t-mobile is offering a year of Apple Plus for free. is it worth subscribing?
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Yes. Severance, Slow Horses, and Iâm sure some Iâm not thinking of.
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Ted Lasso too
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Dammit, you got me excited, but then I realized it was for higher tier plans.
I donât think episode 3 of Obi-Wan was controversial I thought it was just simply bad. The set was terrible and cheap, and people were seemingly conveniently teleporting all over the place and then conveniently not doing enough so that Obi-Wan can escape. The choreography was also terrible.
To even get to episode 3 you have to ignore how dumb the entire premise on which this series is set is. Presumably Luke and Leia have been separated at birth so that if one is somehow compromised you still have another hope. Bail contacting and showing up in Obi-Wanâs cave on Tatooine is just stupid as fuck.
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if they want to really service the fans theyâll answer some age old questions that even in legends canon we only got sparse answers to.
one being, on the death star it is very obvious that obi-wanâs master plan was to die. he seems to have learned what is a sporatic and pretty rare force ability, the ghost. I think theyâre hinting at it by him talking to quigonn so much, at least I hope. Iâm really hoping they give some insight to why kenobi had seemingly planned his own demise so he could be a somewhat eternal mentor to luke from beyond the grave.
the old canon had some mixed explanations for it, but afaik the new official canon doesnât have much. I read some on wookiepedia but even what exists on there is quite contradictory.
I thought this was a good recap and review of the first half of the series
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Watched 1st ep of We own this city. Enjoying seeing all these actors I havenât seen since the Wire, and Josh Charles as violent cop is a solid casting choice. Looking forward to watching the rest.
I agree with others that something is off with the writing though. Thereâs a dialogue that goes more or less like
(At : Office of civil rights or something like that)
- you better hope Hillary wins. In any Republican administration weâre never asked to do anything.
- But Trump has no chance to win the nomination ? And even if he does he wonât win the general right ?
Forgetting that this kind of âhindsight writingâ is kinda cheap, it doesnât even make sense as is (1st person never mentioned Trump). Maybe something got cut in editing, but itâs hard to believe no one would notice this in such a big productionâŚ
The fight scenes are bad, the chase scenes are some of the worst ever, people conveniently teleporting around, and theyâve created a ton of new holes in the overall story. The only argument for it being good is âOMG VADERâ. Iâll admit, I was digging a lot of the Vader stuff, the walk through the town ruthlessly killing random citizens, but they lost me somewhere during the fight. And then thinking back on how dumb it is that this version of Obi Wan somehow eludes Vader for 20 years. Also, couldnât Vader just keep re-capturing Leia every time he wants to draw out Obi Wan? Maybe Super Mario and Bowser are based on Obi Wan and Vader??
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The scene in Under The Banner of Heaven where Joseph Smithâs wife is like âfine, I guess Iâm going to be getting it on with a bunch of other dudes thenâ and he immediately goes into a trance prophesizing that she best not is one of the greatest scenes in TV history.
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Is it believable that Obi-Wan could trick Vader into believing heâs dead at the end of the series?
not really because vader is completely unsurprised when he encounters him at the death star.
but they already fucked it up because vaderâs famous line is âwhen we last met i was but the learner, now i am the masterâ and itâs very difficult to reconcile that dialogue with scenes in the last episode.
Thereâs 3 more episodes for Obi-Wan to put Vader in his place and make him realize he still has a lot to learn. Iâm sure they wonât fuck it up somehow. 
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was very happy that they brought back
the âiâm squishing your headâ guy
in new âKids in the Hallâ
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Obi Wan SUCKS. The shitty score is like a constant reminder that thereâs absolutely no stakes and no effort. They can basically only ever do like 3 different types of story arcs in anything Star Wars these days and everything is just a facsimile of something before. Currently stuck in baby yoda/Leia mode which are basically indistinguishable storylines afaict.
Just come up with something new for once ffs, feels like we are on course to end this shitty era with a Vader v. Joker Snydervomit.
ETA - also Iâm too lazy to go through all the specifics but there are so many vibes and pieces from A New Hope that just make this backstory feel so off (the way the Force is met with incredulity by every character, ânow the student has become the master,â Leiaâs interaction with Vader, âthatâs a name I havenât heard in [11 years?]) Stupid af.
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theyâre gonna keep producing shit while itâs still profitable for them. I get extremely angry and fan groups on people try to earnestly jump through mental hoops to conclude that the episode seven through nine are good at all or even worth watching. The reason people like that exist are why this shit sucks so bad. itâs made to be easily consumable garbage that you shouldnât think too hard about because thatâs what people want. Itâs a larger trend in society as a whole the last 20 years that Iâve been observing but itâs definitely a thing here
iâm a bit odd because I think there is value in having easily consumable garbage, I will get moods where I binge watch garbage reality TV and you can make arguments why thatâs shitty or not, I just find value in it. Iâve come to the conclusion that expecting Star Wars to be anything other than garbage going forward as long as Disney holds the reins is probably pretty futile and will result in pain, so I enjoy it the way it is
Just rewatched the fight scene in ANH for lulz and Leia dgaf when Obi Wan dies, like heavily implied she has only heard of Obi Wan and never actually met him
The quality drop off from the mandolorian to obi wan is astonishing how they even associated at all? Bizarre. The subreddits have turned on them too theyâre that bad.
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I know there are a few Magary fans here. I generally have liked the Disney offerings of late but he nails this (still havenât seen moon knight)
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Undone Season 2
I was worried from the trailer that it would be terrible but itâs OK so far.
Shows should do more retoscoping, itâs green screening without the obviousness of the green screen.
Rosa Salazar is a great when sheâs sarcastic.