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I caught that too, also written by Jon Faverou.

It was excellent and my only gripe was it wasn't long enough!

It's a lot of fun isn't it? :)

 

I watched the first Episode of The Mandalorian last night. Brilliant so far.

 

It looks gorgeous and our lead character looks to have an interesting personal journey to complete as the show progresses.

Directed by Dave Filoni who helmed SW:Rebels it looks and feels like a hybrid of that show and the original 3 movies.

 

Worth a watch!

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I caught that too, also written by Jon Faverou.

It was excellent and my only gripe was it wasn't long enough!

I'd have gladly watched 90 minutes of it. At least the next episode comes out on Friday.

There's not long to wait.

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Living With Yourself - Netflix

I knew I'd like it from the trailers but it's really stayed with me since I watched it. Paul Rudd and Aisling Bea (who wrote and starred in it) were really good.

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Where can I watch The Mandalorian?

 

Currently, in the UK? From what I've heard, only by - er - seafaring methods.

 

Disney+ aren't releasing it in the UK yet. Because reasons..?

You could always try to VPN to the US, but I've seen people say that doesn't work unless you also have a US address and payment method on the account too.

 

I was reasonably interested in it, but I can't be fussed with Disney+, so I'm just going to pass on it. I already have Prime Video and Netflix, I'm not signing up for anything else.

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Where can I watch The Mandalorian?

As far as I am aware, the only official way to watch it in the UK is to wait until Disney+ launches in the UK on March 31st 2020. I don't believe they've struck a deal with an existing UK provider.

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I imagine the staggered Disney+ launches are because they have to wait for existing licensing deals for movies (e.g. the SW trilogies) to expire in the various territories first. Now, why they don't launch with their own content and add movies as these deals expire I don't know...

 

Currently, in the UK? From what I've heard, only by - er - seafaring methods.

I like this description! Usually when people ask questions like that I say something to the effect of "you'll need an eyepatch and a parrot".

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Where can I watch The Mandalorian?

 

 

Aaaargh! If you be in England, b'aint be but one way fer now.

 

I imagine the staggered Disney+ launches are because they have to wait for existing licensing deals for movies (e.g. the SW trilogies) to expire in the various territories first. Now, why they don't launch with their own content and add movies as these deals expire I don't know...

 

I did read that in the UK it's something to do with Sky holding the rights for some movies for now. Your "adding movies later" suggestion is obviously too sensible, as would timing production of content and deal expiry to enable a worldwide launch. It's not as if Bob Iger woke up a couple of months back and decided that Disney+ was going to launch in November because it seemed like a good time.

 

That's the problem, we have to wait til next year while the whole internet is talking about it - no wonder taking to the high seas is an option

 

See this theory: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/tv-movies/210938-mandalorian.html#post1804238

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Watched the first episode of the BBC's War of the Worlds yesterday - very good. We couldn't help but hum the Jeff Wayne music at appropriate times though.

 

I wonder how well they'll balance the Martians against the humans - in the original story the British military does reasonably well against them initially, harrying the tripods all the way to London and taking out a few (the issue was that they moved too quickly for inaccurate artillery to zero in on them). Adaptations tend to make the Martians more threatening and/or the military less useful.

 

Of course, you need to do that if you update the setting - the original tripods would be ripped apart by modern weaponry.

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Watched ep1 of War of the Worlds last night - enoyed it. You can tell that they didn't have a large CGI budget, but I enjoyed it anyway.

 

I also watched ep4 of His Dark Materials - really enjoying this show.

 

I did notice that Harry Edward Melling (Dudley from Harry Potter) appeared in both shows!

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Spoilers for The War of the Worlds - you've been warned!

 

 

I'm unsure about the whole "post-apocalyptic Earth" stuff in TWOTW to be honest - if they wanted to add to the story (which I don't object to in principle at all!) I'd much rather see Mars and more about the Martian civilisation than yet another post apocalyptic wasteland.

 

Like... isn't every other story some post-apocalyptic dystopia these days? Can we have some variety?

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Filming on Mars is expensive.

 

I watched the season finale of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The laser tag themed parody of Waiting For Godot you never knew you wanted, until now.

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just finished series one of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Completely mental, clueless most of the way through as to what was going on, but enjoyed and will watch S2 next.
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just finished series one of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Completely mental, clueless most of the way through as to what was going on, but enjoyed and will watch S2 next.

I loved that show and was gutted when they cancelled it.

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