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Episode 305: Destroying Star Wars In Order To Save It

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather overthink their thoughts about what little we know of Star Wars: Episode VII, and talk about good fans make bad sequels.

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  • Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
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    • Further Reading
    • Faye Dunaway, Steve Guttenberg, Jack Nicholson, and Matthew Wrather on IMDb
    • The Guttenberg Bible: A Memoir by Steve Gutenberg (affiliate link)
    • List of Police Academy Characters on Wikipedia
    • I, Frankenstein on Amazon.com (affiliate link)
    • Star Wars on IMDb
    • Fade In Michael Piller google search
    • Joseph Campbell: Film on Wikipedia!
    • Londo Mollari (character) on IMDb
    • 4 Rules to Make Star Wars geat Again video and followup essay
    • Think Tank: What Do the Stormtroopers Think of Vader? on Overthinking It
    • Sharktopus: Sequel on Wikipedia
    • The Anxiety of Influence on Wikipedia, and a contemporary review by John Hollander, in pace requiescat

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