Though Mark Hamill was credited, none of what we saw or heard was really him. The actor they deepfaked Hamill’s face over was Graham Hamilton, who resembles Hamill rather a lot (see pic). And the dialogue was spoken by generated AI, to match Hamill’s youthful voice, not his gruff scratchy current one. If they did anything with Hamill personally, it was nominal, such as appropriating the cadence of his performance of the lines.
Won’t happen. Disney ain’t gonna ashcan a trilogy that’s brought in billions between ticket sales, streaming, and merchandising because some neckbeards (not talking about present company, of course) got mad that a girl was the hero and it wasn’t exactly the same as they vaguely remember the movies being when they were 8 years old.
If anything, this episode is setting up Luke for where we find him in the sequel trilogy. He’s repeating the same mistake that the Jedi made before him in breaking attachments - the mistake that pushed his father into Palpatine’s grasp, that will lead him to push Ben Solo to Snoke, and that’s probably going to turn Grogu away from him as well.
If anything, whenever it comes time for Star Wars to visit the post-ST era, I’d expect to see Grogu working with Rey to establish a new and better Jedi order.
Deepfake technology I believe.
So…basically we’re into “fuck reality” level deepfakes now. Yay.
This is the future that season 2 of 24 warned us about!
One tangential question: What did the Pyke Syndicate gangsters actually do (i.e. what criminal transaction that makes sense, took place) when Cobb Vanth confronted them?
It was pretty much a straight-up drug deal. The local reps were buying the spice from the next-level up distributors. That’s what the stuff in the box Cobb spilled out was. He let the one guy keep the money, in an attempt to keep the peace with the higher-level bosses, but made it clear that he didn’t want the spice (drugs) in his territory.
That’s right. Because that exactly describes everyone who didn’t like the sequel trilogy. 
It definitely describes a significant chunk of the people complaining about Eps 7-9 on the internet, but again, I’m not saying it’s everyone. Personally, The Last Jedi is my absolute favorite Star Wars movie out of all of them, but I’ll admit that it has its flaws, and The Rise of Skywalker went much too far in the other direction trying to “fix” the things the internet didn’t like about TLJ, but it was still enjoyable.
In the long run, people hated the prequels when they came out, but these days the younger generation who watched them when they were kids seem to love them, and I predict the same reappraisal is going to happen over the next 20 years as the people who watched the sequel trilogy as kids grow up.
I was fine with a female Jedi / black Stormtrooper / etc. But the plots were stupid (“Oh look - a planet-sized laser weapon! Because that worked so well the first two times!”) , the second film was ludicrously dull (I mean, if you could take out the giant bad guy ships by warping through them* they could have done that earlier in the film instead of having the world’s slowest chase scene), bringing back the Emperor was lame, and don’t even get me started on Darth Emo.
Also: get off my lawn!
* I know - I just can’t be bothered to deal with the terminology.
I’m going to repeat my totally speculation-theory. Well, wild guess.
Was Covid-19 a factor in the removal of Boba Fett for these two episodes? It feels like they made a left-turn of sorts to fill the episode requirements and delivery date of the show. Was Temuera Morrison positive and Disney insisted they still deliver 7 episode by a certain date, so they went back and grabbed Mando and inserted this story-line instead.
It’s bizarre. I kind of liked these episodes, but it is all very bizarre.
I mean, that could easily be said about the entirety of Star Wars. It’s a '30s sci-fi serial homage permanently stuck with '70s aesthetics, created by a guy whose idea of subtlety was naming a loner “Solo”, a dog alien “Chewie”, a damsel in distress “Leia Organa”, an evil emperor “Sidious”, his underlings “Maul”, “Tyranus”, and “Tarquin”, a species of fish aliens “Calamari”, a funny-talking slug alien “Jabba”, a black knight “Vader”, a bounty hunter “Greedo”, and whose original name for the Big Bad was “Cos Dashit”, where the street drugs are called “death sticks”, several species and characters are bizarrely offensive racial stereotypes, and where an entire genre of music is called “jizz” and the people who play it are called “jizz-wailers”.
You’re not meant to overthink Star Wars. Just enjoy the space wizards with their laser swords.
I find it very unlikely that the two best episodes of the series were thrown together in a last-minute effort to cover for a sick actor.
However, if that’s true, they should stop actually planning these series, and just wing them, since it’s clearly working much better 
This isn’t stupid. This is hilarious.
I don’t mind space wizards with laser swords, but sometimes I think films with unlimited CGI budgets use them to spackle over weak storytelling.
Or, as Mad Magazine put it in 1980;
Do you have a cite that Mark Hamill didn’t voice his own lines? Den of Geek claims he did, though they were digitally manipulated afterwards. And Hamill did get a credit at the end of the episode.
Aside - does anyone else remember the rumors that when Mark Hamill was in a car accident between SW and ESB, his entire face was destroyed and had to be rebuilt by plastic surgeons from his publicity pictures? Every time I see a CGI Luke that’s all I can think of.
He did have an accident that broke his nose and cheekbone (although the extent of the damage and the “plastic surgery” thing was apparently not true) but I was thinking of that too.
Revenge of the Sith is by far the movie picked as the best one out of ALL of them by people who watched them all together when the last trilogy came out.
That’s what I’m thinking. I mean, this is the guy who left his training to go save his friends and family. Pretty hypocritical now for him to preach all this “let go of attachments” stuff.
It was pretty much a straight-up drug deal. The local reps were buying the spice from the next-level up distributors. That’s what the stuff in the box Cobb spilled out was. He let the one guy keep the money, in an attempt to keep the peace with the higher-level bosses, but made it clear that he didn’t want the spice (drugs) in his territory
I thought that at first, but there is only the one landspeeder to be seen - and the retail dealer(s) would hardly have arrived on foot - Mos Pelgo/Freetown does not seem to be large enough for local Pyke drug dealers not to be noticed. Plus the spice chest is awkward to carry around.
Then again, on reviewing the scene, the landspeeder seems to be be a two seater. So, just a bit of sloppy directing.