Fortunately, due to the odd nature of corporate logic, Mr. Muilenburg will land another CEO job within the next few months, based on the principle that being a warm body during a tough situation instead of dying or quitting is somehow noble and worth bringing on.

What’s the point in referencing something just for the sake of referencing it? To your own point, they don’t even matter. Like, if they’d replaced those two dudes with Kirk and Spock, would you still be cool with it?

Pretty sure if he wanted to subvert expectations, he’d just have tea.

Astral Projection Luke is the coolest shit I’ve seen in a Star Wars movie and no one can take that away from me.

Two of those things you described are “consistency” (color palettes, costumes) and the other (cameos) is fan-service.

Sure, but the only thing it added was an opportunity for some fans to get distracted. It offered no other, positive value to the scene.

This season is really a letdown for me. The show used to be about shamelessly doing what you needed to get ahead in life. Remember when Lip was in school and Fiona was building wealth and Debbie was providing for her daughter and Carl was in military school? Those were all different ways of getting by without the…

So, it sounds like what they’re doing to Palpatine is basically what people who hated TLJ wanted done to Luke and it sounds really dumb and I hope they enjoy it.

I know this hardly counts as narrative progress, but were those transmissions from Carl Weathers that Zero found new or old?

The Z71 looks like an electric razor.

GM’s design idea of making vehicles taller, but the headlights smaller is just baffling to me.

Preach!

That doesn’t change that it was basically a shared cultural phenomenon for the entirety of the decade.

I’m not surprised. I feel like it’s pretty hard to prove defamation when 100% of the world sided with Unsworth after Musk’s comments.

Couple things.

Didn’t know these even existed.

While I am eager for the “main story” to kick off, I’m still thoroughly enjoying the show. Even the standalone stories are working overtime to expand the Star Wars universe.

And Mando. I was like, “oh, he’s worked here before”. Definitely a cool way to illustrate his skills and experience.

I guess this relies on the “survived the sarlacc” theory then.

we get a few scenes with Tami alone, but things are still mostly framed through Lip’s anxiety, and his objectively bad call to bring Sarah into the picture.