Attack of the Clones Minute 75: Under the Cloak

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Date

February 23rd, 2017

ANAKIN takes off across the desert. PADME watches him go.

Starts off with sad Padmé (Sadmé) and ends with Ani riding off in his speeder at suns set.

Padmé's hair. She probably has a droid to do it, and that droid would of course have a sassy accent.
Referenced: Bill Clinton.

Lengthy discussion of the shot where it's just Anakin and Padmé's shadows on the wall of the igloo.
- Alex is pro, Pete and Meredith are firmly con.
- Referenced: C-3POV.
- Mentioned: Staring at the French horn.
  - Characters in the Prequels are often shallow and underdeveloped. A notable exception is Watto.
    - It's frustrating how underserved Natalie Portman is in these movies. Missed opportunities.
- Anakin's shadow looks like Darth Vader?
Speeder bikes vs. Swoops.
What vehicle would you want? The Millennium Falcon? That's too obvious.
- Meredith weighs in on how to pronounce "AT-AT".
- What about the cat thing from the arena later?
Meredith ranks the movies. Spoiler-free hinting about Rogue One, which had just come out and which Pete and Alex had not yet seen.
Why "Duel of the Fates"?
Mentioned: Luuke.
Leaked plot points resulting in rewriting the movie.
- Luke's hand.
- Terminator: Salvation.
Anakin does some quality scowling in this minute. He looks like Grumpy Cat.
- Showing vs. telling.
Meredith wants to do the Ewok adventure films.

29:18 podcast episode length.
This is actually the 15th week of their coverage of AOTC.
The repulsorlift vehicle "borrowed" by Anakin is a Zephyr-G swoop bike owned by his step-brother Owen, although the terms "speeder bike" and "swoop bike" are sometimes used interchangeably, and swoops are sometimes considered a subset of speeder bikes.

Meredith: Living the now, everybody. Harass me; don't @ me [on Twitter].
Meredith: I like her [Padmé's] travel buns.
Pete: Keep it going for a second, I have reference material behind me. [...4 minutes of Meredith and Alex vamping...] So, uh my research yielded nothing.
Meredith: Remember that horrible cat...that they fight?— Alex: (quickly) C-3PO?
Alex: *makes explody noise* That was my mind being blown...
Pete: ...the computers are bad, the humans are bad; like, everything's bad about that. Meredith: Well I know when I'm out on picnics I'm constantly faking my own death to get women to fall in love with me.
Meredith: (á la Cindel) Star cruiser. Crash. That's all I'm saying.