The twist: Patrick Stewart is playing the Charles Xavier from the Amalgam universe, aka Doctor Strangefate.

This did not put a smile on his face.

You know, just when I think that stakes can’t get lower in a shootout with two Mandalorians in armor shrugging off several blaster bolts, in comes a Wookiee that does the same thing.

But he’s limping or whatever, so I guess being shot a half dozen times somehow sprained his ankle.

Who needs fundamental storytelling tools when you’ve got a franchise logo slapped on your product? People are gonna watch it regardless. Including me, mostly because I was stunned by how bad it was and needed to see it careening from one inept moment to the next.

Honestly, it’s so fucking weird that they decided to make Boba Fett into some kind of benevolent ... well I was going to say dictator, but he’s not actually in charge of anything. Instead he has meetings with smug assholes that openly flout his authority to his face, only for him to go home and then talk to Fennec…

If the Lucasfilm intention is to say yes, the Jedi were a cult that perpetuated an awful system, then okay I guess. But then Grogu giving up on joining that cult to go back to Mando isn’t really a hard choice at all, removing a lot of of the stakes for what we’re led to believe is a momentous decision.

It would also…

Man, the Star Wars universe keeps getting smaller and less interesting with each successive cameo and touch of fanservice. Both the Pyke syndicate’s enforcer and Boba Fett’s hired guns are all people who have directly interacted with Luke Skywalker or Ben Kenobi. All so they can fight a war over control of a worthless…

Man, once again Djin is pulled over by the very same X-Wing pilot he kept running into in his own show. Cute callback, and I like the pilot (is he next for a spinoff?) but good lord, the Outer Rim must be a small place.

It was wildly uneven, for sure. But so is nearly every Star Wars product since Return of the Jedi (including Return of the Jedi, according to many).

The Sith all looking like Maul, of course, only came after Lucas made both the Jedi and the Sith into far more uniform, basically monotone groups. Prior to Phantom…

It was interesting to me to see how the movies entirely inverted the situations: instead of Chewie dying saving Han’s kid from a new threat, Han is killed by his kid in the midst of an old threat.

And of course, Chewbacca is a much easier character to keep around in movies than Harrison Ford is as an actor.

Exactly. Like Darth Maul, he was initially created only to look cool, cause characters some serious grief, and then get clowned on by the good guys on their way to the actual villains. But looking cool gets someone a lot of street cred in this universe when it comes to later writers, I suppose.

A lot of stuff in this episode should have been in the first episode. Simple things like “what does the main character want, and why should I care? Other than because I owned his action figure as a child.”

Generally I hate when modern Star Wars tries to be like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with constant cameos and…

I don’t remember them saying the part where the Collector had himself physically enhanced, but I’m honestly fine with that either way.

As for Thanos, I’m not talking about him becoming a good guy. I’m talking about how Thanos was badly losing a physical fight to two members of his former Black Order. So I guess his…

Handling political stuff is complicated; leaving yourself wide open to attacks because you’ve publicly declared yourself a target, and have no plan to protect yourself beyond blind luck, is just being dumb IMO. This is obviously subjective, but combined with how we don’t know why he wants to be daimyo so bad, I feel…

“Let’s see what the kids can do” would have been a great addition as a scripted line for Fett to say to Fennic. It might have justified lots of things, including fighting against the impression I’m getting that he’s really very inept at this whole crime lord thing.

Also, I feel like most Star Wars media forgets that…

The whole Dances With Tuskens thing was clearly leading to something, presumably about how he thinks he can run things better or more fairly than Jabba or the other syndicates. Innocent people get trampled by greedy and selfish folks in power, or whatever.

I’m still not sure that someone who made a living hunting down…

This show is so weird. You’d think the one thing Fett had going for him as an aspiring crime lord is an intimidating reputation, but he’s spent every episode getting publicly disrespected in between getting his ass kicked. And he’s going out of his way to not hurt people who clearly want to kill him, when hurting…

It almost makes sense, in that from what little we know of him, Boba Fett would have no idea of how to run a criminal empire. But it also makes no sense, in that he’s clearly spent his entirely life in the galaxy’s seedy underbelly, so he should at least know enough to know he’s going about this in a weird way. Does…

How dare you suggest such a thing. Mysterio was not a VILLAIN. He was the greatest hero since Tony Stark, and Spider-Man murdered him. #JusticeForMysterio

Agreed. And listen, Topher Grace also would have been pitch perfect casting for Peter Parker. So making him the sleazy wiener loser to foil Tobey Maguire’s innocent wiener loser was great.

The movie was bad and the character was bad, but I’m fully behind you on Topher Grace not being to blame.