Because it’s not the first time anyone has ever used the Force to commune with animals.

Indeed we all are, including Barsanti. Your comment just seems needlessly harsh. Perhaps instead of tearing the writer down you could spend your energy telling us WHY you disagree with them, and what you enjoyed about the show. Why bring so much negativity to something you like? Just tell us why you liked the show…

It sounds like the point of the season is to produce a season-long prelude to Thrawn’s return to the galaxy, which will then play out over the next season, Mando S4, and the Filoni movie.

I’ve noticed a certain strain of SW fan get super defensive when you deign to criticize what they love. 

Barsanti is a smirking troll through and through. That said, it’s interesting what you say about biases, as I’ve noticed Ahsoka reviews particularly seem split down a bias line: either you’re familiar with this story and these characters and like the show, or you’re not and you don’t. For example, ign gave this ep an…

I choose to believe Qui-Gon took it straight in the middle of the abdomen, right through essential organs. Sabine looks like she took a side shot through some muscle and that’s it.

Yes, but also part of what feels so flattening is that I don’t feel like the show even gives us much insight into the characters who are on screen. It feels like Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s getting a lot of shit for playing a character whose onscreen presence amounts to telling us repeatedly that she’s a general and…

They met on Fargo -- as did Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst! Horniest indie TV series ever!

It’s pretty amazing to me that there’s an entire subset of Star Wars fans who watch the show because incels don’t like it, among many, many other more sensible people who also don’t like it.

i cannot get over how bland this series is. Four episodes in, and I’m supposed to care that they’re searching for two characters who (a) i know literally nothing about, and (b) haven’t even been, like, shown on screen in a flashback or something so at least i know what they’re looking for.

i always think it’s weird when people invent reasons for people to not like something (coincidentally in a way that makes them look more enlightened for liking it) instead of accepting the very straightforward fact that maybe they just don’t like it.

*Cut to Sabine in the ship’s bathroom, staring off into near space with occasional small squints of her eyes, and then looking down pensively at a roll of toilet paper*

Mary is married to Ewan. So I imagine they were having lunch one day with Dave or Jon and they were like hey Mary, do you want to be a Star Wars show too?

Exactly right. People defend the show by saying, “It give you all the information you need!” And that’s kind of true. It just gives you information, in the most bland, schematic way possible, not even attempting to make you CARE about anything.

“Leave Your Child at Work” Day

well said and I would add stop with the weird maps that may not have been created in the time place or way they end up being in the shows.

Phantom Menace: Sorry, heroes, we’d love to help with your urgent problem, but we’re politicians and bureaucracy just gets in the way. Oops.

Rogue One: Sorry, heroes, we’d love to help with your urgent problem, but we’re politicians and bureaucracy just gets in the way. Oops.

The Force Awakens: Sorry,…

“Lothal has good medical facilities”.

I have no problem with the fact that the show is supposed to be an ostensible sequel to Rebels (which I haven’t seen), but the show itself doesn’t seem confident that it can exist without bending over backwards to be overly reverent of it. I’ve only watched the first episode, but it was very flat and kind of…