We binge watch shows years out of date. I only started watching S1 of Mad Men when the last season was airing; avoiding spoilers is difficult that far ahead.

Mad Men spoilers*, maybe:

In one early draft of RotJ, that’s exactly where Luke ended up at the end of 4 years: Han is dead, Leia is struggling to make a new government from the ashes of the Empire, and Luke has already become bitter and disillusioned.

You missed a silent “gh” in there.

They *could* ignore the race issue altogether if that’s the route they go. The Avengers was never a gritty drama, being at the cartoonish end of the James Bond spectrum.

I really liked Oblivion as well.

There is nothing to say, of course, that Cypher would get anything he asked for.

Agreed, just like when Vader kills Palpatine. The Emperor’s in the moment, sadistically torturing Luke, and doesn’t notice when his most trusted subordinate finally snaps and changes sides.

The other Maiar aren’t allowed to go. The wizards only turn up with a fraction of their power and knowledge, and that represents all the help which the Valar and Maiar are going to give. The reasoning isn’t that they don’t care, but the mortal inhabitants of Middle Earth control their own destinies and have to sort…

To be fair, the Vader scenes were brilliant, but not critical to the story. Rogue One could have cut Vader’s scene with Krennic, and replaced the final scene with a squad of storm troopers blasting the Rebels to bits. Aside from the office politics on Mustafar, none of the main characters talks to or even sees a force…

Possibly.

I think even Ray has some standards...

“Our uniform has a skull on it!”

Nora is played by Carrie Coon.

Very grim content, and I think it was released over Christmas, when no-one wants to see that sort of stuff.

From the Archers, presumably.

I’ve got that with the Angel reviews right now: a blank, howling void where the comments used to be. Glad we got through Buffy and its reviews just before the End of All Things.

Oh yeah, that time when the Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive “malfunctioned” coming out of the Hoth system. How convenient.

Cersei does care about the army of the dead; her reaction to it trying to eat her face (and her recounting it to Jaime afterwards) show that she was terrified, and understands that they could be the eñd to everything. From that point of veiw, the capture/display mission and truce were a complete success.

I think Cersei was shitting herself but doing the regal thing and not looking intimidated by the dragon. She’s had fair warning so had probably been practicing her “I’m not impressed” face.