Phantom Menace Minute 99: The Jedi Brogue

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Date

April 7th, 2016

Summary

The Naboo spacecraft has landed in the Gungan swamp. Troops unload the ships in the background as Obi-Wan approaches Qui-Gon.

Guests

Jacob Sirof

Notes

Film

• Starts with Amidala saying "yes", ends with Qui-Gon telling Obi-Wan that he's been a good apprentice.
• Liam Neeson's lilting, Jedi Brogue.

Podcast

• The title of this movie.
  • It describes exactly what's going on in the plot.
  • Referring to the movies by title vs. episode number.
• Logic problems.
  • Where'd the blockade go?
  • Everything is proceeding according to Palpatine's design.
  • Deleted line: Panaka notices that the blockade is gone.

Palpatine's lizard lick-flip

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• Jar Jar as the key to this movie.
  • He's supposed to be annoying, but without him, the rest of the plot can't happen.
• Theme of not judging a book by its cover in these movies.
• Different film genres represented in Star Wars.
• Things that Jedi "can't do" that they end up doing.
  • The Jedi are out of touch and arrogant.
• The Jedi are fine with using blasters when they fly their starfighters, but have to use a sword during land combat.
  • Mounting lightsabers to the outside of their ships, or building a gun that shoots lightsabers.

Two cut scenes

• Cut at the outline stage.
  • The blockade was still there.
  • Obi-Wan comes up with the idea of having Anakin (because he's s great pilot with Jedi reflexes) make a jump to lightspeed to get past it (just like in Episode VII).
• Cut scene between Anakin and Padmé: "Hey! Where have you been?"

Other Notes

• Obi-Wan's age.
  • In the Expanded Universe, Qui-Gon took Obi-Wan as his Padawan at the last moment before he turned 13.
• Call 8-DAY-GREEDO.

Meta Minute

• 26:56 podcast episode length.
• See a "the Battle of Naboo" as a slapstick silent film.
• A call for a Ken Burns' "The Empire" is a bit of a running theme on the show.
• The first pioneer of blaster technology was the {{{2}}}, and was in use as early as 25,000 BBY[1]. No one is sure when the first lightsaber was built, but Jedi researchers developed "frozen blaster" technology (a precursor to the lightsaber) as far back as 15,000 BBY[2]. Since the first lightsabers seem to derive from blasters, it would appear that blasters actually came first.

Quotes

• Jacob: I'm so glad I don't hate these movies.

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2016/04/07/phantom-menace-minute-99-the-jedi-brogue/

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