Um, you do realize that in ROTS Anakin Skywalker (now Darth Vader) brutally murdered dozens (?) of younglings at the Jedi Temple?  Killing one random boy in the street is par for the course for him.

We missed out by not having James Earl Jones saying “Kenobi! Come out and play!”

“ I think the show is generally ‘okay.’ It is occasionally (but not consistently!) good. It is occasionally bad.”

I still giggle when I hear any dialogue including the word “younglings”.

While I think ANH is better than ROTJ, a missing part of your point is that TESB and ROTJ were also directed by someone other than Lucas.  That made a big difference.

“as well as an arc on The Next Generation as Gul Madred”

“You have let all of my subjects loose.  How wonderfully mad of you.”

“You let all of my subjects loose!  How wonderfully mad of you!”

So I assume AVClub gave up reviewing this series after Armageddon? No reviews for the rest of the season. Feels weird, after 7+ years of reading episode reviews/comments here for this show.

I did appreciate the Thawne/Caitlin conversation and its focus on season 1 events - working together at STAR Labs and Ronnie’s death. It feels like there has been more references to Ronnie in these first 5 episodes than in the previous 6 seasons combined.

I kept waiting for Barry (and Iris) to reference the following when justifying not saving Thawne:

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When Iris gave Mia a clue to finding her brother, Mia said “I know where I can find a good hacker” and Iris said “Oh, so you are going to talk to Felicity.”

I was one of those foolish readers who bought *every* Secret Wars II tie-in comic - at least 3-4 every month, and that story went on for 9 months. So many comics I didn’t normally buy and didn’t care about.  What was I thinking?

“Is The Flash writing Ray and Nora better than Legends payback for when Legends wrote Wally better than The Flash?”

“Leia’s ‘help me Obi-Wan Kenobi’ message that she gives to R2-D2 in the movie seems to imply that she and Obi-Wan do not know each other”

Apparently the young boy that Kumail Nanjiani helps get off planet when Obi-Wan spies on him is credited as Corran Horn, who is a major character in the expanded universe (now no longer canon) books.

Given the Leia we see in the first half of ANH (before Obi-Wan’s death), her character here is exactly how she would be as a child.

Obi-Wan works at his butcher job, then goes home to his cave, and occasionally spies on Luke. By choice he has sheltered himself from the universe around him.  He probably knows nothing (or next to nothing) about what’s going on in the galaxy.

“and talks like she’s 30, driving the conflict, and it’s alot.”