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And we're going to dive right into episode two, Attack of the Clones.

You know, we're giving our overall thoughts here.

This film has been at the center of so many important force center conversations.

I can't wait to dive into it.

Yeah, I'm very excited.

They showed this film recently at the Academy Museum and it sold out.

I was going to try to go, but then the horrors were happening in my hometown, so I couldn't.

But man, I can't wait to see this one again in the theater.

We've talked about it a lot, but just to be honest about my bias,

I think this film is usually on a lot of people's dead last when they rank the Star Wars films.

And I recognize many of the flaws. There is a stiffness to it in

parts. There is a real sense of there is a lot of CGI. So there are scenes that feel almost

surreal and floaty because not everything in the scene is tactile and grounded. So like like, I get some of the things that people respond to,

and we'll talk about some of the substantive moments like sand, I'm sure.

But I just love this damn film.

It's the ideas, but it is also just the, like, you know,

if you were trying to gently ease people into Star Wars and ease people into George Lucas's Star Wars, which is this intense mix of mythic philosophy, grounded real world politics and just pulpy weirdness, if you were trying to gently ease them into that, this is the exact opposite film

that you should show them. This is... Like, where you... Oh, is just the one? Oh, no. Like the original

Star Wars is like, hmm, interesting. That's been, that's been cut with a little something.

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