General Star Wars Discussion

[hardcorestitch]

Happened to stumble upon this ahead of release…

 

[mdmost]

Watched the first 2 Maul episodes last night. It was really enjoyable. The animation style is great.

 

[Obi-J Kenobi]

https://thedirect.com/article/star-wars-mandoverse-saga

This article suggests Dave Filoni's Mandoverse is over. This makes some sense, despite the $100s of Millions invested into these projects. It's all too small.

 

[BrianL]

https://thedirect.com/article/star-wars-mandoverse-saga

This article suggests Dave Filoni's Mandoverse is over. This makes some sense, despite the $100s of Millions invested into these projects. It's all too small.

I don't know about all that. Many of the shows cited were never intended to have further seasons - maybe they would have done them had they been wildly popular, but they stand alone as well. Ahsoka season 2 is still coming out, and we'll see how they leave it - I am not sure Season 3 was ever planned at all. Future Mandalorian proper may depend on how the movie does. Then agian, if it does too well, then they might keep it threatrical. Most of this has to do with a general pivot away from Disney+ shows overall. With Dave at the helm of lucasfilm, I doubt we will see these characters languish completely - it just may look a little different in the future.

 

[nancipants]

The whole appeal of The Mandalorian, for me, was that it was mostly a standalone story. I liked seeing the little bits about the state of the galaxy post Return of the Jedi, but IMO, this was not the story or character on which to center a big, galaxy-spanning conflict. They wanted their own MCU/Avengers, and instead of properly planning for something like that when developing the Sequel Trilogy, they've been trying to reverse engineer with the Mandoverse stuff. And it just doesn't work that way.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

Very interesting data, what don’t you see in the top 10 for minutes streamed? Also the timing of Nielsen releasing this data not is also quite interesting.

 

[Kit Jackson]

The whole appeal of The Mandalorian, for me, was that it was mostly a standalone story. I liked seeing the little bits about the state of the galaxy post Return of the Jedi, but IMO, this was not the story or character on which to center a big, galaxy-spanning conflict.

I liked the series better when it was case/mission of the week and I wasn't expected to have seen every animated series. It's fine to have characters make random cameos or be in the background, but I was definitely expected to know characters that I had never seen before.

 

[Suger Mag]

Speaking of Nielson's, it is interesting when you look at the generational data.... what shows people are most interested in.


Not excited for a movie realease, but I will go see it in the theaters.


Filoni will have his universe. This is his baby now.

Personally I am looking forward to the Mando movie, and seeing the appearance of characters like Zeb, I do not mind the appearance of lesser known characters from the animated series, If I do not know someone I can look them up. I do not see it as reverse engineering as much as weaving the threads together and connecting the loose ends, but I can see how what content people have experienced or consumed can affect their perspective

folks who are into the books will have an entirely different feel... to those who have never watched the animated series and only the Lucas movies will also have a different feel.

Shadow lord has been amazing... Bad Batch was also great... if you are not keeping up with the animation series, you are going to be left behind in the Filoni universe is my thought.

I am also looking forward to Ahsoka season 2. Bring on more of the Nightsisters

 

[HokieRaven5]

Very interesting data, what don’t you see in the top 10 for minutes streamed? Also the timing of Nielsen releasing this data not is also quite interesting. View attachment 1070171

The timing of releasing streaming data for Star Wars from May 4, 2025 and all of 2025 on May 4, 2026? Almost like May 4th is a day that Star Wars fans celebrate for some reason

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

The timing of releasing streaming data for Star Wars from May 4, 2025 and all of 2025 on May 4, 2026? Almost like May 4th is a day that Star Wars fans celebrate for some reason

Can you find where this data was released in prior years? Why not?

 

[HokieRaven5]

Can you find where this data was released in prior years? Why not?

Marketing and engagement farming with a brand that has its first movie release post growth of D+

 

[Kestryl]

Glad for my household to contribute to the ranking of Andor, that was pretty much all we watched in April-May 2025.

 

[Skywalker3]

Well that was a frustrating and thoroughly aggravating experience. DH joined the queue for Star Wars Celebration tickets right at 2PM CST (I was working, couldn't really do it.) Jedi Master tickets were gone in an hour, but I couldnt' really afford that . Multi-day and single day passes for Friday/Saturday were sold out in under 2.5 hours. By the time he could get his turn to buy, they only had Thurs, and Sun left....This would've been just my DD and me going, so I wasn't really wanting to pay to fly to LA, hotels, etc. just for those days.....what a bummer. I guess we could've just done Sunday, but that's a lot of hassle for 1 day. They allowed up to 20 tickets per person, and there are already scalpers peddling on ticket resale sites, and ebay, etc. I"m hoping they'll have some sort of other release, or something, but who knows.....

 

[Skywalker3]

On a positive note....Maul was incredible. We'd been on our dream trip to London for the past 2 weeks, and had missed episodes 5-8, caught up on those Sunday, and then ready for Maul Monday. and it was awesome.
I watched second half of Andor, season 1, on the flight home. When the plane was taking off, I was playing the episode , scene where Andor and the Aldhani group are taking off, through the Eye. That was cool, distracted me during all of that. Then I started with Nobody's Listening and watched the rest. It's such an incredible show. They had all of the 9 Skywalker saga movies. I watched the Darth Maul scenes at the end of TPM, some parts of AOTC, and ESB, and an episode of Mandalorian. They only offered a few episodes/partial seasons for most things. Anyway, also bought some British snack food w Mandalorian/Grogu on the bag, so that was fun.
Haven't gotten tickets yet for the movie, need to decide when we can all go.

 

[BrianL]

Well that was a frustrating and thoroughly aggravating experience. DH joined the queue for Star Wars Celebration tickets right at 2PM CST (I was working, couldn't really do it.) Jedi Master tickets were gone in an hour, but I couldnt' really afford that . Multi-day and single day passes for Friday/Saturday were sold out in under 2.5 hours. By the time he could get his turn to buy, they only had Thurs, and Sun left....This would've been just my DD and me going, so I wasn't really wanting to pay to fly to LA, hotels, etc. just for those days.....what a bummer. I guess we could've just done Sunday, but that's a lot of hassle for 1 day. They allowed up to 20 tickets per person, and there are already scalpers peddling on ticket resale sites, and ebay, etc. I"m hoping they'll have some sort of other release, or something, but who knows.....

And I thought Star Wars was a dying franchise....

On a positive note....Maul was incredible. We'd been on our dream trip to London for the past 2 weeks, and had missed episodes 5-8, caught up on those Sunday, and then ready for Maul Monday. and it was awesome.
I watched second half of Andor, season 1, on the flight home. When the plane was taking off, I was playing the episode , scene where Andor and the Aldhani group are taking off, through the Eye. That was cool, distracted me during all of that. Then I started with Nobody's Listening and watched the rest. It's such an incredible show. They had all of the 9 Skywalker saga movies. I watched the Darth Maul scenes at the end of TPM, some parts of AOTC, and ESB, and an episode of Mandalorian. They only offered a few episodes/partial seasons for most things. Anyway, also bought some British snack food w Mandalorian/Grogu on the bag, so that was fun.
Haven't gotten tickets yet for the movie, need to decide when we can all go.

Maul was awesome!

 

[Kestryl]

Well that was a frustrating and thoroughly aggravating experience. DH joined the queue for Star Wars Celebration tickets right at 2PM CST (I was working, couldn't really do it.) Jedi Master tickets were gone in an hour, but I couldnt' really afford that . Multi-day and single day passes for Friday/Saturday were sold out in under 2.5 hours. By the time he could get his turn to buy, they only had Thurs, and Sun left....This would've been just my DD and me going, so I wasn't really wanting to pay to fly to LA, hotels, etc. just for those days.....what a bummer. I guess we could've just done Sunday, but that's a lot of hassle for 1 day. They allowed up to 20 tickets per person, and there are already scalpers peddling on ticket resale sites, and ebay, etc. I"m hoping they'll have some sort of other release, or something, but who knows.....

Related to ticket scalping- Banana Ball is coming to my area this summer, and it’s been heartening to see the reaction to people trying to sell their tickets for above face value. Someone will post that they have two tickets well above list price ($40-60 per ticket), and then their post will get flooded with comments about how they’re scalping and there’s an alternate way for people to get tickets. (Banana Ball rolled out a Fans First marketplace- you can’t list your tickets about list price.) And if you’re caught selling your tickets for more than list price, Banana Ball will cancel your account.

Will it be stopped completely, no, but at least Banana Ball is trying.

 

[Obi-J Kenobi]

Nicely done DTD Lego Store.