Beard is definitely a filler episode, but it’s also my favo(u)rite ep of S2. It’s funny how these kinds of episodes used to be common when 24-episode seasons were the norm, but are largely out of favor in the streaming era of short, heavily serialized shows.

And he got to hug Indiana Jones on stage for the Best Picture win, with Spielberg cheering in the audience. Quan’s life is worthy of a movie itself.

Needing a few seasons to settle in and find its groove, a Star Trek tradition!

I think standalone films are fine, but if Marvel’s going to deliver with such volume, I think there needs to be more connective tissue between the films to drive that sort of frequency. They released seven films between July 9 2021 (Black Widow) and November 11 2022 (Wakanda Forever) - that’s an average of one new…

There were five MCU films across the four years before Avengers. Who thought that was too many films? 

I think the number of films would be okay if there was a sense they were actually going somewhere, but none of Black Widow, Shang-Chi, Eternals, Thor 4 or Black Panther 2 seem like part of the bigger story. No Way Home and Doctor Strange 2 both did contribute to the upcoming multiverse saga, but they went about it so…

I went into some detail on this in the other thread, but: Din was defeated by the cyborg crab thing, which took the darksaber off his body, which arguably makes it the saber’s rightful owner. Bo-Katan then defeated the cyborg, and thus the darksaber passes to her.

But perhaps Mando was no longer the one that needed defeating! He was captured by the weird cyborg crab dude, who took the darksaber off his body. That could qualify that critter as taking the weapon in battle, making him the rightful claimant, and then Bo-katan defeated that guy, which would seem to pass the saber to…

Was it implied that something pulled Mando under the water? Did it just let him go? He was very deep very quickly and was unconscious apparently.

Such a weird complaint anyway. The World Between Worlds was at least something novel with the Force. If we’re constraining other Star Wars media to what’s already been seen in ”regular Star Wars” stories, well why the hell bother even making them?

you can come up with a better name than that!

Yeah, I wonder if she had training from a Jedi like Sabine got from Kanan. Also, did S2 of Mando explain why the thing seems to way 100 pounds when Din tries to use it? It’s not simply lack of practice with him, he looks like he can barely lift the thing.

And according to the silly dark sabre rules, could it now rightfully be Bo Katan’s? Creepy eyeball robot thing defeated Din, and then she grabbed the sabre and beat creepy eyeball robot thing. Or this does not at all matter?

Hmm. What’s the TV equivalent term for ‘filmmaker’? Showrunner doesn’t seem quite substantive enough to describe what Favreau does with Mandalorian.

I assume it’s more than one of each, as replacements will inevitably be necessary.

*golfclap*

Insulting people is kind of his thing. Lex’s responses range from the rare mild-yet-grudging agreement to the much more common implication that your mother must have been fucked by a mentally deficient bonobo for you to have typed whatever it is he’s replying to. Endeavor to persevere, etc.

A 3rd grader using the word ‘trite’ in a sentence would be pretty impressive.

This is not the one — I mean, not the Way.

I know that Paul Rudd is sort of the standard for ageless, Dorian Gray-esque actors, but Jason Statham appears not to have changed in any way for at least 20 years.