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It's been an interesting week for the world of Star Wars, for the real world, for better or for

worse, sized to bleed into the film fantasy realm, and which we'll get to in the new segment of

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So you've got to have been seeing the news just in the past week or so about Star Wars and or.

We were supposed to get two episodes for the kickoff of the show starting in August 31st,

and then Disney made the decision that we're going to slide this back a bit now. Now it's going

this new limited series from Lucasfilm is going to debut on September 21st, but kicker is now

we're going to get three episodes out of the 12 that were shot for season one that's debuting on

September 21st. I heard that the first three episodes are like a movie within itself. So yeah,

one of these the Star Wars YouTube things, and they said that they've heard that those three

episodes is one story arc until it gets into something else. So maybe that's one reason why

they did that. As I understand it, the people who are going to be writing about and talking about

Star Wars and or out ahead of the again now the September 21st debut of the show, they were allowed

to watch four episodes, but this was back when they thought the show was dropping on August 31st.

So again, there's a number of folks in the industry who've already seen. Okay, that's probably who

said something like that that it was a one arc. The folks that I've talked to about this,

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