Star Wars 7x7: A Daily Bite-Sized Dose of Star Wars Joy

On first blush, the Sequel Trilogy is about Rey, Finn, and Poe, as the new generation of heroes. But when you expand your viewpoint to include the Prequel and Original Trilogies, and you consider that these movies make up the "Skywalker Saga," and you factor in what we now know (or think we know) about Rey's parents, it starts to make you wonder who the main character of The Last Jedi really is. Punch it!

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Scott Mendelson, the box office guru for Forbes.com, tells us The Last Jedi did $151 million less this weekend than last weekend. That's the biggest drop from weekend to weekend ever. And yet, it's still projected to make a billion dollars worldwide. So what gives? Why the big drop? Is it the word of mouth from that one corner of fandom? Stronger movies opening against it in the second weekend? The way Christmas falls in the calendar this year? Or is the scarcity issue finally coming into play? Punch it!

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Back into the vault we go on this holiday weekend! Today, in the second of two episodes focused on the Star Wars holiday album from 1980, Christmas in the Stars, I'm sharing the behind-the-scenes story of the making of "R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas," which happens to feature the recording debut of a super-world-famous rock star. Punch it!

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I'm going into the vault this holiday weekend, and sharing with you the episodes I did last year on the two best known songs from Christmas in the Stars, the Star Wars holiday album. Today, the behind-the-scenes story of the making of What Do You Get a Wookiee for Christmas?" Punch it!

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Back in May 2017, in the Vanity Fair cover story, Mark Hamill said he told The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson that he "fundamentally disagreed" with every choice Johnson made for his character, Luke Skywalker. He later elaborated on that, to make it clear that there were no hard feelings or anything like that, and that it eventually became a thrilling experience for him. But what, exactly, was he objecting to at first? Punch it!

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What's it like to attend the world premiere of a Star Wars movie, and get to meet your boyhood hero? That's the payoff of the story I'm talking about with Jeremy Meadows, Senior Manager of Strategy and Integration with Nissan USA. On the way, we'll also be talking about Nissan's "Customize Your Craft" campaign, as well as the seven custom cars inspired by characters and vehicles from The Last Jedi, coming soon to an auto show near you. Punch it!

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Writer/director Rian Johnson has said they made sure that, even though this is the "darker" movie of the trilogy, there would be lots of humor in it as well. One of the things Star Wars does best is physical comedy, and so I'm taking the time on today's podcast to compare it to other Star Wars movies on slapstick terms. Is it one of the best? And how does it hold up against its fellow middle-of-the-trilogy movies, Attack of the Clones and The Empire Strikes Back? Punch it!

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Shipping the characters of the Sequel Trilogy has been an avid interest of many Star Wars fans. And the events of The Last Jedi only fuel those fires. Without spoiling anything in this description, I'll be talking about five different combinations of characters, and where their romantic prospects stand after the end of The Last Jedi. What's more, there's something that happened in The Last Jedi that happened almost exactly the same way in the novelization for The Force Awakens. Punch it!

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Full-spoiler podcast, no-spoiler description! So, the truth has been revealed - or so we think. The person providing the information may not be the most reliable source, but Rey's experience on the island of Ahch-To suggests there could be truth in what that character says. However, other stories in the new canon, including Before the Awakening, cast doubt on what that character claims. Mysterious enough so far? I'll name names on the podcast. Punch it!

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On the one hand, The Last Jedi's opening weekend is the second biggest of all time (after a certain other Star Wars movie). On the other hand, it went from second-best finishes on Thursday and Friday to fourth-best finishes on Saturday and Sunday. What gives? Could it be that people don't actually like it, and word of mouth is driving down ticket sales? Is that why it has a 56% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes? Naturally, there's a lot more to the story. Punch it!

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