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S02E68: Wildly Watching Mando and Grogu
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It's the moment we've all been waiting for. And hey, it's another double-length episode but come on... a new Star Wars movie doesn't hit theaters every day! We have a lot to talk about! What did we like? What did we not like? What did we think? And bonus... are all the changes to Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland paying off?
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Transcript
Introduction to the Episode
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We've seen The Mandalorian in Grogu and we're gonna talk about it real quick. Aren't you a little short? Aren't you a little short? Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
Movie Review and Initial Impressions
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Welcome back to short for a storm trooper and this is a momentous episode. We've been leading up to this for quite a while. This is our review slash recounting of the watching. I don't know exactly where this is going to go. Ben apparently has notes. i So, you know, Phil, Phil comes to these things like well-prepared with notes and Ben and I usually just kind of wing it.
00:00:37
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Um, As we mentioned last week, Phil is in Greece right now. Hope he's having a great time not seeing the Mandalorian and Grogu. So Ben and I will share our thoughts now and then we'll hopefully hear from Phil again in the near future.
00:00:51
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we but we have to We have to make up for the fact that we've got this gap in our roster by being extra good. That's right. So Ben took notes and I'm ready to respond to his notes. I've got my ideas, yeah but ready to respond. So, okay, Ben, it's easy. Now we'll start with you.
Ben's Movie Experience in Greece
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what was your take on the Mandalorian and Grogu?
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I thought it was a good movie. Tell me about the experience of seeing it. Where did you go? who would you go with? You know, it was was just me and the wife. We went to the local theater. We checked in. i wish I could say that i I did some premium format, some IMAX thing. or whatever yeah But you know what? I just wanted to kind of get it in. We've had some other stuff happening, ah you know, around the house or whatever. We just kind of had to find a convenient spot for it. And so we did. But gosh, ah I think...
00:01:40
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Let me say, first of all, I think there's a film that visually punches above its weight. You know what i mean? Yeah. ah There were some amazing shots in here. You know, sometimes you go see a movie and you go, well, that could have been a TV episode. And I really feel like they... they visually did the composition and some of the work to kind of make you feel like, Hey, you know what? This is, this is worth going
Filming Techniques and Technology
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out to see a movie for. So first thing I'd say is I thought it was great. i thought it was worth seeing a a great movie. I felt like some of the, can I, can I jump up in really quick? I just want to point this out is when I was watching the credits at the end and it said,
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filmed in Manhattan Beach at the Manhattan Beach studios. ah It like didn't even click with me. Like that's where they've been filming Mandalorian all the time. And then I thought, did they use the volume on this? I don't think anybody's really talked about whether or not they have used the volume, but they must have. There was one location, there was one other location where they shot something actually outside.
00:02:34
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I can't remember what it was, but I think they did a lot of it using the volume and it looked so much better than the volume usually looks. If that's the case. I would love to see the kind of the breakdown in that. But I i think also just the composition and the cinematography, like like there were shots in this that I thought that is a drawing.
00:02:51
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Or there were other parts of it where I was like, you know, i feel like, you know, in three months or six months or whenever it is they release all the concept art, we're going to see stuff that was an amazing, like a Doug Chang style illustration. I'm assuming it's him, right? He's always the kind of guy around there. Yeah. um He was actually in the movie, by the way. He was one of the pilots at the end.
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Yeah, yeah. i i I hope I caught him, but i I was, I think there was a moment where I was looking and I was like, oh, there's all the Star Wars vets, you know? Right. And then maybe you just didn't quite, ah it didn't quite drop who was who. Anyways, that was
Portrayal of the Hutts
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the first thing. Love the production, cinematography, all that kind of stuff. Yeah.
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loved seeing more huts. ah You know what? Now Hutta and ah Rata were very cool. I think we've always kind of had this open question in our I'm like, what are what are the huts as a group like? you know the only We've only got like really Jabba to kind of go off if you're kind of like me and you're ah mainly in movies and and some of the live action series. did you how much Going into this, how much did you kind of already have in mind about what the huts were like and and what to expect?
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I had very little, to be honest. I mean, I i knew that Rada was in it. We had seen that in the previews and seen him, you know, kind of flexing in the arena. Right. And we knew that the twins were in it as well. I remember seeing something that they were in there.
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But you're right in terms of like how they look and how they move. Seeing Rada like rolling around like a big... Yeah. Round banana slug. I don't think that's how banana slugs actually move. But yeah, you like rotating around and rolling around like a rolling pin is probably the better way to put it. That kind of boggled my mind. And I thought that that was a lot of fun. Can we take a moment to appreciate that Rada is the most jacked hut I have ever seen? Unbelievable.
00:04:36
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But I do have this. I do think, though, Bob, that he skipped leg day. Obviously. Yeah. He'd have to grow a pair in order to do that. But he did make up for it. I've been looking days to drop that one. yeah The Hutt symbol ah tattoo on the back of his skull. I don't know if you noticed that. yeah i saw a symbol. i didn't know i don't think I made that connection. Yeah, that was kind of the Hutt cartel okay symbol.
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so Yeah, as ah as the son of Jabba, that makes sense. Sure. Wonderful. um Other things I loved, some of the set pieces in this were really great. I really enjoyed like the, um I don't know what the second two letters are going to be but the AT is in the beginning in the snow world where he's got a pursuit or.
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At this point, I don't care what the designation is. They were cool. you know yeah yeah It was cool to watch that. It was really cool to see the Nelhada battle. um I thought the pit fights were really great. And so you know I think the only thing, and this is this is a nit, right? Let's be clear. I think the only thing we didn't really see was like a big space battle.
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yeah ah so you know But that's fine. There was lots of other good things to see and and you wouldn't want that tacked on. ah So those are really cool.
Surprise Cameo by Martin Scorsese
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And then I've got two other quick notes. One on the like side, Martin Scorsese is in this movie. He is. That's incredible.
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More than I thought he would be too. Yeah. I mean, obviously not a lot, but he was in more than I thought he would be. Yeah. And he's playing the kind of character that you go, yeah, that's a Martin Scorsese character. I can see that. For sure. And then, and then the Anzellans were a lot of fun. i mean, yeah you know, and were some- That's the way to come out of Rise of Skywalker, the invention of the Anzellans, for sure.
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Yeah. And I thought it was really kind of funny that, that, you know, there's this bit where it's like, oh, cool. We're going to make it out to the ship. And you realize the ship is the size of bathtub. And you're like, yeah, that's not going to work for him. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's about the size of the Lego model that I have of the, you know, of one of the ships. Right. Yeah, that was a lot of
High Points and Key Scenes
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fun. How about you? What were some high points for on your view and you're watching?
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A lot of similar ones that opening sequence with him fighting on the snow planet ah when he just goes in and absolutely wreaks havoc on the storm troopers, the whole sequence with the with the ad at those big bulky ad ads. Those were were pretty hefty ad ads that he was going with. um You know, the scene where Grogu was tapping on his head to get out of there because the bombs were about to go off. That that whole sequence I thought was was first rate. That was great great. My only disappointment was I felt like I had seen a bunch of that before. i mean, i
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I have noticed that in the last few Star Wars movies, they're typically pretty quiet in terms of trailers until about a month ahead of time. Then you start seeing like TV commercials come. And then like the week or two before the movie comes out, it's like new commercial after new commercial, new footage after new footage. So I...
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did a self-declared moratorium about a month in and didn't look at anything. So that that in general was good for me, but yeah, I, that's about when the effects shots are getting done, right?
00:07:41
Speaker
Well, that's a good point. Right. My only disappointment with that whole snow scene was I felt like I had seen a lot of the, the big beats on that before. So that was, that was fine. Let me, let me, I want to, I want to back up though, because you started the,
00:07:53
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ah with a question for me that I i want to now give to you. ah Where did you see the movie? I think I have a suspicion about how this went. And like, what was that experience like? Yeah, as is now the tradition, I saw it opening day. It was actually the second showing. So the first showing was at two o'clock or something. We went to a 5, 10 p.m. show at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
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Now the TCL, formerly Mann's, formerly Grauman's Chinese Theater, which is just a magical movie temple and the place that you should go to see a Star Wars movie on opening day. We've been doing it pretty much, I think...
00:08:28
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Episode two didn't play at the Chinese theater that opening week. So we saw that at the Cinerama Dome down the road, which is another iconic movie theater. yeah The rest of them we have seen every one since episode one on opening day at the Chinese theater.
00:08:43
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So. Fantastic. Yeah. There's just, I don't know if you ever get a chance to go to Hollywood. This is like one of the kind of the OG original great Hollywood venues to see. And I think in the, it's in the kind of the front courtyard of that place, right? That's where It's where all the handprints or the footprints are. The footprints. are Yeah. Yeah. It's an amazing place to go. I mean, there are a few still remaining iconic movie palaces in Hollywood. There's that one. There's the El Capitan, which is right across the street that Disney owns. And so it's all Disney all the day over there. um And then just down the road is the Egyptian theater. It was Grauman's Egyptian theater. I haven't actually been there, but it's on my list. Netflix actually owns that theater.
00:09:25
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now. So they play Netflix movies in the theater over there. So those are three places to go. There's really not that much other reason to go to Hollywood. Pro tip, like Hollywood's kind of gross. But if you get the chance to go and go to one of those theaters, absolutely worth doing it. And that was great.
00:09:43
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So yeah, so that was right. Thank you for asking. I almost forgot.
Character Development Concerns
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Okay. So um I also loved the battle on Nelhuda. I will say I was okay without a space battle because I thought that that air battle was really, really yeah good.
00:09:57
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yeah And the moment that those X-Wings came in you know, it just kind of stirred my heart a little bit, tugs at my heartstrings whenever I see a bunch of X-Wings. And Sigourney Weaver's character finally kind of paid off for me.
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Once she was leading that strike force, I just thought that that part was was wonderful. i There was a lot. Oh, the the thing I liked the most about the movie, though, it was Grogu. I thought he was just adorable. I thought he was so much fun.
00:10:29
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the depth of character that we got from that puppet yeah was just mind blowing. yeah i mean, you know, you you think about that and you compare that to, you don't even really need to compare because it's an apples and oranges thing, but it's similar is to Rocky in, in project Hail Mary. Oh boy. That's really interesting connection. Yeah. You've got puppets that are so expressive and carry so much of the load of a story. That was unbelievable. Of course, Baby Yoda has a face, which Rocky didn't have.
00:11:00
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Right, that does help with the expression. Rocky has a voice, too, which Baby Yoda doesn't really have. You know, if if I had bet on predictions of the movie, it would have been that this movie would end with him calling Mando Daddy or something like this. Like his first word yeah was going to be calling him Daddy, which would have been very sweet.
00:11:17
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I feel like this is the moment where we're going to take a little turn into critiques and, and let's do it. Yeah. Cause there there are some for sure. Yeah. yeah um But yeah, I, I, I like that. I mean, so I'll pick up on some of the character issues that I feel like this is a movie that I feel like has a has a kind of comic book-y issue reset. you know like Think about this. the The early comics, there's always this kind of thing where the heroes do their thing, they'd have a fight, they'd do whatever they did, and whatever happened in that comic, I mean, the universe could end, but at the end of that comic, 22 pages in,
00:11:48
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the world had to reset to the way it was at the beginning of the comic so that the next writer the next issue you could pick up and do it again right this is a show that i i felt like you know if you're watching for the character growth what is it that is different about the mandalorian himself not much he's still behind the game what's different about grogu so this is the thing all that stuff you said about what all the great stuff grogu does is right and grogu doesn't change in this movie grogu i was seem be it's a little more independent i felt like he was a little more independent like especially the whole sequence where he took off to save his dad with the and zellans recruited the and zellans yeah
00:12:24
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starting with the moment of him putting on the armor which i thought was super cute it was you know yeah let me ask you this though is that independent not a lot of is he more independent than he was when we saw the the season three episode where he goes off to get bocatan to help save Din Djarin when he's captured in Mandalore?
00:12:45
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I do feel like a little bit, but I would not arm wrestle you on that. Okay. Well, so anyways, that's that's one thing. I think Sigourney Reaver too, you know, it's interesting when I think back to the, I'll be curious, you need to to push me on this and challenge me here. When I think back to sort of her great sci-fi roles, they're always people who you empathize with because they're normal characters. very you know straight ahead people who who are in these extraordinary situations. thinking about people like Ellen Ripley in the Aliens movies. I'm thinking about ah Dana Barrett. And these are all characters who you...
00:13:22
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you know, they're trying to absorb this crazy situation. I've never seen her play a character who was kind of native to the operator side of that equation. You know what i mean? Oh yeah. And so I didn't really, i didn't really feel like here is a rebel Alliance Colonel.
00:13:38
Speaker
I felt like I'm just glad to see Sigourney Weaver, which I mean, that's, that's okay as far as it goes, but I don't think that, the I don't think that served the story as well as it could have.
00:13:49
Speaker
Yeah. I'll tell you, my big critique is, this is going to sound surprising, as glowing as I was about it earlier.
Mixed Feelings and Comparisons to Past Films
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I still don't really know exactly what I think about this movie.
00:14:00
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I've only seen it once. And I have learned that it is best for me not to declare final judgment on a Star Wars movie until I've seen it at least twice. Because... the first time um i get way up in my own head and I'm just like, wait, am I enjoying this? I don't know if I'm enjoying this as much as I thought I would. Oh no. What if this is a bad star Wars movie? I don't know. Oh, now I like, you know, I get like way caught up into that spiral.
00:14:26
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And that leads me to have some negative opinions, sometimes some off opinions. So like, you know, I left this movie feeling very similar to how I left after seeing solo for the first time.
00:14:40
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Where I was like, oh, you know, I remember saying, yeah, it was pretty good. Yeah, it was pretty good. Then I watched Solo a few more times and I love Solo now. I think it's it's really one of my favorite Star Wars movies. I know that's an unpopular opinion, but do. Have you ever had it?
00:14:56
Speaker
But have you ever had the other experience where you were watching as you're like, no, this is really actually kind of a bad. hurts. no Yeah. Rise of Skywalker. Okay. I mean, I walked out of Rise of Skywalker the first time, you know, I had been bawling through the whole movie with with Harrison was bawling as well, sitting next to me. You know, we were triggering each other and just seeing like, this was the most epic conclusion of star Wars ever. This was fantastic. JJ can do no wrong.
00:15:19
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And now I'm like, Well, somehow Palpatine. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, the third one. Yeah. Go ahead. Sorry. Yeah. I love last Jedi still, and I will fight anybody on that. Um, yeah.
00:15:30
Speaker
um But yeah, you know, the the best redeeming thing out of the Rise of Skywalker was Babu Frick and the Anzalans. You know, thank you for granting them to us because they're delightful. So I it's not a satisfying ah result for people who are tuning in to hear what I think. I will let you know after I see it again a couple more times. Yeah. How much I really like it. I do know I liked it more as time has gone on.
00:15:58
Speaker
So thinking back on it now, I enjoyed it more than I did. Yeah. It could also mean get also be me being swayed by other people. i I have generally heard a lot of very good opinions about it.
00:16:10
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Yeah. i you know I certainly think it was it was not a bad movie. it's ah Is it kind of in the top tier of Star Wars movies? No. Probably not. Yeah. But is it, is it one tier under that? Maybe, maybe, you know, I mean, I don't, I don't think this is one of these, I've heard people say, Oh, this, this is like a, you know, it's like three TV episodes or something like that. And I feel like there's a little tighter connection than that.
00:16:35
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Or I did get that sense through it though. Like yeah kind of when it, when it turned from act one, when they, When they took back General Coyne, you know, and he took it back to the the the rebel planet, the a resistance planet, it kind of felt like, okay, now we're moving on to the next episode.
00:16:54
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, that was a little weird. Yeah, there's definitely some hard act breaks there. And I think this is one of my other kind of critiques is that I think there's some pacing issues with this one. And you would expect, okay, well, now we're basically done or now there's going to be some other penny that drops that's related to this guy coin. But really, that's not it. It's just...
00:17:12
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you know, we're being drawn back to the situation with the Hutts and so forth. And, and, uh, and so we've got to, we've got to follow that up and resolve that. I, I feel like relatedly as much as I liked that kind of, I'm going to even call it Hensonian swamp, uh, sequence with, uh, I do feel like it was, um,
00:17:34
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I wanted Grogu to come out of that with some revelation about the force or maybe he learns to talk. I i liked all the kind of the movement around there. That's why i'm calling it Hansonian, right? I think when meets the swamp creature out there who, you know, gives him fish. Yeah, that little weird. Yeah, right? Like, that's cool. Like, you know, but i I think this is like not, I kind of wondered at that point, like, what movie am I watching here? What are we doing? So yeah anyways, all that to say, um i think there's some pacing. There's a few plot conveniences too. Like I didn't realize why it was that I was like, why is it that Mando can get gassed when he's trying to free Rada? Because he's right been demonstrated to be able to seal his helmet before. have Have filters before. Yeah. Well, for that matter, Grogu has been seen to heal somebody from poison. He did that with...
00:18:20
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with Grief Karga, right? right ah But then he had to go to the weird fish creature and get the the goo to feed him. yeah Yeah, who knows? Who knows? who knows, man? Anyway, novelization would probably take care of that, but I doubt there ever will be one.
00:18:37
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Yeah.
Speculation on Empire's Future
00:18:38
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So there were there were issues, but like in general, it was a fun ride. Agree. here's yeah Here's what I'll say is the the last thing I'll say about this is like my my critique of these things is never that they that they shouldn't have done what they did. It's always like when you think about the opportunity that they had to do something different. When we started this movie, I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cool if we saw him somehow bring in the whole deck of Imperials? Yeah.
00:19:04
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Like if you always wondered, like, yeah how was it that they finally defeated the Empire, right? Because as we all know from, i think it's Robot Chicken or whatever, ah just defeating the Emperor on the Death Star does not eliminate the entire Imperial Navy and bureaucracy.
00:19:17
Speaker
So hey what did what did they do? How did that happen that basically the entire ah leadership class of the Imperial military was was taken out? What if it was the Mandalorian somehow?
00:19:28
Speaker
Well, it will be interesting to see how that all plays out if we still get more stories in the Mandoverse, right? Because we do know from canon that the Empire is finally defeated for good at the Battle of Jakku, right? So that big Star Destroyer that they fly through in The Force Awakens. Right. um That whole graveyard of ships. That's from the final battle of the Empire's Last Stand. And it's all done after that. But we've got several years between where we are now in the timeline until that comes. So it'll be interesting to see and how Thrawn works in there and all of that kind of stuff. so Absolutely.
00:20:06
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Well, hey, you know, we have ah we're already going late, which I expect I would. I do want to say really quick.
Updates on Disneyland's Galaxy's Edge
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that I went to Disneyland the the next day then to see the updates to Galaxy's Edge.
00:20:18
Speaker
So let me give you a quick rundown is number one, the addition of the original trilogy characters really, really helps. Oh, good. Yeah, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed that.
00:20:32
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The kid that they had- Who did you see, by the way? So I saw Luke and Leia and Vader and the Stormtroopers. I didn't never saw Han. okay But the Luke that they had, i actually interacted with him a little bit. He was so good as Luke. I mean, he was he spinning image of Mark Hamill? No, but it was passable.
00:20:54
Speaker
And he just had Jedi era Luke nailed as a character. And, you know, we were going back we we were talking about R2-D2 being the true hero of the rebellion. And, you know it was just it was like a lovely little role play interaction. So that was great. So I love that aspect of it.
00:21:15
Speaker
I am really surprised at how much the addition of the original film soundtrack, John Williams music, having that playing throughout the land adds to making it feel more Star Wars.
00:21:26
Speaker
Yeah. So that's that's great. They're also starting to use more of the stages that they have. So, for example, Ray is out over by Rise of the Resistance. But she kind of at least when I saw her, she was up like playing with the X-Wing.
00:21:41
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So she was kind of up on that stage where she could be seen. She could still interact with people. But, you know, at least they're using a little bit of this infrastructure that they have built to have characters and interaction and more fluidity. And I really like that.
00:21:56
Speaker
But here's the here's the coup de grace.
Millennium Falcon Ride Improvements
00:21:58
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The new version of Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run is Chef's Kiss. Oh, really? So good. So much better. It is way more enjoyable, way more interactive.
00:22:11
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If you are the engineer, which is the role I typically wind up in, and I like being the engineer, a lot of people hate it. I like being the engineer originally, but the engineer is much better this time because number one, you get to pick which destination you wind up going to after going to Tatooine. that's cool. Yeah, so you can choose whether you're going to Coruscant Endor, which is essentially the bones of the Death Star.
00:22:37
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or Bespin. I didn't get on Bespin. I did it twice. So I got to Coruscant and Endor. um But then also... while you are are supposedly like grabbing crates with the tractor beam is kind of your job, every once in a while the light will light up that Baby Yoda needs you to pay attention to him.
00:22:59
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So you press the button, you press the button and it cuts over the screen, your little side screen there. It cuts over the side screen over to Baby Yoda doing something cute and adorable. And you just cannot resist that.
00:23:12
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looking at baby Yoda when you have the chance. Next time I go there, I'm going have to try because I think if you delay on that, he actually will do something to mess up. You know, he'll, he'll, he'll press the wrong button. So he's getting in trouble is what's happening. You have to fix it.
00:23:27
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So you're babysitting him essentially. And it was just, it was really, really fun. So it's fantastic it completely changes that ride in a very, very positive way. Very fun.
00:23:38
Speaker
I can't wait to get out and go try it out. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I know you guys will be out here before too long because you always are. And I'll be back at some point. My annual pass goes through August. So hopefully we can coordinate on some time.
00:23:50
Speaker
That sounds great. Yeah. All right. Well, we better wrap this thing up. Any last thoughts before we sign off? Do we get everything on your list of notes? I think we got everything on the list of notes. I mean, you know, it's a great movie. Go see it. Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's going to invite further conversation and dialogue as we try to resolve some of the open questions we've got. And ah I never thought I'd say this, but this is a movie that makes me root for a hut.
00:24:15
Speaker
There you go. You know, we didn't actually, we didn't really talk about that. What did you think about Jeremy Allen White's performances, Rada? It was great. I mean, we never heard huts spend time with English.
00:24:27
Speaker
it wasn't working for like, i liked the character. I liked the character and I thought he did a good job, but I wanted to get at least a little bit more huddy guttural processing on the voice to make it sound like a hut. It just sounded like an 18 year old tough kid talking to me, but was a little disappointed in that Yeah, i I think the thing that I was focused on more was just what are his issues here?
Rada's Character Analysis
00:24:55
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Like, you know, is he going to emotionally come through? And in terms of like the actor's performance, I thought he did a great job of of really selling the fact that this is a young hut who really wants nothing to do with his father's criminal legacy. And he's made a name for himself and he's really happy about it, but he's about to have the rug pulled out from under him. and And so by the time that starts to happen, you're like, well, I do feel for this guy now.
00:25:18
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I loved that. Yeah. Oh, and you know what else? See, here's another thing we forgot to say. I should have taken notes. um I never realized that the planet where all that took place was called Shikari and it's basically Chicago.
00:25:32
Speaker
Oh, interesting. it's it's It's based on Prohibition era Chicago, which totally makes sense. But, you know, now that I'm living in Chicago, it was fun to put that map onto it. Yeah, because, you know, like the chase that they do is under elevated L tracks. I mean, it just really, really felt like. Now that you say that, going to have to think through it.
00:25:53
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Yeah, that really fun. Really fun. Okay, we've gotten on way too long. Thanks, everybody, for listening. This is really kicking off a big year for Star Wars. Remember, we've got Ahsoka coming. Well, it's going to be a little bit light, I think, through the end of this year. But then 2027, the anniversary year, we'll have Ahsoka. We will have Star Wars Celebration. And then Star Wars Starfighter with Ryan Gosling will be the one to look forward to in May. So can be fun meanwhile, until then, may the force be with you. Tell us what you thought about Mandalorian and Grogu. We'd love to hear your reaction and we'll see you real soon.
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And come back soon, Phil. We'll see you, Phil. Okay, bye-bye. Who's that mindless choice to do? Podcast, hope you see them through. Star Wars is your favorite unit. Let's chat for 15 minutes.
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Aren't you a little short? Aren't you a little short? Aren't you a little short for a sporn trooper? Aren't you a little short for us?