1 hour ago, WolfRider said:

Is it possible that the Firefly ship was a nod to Star Wars and the Mandalorian ship is a nod back to Firefly ? I din't see all Firefly show, but in what I saw I remember an obvious influence from Star Wars, starting with its main character played the guy who played Castle and who plays now a rookie cop in LAPD. There's a lot of Han Solo in his Firefly's character.

Firefly was 100% Star Wars influenced. Whedon mentioned in several interviews and such that a core concept for Fire was What was Han Solo doing between movies?

Had he not gotten in so much trouble, they'd probably be going after him for this show...

2 hours ago, WolfRider said:

Is it possible that the Firefly ship was a nod to Star Wars and the Mandalorian ship is a nod back to Firefly ?

There are no new stories, only old stories retold.

4 hours ago, micheldebruyn said:

I don't recognise it. Where is it from?

It can be both. Probably not a coincidence that out of the hundreds of old designs they have lying around they picked one that looks like a Firefly.

Star wars the old republic mmo

By the way, it's only 4 bucks a month if you sign up for the 3 year plan (140 bucks): https://d23.com/disney-plus-exclusive-offer/ , the same price that they had at D23. Hurry, it's only good until the 2nd!

2 hours ago, Desslok said:

By the way, it's only 4 bucks a month if you sign up for the 3 year plan (140 bucks): https://d23.com/disney-plus-exclusive-offer/ , the same price that they had at D23. Hurry, it's only good until the 2nd!

That's great for all of us who live in countries where it won't be available for years to come...

16 hours ago, OddballE8 said:

That's great for all of us who live in countries where it won't be available for years to come...

At least Disney can rest easy knowing that the people they've been marketing to will patiently wait for their turn and not even for a minute entertain the thought of turning to filesharing services or other forms of digital piracy.

On 8/28/2019 at 11:51 PM, penpenpen said:

At least Disney can rest easy knowing that the people they've been marketing to will patiently wait for their turn and not even for a minute entertain the thought of turning to filesharing services or other forms of digital piracy.

Oh of course not!
None of us would ever consider anything as nefarious as that...

On 8/24/2019 at 10:20 PM, Daeglan said:

Star wars the old republic mmo

We'll see. Shows that are on super-exclusive USA-only services usually are on Netflix overhere.

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Shows that are on super-exclusive USA-only services usually are on Netflix overhere.

That would be great. But seeing that Disney is putting tons of money into the game to outscore netflix on the market makes it highly unlikely to get the mandalorian to watch on netflix anytime at all.

1 hour ago, dreenan said:

That would be great. But seeing that Disney is putting tons of money into the game to outscore netflix on the market makes it highly unlikely to get the mandalorian to watch on netflix anytime at all.

Not to mention the fact that almost all Marvel and Star Wars property is being removed from Netflix outside of the US market as well... meaning they're really gunning for that exclusivity.

Don¨'t forget that this is the same company that routinely pull their most famous movies from the market for years just to build up demand for them and then release them again at full price.

They're not gonna put much (if any) of their property on Netflix outside of the US. They'll just wait to build up demand. (Of course, they're probably not factoring in that people will just pirate the stuff in the meantime)

49 minutes ago, OddballE8 said:

Not to mention the fact that almost all Marvel and Star Wars property is being removed from Netflix outside of the US market as well... meaning they're really gunning for that exclusivity.

Don¨'t forget that this is the same company that routinely pull their most famous movies from the market for years just to build up demand for them and then release them again at full price.

They're not gonna put much (if any) of their property on Netflix outside of the US. They'll just wait to build up demand. (Of course, they're probably not factoring in that people will just pirate the stuff in the meantime)

Along those lines, they don’t offer much in the way of their back catalog for repertory theaters, and have started to apply that to their newly-acquired 20th Century Fox catalog, too.

On 8/28/2019 at 7:27 AM, OddballE8 said:

That's great for all of us who live in countries where it won't be available for years to come...

I am happy to live in the Netherlands since it is rolled out on the same date but I do feel for you guys. They probably went with my tiny country as a jumping off point because of its size, relatively high headcount and the ease of our infrastructure but I am sure that Belgium and Scandinavia are not far behind.

The Mandalorian will turn out to be Boba Fett.

I’m calling it right now.

26 minutes ago, Sincereagape said:

The Mandalorian will turn out to be Boba Fett.

I’m calling it right now.

Doubt it, Disney doesn't want to pay royalties to Lucas, and Boba Fett looks just like a clone or the Jango Fett actor Temuera Morrison, while the actor from Narcos, Pedro Pascal doesn't look like a clone. Also there are probably billions of Mandalorians, why restrict yourself to the story of the same one. Then there's the existing canon which states that Jango Fett isn't even Mandalorian.

8 hours ago, Eoen said:

Doubt it, Disney doesn't want to pay royalties to Lucas...

They don't have to. That's not how royalties work.

It's not Boba because they're doing a show about a mysterious character, and there no longer is anything even slightly mysterious about Boba. Plus he's dead and doesn't look or sound like Pedro Pascal at all, and if it was about royalties, why then use an IG-88 clone, Stormtroopers, an AT-ST, and a Twi'lek? Why make Rogue One and a Solo movie?

5 hours ago, Eoen said:

Doubt it, Disney doesn't want to pay royalties to Lucas, and Boba Fett looks just like a clone or the Jango Fett actor Temuera Morrison, while the actor from Narcos, Pedro Pascal doesn't look like a clone. Also there are probably billions of Mandalorians, why restrict yourself to the story of the same one. Then there's the existing canon which states that Jango Fett isn't even Mandalorian.

They bought the rights to the entirety of the Star Wars universe... the only one they'd be paying royalties to is themselves. 🙄

That said, I doubt it's Boba, since one of the lines in the announcement from Jon Favreau was: "After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Warsuniverse."

Of course it is not Boba. Wouldn’t make a lick of sense...

14 minutes ago, DanteRotterdam said:

Of course it is not Boba. Wouldn’t make a lick of sense...

What speaks in favor of it being Boba: Boba would be around 40 years old, Pedro Pascal is 44 years old. Boba was a Mandalorian, the Mandalorian is a... well... Mandalorian. They both have similar helmets. That's all I could think of.

What speaks in favor of it not being Boba: It wouldn't make a lick of sense... (No, really. Why would a bounty hunter with a MASSIVE reputation, try to go incognito instead of not only using that reputation, but also adding to it with "survivin the sarlacc pit"? That makes no damned sense!)
Also, Pedro Pascal doesn't sound or look like Jango Fett (which Boba is a clone of) nor does he sound anything like Boba in the movies (before or after the infamous dubbing).
Furthermore, the armour is completely different... only the helmet is somewhat similar (and even that isn't completely similar)... so either he ditched his entire outfit and started anew... or it's not Boba.

1 hour ago, OddballE8 said:

Boba was a Mandalorian

Except, he's not.

1 hour ago, Demon4x4 said:

Except, he's not.

Oh?
How so?
He was cloned from a Mandalorian, so he could claim to be a Mandalorian by birthright.
He was trained by a Mandalorian, so he could claim to be a Mandalorian by training.
He wore actual Mandalorian armour, so he could claim to be Mandalorian by gear.

What more would he have to do to be considered Mandalorian?

1 minute ago, OddballE8 said:

Oh?
How so?
He was cloned from a Mandalorian, so he could claim to be a Mandalorian by birthright.

Except he wasn’t. Jango’s not a Mandalorian, as established by George and confirmed on screen in Clone Wars, with a line that - despite Tramp’s many quite passionate rebuttals that the line can’t be trusted - Filoni has stated explicitly was included to establish that Jango wasn’t Mandalorian.

As far as I am aware Jango claims to be a Mandalorian and maintained he was at all times. Mandalor threw some serious shade though...

To the best of my recollection, none of his claims to that effect are in any materials included in the current canon. When asked about it on Twitter, Pablo Hidalgo replied that, “I suppose he claimed to be at some point,” pointedly allowing for the claims to still exist, but for those claims to be false.

Legends... yeah, come to think of it, you are right.

4 hours ago, Nytwyng said:

Except he wasn’t. Jango’s not a Mandalorian, as established by George and confirmed on screen in Clone Wars, with a line that - despite Tramp’s many quite passionate rebuttals that the line can’t be trusted - Filoni has stated explicitly was included to establish that Jango wasn’t Mandalorian.

I can't seem to find any reference to that anywhere.

Feel free to point me to a video of that or some sort of statement.

Is this in reference to the official position of the Mandalore government, that he wasn't Mandalorian? Because that holds little value.

EDIT: Found the reference you're talking about... both Filoni's statement and Hidalgo's.

That is rather strange, though... and I'd say it seems to stem from Lucas' complicated hate-like relationship to Boba and Jango.
It also begs the question... does he mean they're not Mandalorians, as in "they're not from Mandalorian space" or as in "the current Mandalorian government doesn't consider them Mandalorians"?

Especially since, even in current canon, Mandalorians are more of a cultural group than an ethnic group... basically anyone could become a Mandalorian, whether they were born one or not.
And it also begs the question if the Mandalorian government considered factions like the Death Watch to be Mandalorian or not.

But we all know that whatever Lucas happens to fancy from day to day was written down as actual canon... no matter if it makes sense or not.

So... I guess the most famous Mandalorians in the Galaxy weren't Mandalorians, because George said so... (until Disney changes that in some future canon change)