Yes, I get that the show is designed as one-off adventures with an over-arching quest.

I have 1 nitpick, and then 1 real issue with this episode.

I uhh keep waiting for someone else to comment on Ashoka’s headpiece looking like foam and creasing a lot in a very foam-y way.

“If this family can’t give me the love and security that I feel I deserve, then I feel I have no option but to break away officially, and to find it myself,” Di tells the King.

Hola kitty cats! I’m digging my new life in the mountains of Panama. My decision to retire was a good one for many reasons, just one of which is that a racist, conspiracy theory spreading mask-denier in my old office/cube farm might have infected everyone in the office with Covid; he came to work defiantly maskless…

This sort of thing was discussed in relation to the show’s version of the Michael Fagan incident, the ways the show uses historical incidents as a jumping-off point for concepts. In this case, Morgan wanted to get at the issue of heredity.

Fun facts about Australia:

agreed: proposing that the Falklands War happened because Margaret was upset that her idiot son had gone missing is completely offensive and just dramatically wrong. They even brought up the real reason - she was going to lose the next election and wanted a diversion - but left it hanging. Why not explore that?

I don’t think it was a coincidence that Morgan had Thatcher have such a dreadfully snobby reaction to the Braemar Gathering, considering how relations between her government and Scotland would eventually go.

These challenges are getting so over the top, it’s absurd.

Still annoyed they got rid of Lottie :(

I’ve softened on these films over the years. Sure, all the same problems remain, but the larger context around them has made these movies more interesting.

A lot of people forgot Star Wars was for children, and that their entire opinion of the films were formed when they were children.

I find it funny when people use the phrase “from new york”, as in “a reporter from new york, as some sort of short hand for urban sophistication and privilege. I also grew up in an economically depressed town full of blue collar workers who did probably know about extra forks but just didnt see the point. That town was…

I didn’t like this episode.

It really tried leaning into the comedy which seemed to be at the expense of the plot. You’ve got this reptile mom who needs transport her for eggs, and the eggs we’re told (because we have to be told) are real important. But she decides to never really be by them, this allows for baby Yoda…

I take some small solace in the idea that he is afraid. A Trump assured of victory would want to be with his cronies to gloat. Instead, he is creating a modern day Fuhrer Bunker to hide from uncertainty he can no longer deny.

I wish they hadn’t gone back to Tatooine so soon. I much prefer when the show is doing its own thing rather than retracing the movies’ footsteps. At least it was far better than last season’s Tatooine ep.

Yes, this. And at least at some schools, scholarships/tuition discounts directly reduce the tuition costs (meaning individual departments receive less $$ for faculty payments), while auxiliary costs (food, dorms, buildings) remain unaffected/don’t get discounted. It’s why departments are unable to hire new faculty or…

THANK YOU! I work at a small private university. We do not have state of the art rock climbing walls and any of the silly things that are rumored to exist. We built a new science building a few years ago because our science department was growing and was located in the crumbling basement of another building.

Goddamn, this article took a turn.