Absolutely. That whole sequence, with Godunov bursting out of the building like a demon, the gun, the smoke, the resolving focus to Powell’s face—perfect, especially given his backstory.

What about John McClane and Sgt. Al Powell? Seems the most iconic pairing of all. The fact that McClane was in the building and Powell is outside and his role is mainly to provide support to McClane, a fellow cop on his own in an impossible situation, is what really hits home to me.

9 million who finished the entire series is significantly higher than people finishing other series - not just on Amazon, but everywhere. According to Parrot Analytics Rings of Power was 16.7 times more in demand than the average TV show in the US.

Yeah Elrond and Durin were great, and Galadriel had major chemistry with everybody. Even sad human healer and distractingly hot elf were good. The acting was let down by poor story choices and weird pacing. Still, it was the best of the two big epic fantasy shows. It’s a pity it lost out to Fire and Blood which was…

If only an eighth of your audience finishes the thing but your audience started ten times bigger than the other guy’s, that’s probably a win. I could buy the idea that the completion rate has been driven down a bit by a large number of viewers who half-watched episode 1 because of the advertising (they really marketed…

The Elrond/Durin relationship was a high point for me.  The rock breaking contest where you know Elrond is a half elf that can go all year if he needs to but has to let Durin win is friggen great.

The show shouldn’t have waited until episode 6 to get good.

I liked it but it was perhaps not the greatest

I saw it all and mostly liked it but I can totally see why a lot of people bailed. Those first three or four episodes were slow as hell. And because of the weird way that Amazon only owns some very specific rights to a bunch of ancillary parts of Lord of the Rings lore, the superfans didn’t like it because it changed…

Oh, well I liked it. I won’t say it’s good, but even a chance to step into a lesser version of Tolkein’s world for an hour a week was enjoyable. We are living in Arda Marred, after all.

That is the problem with Men.  With their short lives, they never finish what they start, leaving us to clean up their mess.

*Sharons Rooney

I loved Andor.

I thought this episode was ok. I found my attention wandering during the meat of the episode with the imperial rehabilitation efforts (and the intrigue therein), but that is a story that can go some interesting places. We also did not get much about Bo Katan teaming up with Din and friends, but that thread also has…

I loved this episode. But then I’m one of those weirdos who always wanted more Dr. Pershing. Plus, I liked getting some insight into the Empire-to-New-Republic transition. The amnesty program sounds interesting. The Reintegration Institute sounds ominous.

(Not to bring up the other show, but this is the second time we’ve seen office life on Coruscant, and Andor’s was much bleaker.)

Oh damn, are you saying that a TV show known for mixing episodic and serialized narratives that is only 3 episodes into its current season didn’t answer all of your questions about the plot and character arcs of this season? That’s so weird, surely no other TV show has ever done that. I swear to god, no one on the…

Considering the major unresolved thread of the show is why, exactly, the Imperial remnants wanted Grogu, this was 100% about putting that train back on track. And it frankly seems like groundwork to set up the whole Snoke / Palpatine stuff from the sequel trilogy, since it was infamously… uh, underexplained.

Joel is The Death of Us

Joel really doomed us all.