I will never pass up the chance to point out that, since it’s title lacks a hyphen, 8 Legged Freaks promises a story about eight freaks with legs.

“They even serve a vegan-friendly version of their broth, which is typically made with bonito flakes, a type of dried, thinly shaved preserved fish.”

Further proof Miranda was right.

True, but I don't know why you turned it into a contest.

The show was written to make people hate Skylar by perpetually leaving her in the dark. She was generally acting appropriately for *what she knew*, but by the time she had any real confirmation of what was going on it was generally beyond her ability to handle.

Given that most 1.5-2 hour screenplays would be a novella in written form, this sounds like the perfect length for an adaptation.

Well, my reaction to the “Holdo maneuver” was “why didn’t you try this an entire fleet ago?”

When DJ betrayed Poe & company, there was a major vibe of “you’ve doomed us all, you fools”. When Holdo rams the Imperial ship, it came across as “leader selflessly sacrifices herself for her troops’ error”, not “idiot atones for her bad planning”. And ultimately the day is saved by Luke, yet another aging white…

Winging it is an option when you have three years to make one film.  Less so when you have the same amount of time to make *three* films.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Poe & company questioning their leaders result in the Rebellion’s escape plan getting revealed to the Empire? Your suggestion *would* make a good theme for a Star Wars movie, but the subtext of TLJ was “don’t demonstrate initiative unless you’re a duly appointed white authority…

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Based on the original trilogy, you clearly *can* do this with Star Wars...*if* you have three years to prep each film. But (as you point out), if you want an MCU-style annual release, you need MCU-style top-down management.

Or if they’d just had a plan for the trilogy *before* filming any of it.

Our two known criminal factions, the Salmancas and Fring’s operation, both wanted that money delivered safely. Between that outgoing call from the shop in the opening, and Lalo mentioning that unspecified “rivals” make the Twins unsuitable bagmen, I think we’re dealing with an as-yet (and probably permanently) unnamed…

The amount of cash in that shop means it *had* to be Cartel, not just affiliated - the $7 million the Twins took barely dented the amount of money being stored. I was wondering if Lalo was having Saul killed to cut off a loose end. That said, I think you’re absolutely right that the call from the beginning was why the…

Thing is, the Saul we see in Breaking Bad isn’t more than Cartel-adjacent. A true cartel lawyer wouldn’t be doing the penny-ante work we see is Goodman’s stock in trade.

And Palpatine’s “So be it...Jedi” is an epic response.

In Empire, he asked Luke to turn to the Dark Side and help him overthrow the Emperor.  I suppose that doesn’t necessarily indicate *affection*, but it’s definitely interest.

That’s just kind of a universal problem with redemption narratives - you have a person who’s done *lots* of bad things, how does *one* good thing balance it out? Without making the one good thing ridiculously important (which has it’s own problems), it’s a lot easier to have them sacrifice themselves so the question…

But wouldn’t the mere act of this salt-of-the-earth Albuquerque man they pretended he was suddenly having *$7 million* kind of blow the lid off the cover?  Though probably not before Lalo leaves the country.