Wasteland dispatches are dead. Long live references to semi-obscure Nintendo 64 games!
Greetings from my hovel on the shores of the Bow.
Retiring the Wasteland Dispatches series. With no likely end in sight for my confinement I’m tired of it. Time for something else.
I started watching The Mandalorian. I hated Force Awakens a LOT (watch it again, now that your excitement of new Star Wars has worn off and you’ll see what a terrible movie it is) so I never bothered with Last Jedi (though my most trusted sources inform me it’s even worse) and I skipped Rogue One because of a moral repulsion to the concept of putting CGI Peter Cushing in a movie. (Peter Cushing is my favorite actor of all time and the idea of putting dead people in movies is a repugnant one). When the trailer for Skywalker’s Rise Up 2 The Streets or whatever the hell it was called came out I watched it and didn’t even feel curious about it. That’s not something I expected. I have loved Star Wars as long as I can remember loving things. I even like the prequels!
Anyway, Star Wars, even when it’s shit, LOOKS cool. Amazing costumes and sets and just general production design. So when I got a weird hankering to look at some Star Wars stuff I figured I’d give the Mandalorian a shot, plus this thing’s got Werner Herzog AND Carl Weathers! How bad could it be?! After one episode I think my answer is: “It’s fine.” It’s not bad, it’s not great, but it does bring the great set/costume shit I was looking for… and Werner Herzog, so I guess I’ll watch the rest. But if CGI Peter Cushing shows up? I’m gonna go nuts… fucking Disney.
Currently Reading: DEADLY EDGE, Richard Stark
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