That ending could lead to unraveling one of the bigger mysteries in the Star Wars universe. Lets give it some time. It's only 1 epsiode. So far it has that Rogue One cinematic tone. which did very well.

Rogue One was good.

Han Solo story was blah to me.

Episode 1, 2, 3 7 and 8 were also blah to me.

Maybe Episode 9 will be great.

It has to be.

It's the final chapter in the Skywalker saga.

Considering the history in starwars from the first 3 episode movies as well as the thrown out canon from the books... yea that was a huge WTF

Considering the history in starwars from the first 3 episode movies as well as the thrown out canon from the books... yea that was a huge WTF. This supposedly takes place 5-10 years after Return of the Jedi. VERY VERY MINOR SPOILER THAT WAS ALSO SHOWN IN THE TRAILER AHEAD



With that said, my wife and I enjoyed it. I have to constantly step back with these new Disney releases and tell myself the Star Wars from my youth is dead and this is disney living inside the hollowed out carcass. Its not ever going to be the same canonically and thematically. The mouse doesnt care about preserving the history of the thing. They just care about money and it wasnt bad as a series opener as long as you are not attached to the pre disney StarWars canon.

Apparently the same goes for George Lucas since he sold Lucasfilm for 4 billion!

Must be freaking nice!

Yet he is still working and directing and producing.

If I made 4 billion in one swoop, I would had quit working.

He is worth 6 billion so I presume he was already worth 2 billion before he sold Lucasfilm.

Look at Spielberg.

He is worth 3.6 billion and nothing is stopping him except death.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/

Where does he find the time?

And here we go again with the Han Solo shoot first and not shoot first scene.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/12...n-solo-greedo-new-hope-edit-george-lucas

My wife and I looked at the original trillogy on disney+ last night and noted that they are the edited rerelease versions. I dont think disney cares enough to post all the different cut version of those movies so they just went with the highest quality / most recent version.

Lucas has messed around with the original trilogy so many times especially with Star Wars,

I heard that an untouched copy of their original theatrical print no longer exist or even if they do, they will never see the light of day,

because Lucas won't let them.

I seen the so called DESPECIALIZED EDITION of the original trilogy but even I think they are still not 100% original.

I seen all 3 original trilogy countless of times in the theaters and then on VHS to pretty much remember them frame by frame.

I'm lucky enough to own an old Star Wars laserdisc, original cut. Not A New Hope, just Star Wars

I watched the first episode yesterday,

visually very good, the story was OK, good soundtrack.

having Pedro Pascal in a Star Wars series is a treat, it is a pity he was not in episode 1, I hope he eventually shows up.

Never in a million years would I have thought the director of such artsy movies like "Fitzcarraldo" and "Aguirre: Wrath of God" would end up playing a role in a Disney Star Wars streaming series.

obviously Werner Herzog is a Star Wars fan ...

Disney is well on its sway to smother Star Wars.

It's too bad Klaus Kinski isn't still alive because he would have made a great SW villain!

he would !

this Friday comes the next one - lets hope the helmet comes off and we more of the actors and less CGI.

and hopefully more of Gustavo Fring ... I mean, Giancarlo Esposito.

Disney should just release the whole series at once like Amazon and Netflix does with many of their streaming series.

Disney is too smart for that. They don't want the "sign up, watch show, cancel subscription" consumers that have been so prevalent with HBO and some of the streaming services.

No, he should leave the helmet on for almost the whole series. If they include a sex scene he does it wearing the helmet. He's a Mandalorian!

I was actually impressed with the amount of actors / props they used vs CGI. They did still have some CGI in there and they overlayed some CGI on some of the prosthetic prop actors but overall it felt more like the original trillogy than either the new set or ep1-3 did. I am actually impressed sofar with the way they are doing it.

Also, again, helmet stays on!

Signed up for the week trail with Disney+ . Watched the first and thought it was ok. Ending Surprise has me waiting tomorrow nights show. Then cancel Disney+.
Looked at the inventory of shows and we own just about 85% of the shows they have listed on Itunes already. No thanks. Will wait for a BR release in the future.

Disney listing on iTunes?

Yes, its an app for my 4k Apple TV and my Ipads. Not paying anymore. Not worth it when you already have it.