Just because you're still bringing it up as a plot hole: Tanya knew to transmit her anger to the Lankin because it told her. There's a scene where it eats someone as her "father" is talking to her, and shows distaste at mentioning how the victim was still angry.

Uh, if those readers were guessing Savitar was Future Barry because of the comics, aren't they… y'know… right? Adaptations don't work like that as a rule, but in this particular case it looks like it did.

Sounds like it has the exact same problem as Dragon Age Inquisition, in that all the major story choices you make don't actually affect the game you're playing, but is set-up for some future point in the series. It doesn't matter who you choose to rule Orlais, whether you side with mages or templars, who drinks from…

Technically they gave it to Peggy (it's something Sharon's repeating), which made it easier for me to swallow.

They can keep it. Nobody needs Archie-by-way-of-Vampire-Diaries.

True, but the problem's exacerbated here precisely because of the expectation that unlike the Inquisitors or Vader, Thrawn has some kind of master plan that's been furthered with each of his appearances. That makes throwaway episodes like this one all the more frustrating, especially when Maul's still in play as well.

It doesn't even make any sense either, because Thrawn already has command of a fleet - Tarkin says so when assigning him to Governor Pryce. If he were just a Vice Admiral and this was part of a larger strategy to ascend the ranks, that'd be something else altogether; but Filoni introduced him as someone who's at the…

But because Rebels is an interquel, there's a very real limit to how far Ahsoka's presence can extend anyway. All her appearances in season 2 felt like they were building up to a final confrontation with Vader - there was no point in being ambiguous about how that ends, because if they don't end up using her again,…

The thing about the long game, though, is that if you don't build it up properly, you run the risk of it turning into an ass-pull. It's not just that Thrawn is holding back - he hasn't done anything so far except
uncharacteristically lose his temper with that one officer who disrespected Twi'lek culture. They've now…

I want to believe they'd go that far, but they couldn't even commit to killing Ahsoka at what was clearly the end of her story.

I think this goes to the core of the problem I'm having with the show's depiction of Thrawn, though - we're halfway through the season and he's done nothing but "gather intelligence", with no indication as to how he's planning to use what he's learned (nor, indeed, any visible way that intel *could* be used - this…

And if they'd gone with the psychological evaluation approach, that would've been a more reasonable scenario. But the way CW frames it is that the UN essentially wants to take control of the Avengers and deploy them when and where they want. And it irritates me that 1) it's never explained how this kind of supervision…

Penalty for what? She saved people who would have otherwise died when the bomb went off. What does that have to do with American cops?

Not what I said - the World Security Council was an extension of the UN, and look how that turned out. They tried to nuke New York, and didn't realize HYDRA was taking over SHIELD until it was too late. Why would the Avengers think the UN could do better?

Right, but the fallacy of the Registration Act is that it assumes an equal playing field when, in reality, anyone *other* than the Avengers would've utterly failed to save any lives at all. That was my only bone to pick with CW, to be honest - the idea that the Avengers are somehow culpable for the collateral damage…

I mean, you can read it any way you want, but the plot of the last Avengers movie was actually about how a bunch of volunteers didn't want to sign themselves over to the authority of a political body when a previous extension of said body turned out to have been taken over by terrorists. Not quite the same equivalency.

She's still making stupid mistakes, trusting the wrong people, feet of clay, etc. How is her indecision when faced with Kuvira any different than her tossing Tenzin aside because Unalaq showed her a shiny new trick? How does her failure in this episode build off everything she went through with Toph since the start of…

Buffy was at least capable of winning *some* fights on her own. The fact that after four seasons Korra hasn't exhibited any kind of growth or new understanding (because PTSD is a symptom, not a cause in itself) doesn't bode well for how the story ends.

I just don't see the point in wasting more time. They've got six episodes left: they're not going to make Bolin less of an idiot, or give Korra a solid win, or suddenly give Kuvira any kind of depth or personality beyond "she's crazy".

Book 1: Aang defeats the Fire Nation Navy and indirectly causes the death of Admiral Zhao.