I heartily upstar this comment, but also note that comparing a show to Season 1 of TNG as a sign of quality isn’t exactly a winning recommendation, hehe.

But it does go to show how we used to give TV shows time to develop. Or at least kneejerk internet commentary had less effect on producers. Can you imagine if CBS…

Just the fact that he had unexplained back wounds, slept with his phaser under his pillow and that his admiral ex-gf said something along the lines of “you’re not the same person anymore” or “I don’t recognize you anymore” was enough to send warning signals to my (admittedly bored by anything Burnham) brain.

I’d read the rumours pretty early on, before even the Voq stuff, but a few things just seemed odd (picking Burnham in the first place, his weird talks with her, his insistence with Stametts, the Admiral stuff, the alternate universe mentions in his office, and then the coordinates he punched in for the spore drive…

The clue is that he’s a terrible person in a universe where terrible people don’t exist.

My complaint about all of this is it seems like the first season was largely built around two “holy shit” twists (I.e., Tyler is Voq, and Lorca is really Mirror Lorca) that one could see coming 5 episodes ago. I think they could have done better in not telegraphing all of this.

One of my big complaints about TFA and TLJ (and undoubtedly ep IX) is that these guys seem to have no sense of *scale*, to how big the galaxy is, and how long it should take to get places and do stuff. Hence this muddled “Rey’s spending days on a far off planet with Luke” while AT THE SAME TIME the rest of the…

huh. i just figured they were the red guards in snopes’ throne room

It sounded like to me Episode 9 was a waste of everyone’s time and a pure example of how Millenials Cynicism demands all stories be melded into the same brooding rhetoric absent of hope or fantasy because it would make the audience too uncomfortable with their own lives. Clearly I was wrong but no, obviously since you…

before Kylo showed his true meanie colors

You literally said “bitched and moaned.” I mean, it’s RIGHT THERE IN WRITING one whole reply above what you’re responding to.

I didn’t characterize them as bitching.

Weird, because I just assumed the Knights of Ren became the red guards in the throne room.

So, to recap: The Knights of Ren are important enough to not kill and be named after, but not so important that we actually show them/have them do something other than stand around in a one-second flashback.

I just can’t wait to see how Phasma is punked in Episode IX.

I feel like Rian Johnson failed the “yes, and...” lesson at improv class.

I interpret this as Rian Johnson once again proving that every decision he made in TLJ was because he just didn’t like TFA.

Oh they weren’t in the movie?

For a second I actually did think the guards WERE the Knights of Ren but in new uniform