408: Sometimes You Need a Wookiee

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Fresh from the movie theaters, here’s our flash review of “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” In a world where there’s a new “Star Wars” movie every year, sometimes it’s a relief not to have the fate of the galaxy at stake. What are the rules of Sabacc? Are references the lowest form of fan service? Will casual fans be more enthusiastic than hard-core ones? Why watch droids fighting for entertainment when you have holograms? From train heists to floating space yachts to surprise cameos, we break it all down.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 408, May 2018.
0:11.6	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable podcast.
0:14.4	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:15.4	And this is a flashcast recorded almost immediately after the opening of the latest Star Wars movie Solo,
0:22.8	A Star Wars Story. And I have assembled a panel to give some quick first reactions.
0:28.7	Presumably we've all only seen the movie once. So, you know, again, those of you who are
0:34.4	listening after having studied it carefully, maybe we missed something
0:37.9	because we only saw it once, and probably in a darkened theater where we couldn't really take a lot of notes.
0:42.2	So, anyway, with that, disclaimer, we're out of the way.
0:44.7	And also the fact that these are spoilers for a movie that is in current release as I released this episode.
0:50.1	So if you haven't seen it, you should probably go see it before you listen to this episode.
0:54.5	Let me introduce my panel john syracusa is here hello i saw this movie by myself i too saw this movie by
1:04.1	myself tony sindelaris also here hello uh hello nerds uh i saw this movie with a bunch of people
1:09.3	dan was there.
1:12.7	Dan Moran, hello.
1:15.8	Hi, I have a really good feeling about this.
1:16.3	Oh, man.
1:18.4	I was going to snake somebody.
1:19.8	This is not a draft.
1:20.6	It's not a draft.
1:21.3	Kelly Gammon. It's always a draft.
1:22.1	Hello.
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