The Mandalorian season two preview, I guess… The cantina was uncharacteristically quiet. It had been for a while now. Sure, patrons still walked through the doors and occasional merriment would spring up to echoes of the past and a walk down memory lane. Even the dissident groups of punters, known for flipping tables and throwing…
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Highlights Most Westworldly – S3, Finale
Fumble to Finish The pitch was good, the hit was even better – home run potential. Amazing performances from Tessa Thompson and Evan Rachel Wood followed while series newcomer Aaron Paul had also seamlessly slotted into the Westworld fold. We rounded the third base with a penultimate episode that teed up a thunderstorm finale. Then…
The Clone Wars finale reaction
Essential Star Wars May 4th – a suitable day to mark the release of the final episode in the final season of The Clone Wars – a show for which, for the longest time, we didn’t think we would ever see the true conclusion. Thanks to the internet, Disney+, and a tailwind of fan power,…
Mandalorian Musings – S1 Finale (Redemption)
The Darksaber!? We nearly made it through an entire first season of The Mandalorian without a face reveal or a jetpack for Mando, and while I would have rated the audacity to complete the series without either, I loved that the season finale gave us both. It was a stacked episode as nurse-mode IG-11 rescued…
Highlights Most Westworldly – S3, E7
“She won’t destroy the world, but he will” Penultimate episodes can tread a fine line. Writers will often want to keep their biggest set pieces, revelations and truths until the season finale and that can often lead to a penultimate episode which simply serves to jam it’s characters into their finale starting positions. Predictably, Westworld…
Mandalorian Musings – S1, E7 (The Reckoning)
Origami Tie Fighter Deborah Chow, you have restored my love of The Mandalorian. Episode seven, the penultimate chapter of the first season was nothing short of sublime, righting the wrongs of previous episodes by swinging back to the intriguing original plot and bringing in a squad of familiar faces. If I wasn’t four months late…
Highlights Most Westworldly – S3, E6
Halores Skywalker Halores unhinged. Episode six of Westworld‘s third season was a stacked deck, both from a narrative perspective as well as it’s plethora of Sci-Fi nods and winks, as Hale’s world was turned upside down (literally) in a conclusion that left her channelling both Anakin Skywalker and the Terminator all at once. But to…
Mandalorian Musings – S1, E6 (The Prisoner)
X-Wings, Report In I could immediately jump onto my soapbox about how episode six is the third in a row to largely ignore the narrative established at the start of the series. Sure enough, ‘The Prisoner’ is yet another standalone adventure, but it’s one with swashbuckling action, great characters, top tier cinematography and a GLORIOUS…
Highlights Most Westworldly – S3, E5
Abstract Villain To say that episode five was a Serac showcase would fail to do justice to the powerful storytelling that made this a seismic hour of television. Seriously, Westworld’s third season is relentless – it just keeps on getting better. I hope Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy et al. have big houses, because they’ll need…
Mandalorian Musings – S1, E5 (The Gunslinger)
Fun but Filler For all it’s fun set-pieces, call backs and typical dry Mandalorian quips, I wasn’t a huge fan of the general narrative direction of episode five. After last week’s detour to Sorgan failed to move the overall story forward, we’re once again offered another instalment that fails to progress our characters’ journey. It’s…
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