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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-20 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 08:55:33 -0700
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On 4/21/24 8:44 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 4/21/2024 8:18 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>
>> What did you watch?
>
> 
> I watched:
> 
> Rebel Moon (Netflix) parts 1 and 2.  To recap in the first half an evil 
> galactic empire is waging war in the stars.  They land on a planet, 
> bringing a droid with them of course, and start causing trouble with 
> farmers.  One of the farmers leaves her village to get help from an 
> alliance of rebels.  First, she makes a stop at a nearby cantina where 
> she hires a solo smuggler to fly her off world to recruit fighters 
> including one person who wields a saber made of light.  There is new 
> hope because the good guys win at the end.  There's even an awards 
> ceremony where the newly recruited heroes get prizes, but that takes 
> place in part two.
> 
> In the second half the Empire Strikes back against the alliance of 
> rebels.  A new plot point has the evil henchman tasked with finding one 
> of the rebels who happens to be the (adopted) child of one of the 
> villains.  Perhaps if they can find this child, they can be turned to 
> the evil side?  Anyway, they show up at the rebel's moon and along with 
> their imperial walking machines launch an attack.  The Battle of in-door 
> is what you could say about one of the fights that takes place inside a 
> building.  Anyway, the rebel who has a saber made of light fights bad 
> guys leading to someone having a limb cut off during the fight.  The 
> alliance of rebels organizes the people that live on the moon into a 
> fighting force capable of going up against a technologically more 
> advanced galactic empire.  It's a trap!  Is what you will say at one 
> point watching the sequel.  But I did not expect to see an epic battle 
> between the hero and villain using their sabers made of lights in the 
> villain's headquarters during an attack by the alliance of rebels as the 
> headquarters falls apart around them.  Speaking of the alliance of 
> rebel's attack, it was really cool how some of them piloted single seat 
> attack ships and the camera would zoom in on their face as they talked 
> to each other during the space dog fight.  Overall, I have to say this 
> was probably the most original sci-fi series ever, and unlike any other 
> sci-fi movie ever conceived of with their alien filled cantinas, droids, 
> solo smugglers, alliance of rebels, imperial walking machines, and 
> wielders of sabers made of light, I just don't know where Snyder gets 
> his ideas!

OMG - please tell me you are joking about all of this!!