Kel Varnsen

There is also Option 3, when the evil Jedi dude lowers his lightsaber you shoot him in the head.

Mostly I don't get Travis's comment about how he and his friends win by becoming the house. Unless the friends sell the crypto they didn't win anything, and it is not like cryptocurrency is known as a secure investment, and once it gets released that the founder died mysteriously I am not sure that would benefit them.

I thought the ending was pretty good. I liked how it was kind of an accidental thing so it made it different than last season. I saw the glass switch but I thought that might have been some kind of misdirection. The only thing I didn't buy was that everyone was a suspect. No way everyone at that party recognizes the deadly plant and knows how to use it to make a fatal dose of poison. I did like how we got wrap ups for all the characters, although I am not sure the crypto ending makes sense (although I don't know enough about the subject to know for sure). Because Sebastian sold it for 60 cents on the dollar. But the value of crypto currancy is just sort of made up, so isn't that still a ton of profit? Also disappointed they didn't actually get Daniel Radcliffe for the end. Because based on his recent career choices it seems like something he would do.

For me that was more of an it depends kind of thing. Like Drew Barrymore is not a writer so if she was replacing her union writing team with non-union writers, that is shitty. But if she was planning to just go out every day and kind of wing it and see how it goes I am not sure why that is bad. Plus from what I know she doesn't really have an improv background, so her unscripted shows could have been really bad and could be a great way to show how important writers are.

What is amazingly shocking is how hard you have to go out of your way to say something that racist/sexist. Like he could have easily wrote the book and said nothing, and if someone called him out he could have just said that these were the artists I really connected with when I was younger or these are my friends so the gave me great access or something. Pretty much anything would have been better than what he said and would be a non-story. Not to mention his list of "masters" is super lazy, especially for a guy who could have pretty much seen any artist at anytime anywhere for like the last 60 years. Like is there anything new this book could say about John Lennon or Bob Dylan, that hasn't already been said?

That was my favourite episode too. I Iove Hitchcock movies and I liked how this was a good mix of parody (the over use of the Vertigo zoom, the fake driving around the corner with the projected background) and an actual real attempt to make something like it with a good twist at the end. My favourite little reference was how the party place that sent the real napkins was Dial P for Party. Also I am wondering if Isabel and Sebastian were in on it together. He called the cops and the sheriff was her friend. And she immediately accused Grace in front of them. Plus Sebastian and Edgar's evil crypto plan got figured out. Wonder if the story of their alone time where he tried to get the password was something they worked out.

It was at one of the points when Captain Carson told Hera they needed to get back. He basically said Senator Organa's bullshitting could only hold off the other senators for so long.

That makes sense. You're right if it was force ghost he wouldn't be turning into Vader I don't think. So then is this in Ahsoka's head or something else, like to do with the force or something (like how Luke has the vision in the cave in Empire).

So it looks like it will be another year of three concerts for me again although not really by choice. As I mentioned I saw Lord Huron back in June. Then last night I saw Arkells again when they played the Ottawa City Folk festival. It was the fourth time I have seen them live and it was a good energetic show as usual. It was a bit short but considering it was the second time I have seen them in 10 months I can't really complain. And they are only really big in Canada so their tickets aren't crazy expensive. Then tomorrow night I am going back to the City Folk festival, taking my 12 year old daughter to see David Kushner and Kaleo. She was super upset when we told her that even if we got tickets a trip to Toronto (with hotel and everything) to see Taylor Swift was not an option. So when she heard about this it made her feel better. And I told her if she could save her money to pay for her ticket I would take her. So we will see, not super excited about either act but willing to have an open mind.

Forgot to mention my favourite part, when Sadie goes to the music playing is Past Life by Canadian rock band Arkells. They are one of my favourite bands and I have never heard them in a movie before. Saw them live last night and they played this song which is why I remembered it.

I am still not sure if that was actual Anakin (like his force ghost) or if it was in Ahsoka's head or if it was something else. I even asked a guy at work today who loves Star wars and has watched the cartoons and he wasn't even sure.

I am not sure who I think the most annoying character is but Neela's I don't want to be a doctor so I will try to get a job at the mall then work at the convenience store is easily the most annoying plotline that any character had.

So it sounds like it's not really clear if she knows or not. Which is too bad since I think the scene plays out a bit differently if she knows. Then again I am not really sure was that like the Jedi spirit world, or was it Ahsoka's dream or was it something where it was supposed to be ambiguous. Because again it obviously plays differently if that is Anakin's force ghost vs some kind of hallucination.

That was really funny, as was Nadja doing her impression of Lazlo. But I think the funniest part was Lazlo saying something like "fuck my old boots" when he heard Colin Robinson's stories. This might be my favourite episode. I used to find her annoying but awhile ago I watched all four seasons of The Last Man on Earth and I guess I built up a tolerance.

I think this was the best episode for me so far. Hera is way more interesting than stupid Sabine (and not just because of the pants), and Captain Carson is always fun when he shows up. Too bad neither could come along in the whale. A couple of questions though, does Ahsoka know that Anakin turned back to good at the end of Return of the Jedi? For that matter is it common knowledge or did Luke just keep that to himself? Also the battle on Mandalore, I thought that was the empire that destroyed Mandalore (like after the events of the prequels) when they were in full evil empire mode, so why was Ahsoka there?

I guess there hasn't also been that much real context for why Thrawn is such a threat. They keep saying he is, but how about throw in some examples of battles he won or some flashbacks or someone waking up from a rebellion PTSD nightmare. Then again the name Thrown keeps making me think of Prawn, so I wonder if we are going to get a giant shellfish man. Although with some of the Star Wars alien designs and the obvious names I guess that might happen. He also has experience training someone who has Jedi abilities but also wants to be a Mandalorian. Then again Grogu actually went to real Jedi school (2 actually) and has force powers.

It's not that complicated, like logically it makes sense. I just think the show hasn't done a good job really showing why these other characters care about Ezra and in turn why I should. Not sure if it is the acting or the writing though.

I guess but they had to know that a live action Star Wars show starting Rosario Dawson that was connected to The Mandolarian would pull in a bunch of new viewers. And they haven't done a great job making those viewers care for Ezra or even understand why he might still be alive. Which is surprising since I watched that little behind the scenes video with my daughter on D+ last night and people were praising Filoni for how he can write a story where you can watch it and get into it without knowing all the backstory. Because right now Ezra just reminds me of Homer Simpson's solution to get people to like Poochie: "Whenever Ezra's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "Where's Ezra?"".

I guess for me, at least so far, the show and the actors haven't really done much to show who Ezra is and why I should car about him. Or why he is worth making multiple dumb mistakes that could doom the galaxy. They could have at least shown that he was doing the Jedi mind trick on her to kind of explain why she didn't shoot him or the map.

I was thinking about various sci-fi type shows that I watch like Black Mirror and the different MCU shows and I realized that only on TV do technological advancements happen kind of in a vacuum. Which means TV people can live in a world that has very specific massive advances in science, like teleportation or interstellar travel or lifelike robots but they will still drive the same crappy cars and use the same basic computers and phones that we have. Even though technology doesn't work like that at all.

Interesting, I never watched the CG clone wars cartoon (although the 2D one was awesome). I just thought it was annoying that during the trench run in A New Hope the attack fighters couldn't shoot backwards.

I can't remember did he actually have sex with the med student or was that just a rumour based on how they were spending time together and how they were acting. Either way though, if you are some kind of supervisor of students, especially who aren't getting paid and basically require your approval to move ahead in their career, even putting yourself in a situation where it could be perceived that you had sex with a student should be enough for some kind of disciplinary action.

That episode was pretty funny. I love a good Colin Robinson A plot every so often. Although I did think that Robert Smigel was kind of wasted in his role. The guy his hilarious and is a lot of the reason why Late Night with Conan O'Brien was so funny and why the Hotel Transylvania movies were way better than they should have been.

One thing I have never understood about X-Wings, even going back to watching the original movies back as a kid, is why aren't the S-foils always in attack position. You're mostly flying through space so there is no air resistance, so have a more streamlined ship shouldn't make a difference. My other big take away from these for episodes is that Sabine is kind of dumb. She didn't shoot the map, or the evil Jedi guy when she had the chance. And she left her Mando helmet in the forest.

It's probably 30 Rock clouding my judgement a bit here. Because on that show Tina Fey made the "actors" on the SNL inspired show within the show complete self involved dumb-dumbs. So since she worked on SNL with Fallon, I can easily see him being like that and thinking that he has a great relationship with his staff, and the way he treats them is a hilarious joke they all love. While at the same time they actually hate it.