Even if I’m ethnic Chinese, I’m not a big fan of China and its dubious achievements, but this was a good idea. Too bad it appears to have failed.

Nah, try The Bad Batch. That’s a much better, and better written show.

The Galaxy is indeed a very small place. And everyone runs into everyone else at one point or another. This show has the same secondary actors and the same directors every season, so we shouldn’t expect major changes in the narrative. Be different, I’m begging you.

How does he eat without taking off the helmet? My son asked that. And why does Bo Katan takes her off all the time?

I do too, sometimes, but I will not stand for filler episodes. A single episode of The Mandalorian probably costs as much as ten episodes of a network TV drama, and takes longer to put together. But yeah, eight episodes per season is definitely not enough.

We will die defending our—- er, that nameless beach. This is the Way.

The pirates were CGI? The end credits has several of them with artists performing the pirates. Motion capture characters?

I bet Babu Frik only exists because JJ Abrams needed to invent another character for his version of Star Wars, just like BB-8 in the ST made sure R2-D2's role would be diminished so much he would no longer be the little droid that saved our heroes and the galaxy... For that, damn you, JJ Abrams!

My son asked me several times why Bo Katan can remove her helmet without major repercussions.

I also hated Babu Frik, because I’m sure JJ Abrams came up with it, and seeing three of them was insufferable. But, yeah, ok, toys and merchandising opportunities.

Before this, we used to pretend the Prequel Trilogy never happened...

Yep. Doctor Pershing (a most non-Star Wars name) is the connection, right?

The best Trek movie in the past few years was Galaxy Quest, and that one was released in 1999.

Abrams turned Trek into Star Wars and Star Wars into rubbish.

My exact thoughts. Oh, it’s that easy! Mom, going to Home Depot...

I can see the FBI not liking the plot of this. Back in 1986, there was this movie, The Manhattan Project, about a teenager building a crude atomic bomb, and it was at the height of the Cold War, so I bet those movie producers had the attention of the FBI too.

You’re right. I think I can think of a reason or two why the second third decade of the 21st century might be interesting... “Hey, let’s go to 2025, to see a world where both Russia and China self-imploded and split up.”

I agree with the single episode telling a single story impediment (all cop shows on network TV), but at least AD hasn’t done filler episodes, which are the worst.

The lates satellite picture (2023) proves otherwise. Guess they ran out of money...

Like Jackie Chan before him, Donnie Yen is nowadays undergoing canceling in Hong Kong, because of his vocal support for Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. There’s an online petition, a bit late to be honest, to remove him as a presenter at this weekend’s Oscars. Yen is not a Hongkonger, BTW, and has an…