67: Darth Vader's Office is Really Weird

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2011

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Launch your probe droids and cut open your tauntaun! It’s time for part one of our two-part discussion of “The Empire Strikes Back.” Does Han Solo just want to be loved? Is Chewie sabotaging the Falcon on purpose? Why is snowy Hoth the setting? Why is Ben Kenobi a man of few words? Who’s scruffy-lookin’? And what is the purpose for Darth Vader’s clamshell office, anyway?

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0:00.0	Imperial Prob Doid.
0:01.3	The incomparable.
0:02.2	The incomparable podcast, November 2011.
0:18.1	Welcome back to the incomparable podcast.
0:22.2	Tonight we've got a very special episode.
0:24.7	It's part one of approximately 8,000 about the Empire Strikes Back, the second of the classic Star Wars films.
0:35.6	And I've got to tell you, we had dozens, if not hundreds of people clamoring to be
0:41.3	on this podcast. And after a series of strict tests where people had to fill out a sheet of
0:48.5	Scantron forms with number two pencils, and we graded their essays and various other things happened we were
0:55.1	left with three panelists joining me to discuss the second star wars movie of course the two biggest
1:02.2	star wars nerds i know are here um and they are dan morin hi dan hi jason may the force be
1:10.2	thank you and always with you and john syracusa hi john Hi, Dan. Hi, Jason. May the Force be leave. Thank you.
1:11.7	And always with you.
1:13.5	And John Syracusa.
1:14.7	Hi, John.
1:16.6	I'm ready, Jason.
1:18.3	I can feel it.
1:19.2	I know you're ready.
1:20.5	He was born ready. It frightens me a little bit.
1:21.8	Also joining me, I don't know.
1:23.6	Would you consider yourself a Star Wars nerd too, Serenity Caldwell? Maybe just a little bit,
1:28.9	seeing as how Empire is on my number one of all-time movies list. So, you know. Well, that's what
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