Digestives were sort of vaguely seen as healthy in the past. The name stuck, but nobody even thinks about the name anymore if they’re familiar with the biscuit.

Something I really like about the show is that not only are both Willow and Kit pretty much dicks, but I get why they are like that. That’s not to defend either of them, but rather they are setting up these character arcs for them. Additionally all of the main cast are flawed, but they are so in different ways that…

I’m loving the huge amount of people pissing and moaning about the Princess talking like a modern American, when none of them had any issue with her father doing it in the movie.

I kind of loved it. It took me years to realize that Willow was this big financial disappointment. I remember literally everyone in my generation seeing it. We had sticker books, ffs. It’s not perfect, but it was extremely charming and unusual. This surprised me most by aiming straight for that charm and unusual…

People really salty out here that in a world with fifty mediocre Star Wars spinoffs people are getting an actually entertaining Willow sequel.

Respectfully, that feels like a huge reach.  It doesn’t take a force sensitive to want to get the fuck aware from the Empire, especially if you’re Luthen.

Man, Genevieve O’Reilly got cast in a deleted scene in a movie in 2005 for a character that said very little in the OG trilogy and she has been just absolutely milking that casting choice and killing it since.

You’re assuming Maarva knows everything the audience knows. There’s no tactical advantage to an old woman faking her own death. It’s not like she was on the ISB’s radar as a super badass who needed to be watched and there’s zero evidence that she was building up a mini rebel network with liked-minded Ferrixians.

I thought the 400,000 credits was just the amount she was trying to quietly move around to support the Rebels. I got the impression that it’s only a tiny fraction of her actual fortune.

This isn’t *quite* right. It was actually Disney who came to Gilroy asking for a 5-season show initially, after filming Season 1 *he* was the one who decided it made more sense as a 2-season show and that they couldn’t sustain this for several years.

It’s really underappreciated that the Nazis themselves were mostly just giant dorks pretending they were early 20th century pulp fiction heroes, which was a big part of why the rest of the world didn’t take them seriously until it took a whole world war to sort them out.

Except... well, he is good at his job.

Eh, she’s an officer in the Empire. I don’t think they ever set her up as someone to root for unless you forgot who she was working for lol.

don’t talk that way about Strange New Worlds or Lower Decks!

Don’t sell kids short, he might surprise you.

That ending is so good. Just a great portrait of how some authoritarian dictate filters down to petty bureaucratic tyranny and indifference at the local level, with Cassian just having some bad luck in timing and getting slapped with an over-the-top criminal sentence.

I can’t add to any of the positives addressed here save for one. I thought the beach resort was spectacularly well realized. You note the buildings are built atop large retaining walls sloping to the beach, as if to mitigate a violent storm season? But just the design of a corporately planned beach community,…

I have to say, I did not; I was way too distracted by the fact the was Patrick from Coupling.

Filoni/Favreau are carrying George’s torch. They’re making Star Wars for families with kids. Gilroy is making Star Wars for the parents, after the kids go to bed. Personally I’m thrilled to have both.

Forgive the self-reply, but... in retrospect, can you imagine what Rogue One might have been like with the original script intact and none of the hasty rewrites and reshoots?