Based off the title, I expected this movie to be either:

It was . . . fine. This whole episode, though, I kept thinking “Man, this would be really incredible if they’d have bothered to lay the necessary groundwork.”

Nope, Bane didn’t know. The Pyke leader told him about it.

I think the Gaffi stick kill was thematically appropriate, just in a different way. Bane was going on about how Boba getting all dedicated to his Tusken family was his weakness and would lead to his death, but it turns out his badass Tusken-learned skills could best Bane when his badass bounty hunter skills fell…

Some people like it. My neighbor has the option and she likes the separation from her home life and being reasonably social (in masks while social distancing). For her, it’s also easier to focus and she gets more done.

Well, sure, but complaining about it in an Agatha Christie story is kinda silly. Kinda like saying, “This Hamlet movie is dumb, half of these lines I’ve heard a hundred times. ‘To be or not to be’? Pfft, be original.”

Oh yeah, I mentioned it elsewhere but the way the butterflies take control of their host bodies is pretty much an exact copy of how the Slither space slugs did the same thing (though not quite a gooey). 

I didn’t even notice that in the episode, but it does kinda make sense within the show. Their whole thing is that they’re shit-ass broke and this job is a way to get on their feet. So the whole point of taking Waller’s job offer was to get the fuck out of Gotham.

This week we’re finally allowed to see exactly how the Butterflies prefer to enter their hosts on a scale that is both harrowing and really, really gross. (It’s not as breezy as Economos’ PowerPoint presentation.) The first victim to succumb to the, er, “docking process” turns out to be Annie Chang’s Sophie Song,…

Yeah, if for no other reason, Amanda Waller is a great villain as just her human self. It’d be a waste to make her a butterfly. 

Did Butterfly!Locke make up the bit about the diary detailing Peacemaker’s personal war against alien invaders, or was that something Waller actually planted in it to begin with?

I watched the first few episodes over the weekend and I think the purists will be happy. Reacher isn’t “quippy”, but he is funny in a deadpan, zero-tolerance-for-bullshit kind of way. Some of his sudden, Sherlock Holmes-ian deductive dumps are a little ridiculous, but in a fun way.

Yeah, I’ve been on-board with everything they’ve done on the show, but the pacing and focus has been SUPER wonky. The balance has just been completely off. Using the whole “Boba’s dreaming in the bacta tank” framing device for the flashback sequences is fine, but it was a weird choice to make something like 90% of…

To be fair, if I was getting a steak at Golden Corral I’d want them to cook the living shit out of it, too. 

There are some classic Westerns in which the hero is basically an unknowable cipher.

The second Cruise Reacher movie is one of those movies I know I’ve seen. But I only know this because the last three times I turned it on for some mindless background noise I realized I’d already seen it.

Well, part of the problem with adapting Jack Reacher is that the character is absurd. He’s the Lou Ferigno Incredible Hulk TV show, but he’s Banner and Hulk in one body, plus Sherlock Holmes. He’s smarter, faster, stronger, and all-around better than anyone in any room he’s ever in. It’s frequently pointed out in the…

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Also, what is the proper nomenclature for a former skanking guy: Founding Skankmaster or Skanker-at-Rest?

You’re not the only one. Tim Olyphant’s mom can’t tell them apart.