#i also have citations unless they commit to another backstory 100% headcanoning this is a Path offshoot

[bereft-of-frogs]

my episode 3 thoughts:

we are definitely missing like at least 60% of what’s going on yeah we’re getting rashomon’d

related: disney really continues to struggle with how to break season arcs into episodes, this would have been much better with some kind of framing device in the ‘present’ to anchor the flashback, it is otherwise just unmoored, and this was also my critique of Andor (as one of the like 5 people who didn’t love Andor) that they struggled with the structure of the season as a whole, it turns out that hiring a well-regarded tv writer doesn’t do the trick, this has to be something coming from above which is odd and this is my only coherent #critic thought

guy who got really obsessed with the path of the open hand while reading the phase II novels: I’m getting a lot of path of the open hand vibes from this

I would 100% be enjoying this more if I hadn’t had my brain steeped in like a decade of poisonous internet discourse, forgot my whole plan to (yes ironically) remove the locked tomb from my brain so I could experience it for the first time again, if I were given the opportunity to remove any one thing from my brain like it never existed it would be the built-up plaque of scorching hot takes that have me preemptively cringing at things I’d actually really be vibing with. I need a cleanse or something. Detox.

um torbin is a baby wtf do they do to him. must protect. don’t like this. ☹️

also that one line where that one witch was like ‘who would miss them’ and everyone acted like that was a terrible suggestion but judging by past murder cult experiences yeah it probably actually would have been fine RIP Kevmo and Zallah sorry that guy took the scenic route to report your murders and apparently no one else noticed you had been turned to dust

these have been Thoughts.

ETA in the morning, slightly more coherently: I did like this episode a LOT more than the first two. Like after the first two I was like ok let’s give them a chance to see where they’re going. This is the first one to make me go OH #intrigued. Maybe just because I’m a sucker for cults. Actually really looking forward to next week this time.