I had enough naive optimism in the text right up until “contaminated” came into it.

I’m 100% in agreement that “resent” is frankly a more accurate and precise communication.

I’m not certain that alternative, “I resent my Jewishness,” free of context in the exact same manner as his actual quote, wouldn’t still feed the clickbait-outrage industrial complex.

The deadpan - errr, pan that William cites above in his Stray Observations gave me an intense Wes Anderson beat.

That’s true. I did love the detail of the stormtroopers’ armor and how the star destroyer was still all beat up after being purrgilled.

Fair. I’m wholly willing to admit that Wars at large (at least the current canon) has a pretty checkered history of filling story into its own established history. On the clear minus column, the prequel trilogy and Solo certainly all speak to that. But then in the plus column, we have Rogue One and Andor - there’s a…

Trying not to let the arc of my own professional bias intrude too much here - but I’m willing to say that this is a reflection of the realworld. That republican (lowercase “r”) democracy is intrinsically inefficient, relative to autocracy.

Fuck Roseanne Barr.

That “y” was definitely not where I thought it was!

America deserves to know whether Mister Butlertron is going to be back, or has fallen victim to AI robo-wokeness.

Doctor Spaceman was my father. Please, call me Leo.

A few points, which I don’t think disagree with you, necessarily.

The Nancy Meyers dig was an about right wink for the subset of the readership that are both foodies and also pop-culture obsessives. Brava.

Precious. I thought a pandemic would weed out anti-vax folks. We’re cute.

The idea that there are Millennials and GenZers just now discovering ‘Wuthering Heights’, ‘This Woman’s Work’, and ‘Babooshka’, to say nothing of the legitimately deep cuts kinda blows my mind.

For a long while, I’ve taken an interest in the instances in which fan favor turns vehemently negative. I first started noticing it back with Ginger – where it seemed clear that negative reception to her workroom and confessional persona was impacting how viewers responded to her talent. An observation that I don’t…

She’s consistently obtuse, but not particularly nasty, and her sour poutyface has become the fifteenth member of the cast!

The comparison to Willam is strikingly incisive. I’ll readily grant that the comparison probably doesn’t account for what I’d envision is a deeper reservoir of insecurity on Daya’s part (perhaps, more in line with what we saw in S4 Phi Phi or S5 Roxxxy).

There are other shots in this episode, and plenty others from that rightside quarter-view - generally in a wide-shot; it could arguably be a happenstance of luck. But I’m also not putting it past Bosco to have figured out some of those sightlines that the cameraman (hey, Sarge!) or directors rolled with.

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