A few thoughts - I enjoyed this a lot, though the pacing in the first act was all over the place, and I found it difficult to care about anything happening on screen until after Jedha's destruction. The level of screentime given to Uncanny Valley Tarkin was the biggest misstep I can think of off hand - when we first…

Played by Cliff Curtis, who will hopefully one day actually be allowed to play a Māori character in an American production.

Then again, O'Toole was only a few years older than Smith when he did stuff like Supergirl and High Spirits. (I expect I'll get some flak for pairing those two, but I'm not sure who's fans will be angrier)

Yeah, but he *wrote* the paper in that case. He has a story credit on that one.

The placeholder screenshot from the video embedded in the article is from Iron man 3.

Now mister, the day my number comes in, I ain't ever gonna ride in no used car again.

He actually sold this one in the mid 70s. He's not the eBay seller.

Holy shit this is still in development? Wasn't it announced, like, 5 years ago?

As much as I loved the pilot, I have genuinely no idea how the premise is going to be extended to a full TV season.

'With the death of his father and brothers, Michael Corleone has truly become The Godfather Part II.'

No, but when I eat chicken it doesn't cost 1.3 million dollars per minute.

So what's our read on the bizarre 'Joel Kinnaman eats a chicken wing awkwardly for far, far longer than reason allows' scene? Leftover end of a planned smash cut from Croc feeding, or something?

Who makes a movie featuring a SOUL STEALING SWORD and then NEVER ACTUALLY SHOWS IT BEING USED?

There's honestly no redeeming feature unless you're a big fan of Will Smith playing Will Smith Stock Action Character 1, which he does for the first time in a while here. It gets every character wrong (they get pretty close with Waller, though, admittedly), completely wastes Adam Beach, and the plot is damn near as…

i think he cited Cheers and Frasier because they were the other big shows by the same production team.

Even more jarring if the TV version is the one that makes all sorts of cuts to that sequence

Don't know what it's like everywhere else, but I'm shocked at the promotional push Sony is giving this one. There are 3 billboards in my LA neighborhood alone.

Is it, though? After all, her love for her daughter is her previous built's primary motivator. Is it a choice she made, or just succumbing to her deeper-than-storyline directives?

I enjoyed the season overall, but wish the entire show had been as strong as the pilot. Even some of tonight's best reveals (Ford wants them to gain consciousness because they're better than humanity!) were stated explicitly at the very beginning, then walked back by having Ford say the *opposite* to multiple…

That's not what Bernard said, though. He was in the middle of saying *something* happens at the last moment of her escape, but she broke his pad and got all angry before he could finish the thought.