the Mandalorian

[Totenkindly]

Yeah, with the transition to streaming and no need for commercial block padding, they have more flexibility on the time length but minds seem stuck in a rut. I am seeing this complaint more nowadays, most recently with the HBO "The Outsider" Season 1 -- it feels like the hour-long episodes are just too long for not enough story. I've experienced that with other shows too.

i was okay with Mindhunter because there was typically something happening -- even while they had bigger arcs in play, they were also breaking it up with small arcs (e.g., the various inmate interviews as part of their research). So it wasn't really getting stuck in a drudge of a rut. And really tight shows like Better Call Saul aren't overstaying their welcome -- if they run the 45-55 minutes, they actually have story to tell. I actually feel like The Good Place episodes are almost too short, they could go an extra 5-10 minutes typically.

I find myself groaning a bit nowadays when I got to watch a season of a show and I see all the episodes run about 60 minutes. Some shows prove me wrong, but other shows end up being a trudge, with about 20 minutes of useless filler.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Yeah, with the transition to streaming and no need for commercial block padding, they have more flexibility on the time length but minds seem stuck in a rut. I am seeing this complaint more nowadays, most recently with the HBO "The Outsider" Season 1 -- it feels like the hour-long episodes are just too long for not enough story. I've experienced that with other shows too.

i was okay with Mindhunter because there was typically something happening -- even while they had bigger arcs in play, they were also breaking it up with small arcs (e.g., the various inmate interviews as part of their research). So it wasn't really getting stuck in a drudge of a rut. And really tight shows like Better Call Saul aren't overstaying their welcome -- if they run the 45-55 minutes, they actually have story to tell. I actually feel like The Good Place episodes are almost too short, they could go an extra 5-10 minutes typically.

I find myself groaning a bit nowadays when I got to watch a season of a show and I see all the episodes run about 60 minutes. Some shows prove me wrong, but other shows end up being a trudge, with about 20 minutes of useless filler.

Word.

I thought some episodes of Stranger Things felt padded too.

I guess I'm just old school. I'd rather have a series of twenty 30-45 minute episodes than a series of eight to ten 1 hour long episodes.

Agreed on Mindhunter though. That's a really intelligent series, and it keeps me engaged despite featuring no flashy action set pieces. It also works in that feels more like a miniseries/multipart TV movie like used to be popular back in the 70s to early 90s

 

[Totenkindly]

I was pleasantly surprised to see Fleabag is only two seasons of six episodes each, running about 25-30 minutes.
That was about all the time the series felt like it warranted, based on concept. So I can enjoy it much more for what it is, in reasonable bites.

I dunno about twenty. I feel overwhelmed nowadays by long seasons like that. I'm trying to catch up on This is Us -- I'm still in Season 2 -- and it's slowing me down looking at these 18-22 episode seasons of 45 minutes apiece. I know it's mostly mental, I'd be happier with more seasons with less episodes in each. Shorter milestones, in other words.

I always felt like Stranger Things was too long for the content, it was more of a B series to me (rather than A) and it was demanding too much of my time to get through.

Season 1 of ST: Disc was weird in that it felt like they didn't enough mundane story, they just had a few big plot high-concepts (like Lorca's identity, the Klingon mole reveal, etc.) that were driving the season. But those items should have been long-term payoff, not same-season payoff (or essentially payoff within 3-4 episodes); they should have been telling smaller arcs of interest in themselves, while letting those high-concepts mature... because they are a hell of a lot more powerful when you get the audience to really latch onto the characters and view things one way, then spin them for a huge moment of surprise and catharsis. (Mr. Robot is a great example of how to do this, it had a few huge reveals over the course of the series that were powerful because they had ongoing daily story rather than hinging the entire series on 1-2 large plot points and making the rest filler junk.)

Talk about Filler -- those last two recent seasons of X-Files, each had 1-2 really great episodes and then some meh episodes and then usually 1-2 abysmal episodes. The final episode really sucked and made me wonder why they bothered. THey didn't really have anything to really say, it was more like taking the X-Files dolls out of their storage bin to rehash the same things done 20 years ago, then toss them back.



I had another comment to make and came back here to make it, now I completely cannot remember what it was. Oh well.

 

[Totenkindly]

Baby Jabba???

Can you imagine the slugtrails around the house? So many diaper changes.

 

[The Cat]

Baby Jabba???

Can you imagine the slugtrails around the house? So many diaper changes.

Sweet Sally Struthers that is cute.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Baby Jabba???

Can you imagine the slugtrails around the house? So many diaper changes.

Reminds me of the Baby from that old Dinosaurs show... the one voiced by Elmo.

 

[The Cat]

Reminds me of the Baby from that old Dinosaurs show... the one voiced by Elmo.

It kind of reminds me of an actual baby

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

It kind of reminds me of an actual baby

The biggest difference is really that the dinosaur has a more prominent, Leno-esque chin, as well as smaller irises that don't extend to the entire eyes. I can't remember if Hutts are supposed to be descended from nocturnal creatures or not, but it would explain the absence of a visible sclera.

 

[The Cat]

The biggest difference is really that the dinosaur has a more prominent, Leno-esque chin, as well as smaller irises that don't extend to the entire eyes. I can't remember if Hutts are supposed to be descended from nocturnal creatures or not, but it would explain the absence of a visible sclera.

Hutts are hermaphroditic and and reproduce by fertilizing themselves. The infant then lives in a pouch on the mother till it grows It was featured in The Young Han Solo trilogy by AC Crispen, most notably in "the hutt gambit"

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Also Jim Henson's creature shop works with lucasfilm

 

[Totenkindly]

Pretty soon we're gonna have a whole show similar to "The Muppet Babies" full of baby star wars characters.

Baby Yoda
Baby Jabaa
Baby Greedo
Baby Jar-Jar
Baby Chewie

And then Baby Palpatine keeps playing with the electric outlets and cackles a lot, while Baby Maul is kicking babies down the staircase.

 

[The Cat]

Pretty soon we're gonna have a whole show similar to "The Muppet Babies" full of baby star wars characters.

Baby Yoda
Baby Jabaa
Baby Greedo
Baby Jar-Jar
Baby Chewie

And then Baby Palpatine keeps playing with the electric outlets and cackles a lot, while Baby Maul is kicking babies down the staircase.

I cannot wait till we see Baby Chewie all fluffed up after getting trapped in the dryer.

A Star Wars Rugruts muppet babies hybrid would be a profitable series. I would sure watch it. @_@

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I cannot wait till we see Baby Chewie all fluffed up after getting trapped in the dryer.

A Star Wars Rugruts muppet babies hybrid would be a profitable series. I would sure watch it. @_@

I wonder if Baby Sheev would be the wrinkly version ? In my imagination, he certainly is. Kind of a Benjamin Button deal, I guess.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Sheev always had a buttface, he just used special force magic to make himself look pretty

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Sheev always had a buttface, he just used special force magic to make himself look pretty

Works for me!

 

[The Cat]

I wonder if Baby Sheev would be the wrinkly version ? In my imagination, he certainly is. Kind of a Benjamin Button deal, I guess.

It'll just be a Sharpe puppy in a robe

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

It'll just be a Sharpe puppy in a robe

Or a Sphynx cat.

 

[The Cat]

Or a Sphynx cat.

The more we talk about it the more I want it to happen

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

This episode was very Western.

Especially the ride into town on a steel horse (he's an outlaw.... wanted dead or alive).


Interesting depiction of a Krayt dragon... almost sandworm like. Somewhat different from Legends but they kept the idea of dragon pearls. Also, apparently there are multiple sarlaccs on Tatooine. And yes, that was indeed Temura Morrison at the end. I guess they're using the fact that Beskar can survive dragon acid to set up the explanation of how he survived. I guess that's more than we got for the Senate. But how did he get separated from the armor? Fett's survival is less problematic than Palpatine's anyway.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I love the frog alien. Kind of Ackbar-esque.

 

[The Cat]

I really enjoyed this so far. I wish the episodes were longer.