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Speaker 2: At least on that date again.
Speaker 1: I remember January. Let me get a specific date, January seventeenth,
so not really the end of January, kind of more
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Speaker 2: I get talk. We'll talk.
Speaker 1: We'll talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we won't say that weekend right now?
Speaker 1: I mean, are you interested?
Speaker 2: I'm very interested in that. Yes, absolutely, I think that
could be a spicy you know, I'll get Nosparatu vibes
from that one. It's yeah, all goes back to underworld
with the Lichens and the Empires.
Speaker 1: That's right, cool? Well then, yeah, stay tuned for that.
Maybe some magical happen. What else do we got? Uh
uh some about February first, I don't know, okay, car On,
oh yeah, it's totally blank. I'm losing all credibility.
Speaker 2: January fourteenth is when the sense yes of the last
goodness louis so Kirkland save save me?
Speaker 1: Right now? What are your non spoilers thoughts in this episode?
Speaker 2: Yes, I will save you, unlike Jawed or someone else. No,
I guess I won't go into anything else. I was
starting to talking with boys my non spoil of thoughts
for this episode. I will say I think that this
was the episode that really got its its barbed hook
right in my little, my little lip. I was kind of,
I don't know, circling the hook throughout this whole season,
Like I was intrigued by what the show was giving
me plot wise. I like the characters chemistry, but it
didn't really have that special worm to make me want
to chomp on it. And I feel like in this episode,
I swall the whole damn thing. I I was way
more locked in than I think I've ever been throughout
the whole show. In this episode. It helps that we're like,
you know, we're at the point of like finding out
the true shebang I guess with at Atten and just
really getting a lot revealed here because this is the
penultimate episode. I think I just had a lot more
hype going into this episode, and then, like I must
say it, it totally delivered. I was really, really, I think,
just impressed with how they were able to bring things
together and make it satisfying, at least for myself. So yeah, no,
I think it's my favorite episode so far throughout the
whole show. But yeah, no, I'm I'm I'm really really
digging it. I don't want to say too too much
more because I've already almost spoiled some things, but I'm
looking forward to what's going to happen next week and
just kind of I don't know, now that we're nearing
the end, I'm looking back at the show as a
whole a lot more than I have been like these
last three week, last couple of weeks. But I am
pretty I am pretty happy that this exists, as as
just kind of being a unique adventure in the Star
Wars universe and making it not just feel like they're
trying to repeat something in the past, like it does
feel fresh and new. So yeah, no, I'm I'm really
really digging it. I'm loving Jude Law's performance as well
as all the little tykes. It's funny this, you know,
my minor spoilers. I guess there's one point a certain character.
It's just it's just like you guys. You guys are
such losers, cranny babies, and he's like especially you singles
out whim and I'm like, finally somebody does it. Like
guy was the worst one.
Speaker 1: I was like, holy no water, your father never loved you.
Speaker 2: But so yeah, I think this episode had a lot
for me humor wise, as well as I guess suspense
and thrillers. Yeah, no, it was, it was. It was good.
What about you? What do you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I really really loved this episode. This was fantastic.
I think that they're you know, for a semi finale
semi final episode. It's kind of pulling all the storylines
together a little bit here, and we see things wrap
up and things get a lot more climactic, so we're
not really going through the little here and there adventures
of crew and friends. You know, it's finally like, Okay,
the main narrative is coming back into the fold and
really getting into it. And we got some very cool visuals.
We got some other very cool little things that were displayed.
Here's a couple of little easter eggs, little highlight on
the spoilers. But ultimately I just thought that this was great. Yeah,
Jod was fantastic in this episode. And I was looking
at just an interview that Judla had where he was
talking about how this episode kind of really sheds the
light on his characters backstory a little bit more and
that's why he found this to be I think he
said it was his favorite of the show. And I
can see why, because you really get a an awesome,
awesome dose of him and his character and what his
goals are and everything like that, and.
Speaker 2: Things.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say expedite because that makes it
sound like it was rushed, but things progressed faster than
I was anticipating. I thought things would have been a
little bit slowed down. And again I'm not saying that
like a bad thing. I just thought things would have
been focused on something else, a little bit more, a
little bit more drawn out, expanded upon. But we just
got right into the thick of it right then and there,
and I'm totally okay with that. I'm actually quite happy
with it because it just set us up for what
I'm hoping to be a really good and exciting finale.
So I think this was great. I think everyone came
to play and did a strong job. And I think
this episode ends in a way that it's misleading and
they're trying to send like a send one kind of
queue to people like, oh, this is probably what's happening,
but in reality, this is what's happening. And I can't
wait to talk about the Pirate Code because there's some
crazy Pirate code shit in this in this episode, and
it happened, I was like, oh my god, like it's
just laughed because it just did not. It seemed way
too surreal to be a real thing. But yeah, I
don't think I have anything else to add. Okay, cool,
then let's take our first ad break and then we
will be right back. All right, So where do you
want to start in spoiler territory, Let's start with John.
Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like you've never like fully
understood his like full intentions or full motives or anything.
But I feel like in this episode it was really
revealed of like, oh, he's just a greedy pirate and
that's really just what he is at the end of
the day. I think there was many moments when, like
last episode and this episode, including that, I thought maybe
he was holding some things back and then he was
gonna have like a hero reveal. It still might like
kind of happen in the finale, but I feel like
for the most part, when he's like on his knees,
like crying, holding like the Republic credits and just really
showing that he's like emotionally invested to this treasure, I
think it revealed a lot about the character in the
sense of kind of where his his alignment is on
on just what's important to him. You know, he's all
about just getting that treasure and uh, yeah, he's just
a pirate. At the end, like he's donning his his
mask that he had at the start of the show,
and I think he really just enjoys being the captain
and yeah, searching for booty treasure and all. So I yeah,
I think I just didn't really I had a lot
of question marks I think around that character. And after
this episode, I feel like I kind of if it's
the game of Clue, Like I'm pretty sure where this
character was with what weapon, what points? So yeah, what
about you? What do you think about John and where
he's at.
Speaker 1: I I loved that he was just pulling the lightsaber
out and I love that. Okay, yeah, we just we
got a force user. He's not pulling a fast one.
He's legitimately using the four. He's got a lightsaber now,
and that lightsaber is a High Republic era lightsaber. There's
so much stuff here that's just it's totally working for me.
And he's not a Jedi. He's just a swindler. He
doesn't care about anyone else except just getting that score,
that bounty. And I loved it so much when he
was really just it's gonna sound bad, but just lashing
out of the kids, coloring him out for being spoiled
and sheltered and all this stuff, because it was just
giving me this kind of headcanon, and this is up
to everyone's interpretation, so don't take my perspective as the
be all end all. But to me, I got a
sense like, Okay, what if he was just a youngling
during Order sixty six and he barely survived, and he's
just been spending his whole life just as a pirate
on the run, hiding from the Empire, hiding from inquisitors,
just trying to do what he can to survive, and
then here he is, finally like the biggest score. He's
been bred into a pirate, and yeah, he's just calling
it as it is, like these kids are spoiled and sheltered.
We don't know what the things that he had to
go through to get to this point, and it probably
is a lot of grimy, dirty things, like no one
really knows that he's using the force. It's evident that
he's keeping it a secret from his pirate crew, and
to me, I just feel like, Okay, that's him just
keeping it a secret out of out of habit, because
maybe he wasn't the run from his inquisitors. Again, that's
just my own perspective, and it's a head cannon that
i'd like to run with because it just seems a
lot more cooler that you have this guy who's not
sticking with the Jedi way but just broke off and
become a Force user like this. That being said, I'm
also down if his backstory is the fact that he
just knew he had the Force, the Jedi missed him,
or the Jedi weren't a thing at this time, so
he just was born with the Force, because we know
that there are other Force users out there. Even though
Travis doesn't like to agree with that. He has a weird,
distorted Sith Jedi kind of perspective.
Speaker 2: But he's a big World two fan, right is that
you're he's all about the balance of the forest, I
think is what he said. Yeah, yeah, he's big.
Speaker 1: On the George George stuff. But I just think that, yeah,
there's a lot that is going well with this character.
And I really liked his little ending here when he
pulls his lightsaber out after being in the vault, because
I think that they're just insinuating that he's gonna He's
not insinuating. He's implying that he's threatening the kids because
he's in a position where he can kill the parents easily.
But I think he's also doing it because he's just
pretending to be this emissary and he's gonna the parents
are gonna look to him and he's be like, Hey,
I'm a Jedi from the Republic, and YadA, YadA, YadA,
because what are they gonna say. He clearly knows at
this point that ad Adam has not really been in
contact or maybe is a bit out of date on
certain things based on the responses of the kids. But
I mean it's I don't know, it's there's a whole
thing here still to explore. I said a lot. So
is anything else you want to Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, Like like in I feel like it's an interesting
read of the situation for you because I didn't really
take it that way that he might just really be playing.
Like I feel like he kind of revealed his cards
when he just fell to his knees and he's like
crying holding this money. I think the parents are gonna,
like immediately just side with the kids. And because Whim's dad,
the guy that I always was joking about throughout the
whole show, I feel like it was a big moment
for him to say to Whim that, like, I should
have trusted you before. So if he just doesn't trust
him again right here, I think that's just terrible. It
just really it's doubles down for the republic.
Speaker 1: Can't you see?
Speaker 2: Yeah, settle down, whim Come on, go to your room.
You missed school, you missed two weeks of school going
this adventure. Uh yeah, No, I I don't think it'll
go that way. I think that he's like just pulling
it out and like kind of threatened to do something
to them. I don't know, I don't really fully know
what's gonna happen with that character next week. I feel
like he is definitely just a pirate and looking out
for himself, but he also, I don't know, just just
the way that he handles the kids, I feel like
he is really like scared to further the situation and
like further escalate the situation. Maybe maybe that's me misreading it,
but I don't know. It just seems like he always
has kind of empty threats when it comes to the kids,
Like I like when they were on the ship and
he was threatening them and like, you know, I'm gonna
chop you up or the hell whatever the hell he's
gonna do, because he just murdered thirty three. You know,
he has the lightsaber out. Now. I thought they were
gonna like really test him and like pull his bluff there.
So I thought that he would just not actually do
anything and then they're able to just kind of take
over the ship again. But that is not exactly what happened.
So who knows. Maybe Whim's dad is going to just
get Darth mauled, you know, get cut in half and
then fall down an elevator shaft. But who knows what's
gonna happen with that. I'm not one of those people
that knows that, So yeah, no, I I like seeing
him with the lightsaber though, And I think something else
that'll add to jaud is. I think I want some
sort of explanation about some things with the Force. Like
I don't need his whole life story or anything, but
I just want a little bit more I don't know
content around that and and like kind of that skill
set and like I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just like as history, like where he came from.
Speaker 2: Like mostly with the Force, and like I don't know,
lightsaber is just kind of something that you turn on,
but like I don't know, he's handling it pretty good,
like maybe he's got some history there of like handle
of yeah, handling the lightsaber. I don't know, but I
think I think if I just don't know anything more
about the character other than what's been revealed here, I'll
be a little bit disappointed. But I don't know. It's
kind of a I'm kind of wanting both situations though,
because I don't want next next week's episode will be
just ten minutes of him like as a young ling,
as a padawan or something, and like go through that
whole thing. I don't really want that, So I don't
know what I want. Maybe maybe I'll just judge it
next week and see what happens.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sure I know how you feel, but I
just I gotta pitch this because I want to want
to hear you say it aloud. When the ship, which
we learned as an ad ad In ship, which is
super cool. I love how sleek it looks. It's really awesome.
It reminds me of the the Rebellion v wings Is
it no, not the viewing, Oh, it's the eu wing.
I should have went with the freaking ewing. Yeah, so
it reminds me of the ewing When the wings extend
out very similar design and oh yeah, I just think
it looks so cool. It's so sleek. And so with
the ship we the Onyxender, we get a little bit
more context here of the Pirate code because John is like, oh,
that's my ship. You know, I'm captain, and then I
can as im thirty three is like, well, technically no,
the Pirate's code a cap and can only have one
ship and you're already captain of this one unless you
lay claim to this, Like it's just this is this
is whatever. It's like most fitting, like I'm fitting. I
don't know, it's just it's such bullshit. And so the
unclaims he's also works too. But I think that was
a sm thirty three just kind of like, you know,
fudging the marker a little bit. Yeah, I'm so done
with the Pirate Code and all this.
Speaker 2: I gave my rent on it. Uh what was it
last week's episode? Maybe the week before that, But anyways,
I feel like the way that the scene ended, it
just made me laugh so hard. When he's just kind
of standing there and thirty three just punches him out.
He's like enough, good enough for me, And it also
just made me laugh because he's he's been like so
die hard to the Pirate Code, like he just like
screwed over the kids sided with Jogs. It's like, oh no,
I'm so by the book when it comes to the
Pirate Code. Then like here, it's like, ah, whatever, I'm
I kind of don't like John anymore. Like it's just okay, Yeah,
we don't really care about the Pirate Code. It's very
loose with its rules, kind of like how it is
in the Pirates of the Caribbeans. You know, it's it's
more of a guideline. Yeah, but I don't know. I
like the scene enough, so I guess I'll give it
a pass.
Speaker 1: There. I like too. They threw John's helmet back on.
I feel like that was solely just to reaffirm everyone
that was there in the first episode and didn't know
who this character is and still doesn't know who the
character is, like, oh, that was Jod the whole time.
Speaker 2: Where was John when this guy came out? They're never
in the same room.
Speaker 1: Again, I guess continue on that note with John. Here
he executes Brutus in a very you know, shitty situation.
Brutus is just grabbed by the claw and I saw
it coming because Brutus has just been a pain in
Jod's ass this entire time, and now he's just caught
in the claw and Jod can just cap one in him,
which is pretty brutal. What do you think of that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: At first I was like, eh, that's kind of a
you know, like this has been the villain throughout the
whole show, so like to just have him die that way.
But I don't know, I think the more I stew
on it, the more I'm okay with it. Because John
is kind of he's kind of a scoundrel like roguelike
character that like would take his advantage and like make
use of it, and that's very much that situation. And
then it's just an opportunity to take out the head
of the you know, of the Beast, and then the
whole pirate crew is there and like no one else
is harmed, so he can like pitch his his takeover
speech and then of course it worked out. So yeah, No,
I was okay with it. Yeah, I was okay with it.
Speaker 1: We got a little bit more of Vain as well,
which is funny because I actually just rewatched season three
of Mandalorian, so I got to touch base with that
character a little bit more a God Mando season three,
I really freaking like it. I'm so that's such a
good that's a good time. But with Vain, he didn't
get a lot of screen time, but he was just
addressing certain things as they were trying to break through
the mailstrom, which I like that whole concept.
Speaker 2: I just think that.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of Kessel from Solo Star Wars. Story
reminds me of Exegal where you just got to kind
of navigate certain paths to get in there. And again,
when we learned that Captain renad Be captured an ad
at and ship, which I really would like to know
how he did that. I'm assuming he took the ship
from like at one of the other at places and
then use that to get there. And that's why he
squashed out the coordinates, because we know that he was
at one of those other planets and destroyed at adds
coordinates off the stones. But yeah, I just I think
that's a brilliant idea of using their own ship to
get into through that through the mailstrom. Yeah, I just
think that's awesome. What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I liked all of it pretty much, the
whole situation of them getting to the planet and then
figuring out how to get in there. I thought it
was a really cool reveal of it being like a
smaller planet within like that giant barrier, and yeah, like
I just just leading into the whole idea of what
this planet is. I really really am satisfied actually with
the explanation of what this is, because I feel like
the Republican credits and just credits in general in the
Star Wars universe, they're so iconic to me because just
experiencing Star Wars and Star Wars like video games at
such a young age. You know, we were just talking
about Star Wars Jedi Power Battles on Sidequest the other day,
and like that was an early video game of mine,
like that's that's based off episode one, and they had
credits as the currency. So I just always thought it
was like an interesting idea for currency, but never really
thought of like like you know, like how money even
works in like a grand scale of things like that.
So having these like super hidden like mints out there
that are like so hard to even find. They have
these just yeah, like a great barrier where they cut
out all the just radio frequencies and nobody can even
get to it. They have defenses in them, and then
inside is like a smaller little shell. It's just like
gring Gods times a million, Like what did you say,
there's like a thousand plus of like another vault like that,
so it's just more money than Yeah, then then you
can even count or fathom. And I like how it's
just so private and secret that like the Republic is
just gone, but they're still just like hidden and working
like normally. So yeah, no, very very interesting concept, and
I feel like it works because it doesn't really I
don't know, like credits are something throughout all of Star Wars,
but it's not like a massive thing that like changes
the whole way that we, like, you know, think about
the stars universe. So yeah, no, I was. I was
really happy with the reveal of it and it actually
being like a treasure planet. But yeah, no, and it
also looked cool just the vaults and then when he
touches the little like credit token things and they just
all fall down and and they've already stressed like how
much even just like three of those is worth out
in the galaxy, let alone, like how many are actually there?
So yeah, I was, I was satisfied with all of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was I love that whole scene when it's
just like pouring on his face and he dunks his
head under it and just like showering himself.
Speaker 2: It's like that care gift.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Well he was loving it. Uh yeah, over
a thousand of those vaults and that just gets me
so giddy because it just makes me think about just
the banking clan and just like the Republic just using
like credits and funding and all that kind of stuff.
I know that it's not it's not anything like yeah,
Darth Flake is, Yeah, the Munes.
Speaker 2: This was him around the corner when when John was
just like bathing all the money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just it is a minor thing. But it's
just I actually really really like it and the whole
esthetic of ad Aten and how it's very much like
our kind of a society that's advanced by like fifty years,
one hundred years or something like that. I can get
on board with it now a lot more than I
could at the start, simply because it's just the fact that, hey,
this is a planet that's just been detached from anything
outside the galaxy, and it's been isolated and all they're
doing is just pumping cash out like no tomorrow, like
their economy is doing Their economy is doing well. And
if they were to just open up to the galaxy,
I feel like the galaxy would suffer inflation because it's
just all.
Speaker 2: This printed money just being dumped.
Speaker 1: Into the economy. But yeah, no, I think it's really cool.
And I'm wondering how Jod's thinking he's going to get
out of here as an emissary. I'm assuming that he
can just probably loaded ship up. They seem to be
pretty accommodating, and I thought that we were going to
get actual a moment here where we could see who
the supervisor is. We got a voice, yeah, and that's
about it. So I'm still curious.
Speaker 2: Who they are.
Speaker 1: And it seems Jod wants to see the supervisor. So
I'm assuming the Supervisor's going to actually make an appearance
here because no one has seen him.
Speaker 2: All we've had are just the droids. Yeah, yeah, I know,
I thought for sure we were going to get a reveal.
I thought it was so bold of Jod, yeah, to
just basically be doing all that, Like I know, he's
an emissary, but I still thought he was being extremely suspicious,
like obviously suspicious, and I'm curious how the dynamic between
him and the supervisor is going to go. Maybe the
supervisor is plagu us, you know, maybe that'll be the reveal.
It was me all along, but oh lost my train
of thought there there heard dings in my head and
then it's just gone now.
Speaker 1: But uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, sorry, it'll come back to me what I
was gonna say before before you went in that direction.
As my name goes on with the volunteer, Uh, I
laughed so hard in that sequence when he's like, yeah,
I know, I'll fly in there myself, and it's like, no,
we'll send it a volunteer. And this guy just like
walks up to his ship. He's got like a superhero
as if it's like top Gun Maverick, like walking on
the aircraft carrier, like going to a ship like such
a badass. You see him following in and then he's
just like all confident like oh yeah, it's getting rough,
but nothing I can't handle. And then he goes it's
like wait I see something.
Speaker 1: No, oh, I just I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm such a sucker for those type of whether it's
like alien or like predator or anything like that. It
also reminds it was It was nice and dramatic, you know,
and it was some comedy. John's like, we will send
it another one. But no, I love that whole scene.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I was laughing hard. I was also just like curious
of what was actually gonna happen, if it was gonna work,
if it was just gonna actually be like a gas planet.
But no, I'm happy the way that it went.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, I am too. I guess aside from that,
let's take a quick ad break, won't be right back
and we are back? Where do you want to go next?
Because I feel like we've highlighted We've highlighted pretty much
everything in this episode, and I'm trying to think what
we could expect in the finale. We know that if
the kids got in trouble, they could reach back out
to the Owl, which I can't remember their name from
the previous episode ago could reach out to them for help.
I feel like we could see X Wings again in here,
or something from the Republic kind of contacting, like is
that Adam gonna stay hidden or are we going to
get something kind of opening up a little bit because
they went. The parents went through a lot of trouble
to actually get that little beacon device through the barrier
and get them to send a message, which that.
Speaker 2: Was a funny scene too. This is like go and
then to just get like zapped, it's like lever. But no, yeah,
that's a good Uh, that's just a good thing to
bring up, because I I am curious, actually what is
going to happen with the end of the show with
this being such a a hidden secret, Like if it
is going to be revealed or get out there. I
don't think so. Personally, I think it is gonna be
pretty much contained with with who's involved. I don't know
what's gonna happen with Jod, Like I, I don't I
can't really see him dying. But like I, I also
don't know how he would get out of this situation
really like unscathed or anything like that. Maybe he'll be
hideously disfigured. He will be like in a Darth Vader mask,
or he'll have to wear his mask permanently and they
can just change actors or or something. I don't know
how expensive Jude Law is, but uh, yeah, and just
how the supervisor like handling that situation is gonna go.
I can see it being like really set up to
be looking like John is like gonna be able to
pull it off, just because, as you mentioned, like we
have a lot of allies out there that the kids
can pull into the situation, and the finale would be
a great spot to bring those clans back into the
Fold and alliances and such. It feels like a natural
way to do that in the finale. But I also
don't know how they would even get to the planet right,
like it it's so difficult to even get in through
the barrier. But maybe that's what will happen, Like he
actually convinces them to open up the barrier and then
the Frigate can come in, and then of course that's
when the X Wings and everything arrive, Gandalf, the Rohan,
the Row here, everyone just just shows up to that
ad and I could see it going that way as well.
But yeah, no, I'm I think that's what's so intriguing
actually with what's happening going into the finale is I
really don't know what's gonna happen, and I don't know
the episodes, like they haven't even been that short. Actually,
I think this one was like thirty six minutes, like
if I'm not mistaken, which is have they all been
like that? I feel like I thought they were as smaller.
Speaker 1: I think the first one was a little bit longer,
but they've all been pretty consistently hitting that thirty thirty
eight mark. And then you got the credits in there too,
which is like six minutes.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think throughout though, like the pacing of
all the episodes is felt actually really good and I
don't know, like this this time, I think because this
was my peak episode for me, it was my favorite one,
but this was the first time where it ended and
I was like, no, oh what, like nothing else, Like
I was really really gripped on that situation. So yeah,
it was. It was a great way to end the
penultimate episode. And yeah, no, I I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued curious,
as a Barbosa might say, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm yeah, I'm I'm with you there, I'm I'm curious,
and I'm thinking that we could see some hopefully some
some familiar faces from before, at least I would hope.
I don't want ad Addon to be just kind of
kept as a secret again. Moving forward, I think jod
will definitely stay alive. He'll he'll manage to get out
of there somehow. I don't think he's going to get
out with all his money, and I don't think he's
going to get out with access to get back into
ad ADM. If a Adden does stay a secret, I
mean if the planet does go open, I mean John's
just going to raid it, like out the way. He's
got a pirate Oh yeah, he's got a pirate fleet
outside basically just waiting unless they decide to think like okay,
well he just up and left and or he got killed,
and maybe the pirates will just bugger off and not
stick around. I don't know, but that would be funny. Actually,
if ad Adden opens up and the he's like John's
like I'm here, like, come on, pirates, and then they're
not there. It's just X wings and the actual Republic
shows up, because what is we get a Pirates of
the Caribbean crossover. Any man that falls behind is left behind.
That's the pirate code.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so maybe the code what happened to Jack behind?
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll have to see how it goes. I
think we'll get some kind of cheeky, happy ending. Though,
for sure. But I again, I love seeing John just
be full ten in this episode, just being pissed off. Yeah,
he's looking at whim saying, you are the worst one
and uh and I started to it started to turn
around a little bit for me for women the last
episode because he really really just started to shine and
I really like that. And then in this episode, everyone's
having a good time. They're playing ball, moving around the ship,
they're going home, and then Fern walks around the corner
and Women's just sitting in the chair. Ferns like I
told you, we get home, what's wrong? Nothing, just gonna
have to go back and take my test and be
the speck to nor. I'm like, men, fuck, I know
your kids. I know your kids, and I just gotta
let that just kind of go as it is, you know,
you know.
Speaker 2: I I feel like I would defend them there. Honestly,
I get the idea of, like I remember being a
kid going on like a vacation and then coming back
it's like, oh, I have to go to school tomorrow.
Are you kidding me? Like it's just it's well now,
I guess it's just coming off of vacation. This will
be you after Disneyland next week, coming back and I
have to do a test time. I gotta work tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That will be WHIM. They'll probably have WHIM at Disneyland,
all the skeleton crew and all the kids.
Speaker 2: So I didn't I didn't mind that at first. I
kind of just chuckled because, yeah, I'm like, oh my god,
what's he going to be complaining about here? But it
did feel very natural, and I I liked how it
kind of how that transitioned into well, you know, there's
some substance between now and then, but when we see
the video recording of the parents like talking to the kids.
I actually really really liked that moment. And I mean
I chuckled when Wendell WiM's father, part of me was
on camera because just because of the discussion from the
earlier episodes about him just being a terrible father. But no,
I liked how they all had a chance to kind
of hear their parent and I think that helped just
the idea of returning, like knowing that they are because like,
you know, they're kids, like kids do fucking shitty things,
but at the end of the day, there's still you know,
hopefully their parents will still love them. No matter what
you know, give the to an extent. There's some serial
killers out there that I'm sure are you know, probably
their parents don't love them as much. But anyways, back
to back to whim. I liked how I don't know,
he just showed that side of him in the after
he talks to Fern and everyone else, and then also
just seeing the parent. He just seems a lot more
open to the idea of getting back to his family.
But it kind of gets cut short when comes in
their acts of swinging chopping off heads.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, chopping off heads. Yeah, which that was pretty cool.
I think SM thirty three is he's coming back. I
think they can repair him for sure.
Speaker 2: I think so too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't think obviously like they won't be
able to keep the ship the kids because that seems
to be under lock and key in this facility, which
is okay, and I think they'll be able to keep
SM thirty three. I just want to highlight too, when
that ship was landing. I get that it's been a
long time, at least probably a few generations since the
Higher Public era, and so they haven't had an emissary
come in a long time. But it was striking me
as weird that like the ground was opening up like
a volcano and people were still standing there, and like,
this thing's opening up, but people are gonna be like
like rolling down, like break their necks and shit as
they fall down, Like they should have had a better
contingency or warning system for that. I digress trying to
think what else I have to bring up?
Speaker 2: What else do I have? I really don't have mine,
Like I'm thinking of the other characters, they didn't really
have like a lot of big moments. It was mostly
just them collectively dealing with Jod and the threat of Jod.
I like the line when Fern's mom is like, you know,
you're not in trouble, and then later on Fern's like,
my mom was totally lying, by the way, like we're
totally in trouble, but damn, it looks cool to be
coming back home. So I like that little sequence. But yeah, no,
like Neil didn't really have a lot of individual moments
KB like she handled the crane. I guess she single
handedly took out the beast Man wolf Man January seventeenth,
but not February first, But but yeah, no, not really
a big episode for those other characters, the.
Speaker 1: H there was a lot there, and so when John
was entering the vault, now the droid says, we hoped
you would be pleased, and just like John like looking around,
like how many vaults are there? Like one thousand Son,
So I was getting major attack of the clones vibes.
When Obi Wan was with Prime Minister Lama, Sue was
like like a million units or two hundred thousand with
a million more went on the way, and it's like, ah,
that's good news. I hope you would be pleased. Like
they say some of the exact same words.
Speaker 2: He goes to the embryos and just just a little toms.
Oh my gosh, how do you say his name? Tomorrow Morrison,
Tom Morrison.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh so there's definitely similarities there. So one thousand,
winner and thirty nine vaults. Someone made a note here
that one thousand, winner and thirty nine is one more
than one and thirty eight is in George Lucas's nineteen
seventy one sci fi movie THHX one one three eight,
which has been referenced a few times in the Star
Wars Galaxy. So there you go. The voice of the
supervisor is a voice by actor Stephen fry Uh did
it the satellite defense could in action. I feel like
this is a stretch, but this is one he stragged
that someone else had noted. John threatens the kids as
a blue lightsaber to mirror Anakin's attack on the Jedi order.
He corners of the young lings. I guess that's kind
of a good like play on it.
Speaker 2: I definitely like saw glimpses I guess of that situation.
But for me, like the big one that reminded me
of something else from the Star Wars universe was when
he pulls out the lightsaber, like when he goes out
to the kids and the parents, like right at the end.
Just the audio track that played it reminded me of
episode seven when you first see like Kylo uh pull
out as his lightsaber. Obviously the lightsaber has a different
audio cue, but like the music that they had, it
just felt very similar to that specific scene. So yeah,
it was cool music choice.
Speaker 1: The music when the pirate like big capital ship arrived
at that and it was like a Star Wars mixed
with a scurvy bootleg jolly jolly wag or whatever kind
of like pirate theme. It was good, really nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1: So I was digging at and last thing that I
have is Neil's mom, almost at the full line at
the beginning when they were trying to get the little
drone thing out, She's like, I have a bad and
then she got caught so they started stunning the parents.
So bad feeling about this. Yeah, anything else, sir? Did
we did?
Speaker 2: We cap it? I think we keppt it?
Speaker 1: Okay? Cool, well, the gentleman, we'll be back for the
finale next week, so stay tuned for that. It's gonna
be a good time. And yeah, we'll see you in
the search bar. And may the Force be with you.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, yes,