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13 minutes ago, Julius said:if I can find *some* way into just one of my top three priority lotto panels I'll see it as a success
There should be a standby queue so worst case scenario you'll just have to get there super early and wait in line.
Not expecting any of them to be live-streamed though, not even to convention-goers which is such a massive shame.
They should probably be announcing the store products any day now. I'd suggest you'll definitely find better uses for your money on the show floor itself tbh, but the main store is still good for some SWC branded stuff and a few other bits.
In terms of what we actually see, I'm getting hyped for that opening Showcase. I definitely think it's time for film news. Even if it's still 2+ years out, a teaser logo, a timeframe, a director and a lead would be great.
Ahsoka panel, gotta imagine they'll bring out live action Ezra on stage. Sabine I get the impression they've nailed, but Ezra is such a big character I'm a little scared. Now I know what all the Ahsoka fans felt like before Rosario Dawson was announced ha.
Last week's ep of Bad Batch centred on something that hinted at an endgame for the series/characters. It has me a little terrified S2 might be the last. Probably not, but still... I guess we'll find out soon.
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Looks amazing, can't wait.
Also, I'm started to feel bad for TIE fighters
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4 hours ago, Julius said:Thanks for the heads-up! Spotted it the other day when trying to figure out if I'd applied for everything (I had, but the email confirmation for the lottery for some took a while to come through), got to imagine that's the lottery panel with best odds to get into because I think its addition will have flown under the radar for some. I'm surprised it wasn't put down as a lottery panel originally, to be honest, so I'm glad it has been – I'm kind of shocked Andor hasn't got the same treatment too, to be honest. Out of the lottery panels I think Kenobi is slap bang in the middle for me in terms of priority (behind Lucasfilm and Ashoka, ahead of Bad Batch and Sequel Villains), so I'm curious to see how it all plays out!
Now just nervously waiting for the passes to arrive (any day now hopefully, I've seen others start to get theirs over the last week!), starting to plan what I need to take, and waiting for the Store/Funko Pop reservations drop and hopefully getting some luck with those (I'm not a Funko guy but my sister's boyfriend is, so hopefully I can nab him one of the exclusives?).
Going to be a manic couple of weeks – excited but very nervous!
The badge art is lovely this year. Last year was a bit meh, especially the 4 Day Adult one, I've no idea what they were thinking when they picked that design! Not got mine yet, not even shipped yet.
I would go in with lower expectations with the lottery, I know a ton of people who had no success in Anaheim and the rooms had far more seats than the Excel, so we'll see. You're right though Kenobi should hopefully be a bit better odds since it was quietly added.
The Celebration store was a funny one last year, everyone kept saying it was a nightmare to get into but they must have meant early in the day cause I just wandered in around 4 or 5pm a couple days in after about 2 minutes of queueing. Sure the daily pins I wanted were sold out by then but 95% of the store was still in stock.
Portable power bank for your phone would be very useful if your phone battery is getting on. Some kind of poster tube/protectors too if they give any out at panels, though they sold those right next to where you pick them up. Comfortable shoes. If you want any autographs they have a bunch of prints and you pick which one you want signed, or bring your own. If they do the daily panel reservations, as many phones as you have like we talked about. Make sure to stop off at the droid room too. Snacks and drinks for the queuing. They revealed the Celebration live stage guest times, or at least a chunk of them, so have a look and maybe see who you'd like to listen to. They didn't do that last year and I randomly walked up to the stage seconds before Doug Chiang was brought out. Result!
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Never change Japan.
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Heads up @Julius
I'm sure you've applied for the Celebration lottery for the four big panels by now, but it seems they've quietly added a fifth. The 'look back at Kenobi' one, just in case you want to apply for that. Might help with under the counter panel ticket trading if you get into Kenobi but would prefer another one?
PS: Bad Batch 2x13, another quality (beautiful looking) ep
I adore this show.
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9 minutes ago, Julius said:I think it must've been Bloodlines rather than the Aftermath Trilogy then, but the galactic capital actually rotates between member worlds (we don't know exactly how long for, but I feel like it's fair to assume that there have been a few rotations by the time TFA comes around). At this point I think Chandrila is the galactic capital (which I'm sure we'll see at some point?), but I feel Coruscant still holds a lot of weight just in terms of the number of politicians who would surely still there, things like the Tribunal, the number of Imperials and facilities located there, etc.
Good call, I'd forgotten that it moves around. And yeah it makes sense That Coruscant is important, I guess I just wanted a bit of sequel stuff that's all. I did like the little mention of the Alliance fleet being decommissioned. A Mon Monthma order I believe.
11 minutes ago, Julius said:But yeah, agree, though I think what the shows have more space to do than the films ever will is just show the grey areas, and that no one side is ever going to be right or perfect. Better than the Nazi-like Empire? Yeah, probably. But there are monsters and malicious motives on every side of a conflict, and it's always nice to see that explored more!
The Last Jedi dabbled in the grey areas with the arms dealer supplying the First Order and the Resistance, but yeah, tv series will have a lot more time to get into that grey area. The scene at the end with the mind flayer was incredibly unsettling. Nice guy Mon Cala telling Pershing not to worry etc while cheery music plays
. Really great stuff. Pershing did a brilliant job, for someone who could have just been a background extra in a couple of S1 scenes. Looking forward to seeing Paul Sun-Hyung Lee's character at some point too.
16 minutes ago, Julius said:Also just because Thrawn doesn't really have a reason to go after Bo in such a personal manner as destroying her home (also would seem a bit out of character for him), whereas I feel the Remnant kind of owe her some payback after everything that happened with Gideon.
That's very true actually, it seemed a very personal attack, in the same way that Elia going after Pershing felt personal too. Bit of Gideon payback from behind a jail cell?
Only reason I thought of Thrawn was because there was a line about that many TIES seems a bigger deal than just some local warlord.
17 minutes ago, Julius said:Would love to be wrong and have it be Thrawn though, and even if this wasn't him, I wouldn't be surprised if we see him by the end of the season. More than any other show in recent memory Mando reeeeeeeeally stresses a plot point and then gets right to it within the space of an episode or two, leaving us twiddling our thumbs over what the rest of the season might be about, so I don't think it's a crazy idea to have things escalate to the point of his return by the end of this season at all!
Should know a lot more by Celebration, with a few more episodes and also an Ahsoka trailer. Be interesting to see if this crossover event thing that Kathleen Kennedy announced a few years ago is still happening. Gotta imagine it is with how inter-connected they're making the Mandoverse.
21 minutes ago, Julius said:Similar to what I'd like to see with Rogue One and Tarkin, though, I do kind of wish they'd be open to cleaning things up after the fact
Yeah that would be great, I think it'll happen and they'll redo that Luke scene at the end of S2 for instance. It didn't look bad, just not as good as the deep fake in Boba Fett.
I watched yesterday's ep on my laptop and the CG looked much better. Streaming can definitely struggle at times when there's a lot of data to get across.
And most importantly out of the whole episode... i've a serious craving for those yellow biscuits now.
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1 hour ago, Julius said:Like you say, with Hosnian Prime not becoming the New Republic capital until further down the road, I don't think it would make much sense for it to appear here over Coruscant.
Fair enough, I've not read books like Bloodlines that probably cover the timing, I was under the impression that no date had been set when they moved there, but could be wrong. I think it would help flesh out the destruction in The Force Awakens though, the same way all the stuff on Alderaan lately has fleshed out what happened in A New Hope. I know that was more of a personal loss to Leia, but still.
1 hour ago, Julius said:While we've got a fair chunk of Coruscant over the years, off the top of my head I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've seen it in Mando's "present day"
Oh yeah for sure, I was probably being a bit unfair. It's amazing seeing it in its post-Empire days. It's quite bold of them to paint a less than ideal picture of the New Republic, but I suppose in the books and canon the new government was struggling around this point so maybe that's just showing that on screen.
1 hour ago, Julius said:pretty sure we'll see Gideon held here for his appearance with the War Tribunal
Very intrigued what his part in the story will be. I suspect that squadron of TIEs belongs to Thrawn and he might be the big reveal at the end of the season, but who knows.
I watched that starfighter battle again on my laptop in better quality and it really is fantastic.
1 hour ago, Julius said:More importantly though, I think there are practical reasons to use Coruscant from a production perspective. There are heaps upon heaps of unused ideas for the planet in concept art, areas which have appeared in animation but haven't in live-action (so would feel fresh to most of Mando's audience), and similarly it's probably one of the planets with the most reference points throughout the entire Star Wars chronology to go back to. Heck, I'm pretty sure they might have actually reused a shot or two from ROTS in establishing the Opera House (just recoloured) to cut a couple of corners – which is funny considering this is Disney and Lucasfilm, but hey, I say fair enough!
That's a good point. I imagine they splashed a lot of the season's budget on this episode already so to have to build a new cityscape etc might not have been practical.
1 hour ago, Julius said:Unfortunately I think that's just down to the tight schedules they work to these days normally meaning these projects have less time in post-, something I was starting to make peace with...until Andor showed that some projects do get the time and budget to go above and beyond the bar that Mando has set in that regard.
Yeah it's basically a choice between:
- Mandoverse: 1 ish year production but with lots of Volume use and a bit ropey CG at times
- Andor: 2 year production but with more on location shootingI think Mando uses the Volume really well tbf (unlike say, Kenobi), and the episode looked amazing overall. Just some clunkiness with the direction and dialogue for me, but hey ho.
Already dreading designing the infographic for this ep haha, but in a good way.
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Wow, a ton to unpack with Chapter 19. Loads of fun and even for a relatively quieter episode, there was so much going on.
SpoilerBiggest surprise was the positioning of the New Republic as 'more of the same' as the Empire, definitely wasn't expecting that, even though I suppose you could argue it's only in the Amnesty programme side of things, for now.
Disappointed the planet wasn't Hosnian Prime though. I was convinced it would be. Maybe that's a little closer to Force Awakens that it becomes the NR capital but just from a lore POV I feel like we've seen so much of Coruscant, would it have hurt to flesh out HP?
Dogfight at the start was amazing, beautiful visuals and some cool manoeuvres. Definitely hinting at a larger Imperial threat on the horizon.
Whole Dr Pershing storline was great, they really took the time to flesh things out. His apartment looked similar to Cyril's mum's place in Andor. This whole episode felt a lot more like Andor actually.
Loved hearing the Resistance theme as diegetic. Similar to the Imperial March being used in Solo.
A few negatives, the first two episodes didn't have much of this but Ep 3 was a return to the occasional clunkiness the series can be known for and definitely stiff dialogue which drives me crazy. On the plus side, both Pershing and Elia gave good performances. Also a couple of the CG shots looked rough, especially around the Star Destroyer scene. Again on the plus side there was so much visuals effects in this episode happy to excuse a couple dodgy shots.
Definitely an episode I'll need to re-watch a few times to really get to grips with, but for now I'd give it a 7/10. Hugely enjoyable though and really intriguing where they go from here.
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2 minutes ago, Sheikah said:Mario Kart did that through gameplay, AC did that through sheer scale and representation of an Ancient Egypt (which requires a lot of developers).
Yes people bought Origins because of tourism reasons, rather than the fun gameplay. Got it.
Have a good night.
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23 minutes ago, Sheikah said:Why do you think? Because you are comparing apples and oranges. AC Origins is a game pitched as an authentic slice of Ancient Egypt, of course it requires a lot of people to develop it. You can't say "hey, this game had thousands of people making it, it proves that games aren't making as much profit!". It's an entirely different game with a different objective in mind. If it didn't have thousands of people making a realistic sandbox, it wouldn't reach those 10 million sales - but that's not the case with Mario Kart. Mario Kart is immensely popular (more so than AC), the fact it "only" sold 10 million on N64 is because the audience was smaller back then. Like I say, terrible comparison!
The proper comparison is to compare Mario Kart then to Mario Kart now. Which you seem to not want to do. Mario Kart now brings in way more money than it did back on the N64. Mario Kart Switch has sold 52 million copies. And add to that, it was a rehash of a Wii U game (so likely much lower development costs), and also had DLC for sale to bring in even more money! Yet...you're making a case games aren't more profitable now? This one comparison is far more accurate and supports everything I have been saying. The audience is bigger and there are more ways to generate revenue beyond game sales.
So then Starwdew Valley sold 20 million copies and mostly was just 1 guy making it. Does that put the lid on the argument then? Games are more profitable now?
I'm comparing the profitability of two games that sold the same amount of copies and using it against your over-simplistic statement. Saying 'MK Switch sold more than MK 64 therefore gaming = more profitzz' these days is meaningless, and that's being polite. If that argument had any merit whatsoever, why not compare Lylat Wars to Starfox Zero?
You are, as usual, shifting the goal posts and hilariously missing the point. AAA gaming is (in general) far more expensive to produce these days than 20 or 30 years ago. That's my point. It's more nuanced than "more profit in gaming now".
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1 hour ago, Sheikah said:You did however miss how I noted it was a bad comparison, and also seemed to miss comparing within series.
Why is it a bad comparison, because it doesn't fit your bizarrely obtuse, unsubstantiated and hilariously generalised assertion that "games are much more profitable these days"?
1 hour ago, Sheikah said:It's like you're not understanding the point I was making.
I don't think anyone is, judging by the responses your posts have had. It's hard to understand a poorly thought out argument.
1 hour ago, Sheikah said:t's strange to me that you're comparing Mario Kart 64 with AC Origins instead of Mario Kart 64 with MK Switch. One of my arguments was that the audience has grown (which therefore means more people to sell to, either physically, digitally, or via subscription) - you can see this just by looking at Mario Kart 64 vs Switch sales.
The discussion is about profitability.
Two games sell the same number of copies. One with 1000 people working on it. One with 50. One that plummeted in price after release. One that kept its price. It's one comparison, but it's one that illustrates just how generalised and poorly thought out your "games are much more profitable these days" argument. It's more nuanced than that.
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32 minutes ago, Sheikah said:Well that's not really a good comparison. Those are two entirely different games with different purposes and setups. AC for instance relies heavily on virtual tourism and realism, which you could argue justifies having bigger teams (at the cost of profit). But then AC Odyssey also has more ways of making profit than MK64 did - it has multiple limited edition versions, microtransactions, things like XP boosters, multiple DLC packs (which admittedly the most recent MK game has too, but I think AC charges more for them). AC games also make a juicy wad from being put on subscription services too like PlayStation Plus Extra. Certainly, you could argue that both sold the same number of copies but likely the revenue was nowhere close.
Origins also plummeted in price a few months in. Mario Kart 64 sold most of its 10 million at full (£60) price.
I'll say it again, a dev team of 1000 vs a dev team of 50.
It's one of many examples that could be used to disprove your specious argument that games are much more profitable these days.
36 minutes ago, Sheikah said:You often hear people say that microtransactions exist to keep the base game price static.
You often hear it because it's the truth. Not in all cases, but in the majority.
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5 hours ago, Sheikah said:Video games have generally become much more profitable though over the years which is why they can afford to stay the same price. A constantly growing audience, microtransactions and DLC mean there's generally much more money coming in.
That's an incredibly vague assertion. Any sources to back this claim up?
1000 people worked on Assassin's Creed Origins. It sold 10 million.
Around 50 people worked on Mario Kart 64. It also sold 10 million.
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39 minutes ago, Glen-i said:I'm in the mindset that this blatantly opportunistic, because, come on, this game in particular doesn't need help to make a profit.
Return on six years of investment I guess?
The game needs a higher capacity game card than every other first party Switch game, so there's a technical reason for it.
I'm not fussed because it's the same price in the UK as BOTW was, but I do agree that gaming (outside of Nintendo) has never been cheaper than it is today, so
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9 minutes ago, Ashley said:$60 apparently. Which would be $110 today so not too far off.
If they want to charge $70 fine but saying it's because it provides an "immersive experience" is an odd choice because it suggests other games aren't. Just say it's a big ass game that took a long time and a lot of people (maybe not those exact words).
TOTK is a fair bit bigger in file-size than BOTW, so it needs to be manufactured on 32GB cards, as opposed to the 16GB ones of BOTW. More cost involved there.
I suspect Bowser saying the game has 'a lot of content' is basically the above, but in corporate-speak.
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7 hours ago, darksnowman said:Thanks for the insight, Doug.
Since there've been plenty of "incredibly full, deeply immersive" Nintendo games until now that weren't $70, I'm gonna take it that you want me to believe there's added value here based on how many hectares TotK is stretched out over, especially now it spans from the depths up to the heavens. If that's really how you price these things, and you aren't just trying to wring every last dollar you can out of the fanbase, then I'm looking forward to a Zelda in the $5-10 range.
I think TotK will be the same RRP as BOTW was in Europe. The $10 price increase is only in the US I believe.
Wasn't Ocarina of Time $80 at release? That'd be about $140 these days with inflation
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Damn you @Julius you just made me to put on 'a quick scene' from Ep 6. Ended up re-watching the whole second half of it.
8 hours ago, Julius said:Look, I love a lot of what we've got with Mando, but if Andor continues on this trajectory, it's hard to imagine it not being my favourite live-action Star Wars show to date.
It's an outstanding series. Worth all the great reviews it got and then some. Incredibly well written and directed, beautiful set locations with stellar performances. The pacing is great too, structured in three-episode arcs, where the first two do the heavy lifting and make you care for the pay off in the third.
If anything it elevates Mando for me, when you sit through 12 episodes of Andor with it's bleaker, more down to earth tone, it's refreshing to have a tonal shift to the more fun, pulpy side of Star Wars that Mando provides. We're eating well atm!
Tony Gilroy was right, he didn't fill the series with in your face fan service, but it was great work from his team and Lucasfilm in general putting in tons of subtle background stuff that doesn't necessarily impact the story but is the icing on the cake.
And btw, this week's Bad Batch is similarly outstanding, one of the best of the whole series. Season 2 has been brilliant, let me know what you think when you get to it. The first couple of eps are strangely average, but there are some real gems after that.
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Quote“I’m really pleased that the support that I’m getting from the content creators of the company is significant and real, and it comes in the form of reducing the expense per content, whether it’s a TV series or a film, where costs have just skyrocketed in a huge way and not a supportable way in my opinion. They all agree to that, understanding how much volume we need, reducing how much we make. So it’s how much we spend on what we make and how much we make.”
“Star Wars, we made three what we called saga films, which is obviously the successors to George Lucas’ first six. They did very well at the box office — tremendously well as a matter of fact. We’ve made two so-called stand-alones in Rogue One and Solo. Rogue One did quite well, Solo was a little disappointing to us. It gave us pause just to think maybe the cadence was a little too aggressive. And so we decided to pull back a bit. We still are developing Star Wars films. We’re going to make sure that when we make one, that it’s the right one, so we are being very careful there.”
Some interesting comments from Iger when asked about their theatrical release plans. I’m glad they’re taking their time with the next big film but at the same time I hope he realises it wasn’t just release timing that screwed Solo but the total lack of marketing till 3 months before. Obviously they go hand in hand but still. At least he admitted the blame.(And Marvel slowing down is long overdue imo too.)
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The reveal trailer seemed to suggest terraforming was a big deal in this game, which I hope it isn't tbh. Just more Fantasy Life would be great.
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Skipping this trailer but hope people enjoy it.
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Kind of weird how the Nintendo Store don't have the Collector's Edition up yet but they do have those smaller bundles. Wonder if the Collector's Edition will end up cancelled over in Europe or something.
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Thank you for the 2AM ramblings! Very useful and interesting. I thought I had it all worked out but then this latest episode just confused me a bit about the shared principles of the Children of the Watch and the rest of the Mandalorians. Like you say I think I was just surprised Bo said she took the Creed. The Children of the Watch being an extreme offshoot of an already extremist group make sense.
And it's testament to how good that ending was that you're desperate to know what Bo thinks about the Mythosaur being real.
18 hours ago, Julius said:but it definitely makes Lucasfilm look somewhat incompetent that so many films and creative partnerships have been announced and then shelves.
You're probably right but I imagine it's a similar amount to most distributors, but just a lot more high profile because it's Star Wars and so a lot more in the news than most other companies. Star Trek 4 for instance has had about a dozen directors and writers over the last 5 or 6 years.
The MCU wasn't all smooth sailing at the start, but I imagine Lucasfilm will be much better going forward for the experience.
18 hours ago, Julius said:Knew you'd be gutted about Jenkins' film, to be honest that being the only one we really knew anything solid about makes it hurt a fair bit, and like you said, it's been slim pickings on the starfighter dogfight front for a while now. Here's hoping someone else picks it up down the line in some form or another!
Especially as Top Gun Maverick doing so well proved a relatively niche sounding idea like a pilot film could have worked. Oh well, like you say maybe we'll get something like that eventually. It's just frustrating with Rangers of the New Republic also shelved. Can't catch a break!
18 hours ago, Julius said:Trying to keep my expectations in check, so worse comes to worse it's just a weekend surrounded by Star Wars fans, which will be fun because I've not been in a huge crowd consistently since COVID kicked off a few years ago, much less a Star Wars one! (closest I've got to that is probably one of the midnight releases, but everyone tended to keep to themselves then)
Tons of people mentioned they didn't get anything in the lottery last year so going in with reduced expectations is probably a good thing. I'm determined to get into that Ahsoka panel though one way or the other. Live action Ezra reveal?
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Chapter 18. Wow, that was one hell of an episode!
SpoilerIt's funny how expectation doesn't line up with reality, I think most people expected to see Din visit the mines and living waters this season and maybe even see a Mythosaur... but not in episode two!! I figured this would be a side-quest to find the IG part and we'd revisit the Mandalore plot in the following chapter, but no straight there.
This is where streaming tech is showing it's limitations I think, with the dark setting and high amount of detail, it was tough to get a clear image a lot of the time. Looking forward to acquiring a 4K copy to enjoy it properly cause it looked like a beautiful episode.
Bo was great.
Hilarious when R5 shook his head when Din told him to go up ahead.
The creepy monster was just that, creepy af! Din still struggling a bit with the darksaber.
Loved the local monsters, you can tell they're just dudes in prosthetics, and it's all the more charming for it.
@Julius you might need to educate me here... Is "the creed" something all Mandalorians take? Where do the Children of the Watch come in, what do they do differently, apart from the helmet rule. Was that an original rule for all Mandos, or just them?
Another 8/10 for me. Loved it.
What's really exciting is I've no clue where the rest of this season is going to go. The trailer showed a bit of a city planet (Hosnian Prime?) and we're back on Nevarro and Kalevala at some point but otherwise we've already seen most of what the trailers showed.
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Tbf, yes the Mando/Ahsoka footage leaked from last year but most of it seemed to be taken down pretty quick, a couple vids of half the screen were on reddit in terrible quality but otherwise it's actually quite hard to find a good copy nowadays. Playing devil's advocate if you show thousands of people on the whole convention floor there's a lot greater chance the footage will get spread around. But I totally get what you're saying, it's pretty bad.
Now that I'm 100% on board with you. I don't think it's been 100% confirmed no panels at all will be streamed, so wait and see, but yeah. The panels that don't necessarily share any big news, just put them up ffs. Even if they wait until after the show or something. We'll see, but yeah. They might argue they want to reward convention goers but if you asked anyone there whether they minded the panels being streamed I think most would say they would love them to be.
The lotto makes sense I think. Tbh I'd rather that than queue 4 or 5 hours beforehand. I actually think the panel stuff is organised well given the difficult situation of literally everyone wanting to get into the big ones, it's just Lucasfilm's handling of people outside the rooms (and at home) that stings.
This was my favourite purchase from Anaheim, a massive print of this beauty, signed by the artist. It was like £100 but worth it. Even with Pearce Brosnan as Thrawn lol
It's funny you say that because that's exactly what happened, this morning reports saying Lindelof and his co-writer have left the 2024 project back in mid Feb. Siiiiiiigh. Apparently the production timeline is set to be the same, and LF got someone else in already, but yeah. I thought his interview comments you mention sounded really strange. Now we know why. I still think we'll see some film news at Celebration but it's so frustrating to say the least.
I reckon... Ahsoka trailer, Skeleton Crew trailer, maybe a new series announcement, film news and an Indy trailer.
Yeah should be good. Seems to have been in production a while, might be another Andor on our hands. Also, apparently the directors behind Everything Everywhere All At Once are set to direct at least one ep of Skeleton Crew, so that's exciting. Edit: just been confirmed from the horse's mouth
Be interesting if with two, presumably big, eps of Mando still to release, they'll want to pull focus away from that with a publicly released Ahsoka trailer. I could see them waiting until after the last ep of Mando before putting it online, but we'll see.
Yeah exactly. Fingers crossed, but it seems like great casting. I just hope the on-screen portrayals of the characters are right. Both her and Ezra are big personalities, I hope they don't try and tone those down and make it stiff and stoic.
Yeah they have, Ashley was invited on set for the Ahsoka show.
S1 was very cameo/legacy character-heavy (Kanan, Cut Lawquane, Trace and Rafa, Rex, Fennic Shand, Cad Bane, Hera, Chopper, Bib Fortuna etc) and it kind of wound me up, S2 has much less of that and it's more focused on the Batch themselves. It hasn't branched out into the wider galaxy quite as much as you might like/be expecting, but I think that's to come in the future. I don't actually think this is the last season, but still hoping they confirm it soon. Resistance only lasted two years but they announced S2 would be its last before it aired, so hopefully that's a good sign here.
Yes definitely catch up. It would have just finished by the time Celebration starts, so will be quite a talking point I imagine. Three of the opening four eps are a little meh, but it gets brilliant after that.