Man. I love the show but I don’t normally read the recaps. Never again.

I tell this story to the kids I encounter on the Internets.

I was 12 when Return of the Jedi came out. Sometime before the movie, I stumbled across a magazine where Anthony Daniels was interviewed. The interviewer asked him about Han Solo and whether he got out of carbon-freeze.

Daniels, “Well, I saw Harrison Ford on…

“This is objectively the worst piece of media in human history. B minus.”

So last week’s adventure completely bereft of any narrative cohesion had a point but this week’s didn’t?

That’s where The Tomorrow War’s whiff of Christian-movie piety comes in

I kind of hated this episode simply because it bored me. It’s a 2-minute concept gag repeated and stretched out to 22 minutes, and most of the variations aren’t funny or interesting enough to justify the exercise. The chaotic escalation doesn’t matter once you understand the premise that whichever version of the…

I do think part of the atmospheric change is that, 20-30 years ago, people were more willing to accept that the person telling the joke intended it to be a joke, and didn’t automatically assume the worst about a person based upon joke itself...that people could laugh precisely because they didn’t think the joke-teller…

It’s the difference between people who are playing the original version of the song REALLY well, and Prince who’s playing his version of the song.

We’re already on the edge of critical mass of Jimmy Dean Pancake And Sausage Rolls On A Stick. We just can’t risk the formation of the greasy, artificial mapley black hole that might ensue from passing the tipping point.

That’s exactly what happened.

The rare instance where I support the use of an unsolicited Dick pick 

They don’t exist here. Every review is written by someone who hates the show.

Hmm. It still sounds like Hard Candy, only with a wider scope and a slightly different perspective. Is that right?

They do a lot of stuff that annoys me. I’ll put down my gun when you put down your backpack! The stormtroopers retreat into transport ships with giant turrets on the side. Why not stop at that point, and shoot Mando and his friends with the ship’s guns? And why are we lugging around big cannons with tripods? If you…

I’ve enjoyed the last two episodes quite a bit, but I really, REALLY hope they stop strip mining the canon for these endless cameos and callbacks.

I’m going to toss this out there as a trend I’ve noticed in both io9 and AV club reviews, that the show (and all plot lines) revolving around Michael are somehow inappropriate, forced or contrived. I mean, “...but the show’s weird insistence on making sure Tilly is given repeated reminders at how much everyone loves…

“Things pick up with a Back To The Future-like twist, as Rey opens a pathway to the spirits of Life Day past. We are then thrown into a time-traveling adventure revisiting every key point in the Star Wars saga—all retold and rebuilt in the goofy Lego style”

“We are re-opening the Apocalypse to help the economy.”

It sure ain’t a ripoff of Jackson’s life.

I hated this finale so goddamn much. Like, no snark, I’m genuinely happy that Segel had a great, personally fulfilling experience making this show. But that realization didn’t have to come at the expense of the show itself. I was invested in these characters, especially the (almost never seen on TV) romance story…