Yes, exactly. I thought that they’d at least contrive some way for the duel to end inconclusively - giant chasm opening and separating them or whatever - but nope. Kenobi just goes “welp, bye.” He misses a second chance to kill Vader (after just leaving him to slowly burn to death on hot rocks in RotS) and then goes…

I don’t blame Hayden for his portrayal in the prequels. George Lucas made a lot of actors look awful in those movies. The only actors who put in decent performances are Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid. It’s great that he get redemption as an actor here because he does deserve it.

She was bandaged, and was sweating, limping, and breathing heavily.  Owen clocks this and hits her in the wound later.

I feel like a lot of the prequel bashers, myself included, owe a big time apology to Hayden Christiansen, because he absolutely rocked in this series, tonight’s episode especially. Turns out it really was Lucas’s lousy direction of actors this whole time.

The person upthread who said that a sequel to Revenge of the Sith is different from a prequel to the original movie had the right idea. It’s pretty clear in the original movie that “Darth” is supposed to be Vader’s first name (even then, it’s kind of funny that Obi-Wan would be is on a first-name basis with his…

I always thought “Darth” was a title within the SW universe...Darth Vader, Darth Sidius, Darth Maul.

I don’t really know with this show. For me, ultimately the larger character arc did sell on why it was necessary. This was that bridge between who Obi-Wan was at the end of the prequels and who he was at the start of the New Hope while giving his story with Vader a sense of closure even if it would come ahead in the…

Really disagree hard with this review.

Seems more like Jesse Armstrong views Cousin Greg as the secret main character, a more pure and uncorrupted, ancillary family member who is slowly being corrupted by money and power. Greg and Tom share a character arc; they’re both kind of outsiders, and have to work harder and be more clever than the Roy children.…

I don’t agree. I thought there was a real evolution in the character over the course of season 3, going from “I’m going after someone out of my league” to “I can do so much better than this.” It’s funny on the one hand because he’s bumbling and George Costanza plotlines tend to be funny, but we do see him not…

I was curious about the sort of person who would take the time to post that, so I scrolled through their other comments. Every single one of them is a punchline. They come across like a wannabe stand-up comic at open mic night, desperately reaching for a laugh.

Damn, you must be a real asshole.

This is so nice to make fun of someone with a disability

Elon Musk is way, way uglier inside and out. 

For old fogies who can remember this, like myself, the scariest episode(s) of Sesame Street were from 1970, when Mississippi’s PBS station committee banned the show from the state network’s inaugural broadcasts period because the show’s integrated cast and neighborhood setting were deemed unsuitable for Mississippi’s…

I still like the first season best, but I think this one has been pretty great. Certainly better than Season 3. I was also impressed by how fun it was to visit the characters and the new characters were by and large very charismatic.  The villain also really worked for me.

Season 4 is as good as 1. It’s almost some sort of miracle they took a break that long and came back with such excellent content. The only issue with the series is the INSANELY huge cast, other than that Stranger Things is as good as its ever been.

I just finished and personally, I think this has been the best season by quite a wide margin. The writing has never been better.

I dunno. I think a narrative can be both consistently interesting and still longer than necessary. You *can* have too much of a good thing.

AVClub: Stranger things is “bogged down by its runtime”