Phantom Menace Minute 28: Wigdar
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Date
December 30th, 2015
Summary
A second Sith Lord appears behind Darth Sidious.
Guests
Notes
Film
- Starts with Panaka informing Qui-Gon where he can and cannot take Her Highness, and ends with Nute Gunray fretting that now there are two of them.
- Introduction of Darth Maul.
- Melodramatic music sting.
- Cut line: destroy all high-ranking officials
Podcast
- Referenced: Dudley Do-Right.
- Good Nemoidian action.
- More on Sidious' plan
- The main conflict of the movie is just a smokescreen.
- Referenced: The Godfather.
- Pete wants a Star Wars chronology or a "History of the Outer Rim Territories" class.
- Mentioned: Don't call them Sand People.
- Darth Maul as a stand-out character from this movie
- The reveal of the double-bladed lightsaber was spoiled by the trailer.
- He is a Star Trek-type alien because he is basically just a human with horns.
- Original Darth Maul concept art.
- Referenced: the deleted scene between Anakin and a young Greedo.
- Discussion of different levels of Canon.
- Watching whole film franchises in one sitting.
- Liam Neeson's hair.
- He's wearing a full wig. Matt knows this because he has perfect Wigdar (wig radar).
- Obi-Wan's wig and fake beard in AOTC.
- He's wearing a full wig. Matt knows this because he has perfect Wigdar (wig radar).
- Nemoidian racist accents and weird cadence.
- Support the Show
- Buy Alex's book. It's good.
Meta Minute
- 26:14 podcast episode length.
- The Kersh is still there, but they locked him in the bathroom.
- Daultay Dofine is seen one last time.
- Although now Legends, Darth Plagueis is supposed to have been killed by his apprentice Darth Sidious in 32 BBY, the same year as the events of this movie.
- Liam Neeson was 45 when this movie came out.
- Test your own wigdar with this Sporcle quiz: https://www.sporcle.com/games/senordingdong/wig-or-not
- The subject of Pete's hair will come up again during the Attack of the Clones Minute.
Quotes
- Matt: Never make a character 8.
- Pete: This isn't a wig, it's a hat.
- Alex: Chair full of spaghetti.
Link
http://www.starwarsminute.com/2015/12/30/phantom-menace-minute-28-wigdar/