Jedi Minute 68: Horse Pilot
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Date
April 8th, 2015
Summary
Luke runs with the helmet to where Han has found the charred wreckage of a speeder bike in the grass.
Guests
Notes
Film
- Starts with the further adventures of Leia's hat; ends with Chewbacca finding some meat on a stick.
- The meat on the stick: unidentified tusked species.
Podcast
- Wicket still being scared of Leia's hat (Note: this was brought up last week).
- Why else would Leia leave it?
- Everybody ditches their Rebel hats.
- Han being glad Leia was gone.
- Ewoks eating the speeder bikers.
- Callback to Pete listing the native Fauna of Endor.
- This is the third time that Alex has tried to look up the EU name of something in this movie and been disappointed.
- Asterios loves Star Wars and that this show exists.
- How much does Han really understand Chewie?
- The character of Chewbacca being inspired by George Lucas' dog.
- Other dog-like properties of Wookiees.
- How Endor won the lucrative Death Star contract.
- Why not build it at Coruscant? To get away from it all.
- The Empire destroying stars vs. planets.
- The Sun Crusher. Referenced: Wesley and Beverly Crusher from Star Trek.
- Space Epic (and the backup book) from Devastator Press. Asterios could use help from the listeners; comment on the Facebook page with the best dumb things from the EU.
- Other dumb things from the EU:
- The Horse Pilot
- Hohass Ekwesh
- The need for the EU to constantly top itself.
- Luuke, which Asterios brought up previously.
- The Sarlacc ate a sandcrawler.
- The Horse Pilot
Meta Minute
- 25:35 podcast episode length.
- Cold open: Ad-read starwarsminute.com/patreon.
- Julian Lennon was the inspiration for no less than 3 Beatles songs.
- Good job Alex, Starkiller base does destroy stars, but not by blowing them up.
- The Sun Crusher was armed with "resonance torpedos" capable of causing a star to go supernova.
- Hohass was a Thakwaash. Although they were equinoid in form, they were in fact bipeds and not full-on horses. He was a founding member of Wraith Squadron.
Quotes
- Asterios: (as a newly single Han Solo) Me and Mon Mothma are gonna hit the town.
- Asterios: (as the Emperor) We better go somewhere else. Those teddy bears seem cool.
- Asterios: (as 'Senator' Wicket) Yub yub. Yub yub mint julep yub yub? Yub yub wet your whistle?
- Pete: I thought the Sun [son] Crusher was Wil Wheaton. Alex: *groans* Asterios: Oh, I get it! I'm the dumb one, as usual.
- Pete: It's hard to top Horse Pilot.
- Alex and then Pete: "Small potatoes compared to a horse pilot."
- Asterios: I can't read all of Wookieepedia—I'll die! Like, I'll literally choke to death on my own barf.
Link
http://www.starwarsminute.com/2015/04/08/jedi-minute-68-horse-pilot/
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