The Karen.

It wasn’t exactly a secret facility or a secret army, though. The planet was removed from the Jedi records so nobody would go looking for it (which is a separate silly issue), but the planet and cloning facility were just out of the way and not widely known. The army, though, was ordered by the Jedi with the approval…

The SW universe is what happens when you have no safety regulations or ethics committees. You get all kinds of wonderful but dubious technologies.

It’s gets worse if you think of them as the the gunfighters who the villagers hired in the Magnificent Seven/Seven Samurai.

There was a thematic reason IMO that the armor they swapped into to drive the truck was gray.

Yes. I think this was implied

They deleted the planet from the maps! Leaving a planet-shaped hole in its place.

I’m particularly fond of the scene where Obi-Wan goes review old Jedi newspapers at the Jedi library.

I just rewatched AOTC to bring myself back up to speed for watching Clone Wars (which I am just getting to), and it is horribly apparent that there is only one actor in that entire film that isn't just collecting a check, and that's Christopher Lee. Jackson, MacGregor, Portman... all just heavily phoning it in. And…

Attack of the Clones specifically is mostly Obi-Wan starring in cinematic history’s blandest, most pointless detective story ever.

the greatest miscalculation of all: that we’d be interested in seeing Darth Vader, one of the most iconic villains in film history, as a happy little kid first, then as a petulant teenage boy

Going with the themes of the episode, I think he just assumed they were pirates when they were probably actually people fighting to sabotage the Imperial guys who were invading their land/planet.

No. One of those comic sites that likes to publish articles based on YouTube/Twitch personalities ramblings kept pushing this non story. The article from a bit ago even said the proof of this is that later episodes in S2 hardly even feature Mando and you see more Rosario Dawson. This doesn't seem to be the case at…

Love that sound effect.

That brief table showdown scene gave me Tarantino vibes.

Fun fact about Sorcerer, since this week’s episode paid it a small homage: That’s the movie that came out the week after Star Wars, and got completely vaporized at the box office.

People will probably disagree but I thought this was a better episode than last week. I thought Bill Burr sucked before but he was alright here.

Just one of those days I guess.

On the other hand, Sith Lords like to take new names to hide their activities (That silly Dark Side! It clouds everything!) or come across as more eeeevil.

It’d have been nice if the stormtroopers had any tactical training to go along with the new equipment, though, instead of advancing widely separated in ones and twos so that they can keep getting picked off.