Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Dana Stevens is joined by Forrest Wickman, Sam Adams and Marissa Martinelli to discuss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Director J.J. Abrams seemed committed to fan service; even if it made the final episode of the Skywalker saga worthy of some eyerolls. Well, committed to fans - except those shipping Poe and Finn - despite the film touting the franchise's first same-sex kiss. With the final battle looming, will Rey discover who she really is? Will she be persuaded by Kylo Ren to join the dark side? Or will they join forces? And how does ‘forcetiming’ play into all of this?
You can read Sam Adams’ review here.
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Hosts
Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic.
Forrest Wickman is Slate’s culture editor.
Sam Adams is a Slate senior editor and the editor of Slate’s culture blog, Brow Beat.
Marissa Martinelli is a Slate assistant editor.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.4 | I see dead people. |
| 0:09.4 | Silent green is people. |
| 0:13.3 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:16.6 | Oh, Rushberg. |
| 0:23.0 | What's in the box? |
| 0:26.2 | You maniac! |
| 0:28.1 | You blew it up! |
| 0:31.3 | Damn, you all the hell! |
| 0:38.7 | Hello, and welcome to this late spoiler special on The Rise of Skywalker, Episode 9 of the Star Wars. |
| 0:41.6 | I don't know what a nine-part ology is called. It's the official word now, I think. |
| 0:44.4 | Is it a nunology, a nine-ology? |
| 0:47.3 | Right. |
| 0:48.1 | So, yes. |
| 0:48.8 | Trilogy of Trilogies. |
| 0:50.1 | The generation spanning, as you say in your review, Sam, conclusion, or they say conclusion anyway, to this cycle of the Star Wars saga. |
| 0:58.5 | Okay, let's introduce our big panel here. |
| 1:00.5 | We have a group of people as large as the Congresses in the Star Wars prequels that met to discuss Galactic Matters. |
| 1:08.3 | I'll start with Marissa Martinelli, Associate Editor Ed Slate. Hi, Marissa. Hello, Dana, from my donut-shaped pod, much like the Galactic Senate. We also have Slate's culture editor, Forrest Wickman. Hey, Forrest. Hey, Dana. And as mentioned, we have Samuel Adams, senior editor at Slate. And also, you reviewed this movie. So you're going to be our resident Star Wars expert for today? Well, yes. I think I've sort of paled the side forest and Marissa, but I'll do my best. I think all of you have nerd cred enough to carry me along. Yeah, I should mention that I guess I'm probably the least Star Warsy of all of us, although I have seen every single movie except the second two prequels, which, and that's just because the first one was so terrible that there was really no reason to return afterwards. But that also means that there's some back lore that I didn't quite get in this movie, and I need you guys to explain it to me as we go. But before we get into the very twisty plot and many, many plot devices and mcuffins that we have to explain in this movie. I want to quickly |
| 2:02.2 | just go around and get your responses to it, Sam. I kind of know yours because I just read your |
| 2:05.8 | review, but go ahead and summarize it for me first. This movie made me mad. It's actually bad, |
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