I dug how stressed Luthen and Mon Mothma were. It gave a sense that this isn’t just another Rebel mission ... it’s the first one of this size. The show has slowly built in a feeling of history about to be made - like we’re coming up on the Star Wars equivalent of the first shots at Fort Sumter, or the Boston Tea…

I wonder if once an actor gets cast in one of these prestige shows, if there’s a serious sit-down with their agency or some CON-lifers as to how to deal with Fantasy-CON appearances. You get invited to these things for life now. Advice? (Don’t seduce the nerds! See: dude from The Expanse.) No spoilers! Free donuts for…

Posted at 4:20. Well played Soy... well packed, well burbled, and well exhaled too.

I’m stanning a conspiracy theory that Arondir helped.

This is my pet-theory pet-theory pet-theory. The show very obviously wants us to suspect The Stranger and Halbrand as potential Saurons. No one’s talking about Arondir. He’s like 6th on the list of suspects. But I’m looking at him as a (perhaps) unwitting accomplice in swapping out the hilt for the axe. Episode One…

Maybe they’ll do a “Red Wedding” 2/3 of the way through the picture and the whole family will go down. Isn’t the run-time hitting 3 hours?

Just send Letitia Wright into the desert, have her trip on ayahuasca for a couple days, bring her out, have her release a statement saying she’s seen some “new shit,” “questions answered,” and “sorry for all that shit I said earlier.”

Targaryens = Canadians?

Jon Snow’s birth father was a Targaryen and he (Jon) wound up with dark hair. I think the show is just saying: whoops - two bad coin flips = brunette.

This is bugging a lot of commenters, but I wouldn’t immediately assume it’s the show’s stupidity. I have a feeling there’s going to be a flashback to who and for-why someone swapped the axe for the hilt. It’s a whodunnit for the last episodes to solve.

That was a hell of an episode. The orcs weren’t just fucking around, digging tunnels, and scorching earth. They had a very specific public works project in mind.

Wish cast: When the New Avengers finally show up on campus, they need to get some training montage time with Cavalry and Quake.

I hope they explain how Josh got her blood. Is he a mutant with some sort of proboscis-like syphoning penis? Is Josh a vampire who bit her, drank her blood, went out to his car later, and threw up in a ziplock bag? Seriously, though if they flashback to him, like, chloroforming her after they had sex and putting a…

Yeah. “Lawyer of the Year” for what? Los Angeles’ media obsessed celebrity market? Why not. It scans just fine.

They like to move scenes between episodes too. An episode directed by, say, Michelle MacLaren (just picking a “Prestige Show” director name out of a hat) might actually have a scene in it shot by Tony Gilroy because it moved off his episode and into hers - for whatever editing reason. But you’re right, it kind of…

Can’t seem to think outside of superhero/sci-fi but:

Meanwhile, Rick and Morty has been killing it. Four top notch episodes in a row. Can’t remember the last time they were on a hot streak like this.

Although, I think the show’s take is that the book narrators are somewhat unreliable. So with whatever wiggle room that gives them, they can add in shades of empathy. In fact, they should introduce the book’s court jester as a character. Seems like a no-brainer. Unless he’s so unreliable as a narrator that he’s…

Well, what the show could do, is write a flashback episode (or three) with Milly Alcock and Emily Carey returning in season two (or three) and fill in the story of some of these intervening years. Both actresses will be two years older, and could more convincingly play their roles as women in their mid-twenties.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Spirited the last picture Miyazaki wrote as an original story himself? Howl’s, Ponyo, and The Wind Rises are all adaptations of other works. I guess my point is: his best works poured fully out of his head. I’d probably say my three favorite are Nausicaa, Castle in the Sky,…