Droids is coming to Disney+ next month, for what its worth.

Just to echo (heh) what others have been saying, I would also argue that Bad Batch has had a stronger start than TCW or Rebels. It’s hard to remember back to watching either show week-to-week in their first seasons, but Rebels in particular didn’t click until the end of season 1 for me, and TCW took well into season 2.

Ok, I’ll play along.

They are not necessarily bad faith arguments, there was legitimate confusion when the Mando 2 season finale aired.

Ugh, I forgot that Plo’s droid was an R7 too. Nevermind. ;)

Yeah, it’s a stretch, I get it, but not impossible. Worth noting that by the time of Order 66, there were only about 10,000 Jedi left in a galaxy of 100 quadrillion sentient beings. Sure, there will always be people who hide banned material and keep the memory alive, but to the vast majority of the galaxy, the Jedi…

Yeah, I get that the droids are mass produced, and one significant knock against my theory is that as far as we know, R7-A7 was destroyed in the Clone Wars finale, which totally slipped my mind.

That was my initial thought, but Rafa says “patch him through, R7,” and assuming they’re not going to completely retcon the Ahsoka novel, Bad Batch takes place while she’s hiding on Raada, before getting involved in the Rebellion. And yet R7 was Ahsoka’s droid...Rex perhaps?

It was indeed. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/disney-overhauls-jungle-cruise-ride-over-racism-180976841/

They already made a digital Keanu for Cyberpunk 2077!

He does have that effect. :)

It was already a F2P game and had soft-launched in China. Torchlight 3 is the hastily retrofitted premium version of Torchlight Frontiers.

It began life as a troubled F2P game called Torchlight Frontiers, and was retrofitted to be premium in the 11th hour. That’s pretty much all you need to know.

I wonder if having Melissa play Lily Tomlin was a nod to one of the last “Land of Gorch” Muppet segments during the early days of SNL, or just relevant coincidence...

Fun Fact: The club kid that Bowie kills at the beginning was played by Ann Magnuson, who we recently saw as Admiral Clancy on Picard. She was part of the NY East Village Art scene/ Club 57 at the time, the same place Bowie found Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias for his 1979 SNL appearance (and later referenced in Venture…

No Bowie connection. The original novels for Communion, The Hunger, and even Wolfen were all written by Whitley Strieber. :)

The Seven Year Itch is beyond problematic. The “protagonist” of the film sends his wife and kid upstate for the summer (no air conditioning in NYC back then) and spends the entire film trying to get into Marilyn’s knickers, only to begrudgingly choose loyalty because he’s having paranoid delusions that his wife may be…

My money is on #3.

I think it was Shaak Ti

Are you perhaps referring to Caleb, not Tarkin? Because yeah, Freddie Prinze Jr. wasn’t even trying to age down his voice. :)