I love how genuinely committed Gus is to maintaining his front operation. He really just needs to keep the lights on and sell enough chicken that the authorities won’t question the income he shows on his tax returns. But it’s not like Gus to do the bare minimum with anything. His front operation must be the best damn…

There was something weirdly, bleakly hilarious about that scene with Lyle. Not Lyle so much as in the middle of everything, Gus still takes the time to call him.

God when I was in food service I’d have killed to have a guy like Lyle on staff. What an absolute team player. Probably speaks to how well Gus treats the Pollos staff as well, they’ve consistently been shown to be chipper and responsible.

Yes, it seems much more useful than the “nag the living as a ghost” trick.

“Also, it was Kenobi who gave her the holster? I know the gesture was supposed to make me grin but it mostly just made me roll my eyes. Sometimes you don’t need every detail to have been planted somewhere else explicitly: Not even her most distinctive piece of wardrobe was of her own making!”

I don’t really know with this show. For me, ultimately the larger character arc did sell on why it was necessary. This was that bridge between who Obi-Wan was at the end of the prequels and who he was at the start of the New Hope while giving his story with Vader a sense of closure even if it would come ahead in the…

So nobody else was momentarily baffled that Reva just shows up on Tatooine walking and talking like she didn’t get run through with a lightsaber last week? And this is in the same span of time where the Path ship is still trying to escape Vader’s destroyer? I thought I’d missed an episode.

Too bad Qui-Gon never learned that “shrug off getting impaled on a lightsaber” trick that all the Inquisitors seem to know

“This show is about 5% cool scenes and 95% ridiculous contrivances”

This show is about 5% cool scenes and 95% ridiculous contrivances, and/or everyone being an idiot, to stitch them together. The hangar fight was spatially nonsensical. It was a huge gun fight where everyone was about 40-50' apart to start. It kept cutting to the same shot of about 15, supposedly untrained, defenders…

The entire fight in the hangar was nonsensical. The two sides were shooting at each other from 30-40' away. It was comical and ridiculous. Sometimes stormtroopers would walk right up to people, while not firing their own weapons, just to get shot from five feet away.

I’ll bet Darth Vader wishes he could rewind to check for a second transport too.

...for a stormtrooper?

Reva had her lightsaber set to stun.

imho this has the worst writing so far.

I wish they’d take screenwriting seriously. The writing in this show is... not quite as bad as the other live-action SW shows, but it’s pretty bad.

“Plus, “Part IV” shows Moses Ingram slowly emerging as the MVP of the series”

in a water tank

“we witness him slowly healing from his burn wounds—in a water tank, it must be noted”

“Art is fire plus algebra.” That’s a quote credited to Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Basically the idea is that in really great art—and, by extension, storytelling—there is an almost mathematical precision to decision-making. Yes, much of artistic expression is about feeling and emotion. But plugging that into a …