Well put.  You’re spot on. 

This episode definitely couldn’t find its focus, and splitting its attention across 400 different threads while Morris kept nattering was annoying. Of the random interesting folks that UNIT has brought into things, Morris was not one of their best. Wesley Crusher but more annoying and less useful. In an episode…

Because she’s not a good person (Bird thing) and if they asked her to push Ruby out then she would have said no.

I mean have we ever seen an old Padawan in any Star Wars media?  I can’t really remember an elderly Padawan being depicted at all.

So far Yord almost appears like the “good soldiers follow orders” that we have seen with the clones in later seasons of Clone Wars and in Bad Batch.

Yeah, I think most Padawans are expected to complete their training, and it’s the rare exception that doesn’t complete it. Once Padawans complete their training, they are Jedi Knights.

The Jedi are not a monolith

Thanks so much. This is how you recommend, or not, something to someone 😆

She played Kate Austen, not Kate Bishop. Kate Bishop is Hawkeye.

I found myself questioning “is this because he’s black,” particularly as the Doctor got angry about their refusal. (The Doctor getting angry being a pivotal point for each new incarnation of the character.) That the show was so non-committal about it didn’t quite hit.

I’m in the same both. I totally missed the racism thing. I just thought the Finetimers hated the Doctor because they were rich nepobaby spoiled brats not used to people not catering to her every whim.

Oh same here. And to be clear, it’s not the episode’s problem that I was that oblivious - as soon as I saw it pointed out I went “oh god that’s right”. It’s food for thought when something like that happens in media too because of what it says about one’s blind spots IRL.

There were multiple potential explanations. They just decided to leave it up to the audience to work out which one worked best for them. It could have been a magical version of The Inner Light episode of Star Trek. An alternate reality. Pocket universe that existed for Ruby.

Aaron Stanford and Kirk Acevedo should get at least a cameo in every genre show, regardless of who the showrunner is. Also Jeffrey Combs.

You’re looking at this as a science based issue and not a supernatural one as Kate pointed out. Paradoxes and other such concerns don’t matter when the Fae are involved.

12 Monkeys had just the right amount of weird, combined with some proven genre actors. With Todd Stashwick having been in both 12 Monkeys and Picard, I’m just going to assume that he will also be in this.

I’m glad that they are bringing in actual showrunners and Matalas is a good choice. He didn’t just do seasons two and three of Star Trek: Picard, he also did 12 Monkeys, the very underrated time travel show.

Watching that movie, I couldn’t get past the fact that de-aged Robert deNiro looks too much like Bryan Cranston.

That was the glaring issue with SLJ’s de-aging in Captain Marvel as well. The man was in great shape for a 70-year-old but he clearly wasn’t 45 like Nick Fury was supposed to be in the movie.

Don’t blame yourself, Chris. Blame Taika.