Well. I kind of liked the episode and thought Barsanti’s take was fine.

The odds were always against it. A story of a group of people, or fellowship if you will, featuring a short-statured individual on a quest to fight an evil mystical figure served by monstrous, brutish soldiers? Who’d watch that?

I’d say the first season tells a pretty complete story with some unresolved threads that would lead into the next season.

(Not to bring up the other show, but this is the second time we’ve seen office life on Coruscant, and Andor’s was much bleaker.)

This whole message board is a weird universe where it really seems like Paris Fucking Hilton is more reasonable than the people who have spent years hating her, seemingly out of habit. 

“I don’t walk to talk about Paris Hilton.”

I remember Robert Rodriguez saying back on Once Upon a Time in Mexico that he added CGI muzzle flashes and sound effects in post production, and Antonio Banderas kept making “pew pew” noises when he would fire his gun in a scene.

Two things can be true. Paris Hilton can be a shallow, vapid person whose fame was a net negative for the culture and the South Park takedown of her can be unnecessarily cruel and hurtful. They’re not mutually exclusive. And I say that as someone who’s seen every episode of South Park.

I would assume the studios have a stake in most of the existing business of this nature — partial ownership, advantageous discounts, in-house set-ups, that kind of thing.

it would allow the new prop houses, armorers, and supply houses who switch over to take business from the old guard and make a great deal of money.

I had a feeling that the mormons were gonna try to hogle all the giraffes. 

In related news, producers have pushed back the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie so they can film a few insert shots of Chris Pratt jumping on a real box tortoise.

Did anyone ask the giraffe whether it felt Joel was a protector or a selfish brute?

To me, the clear insanity of the Fireflies’ plan was reason enough for Joel to take Ellie, if only to get them to pump the brakes on “the plan” to flesh it out a bit more. Humanity has been dealing with cordyceps for 20 years. Why does Ellie need to go into surgery minutes or hours after they find her? Why can’t they…

My 1st thought were “why are you telling the guy who was just able to singlehandedly get her across the country, thus has been in and can get out of some serious shit, the details to your “Well it will kill her, but we have this working theory on what is going on with her that might be right, might not, but hey we’ll…

Yeah, I think this is pretty correct. Both Marlene and Joel are wrong in how they act here, and they’re both right. But it’s the lies that tell...

Marlene really didn’t know Ellie. She was terrified she would say no.

This tracks. Parents are literally all immoral monsters.

This. Ellie didn’t consent, even if she did tell Joel she wanted to see it through earlier. Without full knowledge of what that means (ie: her death), she cannot make an informed choice or give consent. And like you, I wasn’t nearly confident enough in Marlene’s theory of the “cure” to sacrifice a child for it. (Plus,…