I indirectly credit my dad’s influence on me as leading to my career in film, and the crux of that influence was exposing me to so many fantastic stories before he passed in 1985. From Space 1999, to the obvious Star Trek & Star Wars, he wasn’t afraid to show me hit or miss movies like Brainstorm as well. I remember…

In fairness, the director of photography should have set the shot up at an angle that did not make the fake kick so obvious.  Move 40 degrees to the right and it looks like his boot nails his face.

He’s a senior citizen now. As much as I loved the armor and the myth of Fett in the 80s, considering the setting of this show, I wasn’t expecting an action extravaganze like I might have when I was 13.

Honestly, the bad-assery I imagined in the 80s was most on display during his episodes of Mando Season 2.

he’s trampled by a reek.

The tone is right and some of the inflections are there, but the voice is just a bit too slow... or the pauses are just slightly too long

Fair point, thought I believe it was a single scientist, if I remember correctly. The Empire was never afraid of occupation. I’d find that far more efficient than nuking the site and starting over from scratch with a single scientist at the helm. As the story has borne itself out, the places & equipment with which…

I get on my kids for doing stuff that I did too when I was their age. That’s just what happens. I just don’t expect Luke to have gone on that journey of self-discovery a mere 5 years after the end of RotJ, though. Maybe 15 or 20.

Yeah it was some of the best facial CGI I’ve seen to date.  They did some obvious things to hide uncanny valley effects like hiding dialogue, but man it looked really, really good.  I’ll have to re-watch in HDR to see if it’s more obvious.

what’s left of the Empire is interested in cloning

I believe those were the flares that Mando fired in the air to blind Fennec’s sniper scope so she couldn’t take a shot on him or the amateur bounty hunter he was with, from The Gunslinger episode in Season 1.

Yeah that scene’s music felt a little Mando-ish to me, too.  At the time I told my daughter “oh look, this is the episode where Mando and that lame bounty hunter battle Fennec Shand, but from Boba’s POV.”

Uggh, can’t post the pic here, but there was a screen with the Roci drones on it, and the drone names were Peart, Lee & Lifeson.

It makes me wonder what will/did become of the Ganymede discovery of that ultra-efficient method of growing vegetation.  I don’t think I remember seeing Avasarala do anything with that info once she got it.

Haha.. of course *she* would just as soon forget it.  It’s her fault it’s still out there! Grrr..

Jack O’Neil (One L) from Stargate

Coincidentally my daughter and I have been watching Ahsoka-arc episodes of Clone Wars and will move into Rebels soon. We just went through the arc where a young Boba, trying to avenge Jango’s death, doesn’t have the stomach for the ruthlessness that his bounty hunter colleagues do.

I asked myself this question at the end of Mando S2 when that’s where he ended up. I just figured that that is where he was most comfortable, or came closest to calling “home” despite the irony of spending his early years on a water planet.

Some of the deleted scenes from L&M’s Solo that didn’t make the Extras were even goofier than the ones that did, yet L&M were let go, ostensibly to tamp down the camp (ha).