Chibnall’s been pretty hit or miss. His run on DW has been...different. A lot of the standalones have been very reminiscent of classic 1970's Who - one off stories, pretty glacially-paced, with a lot of mood - which have thier appeal but in a modern TV landscape you just can’t pull that off for a whole season.

This seems like a common problme with giant sweeping scifi epics. Those stories always fall into the trap because the audience needs to connect with recognizable characters and settings. When you’re dealing with timespans of thousands of years and century-long time jumps, settings and characters change rapidly and…

He crossed it a few specials ago. It’s not funny if you have to keep explaining the “joke” years after the fact.

Thank you, Tommy Kirk, for making us laugh at love...again!

Or the real Lindy Chamberlin.

I kinda wonder if this isn’t going to be a table-setting episode for something down the line; stuff they might have elided a bit and referred to in later episodes but ended up making explicit in an “After hours” episode.

Like, okay, we know there’s been conflict over Jane simmering for a long while; everybody thinks…

The least believable aspect of this episode was the notion that an underground London dance club would be playing a Martin Solveig track from 2010.

Lorde has a fairly charming, expressive voice. Maybe not huge on range, but we’ve got enough super-melismatic pop starts swooping around the pop charts.

I would watch this.

Ron Funches is the definitive King Shark for me.

His line reading on “Oh, a _human_ vagina!” just kills me every single time.

It’s a role tailor made for him, basically.  He looks and acts the part of a square-jawed, silent man-of-a-certain-era, and by god he plays the hell out of that role.

The problem is they don’t uniformly die, they don’t necessarily even get sick, and what they do is spread it to people who can’t get the vaccine/don’t respond strongly to to the vaccine/etc.

And they become fun breeding grounds for new variants and then all bets are off.

I mean, it was fun and all, but there are what, three episodes left in the season? Unless Roland or Isa proves to have some impact on the final story I’m not sure they really have time to be wheelspinning right now. There’s a lot of stuff they’ve set up that they need to answer in the final episodes and they’re…

Wait...people can’t bang on AppleTV+?

That would have been cool.

Honestly, just having him be “some creepy dude from Out There who knows the dark side and wasn’t connected to all the rest” would have been fine too. It would have been a nice counterpoint; if anyone can be a light-side chosen one, anyone can be a dark-side avatar too, and the ancient orders…

Sure.

From a certain point of view.

I saw we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

It’s the only way to be sure.

And that’s kind of the best part of the Mandalorian. It’s not about these giant themes of good vs evil, light and dark space wizards per se. Luke’s concerns are so far removed from those of Bo Katan and Din Djarin and Moff Gideon that he barely even notices them. It’s like a whole Rosencrantz and Guildenstern thing…

I kinda liked TLJ - not for the movie it was, but for the movie(s) it could have been. It feels like TLJ had some good ideas, completely hamstrung by a lot of the unspoken rules of the SW universe (and the two hour runtime). And a few of those things are being explored a bit more in other properties like Mandalorian,…

And don’t forget the slippers. Snoke was all about the leisurewear.

In the comics they actually do a better job with Snoke - his deformity is blamed on Luke, which further alienates Kylo from his uncle, etc etc.  Snoke is less a moustache-twirler and more a creepy uncle.