This is a nutty fucking take 

And yet, the entire premise of Season 1 was based around a tiny Force-sensitive version of a Jedi Master who appeared in the majority of Star Wars movies up to that point. I think a regular ass “Baby Bith” or something similarly unconnected to the wider canon would have gone over like a lead balloon.

The Boba Fett stuff underscores how much of Star Wars lives in the audience’s imagination.

I don’t want to say too much potentially spoilerish stuff, given that the Patrick Stewart reveal seems to confirm some of the more outlandish leaks you may not have heard about. If they turn out to be true, you may see some old Fox property actors (and some fan service variants), but going forward in the MCU the…

I usually get some pushback on this, but I think Lower Decks has more affection and respect for classic Trek than any other NuTrek series.

I like the shot of the elevator falling right after the kid jumps out, showing they’re still using elevators lifted by cable in the future, instead of anti-grav, repulsor, blah, blah tech. Also the Orville and all the other good guy ships look like someone’s idea of a futuristic intra-uterine device.

It’s such a bonkers world where we have multiple new Star Trek shows and yet a Seth MacFarlane show is the only one that actually feels like Star Trek.

I get where you’re coming from, I was a young adult when Harry Potter exploded into the mainstream, so I can’t say “I grew up with it”. But I did grow up with Star Trek and Star Wars. I think the main cultural difference between how we grew up is Harry Potter was socially accepted fandom to be celebrated. Whereas Star…

Mark Hamill never had to work again unless he wanted to, he got free admission for life to SDCC, and he was offered jobs to voice his favorite characters while hanging out at home in his pajamas. He is the High Nerd King whose career all lesser nerds aspire to.

Just think to yourself it’s just a silly show and you should just relax.

It’s all about suspension of disbelief. It’s a fantasy story set in a world very like our own. Would it be easier to swallow if there were giant sand worms or lightsabers? Not saying you’re wrong to not like it, but it’s just a matter of being able to accept the world as they present it or not. Because I think if you…

Yet those things happened in the TV show, which is what is being discussed. We won’t know where she winds up in the books, because GRRM will never, ever write them.

Yep. I cannot grasp how anyone thought that the woman who never saw a problem she didn’t want to set on fire would, at the end of the day, do anything less than set everything on fire. Maybe it’s because I didn’t start watching the series until the final season had begun, and therefore Dany’s various atrocities were…

No, it was about the nature of power. It was about the nature of ideologies. It was about how societies progress. It was about how old cultural mores get abandoned and new ones take their place. It was about how to conduct oneself in life. How to weather the challenges life throws at you. How to change. How to grow.…

“Oh, yawn, here’s meta-commentary about how this will go as a bunch of idiots argue about their obvious opinions.

The books certainly pave the way to allow for Rand to be part of the ensemble. Moiraine even realizes it herself when she sees that she hasn’t been paying enough attention to Perrin and Mat. In fact, although I think it’s clear they’re not changing who the Dragon is, they are expanding what it means slightly, with…

The Ways don’t even really make sense in the books. I think the idea is that they used to be a flat plane, and since they were based off the portal worlds, they just bent space/time in weird ways. But once the corruption took hold, I guess it crumpled into some Escher nightmare, where there’s a bunch of bridges and…

When Nynaeve walked into Lan’s room after they had already said goodnight, I howled and said 3 words I don’t think I ever have before in my life:

If this was on netflix, there would be a big cliffhanger ending then the show would be canceled after one season.

Does he though?