Phantom Menace Minute 88: Space Politics

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Date

March 23, 2016

Summary

The Naboo congressional box floats into the center.

Guests

Joe Dator

Notes

Film

• 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

Podcast

• 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.
• plug for starwarsminute.com/merch

Meta Minute

• 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.
• The Jedi mug has yet to materialize. It was revealed on SWM:WE that Pete lost the file containing Alex's artwork, and then the host site backed out of selling copyrighted merch.

Quotes

• Pete: Is this about the Reptoids again?
• Pete: "Lex Loofah": Superman's least favorite sponge.
• Pete: 50 minutes of NASCAR followed by 10 minutes of C-SPAN

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2016/03/23/phantom-menace-minute-88-space-politics/

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