The Reel Rejects - REJECT RECAP: Obi Wan Kenobi PART V Review!

Episode Date: June 15, 2022

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Let's do it. Wow, damn. That was a cool episode. Andrew Stanton co-wrote this. I really like that one. I love that one. How are we all feeling? Good, man.

That was great, huh? That was awesome. That was awesome. That was awesome. That prequel fight, not prequel fight, but the-O-B-1 Anakin, yeah. That's between attack of the clones and Clone Wars? Or is that like in the midst of Clone Wars, you think? Um, that's around Clone Wars era, yeah.

Yeah, I like how that one fight kind of resembled this whole plot that we were watching unfold between the two of them playing games with each other. Trying out how out with each other here. Ah, so sick. It could be pre-clones era too, though. Um, it's definitely around that time though. Yeah. Clone War starts with Attacker Clones, so it could be probably pre-clones era right before...

Yeah, I got my linearist up there. Pre-attack-a-clones is what I mean. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. Yeah, man. That was fun. It was cool seeing Hayden, right?

Yeah, it was. Oh, I loved it. I love St. Hayden. What really dawned on me would hit me this time around, something that the pre-quels never did for me is, It was the first time seeing, you know, I kind of said this before with other episodes, but this one especially did it for me was seeing Hayden Christensen. It was the first time, like, that is young Darth Vader.

Like, that's the first time I've ever felt that, young Darth Vader. Whereas before it was kind of like, I have a very different association with the prequels versus original trilogy. Sure. And here I felt like, no, that this is Hayden Christensen embodying young Darth Vader at this point. And a weird way. I really thought he was great here. and even those little bits we got

but you know Riva is terrible at sneaking up on Vader what a stupid ass way to sneak up on Vader you don't yell and get a big ass strike ready to go you should do the Kylo Renstab thing that remember in the Last Jedi that's what you do to Vader you don't fucking charge up

and yell stupid no idea contained within the Last Jedi is good and I'm offended that you would recommend that. I mean just the fact that they Whatever you think about Riva's character portrayal, I mean, I really like, I really liked her a lot in this episode. Everything just kind of just really clicked for me, especially with uncovering her backstory.

Yeah. It's always been kind of like a little bit, a lot of people have been predicting that she'd probably turn good by the, or somehow fight on Obi-1's side by the end. However, her character just did come full, like, full circle. And the whole performance kind of came full circle to me. Yeah. in this one episode when you uncover that like every every bit of your portrayal now makes a lot more sense it definitely makes sense because it's it's one of those things where it wouldn't make sense if she was a young gleam that she knew Anakin was Vader and that she would join Vader yeah that's what

would bug me it kind of bug me when I that's when episode two came out and she was like Anakin is Vader and I was like uh why would you like him if he killed like everyone you know yeah and it made a lot more sense for me for her to to not be with that yeah he groomed her yeah he says remember that's where we've come to is one major franchise to comment on another major franchise that's the kind of allegory that we really need the hard-hitting stuff man yeah just awful jokes people Alright, well, let's talk about this, but what a way to segue. Thanks to StoryBlocks.

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of the way. My little, I mean, I think it's kind of a valid criticism. When the people of this planet, what's this planet called? Jimbo. Jibine. Jim Bean. Jim Bean. That's probably how they came up with the name of the plan. Someone was real drunk on Irish whiskey and were like, you know Jim Beam? So you could be a Star Wars, Jim Beam. It's good. Yeah, was, you know, and they're all in danger and Obi-one's going all general along their ass

about like we gotta we're gonna here's what we're gonna do I was just they're going man I don't know shit about you people

I don't get a crap die like I don't I don't I just didn't they haven't done anything to make me feel invested in them sure

I think just the whole like they're families there's kids I think that was the main it's a universal thing we can all get on board yeah

that's it families and kids that's my one little thing all right but I didn't come here to watch Obi-1 to learn about the people of Japan, so I don't really care that. The traditions of Japan.

Yeah, so I don't really care about it. But as far as this episode went, this is my favorite one of the season so far. I thought it was firing on pretty much all cylinders for me. I loved the music all around, but the way they use the fight scene between Anakin and Obi-1 of the lessons learned in that fight and then watching it kind of repeat itself. you know of the vader's mistakes of going head on for so determined to get victorious and you know obi one being able to anticipate the way vader is because he knows that anakin is still so much in there i thought was awesome but god damn and all right look what's the real thing here the real

things that fucking fights right when freaking vader shows up and to stop the and he stops the ship i just love the way it was captured because it's so reactionary the way he does it he just walks through that door the second he sees the ship he just lifts it because the way they capture vater here with a cool handheld and that like his march in in this show is just such a imposing force no pun intended but such an imposing force then he when the way he grabs his ship it's felt like something out of you know other like as we were talking about in between um you know when we cut the camera like how you were saying is it's that's the kind of vader that's usually captured in other mediums you know to me i'm like oh that's like the video game baiters i love it and and then

Of course, the fight scene, too, you know, you're pointing out it, man. I'm just going to point out of things they said. Uh, we're putting out it, man. And, and. So why you're here, bud. But no, it's like that classic Kung Fu master kind of fight scene of I'm not going to really, I'm just going to use defense against you, you know, not even going to strike you. Just move my body in and that way, move like water.

Ah, it was, was awesome. And, uh, Riva went up a lot of points. And, uh, you know, how much of a dick would I be if I'd let May John talk first? Well, he's fixing me. microphone A's why don't you go ahead? It was awesome man It was really cool to see as you said when we were saying when we were off camera The idea of Vader being the most powerful force user

Which means that he uses the way he uses the force is so unique and so different And he uses this offensively as well as defensively versus someone like Obi-one who uses a lot of force pushes and stuff like that Where Vader uses it as like using the saber against you, pulling down ships, ripping apart, ships, ripping doors apart. Like, we don't really see that too much in Star Wars Medium, at least live action on film. Yeah. So seeing Vader do that was really cool.

It was really cool to see him, like, use the force to almost sense movement before they come, right? Where he could see kind of like in, you know, they explain what the forces. You can see moments before they happen. You can see the future briefly. So it's like he's dodging those shots that Riva's going for. using the force and he's doing it so easily because he's so tapped into the dark side of the forest that it's like this is second nature to him um it's awesome it's like uh i'm telling you man it's like a it's like a basketball player with like sweet handles who's just like schooling you

who's just like bro come at me you can't take me it's so cool if i ever am blessed with any kind of sport career i want sweet handles to be my big game bro this is kairie with the handles or step with the handles. Jay Humps. Yeah, I thought this was great. This felt like I was watching an episode out of the series I was hoping for all along. Uh, you know, not to slight what's come before, because I've enjoyed stuff out of every other episode, but this was the one that felt like, yeah, it was firing on the most cylinders all at once, and it felt like the desperation clicked. And one thing that I especially appreciated that I noticed partway through was when Riva and Vader were fighting. And I know how everyone feels about Riva, but for me,

I was sitting there going, come on, land a good blow, get something up on him. And it had me in that place where I was like, something could happen, even though in the back of my mind, I know that Vader's going to go on and we're going to get four or five and six and all sorts of other stuff with Darth Vader. And Darth Vader is definitely not going to perish here and now. At the same time, I was caught up in the moment to that degree. And I feel like that, you know, feeling of peril and that actual just sort of, the way that can transport you into just the immediate here and now of an episode like this, I think,

is really effective. And yeah, this kind of coalesced to where like, yeah, there are still certain aspects of character, especially with Obi-Wan, I wish we could have dived into. This brought a lot of,

at least, nice sort of lyrical nods to the pay. You get that one flashback that's sort of the wraparound of everything that's kind of underpinning the emotion of this episode. But I feel like through those glimpses and the way you were talking about the force,

almost giving you these brief glimpses into the future. I like the way that you, You could also compare it to PTSD, but the way they used brief flashes from the past in these present moments, either between Riva and Vader or just Vader, imposing and approaching Obi-Wan and the rest of the, you know, sort of cobbled together rebellion. Like, I thought that, yeah, this managed to sweep me up and then with all the visuals and the music, you know, it came together to feel like, yeah, this is definitely like the best episode thus far. And yeah, like it's a good episode of this series, but it's also a good episode of, you know, the, the series that we've been kind of speculating on in the previous episodes when we've been discussing what hasn't clicked so much for us. So I'm really happy to see that they got there here. Well, what I've been, what I really appreciate about this one, too, is that you saw Obi-1, because we've been expecting this for him to kind of morph back into, you know, being in Tomb of the Force, being a, you know, lightsaber user again, being a Jedi overall. But here we got to see him. be a general again, which was something that I was very much appreciative of. And I think what they do that's really interesting. And really, a lot was just kind of clicking for me this

episode is because Obi-1 is not really known to, I mean, correct me if I'm way off base here, but from my recollection, he's not one to just start telling people like everything that's going on internally with him. You know, he, you know, I think about something like with Duchess Sotene, even, for example, like, it took him forever to kind of. kind of divulge his feelings for her. And he usually takes a specific type of intimate moment for him to say how he's thinking and feeling. Even in this episode, you see when he, at the final moments, you know, he's like, everything's fine, guys, everything's fine.

I don't think anything's wrong. But then you have that look. I think a lot of what the turmoil of the, of Obi-1 or even McGregor's performance here is mainly done with these like really intimate handheld close-ups on his like eyes and face when he's just lost. in thought over a particular situation, but he usually covers up when he's around other people depending on who he's comfortable with or depending on the moment. So I feel like kind of those emotional meets that you're sort of hoping to get a little bit more of as am I. I think that's really going to come in the final episode. I'm hoping. God damn, am I hoping. I'm really hoping that

it's the final episode of whatever conversation we get. I hope it's not just another cool fight with Vader and Obi-1, that whatever dialogue exchange they have, and I'm kind of hoping that like, and, you know, Darth Vader takes off the helmet or something like that where we can have the conversation without the helmet, you know, because it's kind of cool. Everyone's all I got pulled out going, Obi-One's saying Vader, even McGregor's Obi-1 is saying the word Vader. And I don't think he's never, this is the first time he's going to even say the word Vader before was in this show.

So, yeah, yeah, man. This is great. Because I think the, I think this one was a very. like a really good composed stage they set for like having the locked off section of where everyone is and man fucking Star Wars has this incredible ability to fool me for a few moments to make me think stormtroopers are cool again you know when they're all like lined up they look cool they look really cool and it was a cool like you said like set direction where you have all the storm troopers lined up you have the ship in the back and then you have riva walking

right through the middle. You have Vader walked right through the middle. It felt like, it felt very cinematic. It felt very cinematic. And that was a really cool aspect of this episode that probably wasn't done previously too much in the previous ones. I just, I really

enjoyed that. And even the fights, I don't know, we haven't talked about a little bit about the fight scene beforehand with the storm troopers and Obi-Wan. Yeah. Oh, the specificity of it. Yeah, yeah. It was really cool because it felt like this was kind of like a throwback to like, you're facing down like 40 stormtroopers at once and here's a Jedi in the middle of it just taking down like dozens of them just by their own blaster fire yeah well I think the

the slight differences because what this episode really demonstrated was this variation of lightsaber fights you know the the fight scene between Reva and Vader is very different than the one that Obi-1 and Anakin were having in their flashback which felt very much like out of the prequel fights and by the way again Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor like oh god damn you guys can still move like even better in some ways you know yeah it was awesome it felt ripped right out of attack the clones yeah felt like oh my god I'm back in 2002 it was awesome sitting in theater 10 years old but even when uh um when they are fighting the stormtroopers you know a lot of times and they're deflecting if this is just on our

podcast we have a podcast by the way it's just in the podcast it's just dude like like that but i love whenever he did like a full-on strike you know what to deflect the laser I'm like I don't know you don't really see that too often with the Jedi doing a full-on like baseball strike or a sword strike to to get a laser away but John your your homie girl she died this episode I'm sorry man I know I'm very very sad about oh Tala yeah yeah so a second I was like justice for Tala man I mean hey she got a good those moments always really work well on me when there's like some kind of moment of of clarity or moment of just piercing through the veil of chaos, you know, and that moment I thought was very effective.

And yeah, I figured she would probably be sacrificed, especially because I think of the morality, not to say that there's one uniform to it, but I think of the morality of something like this, you know, in order for her to have worked her way up the imperial ladder, she must have had, I mean, she talks about it here. She's done some pretty nasty things. And so I think that's the ultimate poetic end for a character like that is to have them go out in some kind of benevolent sacrifice. And yeah, even that. Like, I really enjoyed her journey over this. And I thought they made a moment out of that in a really nice way. And that when Leia comes down and she's like, you know, where's Tala? Did Tala make it?

Like, you know, that even rang true to me for as much as, you know, again, we've sort of gone back and forth about how they've characterized characters. Like, yeah, I thought they characterized her. She was one of the highlights of the series for me, and I'm very sad to see her go. Yeah. And, I mean, it was nice to get more of that supporting cast into, so it starts to feel like a bit of a community because you have her and you have Rokin,

and you have Hajja back, and, you know, you've got some familiar faces to at least pin it together. And I'm glad that at least, you know, they made it out. You know, we might be able to see some of them in the future. I do wish, though, that we got, like, sometimes, and I think we've had this issue, I think we've all kind of shared this complaint before with this show, is sometimes I'm like, just take a little bit more of them. I mean, maybe not in the heat of the moment, but when you're back on the ship, you know, like them grieving Tala, like them really feeling the loss of someone like that, especially Leah in that given situation. And then something that really like hit me that was so sad was her the droid

Remember the droid's name? You remember the droid Lola no not Lola the Loder droid oh the Loder droids Yeah when the droid died as like a shield yeah it was so like so dramatic and yeah he just fell to his knees like I'm here to protect you in your last moments and I'm like oh man I wish we got more of a I felt sad but I'm like if we got a little bit more of that dynamic with them I would have been heartbroken it was very much a K-2 moment definitely huh that was a one yeah good great call that's why you're here to say shit like that's what it felt it felt very much like they

were trying to tell us that to communicate though this is a K2 so moment I thought they did a good job imbuing that droid with personality and I just could have used more of that up until here yeah like it would have it it if affected me but it could have been that much more affecting yeah most your favorite part about this man um I really like you know what I thought was cool and and I might be wrong and I and maybe it's because I had one had phone in your subjective opinion is wrong but I I don't hear everything all the way through but when when Obi-1 was like let me talk to her I think the stormtrooper went up to Riva and he's like well this one's going to negotiate

and I was like oh my god Obi-1 the negotiation the negotiator I was like oh crap he's going to do the thing is going to negotiate because he's the negotiator. I thought that was cool. I thought that was a cool callback to like Obi-Wan being the guy to like try to talk his way out of or into a situation. He did it in Clone Wars. He does it in various Clone Wars episodes, but he does it in the Clone Wars movie. But even General Grievous calls him the negotiator because he's supposed to be really good

at not manipulating but kind of manipulating the situation where he's able to talk his way into are out of situations with enemies or villains or people that he can try to, you know, get to do certain things that they didn't want to do. And Vader hinted at that at the end of the episode when he told Riva. He's like, yeah, you know, Obi-Wan knows what he's doing when he told you those things and stuff like that where I was like, oh, okay, so they're kind of hinting at Obi-1 being able to use not just Anikins rage, but Riva's rage, to escape. And I was like, that's a cool callback.

to Obi-Wan doing his Clone Wars, General Kenobi thing. So, that was one of my favorite moments. That's a great, and that's actually, I didn't even dawn on me in the moment. Yeah, that's a great call because, yeah, it's usually like Obi-1 is, even a lot of time, it's sometimes as negotiation is just a, is the decoy, is the distraction while like etiquette and assoka are going in and handling shit. That's kind of what it was, yeah. And it's kind of what it was here too, like, all right, well, I'm actually kind of like

buying you guys some time while I'm negotiating my way out of here. Yeah, yeah. What do you go, Ace? You proved your worth for being here. Positive comments only. I love this one. I thought it was excellent. And I want to say, like, you know,

Riva's, you guys have been way more positive about Riva than I've been way more back and forth about Moses Ingram's performance. And I've always liked her subtle scenes more. Like the scene when her and Obi-1 are on the other side, other side of the door, and they're talking to each other. And it's shit like that one. I'm like, this should have been a bin show.

Because, you know, a lot of those complaints that people talk about. I'm like, it's all addressed here. When people are, like, oh, she's going to do? What I can't do? Like, yeah, I just waited a little bit. Would have got the answer? Wait two episodes, yeah. And I don't know, as a more avid Star Wars fan,

is that answer to, like, bother you at all? Not, not at all. I mean, to me, it, what bothered me, I said it after the episode was the idea that she was a youngling, who saw Anakin slaughter all the other younglings, and then she was like, I'm gonna follow this guy who's Vader. Like, that would have bothered me way more than this description, because to me, that made no sense for someone to be traumatized by someone,

and then to suddenly be like, but I'm devoted to them because they're powerful, and I'm just like, but no, that wouldn't make any sense. I mean, I could see a scenario depending on how you raise someone. There's a lot of fuck-the-french films you need to watch. Sure, but I mean, I feel like killing... thousands of children. Star Wars really needs a little more of a new wave vibe

to it. Depraved human drama element. I just feel like someone killing thousands of Oh no. I mean, okay, you're talking about something very logical. I'm talking about a very different type of like fear-based thing. And well, I mean, it does make me kind of question you know, why he spared her

and you know, what was their relationship ultimately like? You know, it would make more sense if it was like, I spare you and I kind of morph you into like my daughter's Padawin thing, you know, like something, but it seems it still seems like the relationship is so impersonal though. It doesn't feel like there's anything more to grasp on to other than, because I would have never picked up that there was

some type of bigger history with these two other than that's an inquisitor auditioning for the grand inquisitor job, you know? And I think that's part of quality that I just think I would have added more nuance and weight if they did kind of allude to there's a reason he's because they didn't even go into that you know why why out of like all the younglings he doesn't kill her unless i totally missed it in the heat of the moment and yeah yeah because looking at the visual language of that scene it sure looked like he stabbed her through both times so i'm like did he just leave her for dead and she didn't die or or terrible terrible stab her that they're twice yeah because in that

moment, it sure looked like they tried to do a match shot where, yeah, Anakin, blue lightsaber stabs her, Vader, red lightsaber, same thing. I think the implication, who I'm going to reach here, but you know, this is what I do. That's why I repay you the big bucks.

They call him the reach. I'm going to Michael Jordan's face to reach. But I think the implication, and maybe it's just that one line that Vader had when he says, you didn't think I see this coming, where I feel

like maybe the implication was his he was always planning on using her somehow. Like this is a tool for me to get somewhere in the future. The Sith do seem the least skewed by being like, hey, I know you got a lot of rage and you probably hate me, but we can work with that. Yeah, it's very much like I can see certain things coming but only to a certain point, but I could still see them coming. where the implication of the dark side of users seeing the future is very much like I can see what I can do with this person, I can see the potential this far and distance. And I felt like maybe that's what Riva was to Vader, where he's like, this girl is going to take me somewhere, she's going to do something for me.

I'm going to keep her around, you know, keep her close, manipulate her, make her seem like she's powerful, give her titles or pretend to give her titles and do all this kind of stuff in order to get what I need to get. Yeah. No, I think that's, I think sure, that's definitely there. I mean, it shows, especially in the text of keeping the Grand Inquisitor alive and putting up this false thing of having people compete for a Grand Inquisitor, I still think that there's still, I don't know, I mean, it's a bit of a reach in the sense, I'm like,

well, if he can kind of predict that far down the road, why don't he, he could have predicted how the shit could have gone down with Obi-1 on, oh my God, I'm like in Mustafa. Oh, you mean in Revenge of the Sith? Yeah, yeah, because that was obviously before that fight with Obi-1, so I don't know, I mean. But I feel like in that moment it was more like, if you re-watch Revenge of the Sith, it's super like, he's just all blind rage. True, true. Like even his eyes are yellow and he's screaming all the time and he's like, you are lost. And he's like, it feels like Anakin in that moment is just like.

like so consumed by the dark side and so consumed with the dark deeds that he did during that time that it's like I don't think he can see anything except like red except yeah when he was slaughtering younglings that was a very optimistic personality ahead of the time. Very positive

thinking. This slaughter is going this is an A grade slaughter if I say so myself guys. I still love the 501st there Anakin's on the first episode. No, the 501st is Anakin's own clone. Oh, okay.

Oh, yeah. Um, which I think it's funny because if you follow the Clone Wars, um, animated series, they're like the, the homies, they're like the cool. We're like the cool guys and then they slaughter all the Jedi. And it's like, damn, I thought you guys were cool. Wasn't, uh, wasn't, uh, Tumor Morrison, Bubafet? Not in Boeufa, but it's Maura Morrison. That was a 501, right? Yeah.

Well, shit. All right, guys. Well, yeah. Um, I forgot I was going with the whole Reeva point. I was going with the whole Reva point. I thought she did a great job in this episode. I really liked her a lot. And I think that I'm, I'm very hoping. I'm holding now. I hope that this next one's going to stick the landing. I hope it's not fucking like 35 minutes. Remember the shit this length has been? Because this, this felt, it was about the same length as the last episode, yet this felt way more substantial. It did. Yeah. I think it was a little, maybe like five, five for six minutes longer, maybe. But still. I could go for a full hour. Yeah, I agree. I still feel like there still could be. be a little bit more time to breathe. Yeah. Like, give me five more minutes to let certain scenes breathe.

This is paced really well for a show that is mostly concerned with plotting. Yes. Or I'll say, well, pretty well for a show mostly concerned with plotting. I sometimes wish it was a show concerned with more than plotting to a greater extent. Well, that's why I'm kind of thinking that the first episode was more emotional. And then I'm hoping the last episode, you know, kind of brings a full circle with making it more emotional. I'm hoping I'm not saying they will

I'm hoping Is it the kind of thing Where one episode If that last episode is just So what you've been hoping for That it would make the entire series Feel like a smooth ride Or would it be kind of like

We got there by the end I mean writing something to be episodic Is very different Than writing something to be binge And I know that when they write this shit They write it as one piece as a one one big piece and then they go but we're going to release it weekly and and there's just such a different type of writing formula to that so you know I that's kind of the hope that I'm

having is that oh yeah that when this is all out I could rewatch all this in one sitting and be like yeah it's one big package this is great um yeah I still feel like but you know like the little five extra minutes you're talking about we'll go a long way in situations like the things I was kind of craving a little bit more of emotional nuance of, absolutely. But, hey, this is fun. This is great. Hi. Good job.

I'm pointing out things we didn't notice, Ace. That's what you're here for. I did it. I'm killing it, Ace. For a show that's not, like, exceptionally consumed with Easter eggs, too. Surprisingly. I don't feel like it's like, I feel like Mandalorian's, like, really like, Cool Wars, Rebels, all these things, you know.

Boba Fett, definitely, yeah. It's because I think John Favre, not John Fah, he is, but, Dave Faloni, but Faloni's hand, yeah, fingerbirds are all over that shit. So I think that's why that show is so like, I can't like, Easter eggs everywhere. As cool as Easter eggs are, seeing a chorus on flashback with Anakin and Obi-1. That, just that fight scene, the dialogue, the fight, that whole thing just made the episode worth it.

Yeah, that was beautiful. It made everything worth it because it was cool to see Hayden Christensen is Anakin Skywalker. I don't know if we've mentioned that too much, but seeing him. as Anakin and seeing him take on that personality, take on even the same fighting form, and I know that's a really, really nerdy thing, but the fighting form that Anakin has. Hey, you're not the only one who's going to pick that up. And the fighting form that Obi-One has, which is form two, a very defensive form. I think Anakin's form five, you know. I don't know, he's like a fucking idiotic basket. Which is an offensive, you know, very

aggressive form and it kind of as nerdy as that is that that's kind of what the whole thing is about right it's about defense and offense and it's about what what do you take and what do you do when you're facing a situation when you're fighting each other you know how do you battle and that's why obi one says you don't have to battle with just weapons and aggression you can battle in different ways yeah that was cool that made the whole episode worth it the You can battle with quay. That's me being real tired. You can battle in the comments.

Yeah, no, I full-heartedly agree with all that. Absolutely. And hey, Christian, sin. That scene is more, I know you're much bigger. I like Attack of the Clones. I love Attack of the Clones. I like Attack of the Clones, and I love Revenge of the Sith. And you know what's funny is normally the hate train goes,

Phantom Menace. Oh, fuck that. But Attack of the Clones is all right. Um, that's like, that's my guilty pleasure. And I'm actually the opposite. I'm like, I like attack of the clones, and I really don't like Phantom Menace, but I really love Revenge of the Sith. And John's favorite movies, Phantom Menace.

That's right. Number one. I'm not talking about Star Wars, just all movies in general. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And top three is Phantom Menace, Phantom Menace, and Phantom Menace and Phantom Menace. It's up there. And then Shoshank Redemption. And then Shoshank Redemption, which I haven't seen, but I'm just going to trust that it's my

fourth favorite movie when I do see it. And then Phantom Menace, Phantom Menace, Phan Menace, Fanham Menace. I just like to look at Ace to say. What's it thinking? I love Fendman's. How is this bit going? It's going great. Is it good?

Is there enough love for the prequels in the bit? Perfect amount of love. Do you like your mic? All right. I love my mic. What's your ranking? What's your ranking of the prequels, Aids? What's your ranking of the prequels?

My ranking of the prequels. Ooh, that's tough. Phantom Menace, Phantom Menace. I'd probably go Revenge of the Sith and then Phantom Menace and then Attack of the Clones. Wow, that's the wrong order. Revenge of the Sith, number one? How, that doesn't make any sense. I'm pretty sure that's universally.

I should have you do a ranking video here on the channel. I love all three, though. To be honest, I think they're all different for, obviously for what they're trying to communicate. But they all have different aspects and they all have their own, like, pros and cons. True. Because a lot of people are like, Phantom Man, this is dumb because of Jarger. And I'm like, yeah, but Attack of the Clones has, like, really weirdish dialogue sometimes. and I feel like that kind of is a drawback.

Sometimes. Yeah. Unlike Phantom Menace. And then, yeah, but Phantom Menace, I feel like with Phantom Menace, though, is that what Phantom Menace does so well is Quigon. And Doran and I feel like those two things just make it like bump up in my list.

So when in the next episode do you think we'll see Quigon? When they're fighting it, Quigon's going to break it up. He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. He does the Chris Pratt, Jurassic Park. Whoa. Yeah. Oh, my God.

be good. That'd be better if they just had Chris Prasho. He's like, I don't know where I am, but what galaxy is is. He's like, whoa, he's blue. Flickr train, all these Sith and Jedi really quick. All right, guys, what did you think about this episode? Thank you so much for being here. And thank you to Storyblocks response to this video. Last but not, and thank you to Ace.

Follow Ace on social media. Last but on least, let's do a Patreon. All right, Michao Linden. John really wanted to shout you out So John McHale listen Okay this is why I want to shout you out Because at first I was like

Oh who in their Patreon could be an inquisitor Easily you could be You know you're already very angelo And you've got you know the specs You know you've got a kind of intense look about you So you could be some kind of Sith inquisitor But then I started to think man McHale you could be anybody in the Star Wars universe

I can imagine you as you know A very wise but very conscious conscientious Jedi. I could even imagine you as a youngling, you know, in the temple, maybe escaping before Order 66 happens, biting your time, finding the remnants of the Jedi displaced across the galaxy and aiding them and bringing back the glory of the resistance. McKeel, you could be an alien of the Star Wars universe. You don't even have to go and keep your own, you know, visage. You could be, you know, using some kind of advanced tech to hide what you look like, to blend in on our earth because what? Little do we know? We exist in the galaxy far, far away. The possibilities,

Mikhail, are end-a-less. And I appreciate that your support for us, too, is end-a-less, and that you have maintained your focus, your oneness with the force of our Patreon, that you're still here and you're still being as supportive and loving as ever, which is why you could never be a Sith and Inquisitor. See, we're going full circle, because there's not enough hate and chaos and anger, unrequited, unchecked, unanswered inside your heart to allow it to rot to that degree. So Mikhail, thank you for choosing the light side and for sticking with us and we'll see you next month. Damn. Wow, you say a lot of shit, man.

Bars. Turn a slam poetry. What happened? Was I, what? I blacked out for a minute. Are we good? You killed it. You killed it.

Dropping bars? Yeah, man. Dude, that was great. Patron me. Dude. Yeah, same. we've all earned a shot of Patron tonight. Patron.

Patron, mate. All right. Yeah. I think we did it. Yeah, essay. I did it, John. We did it, essays. Now we're going to del taco, man.

Yeah, we're going to El Taco, man.