Episodes
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Ep. 15 - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Review
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Where we celebrate (and vilify) the highs (and lows) of 2016. We update previous Nerdstalking topics such as Batman v Superman, The Twilight Zone, and Stephen King, and pick at the scabs left by the many celebrity deaths of 2016 including Carrie Fisher. To top things off, we put the "Death" in "Death Star" with a spoiler-filled examination of the tale of how the plans of that technological terror were stolen, in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Show Notes:
First, Recap of Some of the Topics We Covered Over 2016
01:09 - Is Batman v Superman still godawful (according to Ross)?
04:39 - How about Suicide Squad? Still an affront to human decency?
08:54 - Stephen King’s resourgent year, including the upcoming IT movie.
12:30 - Ross triggers Chad by mentioning the Rocky Horror TV remake.
17:29 - New ways to visit the classic Twilgiht Zone show.
19:03 - Which leads us into talk of the excellent Black Mirror anthology show.
23:14 - Bill evicerates Ghostbusters 2016.
25:14 - Some Star Trek talk, TOS, Discovery, Beyond, etc.
36:23 - Talk of the Roddenberry Vault, a collection of Star Trek memorabilia.
40:24 - Following up on the Alien franchise, with Covenant news.
41:47 - What we’re looking forward to in 2017: Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Thor Ragnarok, Wonder Woman, some other DC crap, the Netflix stuff, Avengers movies etc etc.
52:52 - We read the celebrity death roll call for the singularly hard-hit 2016.
1:01:49 - We throw a particular light on the passing of Carrie Fisher.
1:07:50 - Some Force Awakens talk.
1:11:54 - We boggle at the fact that Ross hasn’t seen Spaceballs!
1:13:06 - Rogue One talk starts.
1:15:50 - This is a MOVIE!
1:16:25 - Everybody dies.
1:19:05 - The sacrifices made during Rogue One enable the stars of A New Hope to triumph.
1:26:10 - The moment in A New Hope that changed your life.
1:27:44 - Ross wishes the main characters had been spared…. and spent the rest of their days being tortured in an Empire penal facility.
1:30:01 - Chad has a beef with Vader’s helmet in this movie.
1:34:27 - Some bones to pick with The Force Wakens.
1:37:26 - We re-write the ending of Rogue One to save Ross some tears.
1:41:47 - Some of Rogue One harkens back to the very first synopsis and draft of the original Star Wars movie.
1:44:47 - Fake Tarkin and fake Leia.
1:52:16 - The wonky Death Star weapon in this movie.
1:57:00 - A tasty out-take at Chad’s expense.
Your Nerdstalkers:
Bill Hunter - writer, and creator of video game history website The Dot Eaters
Chad Wick - writer, musician and creator of the Canadian Culture Thing
with Special Geekspeaker Duh Boss
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