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Because Rose is not introduced until this far into the film her different emotions have very little breathing room and she has to get them all out of the way at once loss of her sister and excitement about figuring out the active tracking and maybe a spark of romance with Finn all in 1 minute. It would have been nice if we could have met her earlier and spend more time with her. Pete's plan to go to the academy award library to read this script which was submitted editor's note but not nominated for best screenplay. | Because Rose is not introduced until this far into the film her different emotions have very little breathing room and she has to get them all out of the way at once loss of her sister and excitement about figuring out the active tracking and maybe a spark of romance with Finn all in 1 minute. It would have been nice if we could have met her earlier and spend more time with her. Pete's plan to go to the academy award library to read this script which was submitted editor's note but not nominated for best screenplay. | ||
Pete quotes is costing me a fortune in rent just to read this screenplay. Reminder: Finn used to be a janitor he was on the finalizer better notes double-check that. And on Starkiller base he's mopped a lot of first order ships and such. Houston got reassigned from a sanitation to the front lines. Was it explained in some ancillary material? Alex quotes as Finn (upon learning that his job was now to kill people) I'm just in it for the mopping. The Apple inspired Stormtrooper mop. Why would they even have janitors when they have Droids? Maybe he just supervises a mop Droid. Pete quotes are old blow it up guy died we need a new blow it up guy you're it. | Pete quotes is costing me a fortune in rent just to read this screenplay. Reminder: Finn used to be a janitor he was on the finalizer better notes double-check that. And on Starkiller base he's mopped a lot of first order ships and such. Houston got reassigned from a sanitation to the front lines. Was it explained in some ancillary material? Alex quotes as Finn (upon learning that his job was now to kill people) I'm just in it for the mopping. The Apple inspired Stormtrooper mop. Why would they even have janitors when they have Droids? Maybe he just supervises a mop Droid. Pete quotes are old blow it up guy died we need a new blow it up guy you're it. | ||
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**It hammers home that Finn is playing the comedy relief role that's more geared towards children. | **It hammers home that Finn is playing the comedy relief role that's more geared towards children. | ||
**What does it mean that he can't feel his teeth, is it normal to feel your teeth? We're all feeling our teeth now. | **What does it mean that he can't feel his teeth, is it normal to feel your teeth? We're all feeling our teeth now. | ||
*If you don't understand how lightspeed works in the Star Wars universe, this minute is going to give you a crash course. Mentioned: <u>Gravity's Rainbow</u>. | |||
*Rose just heard about active hyperspace tracking a second and they already have a near-perfect plan for how to escape it.. | |||
**PetwHe is on record as loving the scenes in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" where Geordi and Data and usually Wesley or Barclay are standing around the table in engineering figuring out how to solve a tech problem. This is a little bit like that. | |||
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*The heightened awareness of one's teeth caused by viewing this minute of the movie <span class="mw-customtoggle-spoiler" style="color:blue;">[Trigger warning]</span><span class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-spoiler"> results from the same [[Wikipedia:Ironic process theory|psychological quirk]] that causes the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-are-now-breathing-manually You Are Now Breathing Manually] effect. Both of these may in turn have been inspired by [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1f/tongue_awareness.jpg this Peanuts comic]. | *The heightened awareness of one's teeth caused by viewing this minute of the movie <span class="mw-customtoggle-spoiler" style="color:blue;">[Trigger warning]</span><span class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-spoiler"> results from the same [[Wikipedia:Ironic process theory|psychological quirk]] that causes the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-are-now-breathing-manually You Are Now Breathing Manually] effect. Both of these may in turn have been inspired by [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/1f/tongue_awareness.jpg this Peanuts comic]. | ||
*Alex bringing up the notion of "it's like letting the air out of a balloon" as the catch-all analogy for solutions to any technical problems has become a bit of a running joke. | |||
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*'''Alex:''' Every surgeon wants to operate, every X-Wing pilot wants to blow up a star destroyer. | *'''Alex:''' Every surgeon wants to operate, every X-Wing pilot wants to blow up a star destroyer. | ||
Revision as of 20:23, 7 August 2021
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Date
March 30th, 2021
Summary
Finn reveals the secret of the Cloaked Binary Beacon to Rose but it will take more than that to impress guest commentator Tim Barnes!
Guests
Notes
Film
- Starts with Finn saying Rey will find him and be safe, and ends with Poe suggesting they blow the lead Star Destroyer up.
Podcast
- Tim asks how time works in Star Wars
- We have brought this up before recently.
- Alex references Coruscant Standard Time.
- Mentioned: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe (and the number 42).
- The movie wants to add more to Poe's character than just blowing stuff up, but that's really all we want to see him do. Maybe they could have invested that character development in someone else (like Finn).
- The competition for "leading man" in this movie.
- We didn't need to know more about the back story of Han Solo in the original Star Wars Trilogy.
- Poe is perfectly content and happy and good at his job, whereas Han was terrible at his job as a smuggler.
- Finn has a built-in in arc as A First Order
- Tim heard an interview with Rian Johnson where he said that originally he wanted Finn's side quest to have both he and Poe, but backed off because they are too similar as characters. Do we agree?
- People mistakenly blaming Kelly Marie Tran for how the character of Rose was structured. You can't blame Ahmed Best for the way that Jar Jar was written; he had nothing to do with that.
- You shouldn't blame the actors, you should blame the "suits" upstairs, the powers-that-be.
- Rose calls Finn a "selfish traitor" which is actually completely accurate. Referenced: Back to the Future.
- This could be a running thing with Finn.
- Is he called traitor in the third installment?
- Phasma is appears two out of the three movies but the OCD in Alex wanted it to be three out of three.
- Finn not being able to feel his teeth reminds us of Jar Jar not being able to feel his tongue when you get zapped by the power coupling.
- It would have been worse though if he'd gone the full Bill Cosby.
- It hammers home that Finn is playing the comedy relief role that's more geared towards children.
- What does it mean that he can't feel his teeth, is it normal to feel your teeth? We're all feeling our teeth now.
- If you don't understand how lightspeed works in the Star Wars universe, this minute is going to give you a crash course. Mentioned: Gravity's Rainbow.
- Rose just heard about active hyperspace tracking a second and they already have a near-perfect plan for how to escape it..
- PetwHe is on record as loving the scenes in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" where Geordi and Data and usually Wesley or Barclay are standing around the table in engineering figuring out how to solve a tech problem. This is a little bit like that.
Meta Minute
- 28:13 podcast episode length.
- The heightened awareness of one's teeth caused by viewing this minute of the movie [Trigger warning] results from the same psychological quirk that causes the You Are Now Breathing Manually effect. Both of these may in turn have been inspired by this Peanuts comic.
- Alex bringing up the notion of "it's like letting the air out of a balloon" as the catch-all analogy for solutions to any technical problems has become a bit of a running joke.
Quotes
- Alex: Every surgeon wants to operate, every X-Wing pilot wants to blow up a star destroyer.
- Pete: (re: Poe in The Rise of Skywalker) Quick! There's only an hour left, what's your backstory?
- Alex: (re: the Sequel Trilogy) <sings the first few notes of shave-and-a-haircut but leaves out the "two bits" at the end>
Links
- Audio only
- http://www.starwarsminute.com/2021/03/30/last-jedi-minute-42-the-new-blow-it-up-guy
- Video
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_1jBnBnMBA