Mandalorian is a great in a B-tier action sense, which is 100% a compliment. The first season especially eschews every episode pertaining to one long form narrative and instead has majority one off adventures. To paraphrase Gita Jackson at Vice Games, the show is largely “about going to different planets and a new western is taking place.” I was taken aback that this wasn’t a show made in the style of “prestige TV” but rather cable adventure shows from before the advent of streaming. I was definitely excited but even more surprised when the show launched. Here was an expensive live action Star Wars tv show that wasn’t about Jedi or Skywalkers. The Mandalorian premiering last year was certainly big for me. I’ve been able to enjoy the TV shows as I pick my way through them even if I’m largely wary about where Star Wars as a brand is heading. Which makes my Star Wars watching a much more personal experience and not try and lose it over every “The Last Jedi is bad” take. Still, Star Wars fandom is so incredibly toxic that it would probably be a W for everyone if it ceased to exist. I grew up with the prequels and loved them as a kid so I have been bought in on the series since I was 3. One of my parents favorite anecdotes is how I pestered family friends for plot information about the original trilogy movies before I was allowed to watch them (this was in the mid 90’s). This is all coming from someone who is a lifelong fan of Star Wars. The absolute worst thing you can do is bring up Luke Skywalker on Twitter. The Star Wars fandom has a direct line from Gamergate harassment and the Trump presidency at large. Since “The Last Jedi” the online fan reaction has shown just how awful and abusive fan reactions can be and is the entire alt right movement in microcosm. There is no better example of a series that should probably be removed from existence than Star Wars. Star Wars is one of those special series that each time a new thing comes out the online discourse becomes absolutely insufferable. All except one predates 2020 and the majority by multiple decades: Star Wars: The Clone Wars & Mandalorian Instead of this list being the best new shows of 2020, I’m writing about a few different series and universes that I had a great time engaging with. There are series where women are sexual and there are others where they are sexualized and my brain is much better for learning that distinction. I’m still not right with a lot of the gross horniness that comes along with the genre but I’m much better at identifying that line within a given series. I’ve found that I can wrap my head around the good and bad of the genre better than when I was younger and liking anime was much closer to something of a personal identity. I had been slowly dipping my toe back into anime over the past few years after ostensibly swearing off it in high school. Mainly I sidestepped bingeing new series because I officially broke the valve on my anime watching. And while “The Queen’s Gambit” has officially entered the oversaturation zone I had a phenomenal time with. “The Last Dance” entered my life for ten blissful weeks of Michael Jordan and 90’s nostalgia even if it had largely stopped being interesting by the end (we’ll still have the Jordan memes). I finally sat and watched “What We Do In The Shadows” which is absolutely the funniest TV comedy on right now. Some of this is due to the general climate I really want to watch “I May Destroy You” but at the time of its release my brain was not in a good place to handle heavy subject matter. Once quarantine started and the “Tiger King” had officially left the cultural consciousness, I settled more on rewatching old favorites or discovering older shows. I lost the drive to be in the zeitgeist with every new streamable thing instead picking and choosing when and what I wanted to watch. I didn’t try as I usually do to keep up with every new series that came out. The Ideon Sword、Wave Leader Cannon, and Missile launch effect are also included.Spoiler warning for Clone Wars, The Mandalorian, Mobile Suit Gundam, Gundam Wing, 08th MS Team, & Space Runaway IdeonĢ020 was the year I finally got off the new show hamster wheel. Each part has a high degree of flexibility in the range of motion, allowing for a wide variety of poses. After 40 years, Aoshima finally releases a 1/450 scale plastic model of Ideon from its "Anime Scale" series, which was released at the same time of the broadcast and continued until 1982! The kit is a snap-kit model, color-coded and molded, with emphasis on proportions. The " Space Runaway Ideon " anime began airing in 1980.
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