The Beginning: Making of “Episode 1” The Phantom Menace Documentary Discussion

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Journey back to the 2001 DVD release of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace as we discuss the fan-favorite making of documentary, The Beginning. In part one, Caitlin and Charlotte go through the history of the doc and their own history with it, plus the fandom’s perception of it throughout the years. In part two, they go through their highlights and top moments. In part three, they discuss what they believe to be the thesis of the film. All this and more on this episode of Skytalkers. Our theme music is by Christy Carew. The documentary on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da8s9m4zEpo The interview referenced: https://www.theforce.net/episode1/dvd/jonshenk.asp Join our Patreon community and unlock bonus episodes + more!: https://www.patreon.com/skytalkers http://skytalkers.com http://www.twitter.com/skytalkerspod https://www.tiktok.com/@skytalkers http://facebook.com/skytalkerspod https://www.instagram.com/skytalkerspodcast http://www.twitter.com/crerrity http://www.twitter.com/caitlinplesher hello@skytalkers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's take it back to the beginning.
0:02.0	We're celebrating 25 years of Star Wars Episode 1, The Phantom Menace,
0:05.5	by revisiting this iconic made-for-d-d-D-D documentary.
0:29.3	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:32.8	Hello, and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.
0:37.3	Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin, and welcome to this week's episode of Sky Talkers, where we are
0:37.9	celebrating the Phantom Menace and taking it back to the beginning and talking about the
0:43.7	documentary, the beginning. And I'm excited. I feel like it's been a minute since we've done
0:47.7	a dedicated episode to a Star Wars documentary, one singular Star Wars documentary.
0:54.2	Agreed. It's always fun. It is some of our favorite parts of Star Wars, I think,
1:00.0	that we don't cover enough on the podcast, honestly. And this felt like the perfect opportunity.
1:06.5	It was sort of like a month ago, I was like, Caitlin, have we never done an episode on the beginning?
1:11.5	I was like, it was, we have. Didn't we? No. No, we haven't. It's just kind of shocking. So here we are finally here. And I feel like I'm in my special features era. After going to Skywalker Ranch and Lucasfilm, I just feel like I've been revisiting so many special features and many
1:29.3	documentaries and things like that. So this feels perfect and in line with my current hyperfixation.
1:34.4	So yeah. Speaking of that, thank you so much everyone for all the like so many nice comments about
1:41.3	our previous episode about our trip to Lucasville and Skywaker Ranch
1:46.5	and our San Francisco trip. So we really, really appreciate that. And everyone tagging us on
1:50.6	social media and everything, it's very, very nice. And we are very overwhelmed with the amount of
1:55.8	people who are listening to that and who are commenting about that. So thank you so much for all
1:59.3	your kind comments. Yes, thank you guys so much. It really has been fun to see everyone's like thoughts and
2:04.5	reactions and what their favorite props and stuff are from the pictures that we've shared.
2:09.9	So Charlotte actually made this really great highlight reel of both of those visits on our
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