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Star Wars Minute

Empire Minute 116: Cyborgs Aplenty

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🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Wookiee shrugs and pulls back on the light-speed throttle. The sound of the ion engine changes...it is winding up. Faces are tense, expectant. But nothing happens, and the engine goes off. Chewie lets out a frustrated howl. The flak still violently rocks the ship. Guest commentator: Joel Johnson See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Star Wars Minute. It's our daily podcast where we analyze, scrutinize,

0:15.2

and celebrate the Star Wars movies one minute at a time. I'm Pete the retailer from

0:20.4

Nerd GeekDork.com. I'm Alex Robinson from comic book Alex.com.

0:25.0

Hey I'm Joel Johnson from Gocker.com and others.

0:31.0

Not that printed that mimeographed zine gocker.

0:36.0

You know, yeah, we're getting ready to launch our new print version very soon.

0:39.0

It's going to be a big success.

0:42.0

We're zigging where they're zagging. Exactly. And you're going to run

0:46.3

ziggy in it I heard. Well thanks for kicking off All-Star Week here on Star Wars

0:51.2

Bennett. Yeah, happy to do it. Yeah, today we're talking about

0:54.8

minute 116 of the Empire Strikes Back. 116 starts with the Falcon evading Thai fighters getting ready to go into hyperdrive.

1:05.0

Finally.

1:06.0

And then it ends with RTD2 telling C3PO why they can't go into hyperdrive,

1:12.0

because it's been deactivated.

1:15.0

I'll say the Falcon being chased by Thai fighters is probably like,

1:19.6

I never don't like a scene of the Millennium Falcon being chased by Thaiers. It's like classic Star Wars to me.

1:26.7

Yeah, I did, it was weird when I was first watching it, I was wondering why they kept doing,

1:30.8

why the Star Field kept moving across the the viewport and then it's clear that they're trying to evade.

1:36.8

So I bought that and I was like, okay, that still checks out.

1:39.3

But then I'm noticing that all of the control surfaces and the chairs and all of that actually move

1:45.9

way more than I've ever realized before. Like this is what happens I guess when you watch something

1:50.4

15 times. But it's, how bad are the bolts in this spaceship?

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