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Yeah this sounds right to me. Re: the arrogance of youth, because of Kleya's kind of timeless look it wasn't until Make It Stop that I...

The irony is that Obi Wan was in ANH dressed like a farmer, not very differently than Owen Lars. This is fitting because he's presumed...

I don't think that's it. Going from big fish to small fish in larger pond is, I think, not on her radar. Rather, I think she's being...

I read an interview the other day where they were saying they deliberately made this monstrosity look Giger-esque. It apparently has six...

I don't really follow that his monologue suggests anything about him that is contradicted by the backstory. His monologue isn't about...

Looking distinctly Geigeresque around 1:41. Does this presage the ultimate merging of overtired franchises culminating in Aliens vs...

I see the Luthen/Kleya relationship as more of a partnership, both bringing different strengths, weaknesses, and skills to the task...

Still the best Superman theme.

If anyone hasn’t noticed that there is a hardcore of Star Wars fandom who refuse to accept the Jedi as anything but flawless paragons...

Do we really need answers to all of those questions? Well, I'm good with how Luthen's backstory was developed in the last 3 episodes. I...

Because it is absolutely terrible messaging: “ordinary people don’t need to do anything because the big bad messianic Jedi will always...

When his adopted father was hung he was arrested for attacking a Storm Trooper. That's how the Empire had an image of him in their...

It's taken me a while to come around (a bit) on "Voyager." I still think that any real captain would have spaced the entire crew, at one...

And I think that's the point. It's that rebellions are made up of normal people that just decide that enough is enough.

It sounds like where you originally left off watching it is where it really started to improve. It took at least a couple of seasons for...