Hello and welcome to episode 122 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in Los Angeles.

I'm Nathan Fox with me in

Washington DC is Ben Olson. Hey Ben I don't think we ever talked about

Star Wars did you see Star Wars or no? I did see Star Wars. What you think?

Um, uh, it was okay. I kind of felt like...

I don't know how to describe the feeling I just remember watching it and getting a little bored

It was pretty long. That's for sure. Yeah

Yeah, what did you think? I liked it. I thought it was entertaining. I went and saw it, you know, on opening night and so it was like a big crowd and it was kind of, there was like energy because of that. I enjoyed it. I think it was not as good as Rogue One. Yeah. But I thought it was still I actually thought it was better than

episode seven though so I kind of like the direction they're going.

Well at least they had a new storyline. Right it was a new story instead of a straight up rip-off of episode 4.

I liked it, yeah, that Kylo Wren turned into a more interesting bad guy.

He's not, he wasn't like just the angsty teenager anymore, you know, he became, he had a character and he was a bit of a badass so that was that

was kind of cool oh I know one thing that I didn't like and maybe this is a

spoiler so skip this if you don't want to hear it but when he killed the bad dude yeah

I was like how this guy is the supreme leader he's bad yeah you can't kill

him that easy it was too, I don't know, too predictable and kind of like...

I liked the way he killed him. I thought that was kind of cool, but it was just like the one shot like that sneak attack one shot and yeah well

they didn't give any background on that guy by the way like in episode seven they

teased oh boy there's this big bad and we need to figure out who he is and what's going on with this guy and then in episode eight they're just like here he is he's dead now

Yeah, no worry about it. He's dead. I'm just moving on. I still feel like Darth

Vader is just, you know, untouchable compared to these other bad guys that they've created I don't know how they did that or if I was just a kid and so as I was more impressionable or something but he seems so much more

Bad-ass yeah than these guys.

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