Empire Minute 66: Space Killers

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Date

April 14th, 2014

Summary

Vader stands in the back control area of his ship’s bridge with a motley group of men and creatures. Admiral Piett and two controllers stand at the front of the bridge and watch the group with scorn.

Guests

Chris Radtke

Notes

Film

• Starts with Luke being afraid as Yoda prophesises; ends with Admiral Piett about to relay the message from the Star Destroyer Avenger to Vader.

Podcast

• We are executing Minute 66 of the movie and podcast.
• Yoda is very smug and basically says "I told you so".
• Piett is about to tell Vader a) that he resigns b) to jive turkey.
• Does Yoda know what Luke saw in the cave?
  • Yoda set the whole thing up as a prank the night before; like an advanced Halloween presentation or pop-up display in the mall.
  • Yoda should therefore be excited by the result but he wanted Luke to be more scared than he was.
  • If you turn the lights on in the cave then the whole thing looks really fake.
  • This is why he told Luke not to take any weapons into the cave with him; Yoda didn't want his display ruined.
  • Also, there were more things for Luke to experience in the cave - such as teenagers wearing scary Tusken Raider masks.
• R2-D2 is covered in filth by this point.
  • Luke should have hosed him down and taken a chamois to him.
  • R2 is a hundred years old by this point. Robots should always be taken care of. This is a lesson to kids - always keep your robots clean.

Meta Minute

• 40:30 podcast episode length.
• Cold-open - 8-DAY-GREEDO call - IG-88 is a robot. So who owns him? Darth Vader, Jabba the Hutt, some guy in a Starbucks waiting for his robot to bring hime the bounty? Or, does IG-88 have his own free will. This aspect of the story should be esplored.
• Chris is a three-peater on the podcast. He is the Star Wars trilogy of the Star Wars Minute.

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2014/04/14/empire-minute-66-space-killers/

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