Fellow Sneakers, lend us your ears! We have not come to praise podcasts, we have come to bury them! Bury them with awesomeness!!!
This week Ian and David discuss the local neighbourhood Psycho house; they invent the 100-mile podcast diet; Ian has a great costume for Cos and Effect; Dave doesn’t like quotation marks; Ian thinks Obi-Wan is a son of a bitch; they uselessly argue the moral implications of the ending of Watchmen (you know, that comic from twenty-five years ago); dinners at Dave’s sound uncomfortable; Ian plays a Southern Hutt; David really doesn’t know much about Star Wars; and listen as Ian realizes he made a big boo-boo.
THIS JUST IN: Ian and David will be recording a live episode of Sneaky Dragon at Cos and Effect on Friday, August 9 at 7:30 at UBC. Ian and David will be interviewing Eric Fell, past guest of the show and Ian’s current dungeon master on The Critical Hit Show. I believe they will be discussing Dungeons and Dragons. Come and down and join the fun!
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A couple things.
Jinx wasn’t the name of Tex Avery’s wolf, it was the name of the cat counterpart to Pixie & Dixie. Catchphrase: “I hate meeces to pieces!” The song the wolf whistles is “Sunday Barbecue”.
Regarding Jedi (and in keeping with there only being two Star Wars movies), Yoda tells Luke a few things.
“Adventure, heh! Excitement, heh! A jedi craves not these things.”
“A Jedi uses the force for knowledge and defense. *Ne-ver* for attack.”
There are probably others like that, I don’t have Empire handy. Ben doesn’t attack the walrus-face, really, he’s defending Luke (and himself, since he’s right there) who is being attacked by both jerks, and when they back off, so does he. I think that’s consistent. I’m halfway in agreement that he could have done … SOMEthing to help fight the Empire, but it’s not very well explained that he’s a tragic, flawed character. Perhaps he retreated to Tatooine to lick his wounds, mope, and sulk. His confidence is shot, and over 20ish years hadn’t returned until he has to rescue Luke. He’s human. We get stuck in ruts.
I thought at the time of the prequels that we should be getting Ben’s story, not Anakin’s. George was stuck on the “Father & Son” saga, but Anakin’s a dickhole who I don’t empathize with in the slightest. Ben’s story is heartbreaking. He has the best of intentions and gives his all, only to see everything crumble around him. That’s a much more interesting story, a much more HUMAN story, if one wants a tragedy. He redeems himself in Star Wars and we are justifiably filled with hope for the future when we recall what happens in the original movies.