01: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast
A More Civilized Age
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🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 153 minutes
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Summary
"It's like poetry. They rhyme."
What ever happened to the glory days of the Galactic Republic? Did it all fall apart because of the masterful manipulations of a dark lord of the Sith? Or may there have been some cracks in the foundation already?
Join Rob Zacny, Alicia Acampora, Natalie Watson, and Austin Walker as they try to answer those questions, kicking off their journey into the Clone Wars by first revisiting Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
Show Notes
The Beginning: Making Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
Hosted by Rob Zacny (@RobZacny)
Featuring Alicia Acampora (@ali_west), Austin Walker (@austin_walker), and Natalie Watson (@nataliewatson)
Produced by Austin Walker
Cover art by Xeecee (@xeeceevevo)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So here we are with whatever this Star Wars podcast is. We will work on all the details later, |
| 0:09.0 | but to start off on what it is you are listening to. I think for the past year or so, |
| 0:15.0 | there have been a lot of us getting back into all things Star Wars, |
| 0:20.0 | particularly the Clone Wars Cartoon. |
| 0:24.2 | And like a lot of people who found the Mandalorian peeking a renewed interest in Star Wars |
| 0:30.4 | things, I've sort of found myself questioning a lot of things I thought I knew |
| 0:36.1 | about Star Wars. |
| 0:38.8 | As I've been watching the Clone Wars and Austin, you, Natalie we've been we've been talking about this a bit |
| 0:46.5 | You look at the clone wars and you see a surprisingly trenchant story of military |
| 0:51.0 | Sci-Fi that tackles themes about forever war and creeping |
| 0:55.8 | authoritarianism and all of it's rooted in the prequel trilogy which is weird |
| 1:01.0 | because I think I am in the camp and a lot of us I think are are in this |
| 1:06.2 | camp where the prequel trilogy is like this narrative an artistic debacle in Star Wars. |
| 1:14.0 | But shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, |
| 1:18.0 | coupled with kind of how the Abrams trilogy ended, |
| 1:22.0 | they've raised an exciting possibility |
| 1:24.9 | could it be that the prequel trilogy |
| 1:29.2 | was good actually |
| 1:31.8 | cancer that and set up our discussion of the Clone Wars. |
| 1:35.0 | We just went back and watched the Phantom Menace. |
| 1:38.0 | And the answer appears to be, probably not. |
| 1:40.0 | But anyway, here we go. |
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