Phantom Menace Minute 61: Bag of Planets
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Date
February 15th, 2016
Summary
Anakin's engine floods and coughs – then dies. All the other Podracers except one swerve around him and disappear down the track.
Guests
Notes
Film
- First of two whole weeks (ten full minutes) of podracing
- Sebulba sabotages Anakin then literally twirls his mustache (à la Snidely Whiplash).
- Graxol Kelvyyn is the tallest practical costume (11 ft tall) in the film.
- Death of Mawhonic.
Podcast
- Final 8-DAY-GREEDO call from Andrew in L.A.
- First attempts to come up with a collective names for SWM fans.
- Threw "SWiMmers" out there.
- Description of pod race from original draft.
- Many names reused and shuffled.
- Likened to rearranging the deck chairs on the (space) Titanic.
- Mentioned: Star Trek.
- Referenced: "Mickey" by Toni Basil, Batman climbing walls in the original Batman TV show, Revolution 9 (Wrong show).
Meta Minute
- 36:37 podcast episode length.
- "Kelvyyn" sounds like "Kelvin" which J.J. Abrams (who directed Episode VII) tries to work into many of his movies[1]. This is an interesting bit of foreshadowing since Abrams did not work on The Phantom Menace.
Quotes
- Pete: A lot of the garbage stayed the same.
- Alex: Behind every great man spouting gibberish is a tired, harried woman.
- Asterios: Am I having a stroke right now?!
- Alex: Ask your doctor if Mysturall is right for you.
- Asterios: (à la Montel Jordan) This is how we do it. This is how we ruin the movie.
- Alex: People hate when we talk about the Toy Dampner.
Link
http://www.starwarsminute.com/2016/02/15/phantom-menace-minute-61-bag-of-planets/