On another note: this episode was a real time of me learning all the names I’ve been mispronouncing for more than half my life. “Iorek,” “Iofur,” and “Pekkala” in particular.

The overall plot is still kinda feeling video game-y, with its faceless protagonist performing missions and receiving equipment upgrades while holding little personal connection to any other character in the story, even his own people. Baby Yoda isn’t quite enough to humanize him, yet. He needs someone to talk with,…

Thus far this show has some excellent scenes in it, but I’m still not sure what the overall plot is going to be about, nor do I feel particular connection to the main character. Facelessness is a part of the issue, but more importantly he interacts with other characters so little and in a so aloof manner that it’s…

On the other hand, the Jawas had potentially sentenced him to death by stranding him in the middle of the desert without transportation. I was surprised that there wasn’t a dying of thirst montage afterwards. 

Such a pity, I was supposed to visit there during my stay last spring, but there was too much to choose from and I had to trim my list down. I expected that it would still be open for years.

As an aside, can I also mention how weird it is that Lindelof seems to have forgotten that Jon left his universe to make his own and still seems to think he’s on Mars.

Why do people still imagine that creators will give straight and honest answers about their works in interviews? Jerking the audience around is half the fun of making stories. 

It matters because the profitability of a film tells us what kind of films we can wait for in the future. Hollywood will always try to replicate a winning formula as many times as possible.

the trilogy ends with the discovery that god is a crippled old man in a wheelchair who has been fully usurped by his right hand angel who was calling all the real shots. he is then unceremoniously shoved down a well to his death

I’m inclined to believe that they’re not giving out the actual names of the characters, yet, just placeholders to keep the Tolkien fans guessing — and not spoiling the plot to the rest of the Internet. Oren doesn’t really sound like a Númenorian or an Elvish name.

Sauron would exist in the timeframe of this show (he’s basically an immortal) but he might not be known as sauron yet (tolkien’s notes are bugnuts)

My theory has been for awhile that Whiterose’s project is a quantum computer that would allow her to calculate any scenario and eventuality to near-perfection, always staying ahead of the rest of the world in the manipulation game. 

Well, among others, io9: https://io9.gizmodo.com/in-the-she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-power-season-4-trai-1838822122 

Except that this time they’re actually doing a full length season in one go: 13 episodes.

One of the many things I rejected about Nolan’s movies was the manifest absurdity of a Joker who didn’t plan except of course he was always carrying out perfectly competent plans.

So the idea of the Joker being given an origin on screen, where it might bleed into popular consciousness as a “definitive” origin, is a weird move.

It means both. Don’t get me started on Finnish homophones...

I’m a bit disappointed about the obvious choice, apart from that the treatment of film crews and actors in New Zealand has really gone down the drain thanks to The Hobbit-trilogy, I would very much like for this show to be its own thing as much as possible and take distance from the Jackson-adaptations.

There have been literal studies on the danger of forgiving your abusers, the Breaking Point could have destroyed the Diamonds, and you could fix the damage they’ve done while still having them be punished in some way. Shame on you for making excuses for what’s a bad story.

Oh there’s definitely still the good stuff, but I’d never been so aggressively sold to on the main street the way I was last time.