I especially enjoyed the scene between Saw and Luthen where Luthen prevents Saw from going into a killing rage by saying “OK, call Kreegyr and tell him what’s up.” It’s just further evidence that rebellions are messy and not just hot shot pilots doing heroic trench runs on Death Stars.

Nitpick #2:  Those aren’t the “hard-working fisher aliens” sleeping in Cassian’s old hotel room, they are just random alien guests of the same hotel.  Different species entirely.  And why would Cassian need to tip toe through the room and sneakily retrieve his box if the room was occupied by his friends/liberators?  

I kind of enjoyed the extended character moments in this episode and didn’t feel a pressing need to find out new information, but you do you.

The category was one where all responses contained the letter “A.”

What was the question?  We can’t all watch (or want to watch) videos.

This needed to be a video.

Werewolf by Night was an absolute highlight of this phase (if it even fits in somewhere?  Very much seemed like it’s own thing).

Yes, the central theme had definitely been of everyone dealing with the aftermath, while this multiverse threat grows because everyone is too self-involved to be paying attention. There’s a sub theme of heroic legacy, with lots of new heroes taking up the mantles of old ones.

This whole phase seems to be very YMMV. Some people are complaining it’s too formulaic and crowd-pleasing, while others (like the article author) are complaining it’s not formulaic enough. Some people loved films/shows others hated, and vice versa.

Dispite gripes from people online, and countless “What you need to know before” videos, I honestly think Marvel does a pretty good job of making movies and TV sows that you can walk into knowing nothing and have a good time. May not get the deeper layers others get, but you are going to understand and enjoy the movie. 

When are we allowed to talk about the fact that Moon Knight sucked? The character could be cool in another context/appearance but man that show was crappy. That wasn’t even comic book Moon Knight, Feige just wanted some Brendan Fraser The Mummy type shit in the MCU.

I mean, didn’t they explicitly say that Phase 4 was going to be about everyone grappling with the struggle of getting back to life after The Snap, and dealing with the trauma and grief of both that and The Battle of Upstate New York?

Not since... I don’t know, maybe KOTOR 2?... have we had such a morally murky take on the Star Wars universe. I love it. Wars have casualties of all types, something that the movies rarely actually engaged with.

Yup. De Laurentiis has the rights for Red Dragon, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising while MGM has the rights to Silence of the Lambs. That Clarice show was hysterical in that they couldn’t mention Hannibal Lecter by name and only vaguely alluded to him. Now that Amazon  owns MGM, I could see them doing a TV-MA adaptation…

Also, they never had the rights to use Clarice Starling (which is why we got that crappy Clarice show).

Jesus fucking christ. “Queerbaiting” refers to the homophobic act of putting in queer subtext to lure in queer viewers (or give hetero women fetishistic gay ships to obsess over) while considering the suggested relationship to NOT be canon, and definitely never actually reifying it, and it’s almost exclusively done…

I can’t add to any of the positives addressed here save for one. I thought the beach resort was spectacularly well realized. You note the buildings are built atop large retaining walls sloping to the beach, as if to mitigate a violent storm season? But just the design of a corporately planned beach community,…

I’ve thought since the Aldahni storyline began that the restraint the show has had with not showing the iconic stomtrooper armor even once before now was a terrific decision that also just made sense. They’re soldiers, they’re not deployed for everything. It made their appearance now raise the tension in a way that…

I don’t know your definition of ‘dark’ sci-fi, but if you’re leaning in the ‘gritty’ Blade Runner direction, Andor is in fact not that, and why I feel it’s refreshing not just for Star Wars but the current cyberpunk-obsessed grimdark sci-fi landscape in general. Andor is an ‘adult’ ‘mature’ show insofar as it...…

The birds flying alongside it give a sense of scale and menace that’s lost in the big laser space fights.