GWC Podcast #110

Podcasts Galactic Watercooler
#1

This week’s Star Wars arc feature: Empire. Highlights: We share additional “original” Star Wars experiences with callers, discuss stories without beginnings or endings, again talk “vintage” toys, wonder how bad tauntauns must smell (considering Han could still smell ‘em in the cold), analyze Han’s decision to follow Leia (and what it means for his “scoundrel” ways), argue the morality of Lando’s “betrayal,” and look forward to Jedi next week. Reminder: Chuck and Sean will be at the NYC meetup tonight: Ashtons, 6pm at 208 E 50th St, Btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave (subway E,V,6 at 51st and Lexington).

http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/2008/07/26/gwc-podcast-110/

#2

Awesome. Just in time so I can take you three to bed with me.

#3

Wow. Coming from you GR, that sounds so completely, um, pornographic…

#4

ARGH why’d you have to tell me that Optimus Prime is worth money?! I HAD THAT THING! MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

#5

Okay, Ian McDiarmid played the Emperor in ROTJ. In ESB, Clive Revill played the voice of the holographic transmission of the Emperor, whose face was an old woman’s with a pair of chimp eyes composited over it for extra freaky effect. When Lucas did the Special Editions, he replaced the old-lady-chimp-eyes-Clive-Revill Emperor with Ian McDiarmid. Then along came the prequels, and Mr. McDiarmid stepped into the role of the younger Senator Palpatine. Pretty cool that he played an older version of himself when he was younger, thus allowing him to play the “younger” version of himself when he was older.

To check my facts, here’s the Wikipedia article on Palpatine, which happened to be the featured article of the day a couple weeks ago, in the middle of our Star Wars arc.

#6

Man I’d want to be able to fight like Boba Fett that’s a damned valuable skill in the SW universe. I mean. The only difference between Boba Fett and the hero of any number of media is that he’s a bounty hunter and the Rebellion can’t afford him. You take his skills, make him for the good cause and he’s not a bounty hunter, he’s a badass(sorry barb) Commando

#7

This came up before about the lack of IV before the titles. I would have bet my life on the title being there but Oh well. I am off to finish listening to the podcast and then read what you all have been up to.

#8

This just struck me as funny.

#9

The Rode Less Traveled is also about the fact once you pick a path going back to the other path is not the same as choosing it first. Vader took the left path and in the end went back to take the right path. That however is not the same as if Vader went to the right first.

#10

That reminds me I found these while looking at motivational posters…

I thought Sean would get a kick out of these posters.

Hopefully I’ll be able to catch the cast earlier than I did last week.

#11

I’m only about halfway through, but here are my comments so far:

Memories watching on video – hm yes. The first SW I saw in a theater was in 1997.

Audra when you said “what is his quest” it made me think, what is your favorite color!? Too much Python. But seriously, how can people NOT know the story line of Star Wars? What planet have they buried their head in the sand on?

Purpose of the scary movies: YES. Hubby tried it (and admitted that when he was single he liked to take girls to the scary movies to put his arm around them), but I cry when I’m scared. It didn’t go over well. We still got married. “Life is scary enough as it is.” So true.

LEGO Star Wars with Yoda you havent experienced the whole Yoda thing. Character development, you totally get it! I love that I’m not the only one who had their experience of Star Wars changed (improved!) by that game.

Interesting idea, about Vader wanting to make Luke more like him with his hand. I can believe that.

#12

Audra, great question about why Boba Fett is cool. I don’t get it. But that’s a good point about the way Darth Vader treats him. (the way the guys describe Fett as cool, Starbuck’s cool - she does awesome stuff, but no way in anything I’d want to be her, or like her.)

#13

I think that Darth Vader respects a professional.

#14

GWC in the intro? It’s good for on-line discussion, but in the intro? Are you ashamed of the Galactica? Is the an attempt are rebranding the podcast like trying to hide the Kentucky and Fried with KFC?

Only joking… :wink:

#15

I figure they’re getting ready to issue public shares, and marketing told them that “GWC” gave them better brand recognition.

#16

On this rewatch I too think that Yoda seemed a bit loopy. I about half-way agree with Sean. I definitely believe that 20 years alone on Degobah (sp?) has affected him, but I also think he is consciously testing Luke.

I didn’t rewatch Eps 1 & 2 this time around, but I do remember a scene of Yoda with the youngling jedis. We saw a little glimpse of his playfulness in that context, so I do think it was part of his personality all along. However, there really isn’t much time to be playful in the Prequels.

I like the idea of Yoda drawing in Luke to crash near his house. If that is the case, did he even set up the crash landing into the swamp and the force-levitating-the-X-wing-out-of-the-water test way in advance?

#17

ZOMBIE MOVIES ARE SCARIER THAN LIFE!!! someone gave me a survival guide one time and i had already thought of every contingency in it!! whatever that phobia is? i have it!!

listening to sean talk about seeing it age four and loving it even though he didn’t completely understand it just reinforces for me the irritation i feel that in 1~3 GL felt like he had to talk down to little kids and explain every little detail to them, thus depriving future generations of those aha! moments of understanding the story on the deeper levels…

phantom menace yoda always struck me as a caricature of himself from esb and rotj…HAHAH! scooby yoda…900 years old smokin dagobah green!

also would like to mention that i always thought that it was a little too convenient that admirel ozzel came out of light speed too close to the hoth system…i think he was a rebel sympathizer or agent…he also tried to talk vader out of going there and that stink eye he shot the other officer for being a suck up…

they used potatoes for some of the asteroids ~in addition to my zombie phobia, i have a potatoe obsession!

bkitty ~ did you ever verify that gone wtih the wind plagerism of the rhett butler “there aren’t enough varmints in your life” scarlett “i happen to like nice men”

i still am not sure why leia was so suspicious of lando when she first meets him?? “yes…veeerrrryyy friendly” …anyone??

#18

Maybe if sci-fi had just called the show BSG more people would have watched it?

Then again I guess it didn’t help SeaQuest DSV…

#19

Sorry to quote myself, but a thought occurred to me just as I hit submit. It’s always bothered me, is force levitating an X-wing out of a swamp a typical jedi feat or would only jedi masters be able to do it? I kind of like the idea that only those of a certain level could actually do it (certainly Yoda, Obi-Wan, Mace, that white haired guy with the mustache and beard and squished head). But it would seem to the a difficult job for the typical boots on the ground jedis that we see fighting in the arena in Ep II.

If that’s the case, did Yoda actually expect Luke to be able to pull the X-wing out of the swamp on his first try? I guess the test was to show Luke the possibilities and also get him to lose the self defeatist attitude…

#20

That’s what she said