Last Jedi Minute 31: The Lumpiness of the Raddus

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Date

March 15th, 2021

Summary

Guest commenters Joe Dator & Suzen Tekla Kruglnska are here and General Organa is totally blown away!

Guests

Joe Dator and Suzen Tekla Kruglnska

Notes

Film

• Starts with Kylo Ren and his TIE fighter buddies zooming by. Ends with Hux asking "What is the point of all of this???" (roll credits).
• The ship is rattled (and there is a camera shake) as the TIEs go by.

Podcast

• Plug for the Comedy Film Funnel.
• You can't argue with a fact (i.e. they are objective, not subjective), and you can't agree or disagree with a question. Referenced: so-called alternative facts and the difference between facts and opinions.
• The filmmakers have made it clear that they don't really care about real physics (which is important in good Sci-fi), but luckily Star Wars is space fantasy so it isn't as big of a deal. Mentioned: 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Suzen loves the lumpiness of the Raddus.
  • Mon Calamari ships: given that they were created by fish people, are they built underwater?
    • Spaceships designed by other creatures, for example, cats.
• The mother-son drama.
  • This is unusual in Star Wars.
• The older personas of our main heroes from the Original Trilogy.
• The Quick Cuts between Kylo and Leia in this minute parallel the end of The Empire Strikes Back with Luke and Vader.
• Leia and Kylo's psychic connection: does only happen when they are physically near each other? Maybe it depends on the magnitude of the emotions being conveyed.
  • Compare this to Vader sensing Obi-Wan on the Death Star.
• Referenced: Luke didn't blow up the Death Star. Although Leia and Kylo are connected, Leia does not make him take his finger off the trigger, he decides to do that himself.
• It's good filmmaking that the relief of the tension of him not killing her is immediately undercut by his two TIE fighter buddies just blowing them up anyway.
• Extensive discussion of the shot of Leia being sucked out into space.
  • It's very engaging and unflinching.
  • The weird meta-level knowledge that we had when seeing this that, shortly after the filming and before the release, that Carrie Fisher actually did pass away. We really thought this was the end for her because we couldn't possibly guess what they were going to do next.

Meta Minute

• 33:30 podcast episode length.
• The word that Alex is looking for is "buzzing". Another notable example of this is in Top Gun when Maverick buzzes the tower.
• In the Clone Wars Cartoon, the feline Zygerrian race is introduced. Their former empire was built on trafficking slaves, and they enslaved many species including humans. No word on whether they had any avian or murine slaves, but it's not out of the realm of possibility as Wookieepedia lists several examples of sentient bird-like and rodent-like species.

Quotes

• Joe ...we'll be seeping comedy to you very soon.
• Pete: If this were real <pause> this might be a problem.
• Pete: "Tiny Snippet", the bounty hunter.

Links

Audio only

https://art19.com/shows/star-wars-minute/episodes/164e66c5-efb7-41b1-afca-df4123954cf1

Video

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DVmAYEyfwUA

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