When I was trying to explain this show to my mom, she just quipped that she's seen it before with John Wayne rescuing a kid...and that was an old story then. Still loved the Mandalorian too. My mom watched it and loved it.
Pet Rock now Baby Yoda. Your being taken by grifters.
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That this was a more involved article about a character than I can find in this publication about most presidential candidate tells you everything you need to know about the State of politics today.
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I'm partial to the theory that Baby Yoda is a psy-op meant to increase millennial birth rates.
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Part of me suspects that Baby Yoda is instinctively using the Force to manipulate certain folk to protect him.
I'd rather watch Leeloo.
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Great article! I think it sums up the "Stop worrying and love the bomb" attitude I've forged over the years a Star Wars fan.
"...Presold, prerecognized and preloved."
"It’s also Disney saying, yes, we will re-gift you your childhood, over and over."
LOL Brutal but true.
I'm not made of Beskar either. Listening to my kids as they literally roll around on the floor, or hide under blankets, laughing and squealing with delight really helped me get over the lack of narrative ambition of the Mandalorian (and Star Wars). I guess it really is better to save what you love. More fun, too.
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The show reminds me of David Carradine’s Kung Fu, where a traveling hero comes to town, defeats the bad guys until his past catches up with him and he must move on. Or Gloria, a happy go lucky girl who gets saddled with a care that she did not want, need or was looking for, then changes her ways to care for this new care getting in trouble for it.
But who cares, it is amazing entertainment, one of the few shows my wife demands we watch on release night and we both enjoy as much as the other. I am always calling out the supporting cast and geeking out when I see call backs to a time long long ago, like when he is coming to an arid planet and I recognized the features, and stood up fangirling about how that was Tatoine, and then he calls it in and Mos Eisly con tower tells him to land on x, and he starts walking the familiar streets and visits THE cantina, the dude sits in Han Solo’s chair where he shot Greedo (and yes Han shot first), anyway, she was just amused at my antics, so we had a good time.
And that is all that I ask of a show, and The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda give just that. So Disney, thank you. Shut up and take my money. (lol)
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This headline is a little offensive, even in jest. 'God' he is not.
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If indeed people are finding The Mandalorian to be "a delightful and artful entertainment,” then we encountering a realm of "alternative-artfulness" somewhat akin to the realm of "alternative-facts". By any objective standard of narrative film/tv aesthetics, The Mandalorian is just awful. The test: what would you see in it if you knew nothing of Star Wars.
The protagonist, allegedly played by Pedro Pascal, could be played by any schlub who would fit inside the costume. When Mando speaks his few cliched faux Clint Eastwood quips, they could be dubbed by any frat boy doing an Eastwood impression at a keg party. Screen acting is mainly about subtle facial expressions in CU. Mando never takes off his helmet. It seemed like at least a third of the screen time was devoted to Mando just walking from one place to another, as if the director never learned the basics of using editing to eliminate dead time. There are no stakes, no character development, no....
It's almost as if the show is empty of traditional narrative interests by design. What's left then to serve up delight? Only the multiple references to the minutiae of the Star Wars universe. Not that any of these serve much purpose beyond mere recognition, memory triggers to some past pleasures of childish fantasy. If they can sell you that, they can sell you anything.
The Mandalorian is scripted and shot exactly like a video game. The dialogue, even the way voices sound, is 100% video game -- as are the various action sequences and the visual perspectives. You are a subject moving through a situation, talking to people, making a choice, shooting things, and then moving into another situation. I'm convinced the show was actually initially a video game, but optioned as a TV serial.
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@Thomas Strong This is exactly how I've described it. It's like watching another person play and RPG. Get quest, go to complete, do side quest, complete original quest, get paid, by more armor, get next quest, etc. But I like it, and I don't have time to play those games myself.
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But that scene in ep 6, when Mando is creeping up on that nasty space pirate. Masterful!
My sons and I were discussing the excellent quality of the soundtrack and the gamesque nature of the storyline. The show is a perfect opportunity for this original Star Wars fan and my Gen Z kids to nerd out together. Thanks, Disney!
Baby Yoda is perfectly adorable. I'm learning to crochet just so I can make tiny dolls. Carry mine in my pocket, I will.
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Yep, caught one of these critters out by the walnut trees in a Havaheart trap. Still don't know what to do with it?
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I assumed that the entire show was designed around the eventual toy lines, with baby yoda front and centre.
Baby Yoda made an appearance at the University of Florida commencement exercises this past weekend (on the big screen during Dr. Fuchs' speech (UF President)) - crowd went wild. It is a strange new world.
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What is "The Mandalorian"? It is effectively watching someone play a well-made RPG. This genre plays well to the whole bounty hunter gig but the series takes it further. You start with an introductory quest, complete it, and purchase a gear upgrade with the reward. The main story arc continues. Helpful NPC's guide you along or turn on you. You complete the first stage and the whole galaxy opens up to you. You fast-travel to new planets and complete side quests but each peripherally relates to or furthers the main story arc. Given how popular watching others play video games has become, I'm not surprised at the show's popularity even considering the already massive fan base. It's a packaged RPG without the need to grind for better gear or make in-game transactions. As both a Star Wars and RPG fan, I tune in every week. Standing by for a Knights of the Old Republic series.
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The Mandalorian is a fantastic achievement in bite size entertainment within the behemoth of the SW universe. Since the season finale is AFTER the upcoming 'Rise of Skywalker' movie, it would be great to see that the Emperor is the one who is pulling the strings to find baby Yoda.
With Dr Pashak wearing the science uniform of Kamino, a cloning facility from 'Attack of the Clones', it is likely he is a CLONE of Yoda or possibly Yoda himself remade. Either suggestion would make sense with Palpatine being 'alive'. Everything Disney does is deliberate. From the scheduling of the show to the DELIBERATE no-release merchandise before the holidays. Without toys to pre-order, the last few seconds of E1 were breathtaking and joyous.
And that is what Star Wars should always be. A great adventure and something that retains that joy regardless of age....which is what 'Last Jedi' catastrophically failed to do.
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@Kimberley
'possibly Yoda himself remade.'
I don't know. If you're a being that can remain powerful without a body, and even make an image of you for others to see, do you really then desire to go through a body growth cycle, complete with puberty and the years full of angst?
You would not reach godlike status to then go back to middle school.
Anyway, the resat of the theory is very interesting, would be a Shamalayan twist, but a good one this time.
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No new ideas allowed. Just put big eyes on old ideas and people lap it up because of their existential dread. Here's a replacement for the opium of the masses: shows that you don't have to contemplate and can eat up like candy.
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What's the rumpus? The little fellow just looks like another one of Joe Dante's Gremlins.
You’re overthinking this and underestimated the series’ audience.
First, there have been tie-ins between films or TV and commercial merchandise almost since those media began. I have toy radios, bric-a-brac, and lamps made between 1925 and 1955 to prove it. We’ve just gotten slicker at the links and the timing. Although apparently Disney didn’t see this one coming.
Second, today’s millennial and gen Y viewer grew up to be visually sophisticated, rather cynical, and bemusedly accepting of attempted manipulation. It doesn’t follow that they then slavishly absorb the meme’s, consume the merchandise, then numbly watch the show for new triggers. Often all of us, young or old, watch media or track down meme’s just for the minor escape from the chaos of the real world. As you say, we let it wash over us, and then it’s forgotten.
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Glorious article!
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Why is everyone missing the sexual innuendo?
@No
Okay, I really need to hear this one out fully.... you have my attention entirely.
That is to say: Huh?!
The obvious sexual innuendo... of Baby Yoda?!
Please say more (while of course making sure not to incriminate yourself by describing the violation of any species-specific statutory rape, child pornography, nor sex trafficking laws which may or may not apply to the interstellar district of your residence.)
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Because there is none: not everything is about sex. And since this is a show about an adult and a child, your comment is kind of off-putting.
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@No
'Why is everyone missing the sexual innuendo?'
Crushing much on Pedro Pascal?
Otherwise, if you see a baby and think of sex, you have issues my man.
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I’m old enough to have enjoyed several iconic movie/TV moments and the rolling galactic intro to the first Star Wars is one. It was so new, so fresh and so captivating that it brought tears to my eyes, and made for a few bucks and lots of good ideas. And you were in the midst of it! I didn’t breath for at least ten minutes. Not sure anybody will ever beat that.
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I saw Star Wars in San Francisco when it first opened at the now-gone Coronet Theater, which had an enormous screen and an earthquake-level sound system, and can remember feeling flattened by the opening rollup. It was amazing! I must have seen it a half-dozen times in the first month it came out because anytime I ran into a friend who hadn’t seen it, I would drag them to the Coronet. Good times!
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@Dkhatt I had the same experience. So young, so stoned and so ready for anything to rescue me from white suburbia privledge. I joined the USN not long after.
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Ok Gloomer. That WAS me, before the Husband talked me into finally watching the first two episodes today. I’m now in Love. In the immortal words of Jagger and Richards “
“ You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes
You might find
You get what you NEED “.
Baby Yoda, an antidote to Trump and his evil regime.
Seriously.
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@Phyliss Dalmatian When I was but a young Millennial, my parents imparted to me the wisdom of the ancients. "Jesse," they would say, "In the words of the eminent philosopher, Mic Jagger, you can't always get what you want."
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Jesse, your Parents were Wise. Best advice EVER.
Seriously.
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We may not get the baby Yoda we want, but we get the baby Yoda we deserve.
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This is the most optimistic and loveliest thing I have read in the NYT in a long time. Well done @poniewozik.
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I grew up during Star Wars, but I do not--or ever--owned anything Star Wars. But, I've got to say that little Baby Yoda is the cutest thing I've ever seen on TV.
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Baby Yoda (or The Child) is all anticipation. because we know what Yoda was, but we don’t know what The Child will become.
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Yes, and... I am glad Baby Yoda is here with us. Here at the end of all things.
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Loved the reference.thank you.
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This really sounds like a paid advertisement for Disney (“And you will help create it!”).
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They say that American life expectancy is dropping for the first time as a result of many of our poor habits.
I am now deeply concerned that our collective IQ is plummeting precipitously as well.
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I thought this was a fun read. Baby Yoda is appealing, there's no doubt about that. The author should check out the Expanse for a good sci-fi fix and another example of how a book can translate well onto the small screen if it's done right! Without the cute aliens.
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Television, games, movies, toys, costumes....
I'm not talking about children here...the parents of my grandchildren spend more time concerned about this stuff than they spend concerned about what is happening in this country and the world. There won't be any clean water to drink but at least they will have their games and toys to help them cope.
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I’m a gristly fifty and I love this little guy an unreasonable amount. What’s happening to me?! It’s like that shampoo commercial, “damnit they got me!”
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@Kroger
If Werner Herzog - he of " I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature" - can love Baby Yoda, then we all should be allowed to, and not be ashamed of it.
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Wow, let’s introduce a baby Yoda and maybe no one will notice how bad our storylines and horrible CGI really suck.
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@Jason ...said nobody.
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It's hard for me to believe that people continue to shell out (local tickets for me are $16.50) for what appears to be a plastic figurine wrapped in a blanket. Star Wars was the first movie I watched in a theater, but for heavens sake, let the thing die. The review calls the film "perfectly watchable", but also "predictable". For me this sounds like mind-numbing Disney pap. Sorry to be a bummer folks, but get your mind moving for heaven's sake.
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I think the series is vastly overrated, but I would stop short of sneering at people who enjoy it that they are philistines. It is ok for pure entertainment to be in anybody’s routine. We don’t have to read War and Peace all the time.
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@Yann Since you have not watched it, perhaps stop judging. I am enjoying this show immensely with my daughter. It gives us a break from constant Trump talk, worrying about climate change, homework, the cold Midwest winter, work etc. etc. I work 40 plus hours a week at a complex job, I am politically and civically active, and I am studying a new foreign language (will be my third). I still enjoy a buddy Western and a cute baby Yoda for about 45 minutes a week.
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@Yann I'm not sure who is spending $16.50 to watch The Mandalorian in a movie theatre? Did you not read the entire article (or have you not paid any attention since November 1 to social media)? This is a TV show..not a movie. I love it when those who consider themselves smarter than the rest of us try to lecture on what we should be spending out time doing...I love it even more when they don't even understand what it is they're trying to lecture us on.
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Wow. You've spent a lot of time thinking about this.
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Yes, it's an episodic cowboy show.
Specifically, The Lone Ranger.
Who was that masked man?
Will there be a Tonto, Kimosabe?
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The show is okay. I like Pascal, wish he was in the show * The "Kid" (as I call him) is very well done & undeniably cute. But really -how on earth did the author squeeze that many words out about this show ???
* as revealed by Director Howard,as in not even in the costume
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Why the glossy black eyes? Old Yoda had pupils.
Do these creatures develop pupils later in their existence?
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@Brian M Many birds have darker irises (black, brown), that lighten with age. Parrots specifically.
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@Lora
And a lot of parrots are green! Wow!
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The show has the feel of the grand and under appreciated 'Firefly'. Silly space western trading in the witty banter for oversized pink ears. They had better never take Mando's helmet off. That would ruin everything.
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The similarities end at space western. Firefly was far more clever.
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But what about baby Groot?
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@Pat I was thinking exactly the same thing... love baby groot!!! until it hit puberty... (wich by the way is a looong way out, for this 50 year old baby :)
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It's very difficult to take seriously any adult who takes television this seriously.
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@richard That's someone's open deficiency, obviously.
So, Baby Yoda is 50.
"The Mandalorian" takes place five years after the original trilogy ended.
Yoda "died" after "Empire Strikes Back."
Looks like Yoda was, ahem, active in his older years.
That has to be it.
And when the Baby Yoda toys start coming out in 2020, Disney stock is going to explode like the Death Star at the end of "A New Hope."
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Say, James, can I interest you in a Pet Rock? How about a Cabbage Patch doll?
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Incredible piece of writing that raises some pretty heavy stuff.
Such a large bounty. For such a small package.
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Baby Yoda is an example of "Baby Schema" where cuteness in the young (of animals) invites care-giving. Big head, big eyes, round face. Features prominent in Mickey Mouse, E.T., and Yoda, for some.
Think about it...."Oh, they're so cute..."
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Surprisingly Disney reallllly dropped the ball on merchandising for Baby Yoda in time for the Holiday....something surely Lucas would never have done.
Say what you want about Lucas, he was a master of hawking his wares.
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@Nick Yeah, but was the merchandising a good thing? I think it took some of the magic away.
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I remember a lot of Star Wars merch, but I’ve never seen anything like the tsunami of Frozen 11 stuff!
I dont want my sci-fi to be mindlessly cute and adorable. But I get that some video consumers are drawn to exactly that. Bravo to Disney for capitalizing.
This was a fun take on the mandolorian. Thank you. I saw it more as a Samurai Jack/ Lone Wolf & Cub thing. I personally enjoy not seeing Mando’s face and love the use of silence. I enjoy the focus being pulled from spectacle (same old sets we remember), pulled away from over involved plot, and I hope we are focusing (fingers crossed) on character development.
The soothing quality of baby yoda is refreshing given our current climate (political & physical). Perhaps what is most refreshing is a point brought up on social media: because it’s Disney, we know nothing bad will happen to baby yoda but on hbo we don’t really know (it’s funnier when they say it).
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That warm fuzzy feeling that surrounds Baby Yoda comes, in part, from the realization that the character lives. We don't have to worry about him succumbing to a light-saber swipe, mid-episode. (Unless, of course, this is NOT Baby Yoda! Perhaps Yoda had a sibling that isn't introduced until a future chapter in the story, or maybe even a *sister* but they wouldn't go down that rabbit hole again, would they?)
Don't forget - Yoda lives to 900 years old, so that's a lot of sequels!
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@North Country Rambler
Perhaps you haven't seen the show? The character is not, in fact, the infant Yoda. The series is chronologically set AFTER "Return of the Jedi," that is, after Yoda's death. This new character is a baby of the same species as Yoda; since we neither know the infant's real name nor the name of his species, we simply call him "Baby Yoda."
And yes, we fear for his life in every episode.
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“The Mandalorian” is a delightful and artful entertainment.”
No. It’s a slow, cliche-riddled show in which we cannot begin to understand the main character because we aren’t allowed to see his face. The awkward blocking around the unpersuasive Yoda puppet is painful to watch. Disney has huge resources and couldn’t do better? The Seven Samurai (in this case two) served up as original? Really?
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@PR wiley cold, you are. ; )
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@PR wiley I love the way baby yoda moves! It’s reminiscent of old yoda from the original movies, and it gives a sense of alien cuteness to it that is unique to Star Wars. The throwbacks and cliches are part of the fun!
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You so beautifully capture an aspect of later in life fatherhood I deeply cherish:
" ... return to that state when stories were new to you, when you hadn’t seen it all, when you hadn’t seen any of it, when you didn’t try to solve or defeat stories but just let them wash over you and amaze you."
Thank you for that.
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At 50, the Child is already wiser than the Tangerine Nightmare by a factor of 10.
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@JPLA Could not have said it better
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This is a perfect take. Well done!
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I never liked Yoda, I was offended that they replaced the wonderful Alec Guinness with a silly green puppet with a cutesy grammatical habit. For me he presaged the ghastly Jar Jar Binks. However I too have fallen in love with Baby Yoda in part because although cute he has a less-cute side especially in his diet.
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Baby Yoda, Goat Yoga, whatever. All things pass away. This will as well.
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@Plumberb ...Let's hope so. I grew disgusted with the Giant Eyes of all the Disney characters a LONG time ago...Mulan, the Frozen Clan sisters, etc.
@Sane Human
That's fine. No one is forcing you to watch any of it.
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I run from science fiction and fantasy, it holds no interest for me. But Baby Yoda, oooh, he’s so adorable!!!!! I’ve got several videos and memes saved, they give me a chuckle, make me happy, in These Troubled Times.
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All we need distractions not?
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@Robert It is the way.
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Baby Yoda, AKA Gremlin.
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The times we’re in now demand a Baby Yoda. We see so mUch ugliness on TV (if you watch the news. Old white men, their faces twisted with greed, hatred, it’s unbearable. Baby Yoda is pure, at least for now. Embrace him we must.
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I, for one, welcome our new Baby Yodalarian overlord.
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The inquisitive eyes with that slightly downturn smile is irresistible. The show itself feels like a live action Clone Wars episode. The acting is cringeworthy at times. But, its cute face and toddler antics make it craveable TV. What will Baby Yoda do this week?
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I’m astonished at the poor writing. They repeat storylines that were hackneyed when BJ and the Bear used them in the ‘70s. Yes I’ll see every episode because I am pathetic. But If anyone comes in I’ll pretend I’m watching porn.
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@omstew Repeat they do. But written well the story lines are always entertaining. Anything that takes my mind off the crumbling of civilization.
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Only one movie has ever motivated me to see it a second time in the theater on a big screen. The hype for and promise of joy from Star Wars part IV reported by Time and other magazines of the era heralded the special effects, the Wagnerian score by Mr. Williams, and the epic story telling. They claimed nothing like it had previously existed as a technical work of art. The first day it was available in Albuquerque I left work early, got in line for the first showing and soon believed Time magazine got it right. The moment I left the theater I got back into the next line queued up for the next showing. It was the first and only time I saw a movie twice on a big screen and back-to-back showings at that. Nerd, geek, fool, or whatever, there had not been nor would ever be a movie that was such a positive and pure entertainment in my life. The Mandalorian presents an opportunity to relive some of that thrill by being a simple and pure quest of an individual who has a morality left intact despite the jaded nature of his profession, his peers, and his environs. He is part Han Solo, part Malcolm Reynolds, and part Spock rolled into one.
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This is just the CGI version of fans flocking to see the latest offering from a beloved film star. Yoda is no different from Tom Cruise, Errol Flynn or Mary Pickford. New ideas are few and far between. Meanwhile, familiarity sells.
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I never liked anyone or anything in Star Wars; it was a retelling of WW2 only more irritating. Seeing the first one is enough and seeing 2, 3 & 4 is unbearable. Lucas is a lucky movie school hack. So is Spielberg, except for Indiana Jones 1.
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@Steven Pettinga He got lucky with that one, too.
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Was there any fantasy-type movie or TV genre you did like? Mystery Science 3K maybe? Sesame Street? Teletubbies? Shrek?
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@Gabrielle Rose Gosh, my favorite fantasy top ten movies are The Wizard of Oz, The Shining, The Fifth Element,, Dogma, Edward Sissorhands, Stargate, Field of Dreams,Indiana Jones ,2001 & Leon The Professional. other favorite movies include Magnolia, Elf, Annie Hall, & Wild Things. What are your's. I love hearing other people's personal favorites. [email protected]
My grandma baked Mandalorians in the spring, maybe at Passover. Prune and poppy seed.
The force was with her.
Am I remembering this wrong. I’m old
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@Michael c Queue the grumpy crowd here. They will be chiming in to tell you how Purim is overrated and lacks the gravitas of Rosh Hashanah.
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Are you comparing this Plastic Alien cartoon character to the Christ Child ? Are you mocking the Christ child and God as a way to sell consumers a plastic toy that belongs to the culture of paganism ?
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@Charle: If this is sarcasm, OK. Otherwise, not so much.
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Yep. You don’t recognize the entire Star Wars saga? Virgin birth ring a bell? The Force (i.e. Holy Spirit)?
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@Charle
Well, I think you are right in a sense. This kind of comparison is attractive to those who have become convinced that the Jesus story, more or less entirely, is passe.
It is also a shorthand way of assigning importance to some cultural phenomenon or other based on the long history of Christian culture.
I think this first came to my attention when I heard, 'King Kong died for our sins'.
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How sad and pathetic.
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Hate your headline, but this is a fun bit of fluff. I like both Mando and Baby Yoda, but I'm really curious to see where this goes and how this small series ends.
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I’m about to turn 50. I wouldn’t say that I am a big Star Wars fan but I’ve seen all of the movies. I love ever second of baby Yoda screen time, every meme and any future product! He makes me giddy. What is going on? Love you Baby Y!
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@Andrew and others, I am relieved to know it's not just me.
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This is the most depressing thing I’ve read all week.
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@Casey S Well then congratulations on reading only this and nothing else all week!
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@Casey S
Throw in Tik-tok, stupid tweets and narcissistic selfies and all else and I want to say:
"Just end it!"
If this is what we've come to as a species we deserve to go extinct.
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@hedwigix: I'm guessing he hasn't picked up a newspaper then - the most depressing reading in the galaxy.
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What is "The Mandalorian"? It's a space-opera, I guess, but certainly not science-fiction, as there's no science involved. In Jon Favreau's world, ours is the only planet where technologically primitive populations are not ethnically diverse, or where biology has anything to do with social roles or personal abilities (except that women are, of course, universally more nurturing than men, though an unarmed woman still can easily beat an armored male warrior in a fist-fight). Disney products are not expected to be morally challenging, of course--let alone morally ambiguous like the best cowboy or samurai movies; but "The Mandalorian" is really striking in its PC blandness.
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I agree the show is bland. The alleged PCness has nothing to do with it unless somebody is perpetually looking for it.
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I know some people think it's hilarious, but I think it's just tiresome when people pretend to be stereotypes.
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@J. D. Crutchfield
What is "The Mandalorian"?
The Mandalorian show is lame. I even think it looks a bit cheap. It has no story, arc, mystery to speak of and the plot structure is transparent to any five-year-old and the dialogue is painfully dull and so on but well it's StarWars. In a way having it as a live-action TV show is NOT expanding (as maybe expected or possible) some descriptive or emotional or cultural density of the SW universe but instead showing its vapid emptiness filled up with cardboard cut-outs, those pre-loved avatars of merch. You never learn anything about the culture of all those "races", the Jawas or the Tusken raiders are always those uniformly dressed-up ugly goons speaking gibberish whose death means nothing. I think StarWars as relayed in this show is fully racist, structurally. It's no wonder that most often the friendly population of any backwater planet is mostly just (mostly white) humans (who speak English). Like the hapless Krill Farmers (when they had the "Seven Samurai"/"Rocky" Get-the village-ready-to-fight montage I let out a big sigh). English-speaking mostly white humans are the Best Race in the Galaxy far, far away. Go figure.
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I have always fought hard against the "charms" of that vast marketing monster called Disney.
But to my great surprise (and with some chagrin) I realize I have completely lost my heart to Baby Yoda.
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@Taliesin
I am a 70 y/o grandma totally captivated by Baby Yoda. I have 2 choices: watch The Mandalorian at my 44 y/o daughter's house or subscribe to the Disney Channel myself.
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The correct choice is obvious: subscribe! Why waste time with family when you can get all the cuteness, and none of the frustration, all alone in your home?
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@Taliesin
Yuk.
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I love this love love love. I’m an old Trekkie and was enchanted by this creation ❤️
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One of the best things about Baby Yoda in thje Mandalorian is that he is not CGI but a puppet. That charm is really missing from a lot of movies and I don't think that the "Baby Yoda" pop culture phenomenon would be nearly as popular with a CGI creation.
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@Tom: Look again. He's a combination of CGI and puppetry. A puppet alone wouldn't have Baby Yoda's mobility and dexterity. A CGI figure alone would presumably appear to breathe through that cute little nose.
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Ironically, one of the first times I really felt the blur between movies and television was with Star TREK Next Generation. Not every episode, mind you, but the quality seemed so movie-like.
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I was today years old when I found out who/what Baby Yoda is. Thank you for enlightening me. Headed back under my rock now.
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