Jedi Minute 120: Who Cares What You Want

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Date

June 9th, 2015

Summary

Slowly, hesitantly, Luke removes the mask from his father's face. There beneath the scars is an elderly man.

Guests

Songe Riddle and Rachael Noel Fox

Notes

Film

  • The two-hour mark!
  • Starts with Luke struggling to get Darth Vader onto a ramp of some sort, and ends with Vader looking on Luke with his own eyes, just for once.

Podcast

  • Why does Vader pick this moment to have Luke take his helmet off?
  • Luke has no trouble getting the mask off.
  • Luke immediately jumps to the conclusion that Vader will die if he takes the mask off. Maybe he knows something we don't.
  • Changes to the reveal in the Special Editions, including improving continuity with the Prequels. Referenced: "Arrested Development".
  • Controversy over the reveal.
    • What did you expect it to be like?
Songe delivers an important soliloquy.
 Everyone has something they expect and want to see from art. Now fans have more of a voice (due to the internet?) in the creative process, but that led them to think that art was a democratic process; it's not. If one person has an opinion about how an artist should have made their art, it shouldn't matter. If many many people all share the same opinion, maybe it's something to consider, but if everyone has a different opinion, who cares?
 People expected Darth Vader to be imposing under his mask, but that is a different movie. Lucas didn't want him to be a monster. Instead we get a portrait of a man who is very weak. It shows the depth of the victory that Luke wins in the end because he didn't take the easy path the way his father did.
  • Luke goes against the Jedi code forbidding attachment, and that family connection is precisely what saves the day in the end.
  • Parallel between yin & yang and Star Wars. Referenced: Lando's cape.

Meta Minute

  • 23:37 podcast episode length.
  • Cold open: Tom from Chicago calls the hotline re: the unmasking of Darth Vader. He didn't know what he was expecting when he first saw the movie, but it certainly wasn't that.
  • Songe completes his "from..." gags for the week.
  • The YouTube Channel "Because Science" has a video on why Darth Vader breathes like that.

Quotes

  • Pete:...analyze, scrutinize, and "just for once let me look on you with my own eyes"...
  • Alex: Classic narcissistic Anakin: {whining} Now! I want to show you my face nowww!
  • Pete: It does kind of make sense if he's an [...] ex-lava man.
  • Songe: How ya doin', you old failure?

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2015/06/19/jedi-minute-120-who-cares-what-you-want/


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