It's not as broad once you consider that the new guy is a Devaronian with a similar outfit, and that Dave Filoni already brought Quinlan Vos - an associate of Villie's - into Disney canon with The Clone Wars.

I don't think Caesar intended for his revolution to go worldwide.

Hm. I'm willing to bet Dave Filoni intended this character to be Vilmarh Grahrk until the whole "chuck out the canon" thing happened, and then they just decided it would be too much trouble to argue for his inclusion.

If you're annoyed by anything, be annoyed that they decided to include a Suchomimus as well as a Spinosaurus instead of including a radically different dinosaur.

I mean they may not be a human convention so much as just using whatever is around you.

I guess I read the feathers and paint as ways for them to ornament while consciously eschewing human conventions.

Well this argument works for H. sapiens and H. neanderthalis, it's definitely not useful for H. sapiens and A. africanus.

I'm not understanding the criticisms about pacing and poor characterization, but they're both pretty common. I'm into this show, and I like that it feels like we know about as much as the characters do.

Wouldn't this make a pretty good trophy, though?

Does Japanese not have the word "because"? The construction "and the reason is" gets used a lot in this script.

Wait, what? The kid asked about evolution.

I can't go to work and be a dick to everyone and still get paid.

Oh, all this is much much better than hiring an actor of color.

Well frankly I think loud noise and mass death would have them turning back after just a few seconds - I also don't think they'd attack humans en masse without having encountered them before.

more importantly, predatory animals tend to be kind of risk averse, because if they get hurt they'll starve to death

Well it's not odd to me that this guy has turned his back on religion and his former path, and it's not odd to me that a televangelist is being portrayed as having "sold religion" as opposed to, say, a Lutheran pastor - it's just odd to me that he's somehow skeptical of truth in mysticism and the divine all of a…

Right! And that's the thing about the show: if you've received confirmation that there is a God, and the angel Michael is living in your city helping you fight an angel army led by Gabriel, then maybe it's clear that peoples' savior cults are not to be so easily discredited?

One thing I'm really having trouble with is how so many of the Vegan higher ups are dismissive of religious beliefs. Now, I can get behind the idea that you don't like religious *people,* given the present circumstances, but on a planet occupied by avenging angels - who no one seems to question are actually angels -…

Which very well have been the case, but then they changed their minds.

And were such a big problem that they are, according to some versions of the story, one of the biggest reasons God sent the Flood.