Last Jedi Minute 62: Bad Dudes

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Date

April 27th, 2021

Summary

Ben Solo decides he don’t need no education but we need the thoughts of guest commentator Jordan White!

Guests

Jordan White

Notes

Film

• Starts with the Jedi temple burning, ends with Rey saying "I won't…"
• This minute contains the shot that appears in Rey's vision in Maz's castle (Force Awakens trailer shot).

Podcast

• This is the wrong show, but there's an outtake from the song "I Will" where Paul says "I won't".
  • Mark Hamill is supposedly a big Beatles fan.
• Where was R2 when Ben was destroying the temple? How come he survived unscathed? Alex is suspicious.
  • He was also sleeping on the job when Padmé was in danger of being assassinated by the worms.
  • R2 was probably conflicted because both Luke and Ben were kind of his family and he didn't know which to support.
  • It would have been nice if he had recorded an objective perspective of the confrontation between Luke and Ben so we didn't have to rely only on their subjective recollections.
• Wait how did R2 know when to wake up, and how did the map to Luke work, especially considering he didn't want to be found?
• How many students is a "handful"? There's a comic book miniseries that explains this.
  • They didn't also turn the Dark side they either when is the hiding themselves or attempted to chase down Kylo Ren and kill him and were themselves killed.
• These students are not the same thing as the Knights of Ren.
  • The Knights of Ren aren't even Force sensitive if they're just Bad Dudes.
  • Kylo Ren killed the old leader of the Knights of Ren and took over as their master (that's where he got his name).
    • But he was a bad guy and probably deserved it so is Kylo and really evil?
• Things in Star Wars like the Clone wars being cool until you explain them in a movie.
• It would have been fun if the Knights of Ren became the Praetorian Guard that we see in this movie, but they don't.
  • Or or or what if the Praetorian Guard were all just Kylo Ren clones and this was revealed during the throne room fight scene.
    • What if Kylo Ren himself was a clone?

Meta Minute

• 36:03 podcast episode length.
• Pete was right, the piece of the map that BB-8 had was the local map, and R2 had the larger overall map.

Quotes

• Pete: (as R2) Yeah, I'll make sure nothing bad happens (R2, to himself) *sigh* please let something bad happen.

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2021/04/27/last-jedi-minute-62-bad-dudes

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