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 9 points 1 month 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...

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Music and tone both seem off.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee -2 points 1 month 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 15 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (2 children)

Clone wars was best of Star wars, period

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, Empire is best

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Nope

Also new hope is better than empire strikes back. Always hated the Hoth scenes

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 1 month 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 14 points 1 month ago

Stealing it is.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They monitor torrent numbers as a guide to success.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

Win/Win

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

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month 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 8 points 1 month 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 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link. Three thoughts:

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.
Netflix said they use torrent data to determine what series to acquire.
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 1 month 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 -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, I'm happy to. My point is that your tone was unnecessary and rude. Perhaps unintentionally.

My brusqueness was a tone shift. Yours started from the get-go. So your whiplash from the change was my first impression of you.

Just food for thought for future interactions and starting a discussion from a point of incredulity and dismissal.

[–] freamon@preferred.social 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They are going all in on the ‘Nam aesthetic.