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Actually I thought getting ~700k viewers on FS1 in the 9:30 CT window was a pretty solid result. FS1 typically has the lowest ratings across the board. Note that our game had more than double the viewers of the next closest game on FS1.

Yeah seems like we'll definitely see some Bad Boy Pistons and almost certainly Jordan before the series is over.

I don't think it was originally two seasons.... IIRC they didn't announce season 2 was a thing until about halfway through season 1. Anecdotally it seems like the show is a big hit so I'll be very surprised if they don't go ahead with season 3. The question will be how many more seasons/how much ground to cover? I know the show started with the HIV announcement, so it would make sense for that to be the bookend, but will that happen at the end of season 3? Season 4? They could go a couple of different ways... season 3 could just cover the '85 season... or maybe '85-87 to see the Showtime at its pinnacle and then season 4 could be the final season, showing the "decline" from '88-91 or so and the HIV announcement but could then end on a positive with some Dream Team stuff? That would be cool.

It's kind of interesting that they are having the season culminate with the '84 Finals, given the outcome. But I'm also assuming that almost certainly means more seasons of the show, which I'm 100% in favor of.

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Yeah I was on a jury in a case where a step dad abused his 13-year old step-daughter back in 1987 (!) and then literally just left town. Long story short, the girl's younger brother (now a full grown man obviously) just happened to run across this guy in Wichita, KS and called back here to see if there was still an arrest warrant out for him... there was! They had collected a rape kit and everything back in '87 but through some kind of accident or something all of the physical evidence was lost. I remember the D.A. or judge or both (don't recall) at the trial basically explaining that real life isn't like CSI or whatever and that we should consider witness testimony "evidence" just the same as physical evidence. The wild thing was watching the video taped interview with the girl from back in '87 when she was 13 and then seeing her on the stand right in front of us when she was in her mid-30s. (This was several years ago) Oh and yeah the guy was guilty AF. IIRC he got like 25 years or something. And I think he was like in his 60s at the time so my man is spending the rest of his life in jail.

Yeah I can't imagine Zeb not showing up. This is Filoni's show that is a direct sequel series to Rebels. Zeb is absolutely gonna show up at some point. I'll tell you who else I'd love to see - Agent Fucking Kallus. Having him and Zeb show up together at some point to fight Thrawn would be *chef's kiss*

Hey congrats on the awesome win you guys. Happy for you all.

YOU THINK YOU AHH BETTER THAN ME??!!!

Yeah once their young core got their feet under themselves last year they were a good team. They started 1-6 but were 8-2 in the last 10 games, just barely missing the playoffs. Should also note that 5 of their 8 losses were by 4 points or less. Even with Kelce out and Chiefs WRs having the dropsies, it's still impressive to go in and win in KC. They are a good team and will likely be in the playoffs this year barring a bunch of injuries.

Filming on season 1 wrapped last October and they were well into post-production when he died in May; seems like not much time to really do anything about it after the fact. So yeah if his character survives season 1, it will be really interesting to see how they handle it. He's such an awesome character I'm really hoping the character doesn't survive so they don't have to do some weird shit (re-casting or face replacement or whatever). Would be cool to get a "young Baylen" story at some point... someone pointed out on Reddit how Henry Cavill would be awesome as a young Baylen.

Episode 5 is directed by Filoni AND they are showing it in theaters? Gonna be fucking banger. We're obviously getting Anakin and, if I were a betting man, I'd say this is when Thrawn will be appearing for the first time.

Not exactly, but what I inferred from his speechifying was that he thinks the whole system of Old Republic/Empire/New Republic/Jedi/Sith needs to be razed to the ground. He was probably hoping the Galactic Civil War provided that in some form of mutually assured destruction, but when the Rebel Alliance miraculously won and just set itself up just like the previous "Republic" regime, he felt like we were right back where we started and there needed to be a new war that would hopefully burn the whole thing down so we could start over with something new.... sort of a galactic chaos agent to provide a hard reset. And he thinks Thrawn is the man to help make that happen. Just my .02

Well the "redemption" hasn't happened yet. I believe he was referring to the idea of her making a bad choice (giving the map back to Baylon instead of at least attempting to destroy it or run away) and then redeeming herself later in the show by coming to the point again where she has to make a tough choice but make the correct one. I don't think it's any coincidence that they showed the recording of Ezra in the "previously on Ashoka" montage when he said (paraphrasing) "Sometimes you have to make the tough choice" or "the choice others can't make" (or whatever it was...something along those lines). She was put in a tough spot to make the tough choice and she didn't come through. I'm willing to be she does later in the show. And yeah - I'd think from a writing and characterization standpoint it's a tough line to walk -- establishing the character for those who didn't watch the 4 seasons of Rebels vs. fans who did watch. Just from my perspective, I think the show is being written with the idea that you HAVE watched Rebels. I don't know how it couldn't be since it really is basically a live action season 5.

I think people who think Sabine is acting "out of character" need to go back and watch the episode where Kanan is training her with the darksaber. She's petulant and pouty about needing to be trained. That's exactly how she's been acting, for the most part, when Ashoka is trying to train her. Sabine is from a royal family on Mandalore. She's been trained to fight from a young age and she also just has that Mandalorian thing of not liking being told what to do. The only person we've really seen her interact with in the Ashoka show (so far) is Ashoka and in student/learning mode. I think it fits exactly what we saw of her, in this regard, in Rebels.

Is he "obviously evil?" I'm not getting that vibe at all. Yes he's one of the "antagonists" but it seems to me that they are going out of their way to show that he became disillusioned with the Jedi (just like Ashoka did) and his actions (in his mind) are for the "greater good", versus someone like Palpatine who is just craving power.

She was definitely in the World Between Worlds there .... BUT.... it could also be a dream/hallucination since she has actually been there with Ezra.

Not dead. She's in the "World between worlds." Nerd mode: engage: It's a plane of existence that exists between space/time. It was the original mode of faster-than-light travel in the SW universe before hyperspace travel was invented. It's accessible to some - but not all - force sensitive beings (both Jedi and Sith) from certain locations in the galaxy that are "inflection" or "nexus" points for the Force ... and typically there have been ancient temples built in those spots. Ezra was able to access it in Star Wars Rebels and used it to essentially rescue Ashoka when she was dueling with Vader. There's a lot of talk of it being "time travel" added to Star Wars but I don't think that's the intention. I think the idea is more akin to the "closed loop" time travel theory; e.g. Ezra didn't really "save" Ashoka or change anything by using the World between Worlds because that was always the thing that had happened. I'm probably not explaining it very well but that's the concept.

Hell yes. So damn gorgeous and perfect.

We mostly played like shit on Saturday, but we did look good.

Totally forgot Kendall Briles is at TCU now. Even more reason to hate them. Go Buffs.

LOL that’s good. And yeah as much as I’m dying for some Thrawn, I’m also getting the feeling he’s not showing up until the last episode… or maybe the penultimate one. They’re using him like the shark in Jaws at this point.

Yeah I’m on record being bearish on Deion’s prospectus, but I’m damn intrigued to see what they will look like today. So while I have predicted them to fail, my extreme disdain for Sonny Dykes may have me rooting for Coach Prime today.

Yes I was. Comparing the state of college football in 2023 to the 1980s is pretty ludicrous, IMO. Ok that makes a lot more sense to me re: the additional money that would put them on par with the AAC. And great point there at the end as well. My initial thought was just do your NIL thing and absolutely dominate the AAC for the next 7 years... win 10+ games every year and they will definitely be in play for the expanded CFP... then you've put yourself in position for the next round of Prestige Worldwide shit in like 10 years but they can probably do it using the route you described and they get the prestige of being in P4 much sooner. OK guy, thanks for making my point for me, re: the recruting. Does "the ACC" have "a great rep" for putting players in the NFL, or does Clemson, FSU and Miami have a "great rep" for putting players in the NFL? Maybe or maybe not. What if, using their vast NIL resources I keep hearing about, they start firing out 10-12-win seasons in the AAC year in and year out... like they win the conference virtually every year and are in play for the expanded CFP every year? At the end of those 7 years they would still be sitting in Dallas, still have the vast resources and now they also have nearly a decade of really high-level success. Seems like that could be a good route for them too when literally everyone knows that all of the biggest ACC brands are planning on bolting for the SEC/B1G as soon as they possibly can. But then I could see the other route working as well... just thinking out load because giving up the media rights for 7 years just seemed crazy to me.

Still - Footing what they would have received in media rights for *7 years*, along with forking out NIL $ for "big time" players seems like a pretty risky gamble. Like what level of recruiting are the expected to elevate themselves to now? At the end of the day they are still competing with OU, Texas, Texas A&M and the rest of the SEC for the elite recruits in Texas. And they are competing with Ok State, TCU, Baylor, etc., for the next-tier down recruits... only those teams are all playing the vast majority of their games in Texas or at least in the region vs. playing half of their games on the east coast. So is the plan to beat out OU/Texas/SEC for the top elite recruits in Texas? Is that realistic? Because otherwise if they just raise their level of recruiting to what OSU, TCU, Baylor, etc., are doing that is no guarantee of success. You need great coaching that can develop players and have great schemes as well. You can easily have a top 20-25 recruiting class year after year and be a losing program. Will the big cigar donors continue to be happy about shelling out big $ year after year for a handful of 8-4 or 7-5 type seasons? And then especially what happens when the top ACC brands bolt for the B1G and SEC? You're right back where you were before, except you've paid like $100mm (or whatever the number is) out of pocket that you could have gotten by staying put. The whole thing seems risky AF to me.