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March 23, 2016

The Naboo congressional box floats into the center.

Starts with Palpatine addressing the Senate, and ends with Lott Dod "oba-jecting".
Lott Dod
- Named for Trent Lott (another politician George Lucas disliked).
- Fourth and final role for Silas Carson.
Characters played by Jerome Blake
- Mik Regrap
- Lufa Danak

Great sound work in this minute, reminiscent of the "Aunt Beru Kitchen noise"
The floating pods (boxes?)
- Do you need to fly them, or is there a droid intelligence controlling it?
- Can anybody just float their box out into the middle?
  - The chair does not recognize the senator from the Trade Federation, so they shouldn't be able to leave or turn their mic on.
- Mentioned: Chancellor Zod.
- Joe would like a Senate playset to scale with the action figures. Then you could play Space Politics.
  - Mentioned: What is that in Enterprises?
Actors playing many roles in one film.
- Jerome Blake plays three characters in this scene alone.
  - Was also Daultay Dofine.
Palpatine as the protagonist of the film.
More cut dialog: Palpatine puts the idea of a vote of no confidence in Amidala's ear.
Not everything that happens in the Star Wars Universe is exciting stuff. Just like the real world, lots of it is boring.
- We, the fans, asked for this, and George gave it to us.

26:33 podcast episode length.
Film critic for the New Yorker Richard Brody loves the Prequels and detests the Original Trilogy[1].
According to Wookieepdia, the Senate Building was more than 2 kilometers (~1.2 miles) in diameter. At 3 ¾" scale, this would make it 340 feet wide (larger than an American football field!) The Grand Convocation Chamber within was 100 m tall, which would make it about 17 feet high if scaled to your action figures. Maybe that's why they never sold it as a playset.
Gragra was the merchant who sold Chubas.
According to IMDB, Jerome Blake played or operated (in the case of Oppo Rancisis) 7 characters in this movie. He is not listed as playing Lufa Danak.

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 ***Was also Daultay Dofine.
 *Palpatine as the protagonist of the film.
+*More cut dialog: Palpatine puts the idea of a vote of no confidence in Amidala's ear.
+*Not everything that happens in the Star Wars Universe is exciting stuff. Just like the real world, lots of it is boring.
+**We, the fans, asked for this, and George gave it to us.
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