Phantom Menace Minute 61: Bag of Planets

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Date

February 15, 2016

Summary

Anakin's engine floods and coughs – then dies. All the other Podracers except one swerve around him and disappear down the track.

Guests

Asterios Kokkinos

Notes

Film

• First of two whole weeks (ten full minutes) of podracing
• Sebulba sabotages Anakin then literally twirls his mustache (à la http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snidely_Whiplash Snidely Whiplash])
• Graxol Kelvyyn is the tallest practical costume (11 ft tall) in the film
• Death of Mawhonic

Podcast

• First attempts to come up with a collective names for SWM fans
  • Threw "SWiMmers" out there
• Description of pod race from original draft
  • Many names reused and shuffled
  • Likened to rearranging the deck chairs on the (space) Titanic
• Mentioned: Star Trek
• Referenced: Mickey by Toni Basil, Batman climbing walls in the original Batman TV show

Meta Minute

• "Kelvyyn" sounds like "Kelvin" which J.J. Abrams (who directed Episode VII) tries to work into each of his movies

Quotes

• "A lot of the garbage stayed the same" - Pete
• "Behind every great man spouting gibberish is a tired, harried woman" - Alex
• "Am I having a stroke right now?!" - Asterios
• "Ask your doctor if Mysturall is right for you" - Alex
• {as Montel Jordan} "This is how we do it. This is how we ruin the movie" - Asterios
• "People hate when we talk about the Toy Dampner" - Alex

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2016/02/15/phantom-menace-minute-61-bag-of-planets/

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