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Not sure if meant Star Wars movies in general or the prequel trilogy, but in my opinion Revenge of the Sith is the only decent movie of the prequel trilogy. If you like Star Wars, it's worth a try.

Eddie and Steve talking about Dustin was wonderful. It was great that Steve realized Dustin still cared about him. A Karate Murray action figure is now something that absolutely has to exist. Merch team, get on it! I think the Upside Down already existed and that El pushed One into. Brenner created the kids through something related to project MK Ultra. I loved Enzo and Hopper talking about how hard it is to raise teenagers. By 1979, Eight had already escaped the lab. I wonderded about Brenner being an ex Nazi scientist who came to the U.S as part of Operation Paperclip too. I'm bad at figuring how old characters are unless given something specific (they say what year they were in a particular grade, or mention something similar) and I'm horrible with math, so I have no idea if the timeline fits. I'm hoping this is the case, because otherwise the episode with Eight and her gang was a total waste of an episode or just another backdoor pilot that never went anywhere. Also, of the heroic/good guy characters on the show, isn't El the only one who knows that Eight and her gang exist? At the start of the series, Jonathan is one of the quiet artistic ones. He is very much an outcast at school and doesn't have a group of friends like Will. Jonathan is into photography and wants to go to NYU. Robin did an excellent job of explaining why this isn't happening early in this season. She knows what the stakes and consequences are if she comes out to the wrong person and makes a move that isn't reciprocated. Her life will be miserable and she doesn't want to risk it. This is from someone who has her sexuality figured out. I'm not sure if Will knows what he is yet. Last season, I thought Will was not yet interested in girls, because not everyone starts being interested in dating and romantic partners the same time. This season, when I saw Will pull away from the girl playing footsie with him, I started to wonder if he might be gay after all. It's still possible he wasn't interested in her specifically, but it made me wonder.

And possibly refrencing Brodrick's earlier acting role in WarGames. He changes his grade and his girlfriend's grade.

I would say yes to both if that's an option.

I think he would have been better going after the second death, because then he would have had people who could say they were with him when the second death happened. At least then the police would have been sure that he didn't kill Fred. I can see where Steve is coming from. It it is the 1980s, chest hair was a big thing in that era.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I was so sure that's what was going to happen.

It took Lucas long enough to figure it out, but I'm glad he did. Steve hates being stuck with the younger teens, but he's good at keeping them alive and he will do anything to protect them. He is also aware of this aspect of his personality. Steve and Dustin are especailly fantastic together. They're not babies, but they are still too young to be left alone with all of the monsters and spooky stuff out there. Also, she knows Steve will do anything to protect them. I hated what Robin wore to the asylum. Nancy looked like a professional. Robin looked like she was off to Sunday brunch. She didn't look professional. I get they were going for a laugh, but it didn't work for me. Robin could have borrowed something that Nancy wore last year to the newspaper.

YES! I was trying to find a way to say this exact thing and you just did it better. This isn't a show about the 1980s as it was lived by real people. This is a show about the 1980s as seen through popular culture, especially kids action adventure movies, teen movies, and horror movies (plus a dash of 1970s conspiracy thrillers for the adults/older teens).

An elective would make sense. It would explain why you have people from different grades/years in a class together. My guess is that the students are willing to make a distinction between Will and Jane/Eleven, especially since Will hasn't been doing much to help Jane/Eleven. In thier minds, it's "Jane is a total freak and a wierdo, but her brother is okay and kind of cute."

Something about this episode that I liked and forgot to mention was the way Lucas is experimenting with his identity. Lucas, Mike, and Dustin are on different paths at the start of the episode/season. The three of them originally wanted to be popular starting high-school, but it seems that Mike and Dustin have accepted who they are, found friends with similar interests, and are okay with that. I get the sense that Mike and Dustin would be totally happy taking over Hellfire Club. They are coming to terms with the fact that they are "freaks," but also okay with that. Lucas likes his old friends, but he wants more. He isn't as happy being a "freak" and when he saw a chance to be part of the popular crowd, went for it. I think he also felt a twinge of regret. Yeah he was celebrating with the team at the end of the episode, but it looked like he wished he could have been celebrating with his other friends when he saw how happy they were after D&D.

I don't think it works as a gender swap at all. There's only a five year age difference between them, which is very different than the age difference being over a decade.

Someone in his late teens or early 20s having any kind of romantic relationship or even thoughts about someone ten is beyond icky and wrong. That kind of relationship is unacceptable on pretty much any and every level imaginable. However, by the time the characters actually have a relationship, she's in her late teens or early 20s and he's in his late 20s or early 30s, so it's a big age difference and one that might raise a few eyebrows, but isn't exactly wrong. Also, both people are legal consenting adults from the moment they met. (If they are a couple you like, I'm trying to give you a way to still like the couple without feeling gross or horrible). To answer your question according to Wookieepedia the answer is yes.

Last season, I thought Steve was so accepting of Robin because the drugs weren't fully out of his system and was still dealing with some residual effects. This episode made it clear that he is surprising cool for that time and place with Robin being a lesbian and is encouraging her to go for it. He means well, even though as Robin pointed out if she guesses wrong, there are dire consequences. Steve and Robin are fantastic as friends. If I have this right, Robin is a year behind Steve at school. I thought Mrs. Click's class was homeroom, which might have people from different grades in it. My high school didn't have homeroom, so I don't actually know how it works in the real world.

Steve and Robin would find someone (Suzie) who could hack into people's streaming accounts to find the drug dealer.

Maybe. If Will was interested in girls, I think he would have shown some sign of it. In the first episode of the season, he didn't seem pleased a girl was flirting with him. I thought it just meant he wasn't interested in her specifically, but it's possible he's not interested in girls at all.

I know this takes place 10 years after Revenge of the Sith, so probably within a year or two of Solo.

Leia being snarky to the person rescuing her is adorable. I was trying to find a way to say this exact thing. Thank you for expressing the thought. I agree. Leia can sense things, but she isn't always right and it isn't always accurate, because she's ten and had a rather sheltered life. What does Anakin/Vader know at this point? He knows his wife died in childbirth, doesn't he? He knows he has a son, but has no clue that he has a daughter? Why would each kid need someone who can use the force protecting them? Is the idea no one is protecting Luke from danger, so Obi-Wan, in an absolute emergency, could use the force to protect Luke, but Leia will be okay because she has guards (in theory) protecting her from harm? Overall, I liked the episode.

I refer to this as "the emo Skywalker gene." Women may carry it, but it is only expressed in men. (This, to me, explains the three generation of main Skywalker men in the three trilogies.)

Huge YES! to all of this. I was thinking when I first saw young Luke in a trailer that it would awesome to have a young Leia series, and now we are getting it and it's everything I wanted. Young Leia is exactly how I pictured her. Same here. It's exactly the relationship I pictured between them based on what we saw of Bail in the prequel trilogy. I'm getting a very "daddy's little girl" (but in a good way) vibe from it. I'm sure there have been many instances between them of "Okay, but don't tell mom I let you do this." The music in this felt like Star Wars in a way that the Mandalorian didn't until around episode 4. I'm thrilled that even though Williams won't be scoring movies, he'll still be working on Star Wars tv series.

Bull isn't a lawyer so attorney/client privilage wouldn't apply (although the show seems to think it does and I'm okay with TVLand logic), but would doctor/patient confidentiality work, because of his psychology degree? I want to know what Bull is doing next, because I can't see him sitting around all day doing nothing. I wish the series finale and hinted/pointed towards some kind of next step/new career.

Don't give Missy a spin-off, just have the show taking place in different locations. In Gilmore Girls when Rory was living in the college dorms and no longer living at home, she didn't get a spin-off. You had storylines with Rory in college, and storylines with Lorelai in Stars Hollow. Do the same here. Have storylines with Missy and Meemaw and storylines with George and Mary in a different spot. Also, Sheldon isn't living in the dorm fulltime. He is still living at home. I think he only spent one night in the dorm. He has the dorm for afternoon naps/study time.

I may be wrong on this, but selling alcohol requires a liqueur license and other permits. I don't think tobacco has the same requirements at that time.

Funny you should mention Scott Baio. When I was about 12 I thought he was so cute on Happy Days, especially during his first few seasons (Season 5 of the series) on the show. I saw those same episodes recently and I couldn't understand why I found him cute when I was 12.

I could see her having a secret crush on him. She pretends to tolerate the show because it's something Sheldon likes and she doesn't want people to know she likes something nerdy/geeky, but thinks Will Wheaton is really cute and will watch the show just for him. I like all of the other suggestions for possible crushes as well.

I think that's because George never took Mary's job seriously. I always thought he saw it as a glorified hobby of sorts that helped her fill the day and never realized or apperciated how much money she brought in. Granted it, she wasn't earning a ton of money, but it did help with the household finances. It was the early 1990s. It was probably him, Zack Morris, or one of the guys from Beverly Hills 90210. (Who else from movies/TV/music would she have a crush on (serious question, not sarcasim,snark)? I agree. If Mee Maw hadn't mentioned Mexico, Georgie would have been perfectly happy going to a nearby big box store, buying cartons of cigarettes, and then selling the boxes at an enormous mark-up. Maybe that's what gets Georgie away from the laundromat/casino. I actually think that would be a better fit for Georgie and Mary, because he could handle the sales/people side of things, and Mary could do the financial/bookkeeping side of things. Overall, I enjoyed the episode. I didn't like the dream sequences, but I did absolutely love Missy and Sheldon's heart to heart at the end. She is fantastic and always knows the right thing to say. It's too bad we never got a scene of Missy and Penny having drinks together as adults talking about Sheldon, because they are clearly the two people close to his age who know how to deal with him/handle him, and the conversation would have been awesome.