SW Special Edition Minute 44: Rachios
Date
September 8th, 2016
Summary
The landspeeder zooms in to the spaceport of Mos Eisley, scattering small scurriers who jump to get out of the way.
Guests
Notes
Film
- First Rebel transport
- ASP-7 labor droid
- Mk IV sentry droid: IM4-099
- Scurriers, not Womp Rats
- (Irritating) wacky slapstick
- Sandtroopers!
- The sandtrooper dazed by the Jedi mind trick is played by Anthony Forrest, who also played Fixer in the Tosche Station deleted scene.
- Gonk
Podcast
- Mentioned: Long time, M*A*S*H, Shadows of the Empire, hating the toy talk
- Referenced: Alphabeatical and Alex's Liverpudlian accent, Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Discussion of differing layers of canon
- Things like Admiral Thrawn moving from C-Canon to G-Canon
- Visual effects
- Recycled modified models from Jurassic Park
- Tatooine wildlife
- Rontos, how they got their names, their ecology and physiology
- Dewbacks, Banthas, and Krayt dragons are all giant - what are they eating?
- Ralph tells us how he became a Jedi
- Callback to the first Ewok movie
- The crashed Hutt ship Dowager Queen and Mos Eisley history
- Do moisture farmers farm crops? Or do they actually just harvest the moisture to sell?
Meta Minute
- 44:22 podcast episode length
- Plug for www.starwarsminute.com/cruise
- This is the second minute covered during the TPM - AotC hiatus. The first was SW Special Edition Minute 54: Boogie
- We do see Rontos "again"—in the Naboo Movie.
- Although Brontosaurus is indeed back, Pluto is still not a planet.
- For an quick and enjoyable explanation of how paleontological naming works (using our pal Brontosaurus as an example), check this cool web comic
- We do actually see Gonk droids in the non-special edition.
- Pete and Alex also display their ignorance of nautical terminology in ESB 109.
Quotes
- Alex: (on this minute of the Special Edition) "Well it's not all crap."
- Pete: (À la Tag Team) "Swoops, there it is."
- Ralph: "Do we ever see Rontos again?" Pete: "In... my nightmares"
- Alex: "Scurriers and the Ronto... detectives." Pete: "You're crazy DiRonto!"
- Ralph: "Yeah Brontosaurus is back, it's great."
- Ralph: "I was doing a big muscle chest motion—" Pete: "More so than usual"
- Ralph: (on Wioslea) "Her head is like a potato and a fetus had a baby."
- Ralph: (on the physiology of the Dewback, sarcastically) "'...that's absolutely enough water for a huge macrocephalid varanid like me. I can totally live off this. Now excuse me, I'm going to go do whatever a lizard the size of a Buick does in the desert.' No. I don't want– Guys, I hate Star Wars now." Alex: "Ralph come back!"
- Alex: <non-determinant accent>
- Alex: "You keep my Kit Fisto out of this."
Link
http://www.starwarsminute.com/2016/09/08/sw-special-edition-minute-44-rachios/