Welcome to the first episode of Star Wars Untold Stories, a new podcast by Entertainment

Weekly covering the world of Star Wars. I'm editor at large James Hibbard, and I'm here

with EW critic Darren Franich, and we're about to discuss the first episode of the Mandalorian.

And hopefully our podcast won't have nearly as many technical problems as the launch of Disney Plus today.

The streaming service went online early hours of the morning as we played by glitches and cratches.

I don't know. To me, that seems pretty expected. I actually wrote like half of a story about this yesterday,

just in anticipation of filing the rest and posting it

this morning because I was so convinced that there's just no way that this was going to go smoothly.

Yeah, I have to agree. It seems like a positive thing if enough people are immediately

utilizing a service in the very wee hours of the morning that um, that it crashes a little bit.

James, I somehow, this never happens for me with new things that I'm excited about, but I somehow managed to sign up for Disney Plus at like just the right time, where I watched, uh, the Mandalorian, even before midnight Pacific time. Um, so I, I kind of watched it, wrote the review and then woke up to day and like, oh, I guess there were glitches,

but it's subway,

which it's funny to see that.

That kind of watched it, wrote the review, and then woke up to David, and like, oh, I guess there were glitches somewhere, which it's, it's funny to see that that kind of happened just as people across the country were sort of all signing in. Did you experience

any issues with your Disney Plus stuff? Yeah, I mean, I had a couple error messages,

and I just, just redid it, and that popped up and, um, and then went on to Twitter and saw

all the madness.

And you did not go on Twitter.

This is the thing.

And you did not immediately go on Twitter and say an error message by Godley.

Is this just because of our age, James, that we're kind of used to like, I had whole like

unsaved Star Wars video games that it would end with an error message.

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