“it’s just decades past any sort of relevance”

And also...how is scrolling on a phone an inherently effeminate or self-important gesture? It’s the sort of semi-random assortment of signifiers you throw together into vaguely joke-like form when you’re just shooting the shit with your friends. Sure, you get a laugh, but more because of the context of shooting the…

I am actually surprised that originated with The Dark Knight honestly. It is kinda a variation on Nietzche’s “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process they do not become a monster”, which as a kid, I always thought meant to make sure a Werewolf doesn’t bite you when you fight them

Seems like a pretty big miss not releasing this around Halloween.  

I ignored Henry Cavill until recently, when Rings of Power and House of the Dragon felt lackluster and made me try the Witcher out of want for some fantasy.

The sound of a TIE fighter is a classic. The Nazis put sirens on their Stuka dive bombers as a terror inducer. Sounds ike the same thing with TIE fighters.

“The prequels removed any tension by making it scores of nameless clones versus droids, and the sequels threw out any semblance of tense grounded warfare/galaxy world building bar potentially the opening of TLJ and focused all in on the soap drama to negative effect.”

This is the most succinct, spot-on analysis I’ve…

This show is f-cking awesome.

A highly underrated part of the original Star Wars trilogy is the literal ‘Wars’ part of the title and its execution within the series. Regardless of all the derring-do and space wizards, the battles in the OT felt grounded, tense and cribbed well from history. The comms chatter and WW2…

Another brilliantly written episode with masterful character work and some moments of real tension. That TIE strafing run was terrifying.

As much as I am in love with this show, I can empathize at least a little with those who might be advocating a slightly faster pace.

No one’s stories actually advanced in terms…

bacting!

This is the first Star Wars property that has made the TIE fighter as awesome and fear-inducing as it was back in 1977, in my opinion. Too many movies and shows have made the TIE into easily-dispatched cannon fodder. But in Andor, they’re loud, they’re fast, they’re frightening, and just glorious.

That was as old-school as Star Wars props get - huge callback to the original movie and the repurposing of all sorts of everyday items.

I dug how stressed Luthen and Mon Mothma were. It gave a sense that this isn’t just another Rebel mission ... it’s the first one of this size. The show has slowly built in a feeling of history about to be made - like we’re coming up on the Star Wars equivalent of the first shots at Fort Sumter, or the Boston Tea…

Hell yes it was. Star Wars practical effects out of everyday items are back, baby! It’s 1999 and I’m seeing my mom’s razor standing in for Qui-Gonn’s communicator all over again.

Was that just a straight-up Polaroid Land Camera standing in for Nemik’s interstellar sextant?

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock was stupid and deserved some punishment, but good lord, the same people clutching their pearls gave Roman Polanski a fucking STANDING OVATION when he won his Oscar for The Pianist.

That video audition was way less....everything than I expected. :/

Sauron playing the long con and twisting the ambitions of others to his own ends through trickery is so on brand it’s surprising how quick people are to dismiss the possibility. He did not dominate through force alone, especially in the Second Age.

Just celebrating this news by playing this on loop:

Oh, I disagree. I thought Season 5 had some great episodes.