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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 17 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Andor S1 was the best Star Wars ever made. This trailer looks extremely disappointing… I hope I’m wrong.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

Why disappointing? I think it looks promising,lalthough the chances of it reaching the heights of S1 are low.

[–] Xbeam@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think it was the music. Just seemed really out of place to me. Rewatched the season 1 trailer and it had the tone and feel I was hoping for here. Fingers crossed it was just a poor choice for this one trailer.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 6 points 17 hours ago

You inspired me to rewatch it myself. I think it perfectly depicts the tone and story of the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOegEuCcfw

Really worries me about S2. Also, the quotes patting themselves on the back just further concerns me...

[–] YamahaRevstar@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

"The best Star Wars ever made"

Someone's never seen The Phantom Menace.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

He was a turbo dick, never let off the pedal of being a turbo dick, the side stories were dumb, and pet the damn robot....

It was still pretty good by comparison to modern Star Wars, but Mando season 1 was best Star Wars and season 2 pretty good.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 13 points 20 hours ago

I firmly disagree that his story can only be understood as him being rude. I cannot comprehend liking Mando more than this or any of the other tv shows. But it seems we have different tastes.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Clone wars was best of Star wars, period

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago

Well, yeah, that's #1, but I assumed they meant live action.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I'm torn between rewarding the best thing they've done and stealing from Disney because that's cool.

[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

Stealing it is.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

They monitor torrent numbers as a guide to success.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 19 hours ago

Win/Win

If I get caught I'll just say it's for my LLM

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What? What kind of success metric is that? I can't find a single source to corroborate what you said.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I remember reading about it years ago, around the time Game of Thrones was quite popular. Looks like it was 10 years ago. https://torrentfreak.com/media-companies-track-pirated-downloads-for-marketing-purposes-150218/

However, wouldn't it be foolish of them not to look at what is being pirated? They love scooping up data. It is essentially free Neilson ratings.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link. Three thoughts:

  1. The entire article is an ad for a data product called Tru Optik, where the main selling point seems to be identifying revenue loss due to streaming.
  2. Netflix said they use torrent data to determine what series to acquire.
  3. Streaming services don't need Nielsen data, since they already have direct viewer data.

It's probable streaming services look at this data, but I was specifically questioning the "using it as a success metric" part. Their two main success metrics are direct viewer data and subscriptions.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Netflix literally said they use the data to see what series to pay for. That is another way of saying they monitor torrents for success.

Look, it's ok to disagree, but you don't need to ask for evidence for everything you read on the Internet that doesn't affect you personally.

If that evidence is offered, it's ok to just admit you are surprised and/or wrong.

Streaming services only have data on their own streams.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 0 points 3 hours ago

You don't need to become patronizing, especially when it's something so small. It's a discussion thread. Your framing sounded unlikely to me, I asked for more information, and it still sounds unlikely by my read. We discussed it, and now we can move on.

[–] freamon@preferred.social 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Thought that thumbnail was a joke when I first saw it, like someone had pasted Luna's head on Mon's husband's body. Still looks a bit off, but I guess it's a "you walk in, act like you belong" reference.

All I need now is for someone to make it April 22nd already. By science or magic, I'm not fussed.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 hours ago

You’re doing better than me. I thought it was Ricky

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

They are going all in on the ‘Nam aesthetic.