Workin' on the Death Star

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Think of all the movies and TV shows that reference Star Wars. Most of those scenes are pretty forgettable -- except for a scene in the 1994 film Clerks, which set off a debate that's still going on today. One of the characters notes that the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi was still under construction when it got blown up. So there must have been independent contractors still trying to finish the job. Is it fair that they got killed along with the Imperial Army and the Stormtroopers? Judge Matthew Sciarrino, Josh Gilliland of the podcast Legal Geeks and economist Zachary Feinstein of Washington University in St. Louis discuss the value "good guys" should place on the lives of "bad guys." ** This is part VI is a series that will probably go on forever about the influence of Star Wars **Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are listening to Imaginary Worlds.
0:03.1	I show about how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief.
0:07.1	I'm Eric Mollinsky.
0:08.7	Recently, I was at WinterCon, which is like a small version of Comic Con that's held
0:15.0	at Casino in Queens.
0:17.6	I like going to these mini Comic Con's because they're way more casual than the big ones.
0:21.2	You can actually get to know people.
0:22.7	Like I was talking to this guy named John, who was a member of the 501st Legion.
0:27.6	It's a charity organization of people that dress up as stormtroopers.
0:31.7	And their costumes are dead on perfect.
0:35.5	And he does it because he loves seeing the faces of kids when they march into a room.
0:40.7	I think that I'm pretty sure that if a stormtrooper walked into your classroom in 1983,
0:47.1	you would have lost your mind way before Han Solo walked in.
0:51.7	That's true.
0:52.7	And the cool things with a costume, you can just be the stormtrooper,
0:54.6	it's not like you can't be Harrison Ford of 1983 all the sudden.
0:57.8	Yes, there's a certain level of autonomy.
1:02.7	Nobody quite knows what you look like or whatever the case may be.
1:06.2	You get a lot more attention when you're wearing the helmet than when you're not wearing
1:10.0	the helmet.
1:11.0	I've been thinking about stormtroopers lately for two reasons.
1:14.6	First, there's a new Star Wars movie coming out, Rogue One.
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