you Hello and welcome back to the season question mark finale of the Acolyte Assessment. Brought to you by Star Wars Minute. I am Alex Robinson. I'm Pete Threetailer. Yeah, season question mark finale period. Yeah, so what did you think of it overall? So yeah, it's episode eight called The Acolyte. The episode of The Acolyte called The Acolyte. Little circle. And this one I made sure I was doing, you know, I was, I happen to be, I was home.
I was looking at my phone. I forgot that it drops on Tuesday evenings here in California. I, looking at my phone, I saw all kinds of people talking about the accolade. I was like, oh, oh, oh, okay, I better put this away, and I better watch it now before I see anything that I don't want to see. And I did, and that worked out. With one... One kind of almost... Not a spoiler. Well, let's talk through it. So what happens? This is not too far off of what...
I said it was going to happen, if you remember. Yeah. I thought you had one of them dying. No, I don't think so. Yeah. I think I said they were going to swap. May was going to go off with the Jedi somehow. Osha was going to go on the bad guy side. And Osha was going to go be the Acolyte. She was going to go be the Stranger's Apprentice.
Yeah, pretty much accurately. And that they were going to... I didn't know that Sol was going to die. Uh-huh. I thought he was going to go confess to Yoda, but instead he... died, and then Mrs. Creator went to, what's her name? She-Hulk. Venistress went to, she went to go talk to Yoda.
I thought there was going to be a whole talking to Yoda scene, but they kind of dodged that bullet by just like, let's just show him from behind. Let's Blofeld him a little bit. I was disappointed. I thought that it could have used a... a little full-on yoda cameo not a long one necessarily but uh so i think my overall problem with the my overall problem with the series is we're pretty much back where we started from
except they swap places and like it's story-wise what has any has anything really changed well yeah i mean the stranger has an acolyte has a has a Which he had before. Right. Yeah, but... I mean... Yes. Anyway, maybe it's just not that kind of— You're kind of describing—that's like people's complaints with Empire Strikes Back and stuff. It doesn't always have to go necessarily somewhere.
You know, it's not about necessarily always pushing them. I don't know. I enjoyed the ride. Yeah, okay. Then that's enough then. To me, I'm like, well, you know, they had eight hours. It wasn't eight hours. It was probably about five hours because they weren't. They were only half hour episodes, but I just felt like it was kind of light for content wise for a five hour thing. We learned what the secret was and what the deal was when we saw them.
I guess all the Jedi are dead, so Maid succeeded. She succeeded in her mission. Yeah, but by that point it wasn't necessarily her mission. So we started off where we left off two episodes ago with May, sorry, Osha, putting on the, and you know they're the same person, so it kind of doesn't matter, then putting on the Sith helmet.
And there's a scene where the stranger is, like, trying to get it off of her. That was the end of, I think, the last episode, right? The last episode was all the witch flashbacks.
Right, but didn't it end with them two weeks ago? No, it was completely in the... Yeah, it was completely in the... Oh yeah, something that we didn't talk about that... I didn't get to complain about because it didn't drive me crazy, but something that I'm definitely, I'm surprised it didn't drive me crazy and I'm surprised there aren't more people talking about it.
We got like pop songs over the closing credits the last couple episodes. That's right. The power of two. Yeah. Not a fan? There was another one that was just like, yeah, no, no, I don't want that. The acolyte is here. You mean like that? No, no, no, no. Because then it's going to be like... Like Enterprise. The closing credits are just like a dumping ground for like...
Pop star. Some Disney pop star they're trying to... Yeah, so we want to get this pop star out there, so let's just put them in the closing credits of this song, of this movie. Corporate synergy, man. Either they're going to, you know...
sing their own version of a song that was in the movie or they're just going to sing something completely unrelated that was only, you know. And, you know, how is that different than James Bond? It's like, you know, featured, it was kind of the title thing in James Bond versus... Well, I mean, I guess if your biggest complaint is the music over the end credits, then that's a pretty good television then, I guess. Yeah, there's a couple other things, you know, minor quibbles. Yeah.
So I did like the scene where she puts on the helmet and we see Darth Stranger is like trying to get it. So it's a cool effect where it's almost like. Yeah. it's kind of like visually demonstrating that he can't, you know, the force is preventing him from, I like that. It kind of, it kind of.
when with osha too or kind of when she was like using her powers it kind of turned into like a different filter or something where everything looked more evil and spooky yeah it was like switching realities almost yeah But I don't really... Is this helmet thing part of the reason she switches? Because the helmet is somehow... I don't know why she went with him at the end.
like there was nothing that made me she didn't want any powers or anything at the start of the story so it's at the end of the whole thing at the end of this thing where osha goes off with the stranger that seemed out of nowhere No, I mean, it's been building and she obviously saw her. She got in touch with the dark side. She leaned into her anger. Felt the power of the dark side. Once you start down that path, forever will it dominate your destiny. So wait, when did that part happen?
It happened a couple of times, like whenever she gets angry and is using the force that happened in the last one, not the flashback one, but the last other, so two episodes ago. You saw her kind of getting angry and using the Force, and that's the dark side. And then in this one, it happens a couple times, and then especially the duel kind of at the end. She lashes out. So I was wondering if this part of the helmet thing had something to do with, like, this was a further...
Like, tantalizing her with the secrets that are inside the Sith story. You know what I mean? No, I mean, I think it's just... The opposite. I think it is just like a sensory deprivation kind of a thing, right? It's blocking out the... So why was it so hard for him to take it off? I thought it was when she was putting it on, there were all those whispers and weird sounds going on. I thought that was supposed to be implied that she was somehow communing with dark side forces.
But it just shows her that May is piloting a ship. That's the only thing it... So it's almost like the holocrons where she's just using it to get information. Right. And so... Yeah, so I guess that she... Gets that she realized kind of like everything else is gone, but their bond remains, just like in the closing credits song. And so she's able to see her there and knows what she wants to do for that. Yeah, wait, but there was something else about the helmet? No.
Something you just said sparked something that reminded me of something and now I can't remember. Well, maybe it'll come back to you. We'll see the helmet later on when he shows up again for a lightsaber. uh yeah they leave the planet and then they are um no no this is when um saul is leaving the planet and may escapes in the like mini ship
And they're chasing each other through that ice storm thing. Which I thought was really cool looking. Yeah. I thought that was a neat environment we hadn't seen too often. And so, yeah. Now I know, you know. It's sci-fi, so whatever. Space fantasy. Sci-fi. All the real scientists will be saying... Fantasists. Asteroids don't behave like that, and the planet's rings aren't like that. They're so far apart that you can't even see the other asteroids, basically. But who cares? This is sci-fi.
Well, I mean, yeah. Once we're past sound and space, I'm like, okay, well, then the rest of it is magic, so who cares? As long as it looks cool. I like to see space crashing through a Yes album cover. I'm sold regardless of whether it really happened or not. Sold. Also, I just want to say, speaking of which, I came to a conclusion that Star Wars Minute has, in some sense, ruined me for being able to enjoy many entertainments.
Because I've so conditioned my brain to always be looking for inconsistencies and people not behaving, you know, like that kind of stuff that I'm basically useless as a... If someone says, oh, did you enjoy the movie? Like I'm apparently working on a totally different set of criteria than, you know, just was it engaging? And I'm all like, well, you know, the continuity is pretty flawless in my book. I couldn't find anything wrong with it. So A plus.
So, you know, that's what I'm doing. Trying to come up with a backstory for the weird, you know, pilot character in the background who was in it for five minutes. So anyway, yeah. So I, you know, I. I know some people are like, oh, it's good to have some positivity once after all the complaining and stuff. And here I am doing the classic complaining about Disney Star Wars. But, you know, it's implied in our mandate, so I have to do it.
so cool space ice uh wasn't so fond of basil the traitor that seemed a little uh i didn't get what's going on there why did basil betray saul I mean, he was sniffing around and we were supposed to think that. He pulled all the cables out of the wall and Saul was like, no, don't touch that. So it seemed like he knew what he was doing.
Which is weird that he would know how to deactivate the ship. I mean, he does. But yeah, it's interesting. I don't know why that... Basically, I think we were thinking that he was on to... osha yeah or may rather but maybe he was just really sniffing out soul for some reason i don't remember what i don't know why that happened and he's totally like he's
Up until now, and even after this, he's on the Jedi's side. We see no other evidence of him scheming or anything. Very specifically, not all the Jedi necessarily are on the exact same side as we... Right, but this week one of the good guy Jedis says hello to him and talks to him in his language even. So he's on that side, but maybe he's got a thing to keep an eye on Sol. Hmm. Let's see. Where is Wurzel? We get a little taste of Coruscant politics here. Nice little...
glimpse into the world where we see a senator kind of locking horns with She-Hulk about the Jedi overstepping their bounds and things like that. Yeah, thank goodness we finally get people talking about politics. um wait a minute where did this oh there you go anyway so it doesn't say anything about i'm looking for like in the wikipedia list yeah see if it's like does it say like does it say anything about why um soul you know why why
It's too fresh. People haven't figured it out yet. Rips the wires out of Sol's ship, but no. I mean, based on his actions, if I didn't know anything else about it, I would assume that he was doing that because he thought Sol was menacing the woman on the table.
Like he just came in and there was a guy menacing a woman who was tied up, chained up to a table. And so he was, or no, at that point she was free because he was, she was about to escape or something. And then, uh, yeah, like it seemed like he was trying to help her, but.
Up until now, I didn't see him having even a scene or any kind of relationship. Well, it seemed like he was suspicious of her the whole time, but then why would he... Yeah, I don't know why he did that, now that I think about it.
There's a couple of things where it made sense within the context of the story, but then when you go back and look at the reasoning behind it. That happened a couple of times within the whole series. Yeah. See, that's the kind of thing I think I'm... talking about like i normally i probably wouldn't even have noticed i would have just been whoa that creature just totally tore that panel open without even right any um but yes back to the the politics we get to see the senator uh the the yes
The senator is saying that the Jedi are just a military with a fake religion skin. And, you know, it's not wrong. No, no, totally. I think that's the... You know, one of the underlying things here is that the Jedi are unchecked, kind of doing, you know, running off and doing whatever. And it's good to have that.
mixed in there it's funny because it's we're like also conditioned to be like i wonder like i would like to go into this with a different mindset to be like like if i was like super pro jedi and watching this would i feel like would i be like oh that's the the like the uh yeah he's like it's like the guy who shows up on captain kirk's enterprise who's like you've got to get this to starbase 4 and he's like i have to save spock you know like
Would I think of it that way? Or is it clear? I don't know. I was definitely getting messages from this. I was appreciating the kind of... intricacy of the of the positions i think the the fact that the you can't the the movie scene the series seems to be of two mindsets at the same time it really it's the acolyte duality you know what i mean that's why all the episodes have
because it was really all about, you know, different versions of stories, because they even go back to the fact that, you know, brainwashing and all that. Chancellor Drellick, we learn, and we see him later on. He's that...
that new disney plus guy he's a he's a he's not an lo asty he's a the other new common type right um and uh you know did they they really must have cut the budget for this one after because like i feel like in another this would have been like they bust out a hammerhead mayor for the for the boss at Mos Eisley, they should have done something more than just an alien we've seen a million times. You know what I mean? It should have been like a season finale alien. You know what I mean? I think...
He's already an established character in books and comics. Oh, yeah, that's probably true. Snoresville. First non-human chancellor we see, and it's this drip. But yes, fun to see the little tiny other kind of mini Senate they have there. It's like the meeting of the cabinet or something. Yeah, it does seem a little smoky. There he is, Trellick. Appearances. Oh, The Acolyte. That's it. First appearance. Episode 8. That's it. He is not from anything else.
Well, there you go. That should have been something more. I mean, I'm not criticizing the creature effects. It looks like a very good creature effect, but it's just, you know. Nobody's questioning that. Neil Scanlon is in the Ben Burtt Hall of Fame for us. We know that. It's the equivalent of those off-the-rack Planet of the Apes masks that they've made the background people in. Maybe not that bad. I apologize. That was a step too far.
You can edit that out. I'm sorry to whoever did that. I'm going to email it to Neil Scanlon. I don't have his email address. So my next note is about the lightsaber battle. When Saul and they arrive on the planet, May escapes, Saul's running around looking for her. At the same time, Osha and the stranger arrive there to meet up with them. The Stranger and Saul have a lightsaber battle. Yes. Any comments on that one? On the battle itself? The lightsaber battle? I like it a lot.
I like the way that it combines intentional. It set out to kind of do this style, and I like the elements of the kind of... Is that Wuxia, I think it's called? Or that, you know, the kind of... Oh, is that a fighting style? Or movie style? Well, that kind of movie... Yeah, that action sequences, martial arts action sequences in movies. I like that that, you know, kind of things of, say, wuximing chivalry is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China.
If I was an uneducated slob, I would say, oh, like that crouching tiger hidden drag. All the wire work and stuff like that. I know what you mean. So I like the elements of that kind of mixed in here. Not cliches of that, but you know. tropes of that. Yeah, I would like to have seen it pushed farther. Which I like. How so? You want to see people like spiraling through the air like insidious?
well i mean no i don't want it to look corny but you know again like i guess like crouching tiger hidden dragon where they're kind of like hopping from tree to tree and things like that give it a little bit more of a um i don't know uh Legend feel. Not legends feel to it, but... No, a legend feel where it should have had a devil and a kind of a hero on a horse. No, I meant Star Wars Legends. Right. So, yes. Lightsaber battle.
And at one point, they did a cool thing where they had Ausha and Mei fighting at the same time as... I don't mean to... I'm going to leave this in probably, but it sounds like you're crackling a little bit.
messing with the wire or anything like that i don't know is it still happening okay i don't know it was it was not consistent as it so let's just leave it and see what happens okay So there's one cool part where the masters are fighting outside on the patio and the two twins are fighting each other inside and they do that kind of comic book-y... one facing the other, and then it cuts to them in the same positions as their... Yeah, they did a clue. It was like crossed legs. Yeah.
They were like fighting and like their legs kind of crossed and then it cut to like crossed lightsabers. Yeah, yeah. I thought that was like some great, great. Anyway, I guess it would be editing. So, yeah. At one point, Pip sprays something in Osha's eye. And I can't figure out what it was supposed to be. Like water? Is it like one of those flowers that sprays?
It's like a joke pip. It's not really pip. It's not a real pip. It's just like a hollow, like a plastic hollow thing with a little hole in the top. Yeah. um yeah i'm assuming that there would be maybe to put out fires or something you know it's a little or maybe it's like you know wd-40 or yeah it's like clean your glasses or something you know just a little little little spritzer there
A little spritzer. You know, the droid that cleans your glasses. Elliot Spitzer? That reminds me that it must have been very sad for OSHA to see. pip going off with may after all that like like seeing your pet go off with with your your uh i guess she could have taken her in the end if she really wanted to because she could have just taken away from may then
before they brainwashed her and she wouldn't have known any difference. Oh, see? Plot, not plot hole, but something they forgot about. I'm sure Pip has this, like, all recorded where they were like, oh, at the end, you know. It's like, oh, you need to forget everything about me, and otherwise they'll find me. And then they probably could have just go like, oh, you know, take that droid's, let's search through that, pour through that droid's memory. Yeah.
Maybe if it's just like, you know, location data, you know, where it's being and stuff like that. They totally should have had that happen. So we can just track her down with using pip and blah, blah, blah. yeah so um this is where the um this was a scene where i had to think that you were gritting your teeth I can hear it from up to I-5. I can hear you grinding your teeth when OSHA's lightsaber turned from blue to red. You know, I didn't...
I had very conflicted feelings about that. They even showed the kyber crystal inside turning red. Because it was being tortured, of course. see that part like if you don't describe it like that like i i for a long time you know long time i i was kind of into the idea i was not opposed to the idea of like oh the color of the lightsaber is a reflection of the user right yeah
But then it's kind of like visible shields where it's like, I don't know, just seeing it happen like that in real time. If you don't talk about torturing the crystal, you don't do all this other, I don't know. I wasn't sure how to feel about that because I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. But also, I don't know if I'm ready to full on kind of accept it. I also agree with you kind of. I didn't really think much about it, but I guess...
So the Sith have to make their own lightsabers. They can't just take a Jedi lightsaber and do their own thing with it. I don't know. It looks like they could just grab a lightsaber and... I do like the idea of it being able to express the person's...
uh you know loyalties because on a very basic fundamental level that's what star wars is black and white evil you either have a red lightsaber or you got a blue lightsaber there's no difference there's no there's no gray scale on here there's no purple lightsabers sorry mace um but that's very not it's it that's not um conducive to modern storytelling so i can see why they don't why they wouldn't do that because
Are there any other scenes? Like, if that's true, it would have been interesting to see Anakin's lightsaber kind of, was it ever wavering? Like when the scene where Mace is being electrocuted, and I don't remember, Anakin must have had his lightsaber.
you know was his lightsaber red would it become a red or blue at that point yeah i don't know and like yeah there's a couple of things like that too that i just thought like this is like a missed opportunity retroactively to have like you know you could have had
you know ben solo like using like yeah a blue cross lightsaber you know and if you if he hadn't thrown it in the ocean like that would have been a cool um But, you know, or maybe they'll retroactively go back and add changing lightsaber colors too.
I think they're going to say this is because she's part of the virgins that this happened, and it's not what everyone's lightsaber does. It's like a unique situation, because that would be... it would be that would really change a lot of things to be able to tell if someone was good or evil based on the color of their lightsaber it also make you wonder like who is it like that's a weird objective thing that could tell you whether you're good or evil that's like crazy uh
Well, so maybe, I mean, it seemed we saw it kind of like damaged. So maybe she used the dark side of the force to heal the crystal to kind of re... reform the crystal and when you when you that's the kind of crystal those kind of synthetic kind of you know crystals are what the sith use so it's like she had a reformed it using the force it's like she had an open cut and it that
transmission was enough to alter the uh the midichlorians were able to get into the lightsaber well to figure out how the midichlorians do you know she like like she couldn't have like if somebody good quote unquote, if a Jedi had come along and grabbed the light, they couldn't turn it back to blue. I think the crystal was damaged enough. And then in her kind of, you know, fixing the crystal to a usable state.
She had to do it in a way that kind of made it like the synthetic crystals. Not synthetic. They use synthetic crystals? I don't know. That must be in the warning. I'm stretching a lot here. when you're in the when you're looking at the instruction manuals all the stuff in the back like warning do not use if you are part of a virgins or you know like do not do not accidentally
If your lightsaber turns red, turn it off immediately and turn yourself into your local Jedi. Yeah, and also speaking of novelty lightsabers.
we uh what about like a barber pole one for people who are like in the middle um we we never saw she hulk's lightsaber whip again other than that one tiny little thing what uh that's that was like i was so relieved when i realized that i was like oh great it's like i don't i don't want to see that i think that's something that probably came from because she's from the
comics and books and stuff and i think it's something that came from the comics and books and they were like well we have to have it in there but they all thought it was dumb too so they're like let's just let's just put it in there let's just have her like she could whip a bird
whip a bird uh i think part of the reason i was drawn to her acting is for precisely the reason you're saying is because she is seems almost she seems very uncomfortable and like embarrassed to be there and i feel like that's that that translates in her into her character and being uncomfortable in her own skin which accounts for why she's like the bad guy you know right so anyway yeah i mean i like her when she's talking again same thing that
When people are talking to kids, somehow they let down their... Their acting becomes more natural. Yeah. At least with some of the people in this show. Maybe that's why I like Sol so much more because he spends so much of his time talking to the kids. Well, kids, quote unquote. You know, the younger people. Yeah. Well, speaking of younger people and influencing the younger kids and She-Hulk.
She-Hulk apparently is friends with the Stranger, or they have a past connection. I'm assuming that, do you think that was She-Hulk the master of the Stranger? She paraphrased or pre-phrased Obi-Wan. That's right. She says he was a pupil of mine. She's like, oh, he was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil. See, that's troubling. Why?
Well, if all these people... Anyway, it's like the whole thing with the dark side. If it's that easy for people to fall into it, why aren't there a thousand dark side people around? Did they just kill them all as soon as they start manifesting any signs of darkness? They kill each other. Yeah. To try to climb. They're like, you know, what is that? Lobsters in a bucket or something? No, but like, so... As soon as one starts to...
When they see another one, they attack them. Yeah. Anyway, maybe it'll be explained. Another thing never touched on is the fate of the witches. I have to assume they died in the Chewbacca, in the Wookiee removal, when they got forced out of the Wookiee and they all collapsed like bowling pins.
Well, don't forget there was a huge fire, too. Right, but... I think they all died in the fire. Oh, okay. So the Jedi kind of participated by knocking them all unconscious, and then the fire is the thing that... So that's like an assist from May, but Saul gets the credit for it. Well, no, the main thing that he did actually kill the mom. Yeah, he did kill the mom.
And so that's that's what mainly he's being taken to task for. But then everybody else, I think everybody else still could have survived. Because we don't really know what we don't know what happened in May after. Did she go immediately from the... If the witches didn't die, why did they take May back somehow? Anyway, something to...
maybe for the next season to address. Right. Well, I think because she fell down the hole and escaped. Yeah. I don't think they knew that she survived. But even after she, like... They couldn't tell that she was not dead. They couldn't choose these secret virgins and everything. Anyway, it's not important. Right. We cover the witches are dead. Oh, the memory erasure. Another. Another sticky thing to introduce into Sith lore. Or if this guy is a Sith, I mean, who knows?
It seemed very easy and sudden. Superman at the end of Superman 2. Right, yeah. Superman 1, that was. no wait that was that was two yeah no no it was one yeah yeah because in one oh no one he spins the earth backwards right so he doesn't have to kiss her yeah two is where he kisses her and then in the richard donner one he does it again but in the theatrical of superman 2 There's just a mind erasing kiss. Yeah. I mean, so assuming this is, unless this is just this guy's particular unique power.
That does seem like a very powerful tool to have at your disposal, especially if you are an insidious, evil person who's hiding in the background and trying to cover your tracks, you know? Right. Yeah, I mean, it is not that far removed. It's not that far removed from the Jedi mind trick, but it's like a whole deck of Jedi mind tricks in one.
it is very the jedi mind trick is slippery slip very dangerous poisonous tree that is is is the tree that is generating all this poisonous uh fruit like being able to read someone's mind instantly and being able to erase someone's memories Like, that's crazy. It is. But, you know. But hey, speaking of evil people lurking in the background. Yeah. Turn around. We get the big.
What? No, we get an evil person lurking in the background. As they're leaving the planet, did you not see this? No, I don't know what you're talking about. Really? What is it? Wait, as when they're leaving the stranger and Osha are leaving his planet. Yeah. And they go and they're taking off and you see for a second there's a cave.
And there's a guy poking his head out of the cave and it's Darth Sidious. Did you not see Darth Sidious? I did not. I must have been looking down doing notes. So what is it? How do you know it's Darth Sidious? Well... I know Darth Sidious because he looks exactly like the Darth Sidious that we're supposed to know what that looks like. Black cloak and covered face Darth Sidious? Well, he's very much in the shadows. You barely see him.
But he definitely pops his head out kind of like just to look. You've got to watch it again. Yeah, I apologize to the listeners. This is very unprofessional of me. But I also know that when it's like here when they... Oh my gosh. Let's see. After the ship departs, a cloaked thin figure with orange glowing eyes watches menacingly from an opening on the rocky shore. And when you...
Cloaked Thin Figure is a link that goes to Darth Plagueis. Sorry, Plagueis, not Sidious. Oh, man. I was saying Sidious this whole time. Everybody's so mad at me right now. So Darth Plagueis the Mun. Darth Plagueis, yeah. But he's a mun. You know what I meant, everybody. You know what I meant. Come on. Did you already fire off your angry emails and text at me and stuff? Finish listening to the episode before you add it. Who are they more angry at? You or me? Oh, wait. I know.
Sorry, hold on. Yeah, there's like, there's just like a second of like, he just pops his head kind of out of the cave, Darth Plagueis. I say Sidious. What am I? I do this for a living. Come on. It's like calling your... That's like not remembering your vice president's name. Alright, where are they? Okay, we're leaving. Is it like right at the end? Oh, there they are.
It's when they're leaving the planet. They're on the beach. They're like, all right, come on with me. And they go on the beach. They go into the ship. And they're like, all right, time to take off. And as soon as they take off, then you get a view kind of from the cave there and then out of the cave. It's a little like... Like you get a little tiny hint of a cloaked creature.
Wait, is it the very end or earlier? No, earlier. When they're leaving the stranger's planet to go to meet up with Sol. So like when they're getting on the ship and stuff? Because at the end, I was just watching the last scene and they hold hands and I don't see any cloak. No, no, not the end. Like earlier, like halfway through when they kind of. Oh, when they're okay. I see when they're originally, this must be so entertaining for people to listen to.
um but yes i was um so like between that and yoda popping up it was an interesting like they're adding you know one of the complaints that somebody i know had is like oh there's not It doesn't tie into enough of the Star Wars stuff that we know. So they weren't that into it because it wasn't Star Wars. They wanted some connection to Star Wars that we know. So here we've got Darth Plagueis and we've got Yoda.
Okay, I watched it. Okay, you saw what I was talking about there. Yeah, that certainly vaguely connects it. Yeah. so we don't know it's an interesting like you know again Timelines are a little bit off, but we all figured he was going to be mixed in here somewhere. Well, we all speculated that he might be mixed in here somewhere. I thought they would connect the dots more and have him be directly Palpatine related.
Directly Palpatine related. Yeah, because Earth Plagueis is still a pretty deep... I would say probably 90% of the audience is not going to be like, oh, that must be Darth Plagueis. You know what I mean? They're just thinking some other evil creature that lives there or something. You know what? They should have cut from that and then cut to two Ewoks standing there and one of them would be like, that guy's wise. Like, oh, it's Darth Plagueis the Wise. I got it. Martin Short.
Yeah, so then in the end, they swap places and we meet Yoda. Well, we'll meet him. We see him from the back of the head. We assume it's Yoda and not Yaddle. Could be Yaddle.
Well, she has like a knot top. Yeah, but it had a full head of hair. It'd be funny if we turn around and it's another member of Yoda's species. It's like a Yoda lookalike with like a mustache. How would we know it was a different... yoda and not just yoda he just had a mustache during this period master like you know we've got something important to talk about he's like what i didn't know you were back here already and they're like then it turns out it's uh
Yodo. You do. Yamo. So, yeah, that's they definitely be there. It is kind of a one and done. I mean, it certainly leaves room to explore. The storyline is good, which I really appreciate. The storyline that was set up is concluded. We know what Sol did. We know, and more importantly, OSHA and May know what Seoul did, and they come to terms with that. People are—consequences are potentially faced. They know he's dead now. Right. They know it's all dead. All these Jedi are dead.
yeah but then it certainly opens up like enough leaves enough room that we could have another season and and that would be interesting too so one thing i forgot one thing i forgot to mention was the ring theory of when The stranger shows up and She-Hulk sees him. She goes, you. Which was, of course, the very first thing that Carrie Ann Moss said to May when she showed up at the bar to kill her all the way back in season one. So there you go.
I mean, the dialogue does include a lot of Star Wars-y touches and references and stuff. And I really liked the buttons and switches and stuff like that. There's a lot of the good... Good stuff of that in the background. Yeah, and also when we see She-Hulk's office, there's plenty of cool-looking chairs, and I wonder if our friend Pete designed some of those chairs. Oh, the chairman. The chairman himself. And so, yes.
Up next, Jude Law and his skeleton crew. This Saturday on NBC. Isn't there an animated series coming out first or something like that? I don't know. Word on the street now is that the Mandalorian and Grogu movie is way further along than anybody thought. Yeah, that would make sense. I think they've learned their lesson, and they're not going to hype anything up until they have it in the can, pretty much. Yeah. So, we'll see. Well, yeah, that'll be... But is there supposed to still be shows?
Anyway. Yeah, I don't know what. People can look that up in the air and we don't need to discuss that here. But also we should say, so thanks everyone for listening to all this, especially because this is the first time we've been back in a while on the main feed. Yeah. Thanks for... Happy to talk to you guys again.
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this show's got it we've invested so much in this in this show so uh yeah all right so um anything else to plug any other any other uh projects over at godfather minute we're still chugging along we're up to one minute 177 or so we still have close to half an hour left so uh you know never been a better time to get on board And you decided next you're going to do that... What was the... Empire State. I was going to try to make a joke.
Wasn't there with Leslie Nielsen or Dom DeLuise or something like that? Wasn't there like a Mahab? Yeah, there were two airplane-style mafia movies. One was called Jane Austen's Mafia. Right, Jane Austen's Mafia. And the other one might have been like National Lampoon's The Mobbers. Interchangeable. One at Dom DeLuise. I don't know if they were in the same one or not. Kevin MacDonald for Kids in the Hall was also in one of them. Anyway.
All right. All right. I guess that will wrap up the accolade assessment and we'll see you guys next time on the next Star Wars Minute. Star Wars Minute.