back in the day, before everyone had their own Star Wars, there wasn’t much (quality) out there. so if there was some random character that looked really cool, people gravitated toward them. remember TR-8R? Star Wars has always been comfortable retrofitting backstories. it kind of makes sense why they proceeded with…

well it was a tongue in cheek comment, but i definitely think “multiple viewings required” was intended. that is to say, not every viewing has to be the same experience. the first viewing should be in theaters, and it should be an overwhelming spectacle. that makes the second viewing more rewarding. i had another…

a late-90s aesthetic and attitude

do you mean in the beginning of RoS? my guess is that they’ll flesh out that whole backstory in a series. eventually the New Republic will run into a terrorist faction called the First Order.

that last episode of the Mandalorian really made me appreciate Esposito’s Moff Gideon. i got some Darth Vader vibes. like he could be James Earl Jones’s little brother or something.

yeah i felt really bad for Moff Gideon in this episode. i mean, he probably paid a lot to have this really badass weapon, and then of course, he runs into the one guy in the whole galaxy who’s equipped to fight it. poor old Gideon.

maybe Favreau just wanted to give Mark Hamill that moment. to make up for the ST. 

he was creating a diversion right before the episode begins and bounced.

i totally expect that one of these spin-off shows will eventually become the Palpatine-Snoke origin story.

last season when they mentioned that Baby Yoda had to get to a Jedi, i joked to my friend that this show will lead to Luke Skywalker. Baby Yoda will become a padawan in his new Jedi Temple, and this show will eventually end when Kylo Ren murders Pre-Teen Yoda.

i have TLJ PTSD and kept my guard up until i saw the face. 

oh, we posting these now?

perhaps they’d notice and think “that’s really weird” - but who’s to say they’d do anything about it, or even care to follow up on it. they literally have a bigger fire to put out. and at the end of the day, it’s inconsequential to the story. at least they wrote in a diversion to give the benefit of the doubt, so i…

i thought about that too and came up with this whole analogy of how my viewing experience mirrored the Protagonist’s journey...

he was more than just a dedicated agent though. he’s a boyscout (doesn’t drink on the job) but also goes against mission parameters and rules to do what is morally right (saving the people in the opera house, “cowboy shit” to save Kat). he’s basically Steve Rogers.

exposition-fight setpeice-exposition-fight setpeice repeated for 2 hours

Weird and unexplained... at least as far as I can tell!

They run right past some other paramedics. They would see two men in black running backwards, no?

... you sound like his type?

the other perspective on Tenet and the grandfather paradox: