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They're really leaning into "It was all about fertility!!" this season. Yeah, having a bunch of wealthy fundamentalists extremists overthrow the government and subjugate all the women was all because they were concerned about declining birth rates, uh huh, sure Jan. June trusting Lawrence because he's done things to help her with no benefit to himself is incomprehensibly stupid because it still doesn't change the fact that he was the architect for a society that kept her prisoner and ceremonially raped every month, not to mention repeatedly abused with a cattle prod. And now that he realizes how bad of an idea that was he wants to create a new society that will be all hearts, rainbows and ponies! Don't trust him June, this guy is really bad at creating societies! That shouldn't be a 3 strikes scenario, like if you mess up one society that badly you shouldn't get a second chance. I'm really hoping the lack of Samira Wiley this season isn't a writing flaw but that she's unavailable due to working on a show better than this one.

Yo Aegon, if you gotta brag about it and continue to bring it up long after the conversation has already moved onto like 3 other topics, it usually means you’re worth a one-star Yelp review “I’m only giving one star and that’s because it was over quickly because I couldn’t pretend to enjoy that anymore because seriously wth was that??”. Usually also means you’re pretty rapey, but the show already pointed that out for us. Daemon helping his brother up to the throne and putting the crown on was a nice moment. Alicent is the worst. Not only did she raise some little monsters that shouldn’t be fit to rule (except for in Westeros where monsters are regularly put on the throne), but she gave her only nice (though extremely strange) child to her monster son in marriage.

I like that we’re getting the backstory on characters instead of earnest fresh faced redshirts with no reason as to why we should care about them other then they’re part of the rebellion (looking at you Dak from Empire Strikes Back). Also the mid-level managers trying to climb their way up the ranks is also very relatable and oddly entertaining. Hopefully Coruscant has good divorce lawyers because Mon Mothma might need one since her husband is a raging douchecanoe.

In regards to the Gilead fans it can be explained because fanatics are going to fanatic. It doesn't have to make any sort of logical sense and all the Gilead survivor stories aren't going to sway them because in their warped minds it's all "why wouldn't you want to do anything possible to have a baby for God???". I hope this Serena storyline goes completely off the rails, like some soap opera level nonsense with Mrs. Wheeler locking Serena in the basement, stealing the baby, and then running around town wearing a Serena mask while screaming "Praise be!!!!" into people's faces while trying to convince them that she's Serena. I really liked that Moira pointed out to June that by becoming a vigilante she could ruin things for a lot of the refugees there. I know she's got PTSD and is justifiably pissed off about the abuse she suffered in Gilead but a lot of people suffered there and becoming a one woman revenge show could jeopardize things for people who are finding stability and trying to rebuild their lives. Although that being said, I still wish she would have gone all schoolyard bully with that heinous woman in the beginning (I mean they were already on a playground) and ground her smug face all into the dirt! If I never have to hear Luke talk about building codes on this show again it will be too soon.

Serena (again): I helped make Gilead so I should have a major leadership role! The men in charge of Gilead (again): "Uh yeah that's not happening" Serena (again): *shocked Pikachu face* Why is she continually surprised that Gilead will never give her a seat at the table? The only person I can really trust with any kind of decision making at this point on the show is Moira, and that's only sometimes because "I don't think it's a great idea to take a victim of PTSD into a suicide brigade cabin on the border, but okay, I'm driving"

Bleh, Alicent you're reminding me of my high school Algebra teacher who called my hospital room right as I was getting out of a 5 hour surgery to make sure I was really sick and tell me I missed a quiz. That's not a hall of fame to aspire to, although Rhaenyra is an absolute boss for stomping up there after giving birth! I'm sad Harwin is gone, he seemed like a good enough dad that even his secret kids wanted him to be their dad. I hope Larys gets eaten by a dragon, I don't care which dragon, and I kinda hope Sir Criston does too, and really if they wanted to go full Dynasty Moldavian Massacre and have half the people onscreen eaten by dragons, I'd be okay with it.

I’m really enjoying the show so far. It’s interesting to see the day to day people trying to live their lives under the Empire. Not sorry to see Timm go, and it was pretty clear where that was headed since he was the only character, and this includes B2EMO, not eye-banging Diego Luna at some point. How many “mining accidents” on planets did the Empire lay claim to? Because if memory serves they claimed the same thing happened on Jedha City after the events of Rogue One. Did they not have some other well thought out excuses? Curious what killed the clones on the ship that crashed on Kenari. Also curious what’s up with private security man who takes his job just a little too seriously. He’s like a mall cop that has a personal vendetta against someone who lifted a pair of socks from the sale rack at Old Navy.

From now on any viewing of A New Hope will be accompanied by pouring one out for Beru Lars, the gangster queen of Tatooine! Obi-Wan: "Leia your parents were exceptional people and they had an amazing daughter..now I must go check on your idiot brother who is probably choking on a rock or wrecking his virtual pod racer at the moment". It's good to see that Owen and Beru really did love Luke, but it's still kind of sad that Bail and Breha couldn't have taken both children because they seem like wonderful parents. I'll always be happy to see Jimmy Smits on my screen as Bail Organa. We could have an entire show about Bail and I wouldn't complain. Obi-Wan going back to full strength and throwing all those rocks at Vader was an awesome visual! Vader done messed with the bull and also absolved him of any guilt (which was more about Vader taking credit for the fall of Anakin than making Obi-Wan feel better but still had the desired effect). If they had those mini lightsabers in the Jedi temple for the younglings who were much younger than Leia, then I don't see why they wouldn't make like Fischer Price "My First Blaster" products for kids Leia's age.

It reminds of Return of the Jedi, when Luke thinks there's a chance that Vader might be able to return to the light from the dark side. I think if Anakin still looked like Anakin and Obi-Wan had that to contend with it would be a lot more difficult for him and he would want to try and turn him back. Vader doesn't look like Anakin, Vader is a horrible mask and half-robotic suit who only wants revenge. Everyone focuses on Vader's redemption back to Anakin, but Obi-Wan literally did everything he could up to and including dying to protect the Skywalker kids. I mean who the hell willingly goes to work in a non-unionized meat packing plant for years to watch over a kid who lives in a sand igloo raised by a snarky uncle? I know Obi-Wan loved Anakin, but he was there for the horrible turn to the darkside, he knows there's no coming back. Did anyone else notice how incredibly long they had the padawan braid on Hayden in this episode? It's like he was the oldest padawan in history, no one wanted to promote this guy!

Dammit show, giving me feels by opening with Anakin and Obi-Wan and then making me cry over a a droid's death! "Gimme a ladder!", "Do what she says!" Leia is the best! I knew it was too good to last and we'd never get to keep Indira Varma. Vader pulling a ship out of the sky and then ripping it apart with the force was awesomely terrifying!

No wonder Reva's in such a bad mood all the time, I would be too if I had co-workers so idiotic they can't even see Obi-Wan walking around like Vincent Adultman trying to smuggle Leia out of there! That tomb was super creepy and it makes it all the worse that Tera Sinube was the only recognizable one. A lot of them probably weren't even part of the jedi order, just force sensitives who were going about their everyday lives and then the creepy inquisition squad pays a visit. I like that Obi-Wan is finding his place in the force again although he'll probably have to lose that again once this adventure is over. Little Leia is a sassmaster and I probably scared my neighbors screaming "Leave her alone!" at Reva during their scenes together.

I don't care if it makes for problematic continuity, that fight was awesome! Although I'm super surprised that Anakin Skywalker, the biggest drama king in a galaxy far far away didn't jump on a pile of rocks while screaming, "Who has the high ground now Obi-wan??!!" A Quinlan Voss mention! It's good for Obi-Wan to know he's not the only Jedi alone in the galaxy, especially when Qui-Gon's been ghosting him from the Jedi afterlife. Sad feels for the conversation about Padme with Leia. With so much focus on the Obi-Wan/Anakin relationship, it sometimes gets lost that he and Padme were buddies too.

All the feels for getting to see more of Alderaan. Also I never knew I really needed to see Flea in Star Wars show, but yeah.

Too many emotions right now, but I can say if I had to watch a very emotional episode, that I'm glad I got to watch Dule Hill for at least part of it to ease the pain. I'm shallow and he's very pretty. Also I went glasses frame shopping with my husband last weekend and if he'd picked out the horrible frames that Randall was wearing, I might have filed for divorce. I want a red dress and a nice train with small things with meaningful stories behind them on the train for my grandmother when it's time to say goodbye.

I remember first seeing Justin Hartley on Passions because his character was named Fox, and that was hilarious! And also does no one remember Clooney's work as Sela Ward's cop husband on that show "Sisters" in the early 90's?

I know these are characters in a tv show, but did none of the Pearsons consider consulting with a doctor before deciding all these life changes for Rebecca?? Just getting new furniture can be stressful enough on a patient with Alzheimer's and moving them to a new home can cause a rapid decline. Kevin seemed to be the only one clued in that keeping her in her home where she had a routine and felt safe would be the best thing for her. Randall wanted to play family savior and didn't consider some of the real life issues they would need to sort out in order to have her move in with them, and Kate didn't really consider that a move across the country is unbelievably stressful even for a fully functioning adult who is aware of what is going on. I mean Rebecca doesn't even know who the hell Phillip is so it would be a little frightening for her to see him every day in the unfamiliar house that she's found herself living in. And how were they even planning on getting her to LA? A six hour flight, even if on a private jet, would be incredibly difficult for her at that stage and a several day road trip would hellish. Were they just planning on giving her patented Pearson inspirational speeches to calm her down the whole way?

Oh absolutely, it would greatly depend on how their relationship had evolved over the years as they matured and we didn't get to see that due to Jack's death. It was always assumed that my aunt would take my grandmother in when she couldn't live on her own anymore but it never would have worked once the Alzheimer's diagnosis came in because my aunt is a people pleaser and was the favorite child and would have never been able to tell her no when she needed to, and would have been emotionally distraught at every cognitive decline. Meanwhile my mom was able to take her car keys away when it was time, roll with the punches at every cognitive decline (whenever my grandmother would forget who her great-grandchildren were, my mom wouldn't get upset and wouldn't upset the kids, she would just tell them that their great-grandmother was playing a game that day where she was pretending that all of them were the neighbor's children and not to let on that they knew the game). And when it was time for her to get round the clock care, my mom made that decision too because no one else would have been able to. So even though she was the least favored child, she was able to step it up as caretaker in a way that no one else would have been able to because they were all stuck in the past in a lot of ways.

Damn you Billy Joel!! Now I'm even more pissed that Miguel didn't get to relax and drink wine with Randall on Kate's 12 hour long wedding day! Seriously, just a really solid, good guy that didn't get any credit for it for a long time. Honestly I don't know that Jack would have been a great caretaker to Rebecca in her ailing years as grand romantic gestures would have the potential to scare the hell out of her at a time when she needed routine with her illness instead. I can kinda see Jack watching and re-watching the Gena Rowlands and James Garner scenes from The Notebook for inspiration on what to do, whereas Miguel took fantastic care of her in her decline, and understood what she needed, but thankfully accepted help from the kids as he couldn't continue to handle it all himself. Poor Miguel when even his ex-wife was extolling the virtues of Jack. Now more than ever I kinda want a series where background characters we've never met before have flashbacks and flashfowards of them talking smack about the Pearsons, "You know he seems like an okay guy but if I have to hear one more inspirational speech from that sanctimonious douche, I swear I'm gonna shove that Pilgrim hat right up his...."

Miguel needs a friend, preferably not one named Pearson. Jeez, the guy just wanted one hour to do wine tasting and have fun! He's the one having to deal with the brunt of Rebecca's illness day in and day out, which is a disease far worse than depicted here. We thought for a long time that my grandmother was just an alcoholic until the booze was kept away from her and she still had violent mood swings with memory lapses. She was living with my parents (who were also elderly) and then the rest of the family, who never once offered to take her in themselves, fought my parents like crazy when they had to put her in a memory care unit...after she'd accidentally almost burned the house down about 5 times. Horrible disease, the long goodbye is awful. For an episode focused on hair, Madison's was awful, but she's also the mother of 3 young children so it's probably pretty true to life to just throw it back in a ponytail. Rebecca's haircut just looked like Mandy Moore with a shorter haircut, at least they didn't do some horrible 80's Dorothy Hamill bowl cut on her. Kate and Phillip just seemed like they were two co-workers at some other co-worker's wedding.

Poor Fergus, his traumatic childhood is understandably bubbling back up to the surface and poor Marsali knowing that he's not quite himself lately but unable to help him and having the added frustration of taking care of everything while her partner crawls in a bottle. I hope this storyline is over and we get to see more happy times with them because they really are two of the best characters on the show! I also hope Claire giving a copy of "Tom Jones" to Christie was supposed to be a joke because otherwise I'm not sure why she would have done it as he really doesn't seem the type to have his mind opened by a book. I'm just surprised he didn't burn it! Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, do not go walking alone with a teenage girl and start teasing about how all the boys in the village must have a crush on her. I know it was meant to be friendly but it comes off as creepy, in literally every century it comes off as creepy. Back up and ask yourself if you'd be comfortable with a 50 year old man having a conversation like this alone in the woods with Brianna when she was a teenager, because I'm pretty sure the answer would be no and would result in some Jamie Frasier flying fists of fury. Every episode needs more Rollo.

Did Selina just run off and leave all those cats? Rude!

So is Ennis hanging out in cowboy heaven waiting around all, “What the hell? Seriously, what the hell!” I guess now that we know the Dutton story we’ll get a monologue from Beth next season all, “this ranch was built on the bones of a dead woman! She was childless like me!!”. I’m glad Thomas and Noemi made it through. I need more shows with Sam Elliot, his goodbye with Elsa just damn near broke me.

I always thought Vince was the hottest member of the Crue, but I was way more into Sebastian Bach and Kip Winger (also a lifelong crush on Michael Hutchence, but I know we're talking hair metal guys). My skin was crawling watching those scenes of Pam with the lawyers. If that was how it played out in real life, that's just completely horrible (and this show seems to take a lot of liberties, I really hope it was not that bad in real life) .

Start of next episode voiceover, "Somehow by the hand of God I had survived, if I hadn't been wearing that horrible dress and had been in my native clothing then I surely could have stopped the attack sooner as my character does many improbable things. From this day forward, I vow to never wear another dress again. I will burn every dress I see and turn them to ashes in this godforsaken place!" I hope Elsa doesn't die, mainly because she would be the one character that anyone on the show spends more than an hour mourning and it would go on way too long. Plus it still wouldn't make a lot of sense for the story of the Dutton family to be told by some random ass great great great great aunt. Also you know what's a terrible plan? Leaving to kill horse thieves so the local tribe doesn't mistakenly think you're the horse thieves and kill your whole travel party, except that's exactly what ended up happening. Also, was the head horse thief with the speaking role one of Sheridan's cousins or something? Because the acting was not good, it was making me cringe a little to be honest.

Maybe they should have borrowed the generic 90’s song from Bojack Horseman 🎶 This is a generic song from the 90’s, everyone is wearing flannel! 🎶