Star Wars Minute 56: Warning! Death Star In Area!

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Date

August 19th, 2016

Summary

In a way, Princess Leia determines the choice of the planet that’ll be destroyed first

Guests

Ryan Haupt

Notes

Film

  • Peter Cushing spends this minute waxing poetic.

Podcast

  • Why doesn't Leia recognize Alderaan from space? Maybe she doesn't get back there too often.
    • Plus, we only have the one planet, and so of course we'd recognize Earth from space and if we were more space-faring maybe it would be different.
  • Tarkin's title: Grand Moff vs. Governor
    • Grand Moff is never used in the Original Trilogy.
  • <Probably Danish> Magazine that explained that Sith were an aquatic race that needed apparatus to breathe on land.
    • Is this where Jar Jar came from?!
  • Pronunciation of Leia as "Lee-uh"
  • Lucas dialogue sounds ridiculous when spoken aloud.
  • Referenced: The Roxbury Guys
  • None of the top-notch British actors get to play off each other
  • Could the people on Alderaan see the Death Star enter the system?
    • If so, how did they react?
    • Do they get alerts on their smart phones the way we get warnings about hazardous weather?

Meta Minute

  • 15:05 podcast episode length
  • Although Pete said he'd post the link to the magazine he mentioned to the facebook page, he must have forgotten to do this.
  • Origin of referring to the Death Squad Commanders as DJs.
  • According to Wookieepedia, the Death Star, at 120 kilometers (about 75 miles) across [1], is 29 times smaller than our moon [2]. That means that to appear even as big as the head of a pin [3] in the night sky, it would need to be four times closer to Alderaan than our moon is to Earth [4]. So, no, the Alderaanians would have no idea it was coming. For more information, see How Far Away is the Moon?
  • See the above as an Inforgraphic

Quotes

  • Pete: "All the Darths."
  • Ryan: "Maybe Aquaman is a Sith."
  • Pete: "We have no weapons- except for that giant mirror."

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2013/08/19/minute-56-warning-death-star-in-area/


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