Should have added that McAuley deserves a lot of respect for imagining a worldwide culture based upon knocking over garbage cans and stealing picnic lunches.

Good, a new McAuley. But I believe that it is intelligent raccoons that are the bears’ former slaves, not remnant humans.

This is why I really want them to use some of that new Disney money to either hire Steven Moffat or Jamie Mathieson (who came up with the Foretold from Mummy On the Orient Express, the 2-dimensional boneless from Flatline, and the creepy space suit zombies from Oxygen) back to write individual episodes, or at the very…

It feels like a reasonable mandate for each showrunner to be told to create a new Dalek-quality monster each season.

It doesn’t always work, obviously, but we got the Weeping Angels and Silence out of that sort of ambition.

I’d love to see something similar attempted with the next season.

I like to think her Force Ghost has been shacking up with Qui-Gon on Tatooine for the last twenty-odd years.

Absolutely agree. Vader killed more people than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined. But in the final moments of his life, he reforms and gets to be a space ghost? Hell, dead Vader gets a better after life than billions of his victims

If Hitler, minutes before putting a bullet in his brain, regrets being perhaps the most…

Redemption is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose; and does not have to equate to forgiveness.

It’s the problem with the “Redemption Equals Death” trope. It absolves the redeemed of guilt, even though what most people need to do is do the work to right the wrongs they did. Like, if your alcoholic dad pledged to stop drinking, dumped out all his beer, and then died of a heart attack that day, that’s one good day…

Lucas has been fairly consistent about how Anakin and Vader are, essentially, two different people. So Vader was never redeemed, but Anakin was. That’s why I said in another post how Lucas never did a good job defining the dark side. Does turning mean you become a new personality? Does this happen to everyone who…

What’s always bugged me about that the scene in ROTJ on the Ewok bridge is when Luke tells Leia that Vader is his father, then he tells her that she is his sister. The next unspoken bit of info not addressed in the scene is that she is the daughter of Darth Vader. I know she says to Luke, “Somehow I’ve always known,”…

I’ve always struggled with the idea that somehow Vader could be redeemed. At the end, he chose to end the darkness of the empire but he was both directly and indirectly responsible for the death of billions of people. The prequels had him killing children personally.

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The very end always bothered me, with the saved precog living in the log cabin. It just felt too... trite. Yes, I get it, technology bad, but come on, how is this going to be sustainable. How does she get food, fuel, entertainment? There’s a lot there to discover and it just felt bolted-on.

Just let the franchise die. 

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