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   Compared to the Prequels, which have a very claustrophobic feel because everything was shot on small sound stages in front of green screen.
   Compared to the Prequels, which have a very claustrophobic feel because everything was shot on small sound stages in front of green screen.
  How they brought the BB-8 puppet to life. Sort of like how when you interact with Muppets you immediately forget you're talking to a puppeteer and start to believe you were talking to the Muppet as a person.
  How they brought the BB-8 puppet to life. Sort of like how when you interact with Muppets you immediately forget you're talking to a puppeteer and start to believe you were talking to the Muppet as a person.
Alex wishes he had someone else to control his facial expressions for him.


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Revision as of 07:16, 17 April 2021

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Date

March 11th, 2021

Summary

Noah Segan flies in from the set to tell us what Stomeroni Starck is really like!

Guests

Noah Segan

Notes

Film

  • Starts with Finn telling Poe that the First Order has them, and ends with Kylo Ren spinning his TIE fighter, just like his grandfather.

Podcast

  • Spinning: still a good trick.

Noah's character Stomeroni Starck: what's his deal?

  • For whatever reason, Noah is required to be in all of Rian Johnson's movies; he wouldn't have greenlit the movie if they didn't put him in it.
  • Johnson's uncle is named Starck. The name Stomeroni comes from "Stoe", who Johnson and Pablo Hidalgo made up to be Poe's screw-up brother.
    • Mentioned: Peet Deretalia. Pete has a Google alert set up for her so he can always keep tabs on what's going on with the character.
  • No Spoilers, but something happens to Stomeroni Starck in the next couple minutes here.
    • But... unless you see a body, you can't guarantee that they're dead (at least in Star Wars).
      • Referenced: spider legs, "we have the technology. We can rebuild him..." from Six Million Dollar Man.
  • The Friendship / "will they/won't they" with Tallie. They could do this story as a prequel.
  • Supposedly, they're still going to do Rian Johnson's trilogy sometime in the future. What role Noah would play if they brought him back.

Backstage info

Sitting behind the pilot's seat of an X-wing

 In the new movies most of the vehicles are in at least some capacity fully functional the switches and buttons all work and light up. And the screens have animations. And in the snub Fighters the cockpits go up and down controlled by experienced operators. But they don't go up and down unless the person in the cockpit the actor is holding a sort of 'deadman switch' with both hands. So it was hard for Noah as Starck to bang on the cockpit door because he had to hold down the switch while doing that.

Noah's experience going on board the Falcon set.

 It is modular, so they can take it apart and put it back together again but it does all fit together. So you can walk under the stage up a gangplank and then you just on the Falcon which is how it was when Noah visited.
Everything feels so authentic because it 'is' authentic; they either found old props from the movies or they rebuilt the props from period materials.
What the actual theatrical Millennium Falcon smells like: musty, like it's been in storage since the 80s. It feels like a cool old muscle car in your garage.
The seats on the Falcon are surprisingly tiny.
All Noah wanted to know was 1) can I sit in the cockpit and 2) can I touch it?
Noah's friend Leo (producer on the movie and helping to show him around the set) left him and came back later and asked if you wanted to continue the tour. Noah wanted a few more minutes but he already been there for 35 minutes, unaware of the time that had passed. Far from taking away from the Magic, being on the Falcon set added to it.

The experience of being on set.

It is incredibly immersive; you're in a gigantic hanger sound stage and there are aliens whose facial expressions are either being controlled from within the costume or by remote control far enough away that you can't see the puppeteer, so they really come to life.
 Compared to the Prequels, which have a very claustrophobic feel because everything was shot on small sound stages in front of green screen.
How they brought the BB-8 puppet to life. Sort of like how when you interact with Muppets you immediately forget you're talking to a puppeteer and start to believe you were talking to the Muppet as a person.
Alex wishes he had someone else to control his facial expressions for him.

Meta Minute

  • 44:20 podcast episode length.
  • Most spaceships in science fiction don't have a 'steering wheel' per se, but many starfighters have a yoke (similar to fighter aircraft on Earth), while larger capital ships may be controlled by.
  • Tony Thaxton (who is a noted massive fan of the Muppets) reported a similar experience to what Noah is describing when he met Animal and Gonzo.

Quotes

  • Noah: All I can do is glue his [Ryan Johnson's] fingers to the keyboard; I can't decide what he does with them from there.
  • Noah: Harrison Ford must have very... Toned buttocks.

Links

Audio only
https://art19.com/shows/star-wars-minute/episodes/79e5144e-dd3e-4977-b04e-05b525631d1a
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIAd3qv4Hts

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