Star Wars Minute 54: The Rule of Science Fiction

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Date

August 15th, 2013.

Summary

The Millennium Falcon blasts its way out of Mos Eisley.

Guests

Mike Dawson

Notes

Film

• Han runs up the ramp; the Falcon takes off and is pursued by Imperial Star Destroyers.

Podcast

• Luke's experience travelling on spaceships up until this point.
• Did the Lars' travel on spaceships when they went on holidays?
• Luke seems to be a bit annoyed by being on the Falcon.
• Luke still smarting from Ben calling him "little one".
• Mike asks - Why was Han in such a hurry to get away?
• Could the Stormtroopers actually shoot down the Millennium Falcon? (Note: see below).
• Seatbelts on the Falcon.
• R2-D2's stability on spaceships.
• Guns / lasers mounted on the Millennium Falcon.
• Chewbacca getting out of his life debt by not trying too hard to protect Han with the gun / laser.
• Would Han really push Luke out of the air-lock as he threatens to?
• The camera angle showing Tatooine above the Imperial Cruisers. This means that from the ground on Tatooine the Cruisers would have been upside down.
• The sci-fi rule that, on camera, spaceships are always shown the right way up.
• The general lack of gravity / gravitational effects in Star Wars and how these effects would have looked cool if actually shown in the movies.
• The theory that the Empire only conquered planets that had similar gravity and destroyed all the rest.
• The round door and padded walls on the Falcon.
• The toy Millennium Falcon, the layout of the ship and what we see of it's interior in the movies.
• The sick-bay on the Millennium Falcon and robot doctors and computers on the ship.
• Referenced: Web MD, "M"-Class planets from that other Sci-Fi franchise..
• Hypochondria on the Millennium Falcon.
• The number of crew on the Millennium Falcon in the past.
• Was the chess board already on the Millennium Falcon or did Han and Chewbacca have it installed? If they had it installed then who was the best player?
• Lightspeed and hyperspace seem to be interchangeable terms, or maybe Han just doesn't know what they mean.
• Han says that he knows a few maneuvers to avoid the Star Destroyers and then flies in a perfectly straight line.

Meta Minute

• 17:55 podcast episode length.
• Cold-open (ad read): Episode "brought to you by" LessAccounting.com.
• The "garage door" effect shot is homaged in The Force Awakens.
• In this episode Pete tells the tragic story of the time he threw out two toy Millennium Falcons during a house move in the early to mid 00s due to a "fit of having too much stuff".
• 8-DAY-GREEDO mentioned.
• Stormtroopers disabling/destroying a spaceship will be brought up again during The Force Awakens Minute.

Quotes

• Pete: Yeah, those gravity masks.
• Pete: Agh, Millennium Falcons!
• Mike: There wasn't a time when you said..."I swear, from this day forth, that I am no longer a Star Wars nerd?".
• Pete: The rest of [the Falcon] is full of cockroaches.
• Alex: You tell it your symptoms like "My hand has been cut-off" and then it says "Put this on the end of your hand <arm>".
• Mike: As Han "I'm going to go to the star-streaky button".

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2013/08/15/minute-54-the-rule-of-science-fiction/

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