How does any of it actually do anything?

So Hale removed her own pearl, but then was still able to control her body to crush it? Seems like she would have frozen once the orb was out of its cradle. I guess I really don’t understand how Westworld robot tech works.

William had a head start. He was already making tracks while the drones were giving Charlotte her upgraded erector set body.

Jimmy lied but did it with a soft touch and did it in a way that comforted Howard’s widow. Kim just dug the knife in. That’s pretty much what their relationship has been like for the past season or two with Kim being the cold blooded and Jimmy still having a bit of a conscience about things

Yes, I think the point was that this was as exposed as Gus was willing to be. He was willing to subtle suggest that David might come to his house and try the wine that David had talked about. When David said he hoped Gus would tell him what the wine was like when he tried it, Gus took that as a rejection of his offer.…

They display frighteningly real sincerity even in a situation like trying to convince a widow who has been (wrongly) made to believe that her husband died by suicide and was a drug addict, all in the name of covering their role in the man’s death.

Maybe they changed it, but the word “animatronic” is in there twice.

Arguably, a shot of everyone sitting in a ship waiting would’ve sold the second-ship-switcheroo even more! Sequenced and edited correctly, it could’ve played out like Silence of the Lambs where we think Vader is coming up to their door only to open up an empty ship as the other flies away. I think the answer is more so…

Because he has to learn to grab the second ship instead of just standing there like a schlub?

Maybe they had but baby Yodas ate them all? They’re enthusiastic omnivores!

“This show is about 5% cool scenes and 95% ridiculous contrivances” is a perfect descriptor.

This show is about 5% cool scenes and 95% ridiculous contrivances, and/or everyone being an idiot, to stitch them together. The hangar fight was spatially nonsensical. It was a huge gun fight where everyone was about 40-50' apart to start. It kept cutting to the same shot of about 15, supposedly untrained, defenders…

The entire fight in the hangar was nonsensical. The two sides were shooting at each other from 30-40' away. It was comical and ridiculous. Sometimes stormtroopers would walk right up to people, while not firing their own weapons, just to get shot from five feet away.

Hey, it’s Jimmy Smits! I got impatient so I figured I’d leave a message with details of that big galactic secret we’re keeping about the boy on Tatooine with Owen! I mean, I guess I could have said “the thing in the place with you-know-who” since you do already know who and all, but I... did not do that.

By the way, I do genuinely adore how one of the running themes of this show is how ridiculously easy it is to escape the Empire.

I’ll bet Darth Vader wishes he could rewind to check for a second transport too.

That and all the people whining about how Reva couldn’t possibly know Vader was Anakin when the obvious answer was all but spelled out in the first scene of the first episode...

This week’s episode had a lot of potential but sadly was let down once again by poor execution. It seems that common sense just doesn’t exist in the SW universe. Why sit outside shooting at a heavy door when Reva can just easily cut through it? Why do both sides just stand out in the open firing at one another after…

I checked a video of the thing functioning normally, and it doesn’t have the “airbag” line. So, in other words, they must have actually recorded backup lines which automatically kick in if the thing malfunctions. Which, honestly, is kind of hilarious.

“I'm the Raven" and her bemused look - one of the few laughs in the ep.