Agreed on the latter, my worry for the episode was that Joel was going to come in and save her from the evil preacher, when part of the whole point of this arc is Elle having to protect herself without Joel there.

I agree, it’s not remotely a stretch. I didn’t say anything about it being implausible or unrealistic, I’m sadly quite aware of how realistic this kind of shit is.

Meh.

I groaned when he went full-on creepy child rapist at the end, honestly.

The advantage of having these alien creations made for Mandalorian is also that they can get reused too.

As an isolated episode, I get why people aren’t exactly thrilled with it. It’s a lot of set-up mixed with action scenes, and the first action scene in particular felt way too long.

Regarding Iron Bull, I think the problem isn’t Iron Bull or “Demands of the Qun” so much as it is a more general issue with how the Qunari have been portrayed.

Which one? :D

First, I think it is a valid thing to note the difference between various styles of gameplay. There’s major structural, stylistic, mechanical and other differences between, say, Final Fantasy 7 and Baldur’s Gate, to the point where only calling them both “RPGs” feels overly broad.

...........it’s like what I’d expect of a parody trailer for a live action Peter Pan film.

FEDRA has batteries, like the ones in Ellie’s Walkman. But would they still work?

But I think at the end of the day there was no getting around “Oh, it’s Ant-Man stuck in the Quantum Realm again.” And I think that kind of killed it.

I mean, you’re right, but I’m willing to grumble and give TLOU a 6/10 on the realism here just for acknowledging the issue. So, so many pieces of fiction just assume that gasoline never decays at all, the show correctly noting that it does, just making the timeline fuzzy so that the plot can still happen? Yeah, I’m…

It’s never specifically stated but our best guess is that Janet simply felt guilty about choosing her family over all of the people she left subjugated to Kang in the Quantum Realm.

One of the theories I’ve heard is that this was originally supposed to be released before Loki. That this was supposed to be Kang’s big debut, with his appearance in Loki being in support of that, but the chaos of filming in the pandemic threw wrenches into that plan and forced it to get delayed.

Out West, The Last Of Us delivers a gut punch

1: I doubt they will.

At others, the show comes after Meghan in a way that could potentially be seen as a step too far, depending on where you stand on this whole affair as well as the general tone of South Park. “Isn’t it true, sir, that your questionable wife has her own TV show and hangs out with celebrities and does fashion magazines?”…

Why? The closest comparison are the Disney remakes, most of which are adapting films decades older than the HTTYD franchise is, and those are widely derided as utterly soulless remakes that can never match the quality of the original and only serve to make buckets of money-

Oh, Disney is certainly aggressive as hell when it comes to litigation in “defense” of their IP.