COUNTER/Weight 08: Our Hostage Below

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Games, Leisure, Fiction

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🗓️ 1 October 2015

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

The battle continues as The Chime tries to rescue Orth Godlove but they aren't the only ones with their sights set on him... between the Iron Choir and the Netted Wave, this Orth guy is pretty popular! Who knows what they want with him, but who's asking questions when his life--and more importantly, kredits are on the line?

This time on COUNTER/Weight: "Our Hostage Below"

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Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Keith J Carberry (@KeithJCarberry), Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal), Ali Acampora (@ali_west), and Art Tebbel (@atebbel)

Produced by Ali Acampora

Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

Intro Music by Jack de Quidt

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0:00.0	Well, this is this is a good time for me to talk about my problem with the Star Wars comic books, which I just started reading.
0:08.0	How is they how are they going?
0:10.0	Is the one of the Han Solo ex-wife situation?
0:13.4	Uh, that I will eventually get to that, yes.
0:16.5	But I've also, great.
0:18.4	Darth Vader, the comic?
0:20.8	I'm only like an issue in, so but like what really kind of got to me is the first issue starts with like a crawl
0:27.5	Mm-hmm like you know like a Star Wars crawl
0:30.7	But it's from like the perspective of the empire and it like sort of breaks the crawl for me. I always thought the crawl was impartial.
0:37.5	No, the crawl is not impartial. The crawl says stuff like the evil empire. Yeah. The
0:45.0	Crawl says stuff like the evil empire. But the empire is evil.
0:46.0	Depends on which side you look at it.
0:49.0	Remember when Anakin killed all those kids?
0:53.0	Right. Well that was. There was an empty empire didn't exist yet.
0:57.0	So that's not the empire.
0:58.0	And again does, he's not going like, I killed all those kids because I'm evil. He killed them so that no one he knew would die.
1:04.7	And then people die.
1:07.7	He knew those kids.
1:09.7	Wait, he knew those kids.
1:12.2	He lived in the same building as those kids.
1:14.0	I didn't say they were perfect movies. I just said that that's why he did it.
1:18.0	Okay. Yeah, it literally says the evil Galactic Empire in the first sentence.
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