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

A new update to Star Tours rolled out at Disney Parks over the weekend, and it included a trip to the Graveyard of Giants on Jakku, the battle between the Resistance and the First Order on Crait, and a final arrival on Batuu, the planet we'll all visit when Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge opens at Disney Parks in 2019. More details about Batuu in the podcast today... Punch it!

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At Star Wars Celebration Europe, Rian Johnson named a few movies that he asked the Lucasfilm Story Group folks to watch, so that they would have a common cinematic language when it then came to discussing and preparing for his creation of The Last Jedi. One of those movies is Twelve O'Clock High, the 1949 movie about daylight precision bombers in World War II. I'm analyzing that movie with a special guest: writer and podcast producer Bobby Roberts. Punch it!

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How might lightsabers work in real life, and how close are we to having them? Did Jango Fett make sound in space possible? And could Han's line about doing the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs have been an actual fact - not a mistake by Lucas, and not a retconned explanation of Han testing Ben and Luke? These are the topics I'll be discussing with Patrick Johnson, Georgetown University physics professor and author of the new book The Physics of Star Wars. Punch it!

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How Rey and Daisy think differently about the porgs in The Last Jedi. What Carrie Fisher did that set Kelly Marie Tran at ease in a brand-new situation. What Ron Howard has been up to recently for Solo: A Star Wars Story. What I've been up to that will lead to interview podcasts this Saturday and Sunday. All this and more on today's podcast. Punch it!

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"Kick," "Permission," "Fight," and "Destiny" - those are the titles for four new commercials for The Last Jedi that have found their way online. I'll be discussing all of them today, but fair warning - if you don't want to know who says "May the Force be with you" in The Last Jedi, don't watch the "Kick" commercial, and only listen to this episode of the podcast through the commercial break. Punch it!

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Dave Filoni intends to give Star Wars Rebels the definitive ending that Clone Wars never got. Knowing that, how does that affect how we look at the first half of this final season of Rebels? Is he "finishing business," as it were, and if so, what's left to finish in the final seven episodes that will make up the rest of season four? Punch it!

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If you were saying to yourself, "I've got a bad feeling about this," your instincts were correct. You probably weren't sure where the bad news was going to hit you in "Rebel Assault" the mid-season finale of Star Wars Rebels. I've got the Rebels Briefing on Season 4, Episode 9 right here. Punch it!

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When you think about it, isn't it crazy that Rian Jonson's The Last Jedi is still more than a month away from theaters, and Lucasfilm is so high on it, they made a new three-picture deal with him? And that new trilogy he's creating will be worth at least $12 billion dollars in revenue, when you include the licensing and merchandising revenue? Punch it!

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This has to have been my favorite episode of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny yet, out of all 16 episodes. "An Imperial Feast" confirms your worst nightmares about the Ewoks dietary habits; reveals that Hera and Chopper have survived the events of Rogue One and the whole Original Trilogy; and features deftly executed slapstick. Punch it!

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Well, not exactly, but close. Sabine Wren from Star Wars Rebels, in the middle of a job in Garel City, has a run-in with Rogue One's own Jyn Erso. Plus, Rey gets slimed by a happabore who ultimately does the right thing, and the Mandalorian-turned-bounty-hunter-turned-Rebel Ketsu does a few things I just don't understand. Punch it!

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