Disney+ Announces New Show About Luke's Hand That Got Cut Off
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Still has the potential to be better than Book of Boba Fett.
Aside from the random 90s power rangers cameos, I didn't have a problem with it. I liked how they gave the Tusken Raiders nuance, and no story would have been enough to satiate the decades of contradicting lore around Boba Fett.
And you can't beat them making part of Patton Oswald's iconic star wars rant/filibuster canon.
Stuff I liked in BOBF: The Tusken Raider flashbacks and Boba’s spiritual journey. That could have been the whole show.
I liked Cad Bane. I don’t really have an attachment to the cartoons, but I thought he was efficiently and effectively introduced into the show.
Stuff I didn’t like: The mod gang. Low hanging fruit, but needed to be mentioned.
I didn’t like how dreadfully boring the action sequences tended to be, especially the shootouts. Shootouts in shows between groups should have some goals each group is trying to achieve in order to be exciting. In BOBF the shootouts were so flat. They felt like that Naked Gun shootout.
I didn’t enjoy the overly comical nature of so many side characters. Comedy in Star Wars is good, but extended scenes that feel like cosplayers doing improv are not. A lot of the new Star Wars content feels increasingly like watching cosplayers in a weird uncanny valley themepark of Star Wars. A setting that was once the example of a grungy and lived in setting now constantly has a layer of gloss varnish on everything.
Boba Fett himself seemed like a big dummy. His plan at the end to split up his few people to just kind of stand around was confusing. Boba Fett never seemed much interested in actually doing crime as a crime lord. I get that he is being redeemed as an anti-hero, and thus Disney wants him not to be too dark, be he easily could have become the new canon version of Talon Karrde and brokered in information. Boba Fett would know a lot of dirt. In any case he seemed to have little agency or decision making as the boss. Even the choice to hire mercenaries was suggested to him.
The series started out good as him literally being reborn as a new person via the Raiders way of life. Then it seemed to go into him seeking a retirement plan with passive income using the open spot Jabba left. That Mando's cameo stole the show showed how dull it had become. I actually loved the idea of him injecting purpose into the vandals by hiring them, but did they have to be so campy? Jesus, I hadn't thought of that spin-shot in a while...why?
The slower than walking speed chase.
It is burned into my head forever how ridiculous that looked. So many people have seen that scene before it aired and no one said enough to stop it from going out like this. Weird.
My comment was a bit tongue in cheek because it did have some good parts, but there was a lot of missed potential. The sand people part I actually liked a lot, it was something cool and new. The power rangers I could have maybe looked past even though it was ridiculous, if they hadn't tried to turn Boba into some kind of noble gangster. You can't be a good guy AND run a criminal empire on Tatooine, sorry. Star Wars can be really dark sometimes but they didn't want to go dark here? Makes no sense.
The worst part was the terrible action sequences and the lack of attention to detail, like the big ass droidekas not managing to kill anyone running in a straight line, just so bad, not to mention stuff like Boba's back rocket reappearing magically for the final fight after being used a few scenes before. etc.
just very stupid low quality stuff.
the first 3 episodes that mostly had tuskens were the tits.
Yeah.. but character assassination
I couldn't work out what I hated most about Book of Boba Fett until a character from the other series turned up and immediately sliced somebody in two.
And then I was like "why is Boba Fett such a massive fanny all of a sudden?"
Even Darth Vader had to tell the guy to chill the fuck out a bit.
The Handalorian
The Book of Boba Fingers
Hand Solo
That's the one
I think I have this one bookmarked already
The Hand Jon
That's the snuff edit.
El Manoloriano in Spanish
Only saw one other person mention it but in the EU/Legends they find Luke's hand and use it to make an evil clone of Luke that's named.... Luuke. So this could've been a legit story with a meme headline lol.
Wow is that stupid.
Fanboys like to talk about the extended universe like it was amazing. For every one good thing in it, there were a dozen turds including a Jedi R2 unit with force powers. I'm glad Disney killed it, and just like I figured, they're taking the good bits and characters and adding them in anyways
The problem is they killed it and are taking the worst parts to make the sequels, etc.
I thought people liked thrawn, personally I never got the appeal
Thrawn wasn't in the sequels at all tho, he only showed up in Rebels (which was definitely not taken seriously by Disney at all) and then after it was obvious ppl loved him they added him to more shows
Do you mean Skippy the Jedi Droid? I think that was mostly a joke about R5-D4 from New Hope crapping out and forcing the Skywalkers to buy R2 instead (thereby leading to the end of the Sith). It’s pretty tongue in cheek, he’s called Skippy
The magnificent?
Not enough upvotes on this post. EU was a sea of toxic filth with alarmingly small amount of competently written and good material in it, which once recognized as good had every other half rate writer trying to pin their next bad idea on it.
I remember running across a D6 dice rolling table for generating the plot of the next Kevin J. Anderson book when I was looking for West End Games SW tabletop supplemental (or fan-created) stuff on Geocities.
If the table had been juuuust a little more generic for things like "qualities possessed by big bad", "motivations of antagonist", "reason for melodramatic interlude", and "type of mcguffin" it probably could have actually been used to generate future books.
Owing partially to LucasArts restrictions, a LOT of the EU was pretty derivative/formulaic but most of us didn't care because it was MORE STAR WARS in an era that hadn't seen any for 15+ years.
I only read a couple of books, but I would have preferred the Sun Crusher over Starkiller Base in TFA
And suddenly, completely unbidden, the name "Joruus C'Baoth" springs into my head.
A quick look at wookieepedia shows me that he's the dude who created the clone.
I'm actually kinda shocked that I remember that from a single reading of the thrawn trilogy back in the 90's.
If adding u make it evil does adding e make it good? So if we take luuke hand and make a good clone with it and name it luukee does it just becomes a regular luke because it has the same length of u and e?
theres actually an eviler luuke. hes named luuuke
That’s who Aunt Beru was looking for at the start of ANH.
And, always lurking in the shadows is the sith Lord Luuuuke.
Torn between two sides....becoming evilerer than before but there is still good in him. I mean, gooder than the original good in him. So he would need a u and an e to compensate for this evilerer and gooder on top of all that. Luuukee. Maybe? I sense a clone squad. But just of hands.
Now I wonder if this is where Miike Snow came from.
Had to check the source for a moment
Me too. Was certain it was one of those TheOnion-like things...doesn't look that way though.
That's exactly what it is, though. It's satire, and tells you as much right in the first paragraph of the "About" page:
What a relief!
This is satire, right? Right?
Yes thankfully. Though its not too far off
They joke but they already did a comic about his hand being some magic gateway to Exegol and empowering tbe Emperor
I still remember the extended universe book about one of Vader's gloves infecting the wearer and taking over their body.
I still laugh anytime someone tries to tell me how the expanded universe was just amazing and brilliant, and how the sequel Trilogy was a complete insult to it.
"The expanded universe would never bring back Sidious or have a girl like Leia be a Jedi!!11"
I will however admit that the extended Universe would never have made Boba Fett look like the world's most naive and unassuming Grandpa.
So like Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid? (Until they retconned it, anyway.)
Coming next fall to Disney+, Owen: A Moisture Farmer's Tale.
Although frankly it still can't be as bad as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Just get Star Wars away from Jedi and the entire extended Skywalker family. Just never fucking mention any of them ever again. In fact, just get all the rest of the cast of Narcos in, and make fuckin' Narcos in Space. Narcos is the key to good Star Wars.
That is what I don't get you have a whole galaxy and infinite timeline to choose stories. But for some reason they all have to be tied to the skywalkers.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug
So what Solo should have been?
I only watched it once, but I think I'd enjoy it more if I just pretended the main character is not supposed to be Han Solo.
The biggest problem with it is the character they chose was supposed to be a bad guy at the time which they can’t do because it’s Disney so changing the character would work
There are other issues but for a Star Wars it would be fine
That's exactly what it should have been. Change a few names and it's fine.
Or if they have to stick with the Jedi then do bloody Nights Of The bloody Old bloody Republic bloody already. Seriously it's like the one good Star wars story that still left to be told, and they just ignore it like it's not there. There's enough content there for right to go on for about 25 years.
Well, it worked really well for Andor
I'm fine with them just going into new territory regarding the timeline. I just don't want to see shows rehashing events that have already been exhaustively covered.
I want to see the universe move forward, I'm sick of looking into the past.
So who will they get for the main character? In other words, who gets the hand job?
The beauty is the actor simply has to play a disembodied hand....ergo, a hand job that feels like it's from someone else. I call it The Stranger. I can feel the force tugging at me.
Okay, Dr. Dorian
And you left "tugging" just hanging there, like a third appendage
Jedis never need to pay for prostitutes
Obviously the doctor picks it up and uses it during regeneration to turn into a Jedi.
As George Lucas loves amputation so much (Top 10 hand amputations in Star Wars) there's a lot of potential for limb-based team-ups if this works.
You could have a story where a mad scientist Sith goes around collecting them and then stitches them all together to create a force-sensitive limb-ball of terror
Would we put Jangos head with Luke's hand or Dooku's?
Both, just a menacing ball of limbs and other bits
I....I would watch that.
Wierdo.
I would too.
I was 100% ready for a decapitated hand as a protagonist to a 7 episode show. The story of a hand trying to make it's way back to it's master through the ways of The Force. Then realizing it can make a family with other decapitated hands and that it doesn't have to be bound by it's place if origin. The more I think about it, the more I want it.
The finale can segue into an origin story for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(The_Addams_Family)
Just another soulless cash grab that won't have the creative fortitude to delve into the hand's dream to play Kloo horn at the Galaxies Opera House.
Kloo horn is super funny to me as German. Klo means loo in German, so he's playing a toilet... horn?
I'm sure the name was made by some authorized Star Wars dictionary author well after it appeared on screen.
Figures we get this before we get a series on the true hero, Willrow Hood /s
Personally, I'm waiting for the Spinal Tap-like movie about Max Reebo and his band.
His organ goes to 11
Phrasing!
That's more than I wanted to know about Max Reebo.
Without knowing his name, I knew this was going to be the ice cream machine guy
Show shoulda been called Cool Hand, Luke
What about Cool Hand, Luuke?
Will it use the force to connect with Luke or will it have a failure to communicate.
What sort of temperature will the hand be kept in?
Maybe half a Hoth, so pretty cool.
Disregarding the onion layers of hard drive, Luuke Skywalker is an existing thing
"Existing," sure, but hasn't been canon for nearing a decade now.
Yeah. It makes a fun twist for the article. Disney could pull it into canon in reality.
Thrawn's back, Palpy-clone is back, Witches of Dathomir have intergalactic space whales now. Fingers crossed for an after the credits teaser in Asoka featuring Joruus Cbaoth.
/s
There's a joke to be made but I can't quite put my hand on it welp neither can Luke
I'll watch it if it's directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell. Otherwise, nah.
Oh balls I got snookered, good one
Thing is born.
Thing plus light saber! Don't let him get impatient anymore!
I recall reading somewhere that an early draft of The Force Awakens opened with a shot of Luke's hand floating through space.
'How did it get into space?'
'The Force!'
'That's not how the Force works!'
Which doesn't make any sense as it was cut off in the atmosphere of a gas giant. Not that logic or details would get in the way of JJ.
Oh it was a planet, I always thought it was some gas clouds in space
Somehow Luke's hand has returned.
So like Thing, going from planet to planet performing various jobs only it can do.
Suddenly a princess Left Hand needs rescuing but Thing is a hand short to be a mouse droid.
Well we were told it was "a good story, for another time"...
In some other universe where the sequels had continuity in both plot and directing, it ended up making a lot of sense once revisited. As did Rey's history and path she took.
adams family?
This new hand, it’s a fightin’ hand!
again with the boundless universe and we get more skywalker shenanigans... this time 5% of one
There was this short indie film I saw years ago about bubble wrap, where it showed “the life and times” of a sheet of bubble wrap. They would show it going from one implausible scene to another and each time, no matter who was in the scene, somebody would have the urge to pop a bubble. I could see something like this being done with the lightsaber (not necessarily Luke’s hand, that’d just be weird). Show the lightsaber just going from one improbable place to another in the SW universe, and each time, somebody has to fuck around with it. They could even do a callback to ANH with Luke and have somebody look into the hilt and get their eye lightsabered out.
Every "Fuck around with it" should wind up with dead younglings
I guess since Snoke was a clone, he too was a youngling.
Finally we will know what happened between Empire and Wednesday.
We laugh but Luke's cut off hand played a fairly important role in one of the book series.
Okuyasu Stand origin story
Let's be honest, I'll watch it - but I still had hopes that they'd make an anthology of the adventures of Maul's lower half first.
Darth Pants.
The overmilking and enshittification of the Star Wars franchise is officially in full swing.
It's a joke.
That is also real. no, I don't mean the hand show
April Fools is still 6 months away ffs...
They're creepy and they're kooky Mysterious and spooky...
Thing is a Jedi!
I won't put my hand on this