Mentors: Balance of The Force

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In part 2 of our mini-series on mentorships, we travel to a galaxy far, far away. Amy Richau (co-author of Star Wars; I am Your Father and other Star Wars-related books) talks about her favorite partnerships between the Jedi and other characters in the Star Wars found family. Blogger Angry Staff Officer explains why the rigid rules for Jedi mentorships may have led to the downfall of the Jedi Council. And Ryan Arey of ScreenCrush says we can see how the rival philosophies of The Jedi and The Sith would play out in the real world on the show Cobra Kai, which imagines the rivalries from The Karate Kid being passed down to the next generation. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you’re interested in advertising on Imaginary Worlds, you can contact them here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we start, I want to tell you about an upcoming episode that we're working on.
0:06.9	We're looking at different ways that death has been personified in fiction, like in the
0:11.9	Sandman, Discworld, or Adventure Time.
0:16.0	If you really like those personifications of death or any other depiction of death as
0:20.4	a character in a fantasy world, let us know.
0:24.2	Tell us when you first came across this version of death and why it spoke to you.
0:29.6	Send us an email at contact at ImaginaryWorldsPodcast.org and we might get in touch with you about
0:36.6	being on the show.
0:38.0	Thanks.
0:44.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:47.9	or disbelieve.
0:48.9	I'm Eric Melinsky and this is the second of a two-part series on Mentorships.
0:54.8	This mini-series was partially inspired by my experience as a teacher at NYU.
1:00.0	Teaching has been a great addition to my life and it's been so gratifying to see what
1:03.7	students create after the class is over with.
1:07.7	By the way, the next semester and the winter will be in-person at NYU.
1:12.6	But the inspiration for this particular episode about Star Wars actually came from another
1:17.5	episode that we did back in the spring called Deaging Well.
1:22.6	In that episode there was a roundtable discussion talking about how different franchises are
1:27.3	dealing with aging characters.
1:29.9	And eventually we started talking about the Disney Plus show, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
1:34.6	Is he not empirically though the worst mentor in the world?
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