128: Star Wars (4k77 Version) Pt. 1
A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast
A More Civilized Age
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 159 minutes
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Summary
A long time ago in a galaxy, far far away... there was a spaceship with a princess and a pair of droids and a malevolence dressed in black. There was a desert world with two suns and a farm boy whose only chance at escaping the planet's gravity was a wizard who lived out in the hills and couple of smugglers looking for a big payday. And there was something grey--aggressively grey--a sphere in the darkness of space, blocking out the stars, lighting up envy green, and insisting on its own place in the orbits of galactic lives.
Today we talk about Star Wars.
Show Notes
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 Austin Walker
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, more than ever tonight. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Rob Zanning, joined by Ali Akampura, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson. |
| 0:19.1 | We are, as always, supportive of your listeners by patreon.com slash civilized. |
| 0:22.7 | So head over there if you'd like to support the show and get access to all our Q&A episodes. |
| 0:27.0 | And today we watch the original Star Wars. |
| 0:30.8 | No, no. |
| 0:31.4 | Duh. |
| 0:31.9 | Not episode four, a new hope. |
| 0:34.7 | Star Wars via the fan-produced 4K77 cut of the film, |
| 0:39.2 | the attempts to restore the original theatrical version of the film, |
| 0:42.6 | as best as anyone can these days, |
| 0:45.1 | until maybe Disney can undo some of the negative editing |
| 0:49.5 | that George Lucas apparently did directly on the negatives of the film to produce the ever so special editions. |
| 0:59.4 | So, do you really have to summarize Star Wars? |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, yeah, that's the fucking job. |
| 1:06.6 | I actually want to hear this. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, I want to hear your summary of Star Wars. |
| 1:13.1 | So Star Wars opens with a ship being pursued through the darkness of space, |
| 1:19.4 | and then a bunch of riseless soldiers preparing to defend it from borders, |
| 1:25.1 | and they get absolutely ruined. |
| 1:32.0 | And then every... but as you watch uh we we have two little two little droids a nervous a nervous gold one and a tiny little trash can |
| 1:39.1 | rolling around uh being being very anxious about how all this is going and they're they're trying to evade the firefight that's erupted all around them. |
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