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The following podcast contains explicit language.

I want to tell you my secret now. I see dead people.

Silent green is people.

He's my sister and my daughter.

Rose Bird.

What's in the box?

And like that, he's gone.

Hello, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, here with a Slate spoiler special podcast on Star Wars, The Last Jedi, the exciting new installment in the Star Wars franchise.

Is it number seven?

Is that correct?

Eight.

Number eight, Star Wars number eight. I can't keep my numbers straight. So I'm joined here in the Sl Wars franchise. Is it number seven? Is that correct? Number eight, Star Wars number eight. I can't

keep my numbers straight. So I'm joined here in the Slate studio by Sam Adams, who is Slate's browbeat editor and general culture writer extraordinaire. Hello, Sam.

Hello. And by Forrest Whitman, Slate's culture editor. Hey, Forrest. Hey, Dana. So we have a lot to talk about here. I feel like we're taking on a heavy burden of history. The mantle, the cloak of Star Wars, sits heavy around our shoulders. I guess I'll start with you, Sam, because you wrote the review for this to my endless rage, because Forrest and I were shut out of a screening on Monday night that I was supposed to review. But I got a lot out of your review, and I'm really glad that you reviewed it. And so I will start with you and ask you, just for your

quick thumbnail response, were your expectations fulfilled? In general, would you send people to this

movie? Yeah, it was kind of the movie critic equivalent of the chorus girl twisting her ankle.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and you were Ruby Keeler coming in and saving the show.

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