It seems to be really popular with the middle school crowd, so 11-12 definitely. I'd buy that it skews older than Adventure Time, but ATLA had a pretty big kid following despite being just as plot heavy and ostensibly "adult"; I loved it as much as an eight year old without cable possibly could and did a pretty good…

It's homeworld slang that humans picked up. Maybe someone found a gem recording in the seventies and thought it sounded cool and revived it.

First and foremost, a recognition of the point halfway through the episode when you could visibly see Lamar Abrams or someone very much like him jump in and start storyboarding. The hair, it just blew up! There are pros and cons to the flexibility SU gives its storyboard artists, but it's definitely kind of fun to be…

For a dead man, Yelchin is all over the place. He was in that new Netflix kids series this winter as well, AND he still has dialogue recorded for Season 2 coming up. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they used his face for the movies and just CGI'd it up. Rogue One proves that you can resurrect the dead, and…

Fifteen dollars an hour? I make ten and that's in a nice suburb. You just can't find a mom with a blonde salon haircut and a new hybrid minivan and lots of spare cash these days, not in this economy.

Clearly the solution is a show with a cast of all aliens, preferably those with simple designs that don't require too much texture complexity. Start with those pilot twilek girls from the Han Solo comics, throw in a Zabrak, maybe bring Shaak Ti back, and the play dough problem is averted.

In a giant galaxy you could probably find twelve systems willing to kill people for anything. Maybe he just had a really wild stag night and violated too many public indecency laws in Space Singapore. Maybe he's a chronic shoplifter with a bad taste in targets.

Hera! Mon Mothma! Rebel spirits ready to die in fire rather than give up! Gorgeous animation! Oddly on the nose idealistic political sentiments! This is MY Star Wars. I loved it so much. I want to cry.

I'm just glad Steven is having fun and not being traumatized anymore. He deserves a break.

They weren't, not really, but saying "well that would never happen now" is a useful tool if one wants to feel morally superior to the past. I've heard discussions about the sixties and seventies that had a distinct air of Those Wild And Unenlightened Times, How We Have Advanced Since Then. It's human nature to try to…

As someone who's read a lot of those Historical Scandals books, after a certain point it starts getting euphemistically referred to as "underage mistresses" or "classical pederasty". *shivers*

In thirty years this will be "historical" and any weird stuff that definitely went on there will be "part of the character" and a "marker of how strange people back then really were".

Not unexpected (several voice actors have been pretty upfront about recording for Season 4 and Disney isn't going to let a profitable thing die) but still a delight to hear! Hopefully they'll let Filoni do a long arc or two this time. The poor man is dying without his multi-episode extravaganzas.

Nice to know that we can just string movie related proper nouns in any order these days.

Agents of Shield has been doing all sorts of weird things lately, so who knows? Plus, the CGI in TV shows in general has advanced a lot in the past few years. It's still not fantastic, but it is improving fast. Season one can be boring earth stuff, then in a few years after Infinity War they can go wild.

Hmmm. I've never seen in anything, but she does have the cheekbones for it.

As great as Moana was, I'm really holding out hope for Kubo and the Two Strings snaggin Best Animated Picture. Laika is the scrappy art-student underdog fighting the giant corporate power that is Disney. You've gotta root for them on principle.

Hey, credit where credit is due, whoever designed Harley's look deserves some special place in hell for making it instantly recognizable and easily replicated by any teen girl with Walmart Halloween makeup. Something so unique but quickly ripped off takes a real skill set. Now, if only they'd use their powers for good…

Agreed, she's criminally underused, but better underused than terribly butchered, I guess? Small mercies.

Hera has one of the coolest backstories of the Ghost crew (Childhood of rebellion! Rogue patrician's daughter turned teen superspy! A family history of fighting the power that she follows in her own unique way, and a past as murky as it is fascinating.)