PEL Presents PMP#27: For the Love of Star Wars

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mark, Erica, and Brian talk about the unique place these films have in the brains of people of a certain age, how we grappled with the prequels, and why we feel the need to fill in and argue about the details. We focus primarily on The Mandalorian and The Rise of Skywalker.

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0:00.0	This is Pretty Much Pop A Culture Podcast, getting entertainment to you in eight
0:12.7	parsecs or less.
0:14.1	I'm Mark Linton Meyer and I would rather kiss a wookie, but not that itchy pervert.
0:19.1	I'm Erica Spiers and I find Hammerhead to be a racist term.
0:23.3	The term is a Thorian.
0:25.1	And I'm Brian Hurt and I'm prepared to die for my new Lord and Savior, who was a puppet.
0:30.6	Today, if you haven't figured out, we're talking about Star Wars.
0:33.6	And man, there's a lot to say about Star Wars and it's all already been said.
0:37.4	And if you haven't watched all of the Star Wars, we're going to spoil everything, including
0:42.7	Mandalorian.
0:43.7	Including the Mandalorian.
0:44.7	Get caught up, everybody.
0:46.0	Mark, I laughed out loud reading your talking points for today.
0:51.9	You have very clear feelings about this and I'm enjoying it.
0:55.5	So I don't know where you want to start today.
0:57.4	If you want to start on general thoughts about these two different properties or if you
1:02.5	want to delve right into a deep question.
1:05.1	And they do hope, Mark, that you weren't too put off by my comment that maybe we could
1:09.4	try to stick to these two current things a little bit or at least have them be our
1:14.4	center of gravity for this discussion because Star Wars is so flippin' huge that we may
1:20.5	need to come back to it at some point or talk about other things.
1:24.0	But having two very different things out right now is kind of exciting and I think gives
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