88: Skywalker's Eleven

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2012

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We tackle the last of the classic “Star Wars” trilogy, “Return of the Jedi.” Why does Jabba the Hutt enjoy avant-garde wall hangings and ’80s dance moves? Isn’t it sad how Boba Fett goes out with a whimper? Are the alien languages in “Star Wars” too fake-sounding? And what’s up with Leia’s metal bikini? (Part 1 of 2.)

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0:00.0	D-d-do
0:01.0	Yeah.
0:01.3	That was really bad.
0:02.2	Yeah.
0:02.4	That was really bad.
0:14.4	Yeah.
0:15.4	That was really bad.
0:20.3	The incomparable podcast, number 88, April 2012.
0:28.1	Welcome back, everyone, to The Incomparable.
0:31.0	I am your host, Jason Snell, and we are here tonight to kick off the third in our trilogy of podcasts about the original Star Wars trilogy.
0:44.3	We started a long time ago. It feels like a year ago with the original Star Wars, and then we followed it up in the fall with the Empire Strikes Back.
0:52.5	And we're back here in the spring.
0:57.7	Just as the seasons change, so too does our target.
0:59.7	We move on to Return of the Jedi. Stay on target.
1:01.8	Return of the Jedi, the third in the original Star Wars trilogy.
1:06.9	I remember quite well the weight for this movie between the weight between the Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. So painful. I remember sitting doodling on my paper in eighth grade, you know, imagining Star Wars things as we waited for for the summer when Return of the Jedi would come out and we could actually see the resolution
1:30.2	of the story of the Star Wars saga, which for me, for people of my age, you know, this was a story
1:37.7	that spanned really our childhood and we had to wait, not like those whippersnappers who got to
1:43.5	watch it all at once. I'm joined today by whippersnappers who got to watch it all at once.
1:45.2	I'm joined today by whippersnappers, by the way.
1:47.7	Again, I am Jason Snell, host of The Incomparable.
1:49.9	I have with me some returning Star Wars commentators.
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