While i am admittedly more a fan of “Mando & Grogu on the run and having adventure of the week” than this season’s “Mandaloreans find a homeland” theme, I thought this conclusion wrapped most things up nicely. Gideon was again too Snidely Whiplash. perhaps he could return as a clone or better yet make snidely the…

People had their complaints for this season but through it all I found it a great fun, Star Wars filled Wednesday distraction so Id say mission accomplished.

Sidenote: there was a scene where Axe Woves missles out a window and flies out of the Cap ship before it crashes

I’m not sure it was aimless. It was pretty clear that the point of the season was to reunite the Mandlorians and retake Mandalore. If anything, I was surprised at how quickly they managed to accomplish it. I thought this was going to be series finale content, not season finale content. On a smaller note, Din learned…

I would expect that there’s more logic to it than has been revealed so far. It’s a admittedly a strange choice of set up, but it’s also a direct continuation of Si Spurrier’s Way of X and Legion of X, and they’ve been terrific, so there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic.

I don’t agree that she misses, but I am 150% on board that Tessa would have been better.

But we don’t actually know what Jada’s conversation with Chris Rock about the boycott was actually like.

Hey, “that guy” is here!

THIS!

It’s important to note that this fungus is based on a real one, cordyceps. It’s also worth watching the amazing documentary Fantastic Fungi, as it goes into some of the concepts leveraged in the Last of Us.

Time passes different on Sakaar. Loki said he was there two weeks before Thor landed.

I agree with you except I think the show should have taken more cues from Jackson’s trilogy on the costume front...the costumes in Jackson’s LOTR trilogy were elite. They always felt realistic and lived-in while preserving the elevated fantasy feel.

so if they had spaced this season’s story over like 500 years, you’d have a lot of scenes with elves going “Hey remember that thing that happened in 150 years ago in last week’s episode?” while looking exactly the same as they did in last week’s episode. I don’t think the passage of time would really come across, so…

Well, I don’t think the time compression’s necessarily the problem

“Small” is a good word to use. They focused a lot on rendering individual locations in vivid detail, and they did a great job at it! The show is genuinely beautiful. But, they did not succeed at knitting it together into a cohesive, awe-inspiring whole in the way that the original LOTR trilogy did. It’s frustrating…

I actually think that would help the show, because to me these elves don’t feel like they have lived thousands of years. They feel like regular Men with pointy ears.

The difference with HotD and RoP is that a good chunk of characters don’t need to age between episodes. All the elves, the Maia, will look the same episode to episode, no awkward need to explain who this new actor is. Dwarves live centuries. Even the Numenoreans live hundreds of years at this point in time, so you can…

I didn’t really mean to say that the time compression was “the” problem. I certainly have issues with other elements of the storytelling (not a fan at all of the we-need-mithril-to-live plotline at all - as dumb as the Arwen-will-die one they added to the movies). But, for me, the time compression is really draining a…

Absolutely! And the idea that more people with a connection to the force will continue to be born was also a great touch. My cynical little heart grew two sizes when the kid grabbed the broom!

But what is contemptuous about that?

It answered the mystery of Rey’s origin by saying she didn’t come from any special bloodline. She would have to stand on her own, not beholden to anyone else’s legacy.