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Specifically, at my old pal Jon Favreau for being such an obsessed douchebag carnivore. But you will not find, anywhere in present or past, anything, that has ever LOOKED so good! The background scenery has been optimized with an Unreal screen ring, and the foreground &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2021\/9-0-the-mandalorian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9.0 The Mandalorian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-tv-shows","tag-disneys-star-wars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-QD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3645,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2023\/9-0-light-magic\/","url_meta":{"origin":3263,"position":0},"title":"9.0 Light &amp; Magic","author":"m","date":"January 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Kathleen Kennedy just went way up in my book for releasing this behind-the-scenes gold. 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