Jedi Minute 101: Choke Factor Zero
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Date
May 25th, 2015
Summary
Admiral Piett and two fleet commanders watch the battle at the huge window of the Super Star Destroyer bridge.
Guests
Notes
Film
- Starts with a TIE fighter crashing into the Mon Calamari ship, and ends with the Emperor telling the commander to fire at will.
- The {{{2}}}.
- Two new Imperial officers.
Podcast
- Why is there a medical frigate and what is it doing charging headlong into the fray? What kind of medical treatment are people getting mid-battle?
- Referenced: "Battlestar Galactica".
- Pilot PTSD. Mentioned: 2-1B.
- Referenced: Airplane!, "Star Trek".
- The striking visual of the Millennium Falcon, like a coin being flipped.
- Additional crew on the Falcon. "Pressure Steady" as a black box play about them.
- Callout to Tasha's husband. Characters whose only purpose in the movie is to give the person in charge the chance to explain the plan.
- This is Piett's moment of glory. Even if he doesn't know what the full plan is, he knows that the Emperor does, and there's no risk of him being choked.
- Every action has an associated "Choke Factor". This has is choke factor zero.
- Deleted subplot of tension between Vader and the Emperor. Piett was Vader's guy, historically.'
- What does "attack position" mean when you're a giant sheaf of guns in space? Aim the pointy end toward enemies.
- Direct visual quote between Luke looking out the window at the battle, and Leia looking through the sail barge porthole. Callback to Luke staring at the French horn.
- They're a family of gazers.
- Why Luke is looking out the tiny window and not the giant one right next to him? Luke can probably barely see anything from so far away.
- Mentioned: The Force doesn't exist.
- The Emperor's eyes ("slugs").
- Ruining the movie for people.
- It's boring that the Emperor is just a guy. He could have been an interesting alien.
- Sheev/Skeeve is basically a pickup artist. Repeat what you want to happen until it becomes true.
- Lazily echoing elements of previous successful movies.
Meta Minute
- 39:23 podcast episode length.
- The day this episode aired was the 38th anniversary of the debut of Star Wars.
- It's the start of another All-Star Week. This week is podcasting all-stars.
- The man who states "Pressure steady" is listed as the Millennium Falcon's navigator in the ROTJ script.
- Tasha's husband Bob will eventually appear in an 8-DAY-GREEDO call, and still later during the Attack of the Clones Minute.
- The stuff you put under your eyes to reduce glare is called "eye black".
Quotes
- Alex: This is not the kind of show where we want to reference Wookieepedia.
- Pete: (as the school nurse) Oh, you got blasted by the Death Star? Here's a bandaid and a cookie.
- Pete: Remind me not to lend you my car.
- Pete and then Alex: Skiffstuff.
- Tasha: (as 2-1B) Oh, the puppy has lost the will to live. Better huck it out the exhaust port.
Link
http://www.starwarsminute.com/2015/05/25/jedi-minute-101-choke-factor-zero/