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==Date==	
April 7th, 2021	
==Summary==	
Guest commentator Ken Plume is Ahch-to school for his first lesson of Jedi training!	
==Guests==	
[[Ken Plume]]	
==Notes==	
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===Film===	
*Starts with Rey saying she thinks the Caretakers don't like her, and ends with Luke saying that every word in her sentence was wrong. 
===Podcast===	
*In the Original Trilogy, Luke didn't get a lot of the punch lines (callback to Luke and Han's [[Jedi_Minute_29:_Long_Waits|comedy routine]]); he was normally the straight man.
**Listener project? "''Return of the Jedi'' was filmed before a live studio audience".
*Obi-Wan and Yoda got way more jokey when they went into exile.
**The Force makes you serious, the Force is no fun.
**Obi-Wan and Yoda being stuck talking to Qui-Gon because he's a Force ghost. Referenced: ''Taken''.
***Being a Force ghost is like being in a cult or part of a pyramid scheme.  Mentioned: the Sears portrait studio picture of the Skywalker family.
*Mentioned: Toad from ''American Graffiti''.
*If Luke hadn't refused to train Rey right away, this minute is where their part of the story would start.
*Pete's opinion is that some of the main criticisms of ''Rise of Skywalker'' are that it feels manic; it's too jam-packed full because it has too much work to do to end the trilogy and if there was a movie X to take some of the load off, it might have been better.
*Why didn't Force ghost Luke train Rey in TROS instead of Leia?
**The idea that Force ghosts have to [[SWM-Canon#Force-Swimming|swim everywhere]].
*The Sacred Mosaic and the "{{Wookiee|Prime Jedi|}}".
**Pete's definition of "bringing balance to the Force".
***It's a dynamic equilibrium, like trimming a '''bonsai tree''' on a helicopter.
*Is Kylo Ren that big of a threat? What about the rest of the First Order?
**Referenced: Agatha Harkness (Marvel character), ''[[The Godfather]]''.
**Rey doesn't have the whole story. So it makes sense that she doesn't know what the Force really is all about. She can only speak from her limited experience.
*Teaching the Force the way that public schools teach sex ed, with Luke as the grumpy gym teacher who has to show the video tape.
*How long different parts of the movie take.
**Just like in ''Empire'', how much Jedi training is there time for?
**Picking up exactly where TFA leaves off really locks in the time-line of this movie.
*Plugs for SWM on social media.
**We now have [https://www.tiktok.com/@thestarwarsminute/ a Tiktok].
===Meta Minute===	
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*33:04 podcast episode length.
*Cold open: [[8-DAY-GREEDO]] call. Caller complains that they never put any of his 8-DAY-GREEDO calls on the show. [[Media:Ironic.gif|Ironic]].
*Pete didn't end up buying [[Inside_References_and_Running_Jokes#Now_Pete_has_to_buy_the_domain|Kenplumedotcomnot.fun]].

==Quotes==	
*'''Pete:''' "Luke Skywalker without the Force" ''is'' Mark Hamill.
* '''Alex:''' (as Alec Guinness) I'm too old—I'm too dead for this sort of thing.

==Links==	
;Audio only: https://www.starwarsminute.com/2021/04/07/last-jedi-minute-48-bonsai-tree	
;Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11qPP6d5VvI
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