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🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the NataCast podcast, the podcast that usually goes through a Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week, but not here. |
0:08.3 | I'm one of your hosts Emmett, also known as Poor Quentin. My co-host Jeff, also known as Brendan Beefish, is taking a couple months off the podcast for work. |
0:16.2 | As soon as he's back, we're going to resume the regular Song of Ice and Fire Weekly podcast with Sansa 3 in a Storm of Swords. In the meantime, I'm going to be recording a variety of episodes, |
0:24.9 | including picking up where I left off last time with the Lord of the Rings. Those episodes |
0:28.2 | are going to come out weekly for everybody, but these episodes are going to be just for patrons. |
0:32.6 | And in these episodes, I'm going to be going through the Star Wars movies, starting naturally at the beginning |
0:38.9 | with the Phantom Menace. What? It's episode one. Of course I'm going to start here. This movie came out |
0:44.3 | in the spring of 1999 to tepid reviews, massive ticket sales, and a fan reaction ranging from |
0:49.9 | catatonic to suicidal. And since then, the conversation around the Phantom Menace has gone in two opposite directions. |
0:56.8 | Stuff like the famous Red Letter Media videos frame this movie as a disaster for the ages. |
1:01.3 | Shorthand for a disappointing movie experience. |
1:03.9 | George Lucas is the weird, corny guy who long ago left this galaxy behind to live up his own ass instead. |
1:10.1 | At the same time, this movie has been |
1:11.8 | reclaimed by the kind of bizarre coalition you can imagine as one of the found families in Star Wars. |
1:16.5 | You got people who like George Lucas's politics, people who appreciate the personal stamp |
1:20.8 | of these self-funded blockbusters, or people who just fell in love with the formal elements |
1:24.7 | of the Phantom Menace in particular. Not to mention Generation |
1:27.5 | Z fans who grew up with this one alongside the rest. This is just Star Wars. And I love this movie |
1:32.2 | as a kid, having just seen the special editions in theaters when they were released to kind of |
1:36.0 | in part drum up publicity for the new one. I was nine when the Phantom Minus came out, same age as |
1:41.1 | Anakin, and I was the ideal audience. I saw it over and over |
1:44.3 | in the theaters, and then over and over at home on VHS, and I think those are still probably the |
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