now i try to be amused
Supergirl
Teri Hatcher! So regal! I also enjoyed that they named Kevin Sorbo Lar Gand, because that was Mon-El's real name in the comics. She-Hulk shout-out! Marvel Comics exists in the DCTV universe!
Once again, I'm sad that they didn't do a full-on two-part crossover, and relegated it to the end of this episode. I wanted two whole episodes of All Singing All Dancing Superheroes! And let's face it, less time spent on Mon-El is better time. And I like him just fine outside this romance with Kara. Ugh, how many eps will this breakup stick for? I was SO HOPING he'd go back to his home planet to be a hero and a leader there now that he knows what a douchebag he was before. His people need him! Let him go lead them out of slavery! IJS.
I did enjoy Alex and Winn and Winn and Maggie, despite not liking Alex's demand that Maggie not do her job and also Alex brutalizing potential CIs. What the hell, Alex. What the hell.
Star Wars Rebels
While I didn't love the droid episode - I generally skip the droid-centric episodes - the Annie Get Your Gun interlude made me laugh out loud. If you can't dig two droids reenacting "Anything You Can Do," you must have something cold and dead inside.
And then there was Twin Suns. OBI-WAN KENOBI: BEST WORST MENTOR? SAD OLD DESERT HERMIT FINALLY ENDS DARTH MAUL. Oh Maul, how did you think it was going to end? To quote another teenage sociopath, you were never even a player. He was so entertaining, though, so I see why they kept bringing him back, even though I'll never forgive them for having him kill Satine.
Though I think Maul wanted it to end that way, to go out fighting his fiercest enemy, his best opponent, the only one who could give him a meaningful death.
I loved the posturing, how Obi-Wan won that fight before either of them even moved, because he's grown and learned since that first encounter on Naboo, while Maul was using the same moves he used against Qui-Gon and if there's anything Obi-Wan Kenobi was prepared for, it was that. If you don't think he's replayed that duel over and over again over the years, figuring out what went wrong and how to right it, how he apparently mastered a whole new style of fighting in order to counter it, well, you are mistaken.
So I thought that fight was beautifully underplayed, and then "the Chosen One is real?" "Yes." "He will avenge us." (And while I'm sure that was not his intention, he does finally manage to do it.) And the image of Obi-Wan holding his enemy in his arms as he dies, the way he once held his master and Satine, who was killed by him was so wonderfully, resonantly, melancholy.
I mean, would this episode have been better if we weren't subjected to ten minutes of Ezra being a dumbass? Sure. (Ezra, I'm pretty sure if you lit your lightsaber, the Tuskens would have taken off in terror. I think it's a pretty good bet they have an urban[?] legend about young humans with light swords slaughtering the hell out of them even before we get that weird interlude at the end of the Vader comic where he becomes like a god to them for massacring them.) I loved Obi-Wan telling him he didn't belong there, because he didn't. I mean, Kanan would have been a much more interesting choice, I think, if you were going to send someone, and if the story wasn't going to be about Ezra as another iteration of Anakin for Obi-Wan to try to course-correct, and I'm glad they didn't do that, then really it should have just been Maul and Obi-Wan in the desert. Because Ezra's not Space Jesus [or Son of Space Jesus], so his temptation in the desert signifies nothing. He's not even really tempted at this point. He just keeps making the same dumb mistakes over and over, though hopefully this time the lesson will stick? he's not just the new member of the Ghost crew now, he's a lieutenant[!!!] in Phoenix Squadron. Actions have consequences, Ezra! Come on!
Ahem.
Anyway. The beautiful use of the familiar theme at the end, and Beru's totally cribbed from the original movie voiceover made me cry. (Though why Luke looked like a little kid instead of a 16yo I don't know. The animation there was weird.) So that was definitely to me an emotionally engaging and satisfying episode, despite my ongoing annoyance with Ezra.
it'll be interesting to see what they pull out for the season finale.
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Teri Hatcher! So regal! I also enjoyed that they named Kevin Sorbo Lar Gand, because that was Mon-El's real name in the comics. She-Hulk shout-out! Marvel Comics exists in the DCTV universe!
Once again, I'm sad that they didn't do a full-on two-part crossover, and relegated it to the end of this episode. I wanted two whole episodes of All Singing All Dancing Superheroes! And let's face it, less time spent on Mon-El is better time. And I like him just fine outside this romance with Kara. Ugh, how many eps will this breakup stick for? I was SO HOPING he'd go back to his home planet to be a hero and a leader there now that he knows what a douchebag he was before. His people need him! Let him go lead them out of slavery! IJS.
I did enjoy Alex and Winn and Winn and Maggie, despite not liking Alex's demand that Maggie not do her job and also Alex brutalizing potential CIs. What the hell, Alex. What the hell.
Star Wars Rebels
While I didn't love the droid episode - I generally skip the droid-centric episodes - the Annie Get Your Gun interlude made me laugh out loud. If you can't dig two droids reenacting "Anything You Can Do," you must have something cold and dead inside.
And then there was Twin Suns. OBI-WAN KENOBI: BEST WORST MENTOR? SAD OLD DESERT HERMIT FINALLY ENDS DARTH MAUL. Oh Maul, how did you think it was going to end? To quote another teenage sociopath, you were never even a player. He was so entertaining, though, so I see why they kept bringing him back, even though I'll never forgive them for having him kill Satine.
Though I think Maul wanted it to end that way, to go out fighting his fiercest enemy, his best opponent, the only one who could give him a meaningful death.
I loved the posturing, how Obi-Wan won that fight before either of them even moved, because he's grown and learned since that first encounter on Naboo, while Maul was using the same moves he used against Qui-Gon and if there's anything Obi-Wan Kenobi was prepared for, it was that. If you don't think he's replayed that duel over and over again over the years, figuring out what went wrong and how to right it, how he apparently mastered a whole new style of fighting in order to counter it, well, you are mistaken.
So I thought that fight was beautifully underplayed, and then "the Chosen One is real?" "Yes." "He will avenge us." (And while I'm sure that was not his intention, he does finally manage to do it.) And the image of Obi-Wan holding his enemy in his arms as he dies, the way he once held his master and Satine, who was killed by him was so wonderfully, resonantly, melancholy.
I mean, would this episode have been better if we weren't subjected to ten minutes of Ezra being a dumbass? Sure. (Ezra, I'm pretty sure if you lit your lightsaber, the Tuskens would have taken off in terror. I think it's a pretty good bet they have an urban[?] legend about young humans with light swords slaughtering the hell out of them even before we get that weird interlude at the end of the Vader comic where he becomes like a god to them for massacring them.) I loved Obi-Wan telling him he didn't belong there, because he didn't. I mean, Kanan would have been a much more interesting choice, I think, if you were going to send someone, and if the story wasn't going to be about Ezra as another iteration of Anakin for Obi-Wan to try to course-correct, and I'm glad they didn't do that, then really it should have just been Maul and Obi-Wan in the desert. Because Ezra's not Space Jesus [or Son of Space Jesus], so his temptation in the desert signifies nothing. He's not even really tempted at this point. He just keeps making the same dumb mistakes over and over, though hopefully this time the lesson will stick? he's not just the new member of the Ghost crew now, he's a lieutenant[!!!] in Phoenix Squadron. Actions have consequences, Ezra! Come on!
Ahem.
Anyway. The beautiful use of the familiar theme at the end, and Beru's totally cribbed from the original movie voiceover made me cry. (Though why Luke looked like a little kid instead of a 16yo I don't know. The animation there was weird.) So that was definitely to me an emotionally engaging and satisfying episode, despite my ongoing annoyance with Ezra.
it'll be interesting to see what they pull out for the season finale.
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