I know that’s what Pratchett himself said, but even when he said that Postlethwaite was too old for the role. Someone weary and slightly grizzled (but clean-shaven, which is why it’s weird that Dormer has a beard) works - maybe Sean Bean back in the 90's, or something.

I enjoyed this finale, mostly because Pedro Pascal and Giancarlo Esposito are really good and there was Dark Trooper dubstep. But they are very close to overdoing the fanservice - Luke was okay, but I really hated the stinger, it felt like an ad, which I suppose it was, but felt like an embarrassing capstone to a good…

I hear Richard Dormer is really bad in this, which sucks because it’s the one casting that made absolutely perfect sense. 

While that’s true, The Watch always made the most sense - a fantasy crime procedural allows for noir-like narration and an investigation of the society. It could definitely have worked.

Is that actually a real thing? Because it feels like a pretty natural arc for this character. 

Violante’s turn from “affable consigliere” to “cruel mob boss” definitely felt like a covid incident. I liked the character and actor quite a bit, and he mostly sold it, but it seemed like a completely different person. It needed a few steps in between.

They kind of had to because they had Satchel return home, for some reason, which... why? Hell, you could even have him arrive home, see his father dying on the doorstep, and have him leave again because he deems it not safe. The whole name-change situation now just gets confusing. 

Yeah, yeah, giving Pedro Pascal a spear again, huh?

I really enjoyed Josto and Gaetano being buddy-buddy as brothers for a few episodes, which has been a way more fun interaction than Gaetano looking around at stuff creepily. Gaetano being the reasonable one in various interactions was fun, too. 

The “Future is...” billboards scenes made me laugh - yeah, they were on the nose, but they were such a simple, visually fun metaphor that I enjoyed them. The billboard guy being particularly well-spoken was great, too. 

Not the greatest episode, but the puppetry on here, between the frog lady, the spiders, and Baby Yoda, was absolutely incredible.

They WERE trying to miss, that was kind of the point. 

But... plotwise, that would make the letter kind of pointless, right? Like, she left her notebook in such an incriminating place, that she would be onto Ethelrida either way. 

Flight was mostly great because of Denzel Washington, not so much Zemeckis - that movie has a scene where Washington drinks alcohol while a naked woman is lying next to him. Cue “Alcohol” by the Barenaked Ladies. John Goodman’s enabling alcohol salesman is introduced? Cue “Sympathy for the Devil”. Washington gets out…

I really enjoy Glynn Turman (Doctor Senator) and Francesco Acquaroli (Ebal Volante) together as the right-hand men with the real gravitas. Turman really sold that monologue about Goebbels.

I’m not sure if that would work timeline-wise. S2 is in 1979, and Mike’s, what, 30? Ethelrida is also a good 24 years younger than Ben Whishaw, so ehhh. 

I don’t know if this is a hot take, but: I don’t give a damn if it’s “actually” smart. Hawley makes incredibly fun vignettes, and even if that’s all a show amounts to, I’m okay with that (and sometimes it’s more than that, like season 2 of Fargo).

I never read the comic, but no-one calls a character “Stormfront” for nothing.

It’s definitely not non-entity, but it might be worse.

I watched Tenet last week with my mom - we both liked it overall (she’s a much bigger Nolan fan than me). However, coming out of it, she said Debicki’s character felt “old-fashioned”, which was like a nice way of saying “pretty misogynist”. It’s hard to go into without spoiling much, but her character is pretty awful,…