The Incomparable, number 331, December 2016.

Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.

It is time for us to discuss Rogue One, a Star Wars spin-off type story that was released December 16th, which is when we're

recording this.

Well, released, I mean, except now you can see it like in the late afternoon the day before.

But anyway, we have seen it and we are going to talk about it.

So I'm joined by a fine panel who is going to help me with our

quick reactions to a movie we've, I think, probably only seen once. Let me know if you've

seen it more than once. And just yesterday. So, you know, definitely first impressions here.

I am joined by the following Fine People. As with

almost every Star Wars conversation I have, I'm joined by Serenity Caldwell. Hello.

Hello. I'm glad to be here and a little emotionally unstable after watching the movie.

Sometimes I just have random conversations with people about Star Wars and I have to call you to get you involved in it because I don't have conversations about Star Wars without you or without John Syracusa. Hello.

You know, I've analyzed this podcast, Jason, and there is a danger. Should I have your ship standing by? I'm also joined not by another person I would usually have here is Dan Moran, but he's traveling, and so it's

taken two men to replace him. Monty Ashley is here. Hello. Sorry, I'm not Dan Moran.

And Tony Sindelar. I'll assume that I will be replaced with Dan Moran via CGI in a kind of ghostly

horrible way.

That's just a random aside.

That's just how it. Yeah, seems a little bit strange.

Yeah.

Before we dive into the, uh, the details of this, I, I thought I would see about getting

a little bit of an overview, an opening

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