I think she was a little too polite to bring it up, what with the blood draining and the near drowning and such... but by my reckoning, Bo-Katan is now the rightful holder of the Darksaber.

Just want to make a point as a Soviet space nerd....

I don’t think that was a cargo module... I think it was an airlock, designed after the Voskhod inflatable airlock used on Voskhod 2.  If you look at the reentry portion of the exposition on the DPRK mission, there’s nothing on top of the (clearly Soyuz-based) descent module, so it must have appeared AFTER the crash…

Anytime Favreau takes on a script, you know he’s going to canonize a bunch of shit....

Rhys Darby could pull it off.  But I agree - very, very few people could make that role non-annoying.

I didn’t pick up on the Tosche Station / Cammie / Fixer angle either. If it’s winking at the audience, it’s winking at a very specific element of the audience that sees canonical references in everything... and in this case they happen to be correct.

Too Many Fetts

Lenny Pickett is a damned national treasure, and deserves all the attention he can get. (And an NYU professor, I think! At least he used to be....)

And that’s really saying something, too....

I think “going too far” is a dramatic understatement. This torpedoes any credibility this show had as an Asimov adaptation. Moving the Second Foundation off of Trantor (um... spoiler alert for a 70-year-old novel?) was bad enough. Having your R. Daneel stand-in flat-out murder someone is heretical. It’s like doing…

She was 19 when she filmed Scott Pilgrim, I think. Her screentest is among the extras on the DVD. It’s amazing how she’s a normal, sweet young woman at first, and then just flips a switch and becomes Envy.  No surprise that she wound up with an Oscar eventually...

Absolutely.  One of the greatest opening title sequences ever, I think.

Great point. This is a show that started with Michael O’Donoghue teaching an immigrant to speak English by having him repeat “I want to feed you to the wolverines”, for pete’s sake....

I think we need to stop calling these “cut for time” sketches. Because I think they’re not cut for time — they’re pre-filmed pieces kept as emergency filler in case something goes wrong during the live broadcast (maybe the musical guest passes out in the green room and can’t go on for the second song), and they need…

Just want to chime in to note that while Nate’s look is absolutely Jose Mourinho, the character is not at all the same. Mourinho, first and foremost, is a charming guy, and there’s never been any hint that he’s driven by rage or anger or daddy issues. He thinks he’s awesome, and that’s the beginning and the end of his…

Is there a Room on AOL where we could discuss this?

So.... what’s the deal with the quickshot of birdperson-on-birdperson cannibalism? (At least that’s what I think it was....)

And Hondo probably isn’t far behind either.

The only problem with working Boba in is that at this point he’s still just a kid, and it might be hard to work him into a plotline without it being glaringly obvious that he’s just there for the cameo.  

I think Dan is too much like his father, in that he comes from a very different style of improv, one that focuses more on inhabiting the character fully and investigating where that takes you.  SNL is more of an immediate-gag-delivery sort of improv.  Some people are great at both (Martin Short, for example), but most…

If you want to read about Ebersol’s attempts to poach the SCTV cast for SNL, Dave Thomas (not the Wendy’s guy) discusses it in his book. Ebersole actually succeeded: he got Martin Short, of course, but Catherine O’Hara also agreed to join SNL, but backed out at the last minute because she didn’t want to move to NYC…