I was already planning to check this out this weekend, because the trailers looked interesting and I had just got my Moviepass. Now I’m even more excited.

My guess on Ahsoka is that either she only arrived back at a time after Return of the Jedi from the World Between Worlds, or she was stranded on Malachor for the duration of the OT (which would be a great story in and of itself - a way to frame a deep-dive into Jedi and Sith history).

Right, but Ezra was doing some pretty crazy Force stuff, holding the ship together, which was presumably meant to be keeping him alive as well (with his implied survival). It’s possible that he included Thrawn in that as well, but I don’t know why he would.

My feeling from the ending is that Thrawn died, but it was ambiguous. It’s possible that he survived along with Ezra - although I really feel like being wrapped in the tentacles of a purrgil as it accelerated into hyperspace would vaporize you, even if you were on the bridge of a Star Destroyer mere feet away from…

Hey! Canada and the South and Central American countries did it too!

His mother wasn’t literally a prostitute. He was born out of an adulterous affair, and when discovered, she was charged with bigamy ostracized from polite society. She would have often been called a “whore”.

Gotham fucked it up too by having the Waynes’ death be an assassination at the hart of some byzantine conspiracy that Bruce spends a large chunk of the series unraveling. It turns out the Hugo Strange, the Court of Owls, and the League of Assassiins are behind it. It was really, really dumb.

I’m aware, I just didn’t want to get into all that right there. It’s great that Bill Finger is finally getting his much deserved credit - and he honestly deserves much more, and Kane far less. (Also, while that’s true with creating the character, and that Finger also eventually came up with the Batmobile as well, Kane…

None of the Marvel heroes mentioned have an explicit “no kill” rule, or at least not one that has become a part of the core mythos that has entered the cultural zeitgeist.

He also used guns throughout those early comics. That period is often overstated and understated though - understated in that Batman is particularly brutal, and overstated in that many elements of the Bat-mythos (which developed gradually) had not yet been introduced, and the period lasted less than a year. Batman’s…

Frank Miller actually keeps the no-kill, no-guns rule in The Dark Knight Returns. Using it as justification for Batman killing people with guns is a misreading, that mostly comes from the “I believe you” scene, in which he takes someone else’s gun, and shoots another thug in the shoulder. Later in the comic, he breaks…

That’s what Ralph Bakshi tried with The Lord of the Rings back in 1978. It didn’t work out. (Peter Jackson got a greenlight for the whole project, and shot it all at the same time. If you’re adapting a novel in parts, that’s what I think you have to do, unless you can live with just having adapted part of the novel.)

IT…

Same with 10 Cloverfield Lane. It seems like that’s what the Cloverfield series is - taking unconnected movies and putting them into a franchise together for publicity.

The Warlocks wouldn’t have to make it up - the magic could pull it directly from her mind.

I don’t think the bit with Drogo was a vision of the future, but a test. In the book, she sees the red door of the home shr grew up in as a child and gets super nostalgic, but decides to turn away rather than going inside. Since the show never talked about the house with the red door, they chose a vision from Dany’s…

Considering the pilot confirmed that other superheroes exist in this world, I think it was deliberately left ambiguous whether the superheroes mentioned in this episode are fictional, or if the comics are adaptations of real heroes. The Outsiders mentioned could be fictional for now, but I’d wager that we’ll see some…

Also, Anissa was dressed as Catwoman and Grace namedropped Looker (who is apparently a vampire). The comic book cover showed the villain Kobra, and Grace was dressed up as someone too, but I couldn’t figure out who.

He’s Star-Ward.

I legitimately believe this is due to ignorance rather than maliciousness, but it honestly stuns me that people have to be told this meme is racist.

Blue stars in the comics actually increase a Kryptonian’s powers to an even greater extant than yellow stars. And they don’t kill men, either.

Bizarro World orbits a blue star, and there’s tons of men there, so that would be a problem.