Jedi Minute 102: Lando's Lollipop
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Date
May 26th, 2015
Summary
The air is thick with giant ships. In among them, Rebel X-wings dogfight with Imperial TIE fighters. Now an enormous Rebel cruiser is hit by the Death Star beam and is blown to dust.
Guests
Notes
Film
- Starts with the Death Star warming up, and ends with Han shooting a guy in the face.
- Reused footage from Star Wars.
- New (unnamed) Imperial officer .
Podcast
- The potential of having a guest who has not seen the movie being discussed.
- Myq starts some controversy with his ranking of the movies.
- Film critics/celebrities, living and dead.
- Myq's poem:
My brain has the power
'cause it's trapped in a Grayskull
I'm tops like a dradle, I'm sharp like
Attack of the Clones was way dull
- Rebranding bad-sounding things with a more positive spin. Or the inverse.
- Referenced: George Carlin: Jammin' in New York.
- Puppet actors
- Nien Nunb's horrified face. Somebody make a GIF of this.
- What the audition must have been like.
- How the Death Star's main weapon works. Destroying ships vs. destroying whole planets.
- Can it be aimed? If you missed, never admit that you were busted.
- Watching movies/episodes out of order. Tropes of shows that play in reverse chronological order.
- Admiral Ackbar gesticulating. He should narrate the entire movie this way.
- The hosts swap humorous stories about people they have known who were missing digits.
Meta Minute
- 44:45 podcast episode length.
- Cold open: buy some Star Wars board games on http://starwarsminute.com/amazon
- Pete, Alex, and Asterios appeared on episode 199 of Hang Out With Me, which aired September 22nd, 2014.
- In addition to Cmdr. Mamill, Colin Skeaping also played Death Star detention officer {{{2}}}.
- There is no "Colonel Fy'er" but there is a Colonel Dyer in this movie, played by our own Ben Burtt.
- Rogue One provides us with more detail about the Death Star's main weapon and how it can be used at less than full power.
- According to Wookieepedia, Death Star II used a lower level blast to destroy capital ships, and was able to recharge in three minutes. To reach planet-destroying levels took considerably longer to recharge.
Quotes
- Alex: <emphatically> I will die before we have a carbon-based lifeform on the show.
- Pete: Return of the Jedi is the contractual obligation of the Star Wars trilogy.
- Alex: Attack of the Clones is like lukewarm water.
- Myq: I've been working on my Life Star.
Link
http://www.starwarsminute.com/2015/05/26/jedi-minute-102-landos-lollipop/