YouTube vs. Disney/ESPN Pissing Match

[dagdaj]

One can only watch Alice in Wonderland a few times

I pay for Disney when there's good Star Wars. Can't help it. I'm 54. I was and always will be a Star Wars kid.
Mandalorian then cancel.
Didn't bother with The Acolyte and Dr. Who. Binged them when Andor came back.
Watched Andor then cancelled.

Andor, btw, is the best Star Wars TV ever. Not surprising since Rogue One was the best movie.

I did try the National Treasure TV show. 'Cause that movie....even though it's not great. Or even necessarily good. I don't count it in my even my top 200 of all time. And despite the fact I've never sat down to consciously watch it and may never have seen the entire thing from start to finish in one setting...
National Treasure is the one movie I will watch most likely 'til the end if I come across it on regular TV. It's fun. That's it. Nothing else I'll say about it. It's just escapely good fun for me.

 

[Fryowa]

I pay for Disney when there's good Star Wars. Can't help it. I'm 54. I was and always will be a Star Wars kid.
Mandalorian then cancel.
Didn't bother with The Acolyte and Dr. Who. Binged them when Andor came back.
Watched Andor then cancelled.

Andor, btw, is the best Star Wars TV ever. Not surprising since Rogue One was the best movie.

I did try the National Treasure TV show. 'Cause that movie....even though it's not great. Or even necessarily good. I don't count it in my even my top 200 of all time. And despite the fact I've never sat down to consciously watch it and may never have seen the entire thing from start to finish in one setting...
National Treasure is the one movie I will watch most likely 'til the end if I come across it on regular TV. It's fun. That's it. Nothing else I'll say about it. It's just escapely good fun for me.

Now I'm going to contradict myself and mention that anytime I'm scrolling YTTV and see Star Wars on the weekend I watch. Don't know what network it is but about once a month I'll be scrolling and see the first Star Wars on followed by Empire and ROTJ. My gf laughs because she knows I'm in the recliner for about the next 7 hours. I'm 45 and between my dad, my brother, and me we wore out a few VHS copies of all three.

Love SW. Hope this doesn't trigger you but The Phantom Menace is one of the worst things ever put on film.

Conversely, seeing this scene in Rogue One made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Greatest scene in the entire franchise. As a 6 year old I was scared to death of Darth Vader and the nostalgia that this one finally tied into A New Hope made me want to run through a brick wall. Top film villain of all time. Damn, now I want to go watch Rogue One.

Darth Vader's Rage (2016) Final Fight Scene | Star Wars: Rogue One 4K Movie Clip

In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destructio...

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[dagdaj]

Now I'm going to contradict myself and mention that anytime I'm scrolling YTTV and see Star Wars on the weekend I watch. Don't know what network it is but about once a month I'll be scrolling and see the first Star Wars on followed by Empire and ROTJ. My gf laughs because she knows I'm in the recliner for about the next 7 hours. I'm 45 and between my dad, my brother, and me we wore out a few VHS copies of all three.

Love SW. Hope this doesn't trigger you but The Phantom Menace is one of the worst things ever put on film.

Conversely, seeing this scene in Rogue One made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Greatest scene in the entire franchise. As a 6 year old I was scared to death of Darth Vader and the nostalgia that this one finally tied into A New Hope made me want to run through a brick wall. Top film villain of all time. Damn, now I want to go watch Rogue One.

Darth Vader's Rage (2016) Final Fight Scene | Star Wars: Rogue One 4K Movie Clip

In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destructio...

www.youtube.com

I wasn't a fan of the prequels. The sequels were OK, I guess.

I mean, I was 6 when the movie came out. I did not get initial set of Star Wars figures, but was jealous AF of my friend who did. Star Wars was my 'life' for how long. Star Wars bed sheets. Books. Comics. Trading cards. Figures. Vehicles. Various glowing swords. They didn't even have the capacity to make even 'bad' light sabers' in that era. Not as toys. You just got a plastic sword from Venture or KMart that glowed in the dark and that was it.

If you get a freebie of Disney+.....Mandalorian is 'fun', but not required.
Andor, however....
The first season is just a very good TV show, clearly related to Star Wars, but feels like a slow burn in terms of what we know comes after. Not that it isn't exciting and stuff. And it does Star Wars in a much "realer" way. The way they use natural music at times...both eerie and stark.
The second season continues that very slow burn and continues to distract you with this weird "behind-the-scenes" of the outright bureaucracy of what it would have taken to run that 'Empire'. The mundanity of the pettyness that would exist in an organization that big and intrusive. But midway through that second season.....it just starts burning you towards what you know is ultimately going to happen in Rogue One and New Hope....and what follows. The last few episodes gave you that feeling you got when playing hide and seek when you were like 8. A giddy nervous excitement with a little dread. There were times I'm sure my pulse rate went up....and the muscles around my bladder restricted.