Yeah, this was the first episode in a while where I didn't feel like I was just watching out of misplaced loyalty.

This is pretty much my reaction, actually. But it's more about protecting Joss Whedon, Guillermo del Toro, Rian Johnson, etc. from Star Wars than the other way around.

I'd much rather have Abrams on this than Whedon. Don't get me wrong, I think Whedon is the better writer/director by a good margin. But, I don't really see him as a good fit for Star Wars. He's all about inverting cliches and snark. (There's way more to his work than that, certainly, but I'm just talking general tone…

Well, random, horrible internet people will be happy.

Yeah, the treatment was weird but it didn't kill it. It did okay last spring in a good timeslot, but people had rejected it by the first three four airings of Season 2, none of which were holdovers.

I think the casting of Rachel Nichols was sneaky-genius. She's more competent than great as an actress, but it works well considering her character is just a cog in a fascist state. (And credit to Nichols if that's what's she's going for.)

@avclub-c7c3fc1bf6d887eb7e013ae2a4ce13e0:disqus (This is all asuming we're in a single timeline.) Did they ever get a picture of Kagame in 2012? Also, no one we know of in 2077 besides than Alec and Liber8 knows that time travel exists. Would they be looking for a terrorist who died 65 years ago?

I think you're talking about another option I hadn't thought of yet. What I think you're saying is that time travel backwards through time in this universe always creates a new timeline where different stuff happens.

(This is kind of expanding on what I wrote above.)

In that episode they bring up the possibility that she's not actually his grandmother somehow.

Having seen the whole season, it reminds me a lot of Alphas. It doesn't really have the group dynamics, but they're both kind of slyly politically subversive. I'd love to have seen them paired together.

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… I think that's what this review is about?

I kind of liked the first half, but by the end was just kind of sickened. It has a weird sort pull, though, and I think I'll stick around for at least one more episode.

Maybe? Or, given the way they reproduce, it wouldn't be hard for them to control their numbers even if they're a merged society from two universes.

Yes, but when they turn off the bridge they say that the healing process will stop, but things won't get worse from there.

I'm guessing that's it's a combination of not needing that much space for their numbers and the other side being more technologically advanced and militarized. They'd still almost certainly win, but it would be bloodier and slightly less of a statistical certainty.

Yes, but there was always a ton of equivocation, even after he came back to life in season 8. This is much more straightforward and earnest. Or at least I think so.

I'm making my way through Season 9 right on Netflix, I guess out of some sort of completionist need to see the entire show. Here are my thoughts on episodes 1-6.

Per Tarantino, Schultz could have offered Candie 5000 dollars for the German speaking slave, and he would have accepted it. However, Schultz didn't know this. (The interview goes over this is more detail.)