Your clear need to find things to complain about seems to have led you to seom odd assumptions. The map was left there to lead to Thrawn. It was an ancient map to the ancient civilization that was there before. Which is where Thrawn ended up, but the map existed long before he did. Like, if someone were to hide at a…

I had a similar criticism about the map until I thought about it. It’s not a map to Thrawn that’s been hidden in that temple, it’s a map to where Thrawn is. The Lady Nightsister is being “called by Thrawn” in that distant Galaxy, which the Purgil easily travel to on their migration route. The map was left by an…

Someone would have had to place it there purposefully in the past which makes no damn sense when the thing the map is about is something new

Good call! I just checked that scene and now was able to see the purgill-like carvings. I also like your idea about the device mapping their migratory routes. I hope it ends up being that and not just the tired old map maguffin.

Who makes these maps? What is the purpose? The implication in this episode is that Thrawn has been banished or exiled—but if that’s the case, why go through all the trouble of making a map, hiding it in this elaborate puzzle, telling an old friend where it is, etc.? Reader, I hate the map thing and hopefully it gets…

It very much was. In fact, of you look closely at the outline of the hologram the maguffin projected on Seatos, you’ll see it’s rimmed with images that resemble purgills.

Morgan Elsbeth turning out to be a **MILD SPOILER** makes sense, though. It was awfully weird in Mandalorian that this normal older human could keep pace with Ahsoka in a melee fight. Turns out, she’s not so normal!  Just like the Jedi weren’t as completely wiped out as we thought after Order 66, the **MILD SPOILER**…

The point is that I have no idea who most of these characters are. All I watched was an admittedly good-looking show. You absolutely do have to have watched Rebels if you are going to enjoy this as a dramatic show and not as shallow visual art.

This was amazing! I was a bit skeptical if they’d stick the landing but they absolutely did.

So goddamned fun. All the visual callbacks to Rebels, the Lothal vistas and shots with Lothcats poking their heads up...perfect. No, people who didn’t love Rebels can’t get nearly as much out of it, but for me, this is great.

Opening with a crawl, and then a pan over a starship, even if both were slightly different from the way they were used in the movies, was certainly a statement.

I agree with most of this. Ahsoka should be more expressive. She always wore her heart on her sleeve. That probably goes for the whole cast. Thr acting in generally was a little flat and i hope it improves. I still got choked up several times. The fan service was pretty good without being silly. Like with Ezra’s…

I can’t wait to see Chopper murder some fools in live action! 

Galactus should be a Fantastic Four villain, or even Avengers-level.

These movies are inherently jokes. It’s fine that most of them take themselves seriously, but it’s not a huge deal that a single property out of dozens decided to define itself as a one long silly gag, especially when the previous iteration of that character wasn’t working so well. Buff himbo demigod gets into scrapes…

Also, Our Flag Means Death has shown he can be more serious while still being funny. For whatever reason, the balance was off in Love and Thunder.

For me, Taika Waititi is not the right director for Thor. He doesn’t understand that ALWAYS going for the joke is not the right approach. This is the big difference between Waititi and James Gunn. While many criticized the Guardians of the Galaxy films for not taking things too seriously, I would argue that Gunn knows…

On the other hand, the Peacemaker/The Suicide Squad characters seem to still be around (and Davis’ Waller is a holdover from the first, Gunnless Suicide Squad). And Momoa’s Aquaman is still onboard, though that’s probably contingent on how Lost Kingdom does.

Sounds like they should keep the existing actors and buy some better script writers...

It makes zero sense to keep Gadot on as Wonder Woman while at the same time throwing Cavil and Affleck overboard and saying you are starting fresh with a new vision. Cavil was an excellent Superman, it was Snyder’s tone and scripts that failed Superman. Ben Affleck also was a good choice for Batman even though he…