I’ve said time and again in my season finale reviews that a good finale doesn’t offer up a million twists and turns – it should take the story to the natural conclusion the preceding episodes have hinted at. And if that’s how one judges a finale, “In the Name of Honor” was a pretty solid […]
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The Book of Boba Fett – From the Desert Comes a Stranger
If I didn’t know going in that “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” the sixth episode of The Book of Boba Fett was the series’ penultimate installment, there’s no way you could convince me of that fact simply from watching the episode. Now, if you told me it was the second episode of The Mandalorian, […]
The Book of Boba Fett – The Mandalorian Returns
As eagle-eared viewers likely deduced last week, part of Fennec Shand’s plan to fight off the Pyke Syndicate involves getting our friend and their’s Din Djarin (aka Mando) to join team Boba Fett. I mean, when The Mandalorian theme music plays immediately following Fennec mentioning buying muscle, it’s kind of a foregone conclusion. The return […]
The Book of Boba Fett – The Gathering Storm Review
We’re now halfway through The Book of Boba Fett and I’m still not 100% sure just what the series is trying to do. So far, we’ve seen a complex and interesting story of Fett’s past – escape from the Sarlacc Pit, learning at the side of the Tuskens, deciding he wanted to be a part […]
The Book of Boba Fett – The Tribes of Tatooine
As interesting as it may be that there are new Hutts on the scene in Tatooine – and it is certainly interesting to see just how these cousins of Jabba are going to throw their considerable weight around in the coming episodes – the highlight of the second episode of The Book of Boba Fett […]
Fan Control: Why Giving Into Fandom Outrage is Bad for Hollywood
On Thursday, March 18, HBOMax (and by extension, Warner Brothers) released the “Snyder Cut” – writer-director Zack Snyder’s recut version of Warner Brother’s 2017 disappointment Justice League, the culmination of a years-long campaign by a very vocal segment of the internet who hated the original version of the film and demanded that the studio allow […]
The Mandalorian – Chapter 16: The Rescue Review
Well, that was a hell of a finale. Not only did the episode bring several of the season’s best characters together for one final assault on Moff Gideon, it also brought back (for good and for ill) one of Star Wars’ most important characters to take little Grogu under his Jedi wing and train him. […]
The Mandalorian – Chapter 15: The Believer
I’ll be honest, I don’t have all that much to say about this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, but that’s because the episode did its job. Yes, we got another excellent heist episode that utilized a number of good characters. Yes, there was a big, momentous moment in the arc of the series (more on […]
The Mandalorian – Chapter 14: The Tragedy Review
For my twelfth birthday, all I wanted were Star Wars toys. And boy did I get them. The coolest of the bunch was Boba Fett’s ship, Slave I that came complete with a miniature version of Fett and Han Solo encased in carbonite. Even as a kid I knew that The Empire Strikes Back was […]
The Mandalorian – Chapter 13: The Jedi Review
“The Jedi” was an exceptional 45 minutes of television, largely because writer and director David Filoni leaned into The Mandalorian’s biggest strength: Making sure to pair Mando up with characters strong enough to carry the narrative load of the episode. And boy was Ahsoka Tano the perfect character to bring out the latent emotional elements […]