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JG felt like Paul Rudd's better-looking younger brother.
Really loved Scooby Doo.
I thought Che was killing it before the joke swap. And of course the joke swap itself was it's usual fun, but that is definitely my type of humor
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2 hours ago, tennisgurl said:
there was a LOT of exposition about who the Doctor is and how all this works.
I think this season was pitched as a jumping on point for new viewers on Disney Plus, so I actually expected more of it.
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On 5/9/2024 at 3:41 PM, Stardancer Supreme said:
Back to Uncle Primark; why would you have an important person with direct lineage to the emperor doing essentially security duty? Yes, L'ak didn't appear to be either bright or ambitious, but why not keep him close to you if you aspire to lead the Breen? This Primark could have avoided this whole Romeo and Juliet scenario!
L'ak was given what looks like busy-work that doesn't require much thought. And the others are probably assigned to watch him.
I assume there is some sort of traditional Breen xenophobia which makes the Primark think that L'ak would never try to escape or partner with a courier.
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Several have asked why they don't fix the other towers. Discovery has a priority mission. Fixing the other towers, however brief it might take, is a job for a follow-up mission, one that you send after Burnham files her report admitting to breaking the Prime Directive so that you can assess the cultural damage.
I would not be surprised if Starfleet deems their mission so important that at least some violations of the Prime Directive are tolerable.
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I really appreciate Che for going with it with the not sending military aid joke.
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18 hours ago, Tachi Rocinante said:
is he the first one ever to go helmetless or something?
As far as I know, no one had seen what the Breen look like outside of their refrigeration suits in the DS9 era and lived to tell about it and I think it was implied they would kill someone who did, so it is likely they choose to be secretive about their looks all the way to the show's current era.
There's precedent for not knowing what another species looks like, with the Federation not knowing what Romulans looked like until TOS.
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55 minutes ago, Stardancer Supreme said:
So L'ak is Breen. He got an Erigah for cavorting with a lesser being. If that was going to happen, why didn't L'ak just kill his uncle? Unless the uncle did die... They should have made the reasoning for a Blood bounty a little clearer.
Erigah wasn't declared by the Primarch until L'ak killed the other Breen. There would not have been a bounty if he just killed Moll. Clearly, the reason was the betrayal.
She asked why he didn't kill his uncle. L'ak answered, "He raised me.". Perhaps this means that he values family and will eventually convince Moll to find kinship with Book.
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On 4/23/2024 at 3:32 PM, blackwing said:
They never explained who the second person in the van was. I'm assuming that Lana wasn't lying. There had to have been a second person in the van, the van stops and fairly immediately, the clown jumps out. No way could someone have navigated from the front seat out the side door that quickly. Nor abducted her and then the van drove off so quickly.
The van stops, then there's a cut, and the clown jumps out. The team certainly believed she was lying.
On 4/23/2024 at 3:32 PM, blackwing said:The whole storyline doesn't make a lot of sense from a planning perspective. If wife (I forgot her name already) was so unahppy in the marriage, then why doesn't she say "hey Caleb, I want a divorce. I know you and Friend stole $3 million. I want $1 million and a divorce. If you won't give it to me then I'm going to tell NCIS about it." Then nobody dies.
People are willing to kill over much less than $2 million. I might kill someone over $2 million if I thought I could get away with it.
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I've never cared about hair continuity, but then I was never bothered by what people claimed were bad wigs on Arrow, but which never took me out of the story.
Knight's father didn't seem too disturbed that she was deviating from The Plan. I half-expected the Far East job to be a test to show her that she was truly happy where she is now.
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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.
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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.
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I get the sense that Sam has a personal mission of his own.
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If they were hell-bent on having a controversial comedian who's been accused of being a hack, they should have gotten Jo Koy.
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On 2/14/2024 at 2:06 PM, blackwing said:
He at least could have asked about Julie. The writers have started to pretend she doesn't even exist.
They talked about Julie wanting a dog....
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11 hours ago, HurricaneVal said:
Did anyone else think when Sam was being all cagey about where he was staying that it was a wink to the fans that he's staying with his buddy McGarrett (from Hawaii 5-0) at his beach house?
No, I thought he was staying with Tennant.
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9 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:
What's the deal with age 17 and ABBA?
It's from the lyrics to Dancing Queen.
The joke swap is right up my alley and my favorite was the Michael Jackson one.
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Anyone else feel like Tendi has been given a secret mission among the Orions?
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6 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
Although why Mick Jagger?
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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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On 10/4/2023 at 4:38 AM, Anduin said:
A three-year cliffhanger. Wonderful. But it's not your fault, unless you're actually Filoni. Thanks.
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.
15 hours ago, Ilovepie said:This show was not for the casual Star Wars viewer. I consider myself somewhere above the average viewer, but I don't see how anyone that hasn't seen either Clone Wars or Rebels would understand or be able to fully appreciate this show without having to go online to get the backstories, and to me, that is poor story-telling.
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?
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9 hours ago, tired and hungry said:
Why are they killing(or pretending to kill) so many characters??
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.
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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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S01.E05 (BBC/D+): Dot and Bubble
in Doctor Who
I just don't think the answers are that important. The dots either found the creatures or made them, it doesn't matter which. From a storytelling perspective, the people needed to be eaten in a non-random order so that the Doctor could figure out that there was a purpose behind their deaths and name is just as good as any other field in a database and easier to show the audience. The show doesn't need to over-explain every detail.