Last Jedi Minute 88: The Merle Haggard of Space
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Date
June 2nd, 2021
Summary
Guest commentator Hal Lublin decides if The Resistance are cowards, traitors or both but Poe thinks he has the answer!
Guests
Notes
Film
- Starts with Poe shouting the word "plan" and ends with Poe being escorted off the bridge.
Podcast
- Referenced: the Vaudeville Hook.
- Some people's major complaint is that Holdo doesn't just tell Poe everything, but that's not how the military (or other structured organizations) works.
- Poe's arc in this movie revolves around learning what it is to be a leader and a hero, and he's not there yet. We saw at the start of the movie he's perfectly willing to sacrifice others but not necessarily himself.
- Poe acts like a baby, so it is reasonable that he's treated like one.
- Cowards and traitors. This would be a good name for an album by the Merle Haggard of space.
- "Hope is like the sun...". Why the sun if we're in space where there's loads of suns?
- Hope is mentioned in every Star Wars movie. Mentioned: Hope Floats, Road to Morocco.
- Luke was supposed to be the last hope, and he ends up like basically every other Jedi (running away and hiding). Should we expect the same from Rey?
- Are there shoulder holsters for blasters? Pretty much just Bill Burr's character. Mentioned: "The Real World".
- People are constantly running away from the Rebellion. Anybody who is left in gets made a general pretty quickly.
- Now that Rose is off ship, people are probably taking all the escape pods. Mentioned: Tase Crazy.
- Background extras like Willrow Hood and the stormtrooper who hit his head being played by unknown actors.
- Mentioned: Peet Deretalia, Hal Lublin's character in Join the Resistance
- Would Poe have gotten more information if he had played nice instead of demanding instant gratification? Holdo has known a million "flyboys" like Poe in her time.
Meta Minute
- 32:59 podcast episode length.
- In Hope Floats (1998), the word "hope" is spoken 7 times, and the word "hopeless" a further 2 times. Bob Hope is one of the stars of Road to Morocco in which the word "hope" is spoken twice, and the word "hopeless" once.
- According to TheDrive.com, it is often possible to mute gas station TV.
- There is no mention anywhere on Wookieepedia of who played Willrow Hood, unless the extra who portrayed him comes forward, his identity will most likely remain a mystery.
- You can follow Leah Derham-Boyce on Twitter.
- Klingon names are an example of the "punctuation shaker trope".
- Interesting fact: you actually catch less flies with honey than with vinegar. Vinegar is made from rotting fruit, a main food source for flies[1], whereas honey is made by bees and bees sting.
Quotes
- Pete: Organa out! *makes zooming away hand gesture and jetpack sound effects* Alex: Well his name is "Bail".
Links
- Audio only
- https://art19.com/shows/star-wars-minute/episodes/ff7f9f32-17e2-45aa-95e6-34c305839ef8
- Video
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81jczWNaCII