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Kobe is not in any sane top 5. Russell, Wilt, Magic, Jordan, and Kareem are better than him and I don't think there's a reasonable counter to that.

A New Hope and Empire are some of the best movies ever. RotJ is not, IMHO, on their level cinematically, but that movie still absolutely delivers. I know that the PT and the ST have diluted the brand to some extent, but the Star Wars pedigree is strong. So saying that Obi-Wan isn't necessary but isn't entertainment writ large unnecessary also misses the mark for me. And while it's also unreasonable to expect every bit of Star Wars content to hit the series peak... I also don't think it's asking too much to have a 6 episode miniseries teach us literally anything new and meaningful about its main characters. Obi-Wan is in on screen in Rebels for less than 5 minutes and we learn as much about his character during that time as we do in all 6 episodes of this. Rebels and Clone Wars are relevant because they're also prequels to events we know the conclusion of before the shows start but they're both much better about adding to the lore and the canon than this was. They're both much more "kids shows" than Obi-Wan Kenobi was, but this show had nothing on how tragic is was that Fives came so close to discovering the programming for Order 66 all clones had in them, even if we 100% knew he was going to fail. Nothing on this show matched the drama of Twilight of the Apprentice in Rebels even though we 100% knew that Ahsoka wasn't going to stop Vader or turn him back to the light.

This show remains really really good. The pacing is great, the acting is great, and it's just lovely to look at. Absolutely no notes so far. Also I think it's great that such a mainstream show has spent a non-trivial amount of time showcasing Muslim culture generally and Muslim joy specifically. As a lapsed Catholic, atheist white guy I'm not in a position to say how real or authentic it is, but it feels earnest and I think it would have been able to make it window dressing. It feels like an integral part of the show.

Gross, thanks.

HERPA A DERP

OOC, do you think the response would have been as strong without right wing media making it a thing?

Vaping should absolutely be banned whole cloth.

My take after the finale is that the show just doesn't warrant strong takes. They spent $150M to get us to a pointless anime fight that changed absolutely nothing about the status quo. The only reason this show exists is to have that duel, a duel that can only have one possible outcome. Again, does it pass a character vibe check? Yeah, sure. Like I said I don't mind a prequel. The prequel trilogy and Rogue One bring something to the table other than vibes. Even Solo did, to a lesser extent, despite the fact that it's not super likely we'll see on screen follow up to some of the things it teased. This show just doesn't have any of that. Why have Obi-Wan struggle with the force and in combat? In a matter of literal hours he goes from barely being able to use the force to pulling off one of the strongest displays we've ever seen on screen. He just... gets it back. He doesn't overcome anything, he doesn't have to sacrifice anything, he just turns it on when he needs it. Every major character in this show had a foregone conclusion with the possible exception of Reva, who was obviously going to "fail" as soon as she set her sights on Luke. The show kneecapped itself every step of the way. And while I don't care about the canon of it all so much of this finale just decides to iron out the wrinkles in the most awkward way. Obi-Wan calls him "Darth!" Like on the Death Star! Vader clearly wants revenge, but a stern talking to the Emperor stops that from happening, that's convenient! Obi-Wan dunking so hard on Vader makes absolutely no sense and makes his sacrifice in ANH seem unnecessary. But hey, turns out Obi-Wan gave Luke the toy he was playing with in ANH and he got to say "hello there," so check off those boxes I guess. What a wildly uneven series.

They are doing this in print with the High Republic era, but I know nothing about it or plans to bring it to the screen.

It’s really wild to think about the extent to which Vince has both advanced wrestling and held it back.

A dichotomy in one tweet. Not nearly as much water as @b_m_b_m_b_m needs, but also exactly what his bust would look like if his Salt Lake project was completed.

Men have power. Men want women. Transitive theorem: women have power actually. It’s no deeper nor any more sane than that.

All these 2A stans are fucking cowards.

I know the characters in this show and even the show itself are often not terribly smart, but what fucking sense does it make to come back with Soldier Boy, having just almost all been killed by a different, immortal supe that they clearly will not be able to actually control? Like thanks for depowering Homelander, back to Russia please. My guy has been outside his Pringles can for a day and a half and has killed 20 people.

Nature is healing

Honestly this show makes me MUCH less excited for Andor, which was one of the shows I was initially most excited about. If they can't give Obi-Wan fucking Kenobi a real raison d'être I don't know what they're going to do for Cassian. Hope I'm wrong.

... I refuse to believe that ring wingers are just catching onto this now. Is this performative? I can never tell with reddit, which is one of the main reasons it should be destroyed.

Keep politics out of sports! Now rise for the national anthem performed by some dude in the Marines and watch fighter jets buzz the stadium that taxpayers subsidized to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Chicago makes too much sense. I'm happy there will be matches at Gillette but that place is in the middle of fucking nowhere.

I don’t think she is.

It was.

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