The Armorer specifies that the abducted kid is actually Paz Vizsla’s foundling in the scene where Bo-Katan comes up with the plan to form a hunting party. The name of the episode is “The Foundling” and this is meant to apply to both Grogu and the kid.

Yoda also said “When gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be” shortly before dying on Dagobah. So that strongly implies that every Jedi shown to survive Order 66 has died prior to the Battle of Endor some 24 years later. There’s some wiggle room in the story (Ashoka is not technically a Jedi at that point, Kanan…

I think the deal is that members of the extremist Children of the Watch sect are celibate, and don’t fuck at all, with or without helmets on. Every child we’ve seen has been identified as a foundling. Every adult Mandalorian seems to be without a partner.

I’m confused about how the premise is going to work, because it’s pretty well established in the Star Wars universe that it takes about 12 hours to get from the galactic center to the Outer Rim. Mando now travels from one system to another in a ship without a bathroom. How are the kids going to be lost in space Star…

The show actually specified that each of the siblings owns 2.5% of Waystar, good for $2 billion each. They aren’t all equally wealthy because they may have had varying levels of success in their outside investing, and Kendall was working in a senior management role within the company in episode 1 while the rest of the…

This plot point was handled in a way that was a little confusing, because the kids sure react like they’re losing everything but the shirts on their back. However, I think it’s clear that they still own $2 billion in Waystar stock, which will increase in value over the course of the transaction. That can’t be taken…

65 was such a weird movie, like a Rod Serling-era Twilight Zone episode awkwardly expanded to feature length.

Yes they are “resisting” the First Order, not a misguided New Republic government (about which very little was revealed in the sequel trilogy, but maybe there are comics or something). There’s a throwaway line in TFA indicating that the New Republic secretly funds the Resistance while officially being at peace, which…

Pershing is also going to explain the burning questions around “so what was Snoke’s deal exactly?!”, so there’s that.

That part is going to be really interesting to explore in the next season, because while Ellie clearly knows that Joel is lying while choosing to accept the lie so their relationship can continue, she doesn’t know exactly what he did and why. So they seem to be headed for a period of willful delusion where they just…

Yeah I guess the Ellie-derived vaccine, if it even worked, would be coming about 20 years too late. The fungus zombies are barely a threat by 2023. Even if they disappeared, civilization is gone and humanity appears doomed to live in isolated pockets under fascist dictatorship (with a utopian commune here and there).

Joel really doomed us all.

Given that the cordyceps fungus originally infected humans via the food supply, wouldn’t a clicker omelette just turn you into a zombie?

You’ve nailed what I dislike most about turn-of-the-millennium pop culture, which is that much of it is complaining about the existential dissatisfaction of having everything you need and most of what you want, except it’s still unfulfilling.

This one shares something in common with a lot of the “worst Oscar snub ever!” entries, which is that it took many years for Citizen Kane to acquire its present reputation. It’s only with the benefit of hindsight that we can appreciate how groundbreaking and influential Kane was. At the time, nobody was beating the…

I think they’re eating “all of the above.” It’s a lot easier to hunt deer than human badasses who have survived 20 years into the apocalypse, as David’s crew unfortunately found out. Deer don’t hatchet your head in. If they find deer the people in the town eat real venison. If they come up empty on deer but stumble…

I like zombies :(

I actually think the resurgence of the zombie genre is more of a general 21st century phenomenon, sparked by the way in which 9/11 seemed to herald a century of decline and rot. Later events like the global financial crisis, Trump’s election and the pandemic only further exposed the truth that there are no real…

One thing I was curious about is — where are those bodies coming from? We know how the little girl’s father died, and that he’s likely the “venison” seen being prepared just before the actual venison arrives. There are those two bodies hanging from meathooks. Are they just eating people who die naturally of other…

Yeah, everyone in the town knows what’s really in the stew, and they just don’t talk about it. They’ll probably have a town council about “Hey maybe we should migrate somewhere warmer, where there’s real food we aren’t pretending is venison?”