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Ewoks Versus Aliens · Large Nerdron Collider

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Speaker 1: The Large Nerdron Collider Podcast is a production of My
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Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about pikiky things happening in the
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Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ariel casting and with me, as always is Jonathan.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be pretty upset at me for moving
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Speaker 1: my pop filter right now, Strickland, I am not the
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Speaker 1: your business. You are not. Move along. Okay, that was
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Speaker 1: a short episode, guys. I'm sorry, I'm just just just
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Speaker 1: just fooling. Hey, Ariel, I got a question for you, Okay, Ariel, So,
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Speaker 1: as always, it's more of a scenario than a question.
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna be talking about some stir Wars today,
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Speaker 1: some some wars in the stars, as it were. And
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Speaker 1: so my my question to you is that, so imagine
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Speaker 1: you are a a character, not a specific character, but
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Speaker 1: like you inhabit the mythology of Star Wars. Would you
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Speaker 1: be a Jedi, smuggler, bounty hunter, something else? What what
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Speaker 1: kind of rolled you envision yourself playing within Star Wars? So,
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Speaker 1: having played the Old Republic a whole bunch. Um, I
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Speaker 1: think I would probably be a smuggler. They are the
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Speaker 1: funnest they you know, they're the dashing rogues of Star Wars,
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Speaker 1: So that is what I would be. Bounty hunters. They're
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Speaker 1: either a little too evil for me or they're a
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Speaker 1: little too like if you look at Mando, he's he's
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Speaker 1: a bit too upstanding. Um, and Jedi's can be cool,
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Speaker 1: but that whole like living by a code thing. What
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Speaker 1: about you? Um? So I have a joke answer, which
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Speaker 1: is that i'd want to be I'd want to be
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Speaker 1: one of the band members at the Moss Eisley Cantina. Um.
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Speaker 1: I mean list that as an option, Jonathan I said,
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Speaker 1: or something else that includes It's just like with every
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Speaker 1: job description where it says other duties as a signed right,
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Speaker 1: it covers everything. Uh, but yeah, I thought about that.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe gambler like Lando Calrissian is more of a
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Speaker 1: gambler than a smuggler, which I think is kind of
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Speaker 1: a fun and I could be at least as good
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Speaker 1: or bad of a gambler as Lando Calrissian seems to be. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, those are those are the kind of things
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Speaker 1: that I was thinking of. Is like, I agree with you,
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Speaker 1: Like Jedi was something I thought was super cool, But
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Speaker 1: the further we get into the mythology, the more restrictive
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Speaker 1: and sort of twisted the Jedi seem to be. Like
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Speaker 1: part of that is just because you have different people
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Speaker 1: bringing their interpretations into Star Wars, right, But we've had
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Speaker 1: a lot of stories that explore the restrictive nature of
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Speaker 1: the Jedi code and how that in many ways is
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Speaker 1: not a good thing and that it doesn't benefit people
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Speaker 1: very much. And so you then get like these crazy extremes.
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Speaker 1: You've got this very repressed, restrictive Jedi order and then
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Speaker 1: you have the uninhibited and self destructive Sithe and there
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be any middle ground. Um. I know
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Speaker 1: that some of the games have explored that, but like
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Speaker 1: in the Cannon of what is officially Star Wars, there's
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Speaker 1: not a whole lot that deals with that. So for
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Speaker 1: that case, I'm going Gambler, I think, because I think
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Speaker 1: it's it's sort of along the same lines as Smuggler.
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Speaker 1: It's that sort of rakish, rogue ish kind of character
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Speaker 1: that I find really appealing. Yeah, speaking of characters that
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Speaker 1: are kind of more rogueish, let's talk about our first
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Speaker 1: news item. Yeah, so the thing we wanted to chat
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Speaker 1: about is an upcoming animated series that's going to play
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Speaker 1: on Adult Swim and it is blade Runner. It's a
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Speaker 1: it's a new blade Runner uh anime series, blade Runner
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Speaker 1: Black Lotus. And we've learned a little bit about some
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Speaker 1: of the voice actors who are going to be portraying
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Speaker 1: characters in this. We don't know a whole lot about
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Speaker 1: the specifics of the plot, but we know that the
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Speaker 1: series is going to follow a character named l who
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Speaker 1: is a replicant, so that that history is cleared up
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Speaker 1: right away. We know she's yeah, we know she's not
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Speaker 1: gonna have to take the test and figure out whether
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Speaker 1: or not she'd help a turtle that was on its back. Um,
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Speaker 1: So L is play is a replicant who is created
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Speaker 1: for a secret and unknown purpose, played by Jessica Henwick.
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Speaker 1: We know that some interesting actors like Brian Cox is
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Speaker 1: going to be voicing a character he's I mean, when
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Speaker 1: you hear Brian Cox, you're like, oh, clearly he's going
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Speaker 1: to be one of those big business ee, you know,
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Speaker 1: vaguely antagonistic characters. Sure enough, that's who he's playing. A
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Speaker 1: Neander Wallace SR. So Blade Runner. Like if you're not
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Speaker 1: familiar with Blade Runner, the world a Blade Runner. It's
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Speaker 1: set in sort of a um it's an alternate future
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Speaker 1: because the original Blade Runner was set I think in
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Speaker 1: like it was. It's definitely in our past now, but
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Speaker 1: it was this very super corporate, uh, dystopian world not
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Speaker 1: that different from what we have now, except we don't
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Speaker 1: have flying cars and we don't have replicates, and you've
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Speaker 1: got these these replicants that are kind of like, um,
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Speaker 1: a mix between androids and a genetic creation that there
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Speaker 1: they purposefully live very short lifespans and they're meant to
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Speaker 1: do like manual dangerous labor, essentially the stuff that we
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Speaker 1: make robots to do. But they have thoughts and feelings
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Speaker 1: and often have implanted histories in their heads, uh in
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Speaker 1: the Blade Runner series, so that they don't realize the replicants,
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Speaker 1: so that might it kind of sounds a little bit
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Speaker 1: like Westworld if you've watched Westworld, it's a similar kind
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Speaker 1: of a theory, although in Westworld the replicants for the
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Speaker 1: hosts are more thought to be more contained. Um. But uh,
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Speaker 1: Stephen Rude is in it, and he's playing the chief
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Speaker 1: of Police and I know that he plays a bunch
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Speaker 1: of serious characters, but I always picture him from off
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Speaker 1: a space. And if he played the chief of police,
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Speaker 1: like like like Milton, the low mumbling character that I mean,
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Speaker 1: it would not fit at all, I'm sure in the story,
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Speaker 1: but it would be hilarious and I'd be all there
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Speaker 1: for it. Have you have you seen Buster Scrugs? The
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Speaker 1: Ballad of Buster Scrugs? Not yet. I watched like five
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Speaker 1: minutes of it, but I need to sit. And he's
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Speaker 1: in He's in one of the vignettes and that, and
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Speaker 1: it's another one of those I mean, it's a Cohen
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Speaker 1: Brothers film, right, so it's and he's been in some
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Speaker 1: Cohen brother stuff. It's it's another um, very quirky character
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Speaker 1: and like and he plays in that one. He's a
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Speaker 1: he's a bank teller essentially in the Old West. But
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Speaker 1: he does some guns slinging a little bit in that.
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Speaker 1: And so I immediately went to that character, which again
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Speaker 1: would have not fit into the Blade Runner universe at all,
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Speaker 1: but would be really entertaining. It would be really entertaining.
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Speaker 1: That being said, he's a very versatile actor. Yes, I
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Speaker 1: think that's why some of his more quirky characters stick
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Speaker 1: out to me is just because he is so versatile,
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Speaker 1: he's phenomenal. And Barry, he's absolutely amazing in that series.
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Speaker 1: Barry is such a fun show and it's great. It's
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Speaker 1: one of the best. Like, I didn't know I was
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Speaker 1: going to enjoy it so much until I started watching
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Speaker 1: it and I thought, Wow, this is a uh this
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Speaker 1: is a very dark but very funny show. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: it hits a little close to home at times for
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Speaker 1: me as an actor. Yeah, there's some actor stuff in
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Speaker 1: it that does it rings very true. But yes, this
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Speaker 1: series looks like it's going to be really interesting. There's
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Speaker 1: actually all the all the parts are are most of
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Speaker 1: the parts anyway, are double cast because they have a
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Speaker 1: Japanese cast as well. I think one of the characters
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Speaker 1: might be played by by a single actor who might
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Speaker 1: be fluent in both, but most of them are are
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Speaker 1: obviously played by two different actors who are providing either
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Speaker 1: the English or the Japanese language versions of that. And Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to seeing it. We don't have
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Speaker 1: details on when it's coming out. It just says that
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Speaker 1: it's going to be airing on Adult Swim Swim and
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Speaker 1: also crunchy role later this year. Yeah, yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's not often that adults swim has something that really
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Speaker 1: grabs me, but I think I will definitely take some
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Speaker 1: time to check this one out. Something else that I'm
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Speaker 1: going to take time to check out once we finally
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Speaker 1: get it, regardless of what the details are on. It
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Speaker 1: is the new series that Jamaine Clement and Tycho Edhiti
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Speaker 1: are working on, which we have little to know details
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Speaker 1: about other than it's going to be kind of action
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Speaker 1: adventury comedy, and I'm just I love what they do.
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Speaker 1: I love what we do in the Shadows, And I
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Speaker 1: guess we haven't gotten Wellington's Paranormal yet. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: watch that one as well. Yeah, so, so of course
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Speaker 1: what we do in the Shadows, in case you're not familiar,
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Speaker 1: is it's done in the documentary style but follows the
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Speaker 1: misadventures of vampires and sort of the the trials and
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Speaker 1: tribulations they go through having a vampiric existence, and it's
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Speaker 1: very silly. Uh, it's it's The movie is fantastic in
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Speaker 1: the series really really expands upon it in a very
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Speaker 1: fun way. So highly recommend those. But yeah, and of
10:18
Speaker 1: course Tayko what TV. He's made a huge name for
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Speaker 1: himself directing films in the m C. You you know
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Speaker 1: he did He did Thor, Ragnarok. He's doing Love and
10:27
Speaker 1: Thunder the next Thor movie. Yeah, and Jo Rabbit, which
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Speaker 1: was a phenomenal movie Jojo Rabbit, Yes, and a difficult
10:35
Speaker 1: movie to sell to people when you tell them the premise,
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Speaker 1: but yes, it is is an amazing movie. And Jermaine Clement,
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Speaker 1: of course, obviously a brilliant comedian and musician as well
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Speaker 1: part of Flight of the Conchords, has done a huge
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Speaker 1: amount of work that a lot of it I think
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Speaker 1: is under seen. There's a lot of stuff he's done
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Speaker 1: that I don't think America and audiences have really seen. Well,
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Speaker 1: he was in Legion, and he was he was a
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Speaker 1: serious character in that bizarre but serious character because I
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Speaker 1: raised Bizarre and Legion, but just brilliant. I had only
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Speaker 1: seen his comedy up to that point. But yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: very multi talented. Yeah, it makes me sick, but we're
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Speaker 1: going to We're going to get some sort of action
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Speaker 1: adventure comedy. But as we say, there's not really any
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Speaker 1: more detail about that to me. When I hear action
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Speaker 1: adventure comedy. My thoughts go back to some earlier shows.
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Speaker 1: Like I was telling Ariel before the recording, it reminds
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Speaker 1: me I would describe Wizards and Warriors as it was
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Speaker 1: more of like a fantasy action comedy series. But it
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Speaker 1: was the sort of thing that kind of later evolved
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Speaker 1: into stuff like Hercules and Zena and The Adventures of
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Speaker 1: Briscoe County Jr. And like these shows that did seem
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Speaker 1: to try and pair comedy with action. Uh two different degrees, right.
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Speaker 1: Some of those series were less comedic than others, but
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Speaker 1: they all had elements of comedy, sometimes like Zaney, like
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Speaker 1: corny comedy, and and some of them were not intending
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Speaker 1: to be quite as comedic as they were. I mean,
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Speaker 1: look at Karl Urban playing Cupid in Xena, Like they
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Speaker 1: probably probably didn't mean for it to be quite as
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Speaker 1: humorous as it was, especially now. But it's interesting because
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Speaker 1: I feel like this is a niche that really hasn't
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Speaker 1: been filled, Like there there are series out there. First
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Speaker 1: of all, I don't think there's that many action adventure
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Speaker 1: series out there. Everything's like procedurals and stuff, right, you
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Speaker 1: don't get a lot of action adventure stuff anymore at
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Speaker 1: least not in TV, so that that I'm really excited
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Speaker 1: to see, Like I wanna kind of find out what
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Speaker 1: their vision is for that sort of thing. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be hilarious whatever it is, so I am
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Speaker 1: I am eagerly anticipating that, even though we have next
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Speaker 1: to no information about it. Yeah, yeah, equally hilarious. The
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Speaker 1: new Aliens television show Alien Television. Yeah, Alien, It's it's ah.
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Speaker 1: So it follows Alien, a xenomorph who's in New York
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Speaker 1: City as a stand up comedian. He has a wacky
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Speaker 1: neighbor named Kramer, and uh, there's a lane and no,
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Speaker 1: now this is this is a series that Noah Holly
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Speaker 1: has been working on for u f X, and it's
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Speaker 1: going to take place on Earth. So a very different
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Speaker 1: approach to what we've see in the Alien films, which
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Speaker 1: are almost always taking place in like a spaceship or
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Speaker 1: a deserted lunar lunar colony, that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, Fargo and Legion are both a little bit
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Speaker 1: surreal um and if they can lean a bit more
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Speaker 1: on that surreal nous in this television show as opposed
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Speaker 1: to the last Alien movie, I think I've talked about
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Speaker 1: this plenty of times before on this podcast. Just the
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Speaker 1: the further into the Alien franchise we get, the more gruesome.
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Speaker 1: It gets to the point where I couldn't even watch
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Speaker 1: the most recent movie. Um, but hopefully this TV show
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Speaker 1: will pull back a little bit on the gruesome. Uh,
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Speaker 1: because they're really focusing on it seems like Wayland Utani,
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Speaker 1: who is the evil corporation that's trying to weaponize the xenomorphs? Yes,
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Speaker 1: and this is the company that first of all, was
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Speaker 1: in charge of sending the Nostromo out in the first place,
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Speaker 1: and then in Aliens, that really turns into like the
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Speaker 1: evil company, right because it becomes clear that that's when
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Speaker 1: they are really actively trying to go after the alien
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Speaker 1: without actually revealing to the rest of the human population
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Speaker 1: that there are these xenomorphs. Like the idea being like,
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Speaker 1: there's this incredibly dangerous thing. We want it, but we
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Speaker 1: don't want anyone to know that we know about it,
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Speaker 1: So we're just gonna send people out there and hope
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Speaker 1: for the best, and then when they die, well and
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Speaker 1: more of them. Yeah. Yeah, Um, So I don't think
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this as much as I Am
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Speaker 1: to the next Tycho and TD Chermain Clement show. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: What I thought was interesting is that we you know,
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Speaker 1: we talked about Blade Runner and then we're talking about
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Speaker 1: Alien Obviously, both of those, both of those, uh, those
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Speaker 1: those franchises or whatever have as part of the story
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Speaker 1: the giant corporations that are uh a moral right. They're
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Speaker 1: not they're not necessarily evil, but they're a moral so
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Speaker 1: they don't have any consideration for ethics or morality. And
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a pretty common theme and a lot
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Speaker 1: of science fiction, but I just feel like, wow, it's
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Speaker 1: interesting that this keeps coming up. It's also in the
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Speaker 1: same climate, obviously as one where more and more people
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Speaker 1: are questioning, um, the why we have billionaires and why
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Speaker 1: we allow them allow them to continue to accumulate the
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Speaker 1: enormous amounts of wealth. It kind of I think it
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Speaker 1: shows the certain types of concerns that rise to the top.
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Speaker 1: Right that's when we start to see it reflected in
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Speaker 1: science fiction. And it just feels like that's part of
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Speaker 1: the we're coming back into that kind of cycle. Yeah, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I look forward to that because that'll be a
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Speaker 1: nice um balance with just straight up monster show, monster
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Speaker 1: scary Monster Show. Um, I like alien I like Aliens.
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Speaker 1: I will definitely give this shot. Um, we'll see how
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Speaker 1: far we get into it. Yeah, and then for our
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Speaker 1: last couple of stories, we're gonna turn over to the
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Speaker 1: Star Wars. As we were talking about before, we got
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Speaker 1: to see a a kind of teaser for the Star
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Speaker 1: Wars anime series that's coming out, where this was a
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Speaker 1: pretty phenomenal thing where Disney essentially has partnered with all
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Speaker 1: these different anime students and from what I understand, gave
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Speaker 1: these studios like Carte Blanche to do whatever they want
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Speaker 1: with the Star Wars you know, mythology and to and
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Speaker 1: to kind of realize it in their own styles. So
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Speaker 1: we're getting like true enemy renditions of Star Wars iconography
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Speaker 1: and ideas. And it's not gonna be cannon. It's not
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Speaker 1: like it's going to be incorporated into the Star Wars cannon.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, it sounds to me like
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Speaker 1: there were very few restrictions placed, which is phenomenal when
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Speaker 1: you're talking about something with I P as famous as
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Speaker 1: Star Wars. Yeah. I think it's such a smart decision too, because,
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Speaker 1: like everybody knows about, you know, the main Star Wars
17:45
Speaker 1: movies the main six to nine, three to nine, depending
17:51
Speaker 1: on depending on hell grout to you are, depending on
17:54
Speaker 1: how grad you are, Jonathan, But sometimes I just go
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Speaker 1: in two and a half. But okay, two and a half, fine,
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Speaker 1: I'll I'll accept that. But there's such a like a
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Speaker 1: rich world in the comics, in the book series around
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Speaker 1: Star Wars that I think it's really smart too explore
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Speaker 1: some of that, give some of those characters and ideas
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Speaker 1: and civilizations and and such some more thought in, some
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Speaker 1: some more spotlighting. Because even though this isn't necessarily going
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Speaker 1: to be canon, let's say, Tattooing Rhapsody really takes off
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Speaker 1: and everybody loves it, there's nothing saying they can't expand
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Speaker 1: on that as one of their future stories now that
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Speaker 1: we're done with the Skywalkers hopefully um well. And and
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Speaker 1: and also it's interesting because it's again I'm talking a
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Speaker 1: lot about cycles in this episode, but this comes full
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Speaker 1: circle in that Star Wars is a series that was
18:50
Speaker 1: in part inspired by the work of Kura Sawa, for example,
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Speaker 1: And so now we're seeing this this science fiction antsy
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Speaker 1: series that has as part of its genetic heritage this
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Speaker 1: cinematic history from Japan and now we're seeing a modern
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Speaker 1: Japanese take on the Star Wars mythology. So it's not
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Speaker 1: like it's out of place like it. It feels like
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Speaker 1: it's coming home in a way. Yeah, yeah, I will say.
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Speaker 1: The interesting thing to me, like the most interesting thing
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Speaker 1: is when they initially announced visions, I was expecting something
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Speaker 1: like Memories or The Animatrix that had super diverse art styles,
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Speaker 1: which is not necessarily a good or a bad thing.
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Speaker 1: That's just what I was picturing. It looks like a
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Speaker 1: lot of these are a lot more um mainstream anime styles.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't make me any less excited for it. A
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Speaker 1: couple of them do look a little more stylized or
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Speaker 1: a little more cartoony than others. But yeah, I see
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Speaker 1: what you're saying. Yeah, But like I said, that's not
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Speaker 1: like a negative or a positive. It's just it's something
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Speaker 1: interesting that they announced this thing and my brain immediately
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Speaker 1: went to this like super art how style of anthology,
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Speaker 1: and instead it's it's um, you know, a little bit
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Speaker 1: more mainstream, which I think is good to bring people
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Speaker 1: into it who maybe wouldn't normally watch anime or a
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Speaker 1: Star Wars cartoon. One of the other properties that's already
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Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, so this will be coming to Disney
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Speaker 1: Plus later and I look forward to seeing it. And
20:21
Speaker 1: then our last story is what if what if you were,
20:25
Speaker 1: you know, a famous director and you really wanted to
20:27
Speaker 1: make a Star Wars movie and they told you know,
20:30
Speaker 1: so you decided to go and make a not Star
20:33
Speaker 1: Wars movie that's kind of a Star Wars movie, but
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Speaker 1: it's not a Star Wars movie. Um. And also was
20:40
Speaker 1: again kind of inspired by Kura Sawa. Well, then that
20:43
Speaker 1: would mean you are Zack Snyder. Yes, So apparently years
20:47
Speaker 1: ago he made a mature he wrote a mature Star
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Speaker 1: Wars movie and Lucasfilmson thank you, um or something to
20:55
Speaker 1: that effect. I'm paraphrasing. And now he's making a movie
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Speaker 1: in inspired by Star Wars and Cure Car Sawa for Netflix,
21:05
Speaker 1: which you know, Netflix is really good banking on popular properties,
21:09
Speaker 1: so not you know, it's not a bad thing. Some
21:12
Speaker 1: people really like that and they've come out with some
21:15
Speaker 1: very good stuff because of that. But yeah, so he's
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Speaker 1: going to be making a movie for them that is
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Speaker 1: called Rebel Moon. Yes. Can I can read that little
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Speaker 1: quick description that was in the A V Club article?
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Speaker 1: You certainly can this is this is a short one
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Speaker 1: and by the way, that a VY We'll we'll have
21:33
Speaker 1: a link to the article in our show notes, but
21:35
Speaker 1: that a V Club article, a little bit salty. Oh
21:38
Speaker 1: I love it, I love it so much. But here's
21:40
Speaker 1: the little description because it made me immediately think of
21:43
Speaker 1: a different movie besides Star Wars, which is the story
21:46
Speaker 1: is set in motion when a peaceful colony on the
21:48
Speaker 1: edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of
21:50
Speaker 1: a tyrannical region named ballast Sarious totally not Balpatine. Desperate
21:57
Speaker 1: people dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to
22:00
Speaker 1: seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them make
22:03
Speaker 1: a stand arial. Does this remind you of any other,
22:06
Speaker 1: like really super cheesy nties era science fiction film that
22:11
Speaker 1: we actually covered in a video episode of large Enner
22:14
Speaker 1: Treadclator years ago. You mean the bat Will Beyond the Star? Exactly?
22:18
Speaker 1: It is Battle Beyond This is Battle Beyond the Stars.
22:21
Speaker 1: If this if this Rebel Moon movie, which I get
22:24
Speaker 1: is supposed to be like a grim, mature take on
22:28
Speaker 1: on the sort of stuff you would have seen in
22:30
Speaker 1: Star Wars, But it's totally not Star Wars. Don't think
22:32
Speaker 1: it's Star Wars. Call it's not Star Wars. But if
22:35
Speaker 1: there are not, if they're not like twins that are
22:40
Speaker 1: eating hot dogs and like and like in a space
22:43
Speaker 1: cowboy and a valkyrie wearing almost no costume whatsoever, I
22:48
Speaker 1: am going to be really disappointed in this movie. You know.
22:54
Speaker 1: I am interested to see what blaster bolts and lightsabers
22:58
Speaker 1: look like in gray scale. Uh. Two shots fired at
23:04
Speaker 1: Zack Snyder's palette choice. Okay, I'm just you know, I'm
23:08
Speaker 1: like a stormtrooper I always miss So it's fine. But
23:12
Speaker 1: it's being written. He's co writing it with Shayhattan, who
23:16
Speaker 1: did Army the Dead, and Kurt Johnson, who did Three
23:18
Speaker 1: hundred Um, which were some of the things that I
23:21
Speaker 1: liked better from him. Okay, fair enough. Zack Snyder is
23:25
Speaker 1: all about the visuals, and I feel like space and
23:28
Speaker 1: sci fi is a great place to put in pretty visuals.
23:33
Speaker 1: So maybe it'll be awesome. I'm sure it's gonna look great.
23:36
Speaker 1: I also feel like there will be absolutely no humanity
23:38
Speaker 1: in it. But I feel like that because Zack Snyder
23:41
Speaker 1: has time and time again created like I I have.
23:46
Speaker 1: I have often mentioned that I feel like Zack snyder
23:48
Speaker 1: movies feel more like a kid playing with action figures
23:51
Speaker 1: and smashing them together than it does actual characters with
23:56
Speaker 1: like feelings and stuff. He's Zack Snyder doesn't typically do feelings.
24:02
Speaker 1: He does like iconic characters that again, uh, smash each
24:08
Speaker 1: other as hard as they possibly can, for as long
24:10
Speaker 1: as they possibly can. I mean, he does some feelings,
24:15
Speaker 1: but they're usually very everybody's faulty. Yeah, well, like like
24:20
Speaker 1: you know, I could just say two words and just
24:22
Speaker 1: set you off. I could just say sucker punch and
24:25
Speaker 1: we could just see you go. But there are feelings
24:29
Speaker 1: in that Mine just didn't match up with the movie.
24:36
Speaker 1: I don't want to Panzack Snyder too hard. They're like,
24:38
Speaker 1: there are some things I think are very cool about
24:40
Speaker 1: his directing and art style. I just I definitely I
24:44
Speaker 1: feel like like Zack Snyder falls into a category, not
24:48
Speaker 1: that their styles are similar, but he falls into a
24:50
Speaker 1: category that reminds me of people like Michael Bay. And
24:53
Speaker 1: these are directors who can create really captivating visuals and
25:00
Speaker 1: really interesting action sequences, but I feel like everything around
25:05
Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't work for me, or it just
25:09
Speaker 1: doesn't hold very much humanity. Or like there's nothing for
25:14
Speaker 1: me to connect to emotionally, So there's at least it's
25:17
Speaker 1: a side of humanity that's not as pleasant to connect to. Yeah,
25:21
Speaker 1: that's probab, It's probably a good way of putting it.
25:23
Speaker 1: So anyway, while I'm slagging off on Zack Snyder, I'm
25:27
Speaker 1: not nearly doing it to the level that the A V.
25:29
Speaker 1: Club did. And uh and and to be fair, like,
25:33
Speaker 1: maybe this will come out and I will completely eat
25:36
Speaker 1: my words and I'll say like, Wow, this was just
25:38
Speaker 1: a truly phenomenal piece of science fiction. So I don't
25:43
Speaker 1: want to pass judgment on something before it comes out.
25:45
Speaker 1: That's totally not fair. And you know, you can't judge
25:48
Speaker 1: everything based upon the stuff that came before it. You
25:52
Speaker 1: could always be surprised. Yeah, well, how about we uh
25:57
Speaker 1: look at some stuff that has come out in the
25:59
Speaker 1: past that we both really do like Right after this break,
26:15
Speaker 1: We're going to start off this discussion with you know,
26:18
Speaker 1: a little bit of sad news first, which is that
26:21
Speaker 1: over the last week since our last episode, famed movie
26:25
Speaker 1: director Richard Donner passed away. Uh. He had lived a
26:30
Speaker 1: very full and long life. He was ninety one when
26:33
Speaker 1: he passed away. He had not directed a film since
26:37
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, so it had been a while
26:40
Speaker 1: since he had actually directed a movie. But he he
26:43
Speaker 1: was involved in a lot of of works in films
26:46
Speaker 1: and stuff over the years, and also series, some of
26:50
Speaker 1: which he would be removed from. But yes, yeah, we
26:55
Speaker 1: wanted to chat a bit about some of his working
26:57
Speaker 1: and the impact that it's had on us. Well. Well,
27:01
Speaker 1: first I want to say that one of his works
27:04
Speaker 1: is Lethal Weapon. And the only reason I'm saying that
27:06
Speaker 1: is because you said he hadn't directed anything in years.
27:08
Speaker 1: He had plans to come back to the Lethal Weapon
27:10
Speaker 1: franchise last year and then pandemic Um, so he was
27:17
Speaker 1: actually gonna jump back in recently. I said, he didn't.
27:21
Speaker 1: I really like the Lethal Weapon franchise. But when when
27:24
Speaker 1: you look at some of the movies that that he directed,
27:27
Speaker 1: it's interesting because they have they span a lot of
27:29
Speaker 1: different genres, right, So, like one of my favorite films
27:34
Speaker 1: came out in the Superman movie with you know, Christopher
27:39
Speaker 1: Reeve in it and and Richard Daughter directed that. He
27:43
Speaker 1: also directed or he started to direct Superman too, and
27:48
Speaker 1: then there was a whole studio issue that he got
27:51
Speaker 1: removed from that film. But he did Superman, and Superman
27:55
Speaker 1: is such an earnest and corny movie. Like if you
27:58
Speaker 1: go and watch that original Superman film, well I say
28:01
Speaker 1: original that Superman film, it is cornball. It is incredibly sincere.
28:11
Speaker 1: But to me, that's what makes it work. Like Superman
28:13
Speaker 1: is a difficult character to make interesting because he he's
28:18
Speaker 1: kind of flawless. It's sort of like Captain America. It's
28:22
Speaker 1: a character who's who doesn't really have any flaws, so
28:24
Speaker 1: it makes it hard to make an interesting film about them.
28:26
Speaker 1: But when you go with that sort of corny and
28:31
Speaker 1: earnest approach, it just becomes very charming. And Reeves was
28:36
Speaker 1: amazing as the as as Superman. You had Gene Hackman
28:41
Speaker 1: as Lex Luthor. You know, it was an engaging movie,
28:45
Speaker 1: and of course you had the John Williams score, which
28:47
Speaker 1: really brought it all together. That to me is one
28:50
Speaker 1: of those iconic films that they inspired within me a
28:54
Speaker 1: love of genre, uh, storytelling and films. I mean it is.
29:00
Speaker 1: It's one of the first superhero movies I remember ever watching,
29:04
Speaker 1: and you're right, it was very earnest and sincere, and
29:07
Speaker 1: it balanced the humor with the super with the romance,
29:10
Speaker 1: so very well that as a child, I loved it,
29:13
Speaker 1: and then going back and watching it as an adult.
29:14
Speaker 1: Even though it is a little cornball, as you said,
29:16
Speaker 1: and even though some of the effects don't necessarily stand up,
29:20
Speaker 1: it just it holds up for me. It has one
29:23
Speaker 1: of the it is so touching. It has one of
29:25
Speaker 1: the best visual gags of a Superman movie ever, where
29:29
Speaker 1: Clark Kent needs to change into Superman and the famous
29:33
Speaker 1: images Clark Kent jumping into a phone booth and changing
29:37
Speaker 1: from Clark Kent to Superman and then coming out of
29:39
Speaker 1: the phone booth of Superman. But he comes by a
29:43
Speaker 1: not a phone booth, but so back in the day,
29:45
Speaker 1: we used to have these public telephones that were on
29:47
Speaker 1: like stands that were in like a had a little
29:50
Speaker 1: dividers up, but it wasn't a full booth, right, And
29:52
Speaker 1: he just stops and gives it a quick like double
29:55
Speaker 1: take as he looks it up and down and realized like, no,
29:59
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work, and then moves on to find
30:01
Speaker 1: a place where you can change. It's just such a
30:03
Speaker 1: it's it. I mean, obviously I'm describing a visual gag,
30:06
Speaker 1: which is the dumbest thing you can do. It's like
30:08
Speaker 1: reading out the comic strip. But it's one of those
30:10
Speaker 1: moments that just works. Uh. He also directed one of
30:16
Speaker 1: the few fantasy films from the nineteen eighties I thought
30:20
Speaker 1: really worked, which is Lady Oh. Okay. I was thinking
30:25
Speaker 1: you're going to talk about like Goonies or Scrooged. Well,
30:29
Speaker 1: Lady Hawk was a lot of fun. Yeah. I don't
30:30
Speaker 1: think of Goonies or Scrooged as a fan as I
30:33
Speaker 1: either of those as fantasy movies. Lady Hawk was definitely
30:36
Speaker 1: fancy film. Matthew Broderick, Rutger Howard, Michelle Peiffer um really
30:43
Speaker 1: an interesting fantasy movie that I saw in the theater
30:47
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, Like I went to that
30:50
Speaker 1: movie when it opened up, and I think it still
30:54
Speaker 1: holds up. It's still it's a really interesting fantasy love story.
30:59
Speaker 1: And even though Matthew Roderick hasn't has one of those
31:03
Speaker 1: accents that kind of sort of hovers around English and
31:06
Speaker 1: then goes away. Even because even though there's that, it's
31:11
Speaker 1: still it's really an engaging movie. Yeah. Well, I mean, plus,
31:15
Speaker 1: you have a love for anything like medieval Renaissance stories
31:20
Speaker 1: and Rutger Howard Man he's just amazing and you know,
31:24
Speaker 1: here was Rugger Howard playing a heroic character. He's he's
31:28
Speaker 1: a heroic character with an edge because he's he's damaged.
31:32
Speaker 1: He's an emotionally damaged character. But this was sort of
31:37
Speaker 1: like if you look at him in Blade Runner, where
31:40
Speaker 1: he's a damaged character who's an antagonist. Here he was
31:44
Speaker 1: a damaged character who's a protagonist. It's almost like two
31:47
Speaker 1: sides of the same coin. And and it's a great performance.
31:53
Speaker 1: Do you do you want me to make you really sad? John? Okay? So,
31:57
Speaker 1: Rugger Howard, even though I've seen Blade Round and I
32:00
Speaker 1: think I saw it before. What I'm about to mention
32:02
Speaker 1: the first thing I remember knowing him from and recognizing
32:07
Speaker 1: him and going, oh who is that? Oh his name
32:10
Speaker 1: is Ryger Howard was ten Kingdom the two thousand's really
32:16
Speaker 1: long mini series. Yeah, and and uh O'Neil is that
32:23
Speaker 1: his name? Oh yeah, yeah he where he played the
32:27
Speaker 1: troll I think yeah, he played the lead troll daddy.
32:33
Speaker 1: It just sounds wrong to say, why did you say
32:35
Speaker 1: it that way? We're gonna clip that that's gonna be
32:40
Speaker 1: troll daddy, troll daddy. Uh so like which I actually
32:45
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that mini series. But that's that's the first
32:47
Speaker 1: thing I remember recognizing Rudger Howard so well. Yeah, Lady
32:52
Speaker 1: Hawk is one of those those films that if you
32:55
Speaker 1: have never seen it, uh, you should check it out.
32:58
Speaker 1: It is no granted, it's from the eighties. The effects
33:02
Speaker 1: are very dated, the music is bizarre like, it's very
33:06
Speaker 1: new age with lots of synthesizers, um the like it.
33:13
Speaker 1: It definitely is a product of its time. But it
33:17
Speaker 1: again was one of those fantasy films from the eighties
33:21
Speaker 1: that I thought actually worked. There were only a handful
33:23
Speaker 1: of fantasy movies that came across as anything more than
33:27
Speaker 1: just like super cheap sets and like like most of
33:31
Speaker 1: the eighties fantasy films were like b movies, this was
33:34
Speaker 1: not uh. He also did the Goonies, Like you pointed
33:37
Speaker 1: out a movie that's very divisive. Now, yes, yes, it's
33:44
Speaker 1: it's you either watched it as a kid and loved
33:45
Speaker 1: it or you can't. You don't know, Um did you
33:49
Speaker 1: hear about? What? Did you hear about? What he and
33:51
Speaker 1: his wife did for the The actor who played Chunk,
33:56
Speaker 1: I didn't know so um so Chunk was the be
34:00
Speaker 1: kid right in in the Goonies who was made to
34:02
Speaker 1: do the truffle shuffle and all that kind of stuff. So, uh,
34:07
Speaker 1: when when he was getting older, like he wasn't able
34:10
Speaker 1: to get more roles really after a little while, and
34:14
Speaker 1: and so he was deciding he was going to go
34:16
Speaker 1: and go to college. And he asked Richard Donner if
34:20
Speaker 1: Richard would be willing to write a letter of recommendation
34:24
Speaker 1: when he was applying to school, and uh, Donna said, yeah, kid,
34:29
Speaker 1: let's have a meeting and we'll talk about what you
34:30
Speaker 1: want me to say. And they had a meeting and
34:33
Speaker 1: the actor told Donna all about his background and the
34:38
Speaker 1: struggles he had and all this kind of stuff. Donna
34:41
Speaker 1: and his wife paid for his tuition for him to
34:45
Speaker 1: go to college. He ended up becoming an entertainment lawyer.
34:48
Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, that was a really sweet story.
34:53
Speaker 1: It is and you know, like I know that there
34:54
Speaker 1: are some problematic things and Goonies it like, you know,
34:58
Speaker 1: Chunk kind of being pigeonholed. Yeah, well yeah, yeah, well
35:02
Speaker 1: and there's no yeah, there's name is not Chunk. There's
35:07
Speaker 1: tons of um, there's tons of problematic stuff in Gooon.
35:10
Speaker 1: He's like, you have a the data character is that's
35:15
Speaker 1: an issue, right, Like there's a again, it was a
35:18
Speaker 1: product of its time, not to excuse it, but rather
35:21
Speaker 1: to say, like to give it, contextualize it, to say
35:24
Speaker 1: like this was an era where that level of care
35:28
Speaker 1: and thought and empathy just did not exist in Hollywood
35:32
Speaker 1: and that that was a bad thing. So that's something
35:36
Speaker 1: to keep in mine, you know. But he went from
35:39
Speaker 1: Superman and Goonies to lethal Weapon as I mentioned earlier,
35:43
Speaker 1: and scrooged. But he also did some some horror which
35:47
Speaker 1: I didn't know, so I wasn't aware that he worked
35:50
Speaker 1: on Tales from the Crypt, which gave me nightmares as
35:52
Speaker 1: a child. And I have never seen the Omens. So yeah,
35:56
Speaker 1: the Omen that's one of those, um, you know, creepy movies. Uh, definitely,
36:04
Speaker 1: definitely one of those that is worth checking out. He
36:07
Speaker 1: was going to be a producer on a sequel to
36:11
Speaker 1: The Goonies, which I have no idea that is even
36:14
Speaker 1: still a thing that's going to happen. Um. He also,
36:19
Speaker 1: you know, has worked in some regard with lots of
36:23
Speaker 1: other elements that people would recognize. Um, And like it's
36:30
Speaker 1: it's it's it's he lived to be ninety one, so
36:35
Speaker 1: it's not that his his departure was a shock or
36:39
Speaker 1: anything along those lines, but more that it really allowed
36:43
Speaker 1: us a chance to reflect on his body of work
36:46
Speaker 1: and kind of appreciate sort of the things that he did. Yeah,
36:51
Speaker 1: because he was so varied in the stories that he
36:54
Speaker 1: put out, in the styles that he put out, um
36:58
Speaker 1: and and just he made worries that, regardless of whether
37:03
Speaker 1: they're for their error or their time, they last. Like
37:05
Speaker 1: people still know about the Goonies, people still know about
37:08
Speaker 1: Lethal Weapon, people still know about Scrooged and Superman. So
37:12
Speaker 1: you know, there are certain movies that just get made
37:14
Speaker 1: and they're they're impressive for a while and then people
37:17
Speaker 1: forget about them. But his his works have endured, and
37:20
Speaker 1: that's really impressive. And uh, you know, are we salute
37:25
Speaker 1: you Richard Donner, you know, godspeed, fair Winds and following
37:29
Speaker 1: season all that, and thank you for the work you did,
37:33
Speaker 1: because there's some really cool stuff. I mean, if nothing else,
37:37
Speaker 1: if nothing else, we got Cindy Lauper's The Goonies Are
37:42
Speaker 1: Good Enough music video, which is truly brilliant. I mean,
37:46
Speaker 1: you know, you bring in bringing professional wrestlers to pretend
37:50
Speaker 1: like their actors and Chase Cindy Lauper around, you're guaranteed
37:54
Speaker 1: to have a masterpiece. I feel like you're biased there,
37:58
Speaker 1: I might be. I also I also genuinely love that song.
38:02
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a fun song. But if you
38:04
Speaker 1: put like I could put, I could put professional wrestlers
38:07
Speaker 1: into Sucker Punch, you'd probably like it. So, okay, let's
38:12
Speaker 1: let's not throw, let's not throw through through hands here. Okay,
38:15
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna take a break. When we come back,
38:18
Speaker 1: we're going to mash up do things that never ever
38:21
Speaker 1: ever should be mashed up together and find out what happens.
38:41
Speaker 1: So things that should never ever be mashed up together,
38:44
Speaker 1: but we do. That has been our theme for the
38:46
Speaker 1: past few weeks, hasn't it. Yeah, well, I mean, to
38:49
Speaker 1: be fair, like, mash ups are a lot more fun
38:51
Speaker 1: if you take two things that are very much unrelated
38:55
Speaker 1: and try to make them work, as opposed to, oh,
38:59
Speaker 1: let's take these two things that are similar and make them,
39:02
Speaker 1: you know, mash them up together. Well, I mean they're
39:05
Speaker 1: similar than you just end up with Zack Snyder's version
39:07
Speaker 1: of a not a Star Wars movie. Yeah, yeah, So
39:11
Speaker 1: this time we're taking a couple of our our new stories.
39:15
Speaker 1: We're actually staying true to our news stories, and we
39:17
Speaker 1: are mashing up alien something from the Alien universe and
39:24
Speaker 1: something from the Star Wars. Yes, the best thing from
39:27
Speaker 1: the Star Wars which walks. And now that I'm thinking
39:31
Speaker 1: about it, I would have been an e walk. I
39:34
Speaker 1: would be wicket yub nub. So now I I specifically
39:41
Speaker 1: had mentioned to Ariel when we were figuring out what
39:43
Speaker 1: we're going to mash up, I said, the e Walk movie.
39:47
Speaker 1: So for those of you out there who there are
39:49
Speaker 1: two of them, there are two of them. The second
39:52
Speaker 1: one is it starts in a way that completely invalidates
39:56
Speaker 1: the entirety of the first one. So for those who
40:00
Speaker 1: are blissfully unaware that there were two Ewok movies in
40:04
Speaker 1: the mid eighties, after Return of the Jedi came out,
40:08
Speaker 1: and obviously the Walks were a boon for toy sales,
40:14
Speaker 1: like that was I mean, by that time Star Wars
40:16
Speaker 1: had become a true merchandise machine. It wasn't that way
40:20
Speaker 1: with the first movie, at least not originally. But once
40:23
Speaker 1: that once that started rolling man did Lucas ride that right?
40:28
Speaker 1: So e Walks were a big hit. So they decided
40:31
Speaker 1: to make a couple of what we're made for TV
40:33
Speaker 1: movies here in the United States. They did get apparently
40:36
Speaker 1: a limited theatrical release in other parts of the world.
40:38
Speaker 1: And um, the first one involved a family that gets
40:42
Speaker 1: i think stranded on indoor and they end up encountering
40:46
Speaker 1: the e Walks and they are trying to to survive
40:50
Speaker 1: various dangers in that. The second one starts off with
40:54
Speaker 1: everyone in that family, with the exception of the little
40:57
Speaker 1: girl getting slaughtered. So the family that you were following
41:02
Speaker 1: and rooting for in the first movie gets almost completely
41:07
Speaker 1: wiped out in the second one at the beginning of
41:09
Speaker 1: the second one. But anyway, it was really more of
41:12
Speaker 1: an excuse to have more e walk so that you
41:14
Speaker 1: can have more twice. Yeah, I mean the girl the
41:17
Speaker 1: girl did stick. Sindal was in both of them. Um,
41:20
Speaker 1: And we already kind of talked about aliens. You know,
41:22
Speaker 1: there's there's these like primordial parasitic monsters aliens doing what
41:30
Speaker 1: they do, and there's an evil corporation that tries to
41:32
Speaker 1: weaponize them and then they run them up because they're
41:35
Speaker 1: really powerful and have survived since the dawn of time
41:39
Speaker 1: and spaceships and it's really scary. The first movie is
41:42
Speaker 1: a horror. The second movie is kind of a sci
41:44
Speaker 1: fi adventure but also scary, and then it goes downhill
41:49
Speaker 1: from there. Yes, Like the first two films are are masterpieces,
41:54
Speaker 1: and they are so different, right. The first one is
41:57
Speaker 1: this very atmospheric, oppressive, scary horror movie by Ridley Scott.
42:02
Speaker 1: The second one still has some scary elements but is
42:05
Speaker 1: more of an action movie like and it's that one's
42:09
Speaker 1: by James Cameron. So it's interesting that they can be
42:12
Speaker 1: so different and yet they feel like they belong in
42:15
Speaker 1: the same universe. It's just different stories and different settings. Yeah,
42:20
Speaker 1: and something we forgot to mention earlier, but AI also
42:24
Speaker 1: plays kind of possibly villainous role in the stories as well,
42:29
Speaker 1: but it's so overshadowed for me by the actual aliens
42:34
Speaker 1: and that creepy grotest because the Androids, the Androids and
42:37
Speaker 1: the Alien series, they're made by the corporation that's sending
42:41
Speaker 1: people out. So you whenever there's an android, you immediately
42:45
Speaker 1: question that androids motivations, right, You immediately assume this android
42:50
Speaker 1: is specifically there to fulfill the the mission for the corporation,
42:57
Speaker 1: whether that ends up slaughtering everybody else or not. Up yeah. Yeah. So.
43:03
Speaker 1: Uh that being said, let's take these very little creatures
43:06
Speaker 1: and match them up with some evil, slimy aliens. I'm
43:11
Speaker 1: going to go ahead and go first. Uh So this
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Speaker 1: is called The Walks and the Battle for Nostromo. After
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Speaker 1: Sindal's ship crashes on end Or, she and her brother
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Speaker 1: befriend a bunch of the Walks in an attempt to
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Speaker 1: find their parents who are missing. After the crash, the
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Speaker 1: kids are told that their parents were captured by that
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Speaker 1: feature Loudo, the go ax. They make a plan to
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Speaker 1: travel to the Coaxes Layer to free them. Feat. Laura,
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Speaker 1: by the way, is e Walks, But that doesn't It
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Speaker 1: just means that darn bad guy kind of essentially. Anyhow,
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Speaker 1: they make a plan to travel to the Goaxes Layer
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Speaker 1: to free them, but when they get to the layer,
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Speaker 1: they find something much worse than the go Axe. They
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Speaker 1: find a hundred egg like slimy objects and the go
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Speaker 1: As lying in the corner with his chest burst open.
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Speaker 1: Then they see a scorch trail that looks like a
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Speaker 1: small ship. It taken off from the gore Axes Lair.
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Speaker 1: The children and the e Walks decide to quickly leave
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Speaker 1: the lair and come up with another plan, but just
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Speaker 1: as they do, they are caught by a sorceress named Harold.
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Speaker 1: She's trying to leave the planet as well, in fear
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Speaker 1: after something horrible happened at her Marauders castle to her companion,
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Speaker 1: and she figured the children and e walks would be
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Speaker 1: a good bargaining tool onto any ship she found out
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Speaker 1: in space, so she throws them all into a spaceship
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Speaker 1: and flies off uh and in space they find well spaceship,
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Speaker 1: of course, the Nostromo. It seems to be abandoned, so
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Speaker 1: maybe she didn't need her prisoners after all, and she
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Speaker 1: completely forgets about them when she lands in the hangar
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Speaker 1: bay and there is a shadow and a chitter that
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Speaker 1: she goes off to find what it is that leaves
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Speaker 1: the kids and their Ewok friends alone. In the landing bay,
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Speaker 1: they see an escape pod that they assumed would leave
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Speaker 1: similar scorch marks to the one they saw on end Or,
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Speaker 1: the moon that they were on where the Ewoks live,
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Speaker 1: and they decide Cindel and her brother's parents might be there,
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Speaker 1: and they go searching for them. All along the way
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Speaker 1: they hear hittering screams and see remains of what looks
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Speaker 1: like it might have once been sentient creatures. Also a
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Speaker 1: lot more slimy eggs, lots of them, and then there
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Speaker 1: is a different scream. They go cautiously to see what
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Speaker 1: it is and find Harold ripped apart from the stomach
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Speaker 1: like something burst through just like the Gorax. The Wax
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Speaker 1: grab whatever improvised weapons they can pipes for, spears, knives, shrapnel,
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Speaker 1: and even a whaling utani flamethrower, and continue their search.
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Speaker 1: As they round a corner, Sindal and her brother see
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Speaker 1: their parents asleep in a couple of cryo chambers, or
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Speaker 1: what we would assume of the cryo chambers, they don't
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Speaker 1: really know. As the kids struggle to free their parents,
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Speaker 1: they hear a chittering screech behind them, and that's when
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Speaker 1: they see it, the queen of the Xeno morphs. She
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Speaker 1: opens her huge maw and then her smaller ma at
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Speaker 1: the e walks and they all yelled killed the monster
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Speaker 1: and ewa kas and before the Zeno Marph can cause
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Speaker 1: her carnage, the e walks dispatch her because e walks
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Speaker 1: are really vicious. You all feeling momentarily safe, the kids
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Speaker 1: figure out how to get their parents out of stasis.
45:57
Speaker 1: The parents tell the kids they were taken by the
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Speaker 1: Queen Zeno Morph to the ship. They thought they were
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Speaker 1: done for with how quickly she dispatched the Corex, but
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Speaker 1: then she stuck them in stasis. Thankfully, the kids, that
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Speaker 1: e walks, and the parents all find their way back
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Speaker 1: to the escape pod without further harrowing adventures, and they
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Speaker 1: head back to end Or. As they land, the parents
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Speaker 1: look a bit odd. Cyndel asks what's wrong, and they
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Speaker 1: say nothing, just some indigestion. As they all leave the
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Speaker 1: ship with one e walk who we all know is Wicket,
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Speaker 1: shooting his new found flamethrower the air and screaming young Nub.
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Speaker 1: As they head back to the Ewalk village to celebrate
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Speaker 1: and repair their own ship. The camera zooms in on
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Speaker 1: the loading dock of the escape pot. We see an
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Speaker 1: egg tucked away in a hidden corner begin to shape,
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Speaker 1: and we hear a chittering speech cut to black. Wow,
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Speaker 1: darker than you usually go, Darker than I usually go.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say it was good, but uh,
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Speaker 1: well no, I think I think it was interesting and interesting.
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Speaker 1: Take because you made it where the e Walks were characters.
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Speaker 1: Uh it's a little different than my version of this
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Speaker 1: is called aliens E walkin Roll, Here we go. Ellen
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Speaker 1: Ripley has a problem. After being rescued by a salvage
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Speaker 1: crew and awakened out of stasis, she has discovered that
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Speaker 1: the Wicked whaland Utahni Corporation has established a colony on
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Speaker 1: the very same moon where her crew encountered the eggs
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Speaker 1: of the dangerous alien creature, the same creature that managed
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Speaker 1: to kill all aboard the Nostromo except for Ripley herself,
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Speaker 1: oh and her kittycat, Jonesy. And now the company has
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Speaker 1: lost contact with that colony, necessitating our reconnaissance mission to
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Speaker 1: find out what happened. Ripley agrees to go along as
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Speaker 1: a sort of consultant. Ripley joins the crew of the Salaco.
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Speaker 1: Most of the crew are Marines and their skeptical of
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Speaker 1: Ripley's accounts of a dangerous alien. And then there's Carter Burke,
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Speaker 1: a rep from the company. Oh, and of course there's
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Speaker 1: the ship's protocol Android Bishop three p O. The Sala
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Speaker 1: Paco sets course for the moon now known by the
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Speaker 1: colony name of Indoor. The Salaco deploys a drop ship
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Speaker 1: down to the surface of Indoor, where the crew finds
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Speaker 1: the small colony completely empty except for one young girl
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Speaker 1: they decided to call Newt Skywalker. Newt is clearly shaken
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Speaker 1: up and almost completely non communicative. The crew pick up
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Speaker 1: signals of the colonists. They appear to be up in
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Speaker 1: the trees, and so after using some equipment to climb up,
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Speaker 1: the crew find a primitive village up in the trees itself.
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Speaker 1: The colonists are all comatose and they're covered in this
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Speaker 1: weird goo. Ripley tries to warn the others, but while
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Speaker 1: doing so, something terrible happens. One of the comatose colonists
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Speaker 1: begins to shutter and their abdomen distends horrifically. Next thing
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Speaker 1: you know, a little teddy bear like critter pops out
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Speaker 1: of the colonist Torso, oh, how cutes has corporal Hicks?
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Speaker 1: Are you crazy? Asks Ripley. We're going to be rich
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Speaker 1: Yales Burke, the merchandizing alone is going to go through
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Speaker 1: the roof. Before Ripley can respond, the little teddy bear
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Speaker 1: critter leaps out and latches onto another crew member. Let's
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Speaker 1: say it was Lieutenant Gorman and the teddy Bear viciously
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Speaker 1: bites into Gorman's neck, killing him. At this point, Corporal
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Speaker 1: Hicks kind of loses it. He will continue to kind
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Speaker 1: of lose it throughout the rest of the movie. The
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Speaker 1: group makes their escape as other furry alien critters burst
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Speaker 1: out of colonists. They managed to get out of the
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Speaker 1: trees back to the drop ship, but they find that
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Speaker 1: the ship itself has been disabled as to adult aliens
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Speaker 1: who look like teddy Bears but bigger and armed with
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Speaker 1: primitive weapons, have managed to damage the flight systems of
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Speaker 1: the ship and kill the pilots. Oh and the adult
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Speaker 1: Ewok aliens also have second, tinier Ewok alien heads in
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Speaker 1: their own mouths when they open up their mouths, which
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Speaker 1: is an image so horrific I hate that I wrote
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Speaker 1: it down. Having no choice but to hide in the
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Speaker 1: remains of the colony, the group bunkers down and that's
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Speaker 1: when they hear it. Hundreds of aliens, all chanting yub
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Speaker 1: nub yub nub. Game over man came over, says Corporal Hicks,
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Speaker 1: who continues to kind of lose it. Ripley takes over.
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Speaker 1: Burke secretly tries to capture a little teddy bear alien
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Speaker 1: but he gets his face eaten off by a bunch
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Speaker 1: of them in a way that is brutal and yet
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Speaker 1: satisfying because Burke rhymes with jerk. What follows is a
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Speaker 1: sequence of big action set pieces in which the Marines
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Speaker 1: get taken out by Ewok aliens who use the terrain
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Speaker 1: and primitive traps to their advantage. Ripley, Newt, Hicks, and
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Speaker 1: Bishop managed to evade capture and death, but the others
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Speaker 1: aren't so lucky, though Beskes does get this really cool
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Speaker 1: sacrifice move advised them some time, and squishes up you
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Speaker 1: he walks. Bishop offers to make his way to the
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Speaker 1: communications station on the colony, where he'll be able to
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Speaker 1: make contact with the Slaco in orbit and deploy another
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Speaker 1: drop shop, so he leaves the group behind. They have
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Speaker 1: a few more close calls as hurry e walks trying
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Speaker 1: to take them out, but fortunately the e walks have
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Speaker 1: short little legs so they're not really that hard to outrun.
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Speaker 1: But Bishop eventually returns, having managed to land the drop ship.
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Speaker 1: But more importantly, he's discovered something odd. The Ewoks worship
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Speaker 1: Bishop three po as a god. That's a pretty big
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Speaker 1: promotion to go from bishop to god. With this newfound status,
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Speaker 1: Bishop is able to convince the Ewoks to allow Hicks, Ripley,
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Speaker 1: and Nuke Skywalker to go to the drop shop. He
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Speaker 1: joins them there, and all four make their way back
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Speaker 1: to the Silaco. Once they're Ripley turns to Bishop, nuke
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Speaker 1: it for morbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Speaker 1: Bishop nods and aims the Silaco's nuclear arsenal at the
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Speaker 1: surface of Indoor, where you can almost hear the sounds
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Speaker 1: of musical celebration, and boom, a huge wave of nuclear
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Speaker 1: missiles rains down on the moon and just wipes everything out.
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Speaker 1: Ripley picks Newt, Skywalker, and Bishop all into cryo asleep
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Speaker 1: as the ship sets a course back to core space.
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Speaker 1: The end, that was really good, even though you killed
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Speaker 1: all of my favorite Walks, well, I mean like they
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Speaker 1: were monsters. They were. I mean, I think that's the
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Speaker 1: thing that we can agree about in our both of
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Speaker 1: our mashups, is that the e Walks are are vicious,
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Speaker 1: vicious creatures. I mean they in Return of the Jedi,
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Speaker 1: they capture our heroes and it's clear they're going to
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Speaker 1: eat them so and they turned Stormtrooper helmets into a
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Speaker 1: giant xylophone, which is awesome and hilarious. And then they
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Speaker 1: and then they change their their in song from one
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Speaker 1: version of Return of the Jedi to the remastered version
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Speaker 1: Return of the Jedidah. Yeah, yeah, that's it. The song
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Speaker 1: is different at the end, right like it. It was
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Speaker 1: a little e Walks song nu yep nub yep nub ye.
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