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No idea how we have this intel, but... Note, this isn't "Putin told his commanders to attack on the 16th." It's "be prepared in case you get the order."

He sat for two interviews with Haberman for her book. That's the story. Haberman's access 'journalism' to dredge up these lurid, but inconsequential, morsels and sit on them for a book is what's most wrong here. Trump lying after the fact is no surprise, and honestly, not even scandalous.

Doing that smash cut with Clone Wars finale and Ep 3 makes it really apparent how much better written and produced the Clone Wars finale was than Episode 3. But it also lifts Episode 3 up to a level that it doesn't reach on its own.

Also, when everyone watching TCW gets to the last two eps of Season 7, realize that it happens concurrently with Star Wars 3: Revenge of the Sith. It even shares several scenes. And someone edited the Clone Wars Finale in with Episode 3. The video below shows the scenes where you can transition between the movie and the Clone Wars episode: It takes like 4 hours to watch this all, but it is so fucking worth it. Definitely watch Season 7 finale first (which, I know it's a ways off for you). But after that, revisit it this way.

And Finland seems incredibly fearful of crossing Russia!

Clone Wars are overall good. They're uneven from arc to arc. And some of the arcs just are not necessary. But instead of ferreting out which ones are or aren't, just go ahead and blast through them all. Just remember, it's a kid's show, but sometimes it's REALLY a kid's show. Ahsoka has the most character development. You might hate her at first.

When you do, watch them in this order: Then after that, follow it up with Season 7 in episode order. That's how TCW plays out chronologically. I watched it in that order and it was very nice. No idea why they didn't produce/air them chronologically.

I think I saw it as just speculation somewhere that after Mando settles down, he comes back to Tatooine to find kinship with Boba Fett. idk.

It was so easy to forget though. That said, with this, and with Mando potentially coming back here (maybe?), and with the upcoming Kenobi series... I kinda don't care to see Tatooine anymore.

Rey went to Tatooine at the end of The Rise of Skywalker. It was the Skywalker farm she buried the lightsabers on.

The more I think back on it, this episode was pretty mid. But it was good in that it wrapped things up and was largely satisfying. I don't think it is anywhere close to the best efforts of the season. I think ep 1 might have been the better between it and the finale. Agree on ep 3 being the worst. Like I said, I'm glad things got wrapped up. I'm satisfied. I thoroughly enjoyed the Mandalorian episodes. But I'm kinda glad we're done with BoBF and just want to move on to Ahsoka/Mando S3.

Mando's story is now in learning how to wield the Darksaber and grappling with the conservative nature of his beliefs and finding belonging among his new Tribe. That, and dealing with whatever tension there is in Grogu's Jedi training stuff--because I imagine we're not totally done there. Boba Fett's got no more juice to squeeze though.

Also... Peli Motto totally bangs the Majordomo. EDIT: And I'm ashamed to say, it took me all the way through the series to realize that the tribal chanting in the theme song is "Boba Boba... FETT!" EDIT 2: The more I think back on the entire run of the show, the episodes I liked the absolute least were directed by Robert Rodriguez. The camera work and tone in the scenes were just not as good as what other directors did. They fit the scenes in the final episode the most, but overall, I think Rodriguez maybe doesn't need to have any of the reigns from here on out.

I thought it was a pretty good finale. Packed with action. All the easy setups were paid off in full. For a series that was kind of uneven throughout, the finale being the big space western shootout I didn't know I wanted was a pretty solid landing. Now I'm very much ready for Mando Season 3.

Fett got his character arc in the flashbacks in episodes 1 and 2. That shit was awesome. The rest is putting together a crew to go Tatooine Tombstone on the Pykes. Which, is taking a bit, but I'm generally okay with.

This is precisely where I am. And if not one hint of the sequels existed, I would probably have more negative things to say about BOBF and Mando. We really don't know how good we have it until we see how bad it can get.

I know Tennessee doesn't matter too much in the grand scheme of the House, but the governor today signed a bill that gerrymandered one of the two dem districts in the state out of existence: The 5th District (yellow here) used to look like this... I'm now represented by some dude in District 6, which is... not really equipped to represent an urban area.

Keep in mind also, this is set in 9 ABY, 5 years after we saw Luke in ROTJ and 6 years before he even starts to train Ben Solo. And we're still 19 years off in universe from Ben Solo betraying Luke (28 ABY). Then there's 6 years between THAT and the events we see in the sequels. That is to say, people can really change in their understanding of a religion/way of life in 19 years--especially if it involves very close personal trauma.

It doesn't matter that much because they have SRBMs in Belarus. They don't really need much more outside of troops to man all these tanks.

Russia has missile ships in the Black Sea already--they're based there. And they don't need to launch a marine landing anywhere. And the distance from the Eastern Med to Kyiv is about 2,000 km--which is within the range of Russia's land attack cruise missiles. It wouldn't mean much!

This is in addition to a growing force of landing ships as well as missile ships in the Mediterranean. I'm beginning to really think this might just happen...

If anyone understands the character of Luke Skywalker, it's Dave Filoni. I trust him implicitly with whatever is about to happen.

So this is the reason, right? The BLS idiots are underselling it every month.

I could pass for white Republican. Gotta use that privilege for good!

If the GOP gives us clearance that attacks on the government are legitimate political discourse, then let's start beating up GOP politicians!