Plumbing the Death Star - What did you think of the Force Awakens (SPOILERS)
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Sam Smith's Radio, Joel Doucher on the case.
Welcome to a very special late night edition of Plumbing the Death Star.
Or early morning.
Or early morning.
Plumbing the Death Star up late.
Plumbing the Death Star, you should be in bed.
Well, we ask the important questions like, what did we think of The Force Awakens?
Spoilers, so many spoilers.
Like, if you haven't seen The Force Awakens, stop listening.
I'm just going to keep saying spoilers for a bit just in case you stop listening for a second.
Because literally the first thing that we're going to say when the episode properly starts is going to be a spoiler.
So we're giving you five, four, three, two. Kylo Ren is Han Solo's son
also
Han gets fucking run in
Han dies like a dickhead.
Everyone gets fucking stabbed.
There's no cutting with lightsabers in this film.
It's all just fucking stabs.
And that's good because no one knows how to use a lightsaber.
That's true.
And they shouldn't because they're not Jedi.
Yeah, that's true.
Also, what's another?
I almost said Wren.
Rey?
Rey.
Rey is force sensitive and she wields a lightsaber, and that's sick.
All right.
Let's just, because at the moment, there's literally no structure to this.
Let's start somewhere.
The end.
What was your favorite thing about The Force Awakens?
I think I liked the music the most.
Like how you asked me, and it's answers straight away. No, I asked so I could answer.
Okay.
You liked the music?
I think, like, it was great. It was bloody good. the most. Like he asked me and it's No, I asked so I could answer. You like the music?
I think, like, it was great. It was bloody good.
But like, whatever.
The story's the story.
You kind of know what it's going to be. It's kind of like,
oh yeah, yeah, mate. Actually, let's do the movie
maintenance thing that people don't like us doing.
But this is probably the Death Star, so I'm assuming
everyone loves it. How did you feel
about the movie?
It was pretty good.
I had a good time.
Yeah.
I think it actually felt like a Star Wars film compared to the prequels.
Compared to the prequels it did, but for me,
very occasionally felt heaps like a Marvel Cinematic Universe film.
Really?
Yep.
I'll make that claim.
That film was like World War Quips.
The amount of fucking quips in Star Wars.
And they were funny.
But they were coming
thick and fast.
I re-watched
the original trilogy
just before watching this.
And to me,
this was just
A New Hope 2.0.
Like, same beats.
It's beat for beat.
And there's a lot of quips
in the original trilogy.
Yeah, there's nowhere near
as many as this, though.
This was like quip after quip.
Every scene had a moment of comedy in it.
The only difference.
The only one that didn't was Han getting stabbed.
Every other scene would have like a,
or every other sequence would have like a little,
lol, lol.
Even like the bad guys had these like,
lol moments.
And that's fine.
Oh, yeah.
But I'm like,
that's such a Marvel Cinematic Universe thing to do.
I don't know what you're saying.
Maybe it's just a modern film. I kind of, I hear what you're saying, but I disagree with you. No, that's fine. Oh, yeah. But I'm like, that's such a Marvel Cinematic Universe thing to do. And I think maybe it's just a modern film.
I kind of hear what you're saying.
I disagree with you.
Yeah.
Like, I think it was, the quips were nice.
To me, it made it feel a lot more human.
Yeah.
It made like, to me, it made it feel a lot more like, yeah, I understand this.
It's kind of, Finn felt kind of like a character that I can relate to.
Because he's kind of just
almost like no i just want to run away fuck this this is too real and like stormtroopers being
like i just don't want to deal with that i'm walking this way that to me was very nice i guess
but i think that's not for me anyway and again i'm not a huge stylist fan i don't fucking know
what i'm saying but like the original trilogy doesn't seem like it had that element
of humanness
so I think it made
for a different film
nah I think the difference
and the reason
that it's done this
is because in the
original trilogy
you've just got Luke
and Han and Leia
and they all know
what being a person is
where Finn doesn't really
yeah but like
he's not the only one
making quips
everyone makes quips
fucking Kylo Ren
makes quips
it's quip city
everyone's doing some quips.
But, like, having said that, it was still great.
Like, it's just very quipful.
I liked characters that actually had chemistry with each other.
That was nice.
All of them.
Like, all of them.
Everyone just had on-screen presence.
And everyone was, like, actually, like, yeah, we're reacting to you acting.
And we're kind of.
Except.
Yes.
Again, maybe I'm just a negative Motherfucker
Han and Leia
I felt that was really
Stilted, I don't know
I felt that was kind of like, we've been through some shit
And this is like seeing an ex
And I don't really want to
And that was awkward
It was meant to be awkward
It didn't feel awkward
Were you asleep in this part of the movie?
Because you were definitely asleep for a bit of it i was asleep i fell asleep twice
almost shit yourself almost him i needed to shit at the start but then was i was too tired to get
up and i also knew that if i got up everybody around me was going to be like who the fuck's
this guy getting up during stalls so i just waited it out no i don't know shit yet have you
no we like shit who knows i don't know. You haven't shit yet, have you? No. We like shit.
Who knows?
I don't know.
Yeah, like everyone else, amazing chemistry.
Like it was like fucking, like Rey and Finn, holy shit.
You were like Finn and Poe.
Yeah.
Even like Finn and Han and Han and Rey.
So good.
Quick side note, Poe Dameron, sick as cotton in Star Wars.
Best character in the entire series.
He was bloody rip off. Fucking Oscar Isaac, give him an Oscar.
Damn right. But I don't know. Han and Leia
just felt kind of like
they never got a chance to actually have chemistry
and then Han fucking cocks it.
If you want Leia and Han
chemistry...
The original trilogy is there for you.
Let's just do that again. No, just kidding. I'm glad
they didn't do it again. Although Han Solo
is just Ben Kenobi and yeah then luke is yoda and fucking fear well ray is luke but also a bit han but mostly luke
and something i really like is that it actually doesn't kind of go one-to-one you know what i
mean yeah except for han solo and luke skywalker who Ben and Yoda. Yeah, but also like...
How do we feel about the name Ben Solo, by the way?
I love it.
That's Kylo Ren's real name.
If you're this far into the podcast, Jesus Christ, you should know that.
If you're still listening, stop writing that angry email.
Yeah.
You should just cut him.
Nothing.
We got a message from Molly, whose house we're recording in currently
because she heard us talking about Jackson
shitting. She messaged me saying
if you run out of toilet paper, it's in the bottom
of the pantry. That's one for you, Jackson Haley.
It's good to know. That's useful for this boy.
When you shit later.
When later on I take my victory shit,
I know where the toilet paper is.
Good.
Yeah, so I like Ben Solo.
Let's go with things you didn't like.
I've just been saying things I didn't like.
So you didn't like the chemistry between Han and Leia.
Han and Leia felt really fake, and I hated the amount of quips.
I, again, disagree with both of those, but that's just me.
I didn't care for Captain Phantasmo or Phantasma.
She will surely have to come back.
Of course she is.
I mean, it's already been said, but I just did not care.
Well, I think the thing is she's not a character yet.
Exactly.
Yeah, she was just like an authority figure, and you're like, okay.
I think you probably didn't need, I think The Force Awakens,
they were trying to establish her, because I feel like she'll probably play a part in the next two
films the force is awake the force goes back to bed yeah yeah that's revealed force good night
force uh yeah for those who didn't stay for the end of the credits they were revealed at the end
which is that was nice jj was like no end credit sequence and he was right
but they did reveal
the next two titles
yeah
now I think what they did
is in this film
like because they had
General Hux
being a sitcom
having a bit of a yell
which one was Hux?
he was
Domhnall Gleeson
oh okay
yeah cool
the red headed leader
of the dudes
the one that was always
being like
Kylo Ren
fucking stop
forcing cunts
and start fucking
doing your job
mate
fancy boys
everyone is fancy
let's talk about
just how
the villains
are just
talk about pots
I didn't like
you start this show
by being like
we have no structure
we start doing a structure
and then you're like
no don't want that
I got a new idea
I'm so sleepy
go on he mentioned fancy boys and I want to talk about fancy boys we'll talk about fancy boys later but we'll shell fancy boys You start doing a structure and then you're like, no, don't want that either. Like I got a new idea. I'm so sleepy. Go on.
He mentioned Fancy Boys and I want to talk about Fancy Boys. We'll talk about Fancy Boys later.
But we'll shelve Fancy Boys and go, yes.
Unless you didn't like Fancy Boys.
No, I loved Fancy Boys.
Although that's the opposite.
Exactly.
What didn't you like?
I didn't like that it was a little too similar to A New Hope.
I don't think that we needed to blow up that planet.
Although I did like that it turned into a sun.
Yeah, and I liked that it was called Starkiller Base
because it actually killed stars.
I'm like, that's clever
because it sucked the sun's energy too.
I did like how, oh, light and dark.
Oh, symbolism.
The thing I hated the most was the first line of the film.
Which one was, oh, yeah.
It's, and I don't know if everyone notices,
but the first line of the film is,
we need to make things right,
or something along, I can't remember exactly the wording, but line of the film is, we need to make things right. Or something along, I can't remember exactly the wording,
but it's pretty much like, we need to make things right.
And it's like, hey.
Remember how the prequels were bad?
Yeah, the prequels were bad.
Oh, yeah.
And despite everything we're shitting all over this film,
well, we're not really shitting all over it.
We're kind of farting in its general direction.
At worst.
Jackson, little poops, but he missed.
It is significantly better than any of the prequel films.
It's fantastic.
It's a blast.
It might be better than Return of the Jedi.
I watched Return of the Jedi today.
I'll pay that.
It's not just a good Star Wars film.
I will put forward it's a good film.
Yeah, I think that's fair.
Do you reckon you could watch...
I know it's pretty much kind of impossible to judge this
but do you think
that it would be possible
to enjoy the force awakens
if you have not seen
any other six films
I'm trying to think about it
because
all the good
because like
I've got a terrible memory
and I haven't seen
the original trilogy
in a while
no but even shit
like seeing the
destroyed star destroyer
and like all of that shit
like that's just like
so nice because you're like hey cool yeah i guess it doesn't really particularly makes i mean like
that's world building if you don't know this yeah again if you don't know the film it is again as
duchess said world building because like you see this crashed ship it's a crashed ship but then as
the opening shot is this giant the same like a giant ship as well so it's really good to kind
of be like yeah
there was a battle here who cares it was happened how something happened there good han and leia is
probably the only thing because they they don't explain it they're not like they're just sort of
like they have a history actually no that's probably okay i think han just han solo himself
because if you'd never seen them and he died you'd be like so well it's more just like the
introduction you get and they're like everyone's like hey you're the hero you're the general so you could you could watch this without it wouldn't be it'd be a weird move
like they're not hiding it they're not like star wars one the force awakens they're like this is
episode seven you know it'd be funny if they called it episode four that would have been the
best i did like the the again, very similar to A New Hope.
Like, oh yes, we fought in the Clone Wars.
It was like, have you heard of the whatever massacre?
Like, no, good.
That was nice.
You know, when they're talking about that weird spinny ball of death.
That was a weird segment.
That got a, actually, maybe that's something I didn't like.
It got a little too Star Trek rebooty.
And that is just J.J. Abrams.
J.J. Abrams but yeah like that scene in particular
where there's those like squid
we've never seen aliens attack
well aliens look like that in Star Wars
so we've never seen them attack like that
like you get rancors
but it's mostly people beat people
Jankos or some shit
Jathmores or something
Jathars
Jafar
but they just like roll around or some shit Jaff Mors or something Jaffars I don't fucking know Jaffar Jaffar
Mustafa
but they just like
rolled around
and that whole scene
felt really kind of like
I liked it
but it did feel very
Star Wars
Star Trek reboot-y
now that you mention it
I think the
I would just say
cut that scene
but no
because you get like
Finn and Rey
having a fucking
quip off underneath
yeah
I like their interaction.
No, they're good.
I hope they don't bang, but I reckon they will.
No, I hope they don't.
Same with like, I just want them to be just good bros.
Same with like Poe and Finn when he's like, oh my God, you didn't die.
And he's like, oh my God, you didn't die.
He's like, yeah, the guy.
Did they explain that or was I asleep?
No, they didn't.
But he just got off tat.
To be fair, like.
It's just like It's a big desert
They landed in
Yeah it doesn't really matter
Because like
Poe knew about
Would have known about
Because he was on
Jakku
Jakku
Yeah Jakku for a bit
So he would have known
About like the sinky ship
Yeah
It just seemed like
Because it was like
Such a big expansive desert
That like the moment
You got up
And had a look around
You'd be like
There he is Even though he's miles away I can see him But like anyway I just wondered if he did No I think it was like such a big expansive desert that like the moment you got up and had a look around you'd be like, there he is, even though he's miles away
but like anyway, I just wondered if he did
nah, I think it was kind of just like
just like a hand wave, a signal
to be like, hey, resistance, pick me up
and or it could have just been the fact that
fucking Finn landed a bit further away
so by the time he got to the TIE fighter
like Poe could have followed exactly the same route
fucking Finn did
but just did it like 10 minutes beforehand
hell even like a day depending on how long Finn was unconscious
if it's a day
Finn's brain is
far fried
something I didn't like is
it felt like to me
that there are a lot of and I guess maybe it's kind of part of
my quip problem
it's not like I have the problem
but like I didn't like when they're's not like i have the problem um but like i
didn't like when they're like oh like here's the new planet and then hans solo's like oh it's like
another death star you were like you don't you don't need that that's kind of like when you're
that's more addressing the fact they're like yeah but you don't like it's such a it's kind of like
in the avengers 2 age of ultron when don't talk about that because it's trash by the way if you're listening to this and you like Avengers 2
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it's like when Hawkeye is like lol
I'm just a man we're fighting aliens
you don't point out the prep
I don't know
it's kind of like
what's the point
it's like just because you... No, but that's the thing.
It's like, just because you point out the stupid thing doesn't make it stupid.
Like, it's not stupid, sorry.
Maybe that's a bad example of it.
But I just don't think it's like...
And then unnecessary...
It's like you're lifting the veil.
You don't lift the veil.
But these are people in a fort in this war.
Yeah, but then you wouldn't make a quip about the Death Star.
You'd be like that was fucked
Which you kind of didn't
They did
It was a whole quip
This was the fucking Death Star
This is what it looks like
There's always a weak point
That was the quip
Don't do that
That's stupid
I hate it
I didn't like it
I'm digging my heels 3 out of 5 3 out of 10 Don't do that. That's stupid. No, I hate it. I didn't like it. I hate this whole film.
I'm digging my heels.
Three out of five.
Three out of five.
Three out of ten.
I love the design of everything.
Like, oh, that was so good.
Everything looked practical,
which the prequels just shat on that idea.
They were like,
what if this spaceship is like three yellow bananas?
You know that one?
You know the one I mean?
We know.
Yeah, all the spaceships that look sick um bb8 was sick the illest yeah some reason like i did
not like the r2 details in the film like when it came on i groaned i was like i don't know why
yeah i called you out and i was like why i was like c3PO is the worst reading no I hated both of them I didn't like having R2
in there either I felt he again was
like a
have him there at the start or don't be like
hey R2's just like
goffined up I know I prefer that
oh no I didn't like the eternal at the end but it's clearly just a
plot device to set up the fucking second
I did like the droids fucking that
was nice like yeah put your
put your map in my map vagina and
it was like the rest of the map and then just like slotted into each other it was great
because he has a sex drive that is way too intense fun fact for our listeners i was like hey imagine
if your dick broke and that was like i'd kill myself and i was like that's too extreme like
no that's all i have that was the the Robocop episode that was on mic
yeah
that stresses me out
yeah I like
I love the design
of like Jakku
like I loved that
it was just like
this tiny shit hole
I was really worried
about Jakku
in the trailers
because I was like
they're just doing
fucking Tatooine again
but it looked a lot
different from Tatooine
it was so
oh and Rey
was looking at
the fucking
starship
the spaceship
just like leaving Jakku and being like,
it was very reminiscent of just Luke looking up in the sky
and being like, I want to leave this fucking shit planet.
It was great.
Yeah, I liked that a lot.
Yeah.
I liked, this is welcome to our world famous segment of bits we liked.
Yeah, bits we liked.
Actually, no, our segment's usually bits we hated.
Yeah, I know.
We did, but we did bits
We did bits. Oh man fucking Finn just stabbed a cunt with the saber
Oh, that was sound good
Back to the start of like no one knows how to use a lightsaber
And it's I loved it
I really like the color ran every time he cracks the shits just lightsabers the fuck out of Hannah
Tyler ran is a child and a fancy boy fancy boy
Guys the first order is just like wall-to-wall fancy boys.
They all look like they've just graduated from a British boarding school.
Yes, boarding prep school.
Yeah, they've all got like the fucking trashed little greasy hair.
And they're like, oh, no.
I need to inform you that this has happened.
I'm just so fancy.
Would you like to go and play fucking billions?
He's like king of the fancy And play Fucking billions He's like
King of the fancy boys
Fucking Adam Driver's
The best
He looks so fancy
With his fancy boy hair
Like
It's like
Like
Why
I hope they explain it
At some point
They're just like
We just like fancy boys
In our army
Well no
It sort of makes sense
Because it's sort of
Like
What they're going for
And you both pointed this out
In the film
First order's meant to be
fucking like it's nazis yeah oh yeah by the way if if anyone like saw this and we're like oh oh
oh they're just going for not yeah they're going for nazis yeah domo gleason does a good speech in
front of banners everyone raises their arms it's like no no it's all not speak about the republic
being just the senate whatever... So they got this...
The new Death Star, what?
Just blow...
The Star Killer base.
Star Killer.
Fucking...
You don't have to be in orbit or near a planet to shoot shit down.
It blows up an entire system.
Blows up an entire system.
Like five fucking planets.
Except for the planet that all the main characters are on.
I think that was just far away.
I don't know.
Hey. No, whatever. It's far away. I don't know. Hey.
No, whatever.
It's a movie.
This is shit.
It was good.
Good shit.
Someone, sorry,
I just got a notification
that one of my,
a guy tweeted was like,
a guy I tweeted.
I didn't tweet him.
Fuck you.
Whatever.
He seems like the only person
in Melbourne feeling underwhelmed.
Yeah, all right.
Shut up.
Better than,
how can I,
okay, that's the thing.
If you're sitting there being like,
fuck this movie,
I don't understand why
because I feel like that
even if you didn't like the story,
it hits enough of the right beats that...
I think even if you didn't like the story,
like visually, the design...
The acting, like all of that...
Oscar Isaac has a scene with Adam Driver
and that's all you need in any movie.
Exactly.
That fills out the rest of the hassles.
I had my problems with it,
but they're so minimal and trash and to the side.
For the most part, I was just having a blast.
It's not a 10 out of 10 film,
but it's at least a 7 or an 8.
I think an 8.
I'd say it's an 8 out of 10.
I'd call it a... I don't know i think like nine nine nine out of ten this
is a great film like i i really enjoyed it um and i think i would happily watch it again i don't
think i think if this is gonna be a film that i watched 800 times because i really like star wars
uh i got very excited points no one cried nobody cried Apparently I let out a really girly giggle
You did
You both were laughing at all the jokes
Even the little trash goofy jokes
You both would have your chuckles
We were like okay we'll be quiet
And I'm like okay I'm quiet
And everything that happens Zammett says a thing
And nobody listens
And then it happens again Zammett's like haha this
And we're like yeah
And you're like anyway
So good Poe Dameron I love him so much Poe Dameron was pretty good And then it happens again And we're like yeah And you're like anyway Dusha's letting out all these giggles
It was crazy
So good
Poe Dameron
I love him so much
Poe Dameron was pretty good
Poe Dameron
Yeah
Is he in any of the
Because like you know
I don't know
Is he in the other films at all
Poe Dameron
Yeah
No
Okay
For some reason I thought he was
I don't know
No no no
He's too young
Yeah I know
That's what I was thinking
There's a right amount of
References and connections
To the first trilogy
It was a little bit too much.
Like just like a smidgen.
Like just like one point too much.
No, no.
Because you got Ben Solo.
And that was all the connections.
Like all the three main characters.
And you had like who's the son of who, who's the daughter of who.
It was like, no, it was just one.
And that was fucking...
They didn't even bury the lead.
Almost in like the second scene, you're like, hey, yeah.
Oh, they don't make a big deal out of it
your father
it's good
I loved it
there was no real twist
actually no
connections you're at
references I guess
what I was meaning
no because I don't think
they do a lot of things
where they could have
just referenced the original trilogy
and then don't
like when they go to
that planet
and Han Solo's like
I've got an old friend
that could have easily
been fucking
Lando
actually that would be the best L could have easily been fucking Lando yeah
actually that would be
the best
Lando with fucking
weird goggles
Lando being like
yeah I got looks like
cyber
and they're like
why
he's like I don't know
I was in class
I just flew down
I was there
also that's pretty funny
like how did you get that
and they're just like
it's a story for another day
don't even stress
that
there you go
you know I'm talking about quips
I'm talking about scenes being comedic and when it shouldn't be
fucking Rey using
the Jedi mind trick for the first time
started off as a comedic scene and I was like
why? No, but that's not
that's only funny to us because we're expecting it to work
and it doesn't. Yeah, but that's a joke. In the context
but in that
because you're being like, no one would
fucking do that in real life. She's not doing it cause she's entertained
I know but
the thing is in that part
he's like shut the fuck up or I'm going to kill you
and then she tries it again and it works
but like as a writer you're writing that scene as comedic
and I'm like why
what do you get out of that
extra entertainment for the audience
no you don't need it
what tone do you want it to be
she tries to use
the fourth it fails
and he fucking
slaps her around a little
no it just doesn't have
to have like the pacing
and comedic timing
of like a comedian
what do you mean
it's it's it's
it's happened three
I'm not a filmmaker
it's happened
it's it's classic
that writing you know
once twice three times
exactly like a joke
and not yeah
it comes in threes
but also in time
in terms of everything
comes in threes
like a fucking
Batman goddamn Dark Knight Rises climbs up that stupid fucking hole like he gets
the rope he falls gets the rope he falls so if he doesn't like gravitas but it's three things
yeah no but it's given a sense of gravity that the force he wasn't given no gravity for that
scene shut up i don't care Your comments don't make sense to me
And it's tired
I'm tired and fuck your bullshit
I like the force
That's right I really liked how
Rey it's just like chaotic
Force use because she's not trained
But we see
The other things
It gets around the fucking midichlorians bullshit as well
Because they're just like
She's showing signs of the force.
Good.
And it makes sense that it would come out in that way.
I'm hoping the midichlorians died with the death of the Jedi in the prequels.
I'm hoping that it was basically Qui-Gon was just a nutcase.
He had some theories.
Outdated books.
And yeah, like the fact that Kylo Ren's not really trained.
And how fucking good he could just stop something and hold it there. They show the force in a much different way yeah they did so much so much good shit with the force
like rather than just like throwing shit around like there's a lot of like stopping things or
like pinning rifles back so no one can shoot like that i mean like in the like one of the first
scenes when uh poe dameron is it poe dameron yeah shoots his his blaster and kylo ren just stops the blast and
you're like he leaves it there and that's what i really like about him in that i know douche is
gonna hate what i'm gonna say next but almost how we can he freezes um ray and he can freezes the
bullet the blaster laser sure and it just sort of stays there and he just you can move around a bit
like you know vader he's choking some motherfucker and it just has he actually choked yeah yeah got
to keep doing it where he just does it and it stays and it's kind
of like tying it off like he almost does the thing and almost like it stays there it's good
which is very akin to what happens in wheel of time fuck you dusha it's very cool i would be
more upset if i knew what you were referencing i guess more upsetting if you were actually a real
book yeah someone came up to me at the live show
a quick side note was like I just
always wanted to know why do you hate Wheel of Time
and I was like because Zabit likes it
and they were like what? and I was like
yeah I don't really I've never read it
and they were like oh
and I was like I hate Lord of the Rings too
and this poor man was like oh
oh okay
I can just tell he was not satisfied
that image of you he had in his head
Spoiled
No not really spoiled
More just like
If you're imagining me as any type of person
That's not that
You're wrong
You're imagining me wrong anyway
So really if it's shattered
It's shattered in a weird way
So yeah in Wheel of Time they control someone
And they just tie off the thread
Whatever
As very akin to like the force So again tie control someone and they just tie off the thread whatever it's very akin to
like the force
so again
tie them off
and they stay something
and that was really cool
that he could do that
and it was very cool
because when he was
Kylo Ren was like
pulling almost thoughts
out of again
Poe Dameron
that was very cool
I was wondering
what was going on
I was wondering
if he was using
the force
like push and pull
like on the brain
like that addition
I know
I thought he was doing it
because
like blood almost yeah like blood because like's because like oh pro diamond's face got super
red speaking of blood it was very cool when finn had like like his friend died and he picked him up
and then like wiped his face like wiped his hand on his helmet he just had like the blood streaks
was like that's intense yeah that was cool he was really well thought out character in terms of motivation and what he was doing like it started
off being like i'm i don't want to do this he's just like i want to survive
fucking anxiety fucking having a almost having a stress having a panic attack it was fantastic
and he's like you need to go for fucking retraining like shut up no i don't i'm gonna
escape and it's like i'm gonna save you you
need a pilot yeah it was good and then that yeah that was really nice i think and then him whole
him just wanting to escape and then he just kept it didn't really change until he was kind of
putting ray first and that kind of stuff and i really liked that a lot of this the moving from
one scene to the next it was it was basically a lot of happenstance
a lot of you know things that naturally occurred that was kind of like oh in in out of the frying
pan into the fire that kind of shit very rarely did it seem super convoluted like there you could
argue oh so han and chewie just happened to be flying past Jakku and they just happen to grab the million folk
and that kind of stuff.
And I see what you could make a bit like,
oh, they're just doing this.
But it's like, well...
Oh, they tracked...
Yeah, that's a guess.
But like you can kind of...
Most of the things you're like,
well, yeah, but this...
Yeah, exactly.
So stuff where it's kind of like,
you know, it's like,
well, the chance of this happening,
but it's like,
no, I can sort of suspend my disbelief to be,
no, I guess they were looking for...
It's not just like totally out of the blue
yeah
you know what I mean
um
I was gonna say something
what the fuck was it
I'm a dumb idiot
who hates quips
is that what you were
gonna say
I don't hate quips
don't you like the
Marvel films
I hate the Marvel films
stop trying to take
my thing
side note
fuck Marvel Cinematic
Universe
and hell
Age of Ultron
shat on that parade
I did
will Civil War bring it back?
Who knows?
Maybe not.
Let's talk about the trailers
we saw with Star Wars.
All right.
Straight off the bat,
we had X-Men Apocalypse.
I'm excited for that movie.
You think,
Zach Jackson thinks it looks like
it's all filmed in a car park.
No, you fucking wank.
He thinks Civil War's
filmed in a car park,
you wank.
The Civil War trailer
looks like it's all filmed
in like one car park.
Like they were like, everybody were gathering at the fucking Tesco. It's a student film, you wank. The Civil War trailer looks like it's all filmed in one car park. They were like, everybody
were gathering at the fucking Tesco.
It's a student film with a high budget.
The locations I saw in that
trailer are car park,
building, staircase.
Maybe a
cafe. That's what you got.
The cafe near the car park.
That's not enticing, Marvel.
They kind of nailed the trailer.
Sorry, back to the trailers.
I'm just thinking about the trailers.
They really nailed it because there's X-Men Apocalypse,
there was Civil War, there was Batman v Superman,
and there was the Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg comedy vehicle fucking daddy's home.
What's going to happen in that film?
Linda Cardellini has two kids and they're Mark Wahlbergs,
but then she's married to Will Ferrell,
and then daddy comes home
and then it's a good old fashioned dad off
it is, I'm looking forward to
not seeing that film
I'm on a boxing day, just in case you were wondering
alright, let's get back to Star Wars
the trailers though
Batman v Superman
gross
so let's see
Finn was great, I think Finn was great.
I think his motivation was really cool.
His relationship, so he was building with the characters was fantastic.
Well acted, well cast, really, really good and strongly just developed.
I thought he was like a really good just standout character in the whole series.
I mean, in the whole movie, sorry.
He had a good
design as well and i like that he started off dressed completely black he pulled a switcheroo
of bloody so he started off completely white and now he's black no he started off completely black
at the start when he takes off all of his goddamn yeah thing oh armor yeah he's black he's wearing
black underneath but then at the end when he's lying on the bed because he got fucking swiped by how good was that fight on the
bloody spine yeah uh another thing and apologies to okay we're gonna reveal a little podcast secret
here well we recorded an episode for friday already oh yeah that one and tomorrow's episode
yeah it's tomorrow's yeah it's tomorrow's episode um it's still oh no it's thursday now yeah
tomorrow's episode we talk about time is it's Thursday now yeah tomorrow's episode
we talk about
time
it's just
it's a wheel of time
anything with time in it
I hate it
just doesn't understand
yeah we talk about
non-force users
wielding lightsabers
and I'm like they should
and in this film they do
they do
so I say a lot of things
that are wrong
and I'm acknowledging
that now
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We'd really like that.
We'd really like that.
We'd be chuffed.
Exactly.
You donate enough, we might come to the UK.
Who knows?
Yeah.
Who knows?
We should start a Kickstarter for that.
We should.
So, Ray, I love...
So, yeah, at the end, Finn's in...
Yeah, he's wearing a white line on the table.
I don't know.
I was just like, it's a neat thing.
No, that's great.
I really like that.
But actually, it doesn't really follow because he's good from the beginning.
Yeah.
Like there's never any worry that he was evil.
No, true.
So actually, it's thematically kind of worthless.
It was more like he was a coward.
Yeah, but he's still-
And I like that though.
I really love that he was a coward because we don't really get that in Star Wars
Even like a piece of shit like Jar Jar
Who should be a coward
He's not a coward
He's not
He's fucking doing backflips
And helping out
Fucking Qui-Gon
And all that Storm of the Palace
Where he really should be like
No, Mesa don't want to do this
Yeah, Mesa afraid
Mesa afraid
It's kind of weird that Jar Jar showed up
I'm just kidding
Also, this is way too late in the podcast
For me making dumb jokes like that Because you're 30 minutes in Yeah, Darth Jar Jar showed up. I'm just kidding. Also, this is way too late in the podcast for me making dumb jokes like that
because you're 30 minutes in.
Yeah, Darth Jar Jar theory just shot on.
Out the water.
Snoke didn't like the design.
I'll say it.
All right, so Finn.
Okay, we're going to the characters.
I know.
Snoke now.
Snoke, didn't like the design?
I like the vagina cave forehead and bottom mouth.
See, the thing is,
you've only seen a hologram.
That's true.
Now, you did say he was very little in the podcast with Steel.
You know what?
That could be true.
I reckon he is.
I reckon you're going to end up with like a tiny man.
Like a little tiny man.
But like, it's weird because in all of the promotional material for it
that I was reading for some reason, but I was.
Hey, what the fuck?
To try and upset Steel.
Yeah, just to get him
on the fucking ropes.
Steel, I hope you're doing alright.
I hope you didn't just have a heart attack and die.
Oh man, you poor bastard.
But in that they describe him as quite snake-like.
They say he has bulbous lips and
cobra ears.
I'm guessing they would fucking throw you off like a dickhead
And you fell for it like a dickhead
Like a spaz
I got got
I would have preferred that
Because I think Snoke looks super boring
And unless they reveal him to be like
A significant character
It's like what's the point of making him look like
Just like a shriveled old dude
He kind of looks like Subway Fetus Voldemort
If he'd been in a couple fights.
Nah, I reckon
we're going to find that he is not giant.
No, of course he's not
giant. Nah, man, when that was
revealed when he was giant, I was like, sweet, he's giant.
And then they're like, oh, I'm like, damn, he's not giant.
I know, I wanted him to be huge. I wanted him to be a giant
man. I hope he is.
I hope he's fucking giant. I reckon there'd probably be another
fucking villain who...
It's just going to be nuts.
I like that we had a Stormtrooper with a lightsaber.
Well, Finn.
Oh, the Finn versing...
No, just Finn having a lightsaber.
I mean, look, we already knew that he was going to do that.
Also, I like that it wasn't any fucking bullshit, like...
Dude should get distracted by his phone constantly.
Constantly.
Even at quarter to four four people are messaging me
what about the stormtrooper
fight between Finn and the guy
the traitor and he's got like the
almost like the reject equivalent
of a lightsaber but they can still stand up to a lightsaber
which is really cool
they've got like a counter to it now
what I was trying to say before is um i don't i like that finn is just part of the first order like there wasn't
any fucking oh he's a rebellion spy no no just like no no he's just he was a soldier who was
like no pretty much everything i was scared of them doing they didn't do and that is good
yeah like everything like it just that i wanted to happen happened. Rey not being a solo, as far as we know, I still
think there is...
No.
No, no.
I will be surprised if she is a solo after this point.
See, I won't.
Yeah, well, no, because that's the thing.
There were so many moments where
her and Han have these weird moments
where she goes on the ship, she gets
taken away, and Han has this look that's not just like,
oh, this person I just met is being taken away.
It's a look like, shit.
They could reveal that the reason they didn't go too much into it
is because they're scared the same thing will happen with...
So, your theory...
Hang on, hang on.
Not my theory.
Okay, here's an idea then.
Yeah.
So, when you've got, in the prequels or whatever,
where they split up Luke and Han.
Luke and Leia.
It's so tight.
Luke and Leia.
Yeah.
Same thing.
They split up Ben and Rey.
They want something that leads Credence.
And both have three letters.
Perfect.
I think something that leads more Credence than...
Oh, my God.
Also, fun fact about Luke's name.
No, no, no.
Hold on to whatever you're going to say.
Fun fact about Luke's name in the original.
It takes people so long to pronounce Luke as a one-syllable name
because every character first is like,
Luke.
Luke.
Luke.
That's very true.
That's how I like you to pronounce my name.
It's Joe.
A joke. Sam my name A joke
Sam it
A joke
What I was going to say
Is that also clearly within the
Like
Like twins
Is the thing that happens
They like to separate them
Yeah like no I just mean like
Like she's Leia's kid
And so is Kylo
So like
You know siblings
Like twins
Could happen again.
Because when she has that little weird fever dream,
you can almost hear it.
It's sort of when she's like a little kid,
she can almost hear Kylo's voice,
which maybe does send some credence.
I had it for a moment.
I was like, is she like the daughter of Kylo?
No.
But then again, the age.
You actually said that to me and I didn't respond
because it was dumb.
The ages wouldn't match up.
I think that you'll find. I hope they're not relatively related i reckon i'm pretty sure they will i don't reckon they'll be twins though i was just thinking because like that she looks younger
than i hope you know like even if they're cousins like no she doesn't actually look that much younger
than him because he looks super young actually they're both pretty young yeah he looks like a
young fancy boy 20 or 30 years after the
30?
I think it's a fair few
They could still be like 20
I'd hope they're not related
That would be nice for me
Because again
Brother V sister is pretty sick there
I kind of like what that fight at the end
I was like that's cool brother V sister I like it
Yeah because also the V fuck it son Yeah but that's was like that's cool brother v sister I like it yeah but that's
a totally different
dynamic to brother
and sister
father and son
is like a thing
we see fucking
literally all the time
but I think Star Wars
started that
yeah
but brother v sister
maybe I just read
too many comic books
where it's brother v sister
and I'm kind of like
ugh fuck off
that's what you get
for being a dumb nerd
that reads comic books
yeah maybe if you
didn't read comic books
you wouldn't be mad
I watch Star Wars movies
like cool guys
I should
I should
alright so
Rey's character
I'm very defensive
about being a nerd
at the moment
I spend all day
just being hassled
by people about
being a nerd
fuck nerd
fine me
alright
I love Rey's character
but I hope that
they eventually
explain why she's
so like
sort of like
almost obsessive
about staying
on Jakku
they did! no they didn't
what did they say? wait what are your arguments?
what's your argument for her?
I was just going to say that it seems like every time
they're like oh we're going away she doesn't
say like I just need to get back to Jakku
she's just like gotta get back to Jakku
I think this might be when you fell asleep
yeah because she's waiting for her family no, because she's waiting for her family.
No, I know she's waiting for her family.
But she's counting down the days and she's really stressed.
She's going to miss them.
Okay.
Even that's not really a great explanation.
No, I just...
Sorry, listeners couldn't tell, but my face turned inside out there.
Every time I suggest something, I'm just met with resistance.
The resistance. because it just it's like she wasn't like i need to get back because i've been assured they're coming back or like
like it seemed like there was another layer to it that's another princess
lay i get it now i understand star wars why'd you get a brown shirt for plumbing the desktop
by the way jackson's wearing a formula style shirt and it's brown and I'm not sure why.
I don't know.
It was...
I don't know.
Fuck off.
I got chocolate on my shirt.
That's a kind of brown.
No, because, like, that's character motivation enough.
Like, if you think...
No, I think it's a fine thing.
I just think that the way she, like, acted it is strange.
Because she's distressed.
She's going to miss her family.
No, but she didn't seem distressed.
She seemed obsessed.
You would be obsessed if your family abandoned you
on a shitty place like Juku. Never mind, I can't even be bothered arguing
this point. It's four in the morning.
Not quite. Like if she was like, I need to get
back. I really need to get back. But she wasn't.
Every time she was just like, I need to get back. I need to get back.
I need to get back. That's a different kind
of reaction. You know what I mean? Yeah, okay.
So I felt like maybe. Oh, she's stressed. She's never
like, I need to get back. Yeah, she is. She's like, I need to get back felt like maybe... Oh, she's stressed. She's never like, I need to get back in there.
Yeah, she is.
She's like, I need to get back.
And I'm like, it's all right.
She's like...
She doesn't go...
It sort of felt like
she wasn't really verbalizing a lot of stuff.
And that was good.
It was, again, showing what's told.
I feel like it seemed like she was in denial,
but then it seems like they got rid of her denial.
Like, they just kind of waved it away.
And I was like,
I hope that they go into it enough that that seems reasonable.
And I'm assuming they will.
Yeah, of course.
But I'm like, would you agree that it seems like they hand-waved away that pretty quickly?
They were just like, hey, don't stress.
And she was like, okay.
When Maz was like, hey, don't worry about it.
Yeah, exactly.
And she's like, oh, I won't.
Okay, then good.
Yeah, like, oh, cool, I don't have to.
I'll get kidnapped by this motherfucker.
Good.
Great. Maz, what do we think. Like, oh, cool. I don't have to. I'll get kidnapped by this motherfucker. Wood. Great.
Maz.
What do we think of Maz?
The pirate dwarf lady.
Yes.
Who had this film's cantina.
Sick castle.
Yeah.
She was also like, hey, remember Luke's lightsaber?
I got it.
How'd I get it?
That's another tale for another time.
I feel like we'll get an explanation for that.
The cantina music.
Very reggae. Yeah, I know. I we'll get the cantina music very reggae
yeah i know i was like i like that like thinking of the can't get a bowl this is how i've described
this song i like the cantinas of the different trilogies like you have the cantina for that one
you have dexter jester's 50s diner yeah yeah it's like the cantina of the prequel just licking
chocolate off your shirt no i'm licking my shirt so the chocolate gets... Yeah, yeah.
But I'm not doing it to eat the chocolate.
You're doing it as a sort of... It's like a cat cleans itself.
Yeah, because I'm not like,
oh no, I need some chocolate.
I'm like, I want to get this chocolate off my shirt.
What's the best way to go about that?
My tongue's wet.
I'm not using it for anything
because I pause to listen to Jackson talk about jet decks,
whatever the fuck his name is.
Okay, yeah.
I don't know.
It's just fun.
Different cantinas.
This is all right.
I liked...
Yeah, I don't know.
I liked that she had...
I liked that it wasn't like fucking Lando.
Actually, Lando is a bad example
because Lando is a bad example.
But I know what you mean.
There was somebody new.
Yeah.
And I liked that there was like a real drive
in this film to build a new mythology.
Yeah.
And I liked the...
Again, like what Star Wars...
I'm so glad they killed Han.
How good is it that they killed Han? I love what star wars done and it did what star wars should do which
is like reference shit that happens in that universe that we haven't seen before yeah and
i love that moment where han is sitting in like the uh when he's like freight ship whatever and
like one crew are like you owe us fucking money it's like hey i don't owe you money another crew
comes up you owe me money like no shit ah shit that was nice and that's what
how they just throw you in
and it's like
yep
clearly they've had
other adventures
and that's good
and that's fantastic
and yes
but how fucking good
is hand
man
hand dying
gave me such a good
nerve going on
because hand dying
is just like
it's like a handover
you know
it was like
it's like hand dies
the camera pans up
to Finn and Rey
and you're like
cool
they're the main characters
there you go and I'm good for that exactly I knew he was gonna die beautiful moment. It's like hand-dyeing the camera, pans up to Finn and Rey, and you're like, cool, they're the main characters. There you go.
And I'm good for that.
Exactly.
I knew he was going to die.
The moment he was so, like, so prominent.
I called it.
I called it.
I fucking called it.
Saturday.
I had three theories in this film,
and I think I called hand-dyeing as well,
but I'm not sure if it was on a podcast.
I was speaking to James.
Yeah, yeah, no, it was on a podcast.
It was on a podcast.
I was speaking to James, and I guess you guys a podcast it was on a podcast um i was speaking to james and i guess
you guys because it was on a podcast and i said that when uh when harrison ford broke his ankle
and then crashed a plane no one was mad i was like harrison ford's a mad cunt also he must die
in this film because no one was stressed enough that he hurt himself because he was 70 well he's
73 now so you're like 71 72 when that happened yeah no one's stressed enough that he hurt himself. He's 73 now, so he would have been like
71, 72 when that happened.
No one's just like, oh, it's alright if he's
signed on to star in two of
the biggest films of all time.
Even in this, his old man run.
Hilarious. He hobbled.
He hobbled everywhere. He's probably really happy.
He's like, I'm getting a lot of money and also
I can just lie down.
I think, I reckon the one condition Han had for, oh, Han.
His name's not Han, he's Harrison Ford.
The one condition Harrison Ford probably had coming into this was like, kill me off.
I'll come back if you kill me off.
The whole time.
And J. Abrams is like, yes.
He's like, the fans will love it.
I just had a fear for that.
Because, hey, I think Han's always, and again, Harrison Ford's always been like,
please kill Han.
Please kill Han.
And I think, and also, this one didn't fit.
It's well done by J. Broms,
because it's very much like,
it's a fan film done well,
if you know what I mean.
It's not just fan fiction.
It's not just fan fiction.
It's paying a really good tribute
to what's come before it,
and it's not trying to do what Lucasas was doing even now into the point of in a return of the return of
the jedi where he's just like toys yeah yeah um there's clearly stuff that's done not just for
toys like even kylo ren who is a very cool character and i really like even his design
i remember seeing like little toys and being like no i'm not going to get it it's not doesn't that
doesn't look cool which is interesting because i know darth darth maul in the prequels
i'm like he looks rad as fuck i want a toy but with carla wears a skirt just saying he does
where's the monks yeah hi do you have any monk figurines yes look at my look at my collection
of months for the u.s detective series of monks starring Tony Shalab I'm looking for a monk
figure of the show
no no
the religious
cultural group
I kind of like the idea
how you have like you know
like a Shaolin monk
and all these other
like different like
a Tibetan monk
and then you just have
like a monk from the TV show
Tony Shalab
what the fuck is this
I just like monks
but he's not a
he's a monk
you're like well
what's the worst action
figure you could buy
I reckon Robert
from Everybody Loves Raymond
no wait that's fucking now what's Robert's You're like, well... What's the worst action figure you could buy? I reckon Robert from Everybody Loves Raymond.
Ma!
No, wait, that's fucking... Now, what's Robert's wife?
What's Robert's wife?
That, as an action figure.
Oh, Christ.
Just a whole...
No, Frasier's dad, but you can't take him out of the chair.
Or chair sold separately, but he doesn't...
You can't bend his legs.
Yeah, it doesn't fit in the chair
no no no I like the idea of him he fits in the chair
but now I've got an action figure I can play with
nah but you don't have the chair
and his legs are permanently stuck in like the
the chair position
that's like somebody once got me an action figure
that was meant to ride a horse
but you had to buy the horse separately
so she just walked around really like
splay legged and I was like i can't play with this that's incredible in the bin um so yeah so
but even like i really oh no kylo ren sorry yeah i liked finn's design a lot i really enjoyed like
the simple cool jacket yeah and he loves it was whatever jacket as well he's like no you keep it
oh man ray had an awesome design as well i loved loved her little quarter length pants. Yeah, and the bow staff.
She could handle herself.
I liked it was very much when Finn's trying to help her.
He's like, fuck off.
I help myself.
And he was like, all right.
Why do I always hold hands when we run?
That was good.
That was good.
Good night, everybody.
I'm not even going to apologize.
It's nearly four o'clock in the fucking morning.
Loser.
Oh, no. Yeah yeah so with finn um because one thing as a kid that i always liked in toys is like when they had removable helmets
fucking finn if there's not a toy of him as like just the stormtrooper with the helmet and you
take it off in finn's face i think there is yeah i also wanted like the jacket you want like you
remember those action figures that had like the rubber jacket that you could peel off yeah that
you want like you remember there's action figures that had like the rubber jacket that you could peel off yeah that oh that would be sick yeah like a click or even like um like yeah like the
body armor is like a click on oh yeah fuck yeah there's a lot of good i want a lot of toys for
fit just a fin lots of fin toys uh you could have a removable mask as well but color ran like
you take up his mask fancy boy put itancy boy Put it back on Yeah you're right
His design's kind of
Not very notable
Yeah
And I'm not very
And the things I like
I like that
As a film
Because it's like
Yeah okay that's great
For the film
But you're right
Because he hasn't
J Abrams hasn't
Kind of sold out
And been like
Let's make something
Cool for toys
Yeah
And I like that
Because Kylo Ren
Without his like
Hood and shit
Kind of crappy
Yeah like kind of a bad
Even his hood's like
Not terribly interesting.
He's just like, it's neat, I guess.
Covers his face.
Like I wouldn't call his hood, his mask iconic, would you?
No.
No.
One sick thing they did, they didn't kill Kylo Ren or any of the main bad guys.
That's right.
Yeah.
They threw Captain.
Yeah.
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or Captain Phasma
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I'm going to be alright
But I still have worry and concern
I think Star Wars lends itself a lot better
Than the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Alright Star Wars directors I know you're listening And I right, Star Wars directors, I know you're listening.
And I'll get into the reason why I know you're listening a bit later on.
But make sure that when you fucking make these extended universes, make them all feel fucking different.
Don't just be like, it's all the same.
And I think the benefit you have there is that there's not really a...
There is a Star Wars film.
But you know what I mean? There's not like a like there is a Star Wars film but you know what I mean there's not like a
template yeah there's superhero films you're like
you get the good one and you get the bad version of the
good one and then there's a girl around
and they fight and somebody wins
and the good guy
somebody wins it's the good guy
good ant man beats bad ant man
and everyone's happy
um
yeah you wanna say something? no man and everyone's happy yeah um yeah
you wanna say
something
nah
nothing
alright well I'll
point out the one
thing everyone's
waiting for us to
mention
this film
acknowledges
plumbing the
death star
it was really
nice
who plums the
death star
Finn
Finn is the
answer
Finn he worked
on fucking
what was it
sanitation
sanitation on
the death star
on the killer
well not the death star but the star killer... Well, not the Death Star,
but the Starkiller base.
So, yeah.
Close enough.
Like, J.J. Abrams,
he looked directly into the camera
and was like,
got you, boys.
And now,
when you're all fucking bugging us
to do the...
Who does the Pommel on the Death Star?
Finn.
How's the answer?
Finn does it.
Yeah, that was kind of funny.
That was a neat little moment.
That's weird.
It's weird that J.J. Abrams
knows who we are and clearly is a big fan of the podcast. Rude a neat little moment. That's weird. It's weird that JJ Abrams knows who we are
and clearly is a big fan of the podcast.
Rude of him not to donate to our Patreon.
Whatever.
JJ, it's okay.
Not even a furious.
Not even.
Didn't even get an invite to any of the press screenings.
Rude.
We went to the peasant screenings.
Not even fucking going to us.
We didn't get no fancy boy screenings
for us
and we got pretty good seats
shout out to me
for getting those
so I just want to have
whoever got those seats
should get a kudos
so guys
shout out to Joel Dusha
can we thank Joel Dusha
for getting us a meeting
what was your favourite
weird alien design
like in the background
I love
fuck the robots
were good
oh sorry
just remember something good
You drank too many V's
And heart attacks
And I had a coronary attack
Whatever her name is
She just wants to fuck Chewie
Maz
Now that Han's dead
Chewie is free of his life debt
So now Chewie can do
What he wants to do
Chewie and Maz can have
A gross wrong baby
Yeah
Chewie can like
Fucking cause
I like now to imagine
That everything that
Chewie has been done
Has because like
He's at life debt
The Han
And now he's like
I'm sad that my
Best buddy
But then again
We sort of
I'm free now
I'm free
I can do what
I can do what
Chewie wants Yeah I can do what Chewie wants
Yeah
I can hide
Fucking hell
We've hit the yawning segment
You have, I'm good
Shut up, you almost had a heart attack
I yelled at you
Actually, hang on
Something made me piss myself laughing in the cinema
What was it?
No, that was the apocalypse trailer.
Where Magneto hurls Professor X's wheel.
Magneto picks him up and drags him.
Oh, no, no, no.
Eric, please don't.
Put me down. Give me one second. I don't Put me down
I don't have good legs
I've been offered a can of V
And I'm gonna go take that
I'll be back in one second
Keep recording the episode
Don't worry we'll keep talking
There's something else that I really liked
And I think I pointed out to you as well
The fuck was it?
It was some weird robot doing a good thing
Yeah it was in
Oh fuck it how do you show It was in in uh uh oh fuck it
hell do shit
it's in Jakku
whatever you pronounce
that planet
Jakku
yeah
why can't I
Jakku
fucking Jakku
yeah
uh it was in
that scene
see I like that
gross thing
that was just
lapping up the water
that Finn drank out of
yeah that was awesome
I like that
see again
Finn such a good character
it's kind of like
yeah motivation
I get it
he's like
gets out of
wherever he's fucking stuck.
It's water.
I just need water.
I'll drink it.
It's a bit gross.
This is gross.
Fuck it.
Again, I don't want to harp on about the quips.
But here it is.
He drinks the water and it's gross.
And instead of just being like, ugh, and keeping drinking, he does like a whole like, he mugs.
He's like, and you're like, why not just be like, ew, it's gross and keep drinking?
I don't know.
He does.
He does. But it's gross and keep drinking? I don't know. He does.
But it's like exaggerated.
Anyway.
I'm not even talking into a micro-virtual.
The only exaggeration is in your fucking mouth, Jackson.
But I like the guy who was selling the fucking little food to Ray.
He's like a Sultaran or a Sultaran from Doctor Who There was a few aliens that looked a little Doctor Who-ish
Because the thing with the big face looked like face of Poe
Poe Dameron
How funny is it to imagine that guy selling the food ration story
Was just like a Sultaran that fucked up
Because they're like a war-like species that are always in their armour
But this one clearly had his armour taken and gotten fat
It's just really funny The mosquito guys hanging out at the cantina that are always in their armor. But this one's clearly had his armor taken and gotten fat.
It's just really funny.
The mosquito guys hanging out at the cantina, they were rad.
Yeah, they were good.
Oh, actually, one part that was really funny was when they walked into the cantina
and then we got exactly the same dialogue
from both a resistance spy and a First Order spy.
Yeah, that was good.
And again, that was sort of clever
about how to get these two forces
to converge into one place.
And again, very neat, very good writing.
Lots of quips.
Yeah, I hated that bit, but I'm not going to speak up anymore
because I'm not going to win in my quip argument.
That whole bit, I was like, what's the point?
Mad Max Fury Road has heaps of quips.
Mad Max Fury Road has like no quips. It's quip-less. It's quip- max fury road has heaps of quips mad max fury road
has like no quips so many quips it's quip plus film all the way so many quips the only two things
i probably now thinking about it that i felt out of place one was uh yeah the scene the star trek
scene the star trek scene in the middle of my fucking style where like yeah uh ray opens up
the doors and it's
like those monsters come out and they just this is a design of the monsters in the way it did
it did feel very star trekky fuck cartoony and a little bit cartoony yeah and the second one i'm
thinking is just the death of the resistance like killing those five planets and no one really hitting that. There's no impact.
In A New Hope,
they blow up Alderaan and it's like,
oh shit, I felt the disturbance.
And it's like, you know,
all these voices, like a couple
of voices calling out being like, oh no.
I think we're going to get more of,
I think because when they blow up the planets,
this film is already
underway, like well underway. I think we're going to get the planets, this film is already... Is it underway?
Like, well underway.
I think we're going to get the more feeling of that in the second film
because they destroyed the Reboblick.
Like, it's done again.
It's done.
Which brings back the status quo of fucking the original trilogy.
I know.
The Imperials are winning again.
We're back.
But it was still, like...
I know.
There was just no weight to it like they
destroyed them well they destroyed these five planets and there's no weight from the fact that
how we saw it like with older on it's just like a real quick thing well this is really slow yeah
like no no no isn't it there's weight for us but there's no way for the characters yeah like the
life's death also doesn't have that much yeah the resistance layer is just like kind of like
looking at it and then c-3po is like la la two's doing shit and she's like sick i'm in Yeah, like the... Hodge's death also doesn't have that much layer. Yeah, yeah, like Leia is just like kind of like looking a bit bummed.
And then C-3PO's like, La La 2's doing shit.
And she's like, sick, I'm in.
But Leia has her reaction when it happens, remember, at Cod's door.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because I keep forgetting that Leia is more sensitive.
She does it in...
She did it in Return of the Jedi, which I watched before this.
And I was like, fucking forgot about that.
Watch his beeping.
Is your alarm... Somebody Somebody's gotta get up
My alarm sounds like
Jamie T, the British singer
What time do you start work?
7 o'clock
I still got 3 hours
My heart rate's only 87 at the moment
That's surprising
It's going down
Mine gets loud when I do shit
It yells and it gets fast Nah, I'm fucking flying it's going down mine gets loud when douche yells
and it gets fast
nah I'm fucking flying
what the fuck was that
yeah so like
the resistance
the republic
just being fucked
no one really
acknowledges it
in the film
yeah
is what I'm saying
the resistance
I cried
I didn't cry
the resistance
but douche is right
maybe that's because
that was during
like well
they're like
we don't have time to mourn.
It's in a war.
It's in a battle.
And then maybe next film,
there'll be the ramifications of that.
Because that's a weird thing about this.
Maybe it isn't weird.
I don't know.
This film, I kind of don't know where they'll go next.
I have vague ideas.
Well, what I thought was going to happen,
and this actually brings me to,
I started listing things I thought was going to happen in this film.
I'll just quickly list them so I can talk about them.
I've already spoken about one.
I thought that... Dusha, signposting his sentence is good. I thought that Han Solo was going to happen in this film. I'll just quickly lift them so I can talk about them. I've already spoken about one. I thought that...
Lucius, signposting his sentence is good.
I thought that Han Solo was going to die and that happened.
I didn't think Luke was going to be in the film.
I thought that do the old, he'll be in the film.
And like the scene where he puts his hand on R2 would be
similar to what they actually did in the film.
I thought that was all they're going to do.
And I thought that Rey was going to be Han Solo's kid
but isn't
so then once they
were like oh everything's done we need to go find Luke
I thought it was going to be search for Spock
but search for Luke as Star Wars 2
Star Wars 2
the search for Spock Luke
Splook
but no they find Luke right at the end
living on a hill
what was he staring at before she got there Trek, trek, trek But no, they find Luke right at the end Living on a hill He's just
What was he staring at before she got there?
He's like, how many whales can I see?
I'm gonna go fishing
Soon it's gonna be super good
To be fair, he's probably
I know, he's force sensitive
He knows she's coming
Shut up
If he knows she's coming
It's even weirder that he was looking away
Was that like, he's like, she's coming up
Better face away so I can do a dramatic turn.
Or he was thinking about all the planets just blow up.
Maybe.
How there was millions of voices suddenly silenced.
That's true.
Probably billions of voices really when you think about it.
They blow up like seven planets.
I like that they were like, fuck the moons also.
Not just fuck the planet, fuck the moons.
Well, I guess if you lived through the original trilogy,
they're always on the fucking moons.
Yeah. There's a planet. There the moons. Well, I guess if you lived through the original trilogy, they're always on the fucking moons. Yeah.
There's a planet.
There's moons.
Good.
I quite like, it's just like a tiny scene,
but I really liked when they fired off the weapon from Starkiller Base
and it showed the trees because it's on a planet.
Yeah.
The trees just being like flying to the side.
I like that.
How they just converted a moon into the Starkiller Base.
We have nuclear bomb tests.
Still got that one, right? um yeah what do you call them
one thing i wish i agree actually one thing i would have slightly changed sure parody parodies
they're parodying a nuclear bomb one thing i want to change though the scene where it's like they
show the star killer base draining a sun yeah and then it just flashes into the, it cuts to the resistance talking about what they're doing.
It's like,
oh,
and then it's like Finn says,
oh yeah,
it gets the energy from the sun.
It's like,
I would have just reversed those two scenes.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Or had like,
no,
cause then they're saying it and explaining it.
Yeah,
that's true.
Cause then you're like,
oh,
I see what I now have learned what I was seeing.
I don't like it when movies do that.
Either way,
you all just cut
Cut one of the two out
We didn't need
Reversing the order would have made it worse
That scene could have gone four different ways
It could have just been either one of them
Or it could have been reversed
Reversing them would make it the worst possible option
Yeah, because then it's like
They drain the sun
And then it's like, hey, guess what's happening to the sun?
It's getting drained.
It's where we get a cool image and we're like, whoa, what the fuck?
And then it's draining the sun.
We all just be like, oh, it's draining the sun.
Yeah, but Star Wars is a kid's movie.
Oh, it's draining the sun.
Yeah, but you're like, something's happening.
I'm assuming they're draining the sun.
Oh, lol, now I know for sure.
Or even as it's, I don't know, even as it's draining the sun oh lol now i know for sure yeah or even my beating heart or even as it's maybe
even i don't know even as it's draining the sun as it's sort of halfway through the like the voice
over of finn telling what's going to happen oh see that sounds even worse again i don't know
just don't tell me what's happening as it's happening i'm there just slightly but they
kind of told you what's happening just almost directly after it just felt also weird anyway
you know i liked finn not understanding the force that was good well he was like we'll just
use the force exactly see what i mean fins like us we don't understand the force either yeah that
was see that was an okay quip that quip gets the tick of what quips did you like yeah that was good
yep i don't remember any of the others i don't know they were sticking fast thinking about the
star trek scene um i like that she opened the wrong doors
Because that is very reminiscent
Of something that would happen in a Star Wars film
Of them being like hey we're competent
Oh god
And also shutting the doors and cutting off its legs
That was good
I like that that lad was Irish
I like that in Star Wars
It was so multicultural I loved it
It's kind of funny that there was so much backlash From loved it. Hey, whatever. There was Asians. There was wood.
Everyone's white and male
and the two leads are now
a lady and a black man.
It's the best.
It's super good.
There was multicultural rebel pilots.
There was lady stormtroopers
who just had a lady stormtrooper voice
and you were like, yeah, good.
There was a 12-year-old Asian person
as one of the fucking X-Wing parts.
Good.
One of the fucking X-Men.
I mean, as Jubilee.
She's there.
She comes by.
She's going like, oh, fire.
She's great.
I'm starting to think that maybe the sanitation thing
was a reference to us
and now I'm getting scared that JJ's listening.
Dusha thinks so high of himself it's
beautiful no why wouldn't he listen to me because we're great um he is hey jj you're beautiful uh
hey hey jj hey hey hey hey hey jenny jenny whatever his name is the guy that wrote empire
strikes back he's probably a big fan yeah shout out to him yes um i'm trying to think uh so what
do you think's going to happen in the next one?
I don't know.
It depends.
It's a hot mystery.
Luke will either take the role of Yoda or he will join their team and take the role that Han Solo had in this film.
I don't particularly like how I'm imagining either of those because I don't want him as a straight replacement for Yoda.
But I guess he would be coming with...
I hope he comes with...
I don't think he's
going to be either.
Yeah.
I think he's going to be
like...
He's going to be a
competent
but reserved
person to train Rey.
I hope he doesn't want
anything to do with it.
That's my hope.
He's not going to want
to train Rey.
That's what I mean.
Like, reserved.
So he's going to be
reluctantly doing it.
That's even worse. I don't reckon they're training her at all. Well, she has to train her. what I mean like reserved so he's gonna be reluctantly doing it that's even worse I don't reckon
he'll train her at all
well she has
he's gonna train
crazy Jedi
just fucking do it
she'll train herself
find Yoda's ghost
it's about
I like that we got
no ghosts
that was nice
yes
fucking force ghosts
ruin things
actually
there's no Jedi
died
and we didn't get
any old ghosts
That's true
Unless Snoke is a ghost
I hope that with Luke
He's just like
Nah
I'm done
I don't want to get back into that again
And so Rey has to chuff back to the Rebels
And be like
I hope they don't
Soz
I hope they don't kill anymore of the original cast
Because
Leia can die
I like Leia in the original trilogy but in this
I was like what's the point of her
no but the thing is if they kill her why
well yeah that's fair
she was good in this
I really thought she in terms of acting chops
like hey me Jackson
the 24 year old Australian
lad is calling you out
Carrie Fisher but
I just didn't think like compared to
everyone else like it didn't think, compared to everyone else,
it didn't seem like she was given much of a performance.
I'll say it. I'll go there.
I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of
Carrie Fisher. I'm saying things you
aren't even afraid to say.
Tweet us and I will give you
taxes and credits.
I'm scared of Carrie Fisher.
I think her performance was fine.
There was nothing I would be like,
oh, it was gross.
I think everyone...
No, it wasn't like it was terrible.
It was kind of funny how many cigarettes
she must have smoked since Return of the Jedi.
It just felt super nothing-y.
I don't know.
That's just how I felt about it.
She'll probably have a bigger role in the next film.
That's, again,
a lot of the issues are going to come down to that.
Easy, this is a set-up film.
And this is setting up...
They didn't do it too bad. It's not too much of a a set up film. This is the status quo.
This is what's happening.
This is the shit that's gone down.
Let's talk about Dommel Gleeson for a sec.
Good.
End of discussion.
He was a good Hitler youth
fancy boy.
Goddamn fancy boys.
Finn might spend most of the...
Going back to what you asked and we didn't answer
I reckon Finn might spend a lot of the next film sort of recovering
I hope so
He mightn't be in it
Like he'll be in it
But he might be more
They give him like a sweet metal spine
I reckon he might be in it similar to the amount that Oscar Isaac is in this film
He's there
Actually
Fuck whatever I just said
Let's talk about Poe Dameron more
How am I sick
Sick on
Poe Dameron I want a Poe Dameron more How am I sick of Poe Dameron?
I want a Poe Dameron solo movie
Yes
That would be so good
He just
Poe Dameron and like BB-8
Or 8 BB, whatever the fuck you call him
BB-8
Poe Dameron, I think
Just knocking around
Also, him calling BB-8 BB-8 at the start was a bit
I didn't like that
Yeah, yeah, I agree
I was like, let's call him BB
Come on, you're friends
Have a nickname
Just call him BB
Nah, it was You're right Fucking thing Just call him BB. Um, no.
You're right.
I think I called him R2.
He wasn't like, hey, R2-D2, the droid I own.
Yeah, he was like, hey, BB-8.
But in A New Hope, they do exactly the same introduction.
C-3PO is like, this is my friend R2-D2.
I am a protocol droid, C-3PO.
I really hope they never explain C-3PO's red arm.
Yeah, good.
Just never touch on it.
Actually, that was a funny quip.
He's like, oh, you probably didn't recognize me because of this arm.
That was great.
That was a good quip. It was because next to C-3PO, there was a same looking dude, but he's red.
That's even good.
And was he missing enough?
No, but man, if he he was I would have been like
That's great
C-3PO is more important
The prequel to it
Never explained why C-3PO went from silver to gold
It just happened
Somebody was just like
Buy robots
I want to be pretty. He's no longer hearing what we're saying.
What?
It's because it's all the way over there
and I just wanted to sit up a bit.
I hope C-3PO becomes redder
as the film's going on in the last one.
He's red and you're like, okay.
Another thing I didn't like? R2-D2.
I don't know if you've already said that.
I didn't like him activating.
Like I said, I groaned when they that before. I didn't like him activating. Like I said,
I groaned when they
relieved him.
Hang on.
Revealed.
Reactivating, yeah, no.
Saved up for the next one.
When they pulled
the fucking cloth off.
I'm like,
why have that there?
And then to have him
being like,
oh, he wakes up
when Han dies.
Like, why?
What happened?
He sends his servants
to the force.
He's forced to.
Was there a fucking
little failsafe in R2
where it was like,
when Han dies? Yeah, I know. And Luke being in R2 Where it was like When Han dies
Yeah I know
And Luke being like
I fucking hate Han
When he dies
I'll be back
I know
You know what it could be
What
Um
Like Luke feels
That Han has died
And he's like
Okay
I'll give you the map to me
Yeah
I don't know
I mean it's a dick move
But I think
Oh yeah
And that may be
Because then you can
When Rey's like
Here's your lightsaber
And then Luke's all teary
Because I guess he knows Han's dead
Yeah, maybe
But I agree
That whole thing just felt very on the nose
You were like, okay
I would have rather R2-D2 being like
Like there
Around, like roundabout
Scooting around, doing shit
And like, come on R2-D2
You know you have the fucking map
He's like, I don't have access to it
And then when Han-Doo's like you've got a transmission from Master Luke?
Even like, just like R2's just there and part of things and having wacky times
and then just suddenly starts projecting the map.
And everyone's like, how are you doing that?
And he's like, beep, beep, beep, boop.
And you're like, Luke?
Is he corresponding?
Is it like, there it is.
And then BB just map fucks him again.
Yeah, exactly.
It's good.
It's good.
You liked that bit too much.
I did
That was my faves
Does that mean
Unpunishable sex drive
Yes
I still find my
My favourite thing was like
Finn just stabbing that cunt
With the lightsaber
No I think my favourite thing was
Great
It was fucking good
Finn being like
Hey
You
Wait when did fucking BB-8
Give the thumbs up
Oh that scene
That was good
That was
That was a good quip
That was when
Finn was like
I'm part of the fucking resistance
Shut the fuck up
I want a maybe banger
Be a good wingman
That was sick
Those were good quips
They fucking realised that
Comic relief is okay to just be a droid.
Yeah.
I love that bit where fucking BB, again, imprints on Ray like a duck.
Because like, I don't know, like the opening scene when BB just rolls through,
he's like, he just rolls through like a flock of ducks.
That pleased me.
I don't know why, but I'm like, no, good.
He's got ducks.
I love this planet.
Great, there's ducks.
There's stuff going on.
And then he's like, fuck old dad, you're new dad.
BB, BB. And Ray's like
Okay fine
That was great
I did like wondering
What the fuck
Kind of environment
They designed BB-8 for
In a spaceship
He's just like
Smacking on a wall
He's got the
He shoots out the wires
Took him a while
To use those wires
On the Millennium Falcon
I think he's like
Oh fuck
Do you know what I liked
And like
I don't know It was kind of Anticlimactic when they did it But I think in repeat View, oh, fuck. Do you know what I liked? I don't know.
It was kind of anticlimactic when they did it,
but I think repeat viewings are like it more.
It's how they're like, that's garbage.
And then it's the Millennium Falcon.
But they don't hold the camera on the Millennium Falcon for ages.
They're not like, that's garbage.
I did like also the way that it rises up
and all the trash falls off it.
They're like, hey, we're taking it out of retirement.
I did like how it was like, what the fuck's doing in Jakku?
That motherfucker stole a glove.
That guy, he stole it.
See, that was a bad quip.
That's a bad quip.
I hated it.
I was like, what's the point of turning it into a joke?
Because it's...
Let's not get into the whole quip sitch again.
No, because
that's a reference.
Are you pro-quip or like
anti-quip?
Hashtag anti-quip.
If you're listening and you were like
yeah, the film had too many quips
it was kind of unnecessary.
There was some scenes that didn't need to be
comedic but were comedic.
Pro-quip.
I'm anti-quip. Pro quip.
I'm anti-quip.
No, because that is just a reference to fucking Lando and Han.
But like, is all of it or just like the first bit
and then they like fill in the middle?
No, the fact when he's like, hey,
because the real quip comes with him being like,
let them know that Han Solo is stealing back
from one of your fucking...
Yeah, yeah.
Well, if the other stuff's a reference I just didn't get that's fine
no it's not him being like
no this person had it and then this person
had it and this person had it that's not a reference
I don't think
maybe we got called out for our Star Wars knowledge earlier today
so we did
but yes no I didn't like that little segment
I thought that was kind of useless
but that's just Jackson's opinion
anti-quip hashtag anti-quip anti-quip hashtag anti-quip
andy quip hashtag andy quip andy quip hashtag andy quip it's for right now i just realized
that we have to pack this up yeah i was like no it's all right because like when we get to the
episode i can just go to bed no you help me put this in my car i can't go to bed. No, you help me put this in my car. I can't go to bed until nine.
Exactly.
And like solidarity, I got to fucking drive this cunt home and like, well, to the cafe.
Sit in a cafe and just stare at him until he gives me a coffee.
Or maybe just sleep in a corner.
There's a couch. If you had a coffee, now I'd have a hard time.
I'd close my eyes.
That wasn't a tweet.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Wake up.
Not the face.
You just legitimately slapped yourself in the face.
You've got two energy drinks in front of you.
Yeah, I don't want to...
I've got to pace myself.
Yeah, I didn't.
I'm an idiot.
Yeah, I had one that was in the fridge.
Not my fridge also, so that's good.
Don't live here.
Hang on.
She has two.
Could I have five energy drinks in one day?
Don't fuck Claire.
That's rude of you.
Claire is one of our friends.
For listeners that are unaware.
Claire's like, Claire, I fucked you
what taking your second energy drink
I don't care
good
and we are yelling right next to our bedroom
we certainly are
Star Wars
enough about our friends
I really like that robot when they were renting
Mazda's palace
Mazda RX4
whatever her name was.
It was just like looming over. It was just a good
looking robot. That's all I have.
There was a lot of stuff that just didn't
need to be... It was just like
yeah, good. That's good.
That's good to look at. That's in the world.
That's a good time. The only scene that I remember
being like, I don't like looking at this
as much is just the Star Trek scene.
Yeah, I think that is...
Because they should really feel like Star Wars aliens.
Yeah, that's the thing. They felt like a
Star Trek alien. Weirdly.
Because everything was very...
Also, the special effects.
It looked real
props. Yeah, it was great.
And that bird!
A bird just smacking his
fucking face into a thing.
I was into that yeah I was into that
that was a good time
everything's good
she was a
scavenger
scavenger scum
nah I loved it
that was good times
I don't think I wanted Luke
in this film
like I don't think
I wanted to see that
at the end of the
oh but then there's
a good ending
nah but I
I kind of agree with you
yeah maybe then
putting the map
good time together,
and then leaving it at that.
But then I think you can't open a film with that either.
I reckon I should have ended with her arriving on that island,
and then...
I reckon you need to see Luke,
but I don't think you needed him turning around.
No, but then you're like,
who was that?
And then everyone's like...
Like fucking hell, everyone's like,
Kylo Ren is Luke. He's not, everyone's like, Kylo Ren is Luke.
He's not, by the way.
Kylo Ren is Adam Driver or Ben Solo.
Have we already said that?
Ben Solo or Garner.
I said that at the start.
Literally, we were counting down spoilers.
I was going to say Darth Jar Jar.
We already said that.
We pulled that one out of the trunk.
Which is good, because if they left it open for people to say that it's true,
I would have killed myself.
And there would have been blood
on everyone's hands, except mine, because I'd be dead.
Um, what the fuck else
happened in this movie?
What else can we talk about here? Are we good?
Final thoughts?
Final thoughts?
Final thoughts, because it's 4.30 in the morning.
It was a pretty good film.
8 out of 10. I won't see it again, unless30 in the morning. It was a pretty good film. 8 out of 10.
I won't see it again unless I'm made to.
Probably until episode 8 is out,
then you'll watch it to rehash.
Exactly.
Hashtag Andy Quip.
I really liked it.
Hashtag Andy Quip.
Sorry.
I really liked it,
but for some reason I'm not...
Like, I'm giving it a 7.5
I will rewatch it
I think it dragged a little bit
in points
How long was it?
It's 135 minutes
To me it was a very short 130
I think the only point it dragged for me
is towards the end of the second act
just before the start
of the third
a lot of the like
the rebels fighting
the Starkiller base
sort of dragged
yeah
how cool was the scene
when Poe Dammer
and Finn are escaping
though
at the very start
yeah that was great
that was bloody
quip central
and he gets caught
on the thing
no I
that was alright
because they were
just thrown out
so you're pro quips
because I'm pro quips
in appropriate places
because you quip with your friends but in a serious situation you don't quip there's one thing That was alright because they were just thrown out. You're pro quips. Because I'm pro quips in appropriate places.
Because you quip with your friends.
But in a serious situation you don't quip.
There's one thing I liked in watching it. When is there quips in a serious situation?
Give me one example.
I don't know.
We've explored.
I don't know.
You just find out you've got cancer.
And we're like,
lol your ball.
This is shit.
Don't even fucking.
We've had the discussion.
Pro quips.
Pro quips.
Andy quip. Andy quip i hope the
one scene that i thought was good in the film but now i'm thinking about was like maybe not the bit
when the millennium falcon and she's like the gun gets like in one position so she kind of
no that was awesome turns it around oh fuck we haven't spoken about the best scene in the film
the lightsaber fight yeah we did have we? no we didn't
I'm so tired
we mentioned it
but we didn't explain it
I love that they did
that whole scene
in a forest full of trees
they can cut down
yeah that was so clever
and so cool
the sound effects
was like good
I liked that it
no because I mentioned
that everyone
no one knows how to use
a lightsaber
and that's good
but no the fact that
you get bloody Finn
fighting for a bit
and then he gets
his back all sliced
like he gets his
ass handed to him then ray is like don't worry i got this and then she realizes to use the force
and that's sick and everything's good it's a really really good ray she's a wilder it makes
sense because why would anyone be fucking flipping around it's like a that's true There was no real big flips. It was good. No one did a single... All quips, no flips.
Hashtag all quips, no flips.
Yeah, that was a good fucking...
And I loved how Finn almost took Luke's stance when they're fighting.
Just like the power stance.
Everyone looked like they were going to shit themselves.
Just like overhead. Just like smack, smack, smack. just like smack smack smack that was see this is good in the trailer i was confused about
how they were going to do it in the film because um thingy's lightsaber kylo ren's lightsaber is
revealed very early on but in the trailer you see it turn on when he's standing in the forest
yeah the film doesn't play out like that the camera pans across it's already on when he's standing in the forest. In the film, it doesn't play out like that. The camera pans across and it's already on.
Yeah, that's true.
I thought that was from the fever dream
that she has when she gets near the lightsaber.
Yeah.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, the trailer is from the fever dream.
No, no.
Because the teaser trailer,
I remember because I've seen it about 850 times.
There's the, turn it on.
Is Kylo Ren sort of,
you're seeing him from the back,
like staggering into the forest
And then he stops and turns it on
I guess they probably cut that bit for timing
Or that was just shot for the trailer
I like that fight
Because he was limping and shit
And he was smacking his gut shot
That was good
I don't know why he was smacking his wound
That was weird
He kept on hitting himself Is it because pain fuelled him? Is it why he was smacking his wound yeah that was weird he kept on just like hitting
himself is it because it was like pain fueled him yep is it because he was like
his hilt burnt the dude um fin yeah yeah it was fin that happened too that was good
it's pretty good bloody seven out of ten seven and a half out of 10 it's a film that I'm like
it was fine
but I have issues with it
8
and you're like
I loved it
7.5
I gotta bring it back
to 7 now
because of that
well your review
sounds like a 6
that was a little bit
I'm saying 9
I enjoyed it
I really did
even stuff
I'm now just nitpicking
thinking of it
like the Millennium Falcon her doing that weird thing and like having the perfect shot line up
it's like but then it's like no she was force sensitive that was good and that was such a cool
way to do it to be like not engines off bang that was cool sick and mad as fuck yeah so all in all
fun yeah what would you have wanted then to make it a 10 out of 10?
I know for Jack it's like no quips, more flips.
Just less quips.
Less quips, all flips, fucking...
No flips.
Jackson, no quips, all flips, fucking bullshit Bailey.
Yeah.
What up?
I think that could have been paced a little.
See, because I'm approaching it not from a Star Wars
film point of view but just as a film
because again I agree that
to me it was probably a 10 out of 10
Star Wars film it's the best film
they probably could have made and as a film though
I'm putting it as a 9 maybe
8.5 it suffers a bit from being the first
in a planned trilogy
it has a little
bit of pacing issues it's a little bit
too much of a retreading it is it is an uphill battle for them but i think they did it really
well so via what would you try and make it a bit better i think that it needs to probably get rid
of the star killer thing it needed a different thing because we've had so many fucking starships
at this point that whole fight you kind of knew where it was going you were like okay it was super
mcguffin the way they were like,
you do this, you shoot this, and they save the day.
Don't even trip, dog.
I liked when they were having that discussion
around the planning table, and they're like,
so, you're going there, you'll do that, you'll do that.
So you'll do episode three, you'll do episode one, good.
But I just think it was funny.
You're like, but in an actual military plan,
a lot more goes into it than
You take out the boosters
You do that
Anyway let's fuck along
People getting the chips and we're like
Wait what the fuck was I doing
I just think it was a little too
And also in episode 1
Nope episode 4
Just give it a bit
Episode 11
When they're going down the meridian trenchrench and like X-Wings die and you
like see them blowing up and like,
Oh,
that pilot.
No.
In this one part is dying.
Like,
I don't know who just died.
There's a lot going on on the screen.
I,
I,
I didn't really,
I didn't care as much about these particular X-Wing pilots.
The character deaths are really way too.
As I did in say the new hope.
I think I just struggled to really
stay awake
and also the space battles were just pretty chaotic
do you think that you would have enjoyed it more
if you didn't need to shit the whole time
I think I would have enjoyed it less
this could put me on edge
this adds an element of danger
that I can sympathise with the people
on the screen
I know what that's like because i right now might shit myself
um i'm trying to think yeah no well there's my review 7.5 and that might be shooting a little
low after i watch it again we'll know what i yeah really think about it and it's the kind of thing
where like i feel like in like a month if we look back because
you get that high after coming out of a good movie yeah you know what i mean then a month later you're
like oh actually well it's because i'm always kind of worried i'm like am i star wars episode
one-ing this myself you know and when people kind of when they first watched star wars when they
came out but you know this is objectively better than Star Wars Episode I. It started good. It started brutal.
We saw like the Empire or the First Order being like,
nah, they're fucked up.
They're just going to slaughter a village.
They have to direct it.
It was very goal-driven as well.
It was clear focus.
Their storyline was well thought out.
I think the first half of the film had more iconic scenes
than the second half.
Yeah, that's fair.
I'd say that apart from that lightsaber fight, the whole second half of the film is just all a bit
like oh when they fire the laser that's cool too but like the cantina doesn't look that like i
thought the can i'm gonna say this i thought the cantina music not great i mean the music was trash
i called it forgettable earlier on you did episode it was so forgettable i forget you said it was so forgettable I forget you said it was forgettable yeah that's good and I liked
Mazda
whatever
as a character
but I think she was
because there was
so many practical effects
and the fact that
she was like
mostly CGI
that was also why
the Star Trek bad guys
looked weird
because they really
stood out
because they didn't
have that like
I liked her crawling
on a table
for a moment there
I thought it was
going to be
crawling on a table
and being like
I know you're like a fucking storm but no she was like you're a fucking being, for a moment there, I thought it was going to be crawling on a table and being like,
I know you're like a fucking storm, but no, she was like,
you're a fucking coward.
You're a piece of shit coward.
That was good.
What was the quip, not a quip, but like a little offline about clones?
I think I missed that.
So what they were saying is when Finn fucked off, they were like, we should get clones rather than,
they were referencing the fact
that the clones are still available.
That's nice.
Yeah, you can still grab them
if you want.
And I did like how they were like,
oh, stormtroopers,
they just grab people
and indoctrinate them.
Yeah.
That was nice.
So yeah, that's good.
You don't...
That sort of fucked up episode
from the live show episode.
You don't sign up
to be a stormtrooper.
You just get stole as a kid.
Yeah.
Get stole? Good. Nah, in the stormtrooper You just get stole as a kid Get stalled? Good
No, in the stormtrooper you might have
In this one, the first order of stealing kids
Stormtrooper you go to the job fair
I like that baby, it's mine now
Here's a little helmet
Shoot rebels, the resistance
I like that everything had new names
First order
Resistance
It's also good because They're not rebelling
To anything
They're resisting
Yeah that's true
That's clever
Because the Republic
Well now they can change
The name to Rebels again
In the opening scroll
Was a really nice way
Of putting everything out
Being like
We don't know the fuck Luke is
But hey this pilot's a rat
Let's follow his story
True
Nice way of
Chucking everyone in
And
I'll try that again
Fuck yeah pro-Diamond
And I think yeah yeah, the ending of
with the way
Luke is revealed, that could have
been, I don't know, either extended
to make maybe some
actual sentences going on.
No, I'm glad he didn't say anything.
Just to be like, yo, what up? I wonder how much Mark Hamill got paid to stand on
a mountain and not say anything.
Probably more money than I'll ever see in my life.
What was the point of... Correct. That whole scene of weird when you look that's me dragged a bit yeah
i'm like what i was like gonna be like what was the point of her being like she walks up some steps
looks around there's a stool there where she walks up some more steps i'm reading what's next for her
it's an arch archway then there's some more steps steps Then Luke's up on a hill being like Way on the lightsaber
Clouds
Look at these clouds
I miss clouds
I don't know
Maybe he
I don't know
I don't know what you could have done instead
Yeah
Either just like him
Not the giant walk
Them going to like where he is
And it just being like a flat piece of land
And him just there in a hut
Being like yo what up
Him in a hut
In a hut Balls Oh wait That him in a hut I thought this was bad
for me outside
I know
it's a taunt one
lack of huts in this film
where were the huts at?
I'm so fucking glad there was no huts because then I would be mad that
Jakku was just Tatooine again
they should have put a hut in the snow planet
I'll fight you
just being like help um this the the voices she was ray was hearing the little
ghost voices was that the sound like the were the screams of all the jedi kids that anakin
i really don't know did anakin kill kids with that lightsaber or that red lightsaber no it's his lightsaber
he only gets
the red lightsaber
after he turns
like actually gets
turned into Darth Vader
okay
so he
so the lightsaber
Luke was using
for a good time
was the one
that he killed kids with
yep
classic fucking Obi-Wan
being like
hey
Obi-Wan gives Luke
that's
side note
Obi-Wan gives Luke
that lightsaber
in such a weird way
he just like
chucks it to him
no he's just like
he's like hey
I found this
oh by the way
well I've got you here
your dad wanted you
to have this
then he finds the
message about
Princess Leia
and she's like
we need to go to
Alderaan
and he was like
hey time to get
some training
about that lightsaber
I just gave you
so if that message didn't play it was just like hey Luke have a fucking lightsaber
I'm a sick one man
have a beer champ
Obi-Wan
idiot
all manipulative
oh wait no so you're giving it a 9
you're saying it's not the Phantom Menace
and that's good
as a Star Wars film 10 out of 10
I'm so asleep
I'm realising I'm gonna like
You know, we've gotta go and crash my car on the drive home
That's gonna be a fun time
Cause you live like an hour away
I keep coughing for some reason
It's gonna be fucking beautiful
I'm probably gonna crash on this couch
Sorry girls that live here
You're gonna wake up and see me in the morning
Lucky them
I'm gonna do that shit finally Sorry, girls that live here. You're going to wake up and see me in the morning. Lucky them.
Lucky lasses.
I'm going to do that shit finally.
All right.
Yeah, probably.
All right.
Oh, that means we're going to have to fucking pack up the mics or you shit.
I'm going to edit this motherfucker.
Don't edit it.
Not edit it, just top and tail it.
Yeah, good. If anyone's wondering what we sound like unedited, this episode.
Yeah.
Because I'm not doing it
where does his long pauses
there's no real long pauses
there's lots of yawning
there's so many yawning
anyway
Force Awakens
it was good
wasn't bad
wasn't trash
was just a movie
Nick Mason's not listening
what
but yeah
because that's his thing
I know
I know
Steel Saunders
I hope you're still alive after that film.
Because you seem like a good guy, unlike Nick Mason.
I wonder how he's dealing with the...
Hashtag pro quips, hashtag anti quips.
Hashtag Andy quips.
Hashtag all quips, no flips.
Hashtag all quips, no flips.
Hashtag Nick Mason's trash
got a lot of options this episode
anyway it's been an hour and a half
it's time for me to go to bed on the couch
and on that note
I've been Joel
I've also been Joel
I've been Jackson
I hope you have enjoyed The Force Awakens
waking up
I have a bad feeling about the amount of sleep
I'm going to get i hope that people
are listening to this podcast before watching the force awakens being like do i actually want to see
let me find out i still don't know that someone for some reason is waiting for us to do that
spoilers countdown before we start doing spoilers and then when i reveal that kylo ren is han solo's
son they're still listening for some dumb reason. If that happens,
email us angrily.
Oh, with that said, though,
the spoiler I don't think would really ruin anything
because it's not a big thing.
Oh, they didn't treat it
like a big deal, no.
And it's very...
It's very...
It does look like, you know,
very...
It's just like,
hey, here's the thing.
I'm trying to say here.
It's not like the usual
J.J. Abrams thing
where it's like,
ooh, twist reveal shit.
There is no twist reveal shit. It's all where it's like, ooh, twist reveal shit. There is no twist reveal shit.
It's all very open and like this is what's happening.
Is J.J. directing the next one?
Good.
Don't answer that.
I can just research it.
Whatever.
Anyway, good night.
Good night.
I love you.
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