We received an inquiry for material so we set up a video meeting with the company. Good discussion, hopefully something comes from it, but I was searching for an email from the guy that approached us and I found out I'd actually sold him material when he was with a different company in 2017.
Just finished watching Andor (outstanding) last night, and now a new season of Love Death + Robots just dropped, as did the much anticipated Murderbot series. TGIF everyone
I'm up through episode 10 as of last night, I'll get those last two done tonight. Really liking what they're doing.
I would have liked a single episode per week but it was still a great season.
"Who are you?"
I've been meaning to get to a long post about Andor. One main takeaway that doesn't get mentioned a whole lot is how much Andor enriches the original Star Wars movie. We get a better sense of how the rebel alliance came to be, the evil of the empire, and what's going on at Yavin. Andor, Rogue 1, and Star Wars is a nice, fully contained "Death Star trilogy."
Tony Gilroy commented in 2022 that Star Wars was "IP about the royal family, in essence. It's been great. But there's a billion, billion, billion other beings in the galaxy. There's plumbers and cosmeticians. Journalists! What are their lives like? The revolution is affecting them just as much as anybody else. Why not use the Star Wars canon as a host organism for absolutely realistic, passionate, dramatic storytelling?" I think that's what was great about the first season of The Mandalorian too:
baby Yodait mostly operated outside of that too.Additionally, George Lucas didn't write the dialog.
One of the reasons I really enjoyed The Last Jedi was the scene at the end with the kid and the ring, for exactly this reason.
and one of the reasons I abandoned The Mandalorian was when I had the appearance of Luke Skywalker spoiled. Having Andor be so good and not having a single jedi anywhere in sight is so frickin refreshing.
I enjoyed Mandelorian, but you hit it on the head - some shows work too hard for fan service and not in service to the story arch. And there's barely any reason to be on Tattoine, let alone return to it multiple times. Oh yeah, also not a single Mary Sue in sight.
Man, I could go for hours on that topic. Rey being a Palpatine in Rise of Skywalker had me audibly groan during the movie.
like 90% of that movie had me audibly groaning.
I didn't even watch it. I'm pretty much done with the movies.
tf is force healing? i wanted to not watch that movie forever after about 20 minutes.
I let out a "what the hell was that?" in the theater when the end credits rolled.
Sounds like Cheaptoy, Hungry Joe, and I should have watched RoS together and brought tomatoes to throw at the screen.
I love that he’s in total disbelief.
I wonder what the over/under would be on how many times he tells this story over the rest of his life? If it's less than a thousand I'm betting the over.
ONF (obvious nesting fail).
It even goes the other way. I once had a co-worker that got taken deep by Kent Hrbek in High School baseball, he was still telling that story decades later.
Hey, my brother's best friend from high school still talks about Mauer taking him deep. I would too, if I were him.
I'm thinking about Joe Mauer day last year and the celebrity of the hour was the only guy who struck out Joe in high school. I'm sure he's polished that one to a high sheen.
And Ohtani putting his drink down at the neighboring table saying, "Ah, give it a rest already!"