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I don't care to use that high horse circle jerk of a "website" if only the most irritating motherfuckers from Twitter that I ostensibly agree with are the only ones there.

As someone without a skeet account, if people want to post them, I'm gonna need an image of the post.

Honestly, my thought is that Ray Stevenson is the only part of this that was perfect for live action. Everything else would have translated so much better if it was a cartoon (basically, Rebels Season 5). The action works much better when there's more separation from real life. So I can agree that things always felt "off."

I enjoyed that.

Vaxxed?????

I don't think this gets resolved next week. I think it's setup for the Filoni movie or a 2nd season.

Solid ep. It sets up the finale and we got some good emotional beats between Sabine and Ezra. Also, the lightsaber/force combat was brief but very exciting. Ezra is easily one of my favorite Jedi characters (behind Kanan and Ahsoka). Also, Dave Filoni can't write a courtroom procedural to save his life. Opener was clunkier than a CIS Battle Droid. That said...

Weekend at Vitya's.

Look who we have here on the newest Roundtable meeting! Below Shoigu... is Black Sea Fleet Admiral Sokolov. I guess they weren't having staff meetings in the HQ after all.

It's really neat that the world looked at this genocide and just decided "meh, we don't care." Also, I don't know when this change happened, but Google lists the name of Stepanakert under its Azeri name "Khankendi."

The Russian Black Sea Fleet sure is taking it on the chin in this land war.

Slow and steady.

Ahsoka is indeed suffering from the Book of Boba Fett problem in that she is the least interesting character in her own show. This is Rebels Season 5 and Ahsoka was a side character in like 1.5 seasons of Rebels.

Yeah. I can definitely imagine myself sitting down with my dad--who loves Star Wars, but has never watched the cartoons--and him going "now who is this again?" And that sucks, man. I adore this because I'm DEEP in it. I had a whole pandemic to binge Clone Wars and Rebels. That's not how my dad spent two years. That's not how a ton of nominal Star Wars fans that got brought in by Mandalorian being adventure of the week engages with Star Wars. To fully appreciate the entire depth of Ahsoka the show, you have to have watched an 8 year old Disney cartoon series. The Marvelization of Star Wars is both the best thing for fans like me and the worst thing for the fandom overall.

Thrawn himself as a character comes across as fine. The voice is perfect. The character is approaching 70 years old anyway, so he's gonna look kinda dumpy. There are two problems with it though, and I think this is where people are disliking the look of the character. One is that The Volume's limitations are on full display. This looks like dogshit: There's literally a bright white dividing line in the back that separates the real people in the foreground from the digital backing shot. This is not done well. Matte paintings from the original trilogy look better. The second is that the gravitas of the character relies on foreknowledge of the character from Rebels (or expectations from the EU books). If that isn't something people are familiar with and this is a viewer's first reveal of Thrawn, then this comes off as underwhelming.

Sorry, I loved that and so did all my friends

Yeah. The ones I mentioned are extra-galactic (or adjacent to the Chiss) in the current canon. That's my bet.

I hope not. The existing canon stuff refers instead to

It sure felt like it.

That Kilo is turbo-fucked. The surrounds are blurred because it's an OPSEC thing... but we all know what drydock this was in. I don't know why whoever put the pics out did that.

She needs to keep that mess in the JC Penny's changing room at the dying mall where it belongs.

I gotta be honest, I sort of expected there to be surveillance in a theater, but I had no idea how good the night vision would be.

My dog had that several years ago. I recommend doing the recommended physical therapy afterwards. It'll help shorten recovery and get them back to normal. Also, my dog LOVED the water treadmill.

For one, that's probably the biggest near-miss we've had since the Cold War. I don't want to hint that it would escalate to a nuclear exchange. But a Russian jet shooting down and killing 30 RAF personnel would really cause some big escalations. I would imagine had this happened, the UK might have invoked Article 4 of the NATO charter to consult the alliance about how to respond. But what gets me is this reporting. The story out of the British Press is the pilot went rogue. That isn't what happened. It was an interpretation mistake between the Russians: But what's even crazier is that BOTH of the missiles missed. The first didn't lock and the second didn't ignite. This is where my religious upbringing comes to the fore. The potential for absolute disaster here was extremely high and not one but TWO extremely unlikely things happened one right after the other. That's nothing short of miraculous providence to me.

I pissed twice in the 30 minutes before Oppenheimer started and still barely made it to the end credits. 3 hours is apparently my limit. I'm gonna wait for this to show up on home streaming so I can hit pause about half-way through and Seven Samurai this bitch.