I give Ledger’s Joker this, he didn’t have an origin scene. He comes out of nowhere. He’s just an avatar of chaos.

This was never really my scene musically so I assumed Defiant God was one of the bands performing

You’re not necessarily wrong about Reeves’ The Batman, but one thing I loved about it which neither Burton’s nor Nolan’s versions ever did was that it allowed Batman to actually be a hero. Rather than just beating the big Rogues Gallery villain at the end, he electrocutes himself, he wades into rapidly rising flood…

Yeah but the internet couldn’t save his character on Boardwalk Empire! that guy’s still dead!

Sorry, that’s CO-VEN

“Red Right Hand” has a much spookier groove for sure. For me, “Curse of Millhaven” gets the nod for Stinky Bohoon and his friend with the pumpkin sized head.

No “Curse of Millhaven”?  That ain’t right.

“You play the lotto, sometimes you win. But you do drugs, you always lose.”

I loved the tiny mention of increasing security due to the ramp-up of construction on Scariff.

My biggest pet peeve with the current TV landscape/peak TV/prestige TV/the rise of streamers is the loss of the episode as a work of art in and of itself.

I think this was my favourite episode so far, different strokes for different folks I s’pose.

Until her last scene, I just assumed she was a rebel agent trying to get access to the files without drawing attention to herself (hence sending her subordinate first). But then it seemed like she was genuinely upset by her dressing down so I guess she’s just really ambitious?

Yeah but I think it’s a good kind of fan service where if you know you know, but otherwise it’s unimportant and spoken without any gravitas. There’s no musical cues or pausing for the audience to understand that this is a thing they should recognize. It comes off much more like just world building rather than fan…

Also, the Ghorman shipping lane issue that Mon Mothma references will later lead to a massacre that causes her to leave the Senate, as revealed in Rebels.

Though even with the Clone Wars arcs, each episode still had its own clear structure, while here the first three episodes literally feel like a movie cut into three roughly equal sections, and apparently that’s going to continue. And I again have to stress, I’m NOT saying this is a bad thing.

Clone wars the series also really leaned into narrative pods. If you look at the written/directed by for this season, there are definite pairs of writer/directors that recur, so you’re probably looking at chunks of 2-3 episodes with some interstitial episodes built in as either breaks or reflective moments.

It’s got shitloads of fan service, it’s just for a weird subset of fans.  References to Ryloth, the Kuat Drive Yards, and the Rakatan Infinite Empire in just this episode.

I’m not sure how much sympathy we should be reserving for a hard-working Empire cop, but Meero’s righteous frustration will only build from here, I imagine.

I’ve been rapt with every episode, kind of surprised how refreshingly non-fan servicy it is.

Really enjoying Andor, it’s worlds better than any of the other Disney+ Star Wars shows because it actually feels like a real series instead of a cartoon with real life actors.