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The Incomparable Mothership

455: Ewokalypse

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.7704 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

We break down the “Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker” teaser trailer scene by scene, speculate about what the title means, question how to balance the closure of the classic saga without straying too far into nostalgia trips, and offer some wild speculation. Then we wrap things up with a discussion of the future of the franchise now that it’s moving (at least temporarily) to the forthcoming Disney+ streaming service.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Incomparable, number 455, April 2019.

0:11.0

Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.

0:12.8

I'm your host, Jason Snell, and in this episode, we are going to, well, we're going to submit

0:18.9

to your audience expectations and talk about the Star Wars episode 9 trailer. That's what we're going to do after I thought maybe we were done talking about trailers. But you see, they didn't just release the Star Wars Episode 9 teaser trailer today. And John Syracusa actually watched it, which is a big step. No, it isn't. I always watch the teaser trailer.

0:39.7

I always watch it.

0:40.9

I think I've been on podcast discussing the teaser trailer with you.

0:43.8

I feel like, I don't know, the, the whole full media blackout thing is getting to me.

0:48.6

Anyway, my point is, not only do we have a teaser trailer to talk about, but we have

0:53.8

Disney Plus announcements to talk about

0:57.5

and also a statement that after episode nine, Star Wars movies are going to take a little bit

1:04.3

of a hiatus. So I thought, you wrap those all together because surely we can't do two hours

1:10.2

just on a teaser trailer.

1:13.0

We need some more topics to talk about.

1:16.6

An hour per minute.

1:17.7

Let me now introduce the people who agreed today to come on a panel immediately to talk about Star Wars things.

1:25.5

There are the usual suspects like Dan Moran.

1:29.2

Hello.

1:29.7

Hi, Jason.

1:30.4

Every generation has a legend, I'm told.

1:32.4

That's what I hear.

1:33.6

John Syracusa saw a trailer because he always watches the teaser trailers.

1:36.7

Hello, John.

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