then all his clones are dead. But the idea and the thought of we're cloning Mof Gideon and he wants to put the force and that's why he wants Grogu. Well, shit, that makes a lot of sense for season one now. Like, okay. That's the big reveal.

Again, it felt abrupt. But the actual story point, that was pretty great. Yeah, I agree. I just rewatched Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 and Ego's the villain and I feel like Moth and ego actually have pretty similar vibes in a lot of ways. They're like, they're narcissistic and they're like, I'm freaking awesome. And then I'm going to just take what I need to make something even more freaking awesome. Yeah.

And you can clone these people. But I agree. So I like it. It's like how I feel about every way I talk about the season. I loved a lot of the things. I think that there is a part of me that's like, oh, like, I wish the execution was a little different, but I still did very much enjoy this episode. My favorite part probably was the Dinn and Grogu actually teaming up. Like, this is the first time they were utilizing each other in different ways.

Yeah, and it wasn't too Goo Goo Goo Gaga that I got lost. Yeah, and it was, yeah, it felt like specific and intentional. And I was like, okay, this is really dope watching them together. It had a master and apprentice live to it. had that thing to where he relied on him to do certain things a way that didn't would help him in that fight like I mean excuse me Groga would help him in that fight like when the guards are coming over

and Groga would just push stuff out of the way and like that was great and and you could see the guards getting frustrated like what the hell I'm trying to do this and he's tossing off the side and I think that also the scene with R5 I really liked a lot and I didn't talk about that on my spoiler review I really like that scene because what it did was it

threw back classic kind of R2 vibes and classic Star Wars moment where opening up each thing. Okay, now open this one, and he's preoccupied with some of the little mouse droids. I thought if you would have pitched it to me years ago, and then the droids going to get too many of the mouse droids away, she's got to fly away. And I'm like, come on, the flying away. I'm like, well, aren't you had boosters? Why wouldn't he? Right. I thought that, I actually didn't, I'm glad that we brought that up because I didn't talk about that in my

spoiler. I wish you really liked that moment a lot. I like that moment a lot, too. I love the tension, the suspense, the buildup, like the communication between Dinn and R5 and just the growth. We didn't get much character arc or growth with Dinn at all the season. And, and, and what I was hoping to, I was hoping for him to challenge his own belief system within the Mandalorian creed. But I do like that he's now relying on droids in a way that he wouldn't have in season one. And it built for a really cool scene. That's a good point as well, too. Let's jump to the end real quick, because it is another thing that I really like. I was confused.

I saw this all over the place, that there are tons of people that were like, oh, this felt like the series finale. I didn't feel that at all. I felt like, they were like, oh, yeah, even someone in the comment section for the spoiler, is like, oh, come on, man. I say, I love you, but that felt like the series finale. I'm like, because they said that Din was kind of just sitting on the farm, hanging out with his son. Sure. But here's the difference.

we've already got an announcement that Dave Flonney's doing a movie. We've already had... So if Dave Flonnelly never had this announcement and it was like this... And Favreau hadn't said, there's no ending in sight for it, then it could have felt like that

because there was no announcement of anything too. And knowing that they also... What it also played to me, more so than a series finale, it played like, well, we had an idea for Rangers of the New Republic. It isn't happening. in the way that we wanted it to, but we liked the story.

So, you know, we were sitting around on set one day going, well, instead of, you know, having the ex-Rebel running around doing these missions for the New Republic, why don't we just make season four, Dinn and Grogu going on missions for the New Republic. But we take it back old school, like season one, he's still doing bounties and stuff, but now he's doing bounties for the New Republic on the side. It's a cool pitch. Yeah, it is a cool pitch. I do understand where people are coming from.

You think it did, right. Yeah, I think from like a standpoint of if I wasn't on Sith Council and paying attention to the news every week, then I might be like, okay, I could see this being a pretty good end, not realizing what else they could do with it. I do wonder, like, to me, I'm not a huge adventure of the week type person. I think there's a way to execute it, but like, growing up, I love Charmed. And I think that's, those times are kind of past. as a viewer we change and evolve

and I think like I will as a viewer need something to anchor me other than an adventure of the week. Couldn't agree more. I mean our biggest concern on a lot of bad batch was adventure of the week because you get lost after a while and I think that when they do that in

Mandalorian sometimes you get lost in it but remember though that when Mandalorian season one started it could have been an adventure of the week where he goes up he arrests Horatio San And you're like, well, what's what's this adventure that he's going on and said, well, we got this bounty for you, which turned out to be the actual story. So I think he's going to be going on little adventures with Grogu, which will feel like you say as well, the adventures of the week.

But you start building out what the through line of the actual story is because they have to connect to the movie. They have to connect to the overall universe because they have season four of Mandalorian. They have Asoka, season one and potentially season two. And they have skeleton crew, no, whether that's one or two seasons. I don't know, but those are all the shows that have to build before Filoni's movie in 2026, maybe 2027. So you have that buildup. So you have to tell more of just Adventures of the Week because you were building out a story, which is a guess, not really a criticism for me, but interesting that there was more set up in episode seven about Thrawn and what could potentially come than there's no throw to Asoka. at all in this, which I thought was interesting, not a critique, just interesting, considering that

show is coming out in August. It has rebels. It has people who liked Asoka and Rosario Dawson and Clone Wars fans on board. But the casual fan who just watches Mandalorian wasn't given a, you got to watch this one it comes out in August because it's relevant to this. Does that make sense? I'm like getting more and more kind of, not afraid, but nervous for the viewer. who haven't watched rebels or Clone Wars coming into these new shows in this movie

because it's like you really have to pay attention to care if you're going to tell the type of story that they did in Mandalorian, which is more fun. Yeah. And kind of like, pew-poo type, which I really loved. I did actually enjoy the season, but it's not like an Andor which pretty clearly sets up all its characters and you don't really need backstory to understand their motives and where they could go.

The writing is significantly better. Yeah. I mean, it's significantly better. I know. It is this, Mandalorian is meant for the pure, just fun spectacle. And I thought it had a little bit more depth. The way that I kind of equated it on the spoiler review this morning was that I feel like this season, I liked the season of Mandalorian.

I did. Not as much as one and two. I thought one and two were much better because they had more to it. And the way that I equated it was this was a good sandwich with not enough meat on it. I was still hungry afterwards. One and two, good sandwiches. It was full. This one I'm still hungry.

And like, maybe the Soca, maybe that sandwich. Yeah. So that's how I felt about it because there was a few things, again, that I thought they did very well that had kind of subparred conclusions. Right. And one of those examples is Katie Sackoff was the star of the show. She was the star of this season, hands down. And she did everything that she was asked to do. And again, I say this, whether we're friends with Katie or not. She was done, she did everything she was asked to do. She knew the character inside and out. She was kind of, you know, asked to carry the majority of the scenes. And the relationship with Bokatan and Dinn developed throughout the, throughout the series. There's a fantastic moment in episode seven where she's kind of questioning herself and she's saying, you know, she's just kind of standing her thinking and Dyn's like,

I got your back. Like you're like, you have my loyalty. I am there for you. Doesn't even say goodbye. Just leaves at the end of this episode. No, there's no moment. Yeah. There's no moment between the two.

They spent this whole entire thing. She saved his life. He gave her the dark saber. They had like this amazing moment. there's not even a moment. There's no moment where he walks up and goes, we're off, we're doing our thing. You know, you did it.

There's a reason why they're following you. We'll always be in touch. She says something back. It's a two-minute conversation at most. Off in your shit. Nothing. And that's why, again, I bring up these 32-minute episode things. It's like you have the time to really

build out, like you said, it was missing a little bit of the depth. The episode was good, but with depth, it could have been great. Yeah, I feel like I run into this territory that I know is a lot of you at home's criticism with people who talk about Star Wars is like your expectations are ruining your viewing experience and like your expectations are too high and it, and I feel that, but it's also like the, I have to question like when you go into season one and even season two of The Mandalorian. This is new territory for Star Wars in terms of the show style and the characters. And so there wasn't as many expectations.

And so you're like, this is awesome. And then now first season and second season were fantastic. That I, like, it's like, I think human nature to have expectations. And when you have put in the Star Wars work and watched rebels and Clone Wars, you're like, no, the Mandelore is just. a breeding ground for great. There's so much more there. And I think, like I said,

like they show the stuff that really worked was when episode two, Dyn and Bo are talking about Bo's past. And for people who've never watched Rebels before or Clone Wars, they're learning about her history and they're learning about her family dynamic. And I thought they were going to build on that more.

Yeah, can you imagine if they did like a 30-minute cut into that episode, similar to what they did with Dr. Pershing. Yeah. But with Bo, flashback in the watch. Yeah, and you see. Younger to in the watch.

Yes, and you see Satine and. And Sabine. And yeah, we'll Sabine. We'll Sabine. Yeah, right, right, right. At that point. Like those important moments of her life. They could have added more to it to reveal.

So I don't think it's a matter of expectations as much as it's, because people I see, you see it all time. Oh, you know, that's what I always talk about with the everything is awesome stuff. It's just like, well, just love what you got. Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, but I would have, I did like what I saw, but. Don't you think it could have been elevated with better writing? You know, it's like, and it's not that it was, this, this doesn't, I don't think it's suffered the same problem as like, Obi-Wan,

Obi-Wan, to me just had bad writing. This didn't have, this didn't have bad writing. This had, like, like I said, it was just not enough meat on the sandwich. It was like there was, it's like you start, like, you never, you know what I say you go and you order like a sandwich and like the stuff that they're putting on it, it's really good. There's just not enough of it. Yeah. Like that's all it is. It's like it wasn't because it was just like with with some of bobafei, you're like, oh, this meat's rotten.

You throw out the sandwich. But but this particular thing was just like, oh, it's it's right there. It's right there. These little things that seem like I mentioned with the, with the, uh, Mofgideon. Why did they save Mofgadian episode six? We all knew he's coming back. You could have built him out a little bit more and built that storyline about the clones. And that's your, that's your storyline about how he's, oh.

And that council, the shadow council. Right. That shadow counsel scene in episode seven is one of my favorite scenes in Star Wars television. Star Wars television. It was such a deep dive into the politics of it all, the future of the, it was the most well-written, elaborate thing.

It took what, three to five minutes to use that on screen? Those types of moments is what, that was the meat of the sandwich, like that type of stuff. Yeah, because as we get more aware of viewers, like I think it was with the original trilogy, you like kind of definitely buy into the story they tell you, which is like Palpatine is kind of this all-powerful that uses Darth Vader.

What you don't really realize is that like it takes a village. There's a lot of like important major leaders with a lot of power, including Thron, that helped navigate Palpatine into the position he's in. It's not just one man in the galaxy who owns everyone. I love that story. I think that story is great. And it fills in so many gaps. And it's like it is. It really is my biggest criticism.

It's just not that, oh, I don't like what they did there. That story was corny. No, they just didn't have enough of it. More cowbell. Yes, way more cowbell. It just wasn't enough of it. And it was like, because I don't know what it is about this 32 minutes. Like I said, I saw someone quote, oh, it was about 40 minutes.

It was not, look at it and watch when you're watching. It's about 32 or 33 minutes. And it's like for a finale, now when you combine it with episode seven, it's like an hour and 15 minutes. And I think a lot, I think this could, this season, this season, Could have been five episodes. I'm watching, I'm watching Blackbird on Apple. Have you watched? Holy crap.

It's good. Apple's really good. Apple's really good. Blackbird is phenomenal. Okay. It's Paul Walter Houser and Tarynangerton and the late great Ray Leone. And it is six episodes, an hour apiece. I'm approaching episode three.

It tells its story. Now, granted, it's based off a true story and it's a darker story, everything too but it's just the reference of tell your story in our blocks and but make it five episodes you can combine episode one and two tell the same story I had a little bit more of dialogue here in there sprinkle it in there combine all them get rid of that freaking Lizzo and uh and jack black episode um that to me was the filler that you were talking about like the the side of venture stuff that did nothing for the plot except the beginning and the end of that yeah and there was just some yeah there's just some scenes

that I'm like, okay, for example, in this finale, where you re-baptize or whatever you want to call it, the kid. The kid who was Paz's son. I don't need to say that. Yeah, I think the only reason that they did it, this is going to make both of our points. The only reason that they did that is because he, it was Paz just died and it was, you know, the understanding that they were kind of bringing him into the fold is kind of the new thing and honoring his dad. But honor his dad. Yeah. Honor his dad. Show a little bit more.

Say a couple of words. Have Din say a couple of words for him. I understand why, because Paz got taken out by those guards and brutally murdered by them and didn't even stand the chance. Dyn was starting to get his ass kicked by them too because he was putting up more of a fight. Why is he putting up more a fight? He used to kick Paz's ass when they fought. That's why.

Yeah, I mean, that's the problem. The season people forgot what a badass din is. That's right. And so when Grogu then had to step in, you're like, like, okay, they had to team up. And this goes to another thing that I liked, and I'm still trying to figure it out how I feel overall, because I understand people's criticism

with it, and I can't feel, I don't know yet how I feel about it, the Dark Sabre. Oh, yeah. So they have the Dark Sabre, and Dinn is fighting Moff Gideon, and it's like, okay, well, is Dinn going to take him out? And then Moff Gideon has this suit, and he's able to kind of starts kicking Dinn's ass, and then here comes Bo.

And then Bo brings in the Dark Saber, and, look, well, Bo is going to take him out. And Bo's fighting the Dark Saber. Now, the thing that I understand when he crushes the lightsaber, right? I understand why they did it because the understanding has always been for thousands of years that the Mandalarians needed the Dark Sabre in order to unite the clans in order for people to have respect for them in order to lead anyone you needed that thing. And it eliminated that when Boe says, Mandalorians need each other.

And they start fighting the three of them against him and they ultimately win. So I get that. I'm not crazy about the fact that he just crushed it with his hand. It's a thousand-year-old relic or whatever it is. And he's just like, he's the only person in history that could have done that. Well, his suit was like turbo turned up. I mean, I get it. But I mean, Darth Mall couldn't have destroyed it if he wanted it.

Maybe why would he have wanted to? But I mean, I don't know. Couldn't have other people have destroyed it in the past with other things? It was that easy that he just broke it. I do feel that and I feel like I wonder what they would have written, but I would have liked somehow to have like Bo decide that. Yeah. We don't need this anymore.

We need to. I like the line delivery. It's about each of like we'll do it together. Right. I understand why they did it. I get why they did it to show the unity inside of the Mandalorians. And even the moment that we've kind of seen already from season one where Grogu saves them all. And the in the fire was a cool, it was a cool moment.

Oh, I love that. It was a cool moment. And they kind of reuse some of the music and stuff from the episode with Luke when he was doing the forest and showing how much more powerful he is. That works. I loved Axe coming in with the ship. And I love the, because at first you're like, oh, is he going to sacrifice himself? Right. And he jumps out the window.

He's a jetpack on. Why wouldn't you jump out the window? Yeah. And they made it, did a good job there, Fama Yiwa, I would say, of, like, giving that, like, one of the Mandalorians look back, like, kind of like this way where you're like, is he the spy? but you're like, nah, he's not. Why would he be at that point? Right. And right away, you knew the armor or wasn't when she started busting heads open.

And she was like, yeah. Why would she be killing the other troopers if she was on their side? So I was like, thank God. When she starts cracking people with the axe, I'm like, okay, good. Because it's just, you know, these people were so confident she was going to be bad. I'm like, why do people want her to be bad? I think people just wanted a twist. Yeah, well, there was no twist.

minus like the, you know, that's, there was a twist. And it was the cloning thing, but it was like, gone. He's like, oh, wait, they're Gideon's clones, blow them up, which is what you should do. I mean, a lot of times you're like, oh, what should we do. I don't know. I don't know what we should do. And then he comes in and he saves, you know, he's able to save the clones. Like, no, we found him, blow him up.

But it just wasn't set up at all that that's what he was doing. And when you finally. He had to say an exposition. Yeah. Yeah. because I loved, I looked, he was just like, I had this idea, given him the force, that's what I wanted Grogu for. And you took that from me before they could even breathe. And there's some theory going around now that, that the one that they killed was actually a clone and not Gideon.

Let this story line. Oh my, that would be nuts. Let's the story line be over. Yeah, Moth has now had like a revival. Like I don't think you can like re-revive. Let it be over at this point. Gamora dies again. We're not going to re-bring back a new Gamora.

Yeah. Well, the only reason I wish they would have killed him differently is chop off his head so we know that he's over. Because you never really saw him die. You just saw him kind of get disintegrated in the fire. You would assume that he's dead. I think he, oh, yeah, I agree. Where's the body? But also it's like Grogu had to pull out this complete maneuver to survive.

Yes, chances are that he's gone. And I think that you don't need him anymore as much as I love Jean-Carlow. He's the best. But you don't need him anymore. No. Especially if you're going to play with Thrawn and you're going to start to tie in all of this stuff. The whole council. Then you got to.

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i do i mean unless you push back at all i do think we'll definitely get season four i think they're going to put it into production you probably get start shooting even at the end of this year beginning of next and i think you get season four in either the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025. And then you'll have, and then you'll have 2026 for Fallonies movies. So I say 2025 is more likely that you get season four. I agree.

Yeah. I think that, I think that they didn't have a plan past season two. So I think they're like really trying to figure out what that is leading to the movie. Yeah, I agree. I think that, you know, especially if the reports are going around about who got involved, putting them to Dan and Grogu back together.

People didn't want it to happen. People did want it to happen. Either way it happened. And they made a season of it for two. The standouts of the season, again, for me, I think Bogotam was the season. It was the star of the show. Katie Zackoff.

She delivered. I think that it really, this season, I don't think anybody can argue, you can try to, but you'd be wrong, is that Brendan Wayne and Latif were the Mandalorian this season. Pedro was essentially the voice. He wasn't, I don't think he was on set at all.

I know, I wish, I thought we were going to have a, in my earlier predictions going to this season, I thought that he would go in more of the Bo Catan's interpretation of the creed. Taking his helmet off of it? Yeah. I don't know, man. What are you going to put a helmet on Grogu? Eventually?

Maybe. Maybe they're going to have to. Why could he take the creed without the helmet and this little kid, Visla's son couldn't? I'm wondering if they're going to start to change the rules a little bit. more now that they're all together and there's certain things that the armor will tell them can do cannot do um the question is going to be though it's there's there's there's so many as far as like where where it goes how it's going to happen i don't know i don't know i don't know where where we go next um neither do i am like i think this season was uh i had a lot of fun with it there were some

awesome action moments probably some of my favorite action moments of the show in general both flying with the Dark Sabres sick. That was awesome. It was awesome. But yeah, I'm like, I'm not like, I need season four now. Right. But I'm excited for it. Yeah, I think that we're going to get more excited. I think that Asoka and skeleton crew, if tied in together and start to set up this storyline,

we'll then start to ask us, well, where's din and all of this? Where's Grogu and all of this? I think that, like, and absence makes the heart grow founder, right? So, like, once we have them, like, we'll be taken, because you're going to get, you're going to have both Asoka coming out in August, skeleton crew coming out at the end of the year, right? And then you get the Acolyte,

which is a total break from the entire timeline. You're going to get Andor, which is a break from this timeline. So you'll have that big break before you get to, which most likely will be Mandalorian, season four, will be afterwards,

and then Assoca, and then all of a sudden leading, and we'll know more so of what the overall storyline is. But going back to your question, though, about, you know, Pedro and not the sentence like there were these reports that Pedro wasn't happy on set and he wasn't what in there was some other report I saw that came out recently that he he that at one point

this is like the season one drama that had dropped was that he he he wanted to be I guess voice actor um they wanted him as voice actor he wanted a larger salary all that stuff that that and then they ultimately kind of came to terms and that's what this one particular I think was making Star Wars. It said this one particular report was an end, and that was the end of it. I don't know if that's the end of it. Because again, no reports have said this,

but it just was curious to me. I think he was in London the day before Star Wars Celebration. People can correct me if I'm wrong on this. And then Star Wars Celebration happens, he's not there. That's odd. It's odd. You can say, oh, it was work. He had to do something. I think he could have been there if he really wanted to be there.

Yeah, like the week before you're finale. I think he's over it. Yeah. I think he's over it. Um, that's, that's my, but, you know, he's got a gig. He's got a gig. All right, what do you do? Send me the lines. I'll record him. I'll send him my lines. And that's it. And I think that that's why when you look at, you know, that's, but I agree with you. I think that you needed moments with him with his helmet off because how powerful of a moment was that in season one when he takes the helmet off and he's hurting and he's, and he's like dying, you know, the season finale. And, and, and I, IG 11. Oh, we haven't talked about. We'll talk about IG11 in a second. But you, like, that whole moment when you see is, and he takes it all, and when he takes the helmet off again in season two, there was none of those moments in season three. And I think that's telling. I think that's telling. I do too, because it feels like the first two were story-based. And now it feels like, as a viewer, I'm like at the point where I'm ready for him to be a Mandalorian with his helmet off. Right. And maybe that's me just projecting my views on.

zealots and religion in general and my love for Pedro Pascal and his face. But I really feel like the story should have his face in it. Yeah, I think so. Maybe that's the deal that they're going to try to make as we get to season four. Maybe they're going to try to do that because it's just becoming a little more clear. And I think it's only so long you can hide it before it starts coming out, even a little bit more than that. And I also think that, look, we sat down, Brendan Wayne and everything to, like, I also think it'll be more beneficial to the other actors if you get someone in there, and Brandon Wayne will tell you compared to Pedro Pascall is a better actor than Brendan Wayne and Lateef. That's nothing against them. He's just been doing it longer and he's,

you know, he is. And as I was like, well, what do you have to do besides just kind of do the movement and the voice? I think there's more to that. I think that when you're kind of going back and forth of someone who's been in it before and like, look at what Carl Urban did with with dread, right? So I think that they got to figure that. out. I think they got to figure that aspect out. But I wanted to jump, you know, you mentioned IG-11. And I think the predictable thing that I was happy with was the whole sheriff thing at the end. Like it was like, you knew he was going to be the sheriff. We knew that, but we just didn't know how. I like the way that they did it. It was like they go to that bar. Do you see Faloni sitting there with the

cowboy hat on? So you go into that bar and he's like, yeah, we'll do this for you, but give us the, give us the droid head. And he's like, okay. That's it. And then they got the parts. and they wound up, you know, using them for the sheriff, which was kind of, you knew it was coming, and it makes sense, and they were all excited about it. It was a good gift, and then you let Dien and Grogu kind of live out on the farm and, and chillax. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I like that, too. I agree.

It was like, I loved the use of Grogu in IG-11, too. I think that, especially this episode when he came in and, like, sprayed DIN off from the virus. He's like, I got it. I got it. Yeah. He's like, no, dad. Like, I gotta save you. But yeah, IG-11, like, not too much airtime because I think he had a great death, one of the best in Star Wars.

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And according to the local website, Dorset Live, filming for the second season of Andor has, has been temporarily suspended due to weather conditions as the risk of rock falls and landslides has increased in recent days. Production is expected to resume normally in a few days, though it's unknown exactly when. So a spokesperson for the National Trust said this. The planned filming due to take place at Winsput Quarry has been canceled due to safety concerns following the recent turbulent weather, which has increased the risk of rock falls and landslips. Visitors looking to explore the Dorset Coast are advised to following science and keeping out

of unsafe areas until further surveys have been undertaken. There's also, there's a lot of stuff that says that you're going to be doing a lot of the shooting Saul Guerrera apparently is going to have a bigger role this season which makes a lot of sense, considering that we're

getting closer and closer to Rogue 1. But yeah, look, let's talk about the unfavorable weather conditions and the fact that, like, when you're shooting on local, I mean, you're shooting on real locations, you're gonna run into stuff like this. I mean, people forget about like the first Star Wars.

There's all these sandstorms that they had to do. It's a risk that I'll take every single time for new locations. I just put out a short like yesterday. I think that the idea of the volume and having the volume is so beneficial in so many ways, but like anything else, like just like, look how reliant human. are now of like our technology right like you can be sitting down you start checking your phones when you don't need to be but it's there the volume to me is turning into that for disney

they're using it for everything they're using it to cut costs or using it to get away from risks like this and i think it and that's why i think people applaud and or so much and i love everything i'm hearing about the accolade by the way real locations 55 minute episodes it's like they're making this show for me. And then recently, and we'll get into it in a second, because I want to stay on Andor, but in recently, they're looking at the Jedi as the bad guys, not doing bad guy stuff, but in the eyes of who the leads of the show are, they're the bad guys. I mean, come on. Come on, but we'll get into that in a second. But Andor, there's going to be a lot of Sao Guerrera. There's other things happening. They've been avoiding questions about K2SO. Obviously, we know he's

going to show up. We know Al-Lutu's going to show up, but Andrews Season 2, they'll start filming soon, but because of this, is this something, I know what your answer is going to be, but I've got to ask it anyway. Is this something you're like, no, they should be using the volume instead? Yeah, no. I'm like, so it was the first time ever, because I don't have the keenest eye for these things. This season of the Mandalorian, I was like, you saw it. Yeah, especially on Navarro. I definitely saw it. I think like they did a lot of what they could, but it just felt like, oh, okay, I see it. Yeah.

And that takes you out for a second, especially when you're already crossing this very thin line of wars and stars. Yeah, 100%. And that's why when you watch what and or did and all the real locations that they use, I don't think they used the volume once. Except for like the stars. I don't even know if they did. I don't remember.

I will, because it was like all CGO. Yeah, I think so. I think from what Diego Luna had said, I don't think he shot with it at all. But still. Diego Luna at celebration was so cute. Yeah. I feel like he loved the fans.

Oh, he was so appreciative of the two. And you could tell that they're making cinema over there. Because like when you look at what they did and how, because rightfully so, he's like, after two guys, I'm done. because they're shooting like this massive. Like movies. This whole thing is a massive movie. Season one and season two and or like big movies that take a lot of effort and everything

too and you ain't getting, I mean, you did get some shorter episodes. There were a couple short episodes of Andor, but for the most part, I think they were like 40, 45 minutes. And even there were, they were developing characters and developing other things. So I'm excited for the idea of it because I was talking to, so my friend Alonza Duralde, not a big star he's not a star was not a star was a war he wasn't a rogue one guy but i was what was the last time he saw it because he liked the andor he liked the ender a lot and i said when was the last time he saw rogue one he's like probably when it came out and i said i wonder if rogue one will play differently to him when the season when season two of andor is over

because season the rogue one is the series finale of andor clearly um and i think that they're aiming towards that and I love that they're doing that and that's ultimately what this Mandalorian movie is going to be doing except they haven't shot it already like like Rogue One but I love that we're leading to it they know the they know they're ending already which is I think very beneficial to them yeah yeah I agree and I just think that what's really beneficial and what we're not seeing such a give and take which I loved in the Mandalorian season one and two you get like this plethora of different directors and people hands on deck and I think that can do a lot of good.

On the flip side, I also think it can do a lot of good to have one person with a vision who brings it to fruition. And, like, and, or is the perfect example of that where you're like, Tony Gilroy was like, I'm having it this way and then did. And it's awesome. Well, he's the showrunner of it for sure. And he knows, and, you know, he's got a clear vision to the directors. And I think it's maybe, it probably is one of the reasons that it was harder for them to get

the directors. in season two and the stuff that they had to do because as you said, he knows exactly what he wants. The directors in television traditionally are, shoot what the showrunner wants. It's not the same as a movie where come up with your own vision, do things. Shoot what the showrunner wants. And I think that

Leslie Headlin is also going to do that. And I was talking to people who weren't even aware of the Acolyte, but are aware of Leslie Headland and Russian doll. And I was telling him, no, no, no. The Acolyte, from everything we're hearing, it's like Andorwood Lightsaber's, but 55-minute episodes in the perspective of the villains,

the Jedi are the bad guys. And, you know, not to us, people are, oh, what, they're going to make Jedi bad guys? No, the Jedi are going to have the same ideals and philosophies they always have. But the people that were leading with, the villains, which I didn't think in a million years that they would have the balls to do. That apparently she's been very adamant that the bad guys are our protagonists or who is leading this show.

And it makes sense when I saw, I mean, I looked at the leaked footage. Did you? I looked at the leaked trailer and there's a fight between Carrie Ann Moss and the way that they're, and it looks like Trinity, which is not a bad thing.

It looks like Trinity fighting as a Jedi, but against like one of the villains, but the villain did look like the person you're supposed to be following. And I was like, oh man, like everything about this show is it's tailor-made for us. I'm so excited for it.

And I love what she's been saying. I have been looking into more of the interviews after you mentioned it. And she's very clearly stated, I understand no one wants to see a Jedi as a bad guy. Right. Like, she gets the audience. She gets Star Wars. So I really feel like she'll tell a fully dimensional story.

Yeah, it's bad guys through their eyes. And if you look at the prequels, the Jedi did suck. Like, in a lot of ways, they're arrogant. Don't get me wrong. I love Jedi. but they were arrogant and they were stupid and really set on their ways that are a little bit ridiculous. I'm just curious when they're going to,

if it's going to be a reveal on set the way that they did with Luke or they're just going to announce it at some point. Yoda has to be in this show. Yeah. He's like, what, he's 700 years old, 750 years old or something when the show comes out around something along those lines.

Yeah. He's on the council. And this is when the Jedi are thriving. So he's got to be in the show. Yeah. And you still got Frank Oz. Yeah. To see Yoda without the blue screen.

Yeah. And now upgraded with the real screen. Yeah, I think that between that and how they're going to build that out and having Frank Oz there and be able to, he'll show up. The question is when, how long they're going to use them. Well, they're probably not going to want to rely on them as a major character, but they'll have them on there for sure as they should. But the other thing, you know, we always mention about James Earl Jones.

we mentioned all the time that one of the conversations since we started doing this show was you just noticeably could tell that he was getting older and in Rogue 1 he sounds like an older man doing the Darth Vader voice and then in Obi-Wan

they used that AI technology that they used for Luke's voice and it was amazing it sounded like young it sounded like young um young Vader so I just saw a video recently someone tagged me in on it

they did the AI voice for Rogue 1 and they replaced it with the moment. Oh, okay. It's pretty awesome. Oh, that's cool. It's pretty awesome

the way that they did it. And I think that that's what you're going to start to see anytime they use. And we know that with Vader now. Now the question is when they do, Luke, is AI, because I think that you had,

did you have an issue? Because I remember we used to talk about the sun big thing all the time. Like when it comes to replacing, like, you know, actress faces and like James Dean and all that stuff, You had an issue with it, right?

I don't love it. You don't love it, but it's going to be a thing, for sure. But where do you stand on the voice side of it? Because my buddy, Brian Monarch, you see all those Arnold videos, like shorts that come out, like replacing him in different things. He does all those, right? And Joe Goddette, another buddy who does the Arnold voice. So he was doing these videos, Brian Monarch, and there was this video he did,

because I know that Joe does all the Arnold's stuff. And then he did this one with Rogan. I go, who's doing that Rogan impression? And it's spot on. He goes like, that's AI, dude. Like straight up AI. And I'm like, whoa. That's crazy.

You had personality to it. I'm like, where do you stand on that? I think that I'm just realizing that life is continuously changing and evolving. And this seems absolutely inevitable. And I'm not in the, this isn't my fight. So I'm going to make peace with it. Like I don't think I care enough to be like, no. Right.

I mean, certain voice actors are going to have. interesting things and how they're going to be able to do it and they could use you know because if you know hey you know instead of finding someone who does a Marlin Brando impression let's just get Marlon Brando let's get let's get let's get his voice let's get the things let's get some stuff let's put it into a program and it'll be and we'll get Marlon Brando that's gonna happen in the technology the technology the AI technology of a voice program today is gonna seem like CDs compared to digital, you know, because it's going to, what they're going to be able to do with it and how they're going to be able to use it.

And that Luke Skywalker monotone kind of robotic, no personality voice that they used in BobaFet will change by the time they get to, you know he's showing up in one of these things, whether he shows up in the movie, whether he shows up in Asoka. The next time you hear his voice, it's going to sound significantly better is my prediction. Yeah, I agree. With technology, especially that type, it's just getting better every week. Well, look at the difference in the deep fake as opposed to when they did, well, they did the de-aging in Mandalorian. And then they said, well, that doesn't look as good. Let's do the deep fake for Boba Fett, and it looked like uncanny. Yeah.

And that was, so, yeah, the technology is always moving, always shifting. And I just mentioned Asoka. Steph brought up something before that I thought was very interesting. and she said she was starting to get these kind of concerns. And the cast member kind of spoke on Steph's concerns, and they're discussing the show's accessibility to new fans, the action-pack scope, and more. So this is from Sidney Watsack over at Star Wars Newsnet.

The cast of Asoka, they spoke with Collider, after the Asoka panel at Star Wars Celebration, and while it's clear, they have all been carefully coached to avoid spoilers, we learned some interesting bits of information nonetheless. We've completed a selection of quotes from all of the interviews, but we encourage you to read or watch the full pieces. Here we go.

So Natasha Leo Bordizo was asked on what surprised her about Dave Filoni's scripts and had some interesting comments on whether the show will be accessible to fans who haven't watched rebels or kept up with the Mandoverse. She says, well, there's just so much history with these characters, so there's so much subtext, which is very unique to this show because there is an existing fan base, and there's also a whole bunch of fans that are completely clueless right now

that will become fans. So we had to cater to both. So the writing was very specific in doing so and giving away enough that it's an homage to what the fans already know, but not being so cryptic that new fans can't understand it. So that was a very interesting balance to strike.

I'm sure I'm not alone and wondering how successfully they were at striking this balance. It's hard to believe that viewers with rebels, excuse me, it's hard to believe that viewers unfamiliar with rebels and perhaps even behind the Mandalorian would be able to jump into Asoka seamlessly. That said, we are rooting for the success.

They love nothing more to introduce Lucasfilm's animated series to a newfound fan of Asoka. So then they talked to Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who was asked what essential Hara Sindilla episodes fans should watch prior to Asoka's August release. She says, I would go back to not even on Rebels, but the Bad Batch. Start with that. I mean, that was so great to see her as a child. because anytime as an actor, if you can figure out what your characters were as children,

it's so instrumental in figuring out who they are as a person. So that was great for me to see that childlike joy in her and desire to do that. So many episodes you get to see her in her element, fighting, flying spaceships, and getting to do what she's assigned to do. She was just a little girl and that joy that brings into her and also as time goes through the series, how the stakes grow in different ways, and things become more and more complex and emotional.

So, and then Winstead's referring to Bad Batch Season 1, season of one, where they had a two-arck episode following the Sindalas. And then they also talked to Ray Stevenson about Baylon, and he had a big praise. And he said, their character-driven fight, it's not just a here's a lightsaber fight. They have character.

The stakes are up. You don't know who's going to come out of it and how they're going to come out of it. You may think you do, but when you're in it, that a dynamic and the energy involved, it keeps you on the edge of your seat. Stevenson was also asked about his relationship with Thrawn. Clyder asked them, what is your relationship with Thron?

Is it adversarial? Is it friendly? What can you tease? And Stevenson just says yes. A bit of cheeky response that gives away nothing. We know Baylon acts as an adversary to Asoka, but Thron's individual nature tends to isolate himself from potential allies. So it is likely that Stevenson said that Baylon is friendly and adversarial with Thrawn.

Speculation around Thrawn's plans continue to amount with the finale of the Mandalorian. And now Assoca right on the corner. Well, we know there was nothing inside that for the Mandalorian. Another question was then asked to Rosario Dawson. They said, out of all the episodes for the season, did they have a favorite, Rosario Dobson, attempted a KG response while suspiciously holding up five fingers, look out for episode five.

Dawson also spoke about surprising elements in the Asoka script, drawing an interesting comparison between what we see in Asoka and what we've seen from the character in Mandalorian and Book of BobaFet. Dawson says, it was so nice to dive into where they're at emotionally. We didn't get to see that or explore that so much in the Mandalorian in the book of Boba Fett. It sort of hints at it, but I think that you get to see that sacrifice that they're grappling with and the vigilance that it takes for them to still know there was a threat out there, and they have to be on top of it.

It's the only business. To be out there fighting is a threat and that people don't even believe it's real. It's really exciting as we go along. That's just how it was seeded in the context and the subtext for the fans who know and the fans who don't. It was really nice. And then, let's see. This is the last one. Finally, they had an interview with Ivanka Sanko, who had a noteworthy comment about what Faloni brought to the show.

I think Dave has done a brilliant job of expanding our understanding of lightness and darkness and spectrum and what comes with it. What I love about him is that he loves silence and speaking through silence. Okay. So there's a lot to kind of break down there. So what do you think about the idea that they're going to attempt to do this balance? It seems inevitable, though they're going to, a lot of people, new people who come into this show are going to be like, wait, so who's that? What's that? They're going to need somebody who knows these shows.

It seems that way anyway. Yeah, I just really feel like there's no getting around If you really want to enjoy the show I haven't seen it, obviously It feels like you should watch the essential episodes Of Rebels and Clone Wars Yeah, it's, I think, I mean, to me, Rebels is gonna be This is the live action version of it

And then... I mean, if you just want to care about a Soko more Yeah, I mean, I am gonna have Freddie Pinch Jr. on this show I think our episode's gonna air on Monday You better bet your ass, I'm gonna ask him about You know, like, he did avoid in episode nine for Canaan. I wonder if they're going to use a voice for him,

but then after all of his comments about how Faloni directed that scene in Rogue One and the pushback that, I wonder if you got any phone calls from Lucas from about that. I don't think he's anything to do with that show. I don't think he's going to be anywhere near it. But I'm curious to hear his thoughts. I will be asking him about that for sure. But yeah, I think that you're going to definitely, I guess this goes back to our point with the Mandalorian, right?

If you're not going to rely on people to have watched those shows, then you're going to have to give them history of things that happen on rebels inside of this. You're going to have to teach us who Ezra was. You're going to have to teach us who Kainan was. You're going to have to teach us who. Herri is going to pop up. And if you're watching the show, who the hell is that? You've got to explain it a little bit more.

Oh, well, she fought with us and this. She did this with us, too. Rebels fans are going to know. But, like, people who saw the show. this trailer is, well, that looks cool. A lot of lightsabers. I'm going to tune into it for the first time and see. I don't even know who this Asoka is. You've got to do what they didn't do in Mandalorian with Boca Tan and the history and give us the history. I'm hoping that the episodes are longer. Just saying because you're going to be getting really tired of me if you aren't already because I know I'm tired of saying it,

going, Steph, Soca was great this week. Thirty-four minutes. Come, what are we doing? Yeah. Because that's a, that's a, that's a concern. Yeah, I really hope the episodes are longer. I'm curious what they'll do. Like, Dave Volone is so trusted in animation and with the Mandalorian. Interesting. It will be like really exciting to see what he does dialogue wise. And I know that that quote at the end just said like, there's going to be more silence,

which I'm just such a fan of great dialogue that I'm curious to see how. that plays out. If it's silence during lightsaber fights, good. Oh, yeah. I don't need like a full-on conversation through it and if I see it through

eyes and stuff. But I mean, I'm clearly with you like when it comes to if you've got to have episodes and you're going to put, like if you're going to, well, here's what you get. You can either have a 45-minute episode

with eight extra minutes of cool explosions and lightsaber fights or you can use those eight minutes to develop the story and the characters. Give me the second option all day long. All day. Yeah.

All right. So so many questions for you guys. Do you, are you liking what you're hearing about the Acolyte? Do you like what you're hearing about Asoca? Do you think people are going to be able to catch on to Asoka if you didn't watch rebels? Did you watch Rebels? Did you watch Clone Wars? Do you have any clue who these people are?

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