Last Jedi Minute 74: Space Bones

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Date

May 13th, 2021

Summary

Guest commentator Steele Saunders from Steele Wars joins Rey as she takes the plunge into the magic wet swamp hole!

Guests

Steele Saunders

Notes

Film

• Starts with Kylo Ren saying "...kill it, if you have to. Ends with Rey going for a swim.

Podcast

• When the Falcon takes off from Ahch-To, Steele was taken back because he didn't know how Luke could possibly show up again later in the movie (but he assumed that he would have to).
  • The red [5] herring of seeing the X-Wing parked underwater.
• Off the cuff, Pete comes up with the "Finn in the medical bubble" dream theory (cf, the "Han Solo in Carbonite" dream theory").
• The difference between "best" as in quality and most favorite.
  • Unfortunately, the emotions are so high surrounding this film (out-of-universe) that Steele finds himself spending too much time defending it and not enough time enjoying it.
  • The problem with doing a season of the show a year roughly is that we're catching up to the present day, meaning we haven't had time to sit with these movies as long as we have the Original Trilogy or even the Prequels. We lack the perspective of hindsight because we're still within the zeitgeist.
• Before this movie, you could just gush about Star Wars and it was okay; you didn't have to worry about people having an unexpected extreme reaction, but now if someone asks you your feelings on The Last Jedi, you have to be kind of guarded and gauge how much of your true feelings you should be sharing.
  • Shout-out to Alex's brother. He's a casual Star Wars fan and comes out of every Star Wars movie thinking it was great but when he asks Alex what he thought of it, it's almost like they saw a completely different movies.
    • Since it's sort of his job to think intensely about Star Wars movies as supposed to just watching them, Alex has to be guarded about what he shares with Andy because he doesn't want to ruin it for him.
• Kylo's line that opens this minute is one of the most quoted lines from this movie, both by fans and detractors.

Meta Minute

• 26:33 podcast episode length.
• When this video originally posted to YouTube, Pete's audio and video both cut out. Rather than delete the video, it was renamed Last Jedi Minute 74: DIY Edition to allow the viewer to fill in their own dialog.

Quotes

• Steele: I was going to say "Boy are your expectations going to be subverted, [Luke]'s all up in this piece later."
• Steele You're becoming very well suited for YouTube.
• Steele: "Remember to ruin an episode next season."

Links

Audio only

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2021/05/13/last-jedi-minute-74-space-bones

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAXF8vSrzMY

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