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  1. I think this is the first episode where I truly felt the chemistry between Whistler and Lucy, where Whistler is the straight-laced person who feels she needs to be more spontaneous and Lucy is the person to bring that out of her and Lucy wants a stable partner. I'm not sure if that is a solid foundation for a long-term relationship in real life, but it works in television. If people feel Sam Hanna is being underused, other people would feel he is taking over the show at the expense of the regular cast if he were being used more. Right now, they should be introducing the character in a way that doesn't confuse viewers who didn't watch the LA show.
  2. I think the best SNL political humor is when they just have no respect for the person they are skewering and go balls-to-the-wall in mocking someone. The reporting is that Katie Britt is on Trump's shortlist for VP and I'm going to be happy if SNL gets a chance to run that impression into the ground.
  3. I get the sense that Sam has a personal mission of his own.
  4. If they were hell-bent on having a controversial comedian who's been accused of being a hack, they should have gotten Jo Koy.
  5. They talked about Julie wanting a dog....
  6. No, I thought he was staying with Tennant.
  7. It's from the lyrics to Dancing Queen. The joke swap is right up my alley and my favorite was the Michael Jackson one.
  8. Anyone else feel like Tendi has been given a secret mission among the Orions?
  9. To promote the first Rolling Stones album with new music in almost two decades, which includes a guest appearance by Lady Gaga (explaining her appearance). They also did a small invite-only show a couple of days prior.
  10. The show felt consistently funny with no sketch I hated. I loved that they just went with a lot of Spanish with no translation. Did anyone else catch Mick Jagger's name on the sheet when they did that teaser showing the camera and setup before the telenovela sketch?
  11. Anyone else think that the secret might be that Renslayer is a female variant of Kang without the memories (or weird speech patterns) but with a similar drive for power?
  12. I wish there was a featured player with a last name starting with A or B to set up a future gag where Che sabotages them to kill their career so he can remain first in the intro. Monologue was very much my kind of humor. Christopher Columbus was just George Santos with an Italian accent. I appreciated the meta-ness of the space skit. I pretty much liked everything except the beach skit.
  13. I think this is just the new reality of streaming. Shows don't have to force themselves to put episodes out every year. A Star Wars TV show can do longer form than a Star Wars movie, but spaced out between seasons the same way a Star Wars movie trilogy is. I don't think there is a problem with only people fully appreciating the show if they watched Clone Wars and Rebels, so long as there is enough there to satisfy viewers enough. There was nothing wrong with A Game of Thrones simplifying things so that only someone who read the books would have the fullest appreciation of the story. Did you need the backstory on why Leia would seek out Obi-Wan to enjoy A New Hope? The non-Clone Wars viewer goes, "What do these statues mean?" The Clone Wars viewer goes, "What do these statues of the Mortis gods mean?" It's totally fair that the cartoon viewer gets a fuller appreciation of that moment. You didn't need to have seen the Rebels episodes featuring the World Between Worlds to get enough of a sense to follow what was going on there. This is all fine, so long as they explain enough of it in the future. Not all of it, because there's no time for that, unless you want some extra where Ahsoka goes into exposition for thirty minutes to Sabine while sitting around a campfire or in the cockpit of a ship passing time. I don't think advancing the plot was as important as making Ahsoka, Sabine, Ezra, and Hera likeable characters who fans want to see more of. I get that some people aren't going to immediately cotton to bratty characters like Sabine, but overall, I think the show succeeded. I see people saying they wanted more out of this season, but not a lot of sentiment that they're not going to bother watching a second season, unless it's some incel who thought the show had too much girl power. I think the show had the right pacing of not having the characters just be along for the ride because everything has to be written to advance a central plot. I think the show did enough to advance Ahsoka and Sabine so that they are in different places, both physically and emotionally, than where they started the season. As for the specifics of this episode, I wonder if Peridea is a special place in the Force and Sabine is only able to use telekinesis due to being there and that ability will disappear upon return to her own galaxy. Does a stronger connection to the Force here give Ahsoka the sense that they were meant to be on this planet instead of going back with Ezra?
  14. I suspect that some actors just feel that there comes a time for them to exit the MCU (or their contract ends) and if they're not going to be appearing in any more movies or TV shows, then it makes sense to try to get value out of killing off their characters. I don't know if Samuel Jackson is signed to do more stuff, but this series could totally be Nick Fury's last ride, a tired old man temporarily regaining some of his lost vigor to go out with a bang, saving the world one last time.
  15. I think Rhodey is not a Skrull, but is being written in a way that makes people suspicious that he is a Skrull in order to justify Fury fighting a lone war where he doesn't go for much outside help because he doesn't know who he can trust.
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