I’m imaginig Pascal having been in a fight with a producer prior to getting this role, and being told angrily “You’ll never be able to show your face in this town again!” and him relying “That won’t stop me, you’ll see!”

Not to mention that Luke Skywalker, an actual Jedi Knight, was a leader of the Rebellion. The fact that he went to the Death Star and defeated Darth Vader with a lightsaber wouldn’t be a damn secret, it would be propaganda fodder that the Rebellion would have blared across the galaxy after the Emperor died.

Yes, I agree that most people would never meet a Jedi. Most people would never meet a cardinal, but they know what Christianity is.

I don’t see this as foreshadowing an uncontrollable danger. He thought Cara was hurting Mando somehow. Like when dogs can get protective when you’re play fighting with their owner. For me, it was a demonstration of how tight their bond has grown.

I never knew how much I wanted to hear Werner Herzog say libation, but now that I have I feel much more fulfilled.

Baby Yoda poking his head dow the shaft to check on everyone’s location and then ‘flying’ the ship was too much. (In a good way.)

The way Herzog pronounces “closing” is pretty much Lovecraftian in its inability to be described.  It is both beautiful and disturbing.

This show has been a massive checklist of fan service and in-jokes. The show zeroed in on one aspect of the OT and keeps riffing on it over and over.

I can’t believe that between Mando, Kuill, Greef and Cara Dune, a rebel, none of them had ever even heard of the Force. The rebellion regularly used “May the Force Be With You” as a greeting and/or rallying cry. Han Solo had heard of the Force.

How’d you like to have been the foley artist for this episdoe?

Benioff: “We need forty-five minutes of undead snarling noises.”
FA: “Four to five minutes - no problem.”
Benioff: “No - forty five minutes.”

By Arya herself, when sparring with Brienne in Season 7.

Solar panels on the Golden Gate Bridge is stupid.

More observations:

she’s gone from “fantastically evil space queen who eats people” to “sarcastic horny badass”

Thank you for responding to my post concluding that I’m probably going to give up on the show with the suggestion that I may want to give up on the show. Not sure I would’ve made that connection on my own.

Except that everything he said is calm, rational and on-point.  And maybe he’s like me: he loves Trek and wants to keep watching, but his mind won’t let him ignore the utter stupidity of everything we have just seen.

The damage, such as it is, is done. The retool solves nothing. Great, now we can have the same crappy show, but with “tighter spandex and smaller tricorders,” to quote Rick Berman. This isn’t a perfect solution because it solves none of Discovery’s most dire problems.

Your master plan shouldn’t hinge on having to beat Michelle Yeoh in hand to hand combat.

I’m actually quite pleased the show’s producers, through some wicked contortions, managed to make a course correction and launch this series to where it belonged in the first place: in the future.

Fourteen months later, and here I have the exact same reaction to Discovery’s season-ending anti-cliffhanger. What the hell was that?