Empire Minute 34: May Contain Wampas

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Date

February 27th, 2014

Guests

Mike Norton

Notes

Film

• Walkers pick off random Norwegian Rebels.
• Return of General Veers.
  • He does not use binoculars in this scene.
• Awesome shot of the Walker shooting down the snowspeeder.
• Imperial troops enter the base. Imperial troops enter the— <static>.

Podcast

• Listener project: make the AT-AT video game (and call 8-DAY-GREEDO once you've done it).
• Julian Glover's (Veers) other roles:
  • Grand Maester Pycelle on "Game of Thrones".
  • Donovan from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
  • 4 episodes each with the 1st and 4th Doctors on "Doctor Who".
• Walkers are more frightening on four legs than they would be on two.
• Veers narrates everything he does.
  • Is this for documentation?
  • Or is this still a live hologram call?
• Star Wars-themed dentist.
• Referenced: Dark Helmet from Spaceballs.
• Pete always quotes the Daft Punk guy saying "1-7 decimal 2-8"
  • Holdover from the AT-AT toy.
• Referenced: Raise your right hand.

Meta Minute

• 22:23 podcast episode length.
• Cold open: ad for starwarsminute.com/amazon
• Mike loses his vocabulary today.

Quotes

• Pete: (with mild surprise) This is fun. Still.

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2014/02/27/empire-minute-34-may-contain-wampas/

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