Empire Minute 73: Lozenge After Lozenge
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Date
April 23rd, 2014
Summary
Quietly Yoda turns toward the X-wing fighter. With his eyes closed and his head bowed, he raises his arm and points at the ship.
Guests
Notes
Film
- Starts with Yoda gently lowering the X-wing after levitating it.
- Ends with Captain Needa crashing to his knees after apologizing to Vader for losing the Falcon.
Podcast
- Yoda is using The Force like playing an instrument or conducting an orchestra. His hands are out and he's just waving them around calmly.
- Comparing The Force to music is a cool way to look at it.
- This is another signposts for the upcoming Star Wars musical.
- More whinging from Luke - couldn't Yoda have cleaned the X-wing?
- Luke touches the nose of the X-wing to make sure that it's not a hologram.
- Luke's face could have been on the X-wing like Thomas the Tank Engine.
- This whole sequence actually occurred back in the magic tree - it's more failure by Luke.
- R2 sounds excited because they can finally get out of here.
- In The Clone Wars cartoon Anakin totally understands R2 speaking his language (but see below).
- Maybe Luke does understand R2 - it' s a genetic / Force thing.
- This might be Luke's Jedi super-power as revealed by the blood test.
- Each blood test provides scores on the various Jedi powers - Luke is a "7" on levitating.
- Yoda gives a satisfied grunt after lowering the X-wing - "Oh yeah; I've still got it".
- Just off-screen, there is a big quarry full of large rocks and smashed spaceships. Yoda has been playing smash-up derbies with spaceships in the sky.
- Luke totally walks into Yoda's burn with his line "I don't believe it".
- Who spoke next or was there just an awkward silence?
- Luke and R2 are actually just reading each other's body language and sounds - they're not actually talking and are like an old married couple.
- (The hosts briefly mention that The Force is like a positive visualization technique.)
- Following Yoda's line the movie should have cut to Luke saying "Oh, I get it now".
- Or, Pete suggests that:
- The movie should have cut straight to the Imperial scene as it does.
- It should then have cut back to Luke a few minutes later saying "Oh, NOW I get it!".
- And then cut back to the Imperial scene.
- R2 is just complaining that Luke still hasn't got it even after all the training.
- The movie cuts from Yoda in the green swamp to the cold vacuum of space and a group of tightly defined spaceships.
- The shuttle does not look like a normal imperial shuttle - apparently it's a rare TIE-shuttle.
- The shuttle is Captain Needa's and he is travelling to the Executor (Star Destroyer) in it to apologize to Vader.
- Needa's fall is a great shot / sequence in the movie.
- This should have been a much longer scene as Needa falls from a great height - like the top of the tractor beam tower.
- It actually wasn't the fall that killed him; he chokes to death just before he hits the ground and is then slowly lowered down by Vader.
- Or Pete suggests that Vader makes him fall from a great height, catches him by the throat just before he hits the ground and then chokes him to death.
- Alex says that with that kind of thinking Pete would make a great Sith.
- Pete reminds Alex that they have already been revealed to be undercover Imperial officers.
- Needa was actually being choked from the second he got on to the shuttle.
- He should have just stayed where he was. Plus he was eating lozenge after lozenge to try and clear his throat.
- Needa was in charge of tracking down the Falcon on the Avenger (Star Destroyer) after being the closest to the space slug.
- He called Piett as soon as they saw the Falcon but then lost them as seen in the movie.
- He should have waited to call Piett and this is "Imperial Officer 101" - don't open your mouth until the job is done.
Needa factoids from Pete: His first name is Lorth. (Lorth Needa sounds like somone saying Darth Vader with a mouthful of lozenges). On Wookiepedia <on the Legends tab> there is disambiguation for: - Lorth's cousin Virar. - Oola impersonator Dame Needa. (Alex asks is the impersonator a male impersonating Oola or Oola impersonating Needa?) <Note - It's the latter.> In ROTS the spaceship that corners General Greivous's spaceship when Obi-wan and Anakin are rescuing Palpatine is captained by Needa. This is his Top Gun / Maverick moment.
- There should have been more original trilogy Star Wars characters in the prequels.
- For example, Anakin should have introduced his best friend George Ozzel - "He's kind of clumsy and stupid, but I like him".
- It turns out that Anakin was always bullying George by choking him a little bit.
- There are not enough throwbacks in Star Wars and this is to be addressed in episode 7 or the special editions of the prequels. (Note - this was significantly addressed in episode 7 TFA and now Rogue One.)
- The son of Lorth may appear in episode 7.
- In 30 years A New Hope will have twenty new characters CGI'd into it.
- Star Wars will then have to start dealing with the time travel paradox.
- Eventually all of these new scenes will take over the movie and there will be nothing left of the original.
- The hot actors of the day will be cut in on a regular basis, for example:
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Obi-Wan.
- The guy from Avatar <Sam Worthington> as someone else (as his human self, NOT as the blue character from Avatar).
- The actor that played Needa had uncredited roles in two Bond movies:
- A vulcan bomber crewman in Thunderball.
- A man in punt from From Russia with Love. This sounds like a Star Wars character - "Manin Punt from Malastare".
- He has appeared in a number of stage plays and single episodes of various British TV shows.
- Is he now on the Star Wars circuit? If so then in every photograph he is being choked by the other people.
- More Needa in tomorrow's podcast episode; Needa in memoriam; needa another minute to talk about him!
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Meta Minute
- 17:50 podcast episode length.
- Somewhere it is a sunny Wednesday morning.
- Needa's shuttle is a TIE/sh VIP shuttle.
- In a deleted scene from Revenge of the Sith, it is revealed that Anakin has an astro droid translator, and when it breaks he can no longer understand Artoo.
Quotes
- Alex: <As Luke looking at the X-wing> All my tapes are ruined!
- Pete: <Also as Luke> If I cut this [the nose of the X-wing] off am I going to see my face?
- Stuart: <As Luke to R2> I know dude; it's totally crazy!
- Pete: I have some data on Needa. Stuart: Good, I needa some data.
- Pete: <As the actor that played Lorth Needa signing an autograph> "To PTR, love Lorth".
Link
http://www.starwarsminute.com/2014/04/23/empire-minute-73-lozenge-after-lozenge/