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Yeah I’m with you. The show has flaws, but I’m still enjoying the hell out of it.

Correct. Only Obi-wan and Yoda know that Darth Vader = Anakin. And since Obi-wan presumed that Anakin/Vader was dead after his duel with Obi-wan, nobody else would be able to make that connection other than Palpatine or anyone else Anakin/Vader told. (Which is why it will be interesting to find out how Reva knows… because in the other Darth Vader canon stuff, he gets fucking pissed if anyone even *brings up* Anakin Skywalker, let alone someone else besides Palp knowing who he was before he was Vader.) As for the kids, part of the deal is that Anakin/Vader thinks Padme died before she gave birth, so although it was done for obvious “shoehorn” reasons, it would actually kind of make sense to hide her in plain sight as the adopted daughter of a prominent Senator and then hide the other kid on a backwater planet that nobody cares about; especially when Palpatine/Vader doesn’t even know the Skywalker kids exist.

The Outer Rim, where Tatoonie is located, is supposed to literally be like the Wild West, in terms of the Star Wars galaxy. No matter what the ruling entity of the galaxy is, they have trouble enforcing in the Outer Rim because it’s so far from the “core” where planets like Coruscant, Alderran (RIP), among others are located. Recall that in TPM Watto said they wouldn’t accept “Republic credits” there…. So the Republic, which was established for hundreds of years, had little jurisdiction there, let alone the Empire, which had only been around for a decade at this point. That’s why the Hutts/crime lords essentially rule the Outer Rim… because none of the established governments have cared much to do so themselves. So TL;DR… it would make sense that there wasn’t much talk or awareness of the Empire’s #1 enforcer/Jedi hunter since the Empire didn’t bother enforcing in the Outer Rim much at at all. Bail Organa probably was aware that there was a guy called Darth Vader who was hunting Jedi, but would have no way of knowing its Anakin Skywalker. Obi-wan thought he had killed Anakin, and likely told Bail the same thing. Thus, that’s also likely what Obi-Wan told Owen, so he also would likely not make any kind of connection between Anakin and Vader, even if he were aware of Vader. Also Bail wouldn’t really have any reason to tell Obi-wan there was a badass in a robot suit hunting Jedi, as he was already aware that the Empire was going full-bore hunting Jedi… the “who” is really irrelevant.

Yeah I was just doing live action, sans the sequel trilogy. I’d rank the 4-part finale of Clone Wars as an 8.5 for sure. If it were just released as a 2-hour animated movie, I think it would be on-par with Rogue One as hands down the best non-OT movie. When you consider the entire series, I’d probably knock it down to about a 7, given the amount of filler and extraneous episodes. At its best, Clone Wars is definitely as a good as ANYTHING Star Wars has released. Rebels would maybe be a 7.5 just because it also has some all-time great SW moments and is more focused/less filler than CW. Bad Batch right now I would put at like about maybe a 6 or so? But it’s just getting started and could certainly improve over time like CW and Rebels did.

Yeah in translating BYU into the Big 12, they strike me as being something very similar to Kansas State…. They’ll almost always be a pain in the ass to play, and every so often the stars will align and they’ll roll out an elite team that will contend for the conference title/be a top 10 type team.

LOL. Or... "Palpatine is back somehow..." I kind of feel about TLJ how I feel about the Prequels.... I have respect for Rian Johnson for trying something new/different... it just lacked in some execution and basic understanding of the characters, but I applaud the effort. ROS was completely lazy recycled trash, courtesy of the world's biggest writer/director equivalent of a cover band, J.J. Abrams.

The utility of bacta and bacta tanks have always been a big deal in the EU and the video games. You can tell that the crew making the new shows are huge nerds who were into that stuff because of all the little details like that. As for the Obi-wan show, we all know I'm the resident SW apologist, but so far I'd probably rank it about a 6/10. I'm enjoying it, but it (so far) has enough flaws where I can't rank it much higher than that. For reference, I think the rest of my rankings would go something like this: ANH: 9 ESB: 10 ROTJ: 8 TPM: 6 AOTC: 2 ROTS: 7 Rogue One: 8.5 Solo: 6.5 Mando: 8 BoBF (non-Mando eps only): 5 The biggest problem with the Obi-wan show is using TWO established characters to drive the narrative. As much as I enjoy the portrayal of young Leia, it's hard to generate narrative tension (such as the scene in the underwater hallway) when you KNOW they both *have* to escape. That's the obvious problematic thing about using established characters as main characters in new Star Wars movies/shows. That was the great strength of Rogue One and Mando - all new characters with uncertain fates. I was kind of hoping that the Leia arc would only be maybe 2-3 episodes, top, and then she would be returned and the rest of the story would play out in a different way. The longer it drags on the more they are going to have to cover their tracks with some sort of deux ex machina about why Leia only mentions "serving her father" in ANH. My guess they are going to go with some sort of "memory wipe" type thing or she's going to endure some trauma that causes her not to remember - either of those will be disappointing choices just because they have backed themselves into a corner by having Leia and Obi-Wan spend so much time together... and if they don't address it, it will even be more odd. So I'll continue to enjoy it, even with its flaws. I'm looking forward to seeing Vader/Obi-wan face off again and also see how they handle Reva and the "dead" Grand Inquisitor.

I'm putting a sawbuck on Kansas.

Yeah I loved seeing the "Simpson/Bruckheimer" logo at the start. Got all of the nostalgia feels going from the get-go. I hope that beautiful bastard Don Simpson is doing neverending rails somewhere in the afterlife...

I'm typically not a "fuck the media" type, but for fucking fuck's sake... FUCK the media for this kind of bullshit. Here we have one thing FINALLY that pretty much everyone agrees is awesome and here comes the "HERE'S WHY YOU SHOULD DISAGREE WITH PEOPLE ABOUT THE THING WE ALL THINK IS AWESOME" article.

Didn't it? We trade one type of stomach-punch loss for another. Six one way, half-a-dozen the other.

Jesus. It’s crazy that the total is 20.5 and I’d be damn nervous about taking the under. But I just think OSU is going to have nothing left in the tank after that 5-hours slug-fest and Arky is going to bludgeon the dregs of our pitching staff to death. So Arky could hit the over on their own.

Spoiler alert: we did. I’m sticking by my 15-2 Arky prediction. I may take the over on Arky runs there as well.

We beat Missouri State 23-16 in football this past year...

LOL no idea, but I'm like 99% sure Arky is going to bludgeon us to death after playing a 4+ hour game like this. They'll clobber us like 15-2 or some such.

This is insane. We are up 24-15 now. OSU just set a school record for runs in an NCAA tournament game... which is bonkers considering those 80s teams with Ventura, Inky, etc., that would put up 20 spots every other game. EDIT - 26-15 now.

The Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+ bundle is a no-brainer. Tons of great content.

Still not falling for this. Even if we hold on we'll just get murdered by Arky later with whatever jabronis we have left to send out to the launching pad. O'Brate is playing like Allie P. Reynolds in the 80s right now. Plate 20 or GTFO.

Sorry, I've been to the "OSU gives false hope after digging itself into a hole" show WAAAAAAY too many times.

And just because we can never ever have nice things, here's how the rest of this will play out: OU will make the CWS. We will play OU in the WCWS championship and predictably lose, probably after doing something to give false hope, like winning the first game and leading late in the second; so after providing that false hope we'll get run-ruled in the 3rd.

Meh. That was one of the 10 best college football teams of all time just disinterested for a half against a bad OSU team. We are a top 10 team playing a regional at home. The last 12-15 hours is much more inexplicable.

Actually, now that I think about it, the last 6 innings of baseball has basically been a microchasm of the end of the season. Entering the 7th last night was basically where we were right before the Tech series in Stillwater. Ain't no implosion like an OSU implosion.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

It really is astonishing to think that we went from being up 10-5 in the 7th inning of a winners bracket game to being down 12-1 in an elimination game in about 5 innings of baseball.

I'll need to check the advanced metrics and get back with you.