Empire Minute 99: It's A Trap!

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Date

May 29th, 2014

Summary

Luke turns to see Leia, Chewie, Threepio, and Lando being herded down a second hallway by several other stormtroopers. Leia turns just in time to see Luke.

Guests

Meredith Woerner

Notes

Film

• Starts with Luke poorly skulking around Cloud City, and ends with Leia telling Luke "It's a trap."
• Lt. Sheckil (played by Jeremy Bulloch).
• Lobot's second big scene (and big music sting).

Podcast

• Does Artoo have any other volume setting? It seems like he only has "loud"
• Artoo keeps repeatedly bumping into Luke's leg (much like an "overexcited" dog).
• Luke can't understand what Artoo is saying. Why can't you make a talking astromech?
• Is that the same blaster as Han has? (see below)
• The "Carbonite Room" is a fabulous club that Alex got kicked out of once.
• Are the stormtroopers using Leia to lure Luke into the carbon freezing chamber?
• Mentioned: Deck Officer
• Leia screaming "It's a trap!" isn't as funny as when Ackbar says it.
  • Since Ackbar is a puppet, you could dub in whatever you want over his line.
• Referenced: Kermit from the Muppets.
• OK, so it's a trap, what is Luke supposed to do differently?
• Pete's favorite surprise backstory is (no surprise) BoShek.
  • He is Force-sensitive, he made the Kessel Run, and ended up with some monks for a while.
• Mentioned: Ben Kenobi is a killer. Other Jedi causing genocide on Tatooine.

Lobot

• Lobot is the "assistant TO the administrator".

 Pete shares that around when the Special Editions came out, he ate a bunch of Doritos to collect the promotional Pogs.
 He often got the one of Lobot opening his eyes, but eventually he did collect them all.
 At a certain point, he would open the bag, check the Pog, and then just throw out the Doritos because he'd eaten so many that summer.

• Brief rundown of Lobot's tortured backstory.

Meta Minute

• 21:55 podcast episode length.
• Cold open: Thanks for the donations from Thomas, John, and Thomas.
  • First mentioned of the "Roll Call of Heroes" although this is different from the current incarnation.
• Luke is using a Merr-Sonn model 57 blaster pistol, and not a BlasTech DL-44 heavy blaster pistol, although they are somewhat similar. Apparently the Alliance bought a bunch of Model 57's from an arms dealer on Ord Mantell (which should please Asterios).
• The monks that BoShek hung out with were in fact Dim-U monks who worshipped (of all things) Banthas.

Quotes

• Meredith: Why would they build a navigation droid that can't speak English? Alex: *Shushes her*
• Meredith: Stop taking off your clothes around Han Solo in carbonite.
• Alex, then Meredith, then Pete: (doing an Ackbar impression) It's a trap!
• Alex: orange powder poisoning.
• Meredith: Is he [Lobot] thinking "kill everyone today" or is he thinking "do... chores"?

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2014/05/29/empire-minute-99-its-a-trap/

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