Last Jedi Minute 4: The Monitor Family

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Date

February 4th, 2021

Summary

Poe Dameron gives the First Order a call

Guests

None

Notes

Film

• Starts with General Hux being notified that there's a Resistance ship approaching and ends with Hux announcing to Poe that he and his friends are doomed.
• This is Carrie Fisher's first posthumous appearance on-screen.

Podcast

• Blustery Hux arrives in this minute. Poe and Hux are intentionally over the top.
• Communications officer is Armitage Hux's First Order monitor. What if that was her actual name? Referenced: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
  • First Order officer uniforms have names on cuffs that are tributes to officer's past. Hers' says 'Ro', which means she's a sergeant.
  • Played by Kate Dickie.
    • Who were they in Superman? She was in "Game of Thrones". Also Prometheus, where she played a character named Ford (reverse fever dream?)
  • Is this nominative determinism, or did Hux never bother to learn her real name? Maybe she comes from a long line of Monitors - the Monitor family.
• Poe's X-wing.
  • The first thing he does is un-lock his S-foils (Lock them into retreat position). That may be a design flaw if you can't make a call if it's in attack position.
• Happy beeps. Referenced: Happy Feet, Heartbeeps (1981). Shoutout to former guest of the show Jennifer Landa
  • Happy beeps podcast—Tony Thaxton did the theme song.
• Poe's prank call bit is divisive.
  • The Imperial hold music would be a jazzy version of the Imperial March.
  • "General Hugs"
  • Expanding on what Star Wars is through humor. Compare and contrast with Han Solo "We're all fine here, how are you?"

• Domhnall Gleeson.
• How you pronounce his name.
• His expansive and lauded career.

Try and guess his top 4 projects (as listed on IMDB)  Hint: Star Wars and Harry Potter didn't make the cut.
1. Ex Machina (2014)
2. Frank (2014)
3. About Time (2013)
4. Anna Karenina (2012)

• Player in three different theme park attractions.

• Re-introduction to Carrie Fisher's Leia.
  • I'm with the droid on this one.
  • General Princess Leia Organa Solo. Would Leia take Han's name? How come Ben Solo has his father's last name?
• The book is different than the movie: Han Solo's funeral (overseen by Leia). She uses the eulogy as a chance to give the Rebels a pep-talk.
• Referenced: Keeps.
• Reminder: we're on video.
• Rate, review and subscribe and listen on Spotify.

Meta Minute

• 26:15 podcast episode length.
• Pointed out by User:Saiseeeeee Tiin on the SWMLS message board: In this minute BB-8 was confirmed to be saying "I have a bad feeling about this", which is why Poe replies with the 'Happy Beeps' line.
  • Reference to the Saessee Tin running joke.
• Wookieepedia lists Leia's full name as Leia Skywalker Organa Solo.

Quotes

• Pete: "Sergeant General Armitage Hux's First Order Monitor" There's your band name.
• Pete: I don't watch movies. Outside of Star Wars one minute at a time.

Links

Audio only

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2021/02/04/last-jedi-minute-4-the-monitor-family/

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5wbT0oQ7iI

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