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His new face is using the dead man's appearance, changed over to Doctor Manhattan blue skin tone. At least I think that is why. Yes, but why avoid showing his face before that? Consistently throughout the episode you always saw him either from behind or from the neck down before he transformed into Cal. You could hear the voice of another actor but you never saw his face.

I don't get the entire idea of Manhattan being able to see all points in time. If you can see the future you can change it, so how would he ever be able to see only a single outcome, and why was he resigned to the idea that there was nothing he could do to prevent himself from getting captured? Seems like all he had to do in that scene was destroy the vehicle with the quantum cannon on it and boom, outcome averted.

Why did they intentionally hide Jon's face for the entire episode aside from when he began to emulate Cal?

Almost certainly not since Favreau also directed Elf.

Interesting, I hadn't heard that. I searched and here's Lindelof's quote on that which seems to indicate he's planning to wrap most major questions up, which certainly wasn't the case in those prior works I mentioned.

Damon Lindelof didn't wrap up Lost, The Leftovers, or Prometheus in a satisfying manner so I'm not expecting it here, either. We'll see!

Did you see through to where he is talking about why he won’t stay? He doesn’t feel needed. If you mean the post-credits scene, yea, I saw it. Was that the only one of the series so far? I hadn't stuck around past the credits until that episode. Why he wants to leave is easy to guess. I'm sure it sounded fantastic to go to a new world far out in the solar system, but that little place would never keep him satisfied. But why does Jon want to keep him there? And how the heck would he ever leave, anyway? Long way from Europa to Earth.

I knew it was Sedaris the moment I heard the voice. Her usual super-jerky movement rhythm made it obvious too.

So if Veidt chose to go to Europa, why are they trying to keep him there? And why does he want to leave? To the second question I'm guessing he got sick of it VERY quickly...which begs the question of why Jon sent him there in the first place. Belated punishment for the squid?

Yelena is her sister in the comic, so it's safe to assume she's her sister here, too. Presumably the reason she said she has nobody left is that any of these people here she cares about die in this movie before she says she has nobody left in Endgame. I'm guessing Yelena lives and eventually becomes the new Black Widow as she does in the comics if the movie does well enough to suggest the character deserves more screen time beyond her death in Endgame. Taskmaster has always had the potential to be an interesting villain. His ability is that he has hyper-acute awareness of everything around him and absorbs the fighting tactics of his opponents instantly at the expense of a weak long-term memory, so he's a guy who tends to eternally lives in the moment to a greater degree than almost anyone else is capable of. It's an interesting trait that reminds me somewhat of the character in my avatar, Will Graham from "Red Dragon" and the Hannibal television show. Graham has mild autism and an EXTREME ability to empathize with others that allows him to envision likely motives and modus operandi of criminals, so the idea of altered Taskmaster's awareness level is a very different example of an altered mental state similar to Will Graham in that it leads to advantages that wouldn't be immediately obvious until you dwell on what the mentality can lead to.

Definitely the weakest so far...it's the first I haven't felt compelled to re-watch. I noticed Gina Carano really packed on some pounds between when she retired from fighting and appeared in Deadpool, but am I overreacting or did she jump up another size or two in this show? She's definitely got a large bone structure and should probably be about 150 or so most of the time which is 10 to 15 pounds heavier than most 5' 8" women would be, and she fought at a lean 140 to 145 for her frame. But she looked about 160 in Deadpool, and now she looks to be 170 to 180.

No word on the Netflix shows yet. My guess is they will announce something next year but we won't get anything before 2021.

OK, so what the heck is the guy who was her husband? Some sort of construct of Manhattan like the butlers and maids taking care of Veidt?

Now that we know the KKK outfit wasn't Crawford's but his grandfather's, why did Reeves want him dead?

What does "copyright striking" mean? Sounds made up. Certainly Disney is infamous for pursuing their copyrights more than any other content company I'm aware of, but this sounds over the top even for them.

Here's the emblem on his arm: And here's an emblem that's almost the same with a different styling and lacking a horizontal line at the bottom in Attack of the Clones:

There's no video scene, it's just that the Mandalorian who talked a lot had a character name in the credits that's almost exactly the same as a character Jon Favreau voiced in the Clone Wars cartoon. They didn't list a voice actor for the character, but fans are hypothesizing that Favreau voiced him in this episode, too.

I tend to ignore people positing lines of thought that are the result of people skipping ideas already posted in a long thread resulting from lazily skipping to the end, but this one's developing enough life to make me try to head it off before it keeps going. He's far more likely to be in the film as a Force Ghost than as a living being, but who knows, I guess we'll find out. I definitely wouldn't just assume they've resurrected him in that awful way comic books have done since the death and resurrection of Superman.

That seems like the best guess. Should we assume the guys who wanted him are part of the early First Order? I do know that the stormtrooper outfits being worn in the show are specific to the Empire and are different than the First Order ones shown in Episodes 7 and 8, but I'm not sure that means much. Here's a quick look at the differences below...the easiest to spot difference is the helmet style, plus the Empire stormtroopers have fake boobs built into the chest. Overall I prefer the First Order design, it's sleeker and more streamlined.

Any guesses on what were they trying to extract from Yittle?

HIGHLY unlikely. The screenwriters are different between the two and Rise of Skywalker was written at least a year earlier than Mandalorian. I think this was still a Boba Fett movie instead of a Disney Plus show back when the Rise of Skywalker screenplay was done. If this were the MCU with Feige keeping everything straight that'd be a possibility, but Kathleen Kennedy hasn't been doing that, and I see no evidence that anyone else has, either.

Yea, maybe they're only slow to physically develop, but mentally they progress as other species do.