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Welcome to Fandom Shmandom, the fandom podcast

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that covers everything you love and more. I'm

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Sierra Obermark. And I'm Sam Williams. Today's

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episode, we will be benignly bellowing about

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Star Wars, Episode 2, Attack of the Clones. And

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without further ado, we will, as Roger Smith

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says, dive all in. So get up to 88, because it's

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time to travel back to our story recap. The Republic

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is weak. Count Dooku, a man we've never heard

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of, is leading thousands of systems who have

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declared their intentions to - Oh my goodness,

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Padme is dead? Oh, wait a second. It's the same

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trick as last time. Haha, fooled again. It's

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only another decoy who's been killed. justice

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for corday or are we just leaving her dead body

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there no okay anywho anakin and ben kenobi have

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been assigned to be padme's bodyguard and anakin

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is dealing with teenager hormones but not to

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worry anakin kills the bugs sent by a robot sent

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by zam wessel who was sent by jango fett who

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was sent by count dooku who was sent by darth

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sidious to kill padme But a captured Zam is killed

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by Jango, and only the dart contains clues as

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to where another clue might exist. Anakin and

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Obi -Wan are split up. Obi needs to track down

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this bounty hunter in Mandalorian armor whose

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dart is from Kamino, a planet that doesn't exist.

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And Padme and Anakin go to Naboo to keep Padme

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safe with their hot new bodyguard, where they

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gallivant off to the Lake District and fall madly

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in love with some of the clunkiest romance scenes

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known to giant blockbusters. Obi tracks down

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the planet of Kamino with child labor and meets

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the citizens of Kamino who expect him somehow.

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Unsettling news, a Jedi ordered a huge swath

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of clone soldiers some ten years ago, unbeknownst

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to anyone on the Jedi Council. They are ready,

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and Obi -Wan pretends to know all. He meets bounty

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hunter and DNA donor Jango Fett and his kid Boba,

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who he knows is Padme's would -be killer, and

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goes after them. Obi fights everywhere, on two

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different planets, in space, in the rain, in

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a desert. He sneaks around, he messages the Jedi's

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to report everything he's seen, and is eventually

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captured and brought to Count Dooku. Meanwhile,

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Anakin kisses girls, spouts off fascist beliefs,

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attempts to save his mother on Tatooine, slaughters

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a lot of indigenous men, women, and children,

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and then also gets Padme and himself captured.

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Dooku tells Obi -Wan he's his grandpa Jedi Master,

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and that a Sith Lord is in charge of the Republic.

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Jar Jar gets manipulated into a motion to grant

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the Chancellor emergency powers, which of course

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he gets because he's the Sith Lord, and the Jedi

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just roll with it. Annie, Padme, and Obi -Wan

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are reunited, and it feels so good! For two of

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them, anyways. Padme professes her love for little

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Annie, just - before being fed to one of three

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terrifying monsters. But don't worry. Padme is

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on top of things, and the two Jedi have space

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wizard magic. They manage to avoid being eaten

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until many Jedi appear. And though many of them

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die, the clones arrive and the tide turns. Mace

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kills Jango, eulogies for him, and Dooku just

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manages to escape, but only after shocking and

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de -limbing Anakin. besting Obi -Wan, and staving

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off an attack from Kermit the Frog, best known

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by his stage name, Yoda. But never fear, now

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the Republic is down many Jedi and up military

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soldiers to fight a war that the Jedi will now

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be drawn into. Out go the peacekeepers and in

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come Jedi soldiers, which I'm sure won't be a

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problem. Nor will the secret wedding between

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Anakin the Jedi, who is not supposed to have

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attachments, and Padme the Senator, who is very

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much in the limelight. All will be well. End

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of movie recap. And now it is time for a reality

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check. How did this movie get off the ground?

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Not that it was really ever in question, but

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after Phantom Menace made $924 million globally,

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beating out other 1999 movies such as The Sixth

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Sense, Toy Story 2, The Matrix, and Disney's

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animated Tarzan, director and Star Wars creator

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George Lucas bulldozed forward to make Episode

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2. So what was the critics' reaction to this

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new Star Wars movie? Well, as of today, it stands

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at a fresh 61 % on Rotten Tomatoes' critics'

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score, which is surprising as the initial critics'

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response was a a bit murkier and a bit more downtrodden.

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But re -releases and, you know, new Star Wars

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movies where people start re -watching and putting

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in their own two cents after the movie's been

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out for 10, 20 years, that will raise your score,

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apparently. It's got a 56 % popcorn meter, aka

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the fan reaction, which is also surprising given

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the fact that Star Wars fans love to sort of

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manipulate Star Wars critic or fan scores a lot.

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So you'd think after nostalgia, it would have

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gone, Up and up and up and up, but it is still

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a rotten score for the fans. Good news! Well,

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there was actually some good reviews initially.

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Richard Corliss of Time Magazine back in 2002

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wrote, deep into the trove of his self -generated

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mythological world to produce a grand entertainment

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that offers a satisfying balance among the series'

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epic, narrative, technological, and emotional

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qualities. A very unpopular view, I will say.

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Interestingly, Philip Wunsch of the Dallas Morning

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News wrote, Will it win new Star Wars acolytes?

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Probably not. Will it please Star Wars loyalists?

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Without a doubt. Not everybody, of course, loved

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this movie. It was widely panned. Roger Ebert

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wrote, Episode 2, Attack of the Clones, is a

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technological exercise that lacks juice and delight.

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John Anderson of Newsday wrote, Had Lucas allowed

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McGregor's Obi -Wan to dominate more of the movie,

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the movie might have had legs. Kenneth Turan

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of the Los Angeles Times wrote, Lucas' gift for

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animating the inanimate turns out to be paralleled

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by a tendency to deaden what should be completely

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alive, which is a devastating comment. Ouch.

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Eleanor Ringel Carter of the Atlanta Journal

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-Constitution sunned up much of what the fan

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and critic experience was when she wrote, This

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movie is a disappointment. After starting her

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review by asking the question, Why can't they

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just clone The Empire Strikes Back? Which, Which

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begs the question, did she write The Force Awakens?

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And then lastly, with the best zinger, we've

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got the San Jose Mercury's Glenn Lovell, who

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wrote, Clones is more Star Chores than Star Wars.

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Oh my goodness. So then the fan reaction, mixed.

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Just as Phantom was, just as critics were. I

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will say less negative overall than Phantom.

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More because, you know, some people thought that

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it had come back to a little bit more of a Star

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Wars feeling than Phantom gave us, especially

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with... The FETs and clone backstory, you know,

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fans of Boba from the originals were happy and

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yet cautious maybe about their love for Jango,

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knowing kind of the treatment that the FETs tend

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to get. And then we're excited by the use of

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the FETs as the blueprint for the clones. There

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were a lot of people who were bored or maybe

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underwhelmed by the romance, as it were, and

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had some issues with the awkwardness of the lines,

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which is a fair assessment. There were criticisms

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of the general performance choices regarding

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Anakin and Obi -Wan's dialogue with each other,

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Anakin's dialogue with Padme, just some of the

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maybe more script choices. that were a part of

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the film. However, overwhelmingly, fans kind

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of excused everything when we finally get to

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see Yoda fight, which was a huge win. Theaters

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were deafened by cheers. Even those largest critics

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did manage to crack smiles, seeing him finally

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come to life and see the Jedi that he is. Some

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people... were confused about why the clone troopers

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looked like stormtroopers, and I remember it

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launching a million debates about, wait, hold

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on, are all those stormtroopers who die, are

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those actually clones? Is that better or worse

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than them all being separate people? Many questions

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abound. But there were still a large number of

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fans who walked away as let down by this film

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as they had been the last one. The gap between

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those who liked it, though, and those who didn't

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like it, still overwhelmingly came down to an

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age gap. Yeah, absolutely. Younger fans still

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tended to enjoy it. Older fans still tended to

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not. I would say about 15 maybe is the 15 years

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old. Maybe a little bit older is about where

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that line came down. So if you were under that

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age, you probably liked it, at least on the first

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watch, first couple watches, seeing it in theaters.

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If you were over that age, maybe a more uh lackluster

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enjoyment so this is the first time that i remember

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like there being a big difference between my

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mom and my sister disliking a movie and me really

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liking the movie and all of my sister's friends

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who i'd gotten to know in theater groups and

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and and just them being over at the house and

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stuff being like oh my gosh tackle cleanse is

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terrible and i as like a 10 11 year old just

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like This is kind of like my favorite movie of

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all times. And then, of course, it became really

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cool to hate this movie. So, like, if you were

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at all socially competent, you would also feign

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or join the discourse of hatred for it. Right.

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And, you know, ever since then, we've had some

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things that aged good and some things that aged

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pretty terribly. Moving us on to our next...

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little mini category here what age to the best

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and what age to the worst um i've got for what

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age to the best the clunkiness of the dialogue

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and the character moments of the movie seem to

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be looked on quite uh fondly now and i gotta

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say this this movie has some really choice lines

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i'm excited for when we get to the lines category

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but yes um i think like Even if you hate the,

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I hate sand, it gets everywhere, it's coarse.

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People still kind of vibe with that in the way

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that people vibe with, there's a hole in this

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cake from a Greek, what's that movie? My Big

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Fat Greek Wedding. Thank you, yes, thank you.

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding. People are like, oh,

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I love this moment just because it's that moment.

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So many meme -able moments in this movie. Absolutely.

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The amount of memes that have come from Attack

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of the Clones is honestly wild, and I should

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have done a count. I do other counts in this,

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but I should have done a meme count now that

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I'm thinking about it. Maybe that'll be some

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additional content. Some additional content,

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indeed. What did you have for aged best? I for

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aged best, I would say Hayden Christensen's performance.

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Agreed. Which is very similar to clunkiness of

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the dialogue character moments, because I think

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that at the time. He was very highly criticized.

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However, looking back on it, as now all of us

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who were young, who maybe felt awkward watching

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him, and then now look back at how we indeed

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were as 19 -year -olds, we go, oh, you know what?

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Accurate. You know, it's fascinating. He nailed

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it. They asked him to be a 19 -year -old in love,

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and guess what? One of my big gripes around media

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literacy when it comes to acting is very similar

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to my gripes around, like, people who criticize

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teaching. Most people think that they can criticize

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teaching because they were students and have

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never been teachers. Same thing with acting.

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A lot of people watch. movies or watch plays

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and therefore as a viewer because they've witnessed

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what they think makes good acting or not they

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feel like they have a voice to be able to say

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well this was bad or this was good one of my

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biggest gripes with the people who criticize

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Hayden Christensen's performance is that they're

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really just criticizing Anakin Skywalker's character

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as being yes whiny and cringe awkward and instead

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Hayden Christensen is doing a fabulous job like

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that he's doing all of the terribly cringy scene

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where he just kind of unloads on his frustrations

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with obi -wan as padme is packing is like wow

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christiansen is nailing this dialogue yes it

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is so cringy and you feel that emotion because

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he does such a good job That's not him being

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bad. He's actually doing exactly what the scene

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has. And what we hear a lot about with George

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Lucas is that as a director, he's not particularly

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specific with his, like, you know, hey, I want

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you to do it like this, or I want you to do it

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like this. He'll just say, okay, like, the guy

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who voices Maul in Phantom Menace is not the

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same guy who is the physical actor. I forget

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what his name is. He's in Parks and Rec as a...

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It's a very funny bit, a little character bit

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in Parks and Rec. He said George Lucas, his one

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note for him was like, make him sound more evil.

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And that's kind of what a lot of people say about

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George Lucas' thing, is that he's just like,

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more energy. And so it's not Hayden Christensen's

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fault, really, at all, in this movie. And so

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I'm glad people like that. Yeah, definitely.

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So what do you think aged the worst? You have

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a better one that I will immediately cop to.

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I have CGI Yoda because he just drives me bonkers.

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I understand doing, like, a digital Yoda for

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his fight sequence. But, like, you can see the

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pixels moving in his face when he's just, like,

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talking to Obi -Wan about his lost planet. I

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just, I really love Puppet Yoda. So much. And

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I feel like his sort of puppety characteristics,

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that Muppet -ness about him, gives him this really

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sort of kooky vibe that we lack when it's just

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digital Yoda. And I know that the technology

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is really cool, and Lucas is very interested

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in the technology and how much you can push it.

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But I really wish we had regular Yoda. I know.

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What I think is interesting, though, is there...

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They did when Lucas did specifically give direction

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that even though they were going to do CGI Yoda,

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he wanted him to still have the puppet tendencies.

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So puppet Yoda has this way of when he moves

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his ears kind of jiggle in a certain way. And

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so he like required them to keep that in the

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CGI, which is great. I lost in translation though.

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Yeah, but also like we're pushing the boundaries

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of technology at this point. And so you can only

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accomplish so much. And getting away from the

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actual physical anything is going to have a difference

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for sure. Yeah, absolutely. What did you have

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for worst? My worst is Padme just loving on Anakin

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immediately after he admits to mass murder. That's

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actually aged to the worst. It's crazy. It's

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absolutely wild. For whatever reason, I thought

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that there... Maybe I blocked it out, but I could

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have sworn that there was at least a moment where

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she doesn't necessarily like... And chastise

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him for that, but maybe an expression on her

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face or something, being a little bit upset,

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just a little, at the fact that he just admitted

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to slaughtering not just the men, but the women

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and children as well. But no, she just immediately

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is like, my poor baby, you had to kill all of

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these people? Yeah. Oh, it's okay. I went back

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and looked for a lot of different cuts of that

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scene specifically because I thought I'd remember

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the same thing. And with Star Wars, you kind

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of never know what version is actually on Disney

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Plus or if you've got the old VHS. So if anybody

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has a cut that they're like, well, no, the original

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movie release was like this and she actually

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makes a frown, please send it to us. Yes, please.

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That's going to do it for what age the best and

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what age the worst. So, dear listener, dear schmissioner,

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as we say, keep your finger on the pause button

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and rewind that tape. It's time for the prestige

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category of what did we notice on this additional

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watch through? Number one for me was Ewan McGregor's

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performance is super good. Instantly in this

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movie, he sells the idea that everyone is actually

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10 years older. Because he goes from... padawan

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frustrated not that much screen time obi -wan

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clean shaven boyish to this brother father uncle

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santa teddy figure sorry that's a bobsberger

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reference um uh where he like has authority and

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has a rapport and you can sense that there is

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stuff between him and hayden versus in real life

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it's just ewan mcgregor like Okay, I just made

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this other movie three years ago. Now I'm making

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this new one with this new guy, Hayden, and his

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acting is just, it sells what's going on with

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their relationship so well. For sure. My next

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one is, they reference Dooku as the mysterious

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Count Dooku. Pretty sure everyone in that scene

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knows who he is. It's like, are we just building

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lore where there is no lore? Also, like, how

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many Count Doogoo's are there? Like, it's just

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the one, right? He's just the Count. Dear Lord.

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Yeah, my next one. Awkward flirting is awkward.

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I did make a tally on this one. There are nine

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awkward flirting scenes, if you include Padme

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being extra sweet right after Annie reveals he

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slaughtered an entire village. And only four

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of those occur before their first kiss. nice

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excellent yes i have much to say about the whole

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padme how is she in love scene but we'll get

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there when we get there yes we'll get there um

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i did also notice i paid a lot of attention to

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anakin anakin and obi -wan actually don't have

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that much interaction together during this film

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because they're apart for so much of it which

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is interestingly similar to obi -wan and qui

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-gon not having very much to do with each other

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in, in Phantom. However, what we do see is like,

00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:11.460
Obi -Wan is almost always like trying to keep

00:20:11.460 --> 00:20:14.740
Anakin from becoming like too big for his britches.

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He calls him my young Padawan learner and my

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very young apprentice, just kind of consistently

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reminding him that he's still young. He's still

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learning, even though he's a natural and strong

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in the force. He is still like, we have to remember

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he's nine years behind. on Jedi training. Yeah,

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or at least six if you count Obi -Wan. Because

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Obi -Wan starts at three and he's late. Right.

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And wasn't Qui -Gon found at five? Yeah, yeah.

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Something like that. So even still, even considering

00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.579
Qui -Gon, who was five years behind, and Obi

00:20:49.579 --> 00:20:52.230
-Wan, who was three years behind, like... He

00:20:52.230 --> 00:20:55.490
is still significantly late. Like, that is one

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of the bigger reasons why they didn't want to

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train him is because they didn't find him until

00:21:01.069 --> 00:21:03.670
it was really, really, really, really late. Because

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most Jedi or Force -sensitive children are found

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as infants. Yeah. So it's just wild, basically,

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that they took him on as a nine -year -old. Absolutely.

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It's something I notice on every rewatch and

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it's been well documented on the internet, but,

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but our Palpatine's game of telephone to kill

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Padme is just stupid, stupid, stupid. I wrote

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it in the beginning, but it's, it's crazy how

00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:34.539
many stupid steps that are still all like, Oh,

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this eventually tracks directly back to Palpatine.

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Like there's no subterfuge here. It's just like,

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well, if you find the robot and then you find

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the Zam and then you find the Django. And then

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you make the connection that Tyrannus and Count

00:21:48.779 --> 00:21:51.299
Dooku are the same person. And then Dooku's like,

00:21:51.420 --> 00:21:53.079
by the way, there's a Sith Master. And you're

00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.359
like, oh, you're Darth Tyrannus? You must be

00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:57.440
the apprentice. Who's your Sith Master? And then

00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:59.660
suddenly you're at Palpatine's doorsteps. Like,

00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:05.519
it's so stupid. Yes, it really is. It's one of,

00:22:05.579 --> 00:22:08.859
yeah. I have nothing else to say about that.

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It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. My next one.

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So, okay. When Anakin is seeing Padme again,

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kind of for the first time, and they're going

00:22:24.390 --> 00:22:27.769
to guard her and they're pacing around, you know,

00:22:27.769 --> 00:22:31.430
right below her room or whatever. Obi's sitting

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there going, be mindful of your thoughts, be

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mindful of your thoughts, like keep your thoughts

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to yourself, essentially. From the reading we've

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been doing between Master and Apprentice and

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kind of the High Republic stuff, Master -Apprentice

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bonds are often so strong that the Master can

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literally know what the Apprentice is thinking.

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And all I have to say is poor Obi -Wan. Teenage

00:22:54.660 --> 00:22:58.279
hormones are horrible. That poor man has to hear.

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Anakin's quite a creep at the beginning of this.

00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:06.619
So creepy. He's a young man who has... Like,

00:23:06.619 --> 00:23:08.740
not had very much. Not been around women. Has

00:23:08.740 --> 00:23:12.019
not had very much experience in any sort of love

00:23:12.019 --> 00:23:15.299
expression whatsoever. And I, it's just like,

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they do a nice job of selling, like, how inexperienced

00:23:18.299 --> 00:23:22.400
as a person he is. But it is, it is a poor Obi

00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:28.019
-Wan for sure. But then, but then my. But then

00:23:28.019 --> 00:23:31.619
my sympathy for Obi -Wan kind of wanes instantly

00:23:31.619 --> 00:23:34.900
as soon as they stop the bugs and Anakin does

00:23:34.900 --> 00:23:38.900
this amazing, very exact sword slash of the two

00:23:38.900 --> 00:23:42.299
bugs that manages to not cut any of Padme's very

00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:46.700
long hair off and just kills the bugs. And then

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Obi -Wan looks out the window to see the droid

00:23:51.140 --> 00:23:55.410
is still there. And it's just like, droid, single

00:23:55.410 --> 00:23:58.109
thought, get it, and jumps through the window.

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What is he thinking? He's a thousand, two thousand

00:24:02.690 --> 00:24:05.430
levels up on a Coruscant planet. He's going to

00:24:05.430 --> 00:24:07.710
fall to his death as soon as the - And what is

00:24:07.710 --> 00:24:10.589
he thinking? He's like a dog that has found the

00:24:10.589 --> 00:24:12.549
fire truck. He just doesn't know what to do as

00:24:12.549 --> 00:24:16.349
soon as he's actually got it. I have to imagine

00:24:16.349 --> 00:24:20.210
- I have to imagine that on some level, he knows

00:24:20.210 --> 00:24:23.440
that if he - does miss and falls that he'll be

00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:27.200
okay. Yeah. Um, because they do a lot of very

00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:35.200
fall from height training. Um, however, um, however,

00:24:35.259 --> 00:24:39.720
yeah, just a wild decision. Yeah. Um, something

00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:41.759
that I genuinely missed, which was like kind

00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:43.839
of surprising for someone who's watched this

00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:47.200
movie, like over a hundred times. Um, I just

00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:50.079
like, was paying attention to what i imagine

00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:52.700
was probably a boring scene for me for a long

00:24:52.700 --> 00:24:55.859
time when palpatine and anakin are in his office

00:24:55.859 --> 00:24:58.000
and palpatine's like oh they finally given you

00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:01.900
a whatever it's called a mission or an assignment

00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:07.420
and and then he's like And Anakin says, or Palpatine

00:25:07.420 --> 00:25:08.859
says something along the lines of, like, that's

00:25:08.859 --> 00:25:10.559
down to your talent or something of that nature.

00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:13.220
And then Anakin's like, more to your guidance,

00:25:13.420 --> 00:25:15.599
actually. And I was like, wait, wait, double

00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.279
take, what? Wait, what? Palpatine has been guiding

00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:20.859
Anakin? Like, how have I missed that? For how

00:25:20.859 --> 00:25:22.759
long has he been doing this? What type of guidance?

00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:25.259
It definitely does a lot of heavy lifting to

00:25:25.259 --> 00:25:28.779
explain why Anakin is so willing to trust Palpatine

00:25:28.779 --> 00:25:30.779
in the next movie. And I just, like, it had gone

00:25:30.779 --> 00:25:33.890
over my head every single time. Yeah. And also,

00:25:33.950 --> 00:25:36.950
I mean, because before that line, you know, I'm

00:25:36.950 --> 00:25:42.809
kind of like, it's been 10 years. How does Palpatine

00:25:42.809 --> 00:25:45.670
like I don't understand his thought process around

00:25:45.670 --> 00:25:48.670
this, like, oh, have Anakin and Padme get together.

00:25:48.829 --> 00:25:51.490
That'll be perfect. Like, how does he know that

00:25:51.490 --> 00:25:54.210
that is going to do anything that Anakin has

00:25:54.210 --> 00:25:56.650
any sort of feeling towards Padme that that could

00:25:56.650 --> 00:25:58.910
potentially develop into anything dangerous?

00:25:59.900 --> 00:26:02.640
how is he so assured in his plan? And then I

00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:05.000
was like, Anakin's probably been spouting off

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.019
every time they meet for the last 10 years. He's

00:26:08.019 --> 00:26:12.160
like, oh, remember that Padme? She was great.

00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:14.279
You still talk to her? Hey, you know, she took

00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:17.359
your spot now. You know, she's the senator from

00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:19.500
Naboo instead of you now. Like, hey, how's she

00:26:19.500 --> 00:26:22.119
doing? How are things? Did you go back to your

00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.019
home planet? Do you ever see her? Is she seeing

00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:29.940
anyone? I mean, are you seeing her? Does she

00:26:29.940 --> 00:26:32.660
seem, does she seem, is she happy? Has she ever

00:26:32.660 --> 00:26:39.779
asked about me? Uh, yeah. And then just the line,

00:26:39.859 --> 00:26:42.319
the chancellor doesn't appear to be corrupt.

00:26:42.460 --> 00:26:47.700
Just like cry, laugh emoji. Just, uh, Palpatine

00:26:47.700 --> 00:26:50.259
is a politician. And where I'm like, as a kid,

00:26:50.339 --> 00:26:51.960
I was like, why is that such a bad thing? And

00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:53.460
as an adult, I'm like, yeah, I probably wouldn't

00:26:53.460 --> 00:26:58.140
trust him either. Well, well, what's also crazy

00:26:58.140 --> 00:27:02.839
is like, Not 20 minutes from now, Anakin's going

00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:05.500
off about politicians and Padme's like, you don't

00:27:05.500 --> 00:27:07.720
like politicians, do you? And he's like, whoa,

00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:11.519
whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait. I like you, politician.

00:27:13.019 --> 00:27:15.420
And this chancellor guy who seems like a pretty

00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:20.579
upright dude. My pal. Okay, so not to bring up

00:27:20.579 --> 00:27:22.240
Bob's Burgers too many times in this episode,

00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:25.799
but Max is giving Bob's Burger vibes so hard

00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:28.680
in this diner scene. You walk in and he's wearing

00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:31.119
the chef outfit. And then I noticed for the first

00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:33.779
time that he has a mustache. And I was like,

00:27:33.859 --> 00:27:36.619
whoa, this guy is Bob's Burgers in Star Wars.

00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:43.579
I need more of him. I love it. So good. Oh my

00:27:43.579 --> 00:27:49.099
gosh. Yes. I also love Obi -Wan's kind of indecision

00:27:49.099 --> 00:27:55.160
about flying. So in Master and Apprentice, he

00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:58.640
loves flying at the very beginning. He comes

00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:02.559
to form kind of a... Maybe a reluctance. Deep

00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:05.059
bias towards the lack of flying in his life.

00:28:05.579 --> 00:28:10.579
Yes. And ends up really enjoying the riding of

00:28:10.579 --> 00:28:16.920
these fast creatures. But I don't mind flying,

00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:19.700
but what you're doing is suicide. And then later,

00:28:19.779 --> 00:28:23.160
this is why I hate flying. She's like, make up

00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:30.819
your mind, sir. Speaking of, like, just the past,

00:28:31.299 --> 00:28:34.559
Padme wasn't the youngest queen elected. What

00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:37.559
on earth is happening in Naboo? Do people just

00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:39.900
put cute kids up for a vote and then manipulate

00:28:39.900 --> 00:28:42.339
the crap out of them to get what they want? Like,

00:28:42.339 --> 00:28:44.519
what is happening at Naboo? Why are we having

00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:50.190
anyone younger than 14 be a queen? Was she specifically

00:28:50.190 --> 00:28:52.950
talking about Naboo or was she just talking about

00:28:52.950 --> 00:28:55.150
in general? I think she's specifically talking

00:28:55.150 --> 00:28:57.650
about Naboo because then she goes on to say like,

00:28:57.690 --> 00:29:00.670
I was really excited when my two turns were up,

00:29:00.690 --> 00:29:02.849
but then this next queen asked me to be senator.

00:29:02.970 --> 00:29:05.509
So I think she's being local and specific to

00:29:05.509 --> 00:29:09.049
the planet. That's so wild. I know. Yeah. I mean,

00:29:09.049 --> 00:29:13.089
no. Why? What's the point? What's the point?

00:29:13.250 --> 00:29:18.250
What's the point? Maybe they will. Okay. I can

00:29:18.250 --> 00:29:20.549
see the only excuse I could potentially give

00:29:20.549 --> 00:29:22.549
is that they want someone who hasn't been already

00:29:22.549 --> 00:29:26.329
corrupted. But then it's so easy to just make

00:29:26.329 --> 00:29:29.390
decisions for them because they're a child. I

00:29:29.390 --> 00:29:33.089
don't know. Whatever. Yeah, for real. Yeah. Then

00:29:33.089 --> 00:29:36.529
we go to the archives. If it does not appear

00:29:36.529 --> 00:29:39.529
in the records, it doesn't exist. And I think

00:29:39.529 --> 00:29:41.210
that that sounds pretty ignorant. Yeah, the Jedi

00:29:41.210 --> 00:29:44.410
archives. It's really arrogant. Really? Really?

00:29:44.809 --> 00:29:48.109
That you have everything, everything, literally

00:29:48.109 --> 00:29:51.009
everything possible in the archives. There's

00:29:51.009 --> 00:29:55.569
no way. But it also makes potential archive loss.

00:29:56.809 --> 00:30:00.799
Devastating. Devastating. Like, Library of Alexandria

00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:04.339
levels of horrifying. All knowledge of the universe

00:30:04.339 --> 00:30:06.279
that we've got in one place got burned down?

00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:09.519
Are you kidding? Like, that's crazy. So, something

00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:12.319
interesting here is, you know, we have Yoda talk

00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:15.299
about arrogance is more and more a common feature

00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:18.299
of the Jedi. And here's such a prime example

00:30:18.299 --> 00:30:20.140
of, like, if it's not on the record, it doesn't

00:30:20.140 --> 00:30:23.619
exist. And also, that's stupid because in all

00:30:23.619 --> 00:30:25.460
the Star Wars novels and all the maps created,

00:30:25.740 --> 00:30:28.839
there's a whole era. around the known galaxy

00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:34.599
called Unknown Regions. She's gotta know that

00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:41.880
not everything is in the records. But then when

00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:44.980
we do get to the planet that doesn't exist, Camino,

00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:47.519
I just gotta say, there was a moment I was watching

00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:49.319
this movie, I was watching with a friend of mine,

00:30:49.420 --> 00:30:53.460
and that giant... like reptilian seabird comes

00:30:53.460 --> 00:30:56.460
out of the water and i just go what a cool bird

00:30:56.460 --> 00:31:05.640
it's amazing and then probably immediately after

00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:08.339
that i looked at my screen and went fake beard

00:31:08.339 --> 00:31:12.839
is fake because when they had to do the reshoots

00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:16.460
uh he'd already shaved He'd already shaved, so

00:31:16.460 --> 00:31:18.319
they had to put a fake beard on him. And sometimes

00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:20.299
it's so obvious. Yeah, it's really bad sometimes.

00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:23.339
And it kills me. It kills me that they can make

00:31:23.339 --> 00:31:27.819
this dope reptilian bird dinosaur, essentially.

00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:33.960
And then fake beard. Fake, fake beard. Oh, my

00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.769
gosh. Yes. And then. What I also was like really

00:31:37.769 --> 00:31:40.769
focused in on is kind of all of Palpatine's little

00:31:40.769 --> 00:31:43.509
moments because obviously we know. The little

00:31:43.509 --> 00:31:49.650
corners of his mouth come back. And he just he's

00:31:49.650 --> 00:31:51.549
sitting there instilling like this little bits

00:31:51.549 --> 00:31:55.170
of doubt in the Jedi and this kind of false confidence

00:31:55.170 --> 00:31:58.250
in Anakin telling him to trust his feelings.

00:31:58.589 --> 00:32:01.710
And then kind of right afterwards, Obi -Wan is

00:32:01.710 --> 00:32:04.970
telling Anakin, like, your feelings betray you.

00:32:05.210 --> 00:32:07.450
So it's like, no wonder this kid is confused,

00:32:07.569 --> 00:32:10.009
because the two people that he's like, arguably

00:32:10.009 --> 00:32:12.970
looking up to the most are telling him exactly

00:32:12.970 --> 00:32:15.670
conflicting information. And even the Jedi are

00:32:15.670 --> 00:32:20.890
confused about him. Like, yeah, it's crazy. And

00:32:20.890 --> 00:32:23.210
then, yeah, and then everybody's confused about

00:32:23.210 --> 00:32:27.549
him because suddenly Yoda and Windu, joint misters

00:32:27.549 --> 00:32:30.509
don't train him. He's not who the prophecy spoke

00:32:30.509 --> 00:32:33.750
of. He's ready for a solo assignment. We are

00:32:33.750 --> 00:32:35.990
confident in him. He's going to bring balance

00:32:35.990 --> 00:32:39.470
to the force. And I'm like, what? Pick a lane.

00:32:40.190 --> 00:32:45.450
What are we doing here? I really like the complete

00:32:45.450 --> 00:32:47.190
switch that we've had over 10 years. I think

00:32:47.190 --> 00:32:48.930
it does a lot for world building of like, wow,

00:32:49.069 --> 00:32:51.049
Anakin and Obi -Wan must have done some pretty

00:32:51.049 --> 00:32:54.329
cool stuff. Yeah. And we don't have to know what

00:32:54.329 --> 00:32:56.930
all that stuff is. But it's interesting to see

00:32:56.930 --> 00:33:00.490
the switch in the Jedi. Anakin and Padme have

00:33:00.490 --> 00:33:03.730
really different values, both political and personal.

00:33:04.230 --> 00:33:07.049
It's kind of amazing. It really speaks to Padme's

00:33:07.049 --> 00:33:08.990
character as to what she's looking for in a partner.

00:33:09.130 --> 00:33:12.750
Because it's certainly not like... uh theoretical

00:33:12.750 --> 00:33:15.869
value based it's much more like what your actionable

00:33:15.869 --> 00:33:18.589
values are um which i thought was really interesting

00:33:18.589 --> 00:33:25.539
yeah definitely different also um like the She

00:33:25.539 --> 00:33:28.720
has to kind of subtly reject him a number of

00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:30.779
times because, you know, they're not supposed...

00:33:30.779 --> 00:33:34.619
I thought we decided not to fall in love. And

00:33:34.619 --> 00:33:37.660
on one of these deciding not to fall in love

00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:41.400
moments, she picks just the most wild outfit

00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.940
and setting. Like, she makes the craziest outfit

00:33:44.940 --> 00:33:45.740
choice. You're talking about the black dress

00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:48.099
with the choker necklace and the red? I am talking

00:33:48.099 --> 00:33:52.930
about the black dress with the... The cleavage

00:33:52.930 --> 00:33:56.269
kind of hiked up and the choker with the fire

00:33:56.269 --> 00:34:00.529
in the background in this low light, very romantic

00:34:00.529 --> 00:34:04.430
setting. Like, we can't be together. This is

00:34:04.430 --> 00:34:08.489
a huge debate between a lot of people in the

00:34:08.489 --> 00:34:11.590
fandom in terms of like, oh my gosh, she totally

00:34:11.590 --> 00:34:13.369
wants him. Why? And I think we get into like

00:34:13.369 --> 00:34:16.489
some very weird, serious categories about like

00:34:16.489 --> 00:34:18.510
how people interpret clothing. I will say this.

00:34:18.909 --> 00:34:20.530
I will say this for the people who are saying

00:34:20.530 --> 00:34:24.730
it's not wild. None of us know what type of coding

00:34:24.730 --> 00:34:28.610
fashion means on Naboo or in the Star Wars universe.

00:34:28.690 --> 00:34:31.469
This is definitely like a Earth -centric, especially

00:34:31.469 --> 00:34:34.789
like US -centric version of like, this dress

00:34:34.789 --> 00:34:37.690
means such and such. Therefore, she wants him.

00:34:38.570 --> 00:34:40.829
I think it's, for some people, I start to get

00:34:40.829 --> 00:34:42.389
deeply uncomfortable with that notion because

00:34:42.389 --> 00:34:44.190
they seem like the type of people who are like,

00:34:44.289 --> 00:34:46.329
yeah, but look at what she was wearing. Even

00:34:46.329 --> 00:34:48.090
though she said no, she clearly still wanted

00:34:48.090 --> 00:34:49.869
it. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no. And

00:34:49.869 --> 00:34:52.530
yet at the same time, I'm like, look, that dress

00:34:52.530 --> 00:34:55.010
is mirroring what happens in the next episode.

00:34:55.050 --> 00:34:57.670
She's surrounded by fire and she's getting choked

00:34:57.670 --> 00:35:01.789
by Anakin's presence in a way. So there's some

00:35:01.789 --> 00:35:05.269
cool little tidbits in that scene. Yeah. See,

00:35:05.409 --> 00:35:08.650
I like things like that. For me, it's not necessarily

00:35:08.650 --> 00:35:11.849
like, look what she is wearing. I think it's

00:35:11.849 --> 00:35:15.130
more like, this is the moment you chose to tell

00:35:15.130 --> 00:35:19.670
him no. Wait till the next morning. You almost

00:35:19.670 --> 00:35:24.519
made me spit take my tea, Sierra. this is the

00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:28.739
moment we're choosing right now okay okay like

00:35:28.739 --> 00:35:30.659
you were just totally flirting with him at dinner

00:35:30.659 --> 00:35:34.340
and now you're gonna be like no maybe just like

00:35:34.340 --> 00:35:37.480
let it settle choose a better moment where you

00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:39.199
can just have a proper little sit down and be

00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:41.820
like this is not a good idea she literally could

00:35:41.820 --> 00:35:44.940
say calm down hey let's talk about this later

00:35:44.940 --> 00:35:47.440
i need to go to bed and excuse herself because

00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:50.320
that i mean there's a lot of stupid decisions

00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.079
in star wars so she's not the first person yes

00:35:52.579 --> 00:35:54.860
She could have done what Leia did as soon as

00:35:54.860 --> 00:35:58.159
Han kissed her, and Empire just slinks away.

00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.800
Yeah, for sure. So that's more of my confusion.

00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:05.460
Okay, so we've got Obi -Wan and Jango fighting

00:36:05.460 --> 00:36:08.059
out in space in one of the coolest little technological

00:36:08.059 --> 00:36:10.980
moments with that bomb that goes off, and that

00:36:10.980 --> 00:36:13.900
noise, I can still pinpoint exactly what it looks

00:36:13.900 --> 00:36:15.500
like and sounds like and what it does and where

00:36:15.500 --> 00:36:18.519
they are from when that little, I forget what

00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:20.519
it's called, but when that bomb goes off with

00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:24.130
the blue lights. So, but it's interesting here.

00:36:24.230 --> 00:36:28.530
So, they send a missile, tracking missile. Obi

00:36:28.530 --> 00:36:32.030
-Wan has spare parts compartments that conveniently

00:36:32.030 --> 00:36:35.889
shoot out the back. And he does so to, like,

00:36:36.010 --> 00:36:38.329
you know, scatter debris. The missile hits that.

00:36:38.369 --> 00:36:40.409
It blows up. And then he hides on an asteroid.

00:36:40.769 --> 00:36:43.170
And you can see, like, this very, like, ha -ha,

00:36:43.210 --> 00:36:45.909
I've got you scene where they float away after

00:36:45.909 --> 00:36:47.369
being like, well, we won't be hearing from him

00:36:47.369 --> 00:36:49.349
again. And then it slides up and his ship is

00:36:49.349 --> 00:36:52.630
so evidently viewed. And it's cool because Boba

00:36:52.630 --> 00:36:54.789
Fett, it seems like, takes that lesson to heart.

00:36:56.240 --> 00:37:00.119
He, in Empire, kind of knows that trick, and

00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:02.760
so is able to follow Han to Cloud City and eventually

00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:06.800
cause the third act of Empire to start up. Mm

00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:12.940
-hmm. Yeah. And also, just watching that whole

00:37:12.940 --> 00:37:18.000
fight sequence, which is really cool, how on

00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:22.159
earth did Obi -Wan not get more hurt from the

00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:27.320
ship firing at him? And then also the, like,

00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:31.539
literal grunt around his wrists. Like, I'm sorry,

00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:34.400
but this movie should have lost many more hands.

00:37:34.579 --> 00:37:37.619
I do a lost hands and lost head count, don't

00:37:37.619 --> 00:37:40.280
you fret. But there should be more because he

00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:42.960
should have lost both of his hands from being

00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:47.760
pulled by an entire person's weight. Yeah. And

00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:51.980
being dragged around by his wrists and a little

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:55.800
tiny wire wrapped around them. Oh. Oh, I was

00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:59.679
just in pain for him the entire... I was so distracted.

00:37:59.900 --> 00:38:03.119
Both wrists should have broken as soon as he

00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:06.719
toppled. I mean, he's probably using the Force

00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:09.659
in some way. That's what Star Wars fans will

00:38:09.659 --> 00:38:11.019
tell you. They're like, oh, well, he uses the

00:38:11.019 --> 00:38:13.380
Force to make his bones be stronger. And it's

00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:20.159
like, yeah, but come on. So Anakin is slaughtering

00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:23.460
a bunch of indigenous Tusken Raiders off Tatooine.

00:38:24.030 --> 00:38:28.190
And it shifts away from that so that we don't

00:38:28.190 --> 00:38:29.949
actually see the slaughter of women and children.

00:38:30.329 --> 00:38:34.309
And Yoda can hear Qui -Gon calling to Anakin

00:38:34.309 --> 00:38:37.989
in the Force. Which I think is really fascinating

00:38:37.989 --> 00:38:41.190
that Qui -Gon is that much tracking Anakin's

00:38:41.190 --> 00:38:43.429
progress and trying to stop him. And it's also

00:38:43.429 --> 00:38:46.489
a cool little hint for Yoda learning to commune

00:38:46.489 --> 00:38:48.369
with those long past, specifically Qui -Gon.

00:38:48.670 --> 00:38:53.429
Yeah, very cool. And also, kind of... Right before

00:38:53.429 --> 00:38:56.769
this, the fact that Anakin is just so attuned

00:38:56.769 --> 00:38:59.070
to the Force and so strong in it that he gets

00:38:59.070 --> 00:39:05.449
dream visions is really interesting. It isn't

00:39:05.449 --> 00:39:10.409
a very, very common occurrence among the Jedi

00:39:10.409 --> 00:39:15.340
at all. The only two that I have... Seen up until

00:39:15.340 --> 00:39:19.780
this point have been Qui -Gon in Master and Apprentice

00:39:19.780 --> 00:39:22.059
and then Elzar Mann in the High Republic series.

00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:25.380
Yeah, and apparently Sifo -Dyas, who we meet

00:39:25.380 --> 00:39:29.739
in here, is plagued with visions of the future

00:39:29.739 --> 00:39:32.380
and dreams and kind of is going crazy before

00:39:32.380 --> 00:39:36.800
his demise. Right. So there's really only four

00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.699
that we know of who are kind of so attuned to

00:39:39.699 --> 00:39:41.639
the Force that they're able to see these visions.

00:39:43.190 --> 00:39:45.309
Or know what's happening or what will come to

00:39:45.309 --> 00:39:51.289
pass. Since those Jedi of yore who wrote down

00:39:51.289 --> 00:39:54.190
all the prophecies and whatnot. Yeah. I wrote

00:39:54.190 --> 00:39:55.909
this next one down before the end of the movie.

00:39:55.949 --> 00:39:58.809
And I said, I still don't really see when Padme's

00:39:58.809 --> 00:40:02.380
love. for anakin becomes real to her you can

00:40:02.380 --> 00:40:04.440
see that she's battling with it clearly like

00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:07.159
she's she's you know constantly like should i

00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:09.019
should i not she's basically like plucking off

00:40:09.019 --> 00:40:11.400
flowers petals until the end of the movie um

00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:13.420
right but she never i never really understand

00:40:13.420 --> 00:40:16.619
what turns her from no little annie to yes sir

00:40:16.619 --> 00:40:21.500
anakin um And then at the very end, she gives

00:40:21.500 --> 00:40:23.320
that big speech and she goes, you know, I've

00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:24.920
been dying a little bit every day since you came

00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:27.300
back into my life. And it was like, oh, so you've

00:40:27.300 --> 00:40:29.480
been holding on to this love for Anakin as well,

00:40:29.659 --> 00:40:32.659
which still makes me feel uncomfortable. Because,

00:40:32.659 --> 00:40:36.239
yeah, he was nine years old. And like, how often

00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:38.260
have you seen each other? And also, are you going

00:40:38.260 --> 00:40:40.099
to Palpatine being like, oh, have you seen Anakin?

00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:44.900
Does he say anything about me? I guess it's a

00:40:44.900 --> 00:40:48.710
little bit unclear in the movie textually. oh

00:40:48.710 --> 00:40:53.030
yeah that she sprouts or has love and then and

00:40:53.030 --> 00:40:54.969
then later on we see that she has love obviously

00:40:54.969 --> 00:40:57.829
but it's just like that moment of like no to

00:40:57.829 --> 00:40:59.969
yes i feel like is lost in that movie and it's

00:40:59.969 --> 00:41:03.190
one of my biggest complaints yeah i i i don't

00:41:03.190 --> 00:41:06.389
see it i even even kind of with a little bit

00:41:06.389 --> 00:41:09.630
more context it really doesn't seem to be on

00:41:09.630 --> 00:41:13.789
screen or in the backstory at all um because

00:41:13.789 --> 00:41:16.159
you you know you can argue like It's a little

00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:19.079
weird because he was nine and she was 14 and

00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:23.739
now she's 24 and he's 19. And like, oh, I mean,

00:41:23.739 --> 00:41:26.679
technically now the age difference doesn't matter,

00:41:26.860 --> 00:41:31.980
but it's as much. That's almost her. It's almost

00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:36.500
half her life that she's apparently been pining

00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:41.199
over somebody. It just seems weird. And especially

00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:43.280
because the first time that they see each other,

00:41:43.380 --> 00:41:46.780
it's like, oh, that's Anakin. wow it's almost

00:41:46.780 --> 00:41:49.380
like it doesn't seem like she's been thinking

00:41:49.380 --> 00:41:53.260
about it yeah absolutely so yeah i don't i don't

00:41:53.260 --> 00:41:58.679
get it either um yeah so then we go to uh tatooine

00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:03.519
and um i i just want to have i have a few things

00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:08.019
about lars here um shmi's new husband i think

00:42:08.019 --> 00:42:11.199
no longer unnamed mother number one we get her

00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:18.250
name yes exactly she has a name now um So I just

00:42:18.250 --> 00:42:21.769
want to say Lars is a pretty upstanding, great

00:42:21.769 --> 00:42:24.789
dude here. Yeah, absolutely. First of all, he

00:42:24.789 --> 00:42:27.690
tries to get Anakin to accept his mother's death

00:42:27.690 --> 00:42:31.710
even before it's confirmed. Like he's like, we've

00:42:31.710 --> 00:42:35.510
tried everything and you just got to accept it,

00:42:35.510 --> 00:42:37.469
son. And like, what if he had just listened?

00:42:37.730 --> 00:42:41.289
You know, that's like a big what if. But also

00:42:41.289 --> 00:42:47.280
like he sent 30 people. after her yeah like that's

00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:49.760
some love that's dedication to your wife right

00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:53.320
there applause to you sir also it is crazy that

00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:56.340
26 of those people died yeah trying to save one

00:42:56.340 --> 00:42:58.900
person from a village that has women and children

00:42:58.900 --> 00:43:02.480
yeah like how crazy are these tuscan raiders

00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:06.820
that you sent 30 people after one and only came

00:43:06.820 --> 00:43:11.659
back with four yeah that's wild wild um So crazy.

00:43:11.699 --> 00:43:16.480
I think this whole sequence is very much Anakin.

00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:22.059
Without this sequence, Anakin does not become

00:43:22.059 --> 00:43:24.699
Vader, period. Period. And we don't understand

00:43:24.699 --> 00:43:27.360
how any of this happens and how any of the switch

00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.440
occurs and any of his motivation or anything

00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:34.730
like that. Yeah. I think, you know, when he's

00:43:34.730 --> 00:43:38.309
standing at her grave, I miss you so much, which

00:43:38.309 --> 00:43:40.889
is an exact mirror of when he's standing in front

00:43:40.889 --> 00:43:43.809
of the council and Phantom and says, I miss her.

00:43:44.349 --> 00:43:47.510
You know, your thoughts dwell on your mother.

00:43:47.829 --> 00:43:51.130
It's all very focused on that whole situation.

00:43:52.130 --> 00:43:56.630
And then we, you know, get the notice that Obi

00:43:56.630 --> 00:44:00.889
-Wan is basically under attack. And he has this.

00:44:01.500 --> 00:44:05.539
He's like my father because Padme is arguing

00:44:05.539 --> 00:44:07.780
that, you know, Obi -Wan should be important

00:44:07.780 --> 00:44:11.340
enough to go after. And he corrects her and he's

00:44:11.340 --> 00:44:13.599
like, no, he's like my father. He's not just

00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:16.690
my master. He's like my father. But I was given

00:44:16.690 --> 00:44:19.150
strict orders to stay here. And I'm kind of like,

00:44:19.210 --> 00:44:21.130
well, that's all well and good, my dude. But

00:44:21.130 --> 00:44:24.510
your quote, quote, father gave you strict orders

00:44:24.510 --> 00:44:27.949
to stay on Naboo. And you left to go find your

00:44:27.949 --> 00:44:31.010
mom you haven't seen in 10 years. So I think

00:44:31.010 --> 00:44:33.309
Padme's kind of in the right here. Yeah, absolutely.

00:44:34.389 --> 00:44:37.530
If you're going to go after her, you should probably

00:44:37.530 --> 00:44:41.369
go after him. It might fail just as much as the

00:44:41.369 --> 00:44:44.230
previous mission failed. And then Obi -Wan is

00:44:44.230 --> 00:44:46.860
like... I'd be I was beginning to wonder if you've

00:44:46.860 --> 00:44:49.599
got my message. And it was like, dude, you told

00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:53.860
him to stay. Yeah. Well, maybe because like,

00:44:53.980 --> 00:44:56.760
you know, no one came. No one's come. Yeah, for

00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:59.960
real. No, no one has come. There's been no word.

00:45:00.059 --> 00:45:03.800
There was no, you know, anything. So potentially.

00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:09.340
And then I just. you know we go to the kind of

00:45:09.340 --> 00:45:12.860
the politics of it all um and the supreme chancellor

00:45:12.860 --> 00:45:15.239
is granted emergency powers and i'm just sitting

00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:18.199
there going oh yeah emergency powers that's always

00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:21.260
given back always in all of history that's never

00:45:21.260 --> 00:45:23.579
gone never never gone wrong once never never

00:45:23.579 --> 00:45:26.420
never once that's always a perfect thing to give

00:45:26.420 --> 00:45:28.599
somebody to make them into essentially a dictator

00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:33.119
i promise you i will lay down these powers as

00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:35.820
soon as this crisis is over except i'm gonna

00:45:35.820 --> 00:45:38.920
oh yeah i'm gonna Poke the embers of this fire

00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:42.980
until that crisis lasts another four years. Exactly.

00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:45.860
I'm not going to make this crisis go on way longer

00:45:45.860 --> 00:45:53.300
than it should. Absolutely. And then I just think

00:45:53.300 --> 00:45:57.119
it's so interesting then that, you know, Dooku

00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.659
and Obi -Wan's whole conversation. Dooku essentially

00:46:00.659 --> 00:46:04.820
lays out the entire plot for Obi. Yeah. He tells

00:46:04.820 --> 00:46:09.489
him everything. Except for the little detail

00:46:09.489 --> 00:46:12.349
that Sidious is Palpatine. Well, and it's interesting

00:46:12.349 --> 00:46:16.170
here. And that he's Tyrannus. And because Obi

00:46:16.170 --> 00:46:17.869
-Wan literally says at the end of the movie when

00:46:17.869 --> 00:46:19.489
they're talking about it, he's like, it doesn't

00:46:19.489 --> 00:46:21.809
feel right. And he's picking up on something.

00:46:21.949 --> 00:46:25.050
What doesn't feel right is that Sidious is also

00:46:25.050 --> 00:46:28.420
in control. of the separatist movement, and that

00:46:28.420 --> 00:46:31.000
Dooku is his apprentice, and Dooku's actually

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:33.739
in league with him. So he's picking up, and because

00:46:33.739 --> 00:46:36.239
their ability to use the force is diminished,

00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:38.380
he's not able to suss the whole thing out and

00:46:38.380 --> 00:46:40.360
sense exactly what's right. But he does pick

00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:42.199
up on that something's wrong, it's just that

00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:44.800
they're all so arrogant at the fact that they

00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:47.340
would know if Palpatine or somebody like him

00:46:47.340 --> 00:46:50.320
was in charge. It's just so frustrating and so

00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:56.300
well done. I just... I had it in this. It's perfect.

00:46:56.500 --> 00:47:03.719
It's like the dark side is clouding us as Palpatine's

00:47:03.719 --> 00:47:06.480
in the room. And I'm like, is the dark side in

00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:10.320
the room with us? It's calling from inside the

00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:15.960
house. It's inside the room! Oh my gosh. Okay,

00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:18.800
so I, for the first time, I had seen the fact

00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:22.079
that Jango Fett's jetpack gets damaged by the

00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:24.880
Reek, that's the rhino -like monster. But I had

00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:27.000
missed the fact until this watch through that

00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:30.119
he actually tries to fire it up to escape. Yeah.

00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:34.000
And that's kind of why he's just sort of lazily

00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.519
standing there. He tries to fire up his jetpack,

00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:41.849
and so his demise, much like how Boba... has

00:47:41.849 --> 00:47:46.110
a quasi -demise with the Sarlacc, is that his

00:47:46.110 --> 00:47:50.909
jetpack just stops working. And that jetpack

00:47:50.909 --> 00:47:56.630
fault lasts him for another 30 years. But it's

00:47:56.630 --> 00:47:59.550
really unfortunate. I feel bad for Jango every

00:47:59.550 --> 00:48:01.550
time I watch that scene. Because I was always

00:48:01.550 --> 00:48:03.610
such a big Jango fan. I love the Mandalorian

00:48:03.610 --> 00:48:06.010
look. I love the armor. I liked the way that

00:48:06.010 --> 00:48:08.650
he acted. I thought he was cool. And I feel bad

00:48:08.650 --> 00:48:11.619
for his son Boba in that moment. But it is, it's

00:48:11.619 --> 00:48:15.440
really kind of just, oh, oh, he was trying to

00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:18.199
get out of the way. His tech failed him, and

00:48:18.199 --> 00:48:20.960
then Mace is straight up just decapitates him.

00:48:21.260 --> 00:48:23.559
But I felt stupid for missing that, for sure.

00:48:26.199 --> 00:48:29.500
Something that I did not miss this time around,

00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:33.400
that I think I did before, Boba is hella bloodthirsty.

00:48:35.019 --> 00:48:37.840
We see it in the fight on Kamino with Obi -Wan,

00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:43.139
where he's like, get him down! Instead of running

00:48:43.139 --> 00:48:48.719
away, let's just murder this man. And then again

00:48:48.719 --> 00:48:51.800
during these executions, he really wants to see

00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:58.940
these people die. And it's just wild. And then

00:48:58.940 --> 00:49:01.619
we get in kind of another few moments during

00:49:01.619 --> 00:49:06.400
this whole executions. Patience, Viceroy. Patience.

00:49:06.460 --> 00:49:10.710
She will die. Yes. Yes, she will. Just not today.

00:49:13.969 --> 00:49:17.329
Oh, boy. And also, like, this whole thing has

00:49:17.329 --> 00:49:20.110
to be really weird for Boba at the end here,

00:49:20.210 --> 00:49:24.050
because he watches his dad die, and then his

00:49:24.050 --> 00:49:29.429
dad's killer is rescued by many of his dad. That's

00:49:29.429 --> 00:49:31.809
such a great point. I never thought about him

00:49:31.809 --> 00:49:33.690
being like... I never thought about it until

00:49:33.690 --> 00:49:35.829
this watcher. I literally was like... I was like,

00:49:35.949 --> 00:49:40.670
oh, that's... Wait a second. That's weird. Hey,

00:49:40.670 --> 00:49:44.090
soldiers, do any of you want to adopt me? Hey,

00:49:45.170 --> 00:49:47.389
he was my dad. So like all of you are kind of

00:49:47.389 --> 00:49:49.650
my dad. Also, all of you are kind of me. So like

00:49:49.650 --> 00:49:52.510
we're all kind of brothers. We're all kind of

00:49:52.510 --> 00:49:56.250
brothers and uncles and the same person. And

00:49:56.250 --> 00:50:01.429
help. Help. I had here just as man. Christopher

00:50:01.429 --> 00:50:05.050
Lee is just. masterful, magnificent. He's such

00:50:05.050 --> 00:50:07.809
a good actor. He's, he'd been good for, I don't

00:50:07.809 --> 00:50:11.269
know, 50 years, 40 years plus. I mean, Dracula

00:50:11.269 --> 00:50:14.110
and a Bond villain and obviously Saruman. And,

00:50:14.110 --> 00:50:17.349
and it's just, oh man, he's so good. Incredible

00:50:17.349 --> 00:50:19.449
man. So good. And I just love the fact that his

00:50:19.449 --> 00:50:23.010
curved blade is because he was related to Napoleon

00:50:23.010 --> 00:50:26.230
Bonaparte and Napoleon had a curved saber. And

00:50:26.230 --> 00:50:27.489
so they were like, you know what? We're going

00:50:27.489 --> 00:50:31.179
to give you a curved saber. Yeah. I. Just dropping

00:50:31.179 --> 00:50:33.619
lore. Yeah. Just Christopher Lee lore. No big

00:50:33.619 --> 00:50:37.639
deal. I just had... Surprise Death Star! The

00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:43.380
plans! They've been created! Yeah. Oh my gosh.

00:50:43.539 --> 00:50:47.079
And then, you know, they're leaving and Padme

00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:51.559
falls out of the transport and... You know, Anakin's

00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:53.699
obviously freaking out, and Obi -Wan, don't let

00:50:53.699 --> 00:50:55.920
your personal feelings get in the way. And I

00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:59.019
just want to say, technically, Anakin's current

00:50:59.019 --> 00:51:04.159
job is to protect Padme. So, technically, he's

00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:08.059
trying to follow orders. Now, his orders are

00:51:08.059 --> 00:51:10.739
currently being overridden by Obi's saying stay

00:51:10.739 --> 00:51:13.500
in the transport, but I'm just saying, technically,

00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:18.860
he's not wrong. He is not wrong. That's very

00:51:18.860 --> 00:51:22.719
true. Okay, there are two lines in this movie

00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:26.539
that Yoda does not reverse his language for,

00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:30.539
which I found very fascinating. The first one

00:51:30.539 --> 00:51:37.570
is, Interesting. Not reversed. Not reversed.

00:51:37.690 --> 00:51:41.349
The next one is concentrate all firepower on

00:51:41.349 --> 00:51:43.269
that, you know, battle station or whatever the

00:51:43.269 --> 00:51:46.190
thing is when he's directing the clones. Also

00:51:46.190 --> 00:51:49.409
not reversed in any way, shape, or form. Which

00:51:49.409 --> 00:51:52.010
is fine. You know, it's not a huge deal. Just

00:51:52.010 --> 00:51:56.090
spoke to me. But then we get, you know, Dooku

00:51:56.090 --> 00:51:59.469
and his riding his little moped and then coming

00:51:59.469 --> 00:52:01.630
to the hangar. And I don't know if you noticed.

00:52:01.650 --> 00:52:05.750
I noticed this on this one. So when Anakin and...

00:52:06.139 --> 00:52:09.340
obi -wan get out at the hangar the ship that

00:52:09.340 --> 00:52:13.519
they're in gets blown up obviously yeah a clone

00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:16.840
trooper gets out with them and the ships blow

00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:21.039
up that and then before they pass takes one shot

00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:24.980
snipe to kill that clone trooper it's like one

00:52:24.980 --> 00:52:27.920
of the most miraculous oh these guys can actually

00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:30.659
aim moments because they gotta be going so fast

00:52:30.659 --> 00:52:32.699
and that's such a tiny target and they just boom

00:52:32.699 --> 00:52:37.469
and he's Blasted off the side of the little tunnel

00:52:37.469 --> 00:52:41.110
thing that they've got there. And then we get

00:52:41.110 --> 00:52:44.949
Dooku, who's extremely powerful. He's better

00:52:44.949 --> 00:52:47.110
at saber fighting than both Anakin and Obi -Wan.

00:52:47.150 --> 00:52:50.050
And Obi -Wan is known as one of the best sword

00:52:50.050 --> 00:52:54.289
fighters in the galaxy. And then his force powers

00:52:54.289 --> 00:52:56.909
are super good. It's just he can't quite match

00:52:56.909 --> 00:53:02.150
Yoda. I just thought with how kind of renowned

00:53:02.150 --> 00:53:05.610
Obi -Wan is, it is a little crazy to me. I know

00:53:05.610 --> 00:53:07.889
this is more about Anakin than it is about Obi

00:53:07.889 --> 00:53:11.449
-Wan. But still, Anakin's fight lasts way longer

00:53:11.449 --> 00:53:13.690
than Obi -Wan's fight. And I feel like that's

00:53:13.690 --> 00:53:18.469
slightly unbalanced. Yeah. And also that Dooku

00:53:18.469 --> 00:53:21.489
just kind of like toys with Obi -Wan. You know,

00:53:21.489 --> 00:53:24.230
he just was like, ha ha, got your arm. Ha ha,

00:53:24.349 --> 00:53:26.710
got your leg. And then just like leaves him there

00:53:26.710 --> 00:53:30.289
to gloat for a minute and give Anakin a chance

00:53:30.289 --> 00:53:34.809
to overcome being shocked. That whole thing kind

00:53:34.809 --> 00:53:39.010
of was a little bit odd. Yeah. On a rewatch.

00:53:39.269 --> 00:53:41.949
I will always say this about prequels. I don't

00:53:41.949 --> 00:53:44.570
like built up moments of tension around people

00:53:44.570 --> 00:53:47.699
that we already know survive. Right. Um, and

00:53:47.699 --> 00:53:50.840
so like the, that moment, you know, it's interesting

00:53:50.840 --> 00:53:54.139
to see Anakin get his, his oomph back and an

00:53:54.139 --> 00:53:57.300
attack and such, but like you, everyone knows

00:53:57.300 --> 00:53:59.739
Obi -Wan Kenobi is going to live unless they

00:53:59.739 --> 00:54:02.739
literally come up with a twin named Ben who will

00:54:02.739 --> 00:54:06.000
now also train Anakin. Like it, I, I, I don't

00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.400
love it. Um, but the Yoda scene turns out still

00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:11.699
slaps still is great. Still is wonderful. Yes.

00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:15.920
We finally see him fight and it's amazing. It's

00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:18.619
fantastic. My brother jumped off of couches and

00:54:18.619 --> 00:54:21.420
tried to do flips all over the place forever

00:54:21.420 --> 00:54:28.139
after watching that. He's also a small guy. I

00:54:28.139 --> 00:54:32.460
laughed out loud watching the aftermath of this

00:54:32.460 --> 00:54:38.619
scene. Because Padme finally gets there after

00:54:38.619 --> 00:54:40.840
she gets this clone trooper to go hail another

00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:45.519
ride. She comes and she runs over to Anakin.

00:54:45.800 --> 00:54:48.239
Now, Obi -Wan had just, like, kind of limped

00:54:48.239 --> 00:54:50.440
over to Anakin to see if he's okay. And then

00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:52.480
Padme runs in and they have this big, long hug.

00:54:52.579 --> 00:54:55.960
And you just see Obi -Wan kind of slowly limping

00:54:55.960 --> 00:54:58.760
away from them, being like, I don't want a third

00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:03.719
wheel over here. It's just so funny. I encourage

00:55:03.719 --> 00:55:05.320
everyone to go back and watch that. I found it

00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:10.280
hilarious. Oh, man. Yeah, and then, you know,

00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:13.139
the end of the movie. And then they just... They

00:55:13.139 --> 00:55:17.599
just get married. Yep. No proposal. No, let's

00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:21.659
try to be together. No, nothing. Just married.

00:55:21.860 --> 00:55:26.079
Life partner. Instant. No doubts about it. Nothing

00:55:26.079 --> 00:55:29.900
bad can come from this. Nothing at all. Lost

00:55:29.900 --> 00:55:34.119
hand count three. Yeah. Lost head count, too.

00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:36.699
Three lost heads if you count me losing my head

00:55:36.699 --> 00:55:39.260
about our stupid Palpatine's assassination attempt

00:55:39.260 --> 00:55:46.659
plan. You know, you don't always have to face

00:55:46.659 --> 00:55:49.360
down a horde of angry soldiers by yourself. Buckle

00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:51.840
up, Schmissners, because it's time for our Sansa

00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:55.000
is smarter than Jon category for what is the

00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:58.300
most important character moment of this movie?

00:55:58.460 --> 00:56:03.099
I have Anakin not saving his mother being the

00:56:03.099 --> 00:56:05.719
most important. I've got for honorable mentions

00:56:05.719 --> 00:56:08.699
Padme declaring her love and another small honorable

00:56:08.699 --> 00:56:11.510
mention just in terms of like. Why we get the

00:56:11.510 --> 00:56:13.889
character that we get. This is such a clear origin

00:56:13.889 --> 00:56:16.309
moment for Boba seeing his dad die. But Anakin

00:56:16.309 --> 00:56:18.329
not saving his mother, to me, is the most important

00:56:18.329 --> 00:56:20.070
character moment. As you said earlier, it's the

00:56:20.070 --> 00:56:22.550
reason why he becomes Darth Vader. Yeah. Yeah.

00:56:22.590 --> 00:56:25.590
Very similar. But I have just kind of one microcosm

00:56:25.590 --> 00:56:28.949
moment of that, which is, I hate them. Cue Imperial

00:56:28.949 --> 00:56:33.179
March. Because, whew. Yeah. Very, very impactful

00:56:33.179 --> 00:56:36.079
there. Well, I know you just lost three hands

00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:39.340
this time, Sierra, but listen up. It's the I

00:56:39.340 --> 00:56:43.719
am your father category for most iconic character

00:56:43.719 --> 00:56:46.920
moment for which I have Yoda baby lightsaber

00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:49.099
battle as the most iconic character moment. I

00:56:49.099 --> 00:56:50.880
think it's the thing we think of the most other

00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:54.539
than maybe sand, which is my honorable mention

00:56:54.539 --> 00:56:58.760
of the sand hatred moment. My most iconic moment

00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:02.039
is. Not just the men, but the women and the children,

00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:05.840
too. Yeah, yeah. Honorable mention, Yoda, finally

00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:07.619
fighting. Finally fighting, indeed. Definitely.

00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:13.639
Everybody, sit down. It's time for our I am Iron

00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:16.960
Man, most iconic and most important scene category.

00:57:17.059 --> 00:57:19.980
So, I've got the Yoda fight scene for iconic.

00:57:20.910 --> 00:57:23.929
just because that entire scene, which I'm including

00:57:23.929 --> 00:57:27.510
Obi -Wan fighting, Anakin fighting with two lightsabers,

00:57:27.550 --> 00:57:31.530
hands lost, puncture wounds, you know, grabbing

00:57:31.530 --> 00:57:34.489
forced lightning and stuffing it into oblivion,

00:57:34.610 --> 00:57:37.030
hopping around like Kermit. I've got that for

00:57:37.030 --> 00:57:40.750
iconic. And then for important, I have Anakin

00:57:40.750 --> 00:57:44.909
slaughtering the Tuskens, which is such a reversal

00:57:44.909 --> 00:57:48.530
of little Annie from Phantom Menace who wouldn't

00:57:48.530 --> 00:57:53.570
have done that. Her to fly. I agree on both accounts.

00:57:53.690 --> 00:57:56.510
I just had an honorable mention for Iconic, which

00:57:56.510 --> 00:58:00.449
is just the imagery of Boba head to head with

00:58:00.449 --> 00:58:02.230
Jango's helmet. Making a movie poster and slap

00:58:02.230 --> 00:58:05.769
it up on my wall. It's great. Oh, yeah. That's

00:58:05.769 --> 00:58:09.670
such a good one. Such a good one. Excellent.

00:58:10.110 --> 00:58:12.429
Crack open an encyclopedia. It's time for our,

00:58:12.489 --> 00:58:15.469
as Elijah Wood once said, no, how could we have

00:58:15.469 --> 00:58:18.639
known category. where we discuss the most important

00:58:18.639 --> 00:58:21.619
information disseminated to the fandom in this

00:58:21.619 --> 00:58:25.920
movie. I have several. My one honorable mention

00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:29.340
is that the Jedi's use of the Force has diminished,

00:58:29.400 --> 00:58:31.980
which I think is... a really important world

00:58:31.980 --> 00:58:35.179
building moment to both say why they can't sense

00:58:35.179 --> 00:58:38.599
Palpatine. And also just like an idea of like

00:58:38.599 --> 00:58:40.880
when the dark side gets stronger, Jedi gets weaker.

00:58:42.260 --> 00:58:45.820
But I have two as sort of my most important,

00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:48.340
which was 10 years ago, right around the events

00:58:48.340 --> 00:58:50.480
of Phantom Menace, a clone army was created under

00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:54.320
the name of a Jedi who died 10 years ago. Huge,

00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:57.829
like. Information that makes the movie believable

00:58:57.829 --> 00:59:00.690
as to what happened and that Palpatine's been

00:59:00.690 --> 00:59:03.409
doing this all along. And then, of course, we've

00:59:03.409 --> 00:59:06.250
got that arrogance is a trait more and more common

00:59:06.250 --> 00:59:09.809
among Jedi, even among the older, more experienced,

00:59:10.010 --> 00:59:12.789
as Yoda said, which I think is a huge implication

00:59:12.789 --> 00:59:16.530
for why this is the end of the Republic and the

00:59:16.530 --> 00:59:20.929
end of the Jedi. I basically have the same ones,

00:59:20.929 --> 00:59:24.920
but just in reverse order. The fact that the

00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:27.420
dark side has grown so much that it's clouded

00:59:27.420 --> 00:59:30.059
the Jedi's abilities. And then my honorable mention

00:59:30.059 --> 00:59:34.300
is the clone army, its existence, how it came

00:59:34.300 --> 00:59:39.159
about, all of that, essentially. Time to keep

00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:41.559
your horses safe. It's the, I'm going to make

00:59:41.559 --> 00:59:44.679
him an offer he can't refuse, category of best

00:59:44.679 --> 00:59:49.300
lines. Okay, there's only one for me. This is

00:59:49.300 --> 00:59:51.719
the best line. It's Mace Windu with Samuel L.

00:59:51.719 --> 00:59:53.760
Jackson's incredible delivery hopping up and

00:59:53.760 --> 00:59:58.360
going, this party's over. Which is just amazing.

00:59:58.659 --> 01:00:01.820
I do have an honorable mention to the day we

01:00:01.820 --> 01:00:04.320
stop believing democracy works is the day we

01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:07.500
lose it. Which is not even by a main character.

01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:12.500
It's by the Queen of Naboo. I have a number of

01:00:12.500 --> 01:00:18.619
them. I think the most important one being Why

01:00:18.619 --> 01:00:20.579
do I get the feeling you're going to be the death

01:00:20.579 --> 01:00:23.199
of me? Don't say that, Master. You're the closest

01:00:23.199 --> 01:00:26.960
thing I have to a father. Chills every time.

01:00:27.940 --> 01:00:30.860
Then I've got a number of honorable mentions.

01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:33.539
You don't want to sell me death sticks. You want

01:00:33.539 --> 01:00:36.539
to go home and rethink your life. I love it.

01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:41.519
Lost a planet, Master Obi -Wan has. How embarrassing.

01:00:42.119 --> 01:00:48.659
How embarrassing. I'm just a simple man trying

01:00:48.659 --> 01:00:51.739
to make his way in the universe. That's such

01:00:51.739 --> 01:00:56.900
a good line, Django. So good. I've got a bad

01:00:56.900 --> 01:00:58.719
feeling about this. No, you can't use this one

01:00:58.719 --> 01:01:00.960
yet. You have to wait for the original where

01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:02.400
it comes out. I have used it twice and I will

01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:04.480
continue to use it. No, absolutely not. It's

01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:07.400
not allowed. Banned. Banned. It's very much allowed.

01:01:09.099 --> 01:01:12.139
What about Padme? She seems to be on top of things.

01:01:12.139 --> 01:01:14.730
Yeah, that's a great one. She's literally climbing

01:01:14.730 --> 01:01:19.230
on top of something. And then you call this a

01:01:19.230 --> 01:01:21.590
diplomatic solution? No, I call it aggressive

01:01:21.590 --> 01:01:24.369
negotiations. That's one of my least favorite

01:01:24.369 --> 01:01:28.650
lines, in all honesty. I just think it's so funny.

01:01:28.789 --> 01:01:32.030
It's so campy that it distracts me from the moment.

01:01:32.110 --> 01:01:34.989
It takes me out of the movie every time. But

01:01:34.989 --> 01:01:37.280
I know a lot of people love it. And with that,

01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:39.719
it is time to board the TARDIS and explore our

01:01:39.719 --> 01:01:43.380
what -ifs with our Get Out category. Okay, what

01:01:43.380 --> 01:01:45.639
are the biggest what -ifs of this movie? What

01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:47.800
if Obi -Wan was assigned to Padme instead of

01:01:47.800 --> 01:01:51.039
Anakin? Aye, it's a great... I hadn't even thought

01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:53.860
about it. It's a great what if. The, like, ramifications

01:01:53.860 --> 01:01:57.840
of it's Anakin that has to go and just completely

01:01:57.840 --> 01:02:01.699
cannot keep up a pretense that he's the Jedi

01:02:01.699 --> 01:02:04.280
Master that is like, yeah, absolutely, all of

01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:05.679
this, and then report back where he's just like,

01:02:05.780 --> 01:02:08.590
what? what do you mean the Jedi did this? We

01:02:08.590 --> 01:02:11.469
didn't do that. All right. Who's Jango? And then

01:02:11.469 --> 01:02:13.530
like, just like tries to slaughter Jango and

01:02:13.530 --> 01:02:15.789
then all the clones. And then it's just Anakin

01:02:15.789 --> 01:02:18.710
dead in Camino because the clones went after

01:02:18.710 --> 01:02:22.389
him. No, but also I feel like, uh, I just saw

01:02:22.389 --> 01:02:25.289
this meme the other day. Uh, you know, the, the

01:02:25.289 --> 01:02:28.130
famous game of Thrones, like, uh, Robert Baratheon,

01:02:28.150 --> 01:02:31.070
black of hair, and then his son blonde of hair.

01:02:31.170 --> 01:02:33.519
So there's this great meme. That I think would

01:02:33.519 --> 01:02:36.760
happen in actuality should Obi -Wan have been

01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:39.239
assigned instead. It goes, Anakin Skywalker,

01:02:39.739 --> 01:02:42.920
brown of hair. Padme Amidala, brown of hair.

01:02:43.340 --> 01:02:52.699
Luke, blonde of hair. Hello there. That's great.

01:02:55.539 --> 01:02:59.460
So good. That's really funny. I don't think so,

01:02:59.500 --> 01:03:01.909
though. Obi doesn't end up falling for Padme

01:03:01.909 --> 01:03:04.550
at all. He's already with Satine! Stay tuned

01:03:04.550 --> 01:03:08.030
for our Clone Wars stuff, y 'all. Um, okay. What

01:03:08.030 --> 01:03:11.630
if the Clone Army wasn't approved, Emperor doesn't

01:03:11.630 --> 01:03:14.710
get emergency powers, and nobody came to Emperor

01:03:14.710 --> 01:03:17.090
to rescue Anakin, Obi, and Padme? Does any of

01:03:17.090 --> 01:03:21.210
them live? Uh, I don't think so. Right? I mean,

01:03:21.349 --> 01:03:25.130
well, and it's not just them, but Mace is there,

01:03:25.349 --> 01:03:31.059
and Kit Fisto? Kit Fisto, yeah. Hmm. No, well,

01:03:31.179 --> 01:03:33.000
Yoda's the one who arrives with. Yeah, but he

01:03:33.000 --> 01:03:35.460
might have just come by himself. Oh, that's true.

01:03:35.559 --> 01:03:37.320
That's true. That's true. So it's just Order

01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:41.159
66 a lot earlier. And the whole Jedi High Council

01:03:41.159 --> 01:03:43.320
becomes somebody different. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

01:03:43.539 --> 01:03:45.840
Well, but then they say, yeah, they say, like,

01:03:45.860 --> 01:03:47.860
we're just going to take whoever's left. So I

01:03:47.860 --> 01:03:50.500
want to know where everybody else is. Yeah. Because

01:03:50.500 --> 01:03:52.940
in the next four, in four years from now, we

01:03:52.940 --> 01:03:55.559
have a lot more than we're standing in that tiny

01:03:55.559 --> 01:04:00.559
circle. So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What if we didn't

01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:02.920
have to show Natalie Portman's midriff? Because

01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:04.719
she's just turned 18 and now they're allowed

01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:08.340
to. Would the movie be a flop? Oh, wait a second.

01:04:08.380 --> 01:04:15.400
It already was. I just hate that costume change

01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:19.179
beyond belief. It's weird. It doesn't even make

01:04:19.179 --> 01:04:22.059
any sense. It's so unnecessary. It's physically

01:04:22.059 --> 01:04:26.920
impossible. She didn't get dirty. She just gets

01:04:26.920 --> 01:04:29.420
scratched and the cat's like, I'm going to expose

01:04:29.420 --> 01:04:34.059
her belly button. Oh, that part. I was thinking

01:04:34.059 --> 01:04:39.219
her costume change from sitting. And going, it's

01:04:39.219 --> 01:04:41.159
okay that you just slaughtered a bunch of people.

01:04:41.219 --> 01:04:43.099
So then they like walk into the ship and now

01:04:43.099 --> 01:04:45.059
she has a completely different outfit. Yeah.

01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:47.900
Yeah. And it's all white on a sand planet and

01:04:47.900 --> 01:04:49.900
it doesn't get dirty at all. And then she's on

01:04:49.900 --> 01:04:52.219
another desert planet that's not dirty. And then

01:04:52.219 --> 01:04:54.380
the cat's like, let me scratch your back. But

01:04:54.380 --> 01:04:56.320
it also, it will expose your entire midriff.

01:04:56.739 --> 01:05:00.119
Stupid. Yeah. I wish they'd just, uh, this is

01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:01.679
the end of us and been like, you can't handle

01:05:01.679 --> 01:05:09.010
my midriff. Anyways, okay, real what if. What

01:05:09.010 --> 01:05:12.329
if Lucas hadn't made a typo? Who would have been

01:05:12.329 --> 01:05:14.829
Master Sifo -Dyas in this movie? Okay, so Master

01:05:14.829 --> 01:05:16.869
Sifo -Dyas, for those who don't know, was just

01:05:16.869 --> 01:05:19.630
supposed to be, like, it was supposed to be Sid

01:05:19.630 --> 01:05:22.920
Eos. And, like, just this really campy, like,

01:05:22.980 --> 01:05:26.099
way of being like, oh, a guy, like, like, Darth

01:05:26.099 --> 01:05:28.719
Sidious pretended to be a Jedi and was Jedi Master

01:05:28.719 --> 01:05:32.159
Sid Eos, but they made a typo and it was Sifo

01:05:32.159 --> 01:05:35.619
-Dyas. And then they actually, like, bore a character

01:05:35.619 --> 01:05:38.199
from that typo. So I just, like, would it just

01:05:38.199 --> 01:05:39.460
have been Emperor? Would they have gone with

01:05:39.460 --> 01:05:40.940
the same camp? Would they have eventually been

01:05:40.940 --> 01:05:42.840
like, no, that's stupid? It's not an answer,

01:05:42.900 --> 01:05:46.150
but what if, but I like it. I like it too. It's

01:05:46.150 --> 01:05:50.449
fun. It's a fun little mind game. Yeah. Okay.

01:05:50.530 --> 01:05:53.769
What if Anakin wasn't so arrogant and had learned

01:05:53.769 --> 01:05:56.070
to quell his emotions? How would he react to

01:05:56.070 --> 01:05:58.309
his dream and his mom dying? I think the answer

01:05:58.309 --> 01:06:02.090
is just like, well. It would have been okay.

01:06:02.130 --> 01:06:04.769
Maybe instead of keeping it to himself, he would

01:06:04.769 --> 01:06:09.440
have potentially like told. obi -wan or any of

01:06:09.440 --> 01:06:12.199
the other jedi masters hey i've been having these

01:06:12.199 --> 01:06:15.920
dreams um they seem potentially concerning anyway

01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.860
we can have someone check it out uh and then

01:06:18.860 --> 01:06:22.539
react in a very calm and collected manner and

01:06:22.539 --> 01:06:25.460
you know maybe someone would go with him to ensure

01:06:25.460 --> 01:06:28.019
he doesn't slaughter yeah entire that'd be great

01:06:28.019 --> 01:06:31.780
yeah there you go um which kind of is the same

01:06:31.780 --> 01:06:35.000
as my what if ish uh which is what if anakin

01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:37.860
doesn't specifically witness his mother's death

01:06:37.860 --> 01:06:41.800
um which could go either one of two ways maybe

01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:44.219
he gets there in time and is able to save her

01:06:44.219 --> 01:06:48.179
or he got there too late she's already dead so

01:06:48.179 --> 01:06:50.880
i think he doesn't see the body he doesn't get

01:06:50.880 --> 01:06:53.199
to hear her try to say i love you one last time

01:06:53.199 --> 01:06:57.190
because i feel like that is much worse yeah And,

01:06:57.190 --> 01:07:00.170
like, having her die in his arms is worse than

01:07:00.170 --> 01:07:02.389
if he had just arrived and she was already gone.

01:07:02.489 --> 01:07:05.590
Yeah, I still think with that one, if he arrives

01:07:05.590 --> 01:07:08.489
and she's already gone, we still get Vader. Because

01:07:08.489 --> 01:07:10.210
he's still freaked out about, I didn't listen

01:07:10.210 --> 01:07:12.710
to my dreams in time, and I'm stressing to make

01:07:12.710 --> 01:07:14.469
sure that I want to save the person that I love.

01:07:14.909 --> 01:07:18.289
But if he gets there and saves her, we don't

01:07:18.289 --> 01:07:20.090
get Vader, I think is simply the answer for that.

01:07:21.050 --> 01:07:25.179
What if... Obi -Wan takes Dooku seriously about

01:07:25.179 --> 01:07:27.019
a Sith Lord with the Trade Federation and now

01:07:27.019 --> 01:07:31.340
being in charge of the Republic. Yeah. I mean,

01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:35.920
crazy. Potentially something that I found kind

01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:38.480
of interesting just because there's the whole

01:07:38.480 --> 01:07:42.199
lore of the apprentice Sith is always trying

01:07:42.199 --> 01:07:44.980
to amass more power so that they can take over

01:07:44.980 --> 01:07:49.519
from the master, which... In this specific case,

01:07:49.719 --> 01:07:53.079
Palpatine is kind of a one of a kind situation

01:07:53.079 --> 01:07:55.699
because he keeps getting all of his apprentices

01:07:55.699 --> 01:07:59.420
killed instead of succumbing to death himself.

01:08:00.820 --> 01:08:03.440
But basically, that's why there's always only

01:08:03.440 --> 01:08:05.539
two, because they just keep killing each other.

01:08:06.380 --> 01:08:10.159
But if I'm just I'm just thinking like if Obi

01:08:10.159 --> 01:08:12.340
-Wan takes Dooku seriously, but doesn't think

01:08:12.340 --> 01:08:15.449
that Dooku's in on it. Could potentially the

01:08:15.449 --> 01:08:18.489
Jedi, the Republic, Dooku's people all gang up

01:08:18.489 --> 01:08:24.390
on our Palpatine? And then are we facing Dooku

01:08:24.390 --> 01:08:26.829
becoming the new Master Sith? Could we have a

01:08:26.829 --> 01:08:29.289
very different kind of everything with Dooku

01:08:29.289 --> 01:08:31.630
at the helm? Because he doesn't have the very

01:08:31.630 --> 01:08:36.409
specific machinations that Palpatine does. I

01:08:36.409 --> 01:08:39.630
just, I kind of wonder, Dooku as a Sith Lord,

01:08:39.810 --> 01:08:43.529
as the Sith Lord Master, what that looks like.

01:08:43.930 --> 01:08:45.510
Very interesting. Well, it's interesting because

01:08:45.510 --> 01:08:48.350
Dooku's already kind of set up to be in charge

01:08:48.350 --> 01:08:50.569
of the Separatists. They don't know Palpatine

01:08:50.569 --> 01:08:53.149
really that much yet because Newt Gunray hates

01:08:53.149 --> 01:08:57.130
Palpatine, and so Dooku's sort of taking that

01:08:57.130 --> 01:09:01.829
role. I think Dooku's Separatists win in this

01:09:01.829 --> 01:09:04.359
case because you've got... a republic without

01:09:04.359 --> 01:09:06.619
palpatine able to really coordinate that well

01:09:06.619 --> 01:09:09.960
and and dooku's a very good leader even though

01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:11.920
he's evil and it's it's interesting to think

01:09:11.920 --> 01:09:16.300
about an empire or some sort of quasi like figurehead

01:09:16.300 --> 01:09:18.899
republic that dooku's actually controlling being

01:09:18.899 --> 01:09:21.939
in charge because i find if dooku can get the

01:09:21.939 --> 01:09:26.380
power which is a huge if his empire or his government

01:09:26.380 --> 01:09:29.300
might be harder to take down than Palpatine because

01:09:29.300 --> 01:09:31.340
Palpatine at the end of the day is consumed with

01:09:31.340 --> 01:09:34.880
most power and Dooku seems to be concerned with

01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:39.619
winning and governing effectively more than Palpatine

01:09:39.619 --> 01:09:41.399
is. So I think he might be a little bit more,

01:09:41.460 --> 01:09:43.220
like you don't get the Death Star, you get him

01:09:43.220 --> 01:09:45.819
listening to Thrawn and making the more efficient

01:09:45.819 --> 01:09:48.199
TIE Fighters instead of the Death Star, which

01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:50.420
Sierra, you will hear about later when you finally

01:09:50.420 --> 01:09:53.199
watch Rebels. I will. You get some good stuff

01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:57.420
there. Anyways, what if Yoda or Obi or Annie

01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:01.159
actually do stop dooku uh i don't actually think

01:10:01.159 --> 01:10:03.539
much changes because they stopped i don't think

01:10:03.539 --> 01:10:05.460
so either uh at the beginning pretty shortly

01:10:05.460 --> 01:10:08.880
in like three years time from now i i just think

01:10:08.880 --> 01:10:10.960
that palpatine finds another person whether it's

01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:14.680
ventress or grievous or somebody or corrupts

01:10:14.680 --> 01:10:17.039
another person or goes and find you guys don't

01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:20.960
know this yet but maul's alive um it goes and

01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:22.720
find somebody and just has them lead instead

01:10:22.720 --> 01:10:25.020
but i think it's still kind of the same thing

01:10:25.020 --> 01:10:29.850
yeah A very small aside is that when they were

01:10:29.850 --> 01:10:33.189
originally creating the character of Dooku, they

01:10:33.189 --> 01:10:36.569
had toyed with the idea of having a female Sith

01:10:36.569 --> 01:10:42.130
to kind of be an opposite to Padme. And the original

01:10:42.130 --> 01:10:45.630
drawings are very much Ventress. But then they

01:10:45.630 --> 01:10:48.470
had Christopher Lee sign on. And so then they

01:10:48.470 --> 01:10:50.109
were like, oh, never mind, we're going to go

01:10:50.109 --> 01:10:52.390
with him. And so then that's kind of how Ventress

01:10:52.390 --> 01:10:54.710
was born. That's awesome. Based off of the original

01:10:54.710 --> 01:10:57.649
drawings. for Dooku that's super cool and also

01:10:57.649 --> 01:10:59.529
like you kind of have to sign Christopher Lee

01:10:59.529 --> 01:11:05.149
if he's interested yeah next category everyone

01:11:05.149 --> 01:11:08.270
off the stage and cue Gandalf questions questions

01:11:08.270 --> 01:11:10.270
that need answering okay some of these questions

01:11:10.270 --> 01:11:11.930
cannot be answered like this first one why are

01:11:11.930 --> 01:11:13.750
the Jedi so okay with how clouded the force is

01:11:13.750 --> 01:11:16.069
to feel why do not they do not pursue that mystery

01:11:16.069 --> 01:11:21.730
more it's a huge question why why why why This

01:11:21.730 --> 01:11:23.869
next one, we kind of answered before, I guess.

01:11:23.909 --> 01:11:26.689
How's Palpatine so confident in his plans regarding

01:11:26.689 --> 01:11:29.789
Anakin and Padme? I guess because Anakin's been

01:11:29.789 --> 01:11:31.710
talking to him for like 10 years. Yeah, apparently.

01:11:32.489 --> 01:11:35.989
I guess so. If you removed, Sierra, all the Padme

01:11:35.989 --> 01:11:37.670
and Anakin cringe scenes, what would you rate

01:11:37.670 --> 01:11:40.789
this movie? Oh, if I remove all of those scenes,

01:11:41.029 --> 01:11:43.689
honestly, I'd probably have to go like an 8 out

01:11:43.689 --> 01:11:46.029
of 10. Yeah, so I think this movie sits around

01:11:46.029 --> 01:11:49.479
like a 6 .5 out of 10 for me. And then if you

01:11:49.479 --> 01:11:51.560
remove all those scenes, it's like, yeah, I'd

01:11:51.560 --> 01:11:54.300
say eight. It's a really good movie when you

01:11:54.300 --> 01:11:56.300
remove sort of the cringe stuff, even though

01:11:56.300 --> 01:11:58.899
I love the cringe stuff now. I have legitimately

01:11:58.899 --> 01:12:02.199
watched this movie fast forwarding through the

01:12:02.199 --> 01:12:04.500
cringe stuff before, and it is quite enjoyable.

01:12:06.430 --> 01:12:09.449
What is it about Anakin that Padme is drawn to?

01:12:09.609 --> 01:12:11.649
You got to explain this to me, Sierra. Because

01:12:11.649 --> 01:12:13.609
he doesn't share her political values. He doesn't

01:12:13.609 --> 01:12:15.930
share her personal values. Is it just how actionable

01:12:15.930 --> 01:12:18.050
she is? Like, I don't get it. Is it just like

01:12:18.050 --> 01:12:19.850
he's conventionally attractive? What's happening?

01:12:20.930 --> 01:12:24.569
I literally cannot give you an answer. Because

01:12:24.569 --> 01:12:28.470
I kind of wanted to answer this during these

01:12:28.470 --> 01:12:30.689
sequences. Because I was like, maybe I'm just

01:12:30.689 --> 01:12:32.750
so distracted by the fact that he's acting like

01:12:32.750 --> 01:12:37.600
a teenager that I don't see. Like, what? And

01:12:37.600 --> 01:12:39.899
so I tried to put myself back into, like, you

01:12:39.899 --> 01:12:43.500
know, 19, 20 -ish year old, like, mental state

01:12:43.500 --> 01:12:46.979
and listen kind of like as a younger person to

01:12:46.979 --> 01:12:50.279
be like, okay, let's hear what he has to say.

01:12:50.359 --> 01:12:52.699
What is he saying? How is he flirting? Like,

01:12:52.819 --> 01:12:55.579
is any of this appealing at all? I don't get

01:12:55.579 --> 01:12:58.460
it. Yeah, I don't get it. I don't get it. It

01:12:58.460 --> 01:13:00.960
doesn't make sense. Does it track for, like,

01:13:00.960 --> 01:13:03.659
how he is as a person and what he would do? 100%.

01:13:04.430 --> 01:13:09.310
Would I, in Padme's place, be interested in that?

01:13:09.369 --> 01:13:16.010
No. I'd be like, okay, dude, you do you. I'm

01:13:16.010 --> 01:13:18.770
good. You can keep protecting me. You're a really

01:13:18.770 --> 01:13:21.409
good protector. So the thing that would make

01:13:21.409 --> 01:13:23.649
sense to me, let's say Padme's been thinking

01:13:23.649 --> 01:13:27.149
about him for 10 years, right? Yeah. He was this,

01:13:27.210 --> 01:13:30.090
I'm going to help the world. I'm super innocent.

01:13:30.250 --> 01:13:32.369
I want the universe to be a good place. I'm going

01:13:32.369 --> 01:13:35.460
to... be actionable in helping my people. And

01:13:35.460 --> 01:13:37.800
like, so he does the pod race. He, you know,

01:13:37.800 --> 01:13:40.420
he helps them escape and get the parts they need

01:13:40.420 --> 01:13:42.859
and all this stuff. But he's not that same kid.

01:13:42.979 --> 01:13:45.680
He spouts off fascist views and murders men,

01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:47.640
women, and children immediately. And then she's

01:13:47.640 --> 01:13:51.199
like, you know what? This guy, he rocks. So,

01:13:51.199 --> 01:13:56.359
so Padme is listing when she, when she says to

01:13:56.359 --> 01:13:59.000
him, Hey, we can't be together. She's like, you're

01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:01.739
a Jedi. Okay. I understand that. Got it. You're

01:14:01.739 --> 01:14:03.840
not supposed to have attachments. I'm a senator.

01:14:04.020 --> 01:14:05.340
And I'm like, wait, what does that have anything

01:14:05.340 --> 01:14:07.279
to do with the fact that we can't be together?

01:14:07.739 --> 01:14:09.960
You're allowed to marry people. What's happening

01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:12.340
here? You can do whatever you want, lady. It's

01:14:12.340 --> 01:14:15.399
not like the senator or sworn off, you know,

01:14:15.420 --> 01:14:18.279
I hereby vow to uphold the constitution and never

01:14:18.279 --> 01:14:24.340
marry a Jedi. Like what? Yeah, no, I don't, I

01:14:24.340 --> 01:14:26.180
don't get that one or what it has to do with

01:14:26.180 --> 01:14:30.560
anything at all. My next question, why don't

01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:34.520
the Feds just leave? Why do they decide to fight

01:14:34.520 --> 01:14:37.699
Obi -Wan on Kamino? Why don't they just get in

01:14:37.699 --> 01:14:41.060
the ship and leave? I'm so glad you brought this

01:14:41.060 --> 01:14:43.260
up because I had the exact same question. I didn't

01:14:43.260 --> 01:14:44.579
write it down because I thought I was writing

01:14:44.579 --> 01:14:46.560
too many questions down. And I was like, because

01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:49.619
the whole scene really just could be. Dad, look!

01:14:49.779 --> 01:14:52.100
Oh, get inside the ship, Boba! Run inside! And

01:14:52.100 --> 01:14:53.840
then Obi -Wan just does what he does anyways

01:14:53.840 --> 01:14:55.819
and just throws the little thing. Now, it's not

01:14:55.819 --> 01:14:58.960
visually as interesting. It's not as interesting

01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:01.439
movie -wise. That fight scene rocks, but it makes

01:15:01.439 --> 01:15:04.399
a lot more sense. Yeah, and also, they don't

01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:07.500
know that... he knows that he's the bounty hunter

01:15:07.500 --> 01:15:09.619
i mean like obviously he's he's making those

01:15:09.619 --> 01:15:11.920
kind of like pointed questions but he doesn't

01:15:11.920 --> 01:15:15.880
have any proof right and so it's like him fighting

01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:18.939
him that's the proof i think that he knows as

01:15:18.939 --> 01:15:20.640
soon as he comes out because he's dressed in

01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:23.760
the armor that obi -wan already saw him in so

01:15:23.760 --> 01:15:26.779
jango knows right there oh no this guy knows

01:15:26.779 --> 01:15:29.180
but it still makes more sense like i know jedi

01:15:29.180 --> 01:15:31.180
are quick just leave but he should just go in

01:15:31.819 --> 01:15:34.619
Yeah, he should just leave. Yes. Why doesn't

01:15:34.619 --> 01:15:36.779
Obi -Wan tell Mace and Yoda about a man named

01:15:36.779 --> 01:15:39.100
Tyrannus? Like, he says everything else when

01:15:39.100 --> 01:15:41.500
he's giving that lowdown. But he's like, hey,

01:15:41.560 --> 01:15:43.939
the guy who hired Jango Fett's name is Tyrannus

01:15:43.939 --> 01:15:45.659
or Tyrannus or whatever it is that they say.

01:15:45.939 --> 01:15:47.600
And he doesn't mention that to them. And it's

01:15:47.600 --> 01:15:50.199
like, hey, maybe we should look into who's called

01:15:50.199 --> 01:15:52.380
Tyrannus. That's probably not a very common name.

01:15:52.760 --> 01:15:55.079
Like, oh, by the way. That might be important.

01:15:55.119 --> 01:15:57.880
This guy around Count Dooku's home planet goes

01:15:57.880 --> 01:16:01.199
by Tyrannus. Oh, hey, that's Dooku. He's a Sith.

01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:05.079
Like, I just, it's frustrating to me. Why doesn't

01:16:05.079 --> 01:16:07.340
Obi -Wan tell the Jedi where Jango is going and

01:16:07.340 --> 01:16:09.319
just have, like, ten Jedi show up to arrest him?

01:16:09.380 --> 01:16:12.020
This happens in actual police work, where if

01:16:12.020 --> 01:16:14.020
a guy runs away but you have his information,

01:16:14.380 --> 01:16:17.279
you just tell a bunch of cops and they all show

01:16:17.279 --> 01:16:20.340
up at his residence. And therefore you have a

01:16:20.340 --> 01:16:23.239
bunch of backup. He's got a tracker on his ship.

01:16:23.739 --> 01:16:26.079
It's not like he has to go take him one -on -one.

01:16:28.239 --> 01:16:30.899
Yeah, he doesn't have to follow immediately behind.

01:16:30.960 --> 01:16:33.279
Does the tracker only work for a certain distance?

01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:39.220
Like, I don't think so. Okay, this is a Force

01:16:39.220 --> 01:16:42.680
Awakens somewhat spoiler. Why does 3PO in Force

01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:44.579
Awakens think no one will recognize him when

01:16:44.579 --> 01:16:46.020
he has the red arm? He's like, you might not

01:16:46.020 --> 01:16:48.859
recognize me, Mr. Solo, because I've got this

01:16:48.859 --> 01:16:51.880
red arm. But he used to be completely just, like,

01:16:51.899 --> 01:16:59.760
pewter. It used to be gold. Stupid. It's stupid,

01:16:59.859 --> 01:17:04.699
stupid. This is a question that I had. Why doesn't

01:17:04.699 --> 01:17:08.760
Yoda, who senses Anakin's pain and the killing

01:17:08.760 --> 01:17:11.439
of all the Tusken Raiders, he never goes up to

01:17:11.439 --> 01:17:13.680
Anakin and is like, hey, before you got your

01:17:13.680 --> 01:17:16.140
arm chopped off, and I mean like a couple days

01:17:16.140 --> 01:17:19.159
before you got your arm chopped off, you had

01:17:19.159 --> 01:17:22.779
a lot of other pain. What was going on there?

01:17:22.840 --> 01:17:24.460
Because I could feel you pretty strongly through

01:17:24.460 --> 01:17:28.529
the Force. Oh, Yoda, I... You okay, dude? Yeah,

01:17:28.590 --> 01:17:31.289
exactly. Yoda, I did something terrible. I killed

01:17:31.289 --> 01:17:33.010
men, women, and children. Hey, we should send

01:17:33.010 --> 01:17:35.449
you to therapy. Like, he doesn't follow up about

01:17:35.449 --> 01:17:39.350
it at all. Nothing. Yeah, for real. I'm just

01:17:39.350 --> 01:17:40.989
not proud that the Chosen One went through a

01:17:40.989 --> 01:17:46.430
bunch of pain. It's fine. Totally okay. So, like,

01:17:46.430 --> 01:17:48.229
kind of on the other side of this, like, Anakin

01:17:48.229 --> 01:17:50.689
just goes straight to blaming Obi -Wan for, like,

01:17:50.689 --> 01:17:54.359
holding him back. But it confuses me because

01:17:54.359 --> 01:17:57.939
we don't really see a lot of that. Like, we don't

01:17:57.939 --> 01:17:59.939
see Obi -Wan really holding him back. Like, he

01:17:59.939 --> 01:18:02.560
has those moments where he's mentioning that

01:18:02.560 --> 01:18:04.420
he's young and he's a Padawan and he's still

01:18:04.420 --> 01:18:06.180
learning, but he doesn't actually, like, tell

01:18:06.180 --> 01:18:09.300
him not to do anything or, like, he's really

01:18:09.300 --> 01:18:12.920
very much just guiding. And, you know, he's on

01:18:12.920 --> 01:18:16.119
a solo mission, which is fairly unusual for a

01:18:16.119 --> 01:18:19.760
Padawan to be on right now. So, like... I don't

01:18:19.760 --> 01:18:22.319
really get, like, where his whole, like, it's

01:18:22.319 --> 01:18:27.000
Obi -Wan specifically. Like, not, like, the Jedi

01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:30.420
Council. Yeah, I mean, we see Anakin say, I'm

01:18:30.420 --> 01:18:32.159
ready for the trials. So clearly there's been

01:18:32.159 --> 01:18:35.119
some sort of disagreement on whether, of Obi

01:18:35.119 --> 01:18:36.979
-Wan specifically holding him back from the trials.

01:18:37.039 --> 01:18:39.399
But as Yoda says, the Council makes the decisions

01:18:39.399 --> 01:18:42.779
about the trials, not the Master. So that's kind

01:18:42.779 --> 01:18:45.180
of confusing. And then we do see Obi -Wan being

01:18:45.180 --> 01:18:47.000
like, hey, are you guys sure about this? So he

01:18:47.000 --> 01:18:49.880
does hold Anakin back a bit. With the council,

01:18:49.939 --> 01:18:52.319
but not in front of Anakin. And then he definitely

01:18:52.319 --> 01:18:57.220
humbles Anakin. He humbles him for sure. And

01:18:57.220 --> 01:19:01.180
he does have some pretty terse responses in terms

01:19:01.180 --> 01:19:03.119
of like, why did you take so long? You take too

01:19:03.119 --> 01:19:05.159
long guarding the speeder instead of your lightsaber

01:19:05.159 --> 01:19:07.380
skills. All the stuff that clearly shows that

01:19:07.380 --> 01:19:10.300
Anakin thinks he's much better than Obi -Wan

01:19:10.300 --> 01:19:11.979
does. And it's probably somewhere in between.

01:19:13.920 --> 01:19:15.979
It's one of those things where, like, Anakin

01:19:15.979 --> 01:19:18.319
clearly thinks he's, like, a 10 out of 10 Jedi.

01:19:18.359 --> 01:19:21.020
And Obi's like, you're, like, an 8. You know,

01:19:21.140 --> 01:19:23.420
like, you're good. But, like, you know, there's

01:19:23.420 --> 01:19:25.479
still room for improvement. And Anakin's already

01:19:25.479 --> 01:19:30.380
like, I'm the best. Yeah, for real. My next question

01:19:30.380 --> 01:19:35.199
is, what is Mas Amedda's deal? Yeah. He's Mr.

01:19:35.899 --> 01:19:39.770
Blue Guy. speaking up for Palpatine, like doing

01:19:39.770 --> 01:19:42.729
all the heavy lifting, essentially, on getting

01:19:42.729 --> 01:19:47.350
him those emergency powers. He, you know, he's

01:19:47.350 --> 01:19:50.689
the voice in the ear of Chancellor Valorum in

01:19:50.689 --> 01:19:54.029
the previous one, where we hear Palpatine himself

01:19:54.029 --> 01:19:59.050
go, enter the bureaucrat. So it just, you know,

01:19:59.050 --> 01:20:01.210
obviously Palpatine's got all his machinations

01:20:01.210 --> 01:20:03.970
and whatnot, but he does seem to be like, maybe

01:20:03.970 --> 01:20:07.989
not a fan of Maas. And then, No, he's like his

01:20:07.989 --> 01:20:11.430
bestie. See, I think that he's already planted

01:20:11.430 --> 01:20:15.409
Moss there to help slow down Valorum's whole

01:20:15.409 --> 01:20:18.170
government in order to get a vote of non -confidence.

01:20:19.109 --> 01:20:21.850
Interesting. We do know that Mas Amedda is one

01:20:21.850 --> 01:20:25.069
of the few people to know about Order 66 before

01:20:25.069 --> 01:20:29.750
it happens. Yeah. So, question here. Is it arrogance

01:20:29.750 --> 01:20:32.550
or pragmatism that makes Obi -Wan say there isn't

01:20:32.550 --> 01:20:35.170
enough time to get help to take Dooku down? That's

01:20:35.170 --> 01:20:38.520
a great question. I want to say it's pragmatism,

01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:41.300
just kind of knowing Obi -Wan's character. I

01:20:41.300 --> 01:20:44.300
agree. I don't necessarily think that Obi, well,

01:20:44.340 --> 01:20:46.220
because he's not arrogant enough to think that

01:20:46.220 --> 01:20:48.500
he can do it himself. Right. You know, he immediately

01:20:48.500 --> 01:20:51.039
is like, I can't do this alone. I need you with

01:20:51.039 --> 01:20:54.920
me, Anakin. Like, so I think it's more, and also

01:20:54.920 --> 01:20:56.699
he thinks that they're going to end up there

01:20:56.699 --> 01:21:00.439
with the rest of the clones on the ship. And

01:21:00.439 --> 01:21:02.600
Padme. Not knowing that it's going to blow up

01:21:02.600 --> 01:21:06.220
and Padme and whatnot. And so I think it's more

01:21:06.220 --> 01:21:08.399
pragmatism of just like, this is our chance.

01:21:08.539 --> 01:21:10.840
Like we should. Do it now. I mean, and we see

01:21:10.840 --> 01:21:13.119
how quickly Dooku gets into his ship. So I think

01:21:13.119 --> 01:21:15.220
you're right there. But just with the theme of

01:21:15.220 --> 01:21:16.960
there being arrogance, arrogance for Anakin,

01:21:17.220 --> 01:21:19.720
arrogance in the council, arrogance at the library,

01:21:19.819 --> 01:21:22.600
arrogance from Dooku. It just, it makes me wonder

01:21:22.600 --> 01:21:24.119
if that's a moment of arrogance or pragmatism.

01:21:24.159 --> 01:21:28.279
I think pragmatism. Yeah. Dooku's ship is super

01:21:28.279 --> 01:21:31.119
unique. How many light sail ships are there?

01:21:31.180 --> 01:21:33.899
Why can't they just like, hey, he came to Coruscant,

01:21:33.939 --> 01:21:35.920
by the way. We have a log of his ship entering.

01:21:36.739 --> 01:21:41.319
Yeah. And then also, everyone go and look at

01:21:41.319 --> 01:21:43.359
the last sequence where Palpatine is looking

01:21:43.359 --> 01:21:46.359
out at his new army. Why the heck does Bail Organa

01:21:46.359 --> 01:21:48.760
look like Shakespeare? I know, with the rough

01:21:48.760 --> 01:21:53.720
and everything. It's so funny. Random. Alright,

01:21:54.060 --> 01:21:56.960
rip open that candy wrapper. And show us your

01:21:56.960 --> 01:21:59.600
golden ticket. It's time for the Veruca Salt

01:21:59.600 --> 01:22:02.439
Award for a piece of memorabilia we really, really

01:22:02.439 --> 01:22:07.119
need. Okay, it is the entire Jango Fett's armor

01:22:07.119 --> 01:22:09.479
with a working jetpack. Please and thank you.

01:22:10.140 --> 01:22:13.140
Seconded. I love it. My honorable mention is

01:22:13.140 --> 01:22:15.600
Dooku's speeder. I see, I hate this. It's like

01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:18.640
a little tiny Vespa thing that has no protections

01:22:18.640 --> 01:22:21.060
or guards. I love it. That's why I love it. That's

01:22:21.060 --> 01:22:23.640
why I love it. He just hops on it and is just

01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:25.970
like... And away I go. This is something I didn't

01:22:25.970 --> 01:22:27.890
put in, like, what I noticed for my second rewatch.

01:22:28.069 --> 01:22:31.090
It's like, I think he looks so stupid on it.

01:22:31.489 --> 01:22:38.090
Like, what the heck is happening? I think it's

01:22:38.090 --> 01:22:41.250
great. My honorable mention for real life application

01:22:41.250 --> 01:22:44.869
slash potential mass production is Lars's floating

01:22:44.869 --> 01:22:47.510
wheelchair. Yeah, that's a good one. That would...

01:22:47.770 --> 01:22:50.270
cause that would that would get rid of so many

01:22:50.270 --> 01:22:53.409
issues with regular wheelchair applications in

01:22:53.409 --> 01:22:58.409
in the real world indeed uh all right commissioners

01:22:58.409 --> 01:23:00.909
last category dust off that card deck and get

01:23:00.909 --> 01:23:04.649
ready to shuffle it's our joker category For

01:23:04.649 --> 01:23:08.170
who is the MVP of this movie? Honorable mentions

01:23:08.170 --> 01:23:13.470
first go to Padme for me. And the Boss Nass Award

01:23:13.470 --> 01:23:17.090
for pound per pound screen time, best decisions

01:23:17.090 --> 01:23:21.050
sort of as you make them, would be Yoda or Count

01:23:21.050 --> 01:23:23.649
Dooku in terms of like, Yoda has an impactful,

01:23:23.829 --> 01:23:27.710
really impactful screen time. Dooku, also really

01:23:27.710 --> 01:23:30.609
impactful screen time, including... Chris Lee's

01:23:30.609 --> 01:23:34.430
best delivery of someone fakely giving apologies

01:23:34.430 --> 01:23:37.170
where he's like, oh no, this is madness. They've

01:23:37.170 --> 01:23:40.529
gone too far this time. We're like, man, you've

01:23:40.529 --> 01:23:44.430
nailed somebody doing a kind of bad job at faking

01:23:44.430 --> 01:23:48.350
how bad they feel about this situation. Your

01:23:48.350 --> 01:23:51.649
honorable mentions. The acting on acting on acting.

01:23:52.090 --> 01:23:58.340
My boss and ass award is Dooku for sure. just

01:23:58.340 --> 01:24:01.399
yeah amazing accomplishes everything that he

01:24:01.399 --> 01:24:04.560
wants to um even if it's maybe not in the way

01:24:04.560 --> 01:24:07.560
that he envisioned it all playing it out uh everything

01:24:07.560 --> 01:24:10.060
playing out and you know not everybody dies who

01:24:10.060 --> 01:24:12.220
he was kind of hoping would die but that's okay

01:24:12.220 --> 01:24:16.119
um my honorable mention goes to r2d2 without

01:24:16.119 --> 01:24:22.199
him padme would be dead that's so true um padme

01:24:22.199 --> 01:24:26.680
would be super dead um so i'm gonna go with uh

01:24:26.680 --> 01:24:30.600
he's my honorable mention here and the real mvp

01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:35.859
yeah for both of us is for both of us uh ewan

01:24:35.859 --> 01:24:39.180
mcgregor aka obi -wan kenobi uh i have kind of

01:24:39.180 --> 01:24:41.359
both of them down for two different reasons obi

01:24:41.359 --> 01:24:43.520
-wan you saw it with the critics too a bunch

01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:45.949
of them were saying like Hey, if Obi -Wan was

01:24:45.949 --> 01:24:47.649
allowed to be a bit more in this movie, he would

01:24:47.649 --> 01:24:49.529
have legs. Like, Obi -Wan should be allowed to

01:24:49.529 --> 01:24:52.010
cook. Obi -Wan's great in this movie. He's just,

01:24:52.130 --> 01:24:55.729
he finds out all the stuff. He sleuths around

01:24:55.729 --> 01:24:58.890
Kamido. He tracks down Jango Fett. He gets everybody

01:24:58.890 --> 01:25:02.029
to Geonosis. He uncovers, like, the plot. He

01:25:02.029 --> 01:25:04.569
makes a big mistake by not listening to Dooku.

01:25:04.890 --> 01:25:07.010
But he's so good. Conversely, not conversely,

01:25:07.010 --> 01:25:10.560
in addition, Ewan McGregor. really holds this

01:25:10.560 --> 01:25:12.420
movie together from an acting perspective where

01:25:12.420 --> 01:25:15.399
he's just for sure so good i mean he's right

01:25:15.399 --> 01:25:17.479
there with christopher lee that scene between

01:25:17.479 --> 01:25:21.359
them is always kind of electric um i it's obi

01:25:21.359 --> 01:25:26.119
-wan kenobi for me 100 awesome yep 100 100 today

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01:26:18.329 --> 01:26:52.510
well. Erky -derky -shmokey. Ready and countdown.

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He meets Jane. And though many of them die, the

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clones arrive and the tide turns. Wow, that is

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not a good pronunciation of the word arrive.

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Going back to and many or and though. Roger Ebert

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wrote episode two. Ebert, sorry. Roger. Roger.

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Okay. Age the best and age the worst. So we're

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going to. We're going to make sure that you all

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keep your finger on the pause button and read.

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Oh, my gosh. That's going to. Oh, my God. And

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with that, it is time to board the TARDIS and

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explore our what ifs. Nope. Restarting. And with

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that, it's time to board. BAMP. BAMP. BAMP. BAMP.