It wasn’t the kids who were obtuse — it was Logan. That stroke he suffered in the pilot was a pretty huge sign that it was time for him to stop fucking around pretending he was immortal, and pick a kid (any kid) and commit to them as his Successor. But Logan was so addicted to abusing his kids by dangling the…

Same. I went out of my way to watch the episode late last night after a very busy day, because I wanted to see what would happen at Connor’s wedding. But if I had decided to get some rest and watch it tonight? I would have stumbled across clickbait bullshit like this. Not cool. And the old AV Club would go out of its…

I love how lawyerly the Mandalorians are, even the non-Orthodox ones who take their helmets off. Mando finds a legal technicality to hand over the darksaber, and they all gasp in unanimous agreement after rejecting Bo-Katan just three minutes earlier.

I think the presidential campaign is about Connor’s need for attention and respect, rather than love. He isn’t seeking the love of the general public, or even 1% of the Republican primary electorate. Rather, by achieving 1% or more in actual votes, he can tell himself he’s a legitimate player in the political sphere —…

It would be cool to see how Dorne resisted Aegon’s dragon-led invasion, I’ve always been curious about how that worked in practice.

Yeah, I get that there are downsides to limited success and this is a big part of Henry’s character, but he’s really been struggling since the divorce. If he takes the MCU role, he gets to fly around the world making movies with a hot wealthy girlfriend who cares about him and treats him well. If he doesn’t take it,…

I just wasn’t buying Henry’s decision. Even if acting was no longer his dream, he could have done the MCU thing for a little bit, paid off his ex-wife, and returned to teaching. Then he wouldn’t still have to moonlight as a caterer until retirement, which was a horrifying fate Henry is oddly at peace with.

It really is amazing how this show is cool and fun from scene to scene, but the most basic elements of the story make no sense, and nothing ever holds up to scrutiny.

Sure, the Mandalorians need extra space for training, but Navarro appears to be an Earth-sized planet containing one city with a population of about 200 people.

I’m convinced it takes no more than 12 hours to travel from Coruscant to the Outer Rim. An X-Wing doesn’t have a bathroom or a kitchen. How do you pee and eat? If it only takes like a day then maybe pilots are in the habit of splitting the journey into two hyperspace trips and then we just never see Obi-Wan stop on…

Yes this issue with scale made that scene towards the end silly, where Greef is ceding land of indeterminate size to the Mandalorians (is it the size of Long Island or the size of Texas??), but it seems like he could cede an entire hemisphere because the planet only seems to occupied by about 50 people.

Why make something awesome like that when you can make a show about Batman’s butler set before Bruce Wayne is even born, or a show about Commissioner Gordon set 15 years before Bruce Wayne becomes Batman, or a show where Batman has disappeared and other heroes have to take up the mantle, or a show about the Penguin…

My interpretation is that Tom never had any intention of betraying Shiv, until he realized she was telling the truth in the “I don’t love you” scene. I think it was a snap judgment and not a long con.

My theory is that Matt Reeves really wanted to do a prestige TV version of Batman, which for whatever reason the DC suits have resisted for decades, where the plot of The Batman would have played out over the course of an 8-12 episode season. But with the studio only interested in doing that as a theatrical feature…

I definitely agree with this critique, but I think the problem is that the writers have nailed Shiv’s character, while going too broad with Tom’s characterization. They went for the laugh line of “Tom is a pathetic lapdog!” a few too many times, and while it is indeed funny to watch him grovel for Logan’s approval and…

I would agree that the character of Shiv was retooled after the pilot, but I also feel the writers did the work to establish why the Shiv they settled on felt the need to marry a Tom. And it was brilliantly summed up with Logan’s line about “You’re marrying a man fathoms beneath you because you don’t want to risk…

She didn’t even want to have breakup sex after acknowledging the end of her marriage. She’s icy.

So they can air those Loki episodes, and recast for future projects. It’s unreasonable to expect studios to reshoot or scrap content that’s already in the can when scandals like this break, but there’s no reason to bankroll multiple $200 million movies starring a known abuser just to maintain continuity. Majors is no…

I don’t think this is a great insight, but it occurs to me that the Roys all kind of look down on sex as a transactional arrangement that is beneath them, because they don’t have to debase themselves by trading sex for anything. That’s for the little people. This is the real reason Logan is disgusted by Willa and…

That’s because in Mandalorian culture, to adopt a foundling is to become that child’s parent. The point of all this was to highlight that Grogu is Mando’s son now. I rewatched the episode last night and Ragnar is repeatedly referred to as a foundling throughout the episode, including a few seconds before Paz says…