Rebels and Robots and Etc.

Things keep moving this week on Ahsoka Part 7 “Dreams and Madness” with an overly long spaceship fight, an alien mobile home chase, and Ahsoka jumping out of a speeding ship (AKA typical Jedi business).

Thrawn (not a prawn) and Ezra make their live action premiere, and we have all sorts of dumb jokes in our coverage of Ahsoka Part Six “Far, Far Away.”

We’re fallin' for this episode because Ahsoka is finally getting good with chapter 4, “Fallen Jedi.” Also on this week’s pod: Starformers Bot Battles, Cameron makes too many SpongeBob references, and Rachel is relieved a certain fan theory has been put in the grave.

Time to fly? More like time to cast. This week on the pod: the live action debut of Jedi-Twi’lek love child Jacen Syndulla, out of context Transformers headlines, and R&R fan content.

Ahsoka is here and that means we are back to weekly Star Wars chats. This episode: Rachel worries about who will feed Sabine’s Loth-cat and Cameron complains about how the show is adapting animated characters.

“Let’s put some hammers in this coffin.” We wrap up Hot Bot Summer™ by getting caught up on Transformers: The Last Knight and its five aspect ratios, ultimate effort to transform history, and attempts at being crappy Game of Thrones, Prometheus, Force Awakens, Suicide Squad, Batman v. Superman, and Capt. America: Civil War.

Previous guest and friend-of-the-show Caleb returns to help us power through the fourth Michael Bay Transformers film: Age of Extinction, as we contemplate Optimus’s drunk uncle energy, bemoan the missed subtext about the military industrial complex and the treatment of veterans, and praise the use of the Tuch.

Listen to us slowly just give up trying as we stare into the void that is Michael Bay’s third Transformers movie. Also this week: we willingly subjected ourselves to Jar Jar concept art and rank the three Transformers Linkin Park songs.

To commemorate the special “Barbenheimer” weekend (We had Starformers first, but whatever), we are categorizing every Star Wars and Transformers movie and series as either Barbie or Oppenheimer (with Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City as the midpoint). We also get into weird Transformers Facebook posts, correction’s from Rachel’s mother, and how the writer/actor strike is affecting Andor.