It’s a cosmic gumbo.

Even though I don’t entirely agree - there was plenty of post-nipple goodness - I’m still happy that a show featuring a nipple-biting unicorn existed in the first place.

He’s the Tye Sheridan of Alden Ehrenreichs. 

I meant to tell you: just put beans in your chili.

No discourse on the left sounds like it’s promoting separation of the races. That’s the discourse on the right. 

I’m worried Mike Flanagan doesn’t think people can change.

I feel particularly bad for Eden Perkins, the kid who played Radical Ed. I watched an interview with them and they were thrilled beyond belief that they’d landed the role. On the other hand, at least they’re spared the wave of internet hatred they would have received if the show had continued.

Agreed. It got off to a rocky start (for me) but around the halfway mark the cast started to gel and the world began to make sense on its own terms. If nothing else, I’ll watch anything with Daniela Pineda from now on.

I was an innocent 9 year old, flipping through the (two available) channels when The Star Wars Holiday Special came on. Years later I thought I’d dreamed it, because it had the weird garish cruddy quality of a nightmare. Imagine my surprise when I discovered it was real. As for any confusion, the cheapo variety show…

A lot of this is wildly different from everything else I’ve read, although there seems to be a consensus that the expanded Vicious and Julia story isn’t successful. This just reads like a Bebop superfan’s ranting that should have ended up on an unread Tumblr.

Xialing taking over the Ten Rings made crystal clear sense. She was ignored as a child after her mother’s death, learned to fight on her own, built an empire of her own after running away, and now can rebuild the Ten Rings in her own image. Her entire arc lead to that moment.

Honestly, this review only makes sense if The Bad Batch made a habit of cutting away from the main characters to a bit of fanservice or lore. But it doesn’t. I much prefer this kind of thing to having the Batch go and find a Rancor or whatever.

Chopper is hands-down one of my favourite characters in SW. His first instincts are always sort of homicidal, and even when he saves the day it involves the maximum amount of destruction.

It’s a gigantic thought experiment to see what would happen if you cast Burt Macklin in a blockbuster action film.

I don’t think that’s a generous reading. It’s exactly what they’re doing.

It’s totally in their Q Zone!

OKAAYYYY

This was entertaining and beautifully produced but it was the worst episode so far. Cid doesn’t give them any of the necessary info for getting an adolescent Rancor back? Please. Why would she send people in to do a job for a notorious gangster and leave so much up to chance? Guess she’s a wacky one. Guess we had to…

I’m going to add this to the pile of articles that point out why Snyder films are bad but insist that their many flaws don’t matter.

Using a vintage 0.95 lens is a bizarre choice for a film like this. There’s the razor-thin depth of field, but you can see uncorrected purple fringing on backlit subjects and “onion ring” bokeh that produces blurry rings in the background of shots. A lot of the annoying quirks of the lens could have been avoided if…