Empire Minute 13: You Wouldn't Like That Dog

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Date

January 29th, 2014

Summary

The huge metal doors slam across the entrance of the ice cave.

Guests

Josh Flanagan

Notes

Film

• Starts with Cliffy and the Deck Officer (Deck Officer) closing the shield doors.
• Ends with Luke "fluffling" around in the snow, when he hears a ghostly voice.
• Odds of survival at 725:1
• Good acting by Carrie Fisher

Podcast

• Who really laid the odds on Han and Luke's survival? It seems like this is more Threepio's thing than Artoo's.
• Spoilers: The odds of surviving the asteroid belt are far worse.
• Mentioned: Jimmy the Greek, "from time to time", Chewbacca's life debt
• Origin of the "raise your right hand" running joke.
• C-3PO's "robot rules"
• C-3PO is more sympathetic (but is human-prejudiced) when he says that Luke is clever for a human.
  • But is Luke all that clever?
• Why do they need to close the doors? Why were they open in the first place?
• Differences from Star Wars.
  • Step up in camera work and bigger budget.
• Deleted Chewbacca subplot
  • Han-Chewie-Leia conflict triangle. Chewbacca was supposed to be jealous of Leia.
  • Although interesting from a storytelling standpoint, it is unnecessary and would make us not like Chewie as much.
  • Squabbling within the unit in later seasons/series of The West Wing and Star Trek are discussed.
• Call the hotline!
  

Meta Minute

• Cold Open: Amazon ad
• 15:41 podcast episode length.
• 725 to 1 odds of survival are only slightly better than the odds of a narwhal being born with 2 tusks. For more fun probability comparisons like this one, see Reigarw Comparisons on YouTube.
• Disney actually sells a rainbow-plated BB Droid as part of its Pride collection.

Quotes

• Josh: <Chewbacca noises>
• Pete: Did you say "fluffling?"
• Pete: Are we at Droid Pride week already?
• Pete: Chewie's "howl of freedom". Josh: I called it his "soul growl."
• Josh: The "Bros and Hos quotient."

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2014/01/29/empire-minute-13-you-wouldnt-like-that-dog/

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