Episode Transcript
[00:00:32] Speaker A: Guys. Yeah, well, I mean, Brian, you're here, but listeners, we just saw a Star wars.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Saw a Star wars fuck.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. Pardon my language. That was probably. Let's start over, guys. We just saw Star wars.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: We just saw a fucking Star wars fuck.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: It was so good. I can't do it. It was so good. We are here on location at an AMC theater. And by on location, I mean in the parking lot.
[00:01:02] Speaker B: In the parking.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: In my car.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: It's a lovely studio.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: It is a lovely studio. I like the acoustics.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: Spacious. Yes, actually, the acoustics are really good in here.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: They are really nice in here. We'll find out later when we post this.
So you thought we were going to skip Thursday? Well, guess what? It's 1153. We definitely lost Thursday. Yeah, whatever. We're good. We're going. We have suffered this week with some technical difficulties.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: You remember the time that I dropped something on my computer and then.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: Whose fault is that, Brian? It is yours again, I'm pretty sure this. No, it's actually yours.
[00:01:38] Speaker B: It was mine. It was totally my fault.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: But how is your computer doing?
[00:01:42] Speaker B: Computer is not doing well, but the hard drive is doing just fine. So we're okay.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: We did more than we can say from my hard drive.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: Right.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: All right, well, now that you guys know what's going on and why we skipped this week, time for us to talk about solo. Oh, it was so good.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: Well, I was going to say it's way better than I thought it would be, but I kind of went in with zero expectations because I had no idea how I wanted to go.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: So I remember we talked about this a while ago, and you were like, I could take it or leave it. I feel like the film's unnecessary.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: Right. I didn't want a Han solo movie. That's not something I wanted. I wanted a chewy movie or a Lando movie. So that's kind of what I was.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: Or a chewie Lando and Han movie together.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Which is what we got, basically. Yeah, basically.
So I went in. I remember being like, I'm down for the solo movie. I was excited for it. In that I was like, yay, new Star wars. But in the last month, I don't know if I'm just a victim of advertising campaigns or if the trailer just looks super dope.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: Trailer was legit.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: I didn't quite break the rule of don't see trailers for things you're already going to see because I didn't know for sure if I was going to be like, I'm going to go to that movie that night. Like, I still haven't seen Deadpool yet.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Oh, Deadpool two was so good.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: I love that movie, but I'll see that later, probably this weekend, but solo, I don't know. In the last month, I've just got really, really hyped for this film.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Oh, I did, too. And I think what helped with me is so starwars.com puts out their Star wars show, which is freaking hilarious.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: So super good. Super, so good.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: I was catching up. I haven't watched it in months, but the ones I caught up with had the new guy playing Chewy and it.
[00:03:24] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Since Peter Mayhew's health is not allowing him to do nearly the crap, mean Chewie in the new Star wars movies isn't as active as Chewie was in the original trilogy. Well, sort mean, but he's not like ripping arms off and stuff. He was in this movie, but he was in this.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: Yeah. So I got super excited because I was catching up on the Star wars show. They had new chewy guy. They had Alden and Donald Glover on talking about it, and they also had Ron Howard on an episode, and then they had Kevin Feige on an episode.
[00:04:04] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: It was really cool.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:06] Speaker B: But, yeah. So they're all on there and they all seemed really excited. And you can kind of tell when actors are going through the media rounds, when they're stoked for a project or if they're just going through the motions.
[00:04:17] Speaker A: We all saw Ben Affleck's face in that interview in this one. No, they're like, they're all jazzed.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: They were super jazzed.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: Especially Donald Glover, I think is so excited.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Yeah. And coming because he's a huge fan before. If he's excited about it and not bummed out, then it's a good sign.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: Yeah, he was on Jimmy Kimmel. I think it was Jimmy Kimmel. And he was talking about his experience with Billy D. Williams.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: And he was like, I think know he's thinking of all these motivations for this play.
Dude, just be cool. Just be cool.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: Just be smooth rule.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: A cool, be smooth. Flirt with everybody.
That's the lows of the Lando rules. But like Billy D. Williams basically just said, like, dude, just be cool. That's your job. You are the coolest character in any scene. And he totally is. Even when he's not being cool.
Okay. No, we're not at that point yet. We're still going to talk about this. Like, hey, you haven't seen this yet.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: We are.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: Yeah. We're going spoiler free for a moment longer.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: Yeah. The trailers gave it a ton of super cool stuff to look forward to.
There's a lot of fan theories rolling around about what in the trailer was what, which I'm not really. Again, not big into fan theories, but fan theories as far as analyzing trailers can be kind of fun. We've done it ourselves. Yeah. And my number one worry was that Han Solo wasn't going to be Han Solo enough. And I feel like there were moments in the beginning where I was like, I don't know. This guy's not really Han Solo. And even when the movie ended, I was still like, he's not Harrison Ford.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: But he really did a pretty good job. He really is Han Solo. He did a pretty damn good job at it.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And they've kind of mentioned, too, that this is Han Solo, but it's not Han Solo as we know him.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: Right. He's still kind of getting used to things. He doesn't know how to do stuff early in the film. He's panicking in a way that is not like I'm going to figure a way out of think. You know, it's very much like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Like, not handling it well, which he kind of comes to that point towards the end when he believes himself a little bit more. But they did some changes to story and all that. And I think at seven minutes and 30 seconds ish, we should go into spoiler territory. Have you seen the movie yet? We will wait.
While we're waiting, can we get a fact check on who played Chewbacca?
[00:06:49] Speaker B: Jules.
Chewbacca.
No. Not being.
[00:07:06] Speaker A: No, it's not.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: Anthony Daniels.
Junis Suta.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: Sutama.
[00:07:15] Speaker B: Jonas. Judas.
Oh, there it is.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Like Eunice or something like that.
And we're back.
Oh, my God.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: That was good.
[00:07:31] Speaker A: That movie was so fucking fun.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: It was fun.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: Lots of people died.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, we're done with the spoiler thing. If you are on here now, we're in spoiler territory. Moving on. Like, what was her name? Al the super badass. Super badass love crew. What's his name? What's his.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: Beckett.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Of Beckett? Yeah. Tobias something like that. Of Beckett. Oh, my. Like, and then Rio.
[00:08:01] Speaker B: Jon Favreau.
[00:08:02] Speaker A: Jon Favreau's character. Yeah. He was fucking dope. Oh, my God. It was so good. It was so good. And then you go through that whole heist scene, and then it's like, oh, yeah, by the way, there's still a whole nother movie. There's a whole movie left.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: I didn't realize how early in the movie that was.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Thinking into it, like, a lot had already happened at that point because we had escaped his corellion. Yeah, we've escaped, which was cool. Super cool. To give a planet to the actual corellian space cruiser, which is dope.
[00:08:29] Speaker B: Yeah. You see a little bit in the expanded universe, but nothing in the new canon stuff.
[00:08:33] Speaker A: No, nothing in new canon stuff.
The only exposure to a corellian cruiser that I think we've had where they've talked about the cruiser itself, outside of referring to it as the Falcon, was the Leia book.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: There was a brief little thing in there.
Okay, before we get to that, we've got to talk about this movie. Like, holy shit. The cameos, like Warwick Davis.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: Oh, he actually had lines. Lines, yeah.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: And as soon as he showed up, people were like, yeah, I was so excited. Get that guy out of that furry costume.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: No, no. Unstuffed teddy bears for you. Wicked. Oh, my gosh. And just everybody, the practical effects. The practical effects. Proper combination of practical and non practical effects.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: Holy balls.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: The Kessel run scene, dude, it actually was Kessel.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: Like, everyone, like, I love that they give you what actually happened versus what Han's story is.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:45] Speaker A: Because you see the Kessel run and it's like, yeah. So they did it in under 20 parsecs, which was supposed to be impossible.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: Right.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: And what they don't tell you is in the process of that, they lost the escape pod, they lost the radar dish, they lost their fucking landing gear.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: Most of the ship.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: Most of the ship is destroyed. They lost a cannon, and they had to do it while escaping. A giant, necroverse, Cthulhu esque old God, that was so lovecraftian monster.
And then they get there and he's like, yeah, I did it in twelve runs. And Chewbacca is like. And he's like, well, if you round down.
So even that's not 100% true. Han Solo, ever the dastardly man, makes his intro to the Star wars movie telling a lie, which is even better. Oh, man, they had him shoot first.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah, they did.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: They had a really quality storyline and commentary, which was super dope. Yeah, I really liked. I loved l three.
[00:10:52] Speaker B: L three was.
[00:10:52] Speaker A: I thought l three was hilarious.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: I kind of wanted more.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: Yeah. I loved what they did with her, because when she gets hit, I was horrified. I was like, oh, no. And they really, up until the point when she's in the ship, in, like, I was missing up. Oh, yeah. I was like, oh, I'm not okay with this. And then when they were like, yeah, let's upgrade her nav into the computer.
[00:11:17] Speaker B: I thought that was cool.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: That was a super cool thing to, like. Also kind of makes Lando losing the Falcon a little bit.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: And that the twist at the end was kind of cool. I was expecting Lando to be the.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: Guy that I honestly thought that he might be the one walking in, and I liked that. They really held us in suspense for a moment. Who's going to walk in here? Oh, it's Woody Harrelson.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: Okay. Who was awesome in the movie, by the way.
[00:11:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, so can we talk real quick while we're here about rebels and clone wars tie ins?
[00:11:52] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: First off, ora.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: Ora Singh.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: Ora Singh, who was first seen in episode one.
[00:12:00] Speaker B: In episode one, the pod racers.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: I don't think she was just watching it.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: Yeah, she's watching on the club.
[00:12:07] Speaker A: Yeah, she's up watching it. The Tusken Raiders, actually.
But, yeah, she's up in the top just overlooking everything.
Go figure. And then she gets parts in the Clone wars, which is super dope. Has a great storyline in that with Ahsoka and Padme on Boba Fet's team, actually. Right, right. Mentioning of very. I don't think we've ever had a mention by name, have we?
[00:12:36] Speaker B: I don't think so.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: We got bosque mentioned by name.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Yep. We got a few different planets that are mentioned.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: We got a few different syndicates, too, that are mentioned.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: Yeah, the pikes were there.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: Which one of the pikes in the Clone wars?
[00:12:51] Speaker B: They were part of the spice cartel, so they're kind of running.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: They're the ones who look kind of like egyptian sarcophagy, right?
[00:12:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
[00:13:00] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: But, yeah, they're all around Mandalore during the Clone wars.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: Yes, they were. And they had an actual pike on Kessel, didn't they?
[00:13:10] Speaker B: Yeah, there was a few.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: That's never happened. No, we don't get animation stuff bleeding over that way. We did in rogue one a little bit. A little bit with chopper and the.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: Ghost, but, like, not straight up.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: And on this, we had a really good balance of lots of current expanded universe.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:35] Speaker A: New canon stuff like species, too.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
What really has been bugging me about the last few Star wars movies was that, yeah, there's a lot of cool new aliens, but you don't see any of the older ones.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: And here was a nice sprinkle in of.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: There was a twillock.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: There was another Wookie.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: There was a gripload of wookies.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: There was that big, giant thing that. I can't remember what it is, but it's not a wampa. But it's also really big and furry that I can't for life me think of what it is.
[00:14:02] Speaker B: Remember seeing it. But I thought it was a Wookie.
[00:14:04] Speaker A: I thought it was, too, but then I saw its shoulders, and it didn't have a head. Its head went straight into its shoulders, much like that species does.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: We had a few Rhodians.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: Rhodians. Yes, there was a Rhodian. Then we got whatever.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Oh, and then we had. Shoot. I think it's called two tubes. Who was in rogue one.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: He was part of the.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: The group at the end who turned out not to be like a terrorist syndicate sort of thing. Yeah, whatever they were called.
[00:14:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Infus nest.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: It sounded like Infant's nest, but it wasn't Infant's nest. It was like, infus nest.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Yeah. I really need to see this movie to get to all the other.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: All the other little details.
But didn't he fight for two tubes is part of Sagara's faction?
[00:14:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:00] Speaker A: Which really, really cool tie in there. Tie in there. Yeah. And the people of the planet very much had a very similar story to Sagara's origin.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's kind of what's focused on in rebels is that there's all these little tiny rebel factions going around and that eventually something's going to happen where they're all going to team up.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: It's super cool that. Yeah, because the Rebel alliance is a shitload of rebel groups together, which is super awesome. But it was cool that at the very end, she's like, this is the lifeblood of a rebellion. And you realize, like, oh, all of this hyperfuel is going to the rebellion, whether it's going to go to Sar or wherever, it will end up in.
[00:15:38] Speaker B: The mon Mothma's crew.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
Super, super cool.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: Biggest, hugest, craziest shit. Maul.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: Not Darth Maul. Maul.
[00:15:51] Speaker A: I lost my.
[00:15:52] Speaker B: Oh, we both did. Yeah.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: Oh, my God. So they started off with that shot of him as the hologram, and I was like, I want to know who this bastard is.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Yeah. And I was thinking it might have been.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: I started looking everywhere I could for clues with the thing, and I was like, please don't be Palpatine.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: See? And I was thinking, yeah. I wasn't really thinking Palpatine, but in the comics. Vader's kind of keeping his own eye on things. So the voice at first was sort of Vader esque, but I'm like, that's not Vader.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: Yeah, that's not Vader. But I saw his, like, and I immediately was like, oh, my God. Because this guy doesn't have real legs. Please, for the love of God, be what I want you to be. And I was, please be my. Please be my. Please be more. And then they show him under the hood, and I'm, like, trying not to scream in a theater full of other adults wanting to enjoy a movie, as.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: I'm like, oh, yeah, we both freaked.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Out everything I wanted.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
And then he bust out his lightsaber just to.
[00:16:50] Speaker A: Because, hey, just in case you forgot, this is a Star wars movie.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: Yeah. So those of you don't know, Darth Maul didn't die necessarily in phantom menace. This all happens during the Clone wars cartoon.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: Yeah, he was put back together onto this weird ass scorpion spider body thing, and it was really messed up, and he went insane thinking that the Sith ruined his life because it took him down this dark path or whatever, and that the Jedi had also the Sith Jedi war is what ruined. And so he makes it his mission to overthrow all of them and become this badass crime lord. And shortly after getting his shit together. Shit together. He encounters the sisterhood. What are they called? The Night sisters.
[00:17:45] Speaker B: Night sisters? Dathomere.
[00:17:47] Speaker A: Yeah, the sisters of Dath, which was mentioned in the witches of Dathomir.
They put him, basically fix his brain up a little bit, help him get through a little bit of his PTSD, and give him some better legs so he doesn't look like a jackass anymore. And he and another Dothamerian. What's the species called?
[00:18:10] Speaker B: Zabrak.
[00:18:11] Speaker A: He and another zabrak, like, go and take over shit until the emperor finally is like, I'm tired of your shit, Maul. And then captures him. And then some comic book stuff happened, and then Maul actually comes back in.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: Rebels.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: Rebels. Spoiler alert.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
So this happens. When does this movie happen? I want to say it happens, like, six or seven years before.
[00:18:34] Speaker A: Definitely after Empire Day. Yeah, it's definitely early enough on that. We are still not in control of the galaxy. So all of the annexations have not necessarily taken place, but it's definitely has been completely obliterated and all of. All of the enslaved.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Not obliterated.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: Yeah. After the population of Kashyyk has been just completely removed.
[00:19:02] Speaker B: That's not a thing.
[00:19:03] Speaker A: What? No, the population of Kashyyk?
[00:19:05] Speaker B: Yeah. No, they're all fucking carted off to be slaves. Not all of them.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: Sure, but they're not still there.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: Yeah, they are. Read some books, bro.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Is that current canon?
[00:19:13] Speaker B: Yeah, aftermath books.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: Aftermath. You told me not to read them that you said they were terrible.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: They weren't that great.
[00:19:18] Speaker A: Okay. The point being that Kashyk's population is fucked over by the empire.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:23] Speaker A: There's very few of them left.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: I was really hoping that tarful was going to be in one of those mines.
Love me some tarfool.
Yeah. Just Han solo actually speaking Wookie instead of just understanding it. That was pretty cool, even though it's, like, terrible.
[00:19:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:19:43] Speaker A: He's like.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: I speak a little bit. You're like, oh, yes.
[00:19:46] Speaker A: Oh, man. So good.
All right, we are officially at 21 minutes and 21 seconds. So that means, obviously, minus the sound check and stuff. So we're officially at 20 minutes in.
I don't know that there's a whole lot more we need to talk about. Do we need to analyze any of this stuff?
[00:20:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's too early to do that. Need another viewing or.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: Sure, sure.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: Overall, I really enjoyed it, though.
[00:20:12] Speaker A: Really dug it. Really liked some. They did some serious world building.
We know what Kessel looks like in this universe now we know what Corellia looks like.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: It was interesting because in the expanded universe, I always saw Corellia as more of, like an earth kind of planet. And they sort of did that with this kind of, like, definitely.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: Plenty of water.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: Cities, but nothing Coruscant like.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And not run down, like, tattooing or anything like that.
[00:20:44] Speaker B: Right.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: And then it feeds right into the tattooing job, which is why they're on the run, which does kind of give you an idea of where this is, because rogue one takes place, what, like.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: A month to a week before new hope.
[00:21:00] Speaker A: Well, it's till the end of the.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: Movie, till the end of the.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: Lead.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: It.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: This has got to be within, like, a year, I guess, now that I think about it. Because we have to have. Because what's it going to do after that run from Java for that long?
[00:21:13] Speaker B: Right?
[00:21:13] Speaker A: I mean, he's already pissed off Java, and Jabba has been on the lookout for him, depending on how you feel about the special edition, before Jabba comes In and is like, you still owe me money, but it could be that he starts doing multiple jobs for him.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: It's true.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: Career with him.
[00:21:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Which wouldn't surprise me.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: Wouldn't surprise me.
[00:21:32] Speaker B: It would make sense, too.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: I loved it. I absolutely loved it, and I know that I just saw it, but I really do feel like Ron Howard did an excellent job. The cinematography is beautiful. There's a lot of really, really great scenes.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Lots of color everywhere where it needs to be.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: Yeah, decent amount of color. Lando is a badass.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: Oh, Donald Glover did so good.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: So cool. I want to wear a cape. I want capes. I feel like I can't pull them off, but I feel like if I just pretended that I was pulling them off in the way that he did, that it would be okay.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: Right? Get your own cape room.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: I would love a cape room. And my future bff can make out with his long lost lover in there if they need.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: So thoughtful.
[00:22:22] Speaker A: I am a man who cares.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: I loved l three.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: L three was great.
[00:22:27] Speaker A: L three was.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: I kind of wish there was a little bit more of her.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: And I loved that it wasn't just an aspect of her character that she bitched about droid rights and stuff. Hermione Granger house elf status, but that she actually sees an opportunity to free them. And all the droids are like, rebellion revolution.
Also, I loved that they actually use the same style of voice for that old school protocol droid that they used in the rebels. In rebels, yeah. What's his name?
[00:22:58] Speaker B: Oh, man. Chopper's friend.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: Chopper's friend who gets, like, lost in space and fucking sings a song that was so hilariously, awkwardly and sad and cool. You're like, wait, that's how that's.
[00:23:10] Speaker B: But no, it's cool. There's a lot of sprinkled fan service.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: Not the right protocol.
So good. Yeah.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: So many sound effects from the different movies that made it into this one.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Origin of Han's blaster, that was cool. That was super cool.
[00:23:26] Speaker B: And his last name, that was kind.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: Of a cool twist.
[00:23:29] Speaker B: I like.
[00:23:30] Speaker A: I know not everybody's going to be down with it.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: I don't know how I feel about it.
Family heritage, definitely an interesting different twist. But it kind of also didn't make sense because he talked about his dad.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: He made it seem the way he. I don't know if it was just his acting, but it really felt like Lando was like, yeah, I don't get along with my dad. And Han was like, yeah, my dad and I aren't on speaking terms either. Probably because he's made it. He sounded way more tragic about not being able to be able to communicate with his father properly.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: Whereas Lando. Look, I would fuck a robot. And I think my dad doesn't approve. Sorry, droid. That was very insensitive. My apologies to l three and all of her like minded viewers.
Who else?
[00:24:20] Speaker B: Chewy was an actual character in this movie.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Chewy was.
Let's give credit where credit is due. Chewy is the father figure that Rey needs. Like, drives her to Jedi practice, takes her all over the galaxy. Defends her when other Jedi people are being mean.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: Food in the porgs if they get hungry.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
Takes care of her pets, gets her pets. The Jedi coach gets mad at her, and he goes in and puts him in his place. Like, Chewie is the best dad that Rey could ask for, so let's give credit where it's due. But I have been waiting five movies to watch Chewbacca rip the arms off of somebody who didn't.
[00:25:02] Speaker B: He finally got his chance.
[00:25:04] Speaker A: He did it. I literally yelled out in theater, finally, because he's holding the arms up.
[00:25:09] Speaker B: Both of them. Yeah, both of them.
[00:25:11] Speaker A: He pulled them both off. What an asshole.
We see him play that game right off the bat. We see Sabak.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:18] Speaker A: Which I was so happy to see Sabak as, like, actual, with actual gameplay, and we've seen enough cards now I feel like a Sabak deck can and should be completely purchasable within the next several months.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:33] Speaker A: They're doing enough merchandise. Solo cups have solo on them.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Right, right.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: Which. Brilliant. It's so such a good move, but I feel like Sabak needs to be back on Chewy. Chewbacca was like, chewbacca was wonderful. He had his own motivations and was like, hey, I got to do some stuff. I got to handle my shit right now.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: And then you hear? Because originally it's like, oh, Han Solo rescued him from the Spice mines.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: But Han saved him multiple times in this movie and then helped and helped.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: Him save other wookies from the Spice mines.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: And when they said, like, we're going to feed you to the beast, as soon as he fell, I was like, rancor. And then I saw the little tunnels, and I was like, chewbacca. Yeah, I know. Who's coming out of this. And he was disgusting looking. And as soon as they showed his feet, I was like, oh, he's going to look so gross.
[00:26:24] Speaker B: The shower scene when he steps up.
[00:26:27] Speaker A: We couldn't have done this one at a time?
[00:26:30] Speaker B: Oh, man, I really would love this. This felt more like a Star wars movie than the last Jedi and the Force Awakens.
[00:26:38] Speaker A: To me, it felt more like a Star wars movie than Rogue one did, too.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Yeah, Rogue one.
[00:26:43] Speaker A: I knew Rogue one was like, absolutely like a spinoff and that it was going to take a very different direction, but because it was supposed to. Right. But because it had such limited amounts of alien species and because it was absolutely a war movie with not a single character that we knew as part of the main know. We see Mon Mothma and bail organa, but they're side characters in that film. Whereas this, we're going in seeing young versions of characters that we love interacting with other, you know, Amelia Clark and Woody Harrelson.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: She was great, too.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Were just wonderful. Jean Favreau was fantastic.
I said Jean Favreau, like he's some sort of fancy french man. Jean Favreau and l three, despite being a sort of side character, pulls your heartstrings and really gives. It's cool because we build Amelia Clark's character with another character that wasn't there instead of establishing her, like, 100% just with Han. Yeah, that was really. Well, it was really cool that they both kind of talk about, like they're in game here. That was pretty neat. A lot of really badass women in this movie.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: A lot of really badass aliens in this movie. It's not nearly as human centric, which I appreciate.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially after Rogue one.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: Especially.
That was one of my biggest.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:15] Speaker A: I loved k two, so don't get me wrong.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: Right?
He was very hk 47 esque.
[00:28:21] Speaker A: Yes.
Without calling them meatbags. She was also that kind of hk 47s too. I dug her. I dug her design. I feel like she had this really cool.
She kind of had a swagger to her in the way she walked.
[00:28:39] Speaker B: Right.
[00:28:39] Speaker A: I love that they have droids fighting robot wars.
[00:28:43] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
That was so good. Which doesn't surprise me at all. It makes sense for Star wars.
[00:28:49] Speaker A: For Star wars and how Lando would react. And she says, they don't serve our kind here.
She kind of establishes a little bit further what the first one did and that there are droids with sentience that are treated badly.
[00:29:02] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's kind of cool because we've.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: Never really gone into.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: Right. Yeah.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: Which. It's cool.
[00:29:07] Speaker B: Also that part of that world building.
[00:29:09] Speaker A: Lando treats her well. And then Lando, of course, being the scumbag that he is, is also, like, I would give her. Like, I'd give her just a memory wipe. But she has the best nava computer in the galaxy.
[00:29:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Which ends up getting put in the falcon.
[00:29:22] Speaker A: Which ends up getting put in the falcon, which means the Falcon can do all sorts of other cool shit.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: Right.
Very Tardis like.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: Yeah, we saw the origin of the dice.
[00:29:32] Speaker B: Yeah. It wasn't really an origin. He just had it.
[00:29:35] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: That's true.
[00:29:37] Speaker A: And that is the one complaint about this movie that Devin had mentioned as well, that I would have to be inclined to agree with, that this was less of an origin story and more of a first adventure.
[00:29:52] Speaker B: I'm very okay with that.
[00:29:53] Speaker A: Which. Yeah, I don't know that we needed a full.
[00:29:55] Speaker B: I'm over origin stories in general.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: I can get behind that. Yeah, I can see how that could be beneficial. I would have liked a little bit more like Han as a child, I thought that. How did you get captured?
How did you wind up here?
[00:30:10] Speaker B: He was an orphan, and they took orphans. That was in the intro paragraph. Also another interesting beginning where they started out, like, with rogue one. They had just. It just started.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: Yeah. And then just boom, boom.
[00:30:22] Speaker B: And then still did a long time.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: Ago in a galaxy far, far away. And then boom.
[00:30:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: And then some shit happens. And then.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:35] Speaker A: Speaking of music.
[00:30:36] Speaker B: Music was great.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: The asteroid theme from Empire.
[00:30:40] Speaker B: They pulled out a lot of stuff from Empire, and it was being reused.
[00:30:43] Speaker A: In the Kessel run.
[00:30:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:46] Speaker A: I was giggling so hard.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: I was like, oh, my God, they're doing it. Because I was like.
[00:30:53] Speaker B: I was like.
And then imperial march over the.
[00:30:58] Speaker A: Over the propaganda. The propaganda films, which they've done in rebels as well. They've kind of made it this actual existing song within the universe. And it's cool because they actually didn't play the exact imperial march. They sort of changed the key a little bit to make it a little more positive and propaganda y, which I thought was subtle but good touch. Brilliant.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:31:21] Speaker A: Brilliant use of whoever who did the soundtrack on this one, because it was not Mr. John Wayne. No.
[00:31:27] Speaker B: But he did do a new Han solo theme.
[00:31:31] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:31:31] Speaker B: For this movie.
[00:31:32] Speaker A: Yes. I know he had touched on this project a little bit, but he most certainly did not fondle it with the amount of intensity that he normally does.
[00:31:42] Speaker B: Let's see. John Powell.
[00:31:44] Speaker A: John Powell. Well, kudos to you, John Powell. You know how to take a theme and really work it.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: Much, much props go to that guy. I hope that he is involved in future projects, because he really. There were a few times where I was like, this music isn't very Star Wars y. Star Wars y, but it's also still good.
[00:32:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:05] Speaker A: But then there were other times where I was like, this is exactly what I want. Kind of like in the Justice League, when they had those little moments of the Batman theme or the Superman theme. It was very much like that, but I think on a much grander scale.
[00:32:17] Speaker B: Which was super cool, which was needed.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: Anyway, so back to the intro, because add.
[00:32:22] Speaker B: It's a paragraph.
[00:32:23] Speaker A: Not only lines, there's a couple of lines, but it was in the font of a long time ago in a.
[00:32:28] Speaker B: Galaxy far, far away, which I thought was a nice touch.
[00:32:30] Speaker A: Yeah, it was neat. It was neat to see that.
[00:32:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:32] Speaker A: Well, ladies and gentlemen, if you listen to this and you hadn't watched it yet, you've gotten quite a bit of it, but there's still plenty.
We are in a parking garage after all. You'll hear that sort of thing. So thank you so much for listening to this brief and short podcast. We look forward to hearing or seeing you later today when we're doing our live cast. And we cannot wait.
[00:32:55] Speaker B: We'll be in Ontario.
[00:32:56] Speaker A: If you guys are in Ontario, we're going to be TGI Fridays. We're going to be to TGI Fridays. We're going to be doing the faniversary. We will be interviewing an original ewok from Return of the Jedi, a gamorrean from Return of the Jedi, and the voice of Leia in the animation.
[00:33:12] Speaker B: Everything these days.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: Yeah, she forces of Destiny rebels. Fantastic. So we're really looking forward to that as well as hopefully some time with the 501.
[00:33:22] Speaker B: Yeah. And whatever else they got going on.
[00:33:24] Speaker A: And of course, the people from wish upon a star.
[00:33:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: Project wish upon a star, who are a fantastic charity that sends children who are suffering from cancer to conventions to go basically have what Dave calls their con mitzvah. They help them cosplay last year. They got to introduce them to, and has spent some time with Stan Lee himself.
[00:33:44] Speaker B: Yeah, they've done it a couple times with Stan.
[00:33:46] Speaker A: Really, really great people. I've gotten to speak with them extensively this week. I really hope that you guys tune in and if you can't make it and you can't listen to the live cast, don't you worry. We will find a way to get that audio all onto the podcast slash Google Play. Wherever you listen, wherever you're listening, wherever podcasts are consumed. So, yeah, thank you guys so much.
[00:34:09] Speaker B: Yeah, see you around.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: See ya. Also, say hi to Hannah, who's in the car this entire time, quietly nodding her head along.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: Hi.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Okay, everybody, we are out of here. May the force be with.
