Real reason: Hera, Chopper, and their actors and FX are expensive, so we need to explain why they’re not in the rest of the show. Or “presumably” (hopefully) until the finale.*

She’s the seed that grew that character. Give her and Dini points too for letting Harley go really hard into the accent. Comic accent becomes ... she from Bensonhearst (because of course she is) ... her parents are Jewish ... Gotham gets another rope line to irl New York ... her middleclass roots get fleshed out ...…

Here’s where it probably had something to do with cheap location shooting.

Yeah, he’s just flipping Sylvia some shit by copying the hoity way she introduced herself. They almost should reset the gag with the new guy (Taylor-Johnson would be fine, but whomever) just so the next generation can go, “Oh! I get why he does that.”

Can we get an episode where Hera sings?

This. The charisma ranking so far goes: 1) Ray Stevenson 2) Nat Bordizzo 3) The Loth Cat 4)-6) Long windswept gap 7) Inosanto 8) Winstead trying mightily to get into this thing ... 9) Okay now Rosario Dawson

Dude! If you called it, I’m gonna say “This dude called it.”

That’s fair. DX Disney Extreme of whatever dumbass name they gave it wasn’t exactly at the forefront of mainstream cable.

I know you are right instinctively. Thank you for this correction. It’s probably something weird like “Heinrich Derring: inventor of the pirate shirt!”

This article misses a lowkey selling point in that all they said upstairs is true AND the franchise is throwing a tow cable to the Heir to the Empire published storyline. Plus this is Feloni really hanging his ass out there this time. (Speaking of Heir to the Empire - yoink!) He’s gambling a great deal of his banked…

Zoomers maybe? If you were 12 to 16 and watched Rebels, maybe now that you’re 20, this is a bigger deal? 

Genndy

Yeah, pretty sure Salem’s Lot 1979 got a theatrical release at some point because they shot a special “coda” scene for theaters where Ben and Mark find vampire Susan in South America somewhere. Bonnie Bedelia in full vampire get-up was Fantastic, Stunning, and Beautiful. Too bad it was only a 90 second post credit…

You know, back then, if a made for tv movie really knocked it out of the park, occasionally it got a quick theatrical release. I think this happened with Salem’s Lot. I remember Battlestar Galactica came out in theaters for a couple weeks. Brian’s Song too, I think, fell into this category. 

Bram Stoker’s Dracula did win points with me for including scenes from the novel that most adaptations leave out: most notably a decent version of the ship-board chapter, and the climactic battle on the road outside the castle. But the lovers reincarnation thing was bullshit, and it took time away from the Lucy stuff…

You can smell the beer on the floor and hear the drunk frat-guy barfing in the parking lot, but I’ll give a shoutout to “Dirty” John Valby.

Still never found out why Goose scratched his eyeball! Fury has Flerken-Vision!! What, is it legally owned by the Captain Marvel crew? I want Fury’s eyeball to explode into alien tentacles. Why can’t I have my fun things? Poop.

Honestly, I think we needed a mention or a shot of G’iah and Fury doing a mind-meld-xerox face copy or whatever to explain the end monologues. Then we could be like, “Oh Fury really does feel that way because G’iah scanned him, real Fury just would never say that shit out loud.”

I agree pretty much with all that. The cameo was the cameo... no need to kick that dog.

Chadwick Bozeman in “Get On Up” ... and the dude had at least 3 biopics in his short career.