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EW's West of Westeros

Star Wars Untold Stories Presents: “Revenge of the Sith” and Revenge of Fan Service in “The Mandalorian”

EW's West of Westeros

Entertainment Weekly

Tv & Film

4.0586 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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James and Darren are joined by EW’s Chancellor Agard to talk the Disney+ version of Tatooine and the curious charms of Episode 3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another episode of Star Wars Untold Stories, where your pals at Entertainment Weekly dig deep into the crevices of the galaxy far, far away. What a weird way to start this episode, but frankly,

0:21.6

this is gonna be a weird episode because we're talking about

0:24.6

an extraordinarily fan service heavy episode

0:28.6

of Disney Plus's The Mandalorian,

0:30.6

before going into a defense question mark of Revenge of the Sith,

0:34.6

which I think we can all agree is definitely the best of the prequels.

0:37.8

But is it better than other Star Wars movies?

0:40.3

Who better to talk about that than My Pal EW's James Hibbard, editor at large and our man in the galaxy far, far away?

0:48.8

James, how's it going?

0:49.8

Doing well.

0:51.7

Also joining us this week is Chancellor Agarred, a person who I know has opinions

0:57.0

about the prequels and I've been very excited to talk to him about that all week.

1:01.0

Very silly ones. Very silly ones, but also very profound ones. Chance, thanks for joining us.

1:06.0

I'm Darren Franich, TV critic for Antim Weekly. I should have said that but I didn't.

1:10.0

Guys, let's get into

1:12.1

episode five of the Mandalorian. The title of it is The Gunslinger. There was indeed some

1:18.3

gunslinging. You know, it's interesting. We've been a couple of Tatooine style planets this

1:24.5

season so far, so why not just pull the ripcord and go to Tatooine itself

1:28.3

seem to be the thinking behind this one. James, we were texting about this episode a little bit,

1:32.9

but I want to hear your thoughts on episode five. Well, you know, I still feel, can still feel

1:37.9

the wind in my face from all the fans service. So many fans, so much service blowing right at you.

1:43.8

But you know, I'm such a Star Wars fan

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