Right there with you on this being an episode the series needed. Beyond resetting the board for the characters and story, this felt like Favreau and Famuyiwa reeling the show back in to its core concepts.

Andor was amazing and I can’t wait for more of it, but this episode made my eyes so happy with all the diverse expressive aliens and droids. And the pirate fleet in the asteroid belt with the mining stations. A big crazy lived in galaxy.

As an isolated episode, I get why people aren’t exactly thrilled with it. It’s a lot of set-up mixed with action scenes, and the first action scene in particular felt way too long.

re: Babu Friks... Mando literally didn’t understand what they were saying at first and asked if they spoke Huttese. The joke wasn’t that Karga acted like they were unintelligible, the joke was that he kept “translating” well after Mando started to understand. (and without the closed captioning on, I couldn’t…

Some of us like episodic Westerns

1.I liked the opening episode way more than a C-Plus. I know some people are annoyed by it, but I have always dug the side quest/western wanderers of the week format of this show. I am very glad that in this universe there is room for both Mandalorian and Andor to exist, two shows to love for very different reasons.

Kinda like the way you just did? I read her comments, and I just don’t agree with what people are saying. That’s why I asked.

While I’m not a Harry Potter fan, I do enjoy gaming. This is what made me ask what the fuss is all about so I read her tweets and her essay and I didn’t take it as she’s transphobic. She didn’t come across as being afraid or have hate for the trans community. I see that she did have concerns as a biological woman,…

It’s an amazingly deep and fun game. My 9 year old and 15 year old daughters are having a blast exploring. Even my 43 year old wife, who doesn’t play games at all, loves going around and collecting things, opening up the map, etc. The long and short is, it’s probably one of the best, biggest, most fun, and most…

#1 - Calling JK a “virulent transphobe” is a bit of an exaggeration, no? I suppose it’s subjective.

I knew you guys couldn’t write about this game without mentioning the transphobia fervor. Have you read the so-called anti-trans essay that she penned? It’s on her website. In it she advises caution to young people in being too quick to make irrevocable choices and points out that some predators may take advantage of…

She’s not transphobic. She wants men to not yet find another way to oppress womens safe spaces through the use and legislation of the gender ideology. As a man, who is friends with trans women and women, I find that a more than fair thing to want for women. It’s not actually about trans people at all. It’s about how…

I’ve said this before but fuck it, it needs to be said again and again until people get the message. I will die on this hill.

Most of the criticism I’ve seen of Velma has run along the lines of it being smug, mean-spirited, and not nearly as smart as it thinks…with the related criticism that the Scooby Doo connection only exists because the show wasn’t good enough to be made on its own merits.

As a queer person, I didn’t read it as a Bury Your Gays at all – they didn’t die because of homophobic brutality or tragedy, they died because they were old and content, it’s really the most beautiful, sweet, and sad episode of TV I’ve seen in a long time.

The whole “if you give your money to someone you are responsible for their views” thing is just... ridiculously naive. If anyone believes that, you shouldn’t be on this website, because The Herb and crew still reap any rewards from this site’s success. It’s a sad fact of the world that 90% of all money you spend is,…

‘anyone who pledges to support her monetarily is also a transphobe’ and comments like that, where people say ‘you’re x if you y’, immediately draw my ire. Give me a reason that’s substantiated, not a threat of your perception of me shifting.

Was it just me or was this a very tonally different Matt than we saw back in Hells Kitchen? He’s quippy, flirtatious, and downright fun (sending She Hulk an appletini after you just beat her in court is ballsy) but honestly I loved him like this. No dour church scenes, no wrangling over his conscience, just living…

I’m sorry, but there is at least one major plot-related error in every single recap. This is pedantic at all; the stuff Jenna gets wrong completely changes her reading of the show. Points 1 and 4 are absolutely not ambiguous — the maester explicitly says that the baby is breeched and nothing can be done, besides…

Lazy/sloppy content doesn’t need defending, and 1 and 4 aren’t ambiguous. Have a seat yourself.