There was an entire episode devoted to Margaret’s illness and death and a flashback to VE Day, with Claire Foy, showing a maybe 16 year old Elizabeth out with Margaret, showing how close they were. It was lovely and I was tearing up quite a bit.

Andrew still smarting from the sick burn of Charles calling him a fringe member of the royal family.

On that last bit, her address to the nation as Covid was ramping up could have been an interesting note to hit, in the vein of her father’s famous speech. And there certainly would have been interesting material to explore regarding Harry and Megan, although I’m fine with not attempting to dramatize such very recent…

Remember when the first two seasons crafted such a dynamic relationship between the sisters? Remember when Margaret had storylines? I haven’t watched yet, does Margaret’s death in 2001 even get a mention?

This says something probably not great about me, but when the news about Harry just up and leaving for America broke, my first thought was “this is where The Crown should end”.

“And while The Crown does take care to reveal how Machiavellian Carole Middleton (Eve Best) was in plotting her daughter’s proximity to the future King of England—Kate calls her worse than Mrs. Bennet—it never really examines the problematic nature of her manipulations.”

I really wish we could get some sign of where Larry ended up. As is, we just have to assume he went to jail for lying to Congress.

As per the bonus news reports, Jimmy’s going to be in prison until 2010 for his part in the bombing, even after cooperating against the others.

It was absolutely right to get rid of Jodi Balfour’s Ellen character on For All Mankind. It probably took too long. The president’s storyline was one of the ones that dragged down S3.

Although I appreciate the review, I’ve always found FAMs final episodes to be it’s strongest, so I’m still all in.

Soapy or not, I’ll still watch. I think people had the idea that this would be more “documentary with realized characters” rather than “character-driven prestige drama with alt-space race as the setting.” It’s much more the latter now, and honestly it could still be stunningly good if they didn’t...you know, like…

If I’m one of the three people on earth who actually loved the soapy Danny–Karen nonsense of seasons 2–3, will I like this?

Yeah  even the “bad” episodes of season 1 do a lot to build the characters who are the core of the next 80ish episodes or whatever. 

No, it was fine. If you get that upset over jokes then I’m really not sure how you make it through day to day life.

“Reader, I wrote “I hate this” in my notes, which I don’t believe I have done since I was reviewing Netflix’s horrific live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation.”

You have to put yourself in Kennedy and Iger’s position in 2012 and honestly evaluate the state of Star Wars at that moment. I can’t fault them for the overall direction they decided to take. They HAD to do a soft reset. They had to shutter the old Expanded Universe.

Yep, this is absolutely right. According to Lucas’s quotes from the link below, for episodes VII, VIII, and IX, he planned a space (soap) opera with Anakin’s grandchildren and some more digging into the biology of the force mixed with components from the EU lore.

You have to put yourself in Kennedy and Iger’s position in 2012 and honestly evaluate the state of Star Wars at that moment. I can’t fault them for the overall direction they decided to take. They HAD to do a soft reset. They had to shutter the old Expanded Universe. It was just too bloated and restrictive for telling…

Compared to the OT, the PT definitely had more complex worldbuilding, though a lot of it was implied rather than shown. The OT, on the other hand, is pretty much a straightforward good vs. evil story. We never learn how the Empire is run, beyond references to the Senate, and that’s dissolved halfway through ANH. When…

I think you could probably put a lot of the blame on Iger and Kennedy as well. They wanted to make Star Wars movies like in the old days, with nothing that reminded audiences of the prequels — i.e., no complex worldbuilding or political discussions — and took that mandate to literally mean remaking the OT as close as…