We actually couldn’t figure out who Nick Cannon was dressed as, or if that was just his normal attire from his closet...

So what was the dude who attacked Din? He sort of looked like a cyborged- or mecha-Geonosian which... would be a choice.

In fairness, having never watched Clone Wars or Rebels, I felt like I was maybe missing a little -- but in the course of the story, just knowing “these were Mandalorians from the CW series” and “I know who Ahsoka is” and seeing how they fit in (even only knowing Grand Admiral Thrawn from the OG novels) was fine...

I mean, Season 2 also did some of the “we’re doing side-quests whilst we gear up to Do The Thing” right at the very beginning, but basically from Episode 4 onwards DID THE THING very rapidly.  And S2 was pretty fucking amazing.

I hated The Rise of Skywalker with a passion and very much liked Babu Frik, so there’s that too...

Yes, and? People take vacation. Typically in the summer and winter at least, and usually for weeks (plural) at a time.   It’s not hugely uncommon...

In order to buy this paint...

Other than the entry stating “Hyperdrive Backup” in the WEG RPG I am referencing, or every reference to it having one in previous sources that aren’t current, that’s correct.

She’d have done that in the offseason...

So... pretty sure he was talking about two real life years, and not “in universe” years?

The original timeline was (approx.) 22 days, based upon speeds taken from the original West End Games SWRPG (which formed the basis for the Holocron data being used by Leland Chee these days), as it had all of the underpinnings of the rules (travel, economy, etc.) on how the travel times to the different regions…

Why they changed it, I can’t say...

I mean, I ... get it? In translating to a visual medium, unless the game itself had them showing you what Ellie was seeing in her head as an actual video game — it’s probably cheaper to license a game and have them play it.

I meant emotionally -- I don’t actually care how many infected there are...  :p

Right, that’s correct — sane people believe it was a natural virus.

I will say — having not played the games, I was expecting this backstory to be muuuuuuuuch worse than what we saw. It was still rough, but really only out of a sense of angst knowing how it was going to end.

So, my limited understanding of that was that there was a viable lab leak theory — which is that it was accidental (exposure, or what have you) from the Wuhan lab studying such things.

I was just gonna say “Why don’t they just mix ice, Kool-Aid mix, and Everclear like you’re supposed to?!?”