125: Revenge of the Sith (Novel) Pt. 1
A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast
A More Civilized Age
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 175 minutes
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This is A More Civilized Age:
Three hours of podcast when another team would make an hour and a half. Distractions. Diatribes. Deep dives into the databanks to learn, live on air, factoids about characters who hardly matter. But that's what makes A More Civilized Age A More Civilized Age: All of it might matter. Five years running and it's still asking questions a first year podcast might.
And today it is going to learn what it already knew: That Anakin Skywalker is driven by love and fear in equal, but precarious measure. That Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate blueprint of a Jedi, always knows when he's looking at a butt. That R2-D2 and C-3PO are slaves, but like, don't worry about that so much, they're more like friends, right? That Palpatine always has a plan, but always loves to pivot. And that Padme was there, too.
And it is proud to be your podcast.
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Show Notes
Camile Paglia about Revenge of the Sith
It's All Stover, a Matthew Stover Podcast, hosted by Carter Richmond and Ina
Hosted by Rob Zacny (robzacny.bsky.social)
Featuring Alicia Acampora (ali-online.bsky.social), Austin Walker (austinwalker.bsky.social), and Natalie Watson (nataliewatson.bsky.social)
Produced by Michael Hermes
Music by Jack de Quidt (notquitereal.bsky.social
Cover art by Xeecee (xeecee.bsky.social)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let us return once more to a more civilized age, a Star Wars podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Rob Zagney, joined by Aliaq Kampora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson. |
| 0:16.8 | We are, as always, supported by you, our listeners via patreon.com slash civilize. |
| 0:21.5 | So head over there if you'd like to support the show and get access to all our Q&A episodes and various special editions. |
| 0:28.0 | This week, we are reading Revenge of the Sith. |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.8 | No, I know. |
| 0:35.5 | You're thinking, but you watched Revenge of the Sith quite a while ago over Rob's objections that you should watch them chronologically. And so you should keep, you should keep Revenge of the Siff. We needed to watch that movie, man. After you finished. Yeah, it turns out, you know, the whole, well, as I learned from the footnotes, there's a concept of, |
| 0:54.3 | like, dramatic irony here. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | Very, very important, narratively, the things like this. |
| 1:00.0 | So we are reading the Revenge of the Sith novelization by Matthew Stover, which is, |
| 1:09.1 | Austin, how do we, how do we get put on to this? |
| 1:11.5 | This is one of the books that many people have been telling us to read for years. |
| 1:16.5 | I would say that someone who I know as a game designer, Carter, Richmond, is the person who most has been, and used to run a Matthew Stover podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | I think used to because they read all of the Stover books at this point, not just the Star |
| 1:34.8 | Wars Stover books. |
| 1:35.5 | Oh, so they ran out of, they ran out of Stover. |
| 1:37.9 | Stover is over. |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:39.8 | But they couldn't have watched the space date? |
| 1:42.4 | I think that they were happy to. |
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