Empire Minute 19: Space Turkey

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The resemblance is... uncanny.

Date

February 6th, 2014

Rieekan looks up grimly from a console screen. He calls over to Leia and Han.

It kind of seems like Rieekan calls Han "Princess".
- Was this a Freudian slip?
In the original draft, it was General Dodonna and Commander Willard who are commanders of Echo Base, instead of General Rieekan. Maybe they couldn't get the actors back?
Mentioned: Leigh Brackett
Is this the entire Rebellion right here?
- If yes, then where is everybody else (e.g. Mon Mothma, Ackbar, etc.)?
- If no, and there are other Rebel cells, then it lowers the stakes for the upcoming battle.
Zev sure seemed proud that he found Han and Luke. Maybe there was some sort of prize for the pilot that brought them back (see: the name of this episode).
The flat rejection of Han's guess about the signal coming from one of their speeders is amusing.
- Obviously it isn't a speeder.
- But if you don't know what it is, Han, then how do you "know" it's not friendly?
What if the Empire was also offering a prize to whichever probe droid found the Rebels? The probe droid would have been so happy right before it blew up.
Mentioned: people hate toy talk.
Asterios shares his memories of having the snowspeeder toy.
Callback to discussion from minute 17: if the snowspeeder only holds two, how did all three of them get back?
Asterios shares his ESB memories.
- He remembers being fooled by Yoda.
- The "I am your father" reveal was spoiled by The Simpsons.
Mentioned: Raise your right hand
Referenced: "The Tracey Ullman Show", Memento (2000)

19:50 podcast episode length.
Cold open: 8-DAY-GREEDO call from Matt in Atlanta about the sounds made by Tauntauns and probe droids.
Yesterday's minute was the one that had all the principal characters in the same shot.
Eddie Byrne was the actor who played Commander Willard.
Flash forward to ROTJ: C-3PO later says he is fluent in over six million forms of communication.
John Kerry ran for president of the United States in 2004.
Alex pledges to stop saying spoilers, but will continue to do so in many minutes to come.
Spoilers
- Good job, Asterios. We did walk out of Episode VII and Han Solo died.
- Pete revealed on Star Wars Minute Weekend Edition that the big reveal was spoiled for him, coincidentally by a friend of Asterios'.

Alex:...we analyze, scrutinize, and celebrate the Star Wars movies one agonizing minute at a time.
Pete: (ironically) Now, why would somebody spend that much time on a Star Wars-related project? Asterios: Real waste of time, right boys? You'd have to be a real nerd.
Pete: Everybody, just remember that from yesterday.
Pete: If you haven't seen Empire Strikes Back, stop listening now.
Asterios: [Han Solo is] just like a little kid, he just wants to have an opinion. <heavy sarcasm> I wonder what that would feel like.
Asterios: You can't escape the incest in this series!