So does this make two Eastwood films in a row where the central theme is that a heroic white man makes life-or-death decisions while a guy sneers in his ear "They'll fry you if you're wrong!"?

1) As mentioned elsewhere, you're right about the second part, but not the first. Han used Luke's saber, Luke used Anakin's, and so forth.

I agree with the sentiment, even if I don't really get the "too many laser swords," complaint. Part of the reason that the prequels were an intriguing project was that I really wanted to see the time described in the original Star Wars, where the Jedi kept peace over the Galaxy instead of being nearly extinct. It…

I'm not sure we're ready for the version of Charlie's Chocolate Factory where Grandpa Joe starts chanting "ass to candy ass!" at Veruca Salt.

OK, you're going to get a reply on a comment you don't even remember, but here goes…

Actually, I think Gateway and Eden are related.

The irony of Marvel making the Inhumans their special project for the past four or five years, is that that name sucks. Yeah, I know Stan and Jack Kirby came up with that shit, but seriously, you could pick a random word out of the dictionary and it would be better than Inhumans.

Because obviously, the first thing you do when there's a big world-changing event is antagonize China by holding your meeting in Taiwan.

Elizabeth also killed the security guard in front of Weinberger's house in the Reagan Shooting episode, and the KGB hit man who blew up a house full of FBI agents later in the season. That's a much lower body count than expected, but it still turns out in Liz's favor.

The interesting thing is that after Young Philip abandoned his bottle of milk, they didn't simply take it and run off—they kept going after him. So bullies still sounds appropriate—they weren't in it just for profit.

The perception is because I'm pretty sure her body count was higher for S1 and probably stayed that way through much of S2. Also, in S1, they gave Elizabeth most of the "cold" kills—assassinating civilians and such—while Philip killed Colonel Rapist and then bunch of people where he had no choice because they were in…

They don't get to air another season of Fargo for what, 18 months? Not much motive for them to get that hype machine going just now.

Now I'm imagining the secret factory in Arkansas where a Soviet wigmaker is fretting about being sent "to a camp" if the latest wig he made for his CIA captors doesn't pass testing.

No, I think that the point is that she didn't want to know who Clark's working for—she knows he's a spy, she can probably guess it's for the Russians, but as long as he doesn't say it, she has plausible deniability that she's not really betraying her country.

…And here we thought it was just for the bam-a-lam.

Yeah, it's a real turn in the story. We've been shown so much of the KGB turning a relatively innocent Philip into the murderous seducer he is today, in ways that make him look like a victim. The thought that they simply identified a kid who was already murderous really changes that dynamic.

The idea that Killing Joke wasn't meant to Watchmen-up Batman is wrongheaded. As I recall the the pre-lease hype, that was explicitly the hook for the story.

The argument that Joker dies at the end of the Killing Joke is some really weak sauce. What's he supposed to have died from, shaken baby syndrome?

In Soviet Russia, microwave cooks you?

If you want a premise for this show that works, you don't even need to give Savage a team of immortals. In JLU (IIRC) Savage attempted to take over the world by using time travel—bringing high-tech weapons to the Third Reich and such. If Savage was a time traveler, the crew could travel through time and foil his…