don’t forget Avery Brooks. he had smoldering intensity down, but also swung into hysterical drama from time to time. and the less said about moogie, the better

I too rolled my eyes at having Micheal of all people give the lecture on objectivity, but a lot of your other nitpicks can be explained if you paid better attention

Im fine with the de aged Hamill. If they head recast, you would have had to have one of the characters ( either Dune or Bo ) point and say “ Hey look, it’s Luke Skywalker! “ so the audience would know who the recasted actor was supposed to be.

OK, but lets address the 8:00 am friday IO9
LETS TALK ABOUT THE BIG MANDALORIAN TWIST FINALE
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the fact that there is a twist is in itself a spoiler

How did they get past "space cadets"? At least while they're still in the academy. 

let’s face it. Mando’s (the character and the show) whole reason for being is based on the fetish (see what I did there?) of the 40 year old imagery of Boba Fett and the unrealized potential of that character. The moment they brought back the actual Boba, “Mando” became redundant. Same with the Razorcrest/Slave One.
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if they had cast another actor, they would have to have somebody tell the audience “Hey, it’s Luke Skywalker!”

you have to remember that this is the “Filoni-verse” where Asoka-Sue is the bestest character ever and she’s a better Jedi than even Luke

cuz nobody ever overacted on DS9? Please...

can we get a reviewer without such a chip on his shoulder please, I think Zach needs a nap.

do you have the same issue with Vader being redeemed in one action of killing the Emperor after the assured genocides and youngling killing?
just asking, because i’d like to know where your line is.

came here to see this^^^
thank you and good day

it would be interesting if they played up the angle of Wanda’s TV influences came from the very few American shows she had access to as a child in Sokovia.

it ain’t Christmas without “The Ref” Spacy be damned, that’s some funny shit right there.

I’ve never seen such a succinct statement of the current state of Star Wars fandom. Bravo sir!

it’s like getting “the bends” but from time, not pressure.

Squire of Gothos, anyone? Trelane (the OG Q) took an interest, so why not

see, that’s just it. it’s the fame component. When Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn Jenner, there was a period (i’ll resist calling it a trans-ition) when it was perfectly acceptable to give the former name to lend context.

if “Joe Nobody” transitions, they should expect more privacy and agency over what name they are…

I’ll repeat it here since I can’t get out of the grays at io9
This “time sickness” has a TOS precedent.
Mr. Atoz had to “prepare” the people of Sarpedon to go into their own past to escape the supernova. Spock wasn’t prepared and started to go feral.

yes, just like we forgave whatever atrocities mirror Kirk and Spock did on the ISS Enterprise because Spock ahad seen the light and promised to think about reforming. “One man and a vision” and all of that...