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,

Dave Filoni, John Favreau, and Kevin Feige, or so they say.

And the rest of the team at Lucasfilm have been dreaming up over the past 40 years.

I'm Entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host Brian Gone and I are recording

on Wednesday night, September 20th. And Brian and I are recording just perform midnight

Los Angeles time, which is when the first three episodes of Star Wars and or drops.

I'm not getting any sleep tonight, am I?

No, you're not. But I think you're actually looking forward to this.

You were just reading all of the rapturous reviews for you.

Yeah, everything from variety to the New York Times to deadline.

Everybody is given it like rave reviews, but they're really focusing on the part that it's

different than anything Disney's ever done, especially for Disney Plus.

I keep hearing moving Star Wars in a more adult direction, which seems somewhat controversial.

But anyway, we're going to talk about those episodes after we viewed those episodes.

But now in the first half of the show, the news portion,

Brian and I are going to talk about what we saw at the D23 Expo last week.

And it's going to be a kind of a split thing in that I looked into, and I want to stress this,

by sheer dumb luck, got into the Star Wars Lucasfilm presentation.

Brian, because he's a kind honorable person, did not get in.

I tried to get in, but I did try to get in the right way, and I stood outside the door,

and I was just hoping there'd be one more chair for them to let us in.

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