Welcome to Looking at Lucasfilm, the podcast with a different perspective on the world of Star Wars,

Indiana Jones, and all of the other entities that George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and the rest of the team

at Lucasfilm have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

I'm Entertainment Writer Jim Hill and my co-host, the one, the only, Danzy, and I am recording this on

Monday, November 25th, three days out from Thanksgiving, more importantly though for Star Wars fans, we're just four days away from a new episode of the Mandalorian.

Dan, I gotta tell you, three episodes in and I am absolutely loving this Disney Plus series.

What's your take on it?

This show is, it's glorious.

It is Star Wars adrenaline is what it is.

The fact that they have masterfully chosen

to release this once a week, gets that Hive Train

rebooted every week in such an amazing way. I mean, I think I told you that the first episode

I woke up without my alarm at

3.30 in the morning almost in a cold sweat thing and oh my gosh I've got to watch

this before someone ruins it for me because I'm such a spoiler phobe and and and I love it and what's even cooler is I'm showing

it to my mythology students who are writing reflective essays on mythology and culture.

Through these episodes all my classes are booked for next semester

and next year because everyone thinks all we're doing is watching the

Mandalorian which that isn't true sorry ladies and gentlemen boys and girls

children of all ages but but it's great.

This appointment of viewing that they have set up

reminds me of the excitement of seeing

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