I think in the US we’re basically going to end up doing, while not the exact same thing, something similar. Probably in the name of combating “disinformation.”

Great use of passive voice sir

There’s a grizzled old prospector reading this and getting VERY pissed rn

The Tendi thing gives them options. They can do something with that next season, or just revert to the norm if they’d rather have her back with the main cast.

Not exactly an original opinion but I hate this. I watch ads on my Roku app, I watch them on the mobile app, can’t they just let it go on web browser? This just wreaks of greed

damn

By this reasoning you could say that no story is resolved until the character is dead. Anybody could always come back and cause trouble.

I hope we’re done with those robots. Jeffrey Combs is a lot of fun as the evil supercomputer but I really don’t want to see anymore major plot lines around them.

Idk if it’s immoral or not, but if Disney is resorting to AI to keep the content slurry flowing that’s more a sign of growing creative bankruptcy than anything.

Six seasons and a movie 🙏

I always assume Nog is dead because Ira Steven Behr said he would kill him off on the first episode if DS9 got an eighth season

One of my big complaints in the earlier seasons was that the show wasn’t very funny for a comedy, but it’s actually getting better. The whole Ferengi tv thing was great.

The resolution to the Rutherford and Tendi subplot was interesting to me in that it made explicit the way that their easy familiarity with each other as best friends and coworkers is predicated on a blithe, willful obliviousness to any other romantic feelings between them. I’m curious to see how that plays out in future episodes.

It really feels like Filoni is struggling to adapt to live action filmmaking. You would think someone from animation would direct more dynamically and with a tighter rhythm but everything is so glacially paced. Which I don’t normally mind but this is supposed to be action adventure. I can’t tell if it’s the studio demanding they squeeze more runtime out of this to justify the budget for streaming or if he’s just so in awe of seeing his characters come to life that he wants to linger on them forever.

I’m glad that the show has steadily improved throughout the season. Im actually looking forward to new episodes now instead of watching out of a sense of ritual obligation.

The show’s casting has been very hit or miss for me. I love Mikkelson as the voice of Thrawn, but be doesn’t quite look the part and I kind of wish they had recast. Ezra on the other hand is terrific. I don’t know where they found this guy, but I bought him 100% from the jump and his reveal didn’t disappoint.

Straight out of the Obama playbook

No way

That’s the problem here, there aren’t any stakes to the story if you don’t know the context. I saw people compare the temple scene to Raiders, but unlike Raiders there was no suspense to the scene. She just moved some furniture around until the robots showed up.

I won’t write the show off based on one episode but there’s definitely room for improvement. The pacing was really plodding. This has been a recurring problem with recent live action SW but it’s also streaming in general. No set time slots have lead some to slacken their narrative discipline. There’s no reason this couldn’t have been 45 minutes.

Also I’m not convinced this had to be live action. I spent a lot of time this episode mentally adjusting to thinking of these as the same characters from the same story. Sabine was perfectly cast, but I’m not sold on the others. Rosario as Ahsoka looked good on paper but feels wooden on screen. Hopefully Feloni didn’t inherit George’s facility with actors.

Andor also proved to me that they need to stop leaning so heavily on the Volume. The sets on Andor had that classic Star Wars lived in futurism, the sets here felt mostly sterile and empty. But then Andor spoiled us on a lot of things.

I’m rooting for Filoni and want this to succeed so I hope it gets better.

Neoliberalism also means we get some neoleprosy