Star Wars

[Misfit]

The Mandalorian just started on my local Fox last night. I see why it is getting the thumbs up.

This is the way.

Enjoyed it and very pretty/very Star Wars. I would quite like some hires images of the drawings used on the closing credits.

Just got an email from Disney+ saying Season 2 is released on the 30th October.

Nice trailer...

[WiteWulf]

I quite enjoyed The Mandalorian but found it rather "plot-lite". I'd love to see the production values of The Mandalorian married with the writing and character development of Rebels and Clone Wars. It's not as if season 1 didn't take it's time, I found it very slow in places with plenty of room to breathe. I hope season 2 picks up the pace and brings more story to the table.

[gilesgoat]

Honestly I don't know any more .. after the last Star Wars ( I've seen them ALL ) and that "Picard" something "kinda totally lost the magic" for me .. someway "I kinda can't get sci-fi that well any more"

[Foozwah]

Honestly I don't know any more .. after the last Star Wars ( I've seen them ALL ) and that "Picard" something "kinda totally lost the magic" for me .. someway "I kinda can't get sci-fi that well any more"

Did you watch Mandalorian? It gave me back a fair bit of the old SW love I used to have.

[gilesgoat]

Honestly I don't know any more .. after the last Star Wars ( I've seen them ALL ) and that "Picard" something "kinda totally lost the magic" for me .. someway "I kinda can't get sci-fi that well any more"

Did you watch Mandalorian? It gave me back a fair bit of the old SW love I used to have.

NOPE because it's a Disney Exclusive and I am NOT going to pay "yet another thing per month" just to watch Disney !!!

[Barney]

Honestly I don't know any more .. after the last Star Wars ( I've seen them ALL ) and that "Picard" something "kinda totally lost the magic" for me .. someway "I kinda can't get sci-fi that well any more"

Did you watch Mandalorian? It gave me back a fair bit of the old SW love I used to have.

NOPE because it's a Disney Exclusive and I am NOT going to pay "yet another thing per month" just to watch Disney !!!

Then pirate it like any other sane person would!

[Foozwah]

Honestly I don't know any more .. after the last Star Wars ( I've seen them ALL ) and that "Picard" something "kinda totally lost the magic" for me .. someway "I kinda can't get sci-fi that well any more"

Did you watch Mandalorian? It gave me back a fair bit of the old SW love I used to have.

NOPE because it's a Disney Exclusive and I am NOT going to pay "yet another thing per month" just to watch Disney !!!

Then pirate it like any other sane person would!

I don't generally do this, cos as a creator I like other creators to be paid for their labours, but yeah, in this case there is literally nothing else I would want on a D+ subscription, so when a co-worker offered me a USB with S1 of Mando on it it was not hard to say "Thanks!"

[Misfit]

I don't generally do this, cos as a creator I like other creators to be paid for their labours, but yeah, in this case there is literally nothing else I would want on a D+ subscription, so when a co-worker offered me a USB with S1 of Mando on it it was not hard to say "Thanks!"

I've generally stopped pirating/steaming from interesting sources these days*. It often wasn't worth the effort but also once you run your own business you start to appreciate people's effort a lot more.

Obviously it helps as I have kids, but D+ is actually pretty impressive/worthwhile:

All the Star Wars movies and Mandalorian, Rebels and Clone Wars series.

All the Marvel/Xmen movies and series like Agents of Shield, Agent Carter, Inhumans and loads of animated stuff.

All the Pixar movies.

Lots of interesting National Geographic stuff

Oh and pretty much every Disney movie and show ever released and not all of that is kiddie!

"except for sports as they won't five me a decent legal way to get what I want!

[Barney]

I have to agree - being in content creation (as a coder) I do indeed pirate a lot less. Software for example - I just don't do that anymore.

But TV is different. There's just no way to keep up with all the services. I have subs to Amazon, D+ and Netflix. That covers pretty much most of it, but there's stuff that I don't have subs for (HBO, Hulu etc) that very rarely I see something on. I'm not gonna subscribe to yet another service and only watch one series. And then there's older stuff - that's just not available outside of eztv anymore.

So yeah, I pirate TV now and then. Rarely for new stuff, mostly for older stuff. But The Mandalorian wasn't released here for months. So yeah, that I did.

[Misfit]

So yeah, I pirate TV now and then. Rarely for new stuff, mostly for older stuff. But The Mandalorian wasn't released here for months. So yeah, that I did.

I was tempted to go that way with Mandalorian but I have such a backlog and so little time where I can watch shows that I only want to watch that by the time I got around to it D+ was here.

I actually agree on the TV thing, With Virgin, D+, Amazon, Netflix and Starz (which I took a £1 a month offer for 3 months to watch Castle Rock and haven't cancelled yet as keep dipping into it) I feel I've paid for it somewhere!

Even with Kodi it still feels a hassle finding stuff I want to watch that isn't on my current services that I ended up buying a few complete boxsets recently (which were loads cheaper than buying them digitally)

[Whiteball]

Honestly I don't know any more .. after the last Star Wars ( I've seen them ALL ) and that "Picard" something "kinda totally lost the magic" for me .. someway "I kinda can't get sci-fi that well any more"

Did you watch Mandalorian? It gave me back a fair bit of the old SW love I used to have.

NOPE because it's a Disney Exclusive and I am NOT going to pay "yet another thing per month" just to watch Disney !!!

Don't know if they still do it but I had a month free trial. Cancelled straight away so I didn't forget and then over the month watched:

The Mandolorian. Was ok after a slow start.
The latest Star Wars - Hmm, ok I guess.
A couple of other things I dipped into out of curiousity.

Was a good month in general to get a feel of the quality of the service which I found to be quite good.

Cancelled mainly due to a lack of time for these things as I'm desperatley trying to finish coding a
game in between work and other life commitments etc but otherwise would probably have kept it going.

[Barney]

Don't know if they still do it but I had a month free trial. Cancelled straight away so I didn't forget and then over the month watched:

The Mandolorian. Was ok after a slow start.
The latest Star Wars - Hmm, ok I guess.
A couple of other things I dipped into out of curiousity.

Was a good month in general to get a feel of the quality of the service which I found to be quite good.

Cancelled mainly due to a lack of time for these things as I'm desperatley trying to finish coding a
game in between work and other life commitments etc but otherwise would probably have kept it going.

Same, only it turned out to be such a fantastic wealth of shit to watch with our 8-year-old over lockdown that we kept the sub.