Who was the actor who played the first ex-Imperial guy who invites Pershing over for a drink? He looked EXTREMELY familiar but I can’t place him.

Filoni is definitely super overrated. Yes, the Clone Wars was generally good, but it’s far from the untouchable masterpiece that most people think it is and had plenty of wonky or dumb elements.

I do think that the Clone Wars series made the prequels retroactively better by filling in some plots holes and fleshing out Anakin as a character, so I am ok with The Mandalorian and other series trying to rehabilitate the sequels a bit. It’d be better if they would make Star Wars movies that made sense on their own,…

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.

This is incorrect: she’s clearly immune because her brain was already filled with too many terrible jokes, leaving no room for the cordyceps to take hold. It’s just basic science.

Does Joel go overboard in reclaiming Ellie: Yes.

This is the worst take on video games I’ve heard in a long time- and there’s a lot of bad takes. Well done.

“she quickly executes the spiny mecha creep with the Darksaber before he can drink all of Din’s blood—proving, again, that she’s probably better suited to rule Mandalore and wield the Darksaber than Din is.”

There are already dozens of sub-systems in the game too. It feels like if Animal Crossing went to Hogwarts and then added a main quest. Lot’s of busywork questing.

Say what you will about the Shadow of Mordor games - and there are a lot of problems with them - but the first time you’re sneaking around somewhere and suddenly the camera smash-cuts to a scarred up orc covered with spikes calling you out like Hulk Hogan while his goons pour past him, it’s a hell of a moment. It…

what do you think aurors are, dude?

“Goblins, frustrated with being considered lesser-than, have taken to violence to gain equality, and in our society, that’s a no-no).”

as preached by Jowling? Sure. According to her (and her books), there are not bad systems or institutions, just bad individuals. So just put a good individual in charge of the institution and bam! Everything is good forever. That’s why Harry Potter ends up a (good?) cop.

All the media has to do is say, “________is_______” over and over and that statement is then solidified and true.

Yeah. Disney shouldn’t have its little feifdom to get around building codes and environmental laws.

But the show agrees with you... it turns out that Mandalorians *don’t* hide their faces forever and have these weird rituals. Only a minority cult do. And I don’t think Boba Fett has any connection to that kind of Mandalorian.

Andor was amazing and I can’t wait for more of it, but this episode made my eyes so happy with all the diverse expressive aliens and droids. And the pirate fleet in the asteroid belt with the mining stations. A big crazy lived in galaxy.

Space alligators is ornery because they gots all them space teeth and no space toothbrush.

re: Babu Friks... Mando literally didn’t understand what they were saying at first and asked if they spoke Huttese. The joke wasn’t that Karga acted like they were unintelligible, the joke was that he kept “translating” well after Mando started to understand. (and without the closed captioning on, I couldn’t…

1.I liked the opening episode way more than a C-Plus. I know some people are annoyed by it, but I have always dug the side quest/western wanderers of the week format of this show. I am very glad that in this universe there is room for both Mandalorian and Andor to exist, two shows to love for very different reasons.