The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incomparable number 279 December [TS]

00:00:08 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► welcome everybody to the incomparable [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► networks continued festivity gala up [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► what what am I saying its life day [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► everybody this is nothing more than [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► everybody talking about Star Wars as [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► much as they like my name is chip [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► sudderth I am host of the two minutes [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► i'm bored podcast and the co-host of the [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► audio guide to Babylon 5 and jason has [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► graciously allowed me to warm his chair [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► before the west coast gang starts in [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► about an hour and a half at the time [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► that we record this [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► joining me to talk about a little [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► independent movie that came out this [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► week are some incomparable regulars that [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► you all know and love [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► starting with Andy and not go hello good [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► sir [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► hello I have nothing clever to say [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► because the magic of the movies is still [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► washed over me only saw it yesterday [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► Scott McNulty hello sir I've got a bad [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► feeling about this [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► yeah Tony sindelar hello sir tip you're [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► my only hope [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► Shannon sudderth hello ma'am [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► hello I and we have seen this little [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► movie and the incomparable network is [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► head-over-heels in love with it and I [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► wanted to check in before we start [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► talking about it at that i wanted to [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► talk about the links that we went to to [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► prepare for star wars the force awakens [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► how many of you were able to remain [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► blissfully spoiler-free I was absolutely [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► out came in there absolutely clean i did [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► not even see any of the trailers [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► goodness i saw a trailer or two but you [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► have some help manage to stay under the [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► radar for just about everything [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► tony i have seen that the teaser trailer [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► and I knew some of the character names [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► and casting i guess and like I knew the [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► character names from like merchandise [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► because I I felt like spoilers you could [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► you could hide from but nothing could i [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► get some merchandise so I knew like Ray [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► and and thin and that the the bad guy [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► was kylo Ren I I really knew not a lot [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► more than that [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► I i tried to pretty actively avoid [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► others and I think I've even been fed [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► but maybe not maybe I'd not digested or [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► fully eatin them but I i had got her [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► some kind of false false spoilers so i [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► think i actually maybe went in with a [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► less than zero information i went in [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► with this information [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► haha me when you do all the math so good [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► i had been told some things that did not [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► end up being true when it comes to [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► preparing to watch Star Wars movie [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► missing misinformation is the best [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► information and you even you even [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► triggered a he had like a Deadman switch [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► triggered to go while you were in the [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► theater saying haha you could you didn't [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► spoil me [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► I just I just wanted to celebrate my [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► victory ok because because it's not as [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► though I I thought for sure i get away [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► with this [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► and it's not as though that it took like [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► a small amount of effort [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► I mean it was planned out like weeks in [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► advance where I just tighten the noose [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► of information like tighter and tighter [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► with each week the week before the week [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► before I saw them but i thought i had [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► set up like a bunch of keywords that [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► were suddenly going to be muted in my [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► twitter client and so like to anything [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► anytime anywhere tweets about like Han [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► Solo or Star Wars or Leia or any of the [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► stuff i wouldn't see it had already [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► turned off images auto online exist [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► because well it's see that that was that [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► was a painful lesson because i remember [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► a time like some months ago where I'm [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► guy wake up and doing my reading my [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► morning news and I just see some texting [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► oh it turns out that the that the Kim [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► Kardashian well what do you know she has [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► a new naked picture of herself that's [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► going to be okay well i don't i just [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► don't want to see that and then of [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► course like 33 minutes later i'm on [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► twitter and without checking anything [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► just someone in the middle i subscribe [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► to like just posted the picture in their [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► twitter stream and I i had to reflect [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► upon the fact that no not seeing her [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► bare ass was in fact not a choice [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► available to me that that's what taught [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► me that if you really want to avoid [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► spoilers you also have commute pictures [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► and reenter the on and on until by that [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► by the weekend before I thought on [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► monday by the weekend of I was no longer [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► the visiting reddit or any others [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► site that aggregates things from other [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► sources and up 1 2 & 1 by the time I [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► entered the theater wearing headphones [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► with music and podcast going just in [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► case i would be around people who are [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► talking about what they had seen or what [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► they had heard and I did not take those [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► headphones off until the moment the [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► actual movie started haha Louis victor [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► so yes I did leave I did leave like a [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► blog posts and complete the look with a [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► link to that set to go like 15 minutes [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► after the movie was going to start [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► because I knew that if I smell tension [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► this at all [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► some people out there might have been [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► might have puckish Lee thought I know [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► I'll send him an email saying oh andy hi [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► we'd really like you to speak at Ted [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► next year [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► oh my god I gotta open that haha here's [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► how the movie ends like okay you're an [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► idiot you I hate you I hate life I i [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► could not make that happen so yes you [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► know as a doctor who fan I am accustomed [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► to hanging out with fans who are bound [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► and determined not to be spoiled for [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► anything in any future doctor who at [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► episode and the people who just dive [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► right in and they have to get all of the [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► spoilers i have never seen such a [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► conspiracy of silence about a movie [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► before in my life people were desperate [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► not to be spoiled not to hear anything [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► the only people that I was aware of who [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► were out to spoil worse and folks who [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► were really really unhappy about the ex [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► expanded universe no longer being cannon [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► but we really we collectively the people [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► of the planet [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► apparently really didn't want to be [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► spoiled for this movie [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► why do we care so much I think we'll [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► fuck LOL just quickly say that for [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► myself I have the Star Wars has such a [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► power over me because it's probably my [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► first real movie experience as a child [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► where I remember everything about it not [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► of course I'm sure that my mom and dad [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► took me to see a hundred one dalmatians [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► like when we release inside I know but [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► that I remember where it was [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► where was I remember the popcorn [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► remember every part of the experience [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► and I part of me just really wants to [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► relive that experience and part of that [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► is I don't want to know what's going to [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► what's going to happen just just like [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► any in the old-fashioned days [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► even movie trailers themselves had no [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► spoilers in there just really clear [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► assiduously cut to make sure that you [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► would get a sense of what the movie was [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► about but nothing that would not to wear [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► the movie was going and I've seen so [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► many movies where I've seen but by the [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► time you get to the theater you've seen [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► so many of the scenes you don't know [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► what the movie is completely about but [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► you can at least anticipate like if [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► there's if you know if you sense that [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► there's only about 20 minutes left for [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► this movie to go and like oh my god [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► wonder oh wait a minute we haven't seen [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► that scene where the three they were in [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► the camper yet and like they light a [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► cigarette ok solely I just want my brain [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► to screw me up and like take me out of [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► the movie to inventory the stuff we know [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► the stuff we've seen and so it's just so [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► cool to go in just like watching a movie [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► on turner classic movies you've never [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► heard of it it's just on and now you can [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► basically you don't know if it's a [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► comedy don't know if it's a drama in the [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► cases the this new movie I didn't know [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► who the good people were to know what [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► the bad people where I didn't over this [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► other stormtroopers on our side now are [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► there is Darth Vader still alive [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► I don't know it was just so cool to just [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► simply say I could all of my brain can [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► simply let go and let the movie wash [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► over me that was not quite so sure it's [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► one sorry i'll shut up now I think a lot [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► of nerds were chasing that feeling and [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► and you know I i assume that probably [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► for a lot of people they had these these [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► childhood memories of having seen it [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► fresh and I have to say I'm young enough [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► that i only what you know only one of [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► the original trilogies came out after I [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► was born and I don't have any memory of [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► you know seeing its star wars is this [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► thing is just kind of always been around [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► um so I don't have like a moment of you [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► know in my head of being like five and [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► finding out you know who drew Darth [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► Vader's has children or anything like [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► that but it did seem like a lot of [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► nerves were chasing that feeling of [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► wanting to like have as much of it be [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► like be fresh for them and I and you [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► know I was even a little disappointed [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► when I i did not want to see the poster [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► but the poster was getting like it was [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► everywhere on Twitter and I was not [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► smart enough like Andy and didn't have [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► images turned off so I saw a poster and [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► the poster has been holding a lightsaber [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► and it's like oh so he's a Jedi guess I [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► kind of wish I hadn't known that going [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► into the movie which then ended up not [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► actually being true it also has like a [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► death star shape thing in it now [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► like oh so this industry and I I have to [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► say I felt kind of like a little twinge [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► of sadness like knowing that I I felt [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► like those are things i would rather not [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► know I'm even though one of them not [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► true [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► well apparently the solution to avoiding [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► all these spoilers is you know to [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► basically have a job that is sucking the [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► life out of you because like I said I [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► wasn't looking to actively avoid [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► spoilers i did see the trailers and that [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► was cool with that but I was not going [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► out shopping to see merchandise i was [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► not online a huge amount of time reading [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► forums where I might see information so [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► it was yeah all fresh and clear and I'm [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► i'm glad i could have that experience [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► you know like like you guys I was 11 [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► when Star Wars first came out and we [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► know it wasn't like my first big movie [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► experience but it was one that with the [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► series with the other two movies [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► building up after it was a huge part of [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► my teenage years so i was really happy [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► to feel that again watching this one [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► Scott do you have similarly sentimental [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► feelings about the star was the star [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► wars is or or is or are you just [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► disappointed that this wasn't a star [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► trek movie [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► well I'm always disappointed when it's [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► not a star trek movie for the I I'm [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► impressed majority movies it's driven by [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► i'm gerry I've always supported me I'm [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► impressed by the the effort that people [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► went into to avoid spoilers [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► I don't have a job that's sucking the [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► life out of me i have been on the [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► internet a lot i try had no a compulsion [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► to try to avoid any spoilers and I [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► managed to not find out much about the [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► movie I saw the trailers I saw the [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► poster and i still felt absolutely [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► spoiler-free going into the movie [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► theater and and frankly I don't really [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► care about spoilers so that could be [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► another part that helped me buy you know [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► rejecting the whole notion of being [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► spoiled [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► perhaps I protected myself because I [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► feel like if I knew what was happening [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► in the movie i still would enjoy it just [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► because it's like you know reading an [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► article a synopsis of the movie is not [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► watching the movie right so if you just [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► know the plot [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► it doesn't really matter to me i can [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► understand that other people find great [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► enjoyment and being completely surprised [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► that this movie has almost the same [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► exact plot is the first Star Wars movie [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► but uh you know it's it's a you didn't [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► matter to me so i guess i'm successful [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► in by you know the only way to be [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► succeed is not to try now [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► did you to say that I don't think it is [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► but I haha i think that was Whooper [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► maybe well listen let's let's let's get [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► right into the meat of this thing and [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► let's fire off a perfunctory spoiler [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► horn because it although why would you [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► be listening to this if you didn't want [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► so here it goes [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► and let's let lay the cards down on the [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► table [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► did you feel like a seven-year-old again [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► did you feel like a nine-year-old or an [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► eleven-year-old again was did this hit [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► you right in the feels [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► yeah I'd say so um actually went on the [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► on the way back from the movie i kept [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► thinking that the it pleased me get it [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► pleased me not as an eight-year-old [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► child but as someone in his forties who [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► was an eight-year-old child when he saw [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► Star Wars for the first time so it's not [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► is that I would hate to get a to be [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► watching movies today with the exact [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► same frame of reference as when i was in [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► the second or third grade but it did [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► have that same sort of thing where I'm [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► just sort of on the especially the [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► ending during the last act [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► I'm sort of at the edge of my seat and [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► sort of thinking I don't know how this [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► is going to happen and when and when and [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► when Han Solo and that's right we we [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► fired the spoiler horse we can actually [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► Han Solo's your dad what area you know [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► when when when hot and and Kyle were on [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► that walkway like I feel as though [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► they've they've made kylo into a complex [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► enough character that this could go [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► anyway and then yeah and then knowing [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► the anticipating how Chewbacca is going [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► to react to that and you been and how [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► late is going to react to that [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► yeah it and especially the ensenes with [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► Ray [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► where once again it's aight i'll a this [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► dude definitely fit the follows the [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► template of episodes of episode 4 but [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► nonetheless ray is seem to have an empty [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► path in front of her and really had no I [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► really had no idea where she was going [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► to go either [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► and so when you have two people fighting [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► like that at the end not necessarily [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► knowing what the stakes are for either [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► of them except for deriving will never [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► get off this planet [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► yeah that's exactly the sort of feelings [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► i'm looking for and I guess that even [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► today as a grownup I am looking for that [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► wonderfully baffled an enchanted feeling [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► that you get when you're eight years old [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► or even 80 years old when you're [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► watching a good movie [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► sorry to get modeling [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► here but when I think about how I want [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► to die right first first gorgeous on a [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► bridge above a bottom of this pit the [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► first that my first thought is I don't [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► wanna I don't want to go and the second [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► thought is but if i have to go i want to [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► buy it [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► flying flying ate an x-wing fighter on a [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► secret mission somewhere I mean that [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► star wars is just part and part and [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► parcel of my childhood and my soul and I [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► was a little afraid going to this movie [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► I didn't love Star Wars so much that I [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► felt betrayed by George Lucas when the [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► prequels came out I I was afraid that [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► you couldn't I couldn't I wouldn't feel [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► that again when I went into the theater [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► where any of you like or any of you [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► concerned about that or were you were [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► just saying I'm here please entertain me [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► that night I i might be I might still be [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► concerned [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► um I mean I saw episode 1 in theaters [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► twice on opening day and was convinced [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► that I liked it for months [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► what if everything I'm feeling right now [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► let's take a look inside yourself you [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► know it to be true Tony but it took it [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► took it was literally months before i [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► realized that episode was a bad movie [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► months I was young but but not that [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► young [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► I don't think we're going to have that [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► problem with this 1i just over and over [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► by my reaction is then that they got it [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► right on [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► yes it revisits the basic plot structure [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► of the first movie but it's it feels [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► like it's at the same time it's still [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► speaking to eight-year-old in us and [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► it's also speaking to the adults in us [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► much more so than the original movies [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► did [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► there's the characters are a bit more [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► complex [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► there's more subtlety there's more [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► nuanced and and I think it works for [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► audiences of all ages whether you [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► whether you grew up with the Star Wars [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► movies or whether you're young enough [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► that this is the first time you've seen [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► one in the theater on it just feels like [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► they managed to strike this really [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► really good balance overall [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► all let me narrow my eyes at a my [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► co-panelists who is also my wife and say [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► Shannon yes are you telling me that you [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► think that star wars the force awakens [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► is a better movie than the Holy trilogy [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► huh [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► um here and there yes yes I do [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► I mean the verse movies are captured [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► lightning in a bottle [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► um and you know Lucas was able to throw [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► in all of these elements from you know [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► different entertainment sectors and mix [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► them together into something that grabs [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► everybody's attention on this one [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► you know feels is following that formula [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► but there's just a bit a bit more craft [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► to it this time people you know know [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► what worked in the first movies and [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► pretty much seem to know what didn't [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► work in the prequels and have managed to [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► you know and do a very good job of [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► revisiting I think this is just it's [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► easy i think i agree completely i think [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► that there's so many parts of this that [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► were better than the Holy trilogy was [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► definitely cut from the same cloth as [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► the Holy trilogy and first for one thing [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► oh my goodness it's so good to see [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► characters that are not just white dudes [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► it's it's I I will not I will not [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► necessarily complain that a great movie [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► is not a great movie because it has no [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► diversity but my goodness when you start [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► to see good female characters and what [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► you want to give one of the when the [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► poster quality characters thin and you [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► don't decide just cast a white guy in [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► that role when you get one of the most [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► someone who clearly seems to being be [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► set up as one of the Empire's like [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► toughest heavies and the first time this [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► character speaks in this in the silver [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► Centurion of stormtrooper armor and like [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► wow that was an odd acting choice that [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► this actor has made to have this [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► high-pitched sort of like that oh no [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► it's actually there's a woman in there [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► and I know that talk about the movie for [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► one second in the most positive way [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► because it's like of course like if you [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► put that info if a woman is wearing that [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► armor they're just they tailor it a [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► little bit differently but still woman [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► the armor you're just so used to like [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► the seventies and the 80 [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► even the nineties of mentality of [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► designing a costume like that obviously [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► the store if a female stormtrooper armor [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► is gonna have like molded-in breasts [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► no it's not it's just it's gonna be [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► storm trooper Robert but yeah the only [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► did I will say that the one thing that I [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► wish that they it's does another thing [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► that would have stolen from the original [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► trilogy [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► I wish that they had given me more time [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► to learn about these characters before [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► they got thrown into the soup [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► there are so many times where I don't [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► really know we get a long introduction [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► to Ray but we don't really know [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► whoo-hoo Finn is we don't really we got [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► a little bit of an introduction to [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► offend but now we've got all these other [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► characters like like Poe which I feel [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► like I'm supposed to think he's a lot [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► more interesting then I really think he [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► is [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► that's because I don't know what brought [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► him there [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► I love the lazy pace of the whole first [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► act of love episode 4 where they're [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► going to spend so much time on Tatooine [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► that gives us so much time to learn [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► about Luke's so much time to learn about [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► Ben and on that by and even and even [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► after the everybody like leaves Tatooine [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► they got they go to light speed X they [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► escaped and now they've got a long time [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► to do scenes inside the ship inside the [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► million falcon in which once again we're [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► just learning how do they when they do [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► when there's not a whole lot of action [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► when they do when they're just having [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► idle conversation that's the whole [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► that's the only thing that I really [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► missed out of this movie but not enough [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► to do to doing it for as a mistake [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► Andy that was a thoughtful criticism but [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► we're here for the gushing and the [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► mindless agile ation so I'm going to [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► turn it over to start my god oh my god [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► like when when hot spit and what was the [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► thing that I was gonna be disappointed [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► by is if they didn't have Han Solo be [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► hot [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► effing so lone god dammit he was Han [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► effing solo he wasn't like jet retired [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► general solo whose experiences with that [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► adventure long time ago had left him in [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► a more like religious and content [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► contemplatively mood that he never [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► mastered the force but he began to [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► follow the no no he's still a guy I'm [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► I'm afraid of captain and i smuggle [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► stuff for people who don't want to [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► bother with paperwork and i'm going to [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► talk myself out of situations and i'm [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► always going to be the coolest guy in [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► the room [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► x factor of 40 ok ok and when i'm in my [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► seventies i'm going to the coolest guy [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► I'm gonna have an awesome jacket island [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► down big deal it's time for Scott [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► McNulty gosh [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► Scott can you gosh about this movie oh [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► you say I could gush about many things [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► haha no I thought this was so I know [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► people i am a Star Trek fan that might [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► be come as a shock to some people that [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► doesn't mean that i'm also not a starch [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► star wars fan i enjoy Star Wars and you [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► like both kinds of music [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► country-and-western exactly i like Star [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► Trek better but hike star waters good [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► too [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► so much so that i've forgotten speaking [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► ish [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► yeah so it's interesting because JJ [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► Abrams obviously hiru he rebooted Star [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► Trek and he's doing Star Wars right but [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► it's not a reboot [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► so I feel like he kind of had a slightly [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► easier job it's not easy by any means [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► continuing the story of the original [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► trilogy than he did with Star Trek where [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► he's rebooting it telling the origin [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► story basically with new actors and [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► starting the whole universe / there's a [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► lot of baggage there there's a lot of [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► baggage and star wars as well right [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► so high expectations for either one and [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► I think he meant it for Star Wars I [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► think you did a great job i enjoy the [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► movie it was a lot of fun [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► I have some questions about the [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► economics of this universe and how our [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► trade negotiations [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► well but I was a good confused about [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► what the Republic was unions yeah we're [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► only on the ride home [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► it's like I don't mean it and some of [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► that is the baggage of I was heavily [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► invested in like the Expanded Universe [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► stuff and so I've read you know dozens [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► of books about what things are like in [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► the galaxy after Return of the Jedi you [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► know years 1 through 30 out and they [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► throw all that away which is fine [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► making movies that had to fit into that [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► would probably be a recipe for disaster [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► though there somewhere to feel very very [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► strongly about the head [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► don't write to me write to someone else [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► um [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► but it was a little bit like I don't [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► really go with get what's going on [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► what's the role of the right there is a [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► resistance and a republic but not a [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► rebellion anymore with the resistance [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► and and you know and i have since kind [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► of done the the background reading on [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► that but it is unfortunate that know the [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► answers to those questions are in the [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► movie that was my one like thing that [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► you know I didn't love that i'm up and I [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► thought about that on the ride home i [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► love i reminded me of how good an [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► efficient that opening crawl is not just [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► an iconic thing but didn't get it allows [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► them to just drops right into the movie [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► we're just let here's here's what's [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► happening no one knows her Luke [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► Skywalker is Leia is still around but [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► she's a general and there's in there [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► there's a there's a reason there's a [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► fight between A&B and they just sent [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► this guy to go get something important [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► he's really awesome even though you've [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► never heard of [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► I'm like okay I'm with that last time is [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► it hasn't already five minutes of boring [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► expositions just completely out the door [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► and unnecessary as it especially it [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► works well proposed it's like we're [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► gonna see a little bit of Po and then [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► he's gonna go away for a long time he's [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► gonna come back later and we don't [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► really have time to show you how awesome [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► he is we just need you to know and like [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► content can be with us and I thought it [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► was I thought the the kraal was [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► effective but it wasn't a and B it was a [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► B and C and that's where i was confused [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► right because a is the Republic be is [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► the resistance and then there is a the [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► first order so i assume and I could be [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► wrong here that the first order is one [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► part of the galaxy the Republic's [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► another part of the galaxy and the [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► Republic is kind of funding like the [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► iran-contra think the resistance for the [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► first order i guess i don't have that [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► that's always that's always been the [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► problem it's like the the thing about [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► Star Wars is that I think that every [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► work of fiction can get away with [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► anything so long as it follows the rules [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► that it itself setup and I think the [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► original trilogy set up that we're not [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► we're not telling you that it's [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► important to understand what the [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► political structure the galaxy is like [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► we there's this thing called the Empire [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► do they control the entire galaxy or [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► just the parts of the galaxy where the [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► story is taking places are other other [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► empires other democracies outside it [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► this is not at this is this is not the [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► the Holy trilogy is not a story that [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► asks you to ask that question i think [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► that the this new movie does the same [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► thing i was confused too because it did [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► make me one [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► think so when Anakin killed the Emperor [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► at the end of Return of the Jedi does [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► that so that wasn't the head guy at all [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► that was just the guy holding the office [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► that there was someone else who could [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► come in and substitute was it was he [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► training his own replacement while all [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► this was going on and if so what it was [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► did he intend to like give this other [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► guy that we're seeing is played by andy [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► serkis the promotion / Vader and he [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► never attended was either Vader had [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► already hit the glass ceiling [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► yes it's not confusing stuff i was able [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► to put it out of my mind after a [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► question because i don't think it was a [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► question that this movie was saying [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► something that was worth thinking about [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► it's kind of an interesting take on [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► unlike war 2i mean you know in the again [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► in the stuff that no longer counts it's [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► like return of the jedi happens that's [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► the big war and we win and then like [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► they sort stuff out afterwards and like [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► you know basically like hot and like I [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► have to like sneak away on vacation from [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► their legitimate boring jobs to have [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► adventures where is like in this version [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► it's like no there's still a war there's [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► always generates on later but like it's [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► add it in some ways it's kind of sad [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► that like the characters we love our [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► like like you know later as a general [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► now but she's still like camping out in [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► the base with the you know the [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► camouflage nets and stuff and it's like [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► wow you know the the version of stars i [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► thought it's like I thought you would be [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► wearing nice clothes and running [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► everything and everybody just be doing [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► what you said because like you won the [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► war it's like no war is not done and I [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► guess that's new that's how Wars go but [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► that's rough for your escapism right [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► there cute droids though [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► yeah we do want to see I i was when i [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► was walking and thinking about what what [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► what I would like to see this doesn't [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► mean that i would be that this would be [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► the best choice for anybody but it's [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► like yeah you were you you leave we left [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► these characters in the early eighties [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► thinking very highly of them and we want [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► these people to be happy and I wanted to [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► say i would have been really upset if [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► han and Leia were at the worry were [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► enemies in any way and I would hope that [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► Leia is now the president of the New [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► Republic or at least some sort of senior [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► official late like you said you want to [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► see or she has at least a comfortable [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► house she's in her sixties now she [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► doesn't have to wear a poncho and be [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► rained on and and everyone stand in [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► front of back illuminated plexiglass [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► tactical displays she's the person who [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► goes out to try to create the big plans [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► and solve the problems and prevent the [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► war not the one who has to fight the war [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► so it is a little bit disappointing but [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► nonetheless that is to me come back to [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► something that I like I'm saying about [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► the Han Solo console was still han Solo [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► leia was still the layout that I was [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► that I I grew to love because one of the [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► things that I was kind of afraid of was [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► that they do this really we seem to be [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► an obvious move saying well if if Lucas [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► of is a Jedi then by now lay is a Jedi [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► to you know she is she [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► i I don't I don't doubt that she could [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► become a Jedi but I if I know this is [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► that my definition of this character is [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► that she feels as though she can fight [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► she said she's so effective and so [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► important in the way that she fights [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► that she can't take a year off to do [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► training and even when she if she did [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► training her most effective move is not [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► going to be holding a lightsaber and [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► fighting one guy it's going to be [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► commanding an army and fighting a half a [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► million guys or people I've got Marvel [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► Comics syndrome oh I'm so sorry I want [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► everything to have an explanation [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► there's an ongoing for that now it's [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► topical I want people to care so much [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► about explanations i want Pablo Hidalgo [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► from the Lucasfilm study story group to [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► send out no prices that's the kind of [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► that that's the kind of nerd gene that [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► I've got so when I go when I go into [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► this movie and I see the recap of the [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► trench the trench fight i see a big [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► second death star kind of thing I see a [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► bolt of energy coming from the death [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► from the from Starkiller base that blows [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► up planets that you can see from the [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► planet that the resistance bases on I [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► want everything to make sense and it [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► doesn't quite do it for me and I get [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► kind of agitated Pablo Hidalgo the [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► aforementioned guy from the story group [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► was asked on Twitter today [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► about how long it takes to get from [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► planet to planet and whether what makes [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► sense and his answer is ships in the [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► star wars universe travel at the speed [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► of plot [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► yes and it yourself it's just a show i [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► could I should really just relax yeah [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► and that is why the second time I saw [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► this movie I liked it a whole lot better [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► than the first because I stopped asking [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► all of these questions of it and i'm [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► curious if the those of you who have [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► seen it more than once [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► what do you think did its it better the [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► second time I think it did for me the [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► first time I had two major distractions [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► are the first one was every time they [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► did a call back or a line quote or a [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► plot point that mirrored a new hope I [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► would sort of feel like I had to not my [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► head it's like okay yeah they did that [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► but not necessarily thinking yeah your [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► neighbor just noticing it quite a bit [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► the other distraction was our [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► thirteen-year-old sitting on the other [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► side of me you know constantly grabbing [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► my hand or going screaming in my ear and [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► you know that just enjoying it so [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► thoroughly so this time since it was [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► just the two of us i was able to you [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► know focus a little bit better and just [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► ride the story a bit more easily this [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► time around and be like you know yeah [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► they did do a lot of retreads but [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► they've done interesting things you know [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► with those retreads or beyond those [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► retreads that had made it work for me [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► yeah I felt as though and this this [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► might be the afterglow of seeing another [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► another star wars movie have really [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► enjoyed I felt as though in retrospect [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► that there was so much that was familiar [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► of course I'm willing to wait until the [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► second movie that is in the next movie [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► in the chain to decide if it was a bad [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► thing or not because I could I could see [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► them making a conscious choice that this [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► is this is this isn't a prequel this is [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► the next part of the story that ended in [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► 1982 1983 so it has to be of that place [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► and of that time and given that we're [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► going to be getting a lot of people who [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► saw that movie as kids as well as a lot [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► of brand-new fans [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► what better way to get into this [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► 21 movie every year sort of schedule [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► then make a movie that sort of half the [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► original and half teeing things up for [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► the next part of the story so if they if [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► then if the next one involves road ran [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► like having his hand cut off and being [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► told that Han Solo is not his father [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► then I think that we can say that here [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► and there is darkness not gonna run had [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► not a little heavy-handed get it out you [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► know everybody in this conversation a [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► dollar for that part i'm not blaming you [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► for it but it was worth it some tangible [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► extra gland that big yet so it's i was [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► able to forget it was pretty heavy [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► that's at the start but I thought that [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► they sort of loosened up near the end we [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► started the the second life it's it's a [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► 5x structure then that would mean that [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► the last 2 X what I thought were more of [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► now we now that we're we've reestablish [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► the the the sky in the ground in the [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► atmosphere of this movie movie series [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► we're going to now be able to move this [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► vehicle into new territory it would it [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► would it would have sucked if we did not [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► get to see one last grand han solo [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► adventure [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► it would have been it would have sucked [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► if I got a brand-new totally brand new [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► movie with totally brand new characters [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► and at the end well [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► oh my god are you heart soul and that [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► must make me make you layout that's [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► right you know what we're old and we [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► can't fight the fights anymore but you [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► know what I've got a feeling that the [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► galaxy is in pretty good hands now [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► fuck yes you know you want to see a real [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► these these people really being who they [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► are [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► yeah I was surprised is sitting in the [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► theater is like we're getting a lot of [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► Han Solo and I was like oh I I think I [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► know what why this because it's gonna be [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► your your last big doses but you know I [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► mean that was fine i thought it was it [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► was it was great to see him and it was [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► fun I and yeah you know i mean i've been [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► reading a ton of reviews and you nerds [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► are finding all these things to hate [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► about it and you know those are things i [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► mean i don't know it is some of them are [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► interesting and some of them are awful [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► but a lot of them are not things that I [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► experienced sitting in the same movie so [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► i think that's that's probably more [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► about some of them than it was about the [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► movie but I mean it's hard i think this [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► there's a lot in here that that [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► I wanted to establish connections to the [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► original trilogy and some people are are [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► off put by that but I feel like that [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► that was you know JJ Abrams reaction to [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► what people wanted because because the [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► prequels did not feel they felt like [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► this very different thing and I mean I [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► think for better or worse that was what [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► George Lucas wanted to do it like this [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► is you know setting a whole different [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► era of the world that the universe is [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► different than and my ideas about what [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► is fun and interesting maybe different [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► than what your hideous horrible [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► that's fine just think people in my [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► movies and you're gonna see me in anyway [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► and so there's a lot of like reorienting [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► here which does make me excited and very [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► interesting to see like well where do we [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► go from here right and and do can we [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► move a little bit away from the number [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► of lines that have to be you know [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► callbacks entomologist of things well [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► Lucas in the prequels said his and my [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► marvel comics syndrome [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► you know he's eating he's just he's just [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► laying all the groundwork he's [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► explaining everything that happened up [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► to a certain point this is entirely this [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► is entirely new and i think the trip the [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► prequels were about world-building and I [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► guess that what they were a cautionary a [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► cautionary tale about what happens when [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► world-building becomes too much I've got [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► a question for you Scott [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► yeah and uh aren't you did you did you [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► like this movie I did like this movie [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► and I'm excited to see the next movie [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► I i had so i I couldn't stop myself only [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► seen it once so I should admit that so [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► perhaps when I see it again i can see [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► your opinion is clearly invalid then [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► it's true I can't stop thinking about [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► how the first order [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► where did how did they make all these [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► stormtrooper outfits when they just [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► recycle the Empire stormtrooper outfit [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► would that be cheaper [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► these are the things i was thinking [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► about as i was watching the movie i'm [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► sure they spending chrome plating that [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► one awesome data storage arrested yeah [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► exactly which was very awesome looking [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► for like the the two minutes that it was [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► in the movie [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► hopefully we'll see more of that [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► character yeah I thought your is part of [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► my you know remaining spoiler-free thing [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► was I didn't realize that Han Solo would [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► be such a big part of it and I didn't [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► realize that Ray was basically the main [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► character when looking at the posters [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► and things and the trailers you surely [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► couldn't tell that from the merchandise [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► and [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► that I had no idea and I think she's a [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► great character so I was quite pleased [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► with that but it was just as surprised [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► as I go [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► this is the person that this move these [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► this trilogy is going to be about that's [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► cool i have no idea and I don't like her [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► I liked Finn I like to all the [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► characters BBH super cute i like the [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► moment when bb-8 it r2d2 that was a kind [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► of cute i asked i talked about what we [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► were talking about this [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► my wife and I and she said that TBH [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► feels like a little baby that r2d2 head [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► which I thought were you droids [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► I assume that's how Troy's new joys come [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► from they reproduce it somehow i assume [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► i don't know other droids in the star [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► wars universe is a troubling topic [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► because they're basically they're [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► intelligent but their slaves and we're [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► okay with that [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► I don't have healthy without see did you [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► notice that that something kind of threw [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► me when when she meets bb-8 for the [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► first time as though he's just some [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► human traveler who almost got killed by [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► this scavenger and just saying oh well [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► town is that way go on and go ahead [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► whereas everything in the original [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► trilogy simply said that we they are [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► really really personable appliances that [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► we could just simply put a bolt on them [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► that makes them not want to run away or [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► bake some makes it makes them feel pain [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► if they run away the one time in this [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► movie when somebody referred to PO as [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► BBH master that kind of threw me [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► well enhance knowledge is causing ball [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► right it's clear that only eats a [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► generational issue where is goldenrod [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► ball there you go modern opinions about [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► droids and rights are different than [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► what they were in Hansel this generation [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► and I assume there will be a movie about [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► that I i wish but that seems unnecessary [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► I just I just don't want fanfiction to [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► creep into the actual movies i don't i [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► don't it's ok to write fan fiction but [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► hey remember like in the in the in the [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► special edition of the cantina scene [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► there was somebody soon as I kind of [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► slumped over next to the cantina band [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► what was his story my answer is very [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► precious i don't i don't really care i [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► don't think there was any idea you're [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► too late there there's so many [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► yeah exactly hinson pushes that you know [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► that that Finn and po could become an [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► item it's just like that the subtext [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► could go either way I think we're too [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► late but it really is it's like it's [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► like when there's a gold filled ok and [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► first discovered you just pick up gold [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► nuggets off the ground ok that's fine [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► and then all the Nuggets have picked up [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► off the ground been found and so now you [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► can pan for gold in the stream ok but [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► now the streams panda and now you have [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► to go and like within with bulldozers [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► and pulled down hills and crazed down [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► trees and for me that third step is what [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► happens when the people who grew up [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► being fans of this series start to write [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► the books in the comic books saying that [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► you know but remember the time where [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► this part kept failing [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► how about a story about the The the [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► player the the shipyard that made that [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► that that part that made a defective [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► Iran does not ride okay okay i think i [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► read that segment of the Martian [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► actually have fans with fans will strip [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► it down to its its its essential part [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► they use all all parts of the work it's [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► like the Bison they are you know they'll [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► strip mine it down till there's nothing [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► left but we live in a world right where [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► there's going to be a star wars movie [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► every year and have a rest of our lives [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► I i want to be excited about that but [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► that does blow and like I i mean i've [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► seen all the Marvel movies in theaters [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► and I i guess i will just get like [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► that's just the thing i'm going to do [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► for the rest of my life now is and that [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► feels a little nervous but I'm excited [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► about the idea of it but the but yeah [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► what am i signing up for here I was [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► never super into the X the Expanded [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► Universe but I remember when the timothy [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► zahn trilogy first came out and how [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► blown i was blown away i was by that [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► color against of the high water mark for [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► quality [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► yeah i mean that universe I i am reading [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► new Star Wars and it feels wheel [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► you know I mean I consume thousands of [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► pages of I mean this might be harsh but [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► I'm gonna say substandard quality [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► writing but yeah that's like the little [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► activity come on this was the way to go [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► I didn't use the word garbage but it was [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► not very you know because it was like I [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► need more star wars and this is this is [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► the only way and get I'll take just put [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► just jamming my beans that's absolutely [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► yeah tell me about a planet where [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► they're out where there's a ton of [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► rancors let's go [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► I don't care what has been cut with I [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► don't care that was actually a warning [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► on this is that police are finding out [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► that people are actually having their [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► eyeballs popped up if they take this [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► drug you really are that hard up for new [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► scag so we're so we're sort of on the [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► verge of something else like that [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► because we're going to be getting we're [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► going to be getting a movie every year [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► and I gotta I gotta say that you know [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► the law of averages tells us that we're [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► going to have some of those expanded [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► universe movie star-type experiences on [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► the screen [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► I feel really good about where this [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► movie positions us but we're going to [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► have a young han solo movie [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► I mean it's not like you're worried that [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► there will be a first bad Star Wars [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► movie we got that and that's not that's [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► not a threat that cover times three [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► yeah we're good work up but yeah it does [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► start to you know what's this what's [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► this what's the quality of the whole [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► work start to look like as we have more [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► and more but I mean there's a lot of [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► their I was try attempted to I didn't [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► make it through all the way I attempted [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► to rewatch all the clone wars cartoon in [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► preparation and i only made it about [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► halfway i mean there's like there's many [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► many many hours of that show which I [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► mean I guess some people would not count [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► the same caliber of the movie but I mean [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► there's a lot of stars media out there [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► that still can't even with all the other [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► stuff throw away right although i'm [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► still I'm never going to watch another [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► star wars again because they've d [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► canonized jimmy eat our talk Tartakovsky [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► i can't pronounce his name is animated [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► clone war series it's it's great and [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► they d canonized it 18 and this playlist [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► or there's a lot of your own as into [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► what we're about to like now it's [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► troubling stars thought police you know [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► i'm curious as to what your favorite and [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► least favorite section of the movie was [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► because I've got my answer and it's [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► right but but i'm good i'm curious cuz [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► this i think this movie's got three [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► phase its there's like the buddy the [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► buddy movie phase at the beginning the [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► discovery the this discovery / fan [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► reconnection part [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► in the Middle where Rey and Finn [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► discovered the Millennium Falcon and [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► then han Solo and all that and then the [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► big climactic fight at the end i'm [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► curious what you thought the strength of [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► this movie were and what the biggest [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► weakness was let me throw it to Tony you [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► know I really like the beginning uh with [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► with just like establishing ray and [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► seeing what her life was like and I felt [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► like there was so much they were showing [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► us with her picking through the Star [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► Destroyer and and you know turning in [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► her pockets of scrap for like food and [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► living in the like hollowed-out 8080 at [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► like that that really did a lot for me [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► in terms of like establishing who this [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► character is showing us what is the [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► world like and like that was really [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► exciting and then and then Finn shows up [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► and actually I thought like even before [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► we get the scene where Han Solo walked [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► in the money in pocket and he's in his [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► home up like they did a lot to really [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► sell me on how great this was gonna be [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► and how fun this was before dipping back [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► into that well of let's show you some of [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► the big the characters that you you [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► you're coming back for that's me [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► it's hard to pick just 1i definitely [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► that probably the biggest fan of the the [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► last act of it because that's where the [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► payoff of all these really cool [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► individual scenes were where we finally [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► get to the point where here is where we [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► we may not know still who these factions [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► are what their who the big cheese's or [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► whatever we do know that we have two [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► people fighting that's not just missed [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► it's much more complex and much more [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► satisfying than Vader fighting Luke [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► Skywalker because you have two people [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► that are at the very beginnings of their [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► careers so to speak [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► I the more than the ice I really started [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► to love this movie [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► when I started to realize that oh [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► they're intentionally saying that kylo [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► Ren is not Darth Vader he is he is [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► literally a copycat pedes Livi's put [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► himself in the shadow of what the [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► greatest villain of this entire series [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► and he's really not great at it yet he's [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► not only not graded at yet but he is [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► sincerely conflicted about what his do [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► he knows that he wants to go away from [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► his father's path [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► he knows that TV with his future he [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► feels is with the dark side of the force [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► and with the with the you know the quasi [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► Nazi regime and he's got this really [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► cool outfit and stuff but you see him in [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► private moments think I'd i feel this is [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► what I want but my heart is telling me [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► to do something else and I don't know [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► what to do and in a much weaker movie [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► when he the line with which he kills Han [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► Solo that could have been just as cool [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► as someone razon in the final draft say [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► oh my god it's such a cool this could be [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► such an awesome like this could be the [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► trailer and everything is gonna be like [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► so it's gonna be animated gifs soon as [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► this thing in his family's home video [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► instead it comes off as sincere saying I [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► it's what i have to do is really really [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► hard he's really starting to cry and I [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► don't know what to do and I think it [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► will you help me learn how to salsa yes [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► I will help you and then this isn't hot [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► good i'm going to kill you now it's ok I [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► i have to get the only way to stop you [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► might leave me from wanting to like be [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► good like you was to kill you and ok so [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► I've killed us and I can move forward [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► and you just that's just it you realize [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► that that that Ray is having almost the [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► same sort of thing where only cheese in [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► a world that she know she doesn't know [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► about this larger world above your being [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► abandoned as a kid on this desert planet [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► having to scrape by on her own and so [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► the idea of her having to pick up that [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► lightsaber and figure out what to do [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► with it but just knowing that here is [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► this person who's killed our friend this [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► guy that this guy that I was starting to [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► idolize or that it's the living legend [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► now dead legend and some of that really [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► would have liked to have learned some [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► more from its not hatred spoke to people [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► who don't know what they should do but [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► they figured that if the purpose of [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► being here together right now is to [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► fight each other and you don't know [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► where any of these people are going to [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► go in the future thank thank God they [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► didn't they didn't just kill off kylo [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► Ren at the end of the movie like a [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► certain other Sith Lord i could mention [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► from serve another another trilogy [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► because i really want to find out what [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► happens to kylo Ren next that's true [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► pretty much every one of these [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► characters i really wanna know what [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► happens in the next to protect [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► the dark small comes back to but don't [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► worry about it that's absolutely what [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► still get it [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► okay well I'm we're looking to converse [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► in the cartoon robot leg is that here's [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► here's one let me let me just let me [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► just say that i don't i'm not insisting [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► that my my user interface to the [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► Expanded Universe is the correct one [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► all I'm saying is that ever since I was [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► a kid with a comic books for the [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► novelizations worth with everything my [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► take has always been that if it happened [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► to the movies it really happened [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► everything else is a very pleasant and [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► entertaining speculation about what [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► could be happening [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► that's totally fair are you saying that [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► you didn't buy it when the star like [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► burped boba fett backup [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► why didn't I i heard the perp as far as [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► i know that boba fett is dead dead dead [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► dead dead because I did it didn't he [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► didn't come back to life in them in any [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► of the movies which means that for for [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► me my center of reference how I choose [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► to define Canon and Nikon Canon which is [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► again my just my own choice [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► let's look at work is that we can agree [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► maybe maybe darth maul's not dead but we [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► can create has been cut in half we can [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► agree to anything have been falling down [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► a very big fan which there are many of [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► the star weekend TX exactly the thing is [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► like unfortunately he didn't lead and [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► play that video game long enough to get [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► the extra guy he should have jumped and [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► then like look for one of the health [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► packs before that that was I don't think [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► I don't know not as hostile against the [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► the prequels as most people are but [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► everybody will say that my consistent [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► complaint is that it looked like they [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► had some person who is writing a video [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► game just taking take his out his or her [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► outline and let's make that into the [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► outline for this movie like how how else [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► to explain and for no apparent reason [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► there's going to be like energy force [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► barriers that slam down randomly make so [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► much about as much sense as having a [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► bridge with no railings over a giant [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► chasm in the middle of your star [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► destroyed planet [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► sure she would have words about the [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► happen okay first of all you've got [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► stormtroopers you're not even bothering [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► to give them names that you don't know [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► and I don't you got your not meant to [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► that the management does not say you're [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► part of your valuable part of the team [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► there's promotion advancement and [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► recognition it's like what we could but [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► we decided that we did we did the cost [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► analysis that putting two railings up [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► will cost about eighteen dollars replace [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► you will cost seventeen dollars and [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► eighty cents so to save twenty cents [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► we're not going to bother to put up [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► around one line to the brainwashing stay [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► away from the edge if you fit if you're [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► a good storm trooper you wouldn't fall [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► off so they're just trying to get more [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► conscientious and more agile [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► stormtroopers I thought this movie did [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► something better than any star wars [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► movie previously it's done even I was [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► trying to think of is there in another [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► example of the buddy movie genre [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► infiltrating star wars and you've got [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► han and luke looking for the princess on [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► the death star but George Lucas doesn't [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► really have buddy movie chops know in a [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► ho [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► oh my god it is that is that is the [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► moment when the grand just spread across [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► my face and kept going until it started [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► annoying people under the seats are on [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► either side of me the the chemistry [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► between those two characters up I i [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► think i think somebody said that before [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► I want up I wanted nothing more than Ben [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► and po buddied hi genes throughout this [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► entire movie I would've been content [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► with that possible I mean it's kind of [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► fluid though because you have in and [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► poke make a great pair but then thin and [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► ray you were asking about what the our [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► favorite parts of the movie were one of [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► my favorite parts is after thin and Ray [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► run into each other and you know are [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► trying to figure out as they get [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► attacked and attacked and they start [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► sorting things out and they start you [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► know start to become this you know [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► haphazard sort of team you know that was [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► one of my favorite parts seeing those to [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► start coming together you know it wasn't [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► like the instant you know fist-bump bro [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► moment like within PO but still it sits [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► there and you know watching it grow [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► through the movie was a whole lot of [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► on for me that glorious moment on the [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► falken after they make their initial [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► escape and they're falling over each [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► other trying to complement each other [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► nicely so lonesome i have never seen [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► something like that in a movie I don't [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► think and I like one of my favorite Rey [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► and Finn roses when Finn is like oh we [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► gotta run get out of here and keep grabs [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► her hand and then started again like I [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► can run faster if you're not holding my [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► hand is that man when they kind of get [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► blown up and she's the first up and she [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► goes over him and he kind of wakes up [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► and is like are you okay and he's like [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► yeah I'm the one standing over you know [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► i'm finally but that was sweet i I like [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► if it was such a good pairing up because [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► they're both in the exact same sort of [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► place where he he is only known being a [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► stormtrooper and let that environment so [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► he's completely he he has skills and yes [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► knowledge but he has no size penis just [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► like Ray has no idea of what how the [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► world works outside of her home planet [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► and he's not a very good stormtroopers [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► and that's one reason i don't think we [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► needed as much introduction for him [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► because in his his all previous [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► existence has been this sort of blank [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► slate you know he's been a number you [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► know being trained up to do one thing [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► with you know ray you know we don't we [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► don't have a sense of what her routine [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► would be until we're shown it but I wish [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► that was that was one of the first nice [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► really impressive moments for me seeing [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► that battlefield scene where we see [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► before we know that Fitness Finn we just [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► see two stormtroopers one has been hit [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► and is dead rather is about the last [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► moments of life and he reaches up to [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► like touch the face of a fellow trooper [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► and leaving his blood-stained he [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► basically turning turning Finn into into [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► Wilson the tetherball with us with us [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► with his blood speed by the [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► blood-stained a handprint it was the [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► first time we'd see if the weather for [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► the rare times we've ever seen the [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► stormtroopers act like actual truth as [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► opposed to simple non non playing [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► characters i just got sounds silly but [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► one of the one of the things I really [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► that stuck out for me in the [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► in the Holy trilogy was just this one [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► moment in which there is a when Luke is [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► trying to lower other stormtroopers onto [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► the ship by tapping Keys tapping his [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► head and indicating that he might have [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► made my transducer is not is not working [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► my radios out and then his commander and [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► the parade's ok is we've got a bad [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► communicator since more people down [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► the idea that this is someone that can [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► basically the these are not just painted [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► on characters these are people with [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► individual motivations I kind of would [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► have enjoyed seeing more of that sort of [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► interplay if we're gonna have another [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► hour or maybe there's gonna be another [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► movie just about the stormtroopers I [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► want to see if it is Israel is thin that [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► first storm trooper who has ever decided [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► hey I'm really not interested in [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► machine-gunning an entire village is our [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► any of the other stormtroopers going [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► through that kind of self-doubt what [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► about Finn makes him special or it's [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► just the Empire really really good at [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► liquidating these people before they get [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► played out onto the field [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► well if you've got a if you've got a [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► stormtrooper on the planet's surface [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► losing his just losing his stuff when he [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► sees thin coat yells and calls him a [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► traitor and goes in for melee combat you [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► you got to think that there is room for [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► different kinds of emotional reactions [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► there you've got them slowly backing [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► away when they realize that kylo Ren's [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► busy for a temper tantrum around the [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► corner [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► no delicious delicious moment they're up [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► but i do want to go back to one thing [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► that you just said Andy you wanted more [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► time to find out the stuff are you [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► telling me that you want a special [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► edition of this movie if it were a [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► special kind of universe that is [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► expanded in some way [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► fifty percent more store just say I i [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► love this indication that there there's [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► more you can tell about this but all I'm [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► saying is that i might particular taste [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► under saying this my particular taste [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► I just want some measure of quality [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► assurance i want some quality control [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► somebody centrally to say okay I suppose [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► it's really really interesting that the [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► Stormtrooper would [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► have happy face decals all over his or [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► her armor and there but no that's not [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► canon that's not part of the storyline [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► and it would be interesting if Han Solo [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► had a previous wives and had lots of [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► bastard children of the galaxy [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► I can see how maybe as a fan you might [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► want to write that go ahead and write [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► that but that's not that didn't really [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► happen [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► that's right that's my dream job [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► especially during the during the [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► prequels on like if I could just find my [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► dream job this book thief this office [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► right next to George Lucas's and George [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► occasionally saying hey Andy with this [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► really happen is over no George that [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► would never happen [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► ok grab thank you very much let's take [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► another eighty dollars out of petty cash [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► take a long lunch you know I I have to [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► admit I I don't like the force awakens [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► as much as a new hope and empire for me [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► it's the third the last third of the [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► movie it's the final the final conflict [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► which is immaculately produced it is [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► thrilling [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► pew pew pew and accepts a band and [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► clashing swords but that was the one [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► moment in this movie where I felt like [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► I'd seen this all before and I got a [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► little bored honestly with does that [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► make me a bad person [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► yes horribly other things other things [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► chip that I know that you make you a bad [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► person and I thought it was weird that a [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► so they blew up five planets right entry [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► pretty quickly they were blown up right [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► and it was cool look great i like to [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► call that fine [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► nobody seemed to really mind there was [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► more concerned over Alderaan in New Hope [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► with with been sitting down heavily and [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► layout layout freaking out a little bit [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► there may be a lot more planets in the [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► universe at that point it's like you [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► know maybe stuff happens you know those [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► are planning weirdest planets yeah those [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► were like that [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► well one of those places was nice but [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► the others throughout their all jerk [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► planets yeah that's it that's the Andes [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► right now they was like the seat of [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► government or something so well yeah but [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► put two and two together there that's [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► where we keep our chicks because we have [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► what we call that term limits here in [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► the entire Oh [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► yeah I get that I get the sense that [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► y'all didn't mind that that much it [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► you know the one thing I kind of didn't [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► like was the because there's kind of [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► there's the two stories right there's [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► the we're looking for Luke Skywalker and [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► there's the we need to deal with the new [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► Death Star and the third kind of the the [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► last third of the movie is where the [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► fact that those are two different [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► stories that we can't solve at the same [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► time kinda starts to feel like more [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► glaring right like like one of those is [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► gonna have to fade into the background [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► and just be kind of dealt with as an [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► afterthought and and yes it's the one [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► the one with less explosions is not [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► going to get as much screen time so that [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► was that was a little unfortunate but I [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► mean it was still really fun for me and [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► I didn't really need to see yet another [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► planet sized superweapon blow up [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► yes me I mean you know if they enjoy [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► because god it's bigger than the last [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► one isn't it exciting figured look be [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► glad to be planets they just want them [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► somebody was convinced that good things [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► happen in threes [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► well it's it's it's more like like you [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► get someone who the first time that they [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► they use a 3d CAD app it's like [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► everything is made out of like squares [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► and circles because that's the only [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► thing they know how to make like you [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► should if you either get someone who's [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► like at least take the lynda.com [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► training on that app that could actually [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► make a weapon with compound curves at [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► least I mean it when you know they're [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► there i guess their innovation is that [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► it's built into a planet and that's kind [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► of a weird fusion of you know a planet [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► with this giant huge trench built into [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► it with them and we're gonna suck energy [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► out of the Sun which you know again [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► science-wise like that's kind of [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► confusions a console neil tyson really [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► is from he well he was pretty vocal on [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► the twitters it was that's that's what [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► he's got it he is he gets to do you [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► sighs tysons got eyes yeah he doesn't [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► have to be a nice guy he's got the [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► science behind him so you know so [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► Starkiller base problematic but there's [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► a very funny and i'm sure you've all [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► read this on Slate the Starkiller base [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► the contractor memos haha no talking [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► about you know we appreciate the [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► landscaping you put near the superweapon [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► but the first time we fired they're all [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► going to be destroyed [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► check it out i'll share the link it's [TS]