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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8822910" data-attributes="member: 7023840">This isn't wrong, but it's also not right. I will say this with the caveat that preferences are individual, and people like what they like. Not all episodes are equally great.That said ....Remember when you were a kid, and you thought, "Hey, when I'm all grown up, I'm going to eat candy all the time, every meal, every day!" Or maybe it was raw cookie dough. Or pumpkin pie. Or packets of powdered dairy creamer ... not judging.Anyway, at a certain point, you likely gave up that dream. Mostly because you realized that a non-stop diet of <s>coffee mate packets</s> candy would kill you. But also because constant sugar, all the time, stops being special. If every day is Christmas, then December 25 is just another day. It's the same with shows and pacing. What you call boring, others (like me) call necessary plot and character development. Those are the episodes that laid the groundwork for an episode like this to have the resonance that it does. All of that time Cassian has been hiding behind that cynical shell- yes, even in the payroll heist- gets exposed and ripped away as he exhorts Kino to fight. I don't say this because everything was perfect before- I still think that the presentation of the flashbacks was odd, although it did help explain the dynamic on the planet (with his "mother" and the understanding of his resentment toward the Empire) but overall, this is by far the best of the Star Wars shows.[USER=85714]@wicked cool[/USER] On the one hand, the general rule of thumb for television is that if you don't see a character actually die, the character is not dead. And if you do see the character die, they still might get better.On the other hand, the basic story and narrative beats if the story pretty much require that Kino died. That was the whole point- he always knew that would be the likely final result if he succeeded. And yet, he chose to fight. Him not dying would retroactively make all of that ... a lot less powerful.</blockquote>

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