1 is necessary, 2 is skippable, Part 3 is fantastic

That “extension of the body” thing. The effortless playing as if it was just part of life and breath. That’s what Eddie had and I can see it now. But the first time I ever “saw” that level of playing was Prince playing “My Guitar gently Weeps” at the R&R Hall of Fame induction.  Another true artist gone before his…

Just music?

In regards to the legions of hair-metal shredders that came after in the eighties - the 220BPM guys, the sweep-pickers, the neo-classicists - Eddie paved the way for them and was still the best...

You know when you start to get older all you hear from your elders is that you move a bit slower or your back hurts a lot more and your memory is a bit fuzzy. What they don’t tell you is what a kick in the balls it is when your childhood hero’s start to die. Neil Peart and Eddie Van Halen in the same year is too much.…

At a VH concert in Vancouver, I saw a fan rush the stage to hug Eddie. Security swarmed up on the deck, and the panicked fan ran off the side of the stage right onto the guitar tech world. There could have been potentially thousands of dollars damage.

Someone just tried to argue with me that Eddie Van Halen wasn’t a legend. I will never take that person’s opinions on music seriously again.

Youz guys wanna go eat some detoygint pods?

Oh yeah, well she couldn’t possibly have used the Force to get back to the ship because we never saw her learn to do that onscreen and there’s no way she would’ve been taught how in the 30 years between films!

Ask and ye shall (I think) receive:

I laughed when I realized that AoS had essentially filmed a Zoom meetup MONTHS before the pandemic started. Talk about good science fiction predicting the future....

Yeah, her finally accepting the nickname and calling herself The Cavalry was a great button on that whole throughline from (I believe?) the pilot episode...

“Plus, no mention of those worrying blood tests; guess they were only a temporary problem."

I loved all the final references and call backs. From 084 to Hand and Grace to Lola. I loved that Piper and Flint were back and that Davis got resurrected. I loved the one final tie-in into movies with Endgame quantum real time travel even though it looks like Snap didn’t happen in the timeline of Agent’s of SHIELD…

Sousa was such a great addition this season. I loved him surprise kissing Daisy and then her kissing him back, the exact opposite of their kiss in the time loop, which Daisy would have remembered, though he didn’t.

I thought this was a satisfying enough finale. Regardless of everyone’s thoughts, however, I’m really proud of this show for exceeding every possible expectation. It managed to outlast all the more high-profile Marvel shows, develop C-listers into beloved characters while inventing new beloved ones, and end on its own…

There’s been a suggestion (and I kind of had this thought too) that this could possibly be a set-up for Daisy calling herself Quake in a cool moment in the finale. She’s never quite embraced the name properly (outside of using it as a verb for her power moves) so that could be kind of neat.

After the last episode my 14-yo daughter was jumping around saying “My ship is canon! My ship is canon!”

I am stunned that they brought Enver Gjokaj on as a semi-regular this season, I would never have expected that & it was a fantastic decision