Look, we know you, the listeners, probably do not want this. I mean I agree with you. I didn't want to do it either.

And I'm hard-pressed to claim that this episode is going to make much of an impact on the global Star War critical industrial complex.

But if Friendly Fire has made one thing abundantly clear at this point,

it's not just that we aren't especially responsive to fan feedback regarding

our choices, it's that we are still trying to decide what exactly constitutes a war film.

And damn it, this one has wars right in the title.

All the great sub-genres of war film,

boot camp, film, submarine film,

heist film, beach make-out film,

they've all had to make their case

for their rightful place in the war movie

Pantheon. But what about Space War? I know you nerds believe Space War is real because I've

been to like five comicons and I see how your eyes shine when Adam Savage walks by dressed

as Chubaca.

I also read just enough of the fan mail for this show to know they are all clamoring for

us to do Starship troopers. You just didn't expect that we would do Star Wars

and just drop it into our normal feed. Well, here we are. In the 1970s, when his film school of contemporaries were working up big movies about the mob and archaeology and shark attacks in Vietnam, George Lucas was writing about a made up war between a powerful galactic empire and a group

of hard-scrabble rebels and muppets and space farmers.

Coppola was over redefining film with Brando and DeNiro, while Lucas explored the gibberish mystical

belief system that maybe was Galactic Unitarian or maybe was some kind of Midic Lorian, which

isn't a thing. Who knows? Can you imagine him describing it to

John Millius? While Millius was sitting there eating a Snickers Bar with a knife

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