Between Ms. Marvel and Hawkeye, (and, sorta, Black Widow) I’m kind of digging that we’re at the point in the MCU where we have emerging heroes who are truly second generation, who’ve idolized the heroes we already know. 

The bit about “I didn’t really want to do it, but I felt like I was supposed to want to . . .” really rings true. One of the things with depression is you don’t really want anything, so you do stuff that you feel like you’re supposed to want to do.

Temuera Morrison also projects a lot of inherent nobility that the original OT Boba Fett did not. It makes sense that a show with him as a lead would lean into that. 

Part of the problem is that the whole “torture works/doesn’t work” thing is highly context-specific. If, for example, somebody grabs me off the street and tortures me to extract my debit card pin number, it’s not going to take much. My feeble checking account isn’t worth losing a finger or enduring a great deal of…

sure, most people might not know that off the top of their heads, but hopefully anyone curious enough would take time for a quick Google search and answer. 

I have long thought that there needed to be a couple of “fun Bond” movies between “Quantum of Solace” and “Spyfall” where Daniel Craig’s Bond could’ve been enjoying the whole “being a superspy” thing. Instead, there was a weird jump from “just starting out” to “worn out and over the hill” that was jarring. (It didn’t…

Man, there is nothing wrong with that movie. (Is some of the computer stuff inaccurate? I don’t know and I don’t care....)

I don’t know, kicking the shit out of the two armed guards (one of which had just called him “midnight”) to the shock and awe of Dan Aykroyd was pretty good.
I would’ve been happy with a two-hander spin-off of Mother annoying the shit out of Crease with his constant stream of batshit conspiracy theories (back when…

I did love how TOTALLY unimpressed Fennic was around the oh so scary assassins. “You’re paying for the name, they’re just people in masks.” 

I have a feeling the split timeline is leading to something. And it really dodges the “White Savior” trope. One, because Morrison isn’t white. Two, and this is REALLY important, there’s no bit where he magically becomes better than the natives at their own thing.
That’s THE key aspect of the trope you’re talking…

Yeah, it makes intuitive sense. Vs the whole Sith “Only two there are” which is both meaninglessly cryptic and CLEARLY FULL OF SHIT.

I don’t think that whole “permission to kill Hutts” line was part of some deep mythology from some other medium, just that there’s some organization to the Organized Crime of the Star Wars universe. The Hutts, as a group, are really powerful so you’re inviting a world of hurt if you just knock one (or two) of them…

In a certain way it works as it allows for that visual focus as there are no exposition dumps to interrupt it. However at the same time there are so many ‘Should I know this?’ moments already after two episodes.

Yeah, it was weird of the review to call it “distracting”. It’s a couple of people in a tiny bar getting bullied by an alien biker gang. They don’t try to shoe-horn in any hints for the uninitiated, no “Gee, if only our old friend Luke Skywalker were here . . .” kind of stuff, within this story they existed to show…

so far I’m not even bothered by the fact that they just did essentially introduced Dancing with the Wolves to Star Wars.

Well aren’t you hot shit. 

You’re right, and it’s complicated.

He needs an authority figure. The authority figure doesn’t need to be an Avenger.

But i think those authority figures loom so large over the story, the question is why is this kid doing this?

I’m sure they were like, “shit, that’s right, there’s a NINE MINUTE Christmas sketch, get that one in there and eat some time!”