Last Jedi Minute 10: That’s a Lot of Bombs

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Date

February 12th, 2021

Summary

The resistance bombers are toast and now guest commentator Josh Flanagan is as good as gone!

Guests

Josh Flanagan

Notes

Film

  • Starts with the bombs being armed and ends with Paige Tico discovering the body of Nix Jerd.
  • First time we meet Paige Tico.

Podcast

  • The enigma that is {{{2}}}.
    • From Lantilles. It's like the "Dantooine of Antilles".
      • Introduced in the 90's card game and re-canonized in the Tarkin novel.
  • How did everyone on the Cobalt Hammer die except for Paige? Seems like it they were hit they would've just exploded.
  • Technical information about the bombers.
    • Built by Slayn and Korpil, which would be a good metal band name.
    • 1048 proton bombs. Referenced: Flex seal tape
      • Weighing into the controversial topic of bombs in space: they are apparently guided magnetically. Mentioned: letting the air out of a balloon.
    • Originally referred to as T-wings, real name is the MG-100 StarFortress.
      • Josh thinks they look more like a hanging udder or a really fat cat.
      • In the X-wing vs TIE fighter video game there was the R-60 T-wing interceptors of Cobalt Squadron – is that a reference?
  • The old garage door remote control.
  • After Poe goes roguethe bombers do whatever he says and there's no way to recall them without going through him.
  • Ladders!
    • Mentioned: The Jetsons.
  • Paige Tico: her name meets the syllable pattern of 1 and 2+.
    • Played by Veronica Ngô.
      • Pronunciation of her proper Vietnamese name. She Goes by 'NTV'.
      • She is (in no particular order) a Vietnamese actress/singer/model. She has 5 studio albums.
      • She was also in Bright (that Netflix movie with will Smith and the orc cop). Her other filmography is discussed.
      • NVT's place in Vietnamese-American pop culture.
    • Paige preforming a suicide mission to take out the dreadnought is inverse parallel to Rose stopping Finn from trying to do the same (so she doesn't lose another person she cares about that way).
      • We find out soon that her sacrifice wasn't worth it as the small victory only buys them a small reprieve. Does Rose know about this, and did this impact her later?
Josh's general thoughts on TLJ.
This movie was the bellwether for Star Wars fandom going out of control. Depending on which side of the controversy you fell on, this is how people defined themselves.
After seeing The Force Awakens, Josh was really excited for this movie, but he had that Phantom Menace feeling where he started out excited and it's slowly turned for him that this is a really good movie but not a good Star Wars movie. After revisiting it once everyone taken their sides, he came away thinking that he respected it but it wasn't at all what he had wanted.
 It all comes down to the fact that, by being subversive and not what you'd expect, this movie takes Luke, who was Josh's favorite character and the hero of his childhood and undercut the character completely in his opinion. He's not the hero. If you were to sat that about any other character, Josh wouldn't care.
 Ultimately, it's not what a person like Josh specifically wants out of a Star Wars movie. When you're talking about different generations, for example, 30-year-olds now who grew up with the Prequels as their version of Star Wars as kids it's a different story. This really is a very beautiful movie but it's very un-Star Warsy. If you just want a burger and fries, you're not going to be happy if someone deconstructs it for you.
 By contrast, for Pete, Luke's arc is one of his favorite parts of the new movies. Return of the Jedi strong confident Jedi knight Luke was never his favorite part of the trilogy.
 Josh's point is that Luke was supposed to be the "New Hope" and, just given the world we live in, it's hard to see that hope broken. He just wanted a white knight hero. The argument is that "that was the old style of hero and we need to tear those down to make room for the new kinds of heroes" but Josh doesn't think that's necessary.
 Josh is mixed on Rian Johnson. We don't want to guess at the behind-the-scenes machinations about how the decision was made to turn away from the direction that was started by this film.
 Josh's final thoughts: it's not a bad movie it's just not the Star Wars he wanted. And it's really long.
  • The last time Josh saw the guys in person was the holiday special live show.
  • Thanks from/to Josh for a great week.
  • Patreon bonus episodes: "Give us some money and you get some shows".

Meta Minute

  • 32:28 podcast episode length.
  • Josh actively types his caption at the start of the video as "Of [sic] Malastaire" but soon changes it to "Master of Teras Kasi".

Quotes

  • Pete: analyze scrutinize and bolides...
  • Pete: We'll call you, we'll totally hang out. Josh: I know how that works, with [...] middle-aged parents.
  • Pete and Josh: (paraphrasing Phil Swift) Ayyy that's a lotta bombs.
  • Josh: Bad call Poe goes rogue. Alex: That's a no-go Poe.
  • Josh: (paraphrasing Mitch Hedberg) (slightly modified to take out everything funny): "An escalator ladder can never be broken; it can just become 'temporarily ladder'".
  • Josh O'Flanagan: My God, that's a lotta bombs!
  • Josh: (in unexpectedly heartfelt manner) …you're real people from my life. Alex: (sincerely) That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.

Link

Video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t0DmFnGdqS0

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