And that perfectly crafted image wasn’t a red flag? It was pretty obvious to anyone not gullible enough to believe it.

During Bix’s torture scene and it’s revealed that the torture technique they’re using is the worst sound ever, I immediately wondered how quickly that scene will be forever memed by people dropping in a song by Nickelback or yodeling or something equally annoying.

So... how in anyway does that detract from her being evil? An intelligent, ambitious career women fighting against idiot men can’t be evil?

There does seem to be SOMETHING twisted going on between them. She was clearly brought up short by his passion. Yes it’s creepy and degrading, but let’s face it—sometimes that’s just kinda hot (I mean, they ARE on the dark side, after all).

I think Dedra was slightly intrigued by Syril. Not in a normal romantic way but in some creepy BDSM way. I can see her being a hard dom and Syril being her whimpering pathetic sub.

That’s what confuses me. I never saw anything that made me think “hey, maybe she’s secretly good”. That might have something to do with personal experience dealing with a particular person like her... minus the murder and torture part, obviously lol. I saw a character with intent, tenacity and sheer will to accomplish…

Eh, she’s an officer in the Empire. I don’t think they ever set her up as someone to root for unless you forgot who she was working for lol.

That wasn’t a heel turn man, she’s been pretty ambitiously evil the whole time.

I can’t get over the Will Forte vibes I get from her husband.

What I liked about this show however is a throwaway line which Bix says which implies that she’ll be tortured regardless.

Yeah, Gilroy and Luna basically said in interviews while filming Season 1 that they couldn’t envision themselves doing this for the next ten years or so, which is what it would have taken to do 5 seasons.

“Torture has never been a reliable means of extracting information. It is ultimately self-defeating as a means of control. One wonders that it’s still practiced.” - Captain Picard

Aye, I fully get why its being used here, and its more of an annoyance than anything. It can be handy as a plot expedient, after all, just wish more shows avoided using it.

The basis in reality is that torture is still regularly used despite knowing that it isn’t reliable. Fiction could do with showing how unreliable it is, but that’s not narratively expedient, so I can understand why examples are rare.

Brownshirt Javert definitely has a premium account on OnlyFascists. He’s hoping to get a custom video from Dedra asking him how many lights he sees.

I can’t get over how phenomenal this show is. As a prequel to a prequel it has no business being THIS good.

I feel you, but the fact that it will end gives me hope that it’ll never be ruined like everything else.

A thought I had, not while watching, but while reading this recap: we know what happened to the Imperials who received the recording of the Dizonites being killed. But what happened to the Imperials who killed them?

It’s really hard to find anything wrong with this show. I sincerely hope it never ends. 

On Disney+, the episode thumbnail for the space opera show was just a depressed Syril eating cereal, alone. It simultaneously summed up this entire show and everything I love about it.