1 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:08,159 Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind Uh. This is 2 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick, and we're out today, 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: but we're bringing you a classic from the vaults. This 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: was one of the early episodes of Weird House we did. 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: This is the episode on the e Walks movie Battle 6 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: for Indoor. Yeah, this is this is super fun film 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: for Star Wars fans and and non fans alike. I 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: will say that in this episode, I I at one 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: point refer to the fact that the movie is unavailable 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: on Disney Plus and I say, well, I just hope 11 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: that they added in the future while we are in 12 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: the future, and I can I can tell you it 13 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: is definitely on Disney Plus. So if you need to 14 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: watch this film, that is the place to go and 15 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: do so. It's a life day miracle. Welcome to Stuff 16 00:00:51,800 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: to Blow your Mind production of My Heart Radio. Hey, 17 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: welcome to Weird How Cinema. My name is Rob Lamb 18 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: and I'm Joe McCormick. And today we're getting into that 19 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: Star Wars. That Star Wars gunk Uh. I got a question. 20 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: We we were sort of chatting about this before we 21 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: hit record today and I feel like, we've got to 22 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: recreate this moment. I was wondering. You remember when The 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,559 Speaker 1: Force Awakens came out and there were some Star Wars 24 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: fans who were very angry about various things. And one 25 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: of the things they seem that some people were angry 26 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: about was that I believe the people who now owned 27 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: the rights to all the Lucas Star Wars properties had 28 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: declared that a bunch of extended universe stuff, so a 29 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: lot of the Star Wars books and all that was 30 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: no longer canon. It didn't really happen in the Star 31 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: Wars universe. And what I was, what I'm now wondering, 32 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: is were they also angry that the events of the 33 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: Ewoks movies didn't happen, or were the people who were 34 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: like just furious spamming the internet with spoilers for the 35 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: movie because like Wilford Brimley didn't really live in that 36 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: hut in the woods, and the like the beaver teeth 37 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: Ewalk creature didn't really run and fast forward and all that. 38 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: Take you mean, take Joe, don't act like you don't 39 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: know Teake's name. Well, I was confused about Teeth because 40 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: it sounds in the movie like they're calling him Teak, 41 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: but when I looked him up on the Internet, people 42 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: were calling him things like teach, like his name had 43 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: a J in it. So I'm very confused now. But 44 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: you're right, my ears, my ears heard Teak. Okay, Um, 45 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: well yeah, he's take to me. And I guess that 46 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: comes down to my feelings about cannon. When Star Wars, 47 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: which I think I've I've expressed here before. It's like 48 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: I'm kind of like, build your own cannon, you know, um, 49 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 1: you know, for the purposes of enjoying it all, like 50 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: just accept what you want and uh and you know, 51 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: be happy about it. But um, I have to have 52 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: a corporation tell me what really happened in the Star 53 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: Wars universe. Uh you know, I mean I can see 54 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: where it's valuable for storytelling purposes, and I understand why 55 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: they did it when they took the multi tiered Lucas 56 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: cannon system, where it's like, uh, you know, a class 57 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: cannon and beat like the film we're discussing today, I 58 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: think was technically c cannon, and instead Disney came and 59 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: just said, all right, we got cannon and we got legends, 60 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: and cannon is what is you know, the official story 61 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: that we're building new stuff off off but of course 62 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: they often go back into legends and draw things out, 63 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: pick out characters and events and weapons and things like 64 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 1: that and bring them in, bring them back into the fold. 65 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: And so I mean, you know, so I feel like 66 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: I feel like there's not too much to get upset about. 67 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: But but I try to be more easy going with 68 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: the Star Wars universe. Well, obviously see and see Cannon 69 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: stands for cool as hell, because this movie is really 70 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: really cool. Yeah, and it's fitting that we were recording 71 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: this shortly before Thanksgiving, because after we we picked it, 72 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: I realized, oh that this was the thing, like this 73 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: came out like on Thanksgiving or for the thing Giving 74 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: holiday on ABC television back in the eighties, back in 75 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: So really we're partaking of a of a holiday tradition 76 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: right now. Right So once again, like like last week 77 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: with Boggy Creek two and the legend continues, we're covering 78 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: a sequel uh Colon subtitle film without covering the original. 79 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: So the movie we're talking about today is the made 80 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: for TV Star Wars movie E Walks Colon The Battle 81 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: for Indoor. But that's actually a sequel to another e 82 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: Walks movie. I don't think I've seen this other one. Yeah, 83 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: I mean I can. I can give you the very 84 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: brief rundown of the first one, UM Caravan of Courage, 85 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: which came out the year before four UM on ABC 86 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: Television around Thanksgiving, and it had a pretty simple plot basically, 87 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: Um it followed Sindel. That's a little girl, the little 88 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: like super blonde Shirley Temple like girl that is in 89 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: both movies, followed her and her family and their adventures 90 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: after they crash landed on the forest moon of Indoor. Indoor, 91 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: for those of you who don't remember, is, of course, 92 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: the pivotal location in the second half of the Return 93 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: of the Jedi. This is where the Empire puts their 94 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: shield generator to protect the second Death Start that they're constructing. Wait, sorry, 95 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: so this is a moon, right, This is not a planet. 96 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: It's a moon of a planet right yeah. Um. Basically, 97 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: Indoor is a is a gas giant and this is 98 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: a habitable moon, like like a Hella habitable moon. It's 99 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: it's lush. But anyway, they crashed there. I think there 100 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: has always been some confusion about whether these films take 101 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 1: place before or after Return of the Jedi, like I 102 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: think they're sort of supposed to be taking place before. 103 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: But then there are questions like, well, how does how 104 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: does Wickett already know English or basic or whatever you're 105 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: calling it, um you know? Or does he forget it 106 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: and then have to learn it again from Princess Leah. 107 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: But at any rate um on one end of the 108 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: other of Return of the Jedi, this occurs. They crashed there. 109 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: The parents are kidnapped by a giant creature called a 110 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 1: gore Rox, which is is actually something that that McQuary 111 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: designed for Return of the Jedi, but it didn't get used. 112 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: It's like a giant ogre thing, so Corey who we 113 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: talked about in Boggy Creek Connections again many so so basically, 114 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: the e Walks and the kids have to go on 115 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: a journey to save their parents from this monster. They 116 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,119 Speaker 1: pull it off, and that's the movie. It's it's it's fun. 117 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 1: It's a fun little film. But that is all you 118 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: need to know for this one, now, if that is, 119 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: if that is the Aliens of the e Walks canon. 120 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: Battle for Indoor is the Alien three of the Ewoks 121 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: canon because it starts off basically killing all of the 122 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: beloved characters from the previous film. Yes, it does. Like basically, 123 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: it starts off with the family hanging out with the Walks, 124 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: getting their their ship ready to go so they can 125 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: leave indoor, and then a bunch of marauders show up. 126 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: These these these humanoid or like creatures with with battered 127 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: like just you know, their blasters are just held together 128 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: with like dirty gauze and dirt, you know. Uh, they 129 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: come and they raid the village. They take e Walks 130 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: and the human children hostage, and all of Sindel's family 131 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: except for her are killed by the marauders. So it's 132 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: just really a brutal start to a kid's movie. Do 133 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: you like Paul Gleason? I hope not, because he dies 134 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: in the first few minutes. Yeah, and Seneraly, Paul Gleason 135 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: didn't play the dad in the first one. He said 136 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: he was cast in the role. Paul Gleason, for those 137 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: of you who don't remember, he was the principal in 138 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. That was like his his his big role. 139 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: He was in some other things too, But yeah, he's 140 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: in it for just a very short stretch and then 141 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: he's dead. Classic jerk authority figure of eighties movies. Yeah, 142 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: but the movie also, So the movie, it sort of 143 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: begins like Alien three, it kills all the beloved characters 144 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: from the previous film, but then it also sort of 145 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: begins like Conan the Barbarian, because it starts with basically 146 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: space Thulsa Doom just raiding an Ewok village and then 147 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: taking a bunch of prisoners. Even some of the shots 148 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: look kind of similar, though in a slightly cheaper and 149 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: less dramatic, less Wagnerian way. Uh. I was thinking about 150 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: how the the bad guys in this. I like that 151 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: the look of them is kind of simultaneously like skeletal orangutan, 152 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: but it's also sort of insect oid, right, They've got 153 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: they've got faces that are across between like an ant 154 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: and an ape. Yeah, these the Marauders have, I think, 155 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: ultimately an interesting character design um In in later works, 156 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: I think they are also referred to as the Senate, 157 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: the senny assens Um, that's supposedly their species, but in 158 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: here they're just basically they're the Marauders. Will probably just 159 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: keep referring to them as the Marauders. But yeah, they're 160 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit apy, a little bit reptilian. 161 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: They ultimately make for really cool space works. You can 162 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: think of them as space works. It works. But wait, maybe, 163 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: maybe before we get too deep into the plot, I'm 164 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: sorry if I threw off the sequence here. Maybe we 165 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: should like give the elevator pitch and look some trailer audio, 166 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: a little bit of background, and then we can fully 167 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: break down what happens in this beautiful adventure. All right, Well, 168 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: here's the pitch. A young girl loses their family to 169 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: brutal space marauders and a witch indoor. We'll get into 170 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: the witch in a minute. She teams up with a 171 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: tribe of ewoks, an old hermit in a rabbit like 172 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: speed demon creature to survive. Or if you'd rather, you 173 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: can look at it the other way and to say, 174 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: this is a movie about a grumpy old man who 175 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: rediscovers his zest for life thanks to a little girl 176 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: and her two stuffed animal friends in space. In space, 177 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: it is Wilfred Brimley on the dank moon of Indoor. Yes, 178 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: let's hit that trailer audio. Somewhere at the end of 179 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: the galaxy. Two friends were about to say goodbye until 180 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: the forces of evil threaten their don't look, just run, 181 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: fast run, and together they face an incredible adventure beyond imagination. 182 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: You my little one home, all right. I like how 183 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: we got some roars in there, because there there are 184 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: there are a lot of creatures to roar in this film. Yeah. Oh, 185 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: there's some really good, big nasty creatures that are written 186 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:31,959 Speaker 1: like like uh, you know, like Hannibal's elephants, but they 187 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 1: look more like Tyrannosaurus rex tadpoles, you know what I mean, 188 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: The Blurg's, is that what they're called. Yeah, yeah, they're 189 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: there are a lot of fun because this is an 190 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: example we were talking about things that were rejected from 191 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: Cannon and then brought are brought back in because this 192 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 1: was the Blurgs show up in this film for the 193 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: first time. And yeah, they're big t Rex guppy mounts 194 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 1: that the Marauders are using. They would later be brought 195 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: back in the Clone Wars series and then and they 196 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: were brought back in the first season of The Mandalorian, 197 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: so they effectively made their jump back into live action 198 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: Star Wars. Ian Cannon. Okay, I want to know how 199 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 1: this thing got made. He walks the Battle for Indoor. 200 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: We're so this came out after the original trilogy right, 201 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: it came out after Return of the Jedi. Right, That's okay, 202 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: So the whole the whole original trilogy had already been released. 203 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: Fans are already familiar with the dank forest Moon of Indoor, 204 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: They're already familiar with the e Walks, the qt S 205 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: space Bears. How do we get to this? Was George 206 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 1: Lucas involved at all? Yeah, Like he was the He 207 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: was definitely behind it. I believe he is the story 208 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: credit on both of these films. And uh, you know, 209 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not privy to the full the full 210 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: breakdown or the full Wikipedia entry on on how it 211 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: came to be, But I mean, basically, this was an 212 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: attempt to continue dipping into the Star Wars universe verse 213 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: cyphically Indoor and the e Walks, uh by telling smaller 214 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: stories with them in a way like that's the same brilliance. Well, 215 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's brilliance here, but I would 216 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,719 Speaker 1: say that the brilliancy you see in in the Mandalorian 217 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: where they're like, let's tell smaller stories in this universe, 218 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: Like this is a big universe with a lot of 219 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: cool stuff in it. Let's let's carve out a smaller 220 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: area and tell something they're sure. I mean, that's a 221 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: great way to expand on a on a setting, in 222 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: a world you've created. That's very nice. You don't always 223 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: have to be blowing up whole planets. You could just 224 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: have like a little spy stories set within that universe 225 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: or western. Yeah, and in this case it's I don't 226 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:39,839 Speaker 1: know what it is. In this case, it's Conan the 227 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:44,679 Speaker 1: Barbarian said in that universe, Conan the Barbarian for kids 228 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: set in that universe. Yeah, it's And again I think 229 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,839 Speaker 1: it also is important you know that. Yeah, there's room 230 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: enough to tell not only different size stories, but stories 231 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: with different audiences in mind. So ultimately, like the Star 232 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: Wars universe is vast enough, you can tell the story 233 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,719 Speaker 1: of Rogue One, which is you know, I think more 234 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: of a spy story in war story for older fans, uh, 235 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: set in the university. Then you can tell this story, 236 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: which is skewing a lot younger. Yeah, Rugue One is 237 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: more like John Leckay and space. And this is this 238 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: is Conan the Barbarian meets et. But it's a little 239 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: bit cheaper in space. Now. One thing I want to 240 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: drive home about these films, especially for Um, for anyone 241 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: out there who maybe isn't isn't my age or older, Uh, 242 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: you have to realize that, Okay, this came out in 243 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: eighty five, that's one year after the Caravan of Courage 244 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: movie that we just mentioned, two years after Return of 245 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,840 Speaker 1: the Jedi, and there would not be another Star Wars 246 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: movie on TV or or in cinemas for fourteen years. 247 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: So to put that another way, three Star Wars movies 248 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: come out before the two ABC television Ewak films, but 249 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: nine films came out afterwards as of this recording. So uh, 250 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: if you're my age, these films we're just not things 251 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: you could ignore. Uh, these at the time comprised of 252 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: the Star Wars cinematic experience. Um. So that's one. And 253 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: and also as our producer Seth brought up like they 254 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: were on TV, so there's a good chance that you 255 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: or so many knew taped them so suddenly it is 256 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: a repeatable experience. And I'm certainly one of those uh 257 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: kids who who definitely had repeat viewings of the Battle 258 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: for Indoor. I probably saw it more than I saw 259 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: Um Empire or Jedi growing up. Wow, So did did 260 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: you also have the thing where it had certain commercials 261 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: that have been taped along with it, and you just 262 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: memorize those commercials, like the Holiday special with the Lady 263 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: Garment Workers Union commercial and the and Tobar. I don't 264 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: remember it. Uh so maybe we were savvy and edited 265 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: those out. I don't know, or or I mean I can't. 266 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: I can't imagine they actually presented it without commercials at 267 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: the at the time, But I don't remember the commercials. 268 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: I think I would because I have I finally remember 269 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: some taped VHS commercials. Okay, So we're living in a 270 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: world where this is of of Star Wars canon or 271 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: at least whatever c Cannon or whatever he's calling it. 272 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: Um So, who actually directed this thing? So it's a 273 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: team two brothers directors and writers here, Jim and Ken Wheat. 274 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: And there's some fun connections with these two because they 275 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: had previously worked with great on Clark on his film 276 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: The Return. They wrote the screenplay for that. I haven't 277 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: seen that, but if The Uninvited is any indication Graydon 278 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: Clark is somebody whose career is worth exploring. A couple 279 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: of other films that they they wrote the screenplay for 280 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: or involved in the evolution of the screenplay writing were 281 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: A Nightmare on Elm Street for The dream Master and 282 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: The Fly To Oh wait a second, Wait a second, 283 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: so the I forgot Graydon Clark directed the On not 284 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: the Uninvited, Uh without warning, the first cinema movie we did. 285 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: That completely slipped my mind. I'm sorry. Yeah, everything comes apologize. 286 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: He's the Alpha and the Omega. Um. So, so those 287 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: are two notable films, definitely not kids films, um. But 288 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: then another. They also wrote a screenplay titled Nightfall that 289 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: went on to become a film called pitch Black. So 290 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: anytime you watch a Riddick movie you will see their 291 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: names in the credit because they were involved in the 292 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: original screenplay. Oh that's really funny. You know. I wouldn't 293 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: say Pitch Black is a great film, but when I 294 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: actually went back and watched it, it was much better 295 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: than I was expecting. Uh. It has plenty of charms 296 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: that still hold up. Yeah. I'm not a fan of 297 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: some of the like the cuts and the edits and 298 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: the it feels it feels very um to me anyway. 299 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: It feels like music videos at that time in a 300 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: way that can be jarring. But that being said, I 301 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: think it's a solid space monster movie with a little 302 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: a little maybe the cheese mo is is ratcheted up 303 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: to a level that is not not my go to level, 304 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: but but I enjoyed it. But it also is an 305 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: early indication you get that glimmer of Whyven Diesel would 306 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: turn out to be such a big movie star. I mean, 307 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 1: he he is. He's just imminently lovable, even when he's 308 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: playing a really bad dude. Yeah. And of course the 309 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: cool thing about Riddick too, is it I mean the 310 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: first film it was that it was a pitch black, 311 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: was a necessary precursor to Chronicles of Riddick, which, as 312 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: you know is is my favorite than Diesel film. I 313 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: know your love of Chronicles of Riddick. We actually watched 314 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: this one together and the what are the they called 315 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: the Necromongers in it? Yeah, where the bone armor. They 316 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: kind of like Space Kurgan's. It's really good. But okay, 317 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: we we we've been we've been burying the lead here. Okay, 318 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,679 Speaker 1: so the really important thing about this movie personnel wise 319 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: is the big WB Wilfred Brimley. Yes, that's right, Wilford 320 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: Brimley places his character Noah Um in it. This is 321 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: the grumpy old man. That is key to the film. 322 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: Um Brimley is a is interesting casting in this and 323 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: and it it is it's it's kind of weird to 324 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: think about Brimley as a cinematic icon because when you 325 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,239 Speaker 1: think of him, you think of oatmeal, you think of 326 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: cowboy hats, you think of these rugged everyman roles. Perhaps 327 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: that's the thing that it's the thing here is that 328 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 1: I feel like I mostly know him from the big 329 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: science fiction films that that he was in, namely John 330 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: Carpenter's The Thing, but also he was in Cocoon, Um 331 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: he was Also he's in some horror movies here and 332 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: there as well. Um and get granted, he had some 333 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,439 Speaker 1: huge roles and some totally non weird films like Sydney 334 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: Pollock's The Absence of Malice for example. He's he's he's 335 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: really great in that he's in the firm. He plays 336 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: like a like a bad hinchman for the evil lawyers. Yeah. 337 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: He so it's weird. He's like he's great at playing 338 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: like a rural grumpy rural dude or like a grumpy 339 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: lawyer dude. Like it's weird. How how how a character 340 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 1: actor will will you know will will fit two molds 341 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: that in real life or maybe a little further removed. 342 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, in this he's clearly intended 343 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: to be some sort of Heidi's grandfather's sort of character, 344 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: a grumpy old man whose heart is melted by a 345 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: little kid. And he's the This is interesting. He's the 346 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 1: rare Star Wars character who wears spectacles. Oh, I did 347 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 1: not think of that. That's an interesting point. Yeah, there 348 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: a no one. No. I mean, there are characters that 349 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: sometimes wear strange goggles and whatnot, you know, sort of 350 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: sci fi goggles. But in terms of someone who's just 351 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: straight up wearing glasses, I can't think of one offhand. 352 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: It's like a class of two. It's Wilford Brimley and Maskatana. Yeah. Yeah, 353 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe there's some extended universe stuff where 354 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: he his eyes because the thing is his character is 355 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: stranded on the planet as well. We come to learn 356 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: that he and his buddy with Seak crash landed on 357 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: Indoor some unspecified number of years ago. Uh, like it 358 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: seems like maybe like twenty five years maybe, um, but 359 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: maybe in that time he his eyesight went bad and 360 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: he had to like find like ancient ruins on the 361 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: on Indoor and find eyeglasses that had been constructed by 362 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: by a long dead civilization I don't know, or maybe 363 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 1: he just wore eyeglasses I don't know in the Pyramids 364 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: of Indoor. Yeah. Well, so you say he's like Heidi's 365 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: grandpa kind of character. He absolutely is that. But I 366 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: would say the actual closer analogy within the Star Wars universe. 367 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: And this is gonna sound strange at first, but he's 368 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: the Han Solo character in this movie. He's the person 369 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: who is initially gruff and grumpy and self interested but 370 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: comes through in the end because he made friends and 371 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: he's he saves the day. Yeah, no, I think that's fair. Yeah, 372 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: he's he's kind of the Han Solo and older rounder 373 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: Han Solo with um, but certainly has that journalist flare 374 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 1: rather than that, you know, he's not a specialist. I 375 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: would I would think if he was a Dungeons and 376 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: Dragons character, his class would be action grandpa, because yeah, 377 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: he's he's good at just fixing stuff and tinkering with stuff, 378 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: but he's also really good with a with a walking 379 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: stick and a grappling hook gun. That's right. Uh, Yeah, Yeah, 380 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: so he's walking stick guy. But then at the end 381 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: he busts out some real martial arts. Yeah, he's able 382 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: to hold his own against an alien warlord that seems 383 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 1: to be about eight feet tall. So, uh, you know, 384 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,360 Speaker 1: he's he can he can come through in a pinch. Now, 385 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: this movie also has we mentioned I guess this might 386 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 1: be the only character that is carried over from the 387 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 1: actual films. It has Wicked the e Walk. Who. I 388 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 1: don't mean to be mean about this movie, because I 389 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: did really enjoy it, and you know, I'm sure it's 390 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,959 Speaker 1: great for kids and all that, but something looks a 391 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 1: little bit wrong with Wicked in this movie. In Return 392 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,719 Speaker 1: of the Jedi, Wicked the e Walk is cute. In 393 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: this movie, he has manson family eyes. I'm not sure 394 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: exactly what's different it. I guess it's the same costume, 395 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: but he has this terrifying blank stare that I don't 396 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: recall from Return of the Jedi. Huh, I don't know. 397 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: I didn't pick up on that as much. Bee bee 398 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: beep beep. We have an incoming message from Seth. Seth 399 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: has has knowledge we don't have about Wicked Eyes. Guys. 400 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: I'm very, very very sorry to interrupt, but I know 401 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: that's just from watching uh too many documentaries about the 402 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: many small changes that have taken place in the updated 403 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: versions of all the Star Wars movies. You know, one 404 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: of the big things they did for a Return of 405 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,400 Speaker 1: the Jedi was no, no, I'm sorry, it's not even 406 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: the right name of that movie. Which one is the 407 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: third movie? Return of the Jedi, Return of the Jedi. 408 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 1: You gotta I'm gonna have this correct in my head, 409 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: Return of the Jedi. One of the big changes they 410 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: made was they went in and very subtly made all 411 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: of the Ewalk's eyes less creepy, to give them very 412 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: subtle blinks that gave them lie so they weren't actually 413 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 1: looking like a little buttons. So so, Joe, this is 414 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: fascinating to me because you might actually have a vision 415 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: of the Special Editions updated in your mind their eyes 416 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: look less creepy, when in reality, maybe this version of 417 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: Wickets is the true version of Wickets. Oh my god, 418 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: what we this is what we actually knew perhaps back 419 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,199 Speaker 1: in the eighties pre Special Editions, I don't know. Oh, 420 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 1: thank you, Seth. Well, now I consider myself just fully 421 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: shamed because I'm on record not let Well, then again, 422 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 1: I don't like a lot of the stuff they did 423 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: in the remasters, but a lot of the changes they made, 424 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: for example an Empire are good, you know, like the 425 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: new Wampa and all that. That's good stuff. So maybe 426 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: this is one of the good ones too. Well. And 427 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: if it's done right, you wouldn't notice, right, and so 428 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 1: that this is one where you don't notice, So makes sense. 429 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: But is Wicked in this movie still Warwick Davis? Yeah, 430 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: it's totally Warwick Davis. Um. Warwick Davis is wicked and 431 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: and always will be. Um. But but it is interesting 432 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: to watch him in this film knowing it's Warwick Davis 433 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: because in in when he's playing Wicked, there's really not 434 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: much to the role, right, I mean it's it's a 435 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 1: physical role. Uh you know, he's doing a fair amount 436 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:19,239 Speaker 1: of tumbling and whatnot. But considering Warwick Davis's place in 437 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: uh you know, his subsequent career, uh, he feels kind 438 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 1: of wasted in this because of course he would go 439 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: on to to be you know, he would be Willow, 440 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: you know, the star of that Lucas fantasy film. He 441 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 1: would be the Leprechn and the leprecn horror films. He 442 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 1: was in the Harry Potter movies playing various I think 443 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: goblin creatures. Uh So he has all these other roles, 444 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: sometimes not even playing a magical being, just playing a person. Um. 445 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,199 Speaker 1: You know, he has proven himself to be, uh you know, 446 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: a good actor, a solid actor. Uh So, it's it's 447 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: interesting to watch this and and know that he's you know, 448 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 1: there's there's this, there's this future acting talent just sealed 449 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 1: in this suit. I mean, he does a lot more 450 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: with this role than you would then you would expect 451 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 1: to be possible because, to be fair, Wicked, there's not 452 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: much on the page for Wicked in in this story 453 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: if we were watching uh Rachel commented halfway through the movie, 454 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: Wicked is a yes man, and that is absolutely true. 455 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 1: Wicked mostly in this film, uh is just there to 456 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: be like yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, this is true. 457 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: But but he also is kind of like he has 458 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: his Jack Burton moment at the end because he comes through. 459 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's needed, he comes through. Oh yeah, well 460 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: it comes through more than once. There are a few 461 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: times where he proves himself, you know, the fighting powerhouse 462 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: of our adventuring party here. So despite the scary, glassy 463 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: eyes and the lack of substance for the role on 464 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: the page. I think Warwick Davis does a great job 465 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: playing Wicked in this Now, another person of note in 466 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: this film is the Witch Charles I believe her name, 467 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: is played by Sean Phillips, probably the most seasoned actor 468 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: in the whole production. She's a she's she's a Welsh actor, 469 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,439 Speaker 1: probably best known for playing a reverend mother Guius Helen 470 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: Moham in David Lynch's Dune. You remember her, Oh yeah, 471 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: you will, you will feel my com jabbar. Yeah, yeah, she's. Yeah, 472 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: she's fabulous in in Dune, a weird movie we should 473 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: probably come back to, because even even if you strip 474 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 1: away the dune in Dune, there's plenty of just additional 475 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: lynch In weirdness in that film. But yeah, she's she's 476 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: great in that. She was also an eye Claudius. She 477 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 1: played Cassiopeia in Clash of the Titans. And she also 478 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: just did a ton of British TV work, seemingly, you know, 479 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: most of it historical sort of stuff. So I have 480 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: a question about this character. She shows up, she's wearing 481 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: like a metal corset and she she looks kind of like, um, 482 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: what's that. There's a character in Mortal Kombat who she 483 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of. I'm not quite sure what 484 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: what she was called, but she's got like long hair 485 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 1: and she's evil and well, confusingly, the character you're thinking 486 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: of in Mortal Kombat is uh Sindel, which is also 487 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: Little Girl Sindal. Sindl is the girl Sindel is the 488 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: evil version in Mortal Kombat. Okay, but yeah, so she 489 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: looks kind of like that, but then she's a witch 490 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: like she she has sorceress powers and so that makes 491 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: me wonder in the context of uh Star Wars, does 492 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: that mean she is a force user? Yes? So okay, yeah, 493 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: so this is where it gets complex and geeky again 494 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: because within the context of this film alone and It's time, 495 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: she just seems to be a magical witch thrown in. 496 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 1: She's the Witch of Indoor, get it, you know exactly 497 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: so she should be calling up the prophet Samuel to 498 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 1: give a give an omen for the battle, I guess. So, 499 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of what she does, that's kind 500 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: of her role here. We can sort of see the 501 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: inspiration here, um, but subsequently it has been rhet cond 502 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 1: I think to understand that she was a rogue Night Sister. 503 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 1: So Night Sisters are female um practitioners of the Force, 504 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: female force sensitive individuals who use the Dark Side uh 505 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: and are capable of of of great magic. In many cases. 506 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,879 Speaker 1: They're native to the planet Datamere, which is also the 507 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: planet that m Darth Maul species comes from, and basically 508 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: in the Clone Wars animated series, and I think some 509 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,639 Speaker 1: in Rebels I don't recall exactly. Mainly in Clone Wars 510 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: we see these Night Sister characters showing up and playing 511 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: an important role and at times working with or working 512 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: against the interests of of the Sith. But so there, 513 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: she's got powers that no other Force user ever has 514 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: in Star Wars, like she can transform into animals. An 515 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: sky Walker couldn't do that. Even I don't think Yoda 516 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 1: could transform into an animal. Now, I mean this is 517 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: but it it does feel in keeping with Night Sister magic. 518 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: Like the stuff that the Night Sisters do in the 519 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: Clone Wars series are more are more like straight up magic, 520 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,959 Speaker 1: you know, like bringing things back to life, necromantic acts, 521 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,719 Speaker 1: that sort of thing. That being said, I I do 522 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: admit like in this film she feels she feels like 523 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: something other than the Force, even if she's ultimately using 524 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: the Force. I don't recall anybody in this film mentioning 525 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 1: the Force. You wouldn't know the Force exists, right, Yeah, 526 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: she's she's like a straight up which in this film. 527 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: And and I say that Phillips isn't given a ton 528 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: to do with this role. But but she's good. I 529 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: would have liked to have seen more from her character, 530 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: but she still she plays a great which she has 531 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: a really awesome costume and the effects are really nice 532 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: when she transforms into a raven because she already has 533 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: like a rave any feathery cloak in all. And and 534 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: she has this magic ring that seems to contain the 535 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: magic she uses or focuses the magic she choosing We 536 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: were not sure, but it plays an important role later 537 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: on in the film. So she's one of the main villains. 538 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: But then the other main villain is the leader of 539 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 1: these marauder aliens. I was when we were watching it. 540 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 1: I kept calling him Thuls of Room. So he's the 541 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: guy who leads the bad guys who show up at 542 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: the village at the beginning and screw everything up. And 543 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: he wants power, and he wants. There's like a I 544 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: don't know how to explain the plot, but I guess 545 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: we'll get into that in a minute. But there's this 546 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: piece of technology from a spaceship that he wants because 547 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: he thinks it will give him power. So he's the 548 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: same species as these other marauders, meaning he looks kind 549 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: of like a reptilian insect orangutan skeleton type creature, but 550 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: also with with certain angles his silhouette and his facial 551 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: hair because he's got this cool beard. He looks like 552 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: James Randy looked in the eighties. Did you notice this 553 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: comparison picture of the amazing Randy like on Johnny Carson 554 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: the seventies or eighties. It's it's this guy. It's Terek. Huh. 555 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: I didn't get that as much as I got kind 556 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: of a faint like George C. Scott vibe from him. 557 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's a very different direction. But yeah, this 558 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: is this is Terek, the towering war lord of the Marauders. Um. 559 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: I also say that, even though all the Marauders tend 560 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 1: to look pretty good, clearly Terek, when you're the ruler 561 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: of a of a group of marauders, you're gonna get 562 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: more screen time, you're also going to get more of 563 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: that FX budget. So so while sometimes the guys in 564 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: the background or look maybe you know, they look all right, 565 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: Terek looks really good, like the makeup effects are are 566 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: really well done on him. I agree. And he's played 567 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: by the towering Dutch actor Carl Strucken, who would who 568 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: went on to play Lurch in both nineties Adams Family 569 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: movies as well as the Giant on Twin Peaks, and 570 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: he's been in a ton of stuff, and I think 571 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: he did the voice of Terek as out. I was 572 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: looking at the credits to see if they were doing 573 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: that thing where they have a different voice actor for 574 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: a very physical role, but I think this is Stroken 575 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: doing the voice as well, and it's you know, there's 576 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: his deep, you know, giant voice, and uh it's it's 577 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: quite effective. You know. Where he really looks great, even 578 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: better than in the movie, is in this poster you 579 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: showed me for the movie that you found where it's 580 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: like holding a big sword. He's like the Darth Vader 581 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: in the original Star Wars poster, towering over everything, looming 582 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 1: in the background. Though, I have to say also, and 583 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: I know you pointed this out as well, this poster 584 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: is extremely misleading about what's in this movie. Yeah, and 585 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: and apparently this was like the home video video version 586 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: of the poster to like this, this was not just 587 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: pre production stuff like this. They were like, it's good, 588 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: put it on the VHS and send it out, because 589 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 1: it does have a whole bunch of weird things that 590 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: clearly show that it was created prior to the completion 591 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: of the movie. Um, Like, I don't know where to 592 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: begin here. For instance, Um, it has a giant Terek, 593 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: It's gotten multiple spaceships in the background, even though there's 594 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: only ever one. It has the space patals in this movie, 595 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 1: but you know, it makes it look like there's going 596 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: to be Yeah. It also shows a han solo looking 597 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 1: character with a blaster on the front that I think 598 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: it's supposed to be the dad from the first movie. 599 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: But yeah, it makes no sense here because he played 600 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,719 Speaker 1: even the dad in this movie plays no real role. Yeah, 601 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: whoever this is, this is not somebody in the movie. Yeah. 602 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: And then you have you have Wicket and Tek they're 603 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: standing batt already, but then you have a Sindal there 604 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 1: holding a big old knife like a big dagger. Like 605 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 1: she's ready to jump into combat and start stabbing rodders 606 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 1: in the neck. That is not indicative of what happens 607 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: in the movie. And she it looks like I don't know. 608 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: I wondered if also in this depiction they're trying to 609 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 1: make it more ambiguous that she might be a boy. Yeah, yeah, 610 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: I can see that too, Like if they were like, oh, 611 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: we need to make sure that boys want to watch this, 612 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: so I don't want to give them the impression that 613 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 1: the main character is a girl. I'm glad the blurd 614 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: made the cover to the blurs in the background. And 615 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 1: there are these mountains that I don't recall being in 616 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: the movie, these like snow capped peaks. Is that in 617 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,760 Speaker 1: the film? I don't think, so, I don't remember any mountains. 618 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 1: Now there's like a cliff at one part, but I 619 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,879 Speaker 1: don't know we can get into that. Okay, well, maybe 620 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 1: we should just give a brief outline of the whole plot. Uh, 621 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: so you know the shape of the thing. So we 622 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,439 Speaker 1: we talked about how it starts. You know, this cone 623 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 1: in the Barbarian beginning. The village is rated the humans 624 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 1: Sindel the little girl. By the way, I don't know 625 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: if I mentioned this already, but I had to look 626 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: it up because they've got this actress named Aubrey Miller 627 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,399 Speaker 1: playing Sindel, the main character, the girl, the blonde girl, 628 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: And clearly they wanted Drew Barrymore. Right. This came out 629 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,320 Speaker 1: two or three years after ET, and they were like, 630 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: let's get Drew Barrymore but maybe they couldn't afford her something, 631 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,320 Speaker 1: so they were like, well, get us the Berry morrist 632 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 1: kid you can find, And I think that's how we 633 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: ended up with with this main character here. You know, 634 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: there's apparently a fan theory um that Cindel grows up 635 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: to be Captain FAsMA from the sequel trilogy. What I mean, 636 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 1: there's there's nothing cannon or anything here, but but some 637 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: fans put that together and I think they what's her name, 638 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: Gwendolyn Christie. Yeah, they was like, yeah, they're both blonde. 639 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,359 Speaker 1: Maybe the math works, I don't know. And also, this 640 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,400 Speaker 1: does seem like the kind of experience that might harden 641 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: you towards a life serving the first order. Um, so 642 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,759 Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense. I don't know. Oh, right, 643 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 1: So the idea is she's exposed to these roving bands 644 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,719 Speaker 1: of marauders she's like, it's just chaos out here. We 645 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 1: need order, we need orders. So she's just signed up 646 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,320 Speaker 1: with the Empire. Try to bring along ordered into this 647 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,480 Speaker 1: traumatic experience and what direction do you go? And she 648 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 1: ends up going going that direction. So I don't know, 649 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,360 Speaker 1: I don't think it's I don't think anybody's gone so 650 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,960 Speaker 1: far as to do a treatment of that, uh in 651 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 1: you know, in novel form or anything, or short story form, 652 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: but that would it would be interesting to see how 653 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: that might be stitched together. Yeah, okay, that's very interesting 654 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,759 Speaker 1: now my mind is set on it. So Sindel her 655 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,919 Speaker 1: human family, they're living with the e walks there, Paul 656 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,479 Speaker 1: Gleason and her dad is working on this spaceship, trying 657 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 1: to repair it or something, and and then they get 658 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,040 Speaker 1: attacked by the marauders and then just all the humans 659 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: except Sindell are killed and uh and and and so 660 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,879 Speaker 1: the leader of the bad guys, Thulse of Room, he 661 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,960 Speaker 1: obviously wants some kind of canister from out of Paul 662 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 1: Gleason's spaceship. And when he you know, he tries to 663 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 1: get it, and he's like, the power, I have the power. 664 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,400 Speaker 1: And then this is also where we meet the sorceress, 665 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 1: and then Sindel and her ewalk buddies are captured by 666 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 1: the by by the marauding creatures, and Wicket promises to 667 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: take care of her. He says, Wicked, take care of Sindel, 668 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,480 Speaker 1: so he speaks in the third person and invokes his 669 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:12,040 Speaker 1: own name. He's like a very cute teddy bear, Bob Dole. 670 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,919 Speaker 1: And then the ewoks escaped the marauders who have captured them, 671 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 1: Wicked and and Sindel get away. And this movie very 672 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 1: much continues on the theme that's established in the Return 673 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: of the Jedi that while the e Walks may look 674 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,719 Speaker 1: extremely cute and like living teddy bears, they are also 675 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 1: highly resourceful jungle guerilla warriors. They're they're like the Viet 676 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,800 Speaker 1: Cong of Indoor. They know how to use the environment. 677 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,520 Speaker 1: They set traps, you know. They they've got very clever 678 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,520 Speaker 1: tactics for for the landscape. Yeah, when they're fighting on 679 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,200 Speaker 1: on their own terms, on their home turf, they just 680 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,400 Speaker 1: can't be beat. They can they can take out the 681 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,720 Speaker 1: Galactic Empire as long as they're fighting within the forest 682 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,480 Speaker 1: of Indoor and using guerrilla tactics. Yes, uh so, Wicked 683 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 1: and Sindel escape and this escape sequence involves what appears 684 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 1: to be teleportation. Do you remember this spart where they're 685 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 1: just running through the woods and then it just cuts 686 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,160 Speaker 1: to them most of the way up a cliff face. 687 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if something was edited out there or 688 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,799 Speaker 1: if they're like people get the point. It feels like 689 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 1: that was this cut for time a little bit there. Yeah, 690 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,399 Speaker 1: But but it's otherwise a great escape sequence because there's 691 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 1: like this, you know that they cut a hole through 692 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: the bottom of this cart. They have this cart that's 693 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,560 Speaker 1: being pulled by a blurg and the cart seems to 694 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,520 Speaker 1: be made out of blurg bones and hide. So I 695 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 1: was like that, and yeah, then they're on the run 696 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 1: and two marauders are after them, and um, and they 697 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,919 Speaker 1: managed to like duck into a cave and like wick 698 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 1: it basically like straight up like murders. The two marauders 699 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,439 Speaker 1: that are after them like the well, now I guess 700 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,319 Speaker 1: he does. And I think the marauders, through their own 701 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 1: reckless violence, managed to to dislodge some boulders that then 702 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,640 Speaker 1: fall on them and you know, make them fall to 703 00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 1: their deaths. Yeah, that's right. They get knocked off of 704 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,240 Speaker 1: the pass of cads. Yeah, then they encounter a dragon 705 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,919 Speaker 1: condor her and have to battle that, and she gets 706 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,800 Speaker 1: snatched away by They go into a cave and it 707 00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,120 Speaker 1: is Wicket trying to build a hang glider. I think 708 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,520 Speaker 1: he's just building one out of bones and hides and stuff. 709 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:13,239 Speaker 1: Very cool. Yeah, I mean that's the other thing to 710 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 1: keep in mind about the Ewoks, Like, yes, they're using 711 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,840 Speaker 1: like stone age technology, but they have mastered nonpowered flight, 712 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,839 Speaker 1: Like they can build a functional glider and just go 713 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,520 Speaker 1: for it. Yeah. So he builds that, and then they 714 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 1: accidentally disturb a dragon. Uh. And then what is the 715 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,440 Speaker 1: deal with this dragon's chest? It looks like it's wearing 716 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,520 Speaker 1: a vest of some kind. Do you remember this? I 717 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 1: don't remember the chest to the drag mainly, just remember 718 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 1: it's you know, it has kind of like a snaky 719 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:43,480 Speaker 1: condori head. Uh. Well, okay, So the dragon grabs Sindel 720 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,040 Speaker 1: and flies off with her, and then Wickett has to 721 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,040 Speaker 1: rescue her, which he does by like making the dragon 722 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,440 Speaker 1: drop her and then flying down and catching her after 723 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,960 Speaker 1: she's been dropped in a physically implausible scene. But it works. 724 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,840 Speaker 1: You know, it's fun. But one of the things that 725 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,959 Speaker 1: I noted, Uh, this may be extremely brief Monster Science note, 726 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,680 Speaker 1: when they watch the Dragon flying Away, there's this part 727 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,880 Speaker 1: where they show a planet looming over the horizon and 728 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,600 Speaker 1: it takes up literally half the sky. I guess that's 729 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,520 Speaker 1: supposed to be the gas giant that this moon is 730 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,359 Speaker 1: a moon of. But but I was like, that just 731 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 1: looks too big. That is implausibly big. Though it did 732 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,279 Speaker 1: make me look up, and I think we've sort of 733 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:26,880 Speaker 1: talked about this on the show before when we were 734 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,280 Speaker 1: talking about the moons of Jupiter. But there are moons 735 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,480 Speaker 1: you could stand on in our Solar system where if 736 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,439 Speaker 1: you look at the planet that this is a moon 737 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 1: of the planet, would look much bigger than things we're 738 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: used to seeing in the sky. For example, if you 739 00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: stand on the surface of the innermost major moon of Jupiter, 740 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,680 Speaker 1: the Galileean moon Io, which is very yellow, sulfurous hell, 741 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,880 Speaker 1: lots of volcanoes erupting all the time. You stand on 742 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: the surface of Io and you look at Jupiter, Jupiter 743 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,040 Speaker 1: would not take up half the sky, but it would 744 00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,839 Speaker 1: be very big compared to like stuff where you used 745 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,400 Speaker 1: to sing, like the Sun or the moon. You can usually, 746 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,120 Speaker 1: I think, cover up the Moon if you extend your 747 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 1: armfully and you can like cover it up with one finger. 748 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,520 Speaker 1: To cover up Jupiter from the surface of Io, you'd 749 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,360 Speaker 1: probably have to use your whole hand. So it's bigger, 750 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:18,480 Speaker 1: but it's still not the whole sky, right, Um, I 751 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,239 Speaker 1: guess I did. I didn't notice as much. Maybe, I 752 00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,280 Speaker 1: mean I didn't think about it. But I've been playing 753 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,719 Speaker 1: this game No Man's Sky a little bit. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 754 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,839 Speaker 1: that's yeah, fun, beautiful game. You're exploring planets landing on it. 755 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,279 Speaker 1: But there's a lot of that in this game, where 756 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,320 Speaker 1: you land on it on some strange, beautiful world and 757 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:41,279 Speaker 1: the horizon is just ridunculous, like gorgeous. But yeah, if 758 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,760 Speaker 1: you start thinking about the relative size and distances involved, 759 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,520 Speaker 1: it's a bit much at times. But so Wicked and Sindel. 760 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,080 Speaker 1: They're out in the woods here after they've escaped, and 761 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,560 Speaker 1: then then they meet the real star of the film, 762 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,120 Speaker 1: which is a tricksy beast with scruffy fur and beaver 763 00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,600 Speaker 1: teeth that runs on fast forward and this teak who 764 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,200 Speaker 1: we've already alluded to tea teak is just the best 765 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 1: teak is. Yeah, he's awesome. Um My, my wife thinks 766 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,880 Speaker 1: he has frightening teeth and I don't think he has frightened. 767 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,120 Speaker 1: He has. He has very He's very rabbit like um, 768 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,600 Speaker 1: both in his dental mechanics but also in just his 769 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:20,040 Speaker 1: overall form. He's this kind of like little rabbity fella 770 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,360 Speaker 1: that runs around at speeds that must make him the 771 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:27,440 Speaker 1: fastest creature in the Star Wars universe. Here's the real question. 772 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:32,120 Speaker 1: Is Teak an ewalk? I don't think so. Um No. 773 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:37,279 Speaker 1: I look, according to Wikipedia, his species is Teak. So 774 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,799 Speaker 1: maybe the new season of The Mandalorian will have a 775 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,719 Speaker 1: baby Teak. Oh man. I would love Fatigue to show 776 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,719 Speaker 1: up again in some form or another, because I feel 777 00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,480 Speaker 1: like he was an absolute joy. It's, you know, very 778 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,480 Speaker 1: much a It's an interesting story with Teak because it's 779 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,640 Speaker 1: very much a little person in a suit, very well done, 780 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,480 Speaker 1: very well acted. The suit is in the like the 781 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,960 Speaker 1: puppetry that that moves. The facial features is just very 782 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,080 Speaker 1: well done. I totally bought Teak as an actual creature 783 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,440 Speaker 1: in this. But uh, the some of the lore apparently 784 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,640 Speaker 1: is that brim Wilford Brimley apparently can be difficult to 785 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,719 Speaker 1: get along with and for starters. I don't think he 786 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,600 Speaker 1: liked the directors on this, and so somebody else had 787 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,520 Speaker 1: to direct him in all of his scenes. But on 788 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,600 Speaker 1: top of this, Teake was going to originally be either 789 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,040 Speaker 1: exclusively a puppet or was gonna be a puppet more 790 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,279 Speaker 1: of the time, and Wilfred was just having none of this. 791 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,560 Speaker 1: He's like, I'm not acting in opposite a puppet. Do 792 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,160 Speaker 1: you get a you get a person in here in 793 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,680 Speaker 1: a suit, I'll act against a person, but get that 794 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:46,879 Speaker 1: puppet out of here. That's just perfect. Well he's he's 795 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,360 Speaker 1: like the puppet that's witchcraft. You know, he doesn't like 796 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,839 Speaker 1: it at all. But anyway, this alludes to the fact 797 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,080 Speaker 1: that the Teak and Wilfred Brimley are are a duo. 798 00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,439 Speaker 1: In this movie. Teake leads Sindel and wicked E walk 799 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,120 Speaker 1: to the home of Wilfred Brimley. Again. The character's name 800 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,399 Speaker 1: is Noah, and we meet Wilfred Brimley and he's very 801 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,759 Speaker 1: ornerary and he tries to send them away. He's like, 802 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,839 Speaker 1: you can't stay here, get out of my house, and 803 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,160 Speaker 1: the little girls just like, well, he's just a mean 804 00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,280 Speaker 1: old man anyway. But he makes them depart the Kingdom 805 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:21,240 Speaker 1: of Brimley, so they sit outside being sad and pathetic. 806 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,160 Speaker 1: They're like, we're cold, we're hungry, and he's like, well, 807 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,200 Speaker 1: I'm a mean old man and I don't care. But 808 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,960 Speaker 1: then his heart with with some urging from Teak, his 809 00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,640 Speaker 1: heart eventually melts and he lets them into the house 810 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,719 Speaker 1: and and they share a fire, and then he becomes 811 00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,960 Speaker 1: he becomes nice grandpa instead of me and Grandpa. Yeah. 812 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,600 Speaker 1: I was watching this movie with my son and he 813 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,360 Speaker 1: was he was initially not having any of this. Uh, 814 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,239 Speaker 1: this Noah character is like, Yeah, this guy's awful. He's mean. 815 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,799 Speaker 1: I don't like him. But then he he has a 816 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,320 Speaker 1: rapid change of heart and then he's all in for 817 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,520 Speaker 1: the rest of the movie. Speaking of the resourcefulness of 818 00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,200 Speaker 1: the e Walks, one of the things that I really 819 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,720 Speaker 1: enjoyed was there's scene where wick It makes a fire 820 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,680 Speaker 1: with a bow drill. Yeah, it's weird. The domestic scenes 821 00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,160 Speaker 1: in this film are some of my favorites. Like they 822 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,120 Speaker 1: just warm my heart in a way that I can't 823 00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,880 Speaker 1: fully explain. But just the scenes where they're just sitting 824 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:18,560 Speaker 1: around eating or cooking or or playing music together, like 825 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,200 Speaker 1: these are just I don't know, they're just they're just 826 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:25,080 Speaker 1: totally warm experiences. Yeah, I think I like those more 827 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,640 Speaker 1: than anything else. There's a lot of puppets eating food 828 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:29,680 Speaker 1: or I don't know if the I guess the facial 829 00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,399 Speaker 1: puppetry of of of Teak and stuff that I guess 830 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,799 Speaker 1: that would still be puppetry, um, even though there's an 831 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:40,240 Speaker 1: actor playing Teak. But like the uh there's the scene 832 00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:44,160 Speaker 1: where they're eating a pie made out of flowers. I 833 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,440 Speaker 1: didn't fully understand that, like they gathered flowers. They're like, 834 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,839 Speaker 1: we're making a pie and okay, um. But then so 835 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,280 Speaker 1: after all this that you get these nice domestic scenes. 836 00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:58,200 Speaker 1: They share a fire, they eat flower pie, and then 837 00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,400 Speaker 1: we finally cut to the Castle of Pain. It shows 838 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,920 Speaker 1: these these stone towers. I don't know what castle they 839 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,320 Speaker 1: used to film this at, but it's this uh nasty 840 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:13,560 Speaker 1: castle where the skeleton orangutan insect creatures live and the 841 00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,360 Speaker 1: raven sorceresses there and they're all hanging out trying to 842 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,359 Speaker 1: do some kind of magic spell on the canister from 843 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,120 Speaker 1: Paul Gleason Spaceship. I didn't really understand this either, but 844 00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,440 Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't supposed to make sense. Um. I don't know. 845 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,319 Speaker 1: I probably thought about it way too much because I 846 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,719 Speaker 1: think what we have here is that the Marauders at 847 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:38,320 Speaker 1: some time in the past themselves crash landed on indoor, 848 00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,320 Speaker 1: and at this point they no longer I. I suspect 849 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:47,719 Speaker 1: that the Marauders were like more of a primitive society 850 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,600 Speaker 1: on their homeworld, like maybe they had achieved uh, you know, 851 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:55,640 Speaker 1: like iron age or um or maybe Bronze age technology 852 00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:59,719 Speaker 1: before they got sucked up into galactic affairs, you know, 853 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,440 Speaker 1: forced to be a warrior, cast by some group or another, uh, 854 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,520 Speaker 1: and just thrown in over their head given technology that 855 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:09,560 Speaker 1: they don't really understand but figure out how to use effectively, 856 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,400 Speaker 1: like the blasters that they have, you know, that are 857 00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,759 Speaker 1: all just again held together with dirty gauze. There are 858 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,520 Speaker 1: a couple of scenes of one of them sitting around 859 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,800 Speaker 1: drunkenly tinkering with some sort of electrical contraption and electric 860 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:26,400 Speaker 1: uniting itself in the process. So yeah, you get that 861 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,160 Speaker 1: sense that that they sort of know how the technology works, 862 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,719 Speaker 1: they know it well enough to use it, but they 863 00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,080 Speaker 1: don't understand other concepts. So at some point in their 864 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,200 Speaker 1: past they might have understood that they need a power 865 00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,720 Speaker 1: cell to give them the power to return to orbit 866 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,080 Speaker 1: and return to galactic affairs. But at this point, you know, 867 00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:48,040 Speaker 1: maybe it's generations. Afterwards, all that has survived is this 868 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,960 Speaker 1: idea that if they get ahold of a power cell, 869 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,440 Speaker 1: that is the power. And so Terek believes that he 870 00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,600 Speaker 1: no longer understands it in terms of technological power, but 871 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,600 Speaker 1: in terms of like personal cosmic our, personal magical power. 872 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,600 Speaker 1: Through the decay of the lore over the years, what 873 00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:09,480 Speaker 1: was initially a technological utilitarian need has become a religion. 874 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,319 Speaker 1: We need this object of power in order to give 875 00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,640 Speaker 1: us basically the magic to do what we want. Right, 876 00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,120 Speaker 1: And as far as the castle goes, um I interpreted 877 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,359 Speaker 1: that as being like ruins that they found, like those 878 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,600 Speaker 1: are the ruins of some even you know, some previous 879 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:30,439 Speaker 1: Indrian civilization that was snuffed out or or or expired. Okay, yeah, 880 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:40,800 Speaker 1: I guess that would make sense. So so they're trying 881 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:42,960 Speaker 1: to work their magic and it's not going well. And 882 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,400 Speaker 1: then as we come back to Wilfred Brimley, Sindel and 883 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,320 Speaker 1: Wicked and Teak and and they're in the province. Actually 884 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,440 Speaker 1: they find out that Wilfred Brimley himself has a crash spaceship. 885 00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:53,920 Speaker 1: Seems that there are a lot of crash spaceships around here, 886 00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,400 Speaker 1: and he's been trying to repair it, right, is he's 887 00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,919 Speaker 1: like been working on it for all these years. Yeah. Basically, Again, 888 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,799 Speaker 1: the comparisons between this movie and No Man Sky are 889 00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:07,000 Speaker 1: tremendous because you land on a planet No Man Sky 890 00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:11,080 Speaker 1: and they're just crash spaceships everywhere, and that's kind of 891 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,200 Speaker 1: how it is here. Yeah. So he has a crash spaceship, 892 00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,920 Speaker 1: but he has he's been working to repair it, but 893 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,640 Speaker 1: he does not have a power cell. Uh So. And 894 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:22,120 Speaker 1: then in the process of discovering this, the characters just 895 00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,440 Speaker 1: get more and more sappy toward each other. Wilford Brimley 896 00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,640 Speaker 1: gets all sweet and he opens up to the child 897 00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:28,680 Speaker 1: and the e walk. He gets Sindel to sing a 898 00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,480 Speaker 1: song at one point, and I don't mean to be 899 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,480 Speaker 1: mean to this child actor, but it is so bad, 900 00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,279 Speaker 1: like Wickt can barely pretend to clap at the end 901 00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:42,719 Speaker 1: of the song. Um. Another thing I noticed that. So 902 00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:47,320 Speaker 1: you mentioned that the cart made by the Marauder creatures 903 00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,799 Speaker 1: looks like it's made out of bones, and you're right 904 00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,040 Speaker 1: about that. Maybe it's made out of the Blurg bones. 905 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,640 Speaker 1: Sometimes Wilfred Brimley's hut in the woods also looks like 906 00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,560 Speaker 1: it's made out of bones like that. Uh, like that's 907 00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,520 Speaker 1: stone age amath bone hut we talked about in an 908 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,120 Speaker 1: episode not too long ago. Well, I mean, it seems 909 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,560 Speaker 1: like they're various megafauna on the planet that can be 910 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,200 Speaker 1: um butchered and made into houses. But it's the forest 911 00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,760 Speaker 1: moon of Indoor though, Like they're not hurting for lumber. 912 00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:18,359 Speaker 1: Yeah that's true. Yeah, why there's wood everywhere? Why build 913 00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,400 Speaker 1: anything out of a bone? Interesting, I wonder. But anyway, 914 00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,160 Speaker 1: so one morning you get the third act kicks into 915 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,960 Speaker 1: gear because one morning Sindel is lured out of the 916 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,520 Speaker 1: house by something that she thinks is the sound of 917 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,200 Speaker 1: her mother singing. And then Wicked and and Wilford Brimley 918 00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:38,520 Speaker 1: go after her, and Sindel comes across this weird fairy 919 00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,400 Speaker 1: type lady in a flowing white dress who's out in 920 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,440 Speaker 1: the forest with a white horse. But of course it's 921 00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,520 Speaker 1: a trap. This is the Sorceress, the witch from the beginning. 922 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,680 Speaker 1: She snatches Sindel and rides off on a horse to 923 00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,440 Speaker 1: the Castle of Pain. Yeah the horse turns black and 924 00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:57,800 Speaker 1: then process oh yeah uh and then fuls off Room 925 00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:02,640 Speaker 1: wants Sindel to use her magic to make the stolen 926 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,799 Speaker 1: canister work, and she of course doesn't know how to 927 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,160 Speaker 1: do this, and then he has a melt down and 928 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,520 Speaker 1: throws her in a prison cell. But there's a there's 929 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:15,160 Speaker 1: a rescue scene that kicks off, so Wilford Brimley Wicket Antique. 930 00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,640 Speaker 1: They sort of gear up and they go to the 931 00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:22,760 Speaker 1: castle on a mission of rescue. There's a grappling hook infiltration. 932 00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,879 Speaker 1: This whole infiltration scene with with Tiak. I think it's 933 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,360 Speaker 1: really fun. It is it's it's it's a lot of 934 00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,399 Speaker 1: fun because you got you got the grappling hook going in. 935 00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:34,960 Speaker 1: It's you know, Teak is your stealth specialist flying ahead. 936 00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,880 Speaker 1: There's ah, there's a there's a wonderful scene where where 937 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,200 Speaker 1: once they are inside and just getting in, it is 938 00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:44,440 Speaker 1: pretty exciting. But then they they all three stack up 939 00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:46,120 Speaker 1: on top of each other and put a cloak over 940 00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,839 Speaker 1: themselves to pretend to be one marauder too in order 941 00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:53,440 Speaker 1: to pass unnoticed through their drunken mead hall. Yeah. Well, 942 00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,160 Speaker 1: the bad guys are doing this thing where I guess 943 00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,439 Speaker 1: this sometimes happened, especially in kids movies, where the bad 944 00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:00,239 Speaker 1: guys are all hanging out and they're having a big 945 00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,560 Speaker 1: old feast and they're eating and drinking, and they're just 946 00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:10,000 Speaker 1: constantly emitting NonStop, growling, maniacal laughter. Uh, and it makes 947 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,400 Speaker 1: you wonder, what are they talking about? What's so funny? 948 00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:20,120 Speaker 1: It's just NonStop? Yeah, Yeah, I don't know what they're 949 00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,480 Speaker 1: they're talking about. I mean, clearly they're they're talking about. 950 00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,680 Speaker 1: I mean, there's that one guy that's working with electrical equipment, 951 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,360 Speaker 1: so maybe that's a lot of like insider techy humor 952 00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,560 Speaker 1: on his end, But everybody else is just drinking and laughing. Yeah. 953 00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,600 Speaker 1: But then Wilfer, Brimley, Wicket Antique free the e Walks 954 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:39,280 Speaker 1: and Cindel from the Castle prison. The escape sequence reveals 955 00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:41,799 Speaker 1: that e Walks once again, they're pretty handy with blasters 956 00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,400 Speaker 1: and a pinch, and everybody escapes via a zip line 957 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,799 Speaker 1: and then they do the thing they do, the thing 958 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:53,200 Speaker 1: that Kevin McAllister does in Home Alone, where the bad 959 00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,479 Speaker 1: guys try to come on the zip line after them 960 00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,280 Speaker 1: and they cut it so they fall into the mode, 961 00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,960 Speaker 1: the acid mode. Oh is it? Is it acid or 962 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:02,800 Speaker 1: does it have some kind of creature in it? I 963 00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:04,920 Speaker 1: couldn't tell if it was supposed to be piranhas or 964 00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,800 Speaker 1: if the liquid itself was harmful. Oh yeah, they're a 965 00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,240 Speaker 1: little they're a little vague on that point. There's something 966 00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,359 Speaker 1: in there that bubbles and and messes you up. Oh 967 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,680 Speaker 1: and there's a great line I love when they're reunited. 968 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,440 Speaker 1: So we find out that Wilfred Brimley had a friend 969 00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:22,520 Speaker 1: that he crashed landed on this planet with and uh, 970 00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:26,000 Speaker 1: and his bones are there in the Castle of Paine. 971 00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,040 Speaker 1: And when they when Sindel and Wilfred Brimley back up, 972 00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,640 Speaker 1: Sindel says to him, I'm sorry about your friend, that 973 00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:36,520 Speaker 1: they killed him for the power thing. And there there 974 00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,160 Speaker 1: is Serah's bones, like just bones, just basically it's been 975 00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:45,120 Speaker 1: a high school science display. Yeah, like really dry bones, 976 00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:48,240 Speaker 1: like they look fossilized. So I don't know how along 977 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,960 Speaker 1: Wilford Brimley supposed to have been there, but yeah, now 978 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,080 Speaker 1: and when they're when they're freeing the ewalks, an important 979 00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,120 Speaker 1: thing is that there's a second there where the witch. 980 00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,600 Speaker 1: The witch is locked up too. We've learned in all 981 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,799 Speaker 1: this are the which is is is as much a 982 00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,279 Speaker 1: prisoner as they are in many ways, like Karen keeps 983 00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,920 Speaker 1: asking her to release the magic and she can't do it. 984 00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,319 Speaker 1: And there's this confusing scene when they're still locked up 985 00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,440 Speaker 1: where the which is like like talking to a Sindel 986 00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,920 Speaker 1: and says, well, why didn't you release the magic when 987 00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,920 Speaker 1: he asked you release the magic? Did you try waving 988 00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:22,399 Speaker 1: your hand over it or something? And it seems it's 989 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,280 Speaker 1: a confusing sequence that, more than anything in this film, 990 00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,080 Speaker 1: forces me to do a lot of mental gymnastics to 991 00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:33,440 Speaker 1: make work. Because if she she's like this magical being, 992 00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,960 Speaker 1: like where does she come from? Like the night Sister? Uh? 993 00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,440 Speaker 1: Excuse Like that seems to work for a lot of this. 994 00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:43,919 Speaker 1: You can say, well, she's a you know, a fourth 995 00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,480 Speaker 1: sensitive individual from another planet like everybody else in this scenario. 996 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,920 Speaker 1: She got stuck on this planet or got stuck with 997 00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,120 Speaker 1: the Marauders at some point or another. But she clearly 998 00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:57,799 Speaker 1: knows about spaceships. She that's revealed later. She you know, 999 00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,120 Speaker 1: she's she, I guess knows about a a wider universe. 1000 00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,799 Speaker 1: So doesn't she realize this is a power cell? The 1001 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,120 Speaker 1: best I can do to understand this is maybe she's 1002 00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:09,560 Speaker 1: just been in with the Marauders so long. She's like 1003 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,359 Speaker 1: she's gone mad. She's like bought into Terek's madness, into 1004 00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,200 Speaker 1: thinking that the power cell has has magical properties. I 1005 00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:21,400 Speaker 1: don't know. That is an admirable con You've come as 1006 00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,360 Speaker 1: close as a person could come, because otherwise it's a 1007 00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,080 Speaker 1: real I say, it's a real weak point in this 1008 00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:31,400 Speaker 1: particular script. But at any rate, they were Cindel refuses 1009 00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,719 Speaker 1: to let Wicket free her says no, she's evil and 1010 00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,480 Speaker 1: swats the keys out of his hands, and then go 1011 00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,200 Speaker 1: down to the sewer. And then uh. And then once 1012 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,440 Speaker 1: the good guys have escaped, the marauders come back. They 1013 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,319 Speaker 1: act for a second like they're just gonna gun down 1014 00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,200 Speaker 1: the witch in the cage, but instead they free her 1015 00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,960 Speaker 1: and and they're like, yeah, come with us, and you're 1016 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,840 Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna get this thing back. She transforms into 1017 00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:55,920 Speaker 1: her raven form, but after she does so, Terek takes 1018 00:55:55,960 --> 00:56:00,800 Speaker 1: the magic ring off of the ravens claw there um 1019 00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:04,440 Speaker 1: and and puts it on a necklace around his own neck. Uh. 1020 00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,560 Speaker 1: Presumably this means she cannot change back into her human 1021 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:11,040 Speaker 1: form until she gets that ring back from Terek. Oh, okay, 1022 00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,400 Speaker 1: I didn't understand that at the time. Now did that 1023 00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,520 Speaker 1: makes sense? But Terrek also seems to maybe is he 1024 00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,040 Speaker 1: getting power from the ring or something? I don't know, 1025 00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:20,960 Speaker 1: is it like, what is it like the one ring. 1026 00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,400 Speaker 1: I don't think he gets anything out of it until 1027 00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,959 Speaker 1: in the very final scene with him, uh, he gets 1028 00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,040 Speaker 1: it in all the wrong ways, which will So the 1029 00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,760 Speaker 1: marauders then chase our heroes. They chase Wilfred Brimley, Sindel 1030 00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:38,320 Speaker 1: and the e Walks Antique uh and and the heroes 1031 00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:41,520 Speaker 1: are going to remember Wilfred Brimley has a space ship 1032 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,239 Speaker 1: that's up on cinder blocks in his yard. They're they're 1033 00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,400 Speaker 1: going to that, and Wilfred Brimley is going to do 1034 00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:48,680 Speaker 1: something with the power cell. I think he's going to 1035 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,400 Speaker 1: repair his ship, and I don't know they'll escape or something. 1036 00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:54,399 Speaker 1: But there's of course there of course has to be 1037 00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,680 Speaker 1: an e walk battle, just like in Return of the Jedi, 1038 00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,080 Speaker 1: and there is one. So the e Walks battle the 1039 00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,560 Speaker 1: marauders and woods and they use traps and they use 1040 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:06,480 Speaker 1: the environment and it's much like the Return of the 1041 00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:11,759 Speaker 1: Jedi scene. Yeah, it's it's marauders versus e Walks, and 1042 00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,160 Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Lots of traps going off, and then 1043 00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:18,840 Speaker 1: eventually Noah gets the ship's defenses running. Uh so he 1044 00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:22,000 Speaker 1: starts busting out. First of all, there's like this enormous 1045 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:25,600 Speaker 1: um blaster cannon on the side of the the the 1046 00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:29,320 Speaker 1: ship that like folds out and starts taking down the enemies. 1047 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,280 Speaker 1: And then there are also these two what seemed to 1048 00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:36,600 Speaker 1: be open air gunnery positions, Like they're they're not completely enclosed. 1049 00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,920 Speaker 1: So um, either that's a flaw in the whole design 1050 00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,240 Speaker 1: or they're only intended for use steering like while the 1051 00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:46,120 Speaker 1: ship is in an atmosphere or something. But at anyway, 1052 00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:49,120 Speaker 1: they've got like three gunnery positions now I think, adding 1053 00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,400 Speaker 1: to the use of traps. And they have a catapult 1054 00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,440 Speaker 1: which of course ends up firing an e walk at 1055 00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,760 Speaker 1: a marauder at one point, Um, he gets in on 1056 00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,760 Speaker 1: the action. There's a wonderful scene where he starts a 1057 00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,920 Speaker 1: little fire underneath one of the Blurg's feet and starts 1058 00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:06,320 Speaker 1: a blurred stand taine. I mean, since he is essentially 1059 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,640 Speaker 1: the flash, he would think he would be pretty useful 1060 00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,960 Speaker 1: in a fight. He can like fast forward run to 1061 00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,720 Speaker 1: any position. Oh yeah, then he wraps he fast forward 1062 00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,840 Speaker 1: vine wraps the marauder to a tree at one point. Yes, 1063 00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:19,600 Speaker 1: there are lots of vines that That also makes me 1064 00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:22,000 Speaker 1: think about how the spaceship is not only so the 1065 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,600 Speaker 1: spaceship that's up on cinder blocks is covered in vines 1066 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,520 Speaker 1: that look very flammable. When they start shooting the lasers, 1067 00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:29,560 Speaker 1: it looks like, I don't know, it looks like a 1068 00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:34,800 Speaker 1: fire hazard. Um. But of course, the as you might expect, 1069 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,120 Speaker 1: it's a yub nub. The humans and the Ewoks win 1070 00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,760 Speaker 1: the battle against the marauders and and and you. But 1071 00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:45,440 Speaker 1: then the bad guy Terek. He even after the battle 1072 00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,920 Speaker 1: is over, he captures Sindel and he tries to bargain 1073 00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,640 Speaker 1: with Wilfred Brimley. He's like, give me the power, defy me, 1074 00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:56,560 Speaker 1: and she is doomed. And then Wilfred Brimley and Tulsa 1075 00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:01,400 Speaker 1: Tulsa room duel, so it's sword versus walking stick, and 1076 00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,000 Speaker 1: for a second it looks like Terek is gonna win, 1077 00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:08,280 Speaker 1: but then Wicket uses his sling and hits I guess 1078 00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:13,120 Speaker 1: the jewel on the ring on on Terek's necklace that 1079 00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,320 Speaker 1: he got from the witch, and for some reason, hitting 1080 00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,880 Speaker 1: that with the sling or the stone from the sling 1081 00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:24,000 Speaker 1: makes Terek get just crispified. He he just sort of 1082 00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:28,960 Speaker 1: like burns up and turns into an ash husk. Yeah, 1083 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,360 Speaker 1: it's a great petrification scene because it's like it hits 1084 00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,680 Speaker 1: the ring and then Terek has this moment. You know, 1085 00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,600 Speaker 1: he's wanted power this whole time, he wants magical power, 1086 00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:41,320 Speaker 1: and now he's gotten it, and uh, you know, not 1087 00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:43,520 Speaker 1: from the source he was after, but here's the power, 1088 00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:47,480 Speaker 1: and it just just fries him like a char Royl, 1089 00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:50,720 Speaker 1: like just charbroy like it like you you just put 1090 00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:52,720 Speaker 1: him in the microwave too long, just turns him to 1091 00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:57,240 Speaker 1: this smoking ashen stone, and uh, it's it's a pretty 1092 00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:00,680 Speaker 1: great sequence. And then afterwards, like the wickets trying to 1093 01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:03,320 Speaker 1: get too close to it, and Noah's like, don't, don't, don't, 1094 01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:06,080 Speaker 1: don't even look at it, don't get close to it. Um, 1095 01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,040 Speaker 1: it's just like just an unwholesome affair. It doesn't taste 1096 01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:13,120 Speaker 1: as good as he smells. But then of course they 1097 01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:17,400 Speaker 1: fly away, Wilford, Brimley and Sindel evacuate the planet. Uh. 1098 01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:20,480 Speaker 1: The Sindel is now a child of space. And I 1099 01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,520 Speaker 1: don't know what happens after that. Maybe they go on adventures, 1100 01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:27,560 Speaker 1: or maybe Sindel joins the Empire. Yeah, like that would 1101 01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:30,320 Speaker 1: make sense if you go the Captain Fasman direction. I 1102 01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:32,160 Speaker 1: think they were going to do a third one of this. 1103 01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:35,080 Speaker 1: I've seen rumblings about that that originally there was gonna 1104 01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:36,960 Speaker 1: be a third e Wak movie, but it never never 1105 01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:40,040 Speaker 1: came to fruition. So one can only wonder, and so 1106 01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:44,680 Speaker 1: that's the end. Yebnob yubnub. I can't just Teak stay behind. 1107 01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:50,440 Speaker 1: I don't remember, I should know that. I think take stays. 1108 01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,280 Speaker 1: I think Teak is a child of indoor like the 1109 01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:56,680 Speaker 1: walks and should not leave. If teakes had been uh 1110 01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:00,760 Speaker 1: made to fly, they would have been born with power cells. Also, 1111 01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,800 Speaker 1: what happens if Teak is on board a ship traveling 1112 01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,760 Speaker 1: at warp speed and then he runs at full speed 1113 01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:10,000 Speaker 1: back through the hallways. Oh that's one of those good 1114 01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,479 Speaker 1: relativity questions. Man, I wish I thought of this ahead 1115 01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,880 Speaker 1: of time. We could have worked that out. That's homework, 1116 01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,040 Speaker 1: homework for your listeners who who who want to do 1117 01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:22,360 Speaker 1: some some uh some deep thinking there. So in terms 1118 01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,120 Speaker 1: of you know, deep thinking about this one again, I 1119 01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:28,800 Speaker 1: think my main area of contemplation is just about the 1120 01:01:28,920 --> 01:01:34,120 Speaker 1: role of different species at different technological levels within the 1121 01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,400 Speaker 1: galactic community of Star Wars, because just in this film, 1122 01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,600 Speaker 1: just think of all the different technological levels we encounter, 1123 01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,360 Speaker 1: Like there's there the e Walks, which again seemed to 1124 01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:47,040 Speaker 1: have just peak Stone age technology at their hands. We 1125 01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,720 Speaker 1: have we have the Marauders, who again probably didn't have 1126 01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:53,800 Speaker 1: a tremendous technological achievement level before they were seemingly thrust 1127 01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,800 Speaker 1: into galactic affairs. So you almost kind of almost have 1128 01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:01,080 Speaker 1: to pity the Barauders, you know, because did they how much, say, 1129 01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:04,160 Speaker 1: did they have in the current state of their species. 1130 01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:09,640 Speaker 1: You have the possible medieval level technology that we see 1131 01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:13,439 Speaker 1: in that castle of some i guess forgotten or um 1132 01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,400 Speaker 1: extinct species that may have lived on Indoor at one point. 1133 01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:21,240 Speaker 1: You've got people like Sindel's, Sindel's family and Noah who 1134 01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,760 Speaker 1: are part of the space faring um community at large, 1135 01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:29,080 Speaker 1: but having crash landed, having lost some of their technology, 1136 01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:32,120 Speaker 1: are well on their way towards just being um, you know, 1137 01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:35,160 Speaker 1: at a living at a lower level of technological achievement, 1138 01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:37,640 Speaker 1: you know, like like Noah has become an old man 1139 01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,960 Speaker 1: in a hut cooking over fires instead of a space 1140 01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:46,480 Speaker 1: faring adventurer. Well, this makes me wonder if maybe Indoor 1141 01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:49,120 Speaker 1: at the time of the Star Wars movies is in 1142 01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:51,720 Speaker 1: a dark age kind of like after the late Bronze 1143 01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:54,840 Speaker 1: Age collapse where you'd had these big empires that were 1144 01:02:54,880 --> 01:03:00,000 Speaker 1: developing urban centers and trade and technology, and then something happened, 1145 01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:03,320 Speaker 1: some kind of environmental collapse. Maybe there's a collapse of 1146 01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:07,960 Speaker 1: you know, just a confluence of different factors, uh, you know, 1147 01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:11,200 Speaker 1: military invasions, famine and that kind of stuff that leads 1148 01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:14,360 Speaker 1: to civilization level collapse and then a lot of knowledge 1149 01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,040 Speaker 1: of how to do things is just lost. Yeah, and 1150 01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:19,040 Speaker 1: and you know that the Marauders may have played some 1151 01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,680 Speaker 1: role in that, either as you know, as a faction 1152 01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:23,920 Speaker 1: or you know, mercenaries who were brought in to be 1153 01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:27,680 Speaker 1: a part of this. Uh uh, this this situation. And 1154 01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,960 Speaker 1: of course eventually the Galactic Empire itself does show up, 1155 01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:33,640 Speaker 1: you know, they they show up in Return of the Jedi. 1156 01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:37,680 Speaker 1: But they have a very strategic and surgical interest in 1157 01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:40,320 Speaker 1: the Moon of Indoor. Like they are seemed to be 1158 01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,840 Speaker 1: only interested in establishing a shield generator base to protect 1159 01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:48,720 Speaker 1: the second Death Star, which is being built within that system. Otherwise, 1160 01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:51,040 Speaker 1: I don't think they particularly care whether Ewoks are doing. 1161 01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:53,080 Speaker 1: They don't care if there happened to be a band 1162 01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,680 Speaker 1: of Marauders on the other side of the moon doing 1163 01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,280 Speaker 1: their thing. They don't care if there's some other random 1164 01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:01,640 Speaker 1: shipwrecked individuals they have attacks to take care of. So anyway, 1165 01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:03,800 Speaker 1: that's just that's some just additional stuff I was thinking 1166 01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,760 Speaker 1: about as well as just wondering how fast teak is 1167 01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:10,800 Speaker 1: in relation to everything else. I will say that this, 1168 01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:13,520 Speaker 1: of course is a topic that gets a lot better 1169 01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:16,520 Speaker 1: treatment in an other works, you know, I mean, it's 1170 01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:19,640 Speaker 1: part of the whole prime directive thing in Star trek Uh. 1171 01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,880 Speaker 1: I know, Ian In Banks gets into this affair amount 1172 01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:24,320 Speaker 1: in his culture novels. It's, you know, once you start 1173 01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:29,000 Speaker 1: populating a galactic fictional galactic community with different species at 1174 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,200 Speaker 1: different technological levels, and then interacting with each other, you're 1175 01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,240 Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of these questions, you know, and 1176 01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:36,640 Speaker 1: a lot of it A lot of the the reason 1177 01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:38,800 Speaker 1: I think that we contemplate that, of course, we see 1178 01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:45,120 Speaker 1: examples of similar interplace having happened on our own planet 1179 01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:48,560 Speaker 1: and in human history. What happens when, um, you know, 1180 01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:53,080 Speaker 1: from when one more technically technologically advanced society interacts with 1181 01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:56,400 Speaker 1: another one. You know, typically, uh, it's it's not a 1182 01:04:56,400 --> 01:05:01,360 Speaker 1: good situation, especially for the lower technological levels society. But 1183 01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:05,600 Speaker 1: you see some interesting scenarios happening, such as the cargo 1184 01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:09,680 Speaker 1: cult scenario that we mentioned previously on the Stuffable Your 1185 01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:12,360 Speaker 1: Mind episode in our interview with Werner Herzog. You know, 1186 01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:18,400 Speaker 1: you know, the idea of people encountering a higher technological 1187 01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:23,520 Speaker 1: level society, a higher technological system, and then being changed 1188 01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:29,280 Speaker 1: by that, but also surviving that encounter as well. So, yeah, 1189 01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:30,760 Speaker 1: there's a there's a lot of there's a lot of 1190 01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,560 Speaker 1: deeper thinking here to consider in terms of you know, 1191 01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:38,440 Speaker 1: very very technological level interaction in a galactic community. Really, 1192 01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:41,680 Speaker 1: don't we all just want the power. We all just 1193 01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:47,160 Speaker 1: want the power thing. Give me the power thing, all right? Well, 1194 01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:50,200 Speaker 1: you know, in terms of where to watch this film, 1195 01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,400 Speaker 1: I really wish I could tell everybody that you can 1196 01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,920 Speaker 1: just just sign up for Disney Plus and and watch 1197 01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:58,360 Speaker 1: a you know, a nice remastered cut of of the 1198 01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,560 Speaker 1: of both Ewok movies alongside all the other Austin Star 1199 01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:05,680 Speaker 1: Wars content there. But the thing is you can't. Yeah, 1200 01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:07,600 Speaker 1: you can't get it on Disney Plus. I think you 1201 01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,880 Speaker 1: can still pick these films up on DVD and a 1202 01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:12,720 Speaker 1: cool double pack. I was looking around, and yet you 1203 01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:14,560 Speaker 1: can you can buy them, and some of the prices 1204 01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:17,160 Speaker 1: are not unreasonable if you if you know where to look. 1205 01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:21,600 Speaker 1: But I had to watch this on Russian YouTube, so 1206 01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:25,400 Speaker 1: um that sadly might be your only option. Yeah, as 1207 01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:29,280 Speaker 1: long as we're admitting bootleg experiences, I watched this movie 1208 01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:32,800 Speaker 1: a while ago on one of those versions that tries 1209 01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:37,800 Speaker 1: to avoid uh, copyright detection by like putting it in 1210 01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:40,760 Speaker 1: a window within a window and having like fish swimming 1211 01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,320 Speaker 1: around it all the time and weirdly zooming in and 1212 01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:47,200 Speaker 1: moving on stuff. So so so kudos to the people 1213 01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:49,680 Speaker 1: who put that amount of effort in to steal movies. 1214 01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:54,040 Speaker 1: But I mean, check around when you're listening to this, hopefully, 1215 01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,200 Speaker 1: but if you're listening to this like a month later, uh, 1216 01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,720 Speaker 1: Disney Plus will have added these films. I hope that 1217 01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,160 Speaker 1: they you, or that some other legitimate means of watching 1218 01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:05,720 Speaker 1: it will be available I think at some point on 1219 01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:09,240 Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. Yeah yeah, I mean I I I would 1220 01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,080 Speaker 1: I would have I would have bought these suckers though 1221 01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:15,040 Speaker 1: earlier if I could. Uh. So yeah, good luck finding it. 1222 01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:18,880 Speaker 1: But people want it enough that it's going to continue 1223 01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:23,040 Speaker 1: to be available one way or another, hopefully legitimately available 1224 01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:25,360 Speaker 1: in the near future. All right, Well, on that note, 1225 01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:28,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna go ahead and uh finish up this episode 1226 01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:32,280 Speaker 1: of Weird House Cinema. Uh Again. Weird House Cinema is 1227 01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:37,440 Speaker 1: our our special Friday UH episode. Our core episodes of 1228 01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,600 Speaker 1: Stuff to Blow Your Mind are still very much science 1229 01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:42,560 Speaker 1: and culture and those are still publishing on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 1230 01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:44,400 Speaker 1: This is a little extra fund that you get at 1231 01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,680 Speaker 1: the end of the week, uh to listen to if 1232 01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:48,560 Speaker 1: you want, or you can skip them, or you can 1233 01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:51,920 Speaker 1: note what the movie is, go watch the movie, come back. Uh. 1234 01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,640 Speaker 1: You know, they're multiple ways to enjoy Weird House Cinema 1235 01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,200 Speaker 1: or not. Of course, we want to hear from you. 1236 01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,520 Speaker 1: Are you enjoying what we're doing here? Do you have 1237 01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:04,280 Speaker 1: recommendations for the future, but especially if you have thoughts 1238 01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:07,560 Speaker 1: on the e Walk movies, particularly the Battle for Indoor. 1239 01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:09,240 Speaker 1: Did you watch it as a kid like I did. 1240 01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:13,240 Speaker 1: Did you have have a well worn VHS copy of it? 1241 01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:15,840 Speaker 1: I'd love to hear your thoughts on that, your thoughts 1242 01:08:15,840 --> 01:08:19,639 Speaker 1: about how it fits into the broader Star Wars universe. Um, 1243 01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:22,800 Speaker 1: everything is up for grabs. Huge thanks as always to 1244 01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,960 Speaker 1: our excellent audio producer Seth Nicholas Johnson. 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