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Star Wars Maul Shadow Lord Ep. 1-2 Review CCLXXXIII · Star Wars Alliance

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Speaker 1: The Force will be with you always. Hello, and welcome
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Speaker 1: back to another episode of Star Wars onlines. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Clay and with me like always. Of
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Speaker 1: course is Katie, Katie, how you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm okay. I had botox and otherwise it's been a
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Speaker 2: very long day, so I'm already talk about this show.
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Speaker 2: Let's have on.
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Speaker 1: I have had a day within myself any as well,
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Speaker 1: so I am right there with you. I've been kind
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Speaker 1: of not necessarily pulling teeth, pulling hair a little bit today,
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Speaker 1: and so I am also ready to talk about this show.
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Speaker 1: And guys, looking at everything, there is not much news.
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Speaker 1: So we will go ahead and jump right into mall
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Speaker 1: Shadow Lord episodes one and two.
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Speaker 2: Let's do this. I'm excited.
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Speaker 1: Also, yeah, I do have to confirm just so that
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Speaker 1: way I'm prepared for next week. It's another Monday drop, right,
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Speaker 1: This entire season is dropping, Okay, okay, I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to double check. So episodes one and two, Katie, was
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Speaker 1: this beginning I'll just start this right off the bat.
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Speaker 1: Was this beginning of the show up to your expectations?
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Speaker 1: Did it exceed expectations? Were you expecting something more like?
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Speaker 1: How do you how do you feel about how this
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Speaker 1: is already getting started.
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Speaker 2: I really am enjoying the different genre. I feel like
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Speaker 2: that we've stepped into. It feels very and or s
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Speaker 2: in animation form, almost in like the Spy Thrailer. Kind
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Speaker 2: of feel like we're getting that Braeler underworld crime vibe,
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Speaker 2: and I'm kind of digging it. I need to watch
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Speaker 2: it in a different headspace because this week has just
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Speaker 2: been very long. But I've watched it twice and I
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Speaker 2: enjoyed it both times. There's a lot of new ones
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Speaker 2: in detail, and I am loving the brushstroke animation that
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Speaker 2: has been the upgrade Oh yeah animation style.
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Speaker 1: It really does add flavor to the backgrounds. I am
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Speaker 1: just now opening the or watching the opening scene, the
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Speaker 1: chase and everything else after the heist, and you can
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Speaker 1: definitely see the more brushstroke esquelness of the Yeah. I
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Speaker 1: really did like this first two episodes as well. I
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Speaker 1: really liked the introduction to Maul in the very first episode.
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Speaker 1: I like playing alongside there as well. I really really
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Speaker 1: loved all of it. Now, from what we are seeing,
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Speaker 1: this is very much for now a revenge story. Mall
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Speaker 1: is on the hunt for all of those who betrayed him,
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Speaker 1: double crossed him, and put him in the position that
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Speaker 1: he's currently in, and that is basically all of the
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Speaker 1: crime lords. He does mention uh, Crimson down as well.
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Speaker 1: We have a mention of Crimson Dawn, and I do
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Speaker 1: think this conversation can be enveloped in both episodes. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: we don't have to break down episode one and episode two.
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Speaker 1: I do think that we can talk overall, because honestly,
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Speaker 1: a part of me thinks, why wasn't this just one
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Speaker 1: very long episode? You know, it could have been just
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Speaker 1: one long episode.
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Speaker 2: Animation can be longer than thirty minutes.
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Speaker 1: Yes it can, but I need my emotional support. I
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Speaker 1: do like the direction that we're going with mall. Now
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Speaker 1: that being said, we open up mostly open up with
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Speaker 1: ma already talking about visions of an apprentice. This is
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Speaker 1: already very interesting because of course we know the new
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Speaker 1: character is in episode one with her master. I dug
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Speaker 1: every part of the dynamic of these two. We see
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Speaker 1: that I'm trying to remember her name, Devony, excuse me.
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Speaker 1: Devon has such a different way of thinking when it
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Speaker 1: comes to the situation her and her master yep, they're
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Speaker 1: on the streets, they're hungry. You know, they're they're not
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Speaker 1: gonna miss any food, you know, type of idea. And
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Speaker 1: he's like, oh, well, of course you're hungry, but we
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Speaker 1: can always rely on the goodness of strangers.
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Speaker 3: And somebody calls them and she tries to steal food
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Speaker 3: and she has to go to jail for it.
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Speaker 1: She she gets apprehended. This does introduce us to the
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Speaker 1: UH police force on this planet.
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Speaker 2: Yep, very robotic, very by the book situation here there
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Speaker 2: is no leeway involved. It doesn't matter if oh, she'll
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Speaker 2: pay for it, like it'll be fine, Like no, you
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Speaker 2: still go straight to jail, do not pass out. I
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Speaker 2: am digging the voice actor. I think it's still this.
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Speaker 2: It's only the guy, is it the guy? No? So
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Speaker 2: Richard Ayode is two Boots, but I don't know if
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Speaker 2: he plays every droid. I'm digging the voice actor for
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Speaker 2: the droids.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And I love the random name of two Boots.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what I just I just love it.
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Speaker 1: We are also introduced to Captain Lawson. Captain Lawson is
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Speaker 1: by the book, but also it seems to be he
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Speaker 1: is a little bit what's the word.
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Speaker 2: I'm looking for feeling to be flexible.
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Speaker 1: Very flexible. He is flexible, but he is not. So
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Speaker 1: we love the Empire, you know, very much wants to.
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Speaker 2: Keep it out. And now, remember guys, we've only been
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Speaker 2: a year after the Clone Wars at this point. So
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Speaker 2: I found it absolutely hysterical when two boots are showing, uh, lawson,
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Speaker 2: look a laser sword.
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen that since the Clone Wars.
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Speaker 2: What like it should wow like this first one, since
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Speaker 2: the Clone Wars would have been better, Like.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that that would make more sense. I
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Speaker 1: guess it really depends on how far out this planet
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Speaker 1: is to like more of the core worlds. I guess I.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't say it matters, but it all depends on me.
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Speaker 1: It all depends on how recently that planet was visited
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Speaker 1: by anybody with a lightsaber. Though, like I would assume
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Speaker 1: there was some parts of the galaxy that kind of
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Speaker 1: went in and out of the Clone Wars. You know,
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Speaker 1: sometimes they would be held as basis, sometimes they wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes they would help the separatists, sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: they would help the Republic, you know, things like that.
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Speaker 1: But I would assume at some point this planet probably
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Speaker 1: had a time where they were not involved with the
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Speaker 1: Clone Wars at all, So whenever the last time they
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Speaker 1: had somebody with a lightsaber on their planet would be that, like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen that since the Clone Wars. That's probably
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Speaker 1: been a little bit longer than a year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So Wikipedia only says that it says Jenics was
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Speaker 2: a planet that existed in the galaxy away from the
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Speaker 2: core worlds. I don't know what that means. It was like,
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Speaker 2: it's outside the core worlds question mark.
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Speaker 1: So I would assume if you look at the galaxy map,
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Speaker 1: there is, of course the giant cluster of planets that
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Speaker 1: are a part of like genuine Core. You look at
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Speaker 1: coresot and everything around it. I really look at it
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Speaker 1: as like rings, you could really say, and the more
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Speaker 1: you go out is away from the core worlds.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I would say it's probably Inner Rim. Maybe
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Speaker 2: it's not. It's not currently on the galaxy.
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Speaker 1: Map, Okay, okay.
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Speaker 2: People, if people are interested and don't want to pull
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Speaker 2: up the map, you have deep Core Core. Okay, it
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Speaker 2: could be Colonies. Colonies is actually before Interim. I miss
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Speaker 2: that expansion region mid Rim, and then you have Outer Rim,
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Speaker 2: Bufan Space and then Hut Space. Yeah, and the Bathan
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Speaker 2: Space and Hut Space are kind of within the outer rim.
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Speaker 1: Uh but yeah, I.
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Speaker 2: Would probably say it's either colonies or inner Rim.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if people.
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Speaker 2: Wanted to picture it, which the colonies has like Nimoidia, Karta,
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Speaker 2: the Stoon, Cato Naimoiti. I already said, Cato Niemodia. Oh,
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Speaker 2: there's Naimodia, and then there's Cato Naiemodia excuse me, fondor
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Speaker 2: and then Jack who like in the interim you have
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Speaker 2: Jack who, uh that's the only one. Oh, Billy bring
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Speaker 2: me is another one in the interim. So just kind
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Speaker 2: of give a people the idea where that was a
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Speaker 2: lot of information. Probably nobody cares about that.
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Speaker 1: But but but the the two uh crime lords that
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Speaker 1: are being dealt with in this first two episodes is
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Speaker 1: Demus and such as an Inn Barrio Varrio. I thought,
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Speaker 1: I don't know why I said, started with an Inn
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Speaker 1: Nico Demis and then Varrio now Varrio. I will say,
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Speaker 1: I was not expecting the fish from freaking uh uh
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Speaker 1: uh oh what a that animated movie with Will Ferrell
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Speaker 1: where he's the super villain. Uh oh no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: he he is. There is an actual super villain movie.
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Speaker 2: It is with Lego, the Lego movie.
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Speaker 1: No, no, if you haven't seen this super villain movie,
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Speaker 1: it is Megamind, Megamind. Have you seen Megamind before?
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Speaker 2: Nope?
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna show you this fish from Megamind and
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Speaker 1: you tell me this is not the character that we
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Speaker 1: just watched on this season or this first episode. Also,
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Speaker 1: that is a point of conversation. This did get a
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Speaker 1: second season.
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Speaker 2: Yes, because we talked about that last week. Varrio and
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Speaker 2: Demus are both original characters to the show. They have
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Speaker 2: appeared in the comic.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, that is basically that is basically Barrio, and
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Speaker 1: he is just a fish in a robot body, which
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Speaker 1: is basically what Barrio is. He is a little a
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Speaker 1: little alien species that uses a giant piece of armor
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Speaker 1: to make him look bigger, which I thought was absolutely hilarious.
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Speaker 1: So Varrio, he is the one that comes up on
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Speaker 1: top whenever it comes to him and Demus. Yes, and
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Speaker 1: I do like the line you never shoot somebody in
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Speaker 1: the back, or you always shoot him in the front,
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Speaker 1: something like that. But in the Chaos, he actually does
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Speaker 1: get captured by this police force and he is detained
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Speaker 1: in a cell right across from Devin Devon. This is
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Speaker 1: very important for the whole thing because when they get
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Speaker 1: to a jail breakout, because Mal does want Vrio for
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Speaker 1: information and everything else. Yep, that's when Maul notices Uh Devon.
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Speaker 1: I keep forgetting.
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Speaker 2: It was very drawn to her mm hmm, like steps
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Speaker 2: that the like breathing that Sam Witward does here. It's
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Speaker 2: strange to talk about breathing, but he just is so
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Speaker 2: mall Like.
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Speaker 1: I love that entire scene because it is so like uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: It's so anxiety feeled. You can feel like you can
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Speaker 1: cut the air with a knife yep in that scene
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Speaker 1: and I love it.
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Speaker 2: And it's so well done from the voice actors involved
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Speaker 2: in the animation team, like this is gorgeous. Like the
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Speaker 2: way that Maul's lightsaber is moving and showcasing like we
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Speaker 2: talked about in the Clone Wars and in Bad Badge,
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Speaker 2: the lightsabers are a little funky. Nah they fixed now
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Speaker 2: they fixed it is.
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Speaker 1: I love the smoothness of the lightsaber, especially with the
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Speaker 1: brushstrokes animation here. I think it does do it very
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Speaker 1: very good justice. But with the now rescue quote unquote
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Speaker 1: of Varrio, they take Devin, they escape, they imprison her,
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Speaker 1: and Maul basically starts to kind of, Hey, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: see how the world is. You're gonna see how the
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Speaker 1: universe is, you know, kind of getting into her head
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Speaker 1: a little bit. We do get to see some of
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Speaker 1: the strength of her Master.
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Speaker 2: Pause. You might want to turn off the show because
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Speaker 2: it's flashing a lot on your face right now.
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Speaker 1: Can you actually like see the.
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Speaker 2: I can't see it, but the colors are flashing, especially
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Speaker 2: like on your mic stand and in your glasses like visually.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we can't like technically get in trouble for that.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying it's very distracting.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, it's in the middle of the chase scene.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of why it's all flashy and crazy right now.
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Speaker 1: But uh, we get to see a little bit of
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Speaker 1: the strength of her Master m hm, which I thought
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Speaker 1: I recognized the voice.
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Speaker 2: We knew he was going to be here, So I
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Speaker 2: don't know why we recognized we knew he was cast
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Speaker 2: as the Master, did we really? Yes?
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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I must have forgot about it.
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Speaker 2: I don't think we talked about it in the trailer
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Speaker 2: because I don't think we heard him, but we knew
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Speaker 2: he was cast, and that he was playing the Master.
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Speaker 2: It's all State guy guy or the All State guy
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Speaker 2: before the Crazy Guy.
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Speaker 1: Yes, apparently I did not know this. He also was
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Speaker 1: a really big fan of the bad Batch. Oh yes,
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Speaker 1: there's an article out there. I need to go find
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Speaker 1: it again. Apparently he was a big fan of the
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Speaker 1: Clone Wars and the bad Batch. And I'm not entirely
18:03
Speaker 1: sure who started the conversations to get him on this show,
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Speaker 1: but he is a fan of animated Star Wars. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it's amazing that they got him. And he
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Speaker 1: he has such a like a baritone like deep voice,
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Speaker 1: and it is like such a like Jedi master tone.
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Speaker 1: It really really is. So I do like that about him,
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Speaker 1: you know, I do like Captain Lawson as a character.
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Speaker 1: But he does seem to now that you've mentioned the
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Speaker 1: whole thing about like, oh, I would say that's just
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Speaker 1: the Clone Wars now looking back, he does seem a
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Speaker 1: little bit aloof because there's even a moment where uh
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Speaker 1: Devin's Master is holding up a bridge with the Force
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Speaker 1: and he walks up to him. He's like no, He goes, hey,
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Speaker 1: are you okay there? Man?
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Speaker 3: Like, did you not know what's going on here.
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Speaker 1: Do you not see what he is doing? So, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. Maybe he's a little bit
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Speaker 1: over his head on this whole endeavor with now probably
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Speaker 1: trying to capture Mall and all of this stuff. But
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Speaker 1: we'll see, we will see.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like his captain is going to force
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Speaker 2: in like the Empire call, like they're gonna make the call,
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Speaker 2: especially after uh the second episode. Can we talk about
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Speaker 2: Spybot for a second, because I had no idea that
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 1: I feel like somebody who he I was gonna say,
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Speaker 1: he he is somebody who could actually like make Chopper sweat.
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Speaker 1: I feel like, oh, yeah, you put you put Spybot
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Speaker 1: and Chopper in a room together. That's insane, that would
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Speaker 1: be insane.
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Speaker 2: I love it. I was cackling every time he was
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Speaker 2: on screen because I was like, Oh, what's he gonna do? Now,
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Speaker 2: what's he gonna do?
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Speaker 1: A blast? I do. I do like that he actually talks.
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Speaker 1: It's not just in uh uh you know ones and
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Speaker 1: zeros that he talks binary. He actually speaks. It's in
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Speaker 1: a very like gurgling type of you know, yeah word esque, yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: but he does talk, and he has a little bit
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Speaker 1: of an attitude, so I do like him for that.
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Speaker 1: I do like him. He is a Swiss army knife
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Speaker 1: of tools and gadgets and stuff. He is able to slice,
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Speaker 1: he is able to defend himself with a blaster like
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Speaker 1: you said, and of course he can also be a
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Speaker 1: camera for security. So yep, very very handy for Mal
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Speaker 1: and his crew. But also speaking of his crew, I
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Speaker 1: do want to mention the tinfoil hat rumor in Conspiracy
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Speaker 1: that the Internet has now thrown out. I did share
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Speaker 1: it with Katie. We have to see more of the
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Speaker 1: show to actually even consider this being a thing, but
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Speaker 1: I thought it was fun enough.
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Speaker 2: I do think it's it's fun because it could be
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Speaker 2: so the rumor in question, guys, is that is roop
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Speaker 2: cast the Armorer. I don't know about this, but it
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Speaker 2: could be the she decides, oh, I need to pay
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Speaker 2: penance for working with Mal, so therefore I must adamantly
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Speaker 2: commit to this route of being a Mandalorian m H.
22:15
Speaker 2: And could have reforged her helmet and all that stuff,
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Speaker 2: because the helmets are definitely very different, and I need
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Speaker 2: to compare it to the Armorer's voice. But I feel
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Speaker 2: like I need to go back here's what I need
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Speaker 2: to do. I need to go back to the Clone
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Speaker 2: Wars and hear what rook Cast was sounding like. Then
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Speaker 2: mm hmm, hear the armorer, and then hear what Vanessa
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Speaker 2: Marshall is doing as rook Cast now, because if they
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Speaker 2: made that decision, okay, I could see it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think it's an interesting theory. Again, we'll
22:56
Speaker 1: have to see that. We'll have to watch to see.
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Speaker 1: Now the the theory is coming out of I think
23:02
Speaker 1: some sort of like art of book that is out
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Speaker 1: there basically describing the armor that the armorer is wearing
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Speaker 1: and how it resembles a little bit what Cast is
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Speaker 1: currently in this show. So it's very shoddy at best.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see how it goes. Going kind of into
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Speaker 1: more of the second episode. In the end of this
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Speaker 1: conversation we now know, of course, mal is onto more
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Speaker 1: of his hit list, you know, now moving towards the
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Speaker 1: pikes where also Devin is looking to escape, and that
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Speaker 1: is kind of like the end of her story. It's
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Speaker 1: where the episode kind of ends.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: She is able to use the force in her containment
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Speaker 1: to basically push away the cylinder that she is in
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Speaker 1: because there was already a gap, and so she opens it.
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Speaker 1: Now she is free and she can go about doing whatever. Now,
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Speaker 1: the question is is she actually going to escape or
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Speaker 1: is she going to stick around because of her curiousness
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Speaker 1: of Mom?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, you know that Mom knew that
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Speaker 2: that gap was there, and he could have easily put
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Speaker 2: her in the opposite container. Yeah, so this is all employee.
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Speaker 2: So we'll have to see what happens next week at
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Speaker 2: A'll be very interesting to see, But I would agree,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if she's going to stick around. We
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Speaker 2: know from the trailer that she has more conversations with
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Speaker 2: her master about what Mal is trying to do, So
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Speaker 2: I feel like Mall and her are going to have
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Speaker 2: a conversation that she then brings to her master and
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Speaker 2: kind of goes, well what do we do from here
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Speaker 2: kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what kind of
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Speaker 1: involvement her master wants to be put in, because he
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Speaker 1: has already put himself out there to save others, but
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Speaker 1: is he really going to be out Is he wanting
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Speaker 1: to put himself out there to save these crime lords
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Speaker 1: against Mall specifically, you know, yeah? Or is he going
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Speaker 1: to say, hey, this is not like something we need
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Speaker 1: to be putting ourselves into. Because another part of the
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Speaker 1: episode was him following Captain Lawson, So he is.
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Speaker 2: Somewhat let me go grab the baby monitor guys.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all good. He is is showing interest in
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Speaker 1: possibly helping Lawson with Maul. But to what extent is
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Speaker 1: my thing? Like, I would like to know, because he
26:15
Speaker 1: already knows the dangers of putting himself out there. Of
26:18
Speaker 1: course it's after sixty six. He could easily be apprehended
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Speaker 1: and killed on site. But he's making an effort to
26:30
Speaker 1: show interest in this whole debacle by following Lawson. So
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Speaker 1: is he following Lawson more so to just find Devin
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Speaker 1: or is he following Lawson because he's interesting in helping
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Speaker 1: out with mal.
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Speaker 2: That would be the big question, because he seemed very
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Speaker 2: much of the mindset that he still wants to help people.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't want to draw.
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Speaker 1: Attention though, yes, exactly.
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Speaker 2: Hence why he's like, we'll figure out somebody to pay, like,
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Speaker 2: no need to panic. So yeah, it it's definitely intriguing
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Speaker 2: because I wonder if he goes why I'm just a
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Speaker 2: helpful person m hm, but he knows, hey, this guy's
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Speaker 2: a police officer, so he could call him the Empire
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Speaker 2: at any point and really messed my life up m.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. So we'll see how it goes. And honestly, there's
27:37
Speaker 1: much There's not much else to this episode.
27:44
Speaker 2: This is definitely a lot of set up, kind of
27:49
Speaker 2: get you running with the characters that are here. Not
27:54
Speaker 2: really a great introduction, I would say, because we're hitting
27:57
Speaker 2: the ground running, there's like, well, we're gonna build to
28:01
Speaker 2: it basically like this is starting very Clone Wars esque
28:05
Speaker 2: versus Bad Batch or Rebels, where okay, we kind of
28:10
Speaker 2: did something minor to get us all introduced to the characters.
28:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that is very interesting. Honestly, we
28:20
Speaker 1: the last few projects that we have seen with animation,
28:23
Speaker 1: Star Wars, that being bad Batch, and of course season
28:27
Speaker 1: seven of Clone Wars, is this idea of hey, we
28:34
Speaker 1: were introduced, like season seven of Clone Wars introduced bad Batch. Yeah,
28:41
Speaker 1: and then backdoor Pilot backdoor pilot exactly. There is none
28:46
Speaker 1: of that for Mall, and I think more so because
28:50
Speaker 1: of the reason of everybody knows Mall. Everybody knows like,
28:54
Speaker 1: why would you even need to do that with Maw?
28:56
Speaker 2: And I think that's why they chose to do the
28:58
Speaker 2: comic two because people are very used to this storytelling elements.
29:03
Speaker 2: So if it's like, Okay, if you want to know more,
29:06
Speaker 2: you know who Mal is, you know who brook Cast is.
29:09
Speaker 2: Because if you're watching the show, you've watched the Clone Wars.
29:13
Speaker 2: If you want to know more about Lawson and two Boots,
29:17
Speaker 2: go grab this comic.
29:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that with the idea like you
29:25
Speaker 1: would have to genuinely kind of go back to seven
29:29
Speaker 1: to kind of see where Mal is kind of getting
29:33
Speaker 1: started with this whole ordeal yep. So in a way
29:39
Speaker 1: you can be like, oh, well, they kind of did it.
29:40
Speaker 1: There's just more space between season seven and now. But
29:46
Speaker 1: I do think there may have needed to be something
29:50
Speaker 1: more to yade people for this because of how hot
29:56
Speaker 1: and heavy these two episodes start.
29:59
Speaker 2: And that's where I thought they were going to use
30:01
Speaker 2: bad Batch a little bit more effectively, because you could
30:04
Speaker 2: have easily sent the bad Batch on a mission against
30:08
Speaker 2: the Shadow Collective or really set up something to say, okay,
30:14
Speaker 2: you're going again, like Mal's criminal cindicare right here. I
30:20
Speaker 2: don't think they had named it the Shadow Collective at
30:22
Speaker 2: that point. I don't really remember, but you could have
30:27
Speaker 2: easily sent them up against it. That was something that
30:29
Speaker 2: they were doing and really just kind of set the bar.
30:34
Speaker 2: We know that Dave Filoni likes to mess around in
30:37
Speaker 2: this area. You know, he's probably been planning a way
30:39
Speaker 2: to get Sam Wit We're back involved somehow, so it
30:43
Speaker 2: makes sense that you would be thinking about that in advance.
30:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, very much so.
30:50
Speaker 2: The last thing we have to talk about is the music.
30:54
Speaker 2: We had the Kiners return for this. What did you
30:57
Speaker 2: feel about the music?
30:59
Speaker 1: I thought the music really fit well with every single scene,
31:04
Speaker 1: whether it be the chase scene, whether it be the
31:07
Speaker 1: jailbreak scene, whether it be the moments of like Solace
31:13
Speaker 1: with Devin in her containment or with Lawson talking with
31:20
Speaker 1: that one woman to get more information on mal and
31:24
Speaker 1: everything else. I thought the music fit very well throughout
31:28
Speaker 1: the entire two episodes. Genuinely.
31:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, guys, I'm getting distracted. Matt's out there talking
31:37
Speaker 2: to someone who I'm like, what are you doing? So, yes,
31:42
Speaker 2: I feel like the music did really well, and I
31:44
Speaker 2: like how they picked up previous cues from Mall's past
31:48
Speaker 2: in Star Wars and used them like we heard duel
31:51
Speaker 2: the Fates. Oh, fantastic job as always, and I felt
31:55
Speaker 2: like they shifted the music perfectly to hit this new
32:00
Speaker 2: vibe from action to three theer.
32:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of feel so yeah. And I do
32:08
Speaker 1: like Maul as a slumlord, as a crime boss. I
32:15
Speaker 1: do think he is very well in that position. I
32:23
Speaker 1: am curious to see how all of that kind of
32:28
Speaker 1: goes downhill to get him where he's going to be
32:31
Speaker 1: in Rebels. I'm not entirely sure if we will see
32:36
Speaker 1: that in this season, because of course, like we said,
32:39
Speaker 1: this is going to be picked up for a second season,
32:43
Speaker 1: and so this may just be the beginning and we
32:46
Speaker 1: see him, you know, at a pretty strong position at
32:50
Speaker 1: the end of this season. So yeah, we shall see.
32:55
Speaker 2: And I am the last thing is, so he's talking
32:58
Speaker 2: about an apprentice, I'm wondering if we're going to potentially
33:03
Speaker 2: get a picture of his vision on screen where we
33:11
Speaker 2: get an indication that he's talking.
33:13
Speaker 1: About Ezra Ezra.
33:16
Speaker 2: And we get an Ezra clone War's animation style that hmmm,
33:26
Speaker 2: because we know that he Boloney's already done that with Rebels.
33:29
Speaker 2: He gave Ezra visions and you had like that vision
33:33
Speaker 2: texture on screen where he saw things that were going
33:35
Speaker 2: to happen, things that happened kind of thing. So it
33:41
Speaker 2: makes me feel like he could potentially do it again
33:43
Speaker 2: just to try and like tie things up.
33:47
Speaker 1: But I think this could also help well. I think
33:51
Speaker 1: doing so would help people who are not as strongly
33:55
Speaker 1: involved in following every piece of Star Wars content, and
34:02
Speaker 1: so people would then be like, oh, okay, so this
34:06
Speaker 1: is connected to this other show that I haven't watched it. Okay,
34:08
Speaker 1: let's watch this right after this, you know type of feeling.
34:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I think it makes perfect sense. My
34:18
Speaker 2: only question is they may want to use Devin longer,
34:22
Speaker 2: so I don't know if they would put that vision
34:25
Speaker 2: style into season one, just if they want to drag
34:30
Speaker 2: her into season two a little bit longer, they may
34:33
Speaker 2: push it to go season two or the end of
34:36
Speaker 2: the show if it gets a season three, so.
34:40
Speaker 1: Where it will inevitably die according to Hey, you know,
34:50
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. I would love I would love
34:54
Speaker 1: for this show to you know, meet our expectations and
34:58
Speaker 1: actually hit some of the key points that we have
35:01
Speaker 1: predicted and go longer than three seasons because we love content,
35:06
Speaker 1: you know, more content for the podcast. So I would
35:11
Speaker 1: love it. I would love it, But we we probably
35:15
Speaker 1: most likely we'll see this show in with three seasons.
35:21
Speaker 2: I'm made claysthenic now that I told him Disney Secret.
35:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know like that now, my like you've opened
35:29
Speaker 1: my third eye and now it just makes all it
35:31
Speaker 1: all makes sense now.
35:32
Speaker 2: So that's why Daredevil's only gonna get three seasons. Three
35:37
Speaker 2: Right now you have Daredevil Born Again and then you
35:40
Speaker 2: have Daredevil Born Born Again.
35:45
Speaker 1: That's not out of work. Okay, Oh my goodness, well guys,
35:53
Speaker 1: I do believe that is the end of the episode.
35:58
Speaker 1: We will be back next week talking about episode three
36:03
Speaker 1: of mal of course, we are gonna be talking nothing
36:06
Speaker 1: but mall for the next month, so sorry, guys, it's.
36:13
Speaker 2: Just unless you're following us on Patreon. Yes, se Ultimate
36:17
Speaker 2: Alliance where we are talking about the new Jedi Order
36:20
Speaker 2: and Clay just got his heartbroken with starby Star.
36:26
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes I did. Actually, yes, you can go
36:28
Speaker 1: listen to that right now, and then part two of
36:32
Speaker 1: starby Star will actually be in two weeks. You will
36:38
Speaker 1: be able to listen to our conversation about part two,
36:42
Speaker 1: so keep that on the radar. But yeah, with that, guys,
36:47
Speaker 1: of course, you can find me at Fanboy Clay mostly
36:50
Speaker 1: on Threads and Instagram now, but yeah, go check us
36:55
Speaker 1: out there. We did not have a new episode of
36:58
Speaker 1: Ranger Alliance this week do to Easter. We will be
37:03
Speaker 1: talking about two episodes this upcoming Monday, so just keep
37:09
Speaker 1: an eye out for that. I do apologize for no
37:13
Speaker 1: like previous like warning or whatnot, because I celebrated Easter
37:18
Speaker 1: on Saturday and I just stupidly assume that everybody had
37:24
Speaker 1: Easter on Saturday. I so right after work on Sunday,
37:27
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, Jake, let's get ready to record.
37:30
Speaker 1: He's like, today is Easter. I was like, crap, it's
37:34
Speaker 1: for everybody else. So being an old.
37:38
Speaker 2: Person who cleaned her house all weekend, I don't know.
37:43
Speaker 1: So we will be talking about two episodes of Gavit
37:48
Speaker 1: Infinity next Monday. Katie, what about you, y'all?
37:53
Speaker 2: You can find me on those social media platforms when
37:55
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38:00
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38:03
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38:19
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38:21
Speaker 2: you guys. Yeah, like Klai said, we're talking about mall
38:25
Speaker 2: the rest of April and the first week of May,
38:29
Speaker 2: where hopefully we will have some fantastic news and then
38:33
Speaker 2: get into our preview for the Mandalorian Grogu, which, guys,
38:38
Speaker 2: we have put it on the calendar. We are going
38:42
Speaker 2: to be talking. We are going to be reviewing the
38:44
Speaker 2: Mandalorian and Grogu movie on May twenty second at eight
38:49
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38:52
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38:54
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38:57
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39:01
Speaker 2: about the movie. We'll do like we typically do or
39:04
Speaker 2: we have we'll do like we typically do with books,
39:08
Speaker 2: where we kind of do a non spoiler section and
39:10
Speaker 2: then we'll jump into a spoiler section. So that way
39:15
Speaker 2: you can have it both ways. So yeah, put that
39:18
Speaker 2: on your calendar. Make it happen, be there or be
39:21
Speaker 2: square as that the folks say. So with that, I
39:27
Speaker 2: want to wish everyone a great day or night, whatever
39:29
Speaker 2: time a day you are listening or watching, and we
39:31
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