Destiny Color Correction is all.

I’m also one of those people who doesn’t own a record, but I agree. He hit an absolute sweet spot for being the quintessential American artist. Definitely rock, but story songs for the folkies and country-heads, and unapologetically of a specific place that happens to be urbanized and diverse. Left-leaning politics, but not a scold or a bore so people of a more conservative bent can pretend he’s not talking about them, or (and this is generally better) find that a little bit of empathy is sneaking in under their radar.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Little one can be Tails and play coop.

We have a president who issues fascistic edicts from the toilet and then phrases them like a Karen in her first term on her HOA or Condo board.

Add in that its episode breaks were very nearly arbitrary. I have heard that people who waited and binged it liked it a little more.

Young Frankenstein would like a word.

Potentially less of a soulless cash grab.

Completely agree. I think it succeeded perfectly at being that, and it was the only live action Star Wars project I could get my 11yo daughter to sit through.

Acolyte I think got more hate than it deserved, but I can’t make the same argument for it. It was a quite a mess with only a few bright spots shining through.

They didn’t have much for him, it’s true, but I thought his part in the Bix coda was very nice. For me, B2 was like my dogs in Fallout or Minecraft, too precious and pure to expose to danger. :-)

Agree. Skeleton Crew had very different ambitions, but I think it successfully achieved them. I think that Star Wars is at least slightly more than “just a setting,” but letting creatives with a good story to tell go ahead and tell it to Star Wars fans is the way to go. Favreau I think may be done after the M&G movie, and Filoni probably needs to be kept away from live action and be the animation guy plus the “spirit of George” Jimmy Cricket.

The beauty of Andor is that the story didn’t HAVE to be a Star Wars story, but it was molded around Star Wars in a respectful way that enhanced both the show and the “universe.”

On the plus side, they can just use her real name for the character’s name. I hear it makes acting way easier.

That was like, half of the kalkite, at most.

Not immune, but let’s say resistant. Due to federation, they couldn’t lock down existing federated content; due to open source they couldn’t lock down the user experience; and due to those two, nobody’s going to offer them a check for a couple million dollars.

There is test-taking software that locks out all other functions during the essay-writing period. Obviously, damn near anything is hackable, but it’s non-trivial, unlike asking ChatGPT to write your essay for you in the style of a B+ high student. There is some concern about students who learn differently or compose less efficiently, but as father to such a student, I’m still getting to the point where I’m not sure what’s left to do other than sandbox “exploitable” graded work in a controlled environment.

Here’s the two real guys in 1977. https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/10/10/john-madden-al-davis-was-a-friend-till-the-end/

All falling action really. Wrapping things up, setting the stage for R1, which is, in true Star Wars fashion, made better than it was by TV, but still deeply flawed.

I thought Dedra’s fate was kind of perfect, and just showed that the system wasn’t set up due the likes of Syril or her, true believers until it was too late. The Luthen episode was the best of this bunch for me, but overall what was going to top 7-9?

I’m head canoning Kleya as the boss of the very serious ladies drawing lines with light pens in ANH or ESB, and then being an intel muckitymuck in Mothma’s administration after the war.

Also, B2 is okay! Oh, and baby Andor, which does at least explain more about why Bix did what she did.

Solo is pretty decent, and the performances were not a weak point at all, but good lord they try to cram as much lore as possible into one plot. Still, definitely catch it sometime if you’re fond of Star Wars stuff.

DJ Roomba! NOOOOOOO!

Yeah, I could see that, the fact he was at least as right as ISB could be a step towards reclaiming his version of peace of mind. The fact that there seems to be intentional nuance and ambiguity in a character moment is really refreshing.

Syril’s arc is an interesting one. He always genuinely believed that the Empire was necessary and even good, bringing order and a kind of draconian but honest justice to the galaxy. To be confronted with that being made a lie, and him as the link, must have been quite the mind-fuck.

I think seeing Andor was rage and lashing out at the man who set him on the path to losing his religion, as it were. I think the little delay when he was going to shoot Cassian (before, well, that happened) had a lot packed into it, and with a slightly different turn of events you could almost see him becoming a vociferous rebel, no zealot like the convert.

Overall, this was definitely the best arc of the three, but it needed the first two to land how it did. I also appreciate the intelligent use of the setting and lore and foreshadowing to make it all hit that much harder. “The Force” even made an appearance, sort of.