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Star Wars in TV and Movies: Part 2

Mark and Sam talk about Star Wars, the Galactic Civil War years in the second of three podcasts about the franchise

  • Star Wars Rebels (TV Show)
  • Droids (TV show)
  • Rogue One
  • A New Hope
  • Star Wars : Holiday Special
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Caravan of Courage
  • Battle for Endor
  • Ewoks (TV show)

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Star Wars in TV and Movies: Part 1

Mark and Sam talk about Star Wars, the pre-empire (mostly) years in the first of three podcasts about the franchise

  • The Phantom Menace
  • Attack of the Clones
  • Clone Wars: Animated (Tartakovsky version)
  • Clone Wars: The movie
  • Clone Wars: The TV show
  • Revenge of the Sith
  • Solo

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Star Wars: Rebels Season 3

Mark and Sam watch Star Wars: Rebels Season 3

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The Mandalorian

Mark and Sam cover the first Star Wars live action TV series showing on Disney+, The Mandalorian

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Star Wars: Rebels Season 2

Star Wars Rebels Season 2

Mark and Sam watch Star Wars: Rebels Season 2, and talk about their favourite American TV comedy shows

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Star Wars: Rebels Season 1

Mark and Sam watch Star Wars: Rebels Season 1

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Clone Wars Season 6 – Episode 569

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 6 – the final season of Clone Wars (at the time this podcast is released…)

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Clone Wars Season 5 – Episode 565

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 5 – a great season of Star Wars

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Clone Wars Season 4 – Episode 546

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 4

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Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 15-22 – The Good The Bad And The Odd 462

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 3, episodes 15-22

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Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 07-14 – The Good The Bad And The Odd 452

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 3, episodes 07-14

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Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 01-06 – The Good The Bad And The Odd 443

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 3, episodes 01-06

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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens – Episode 434

The Force Awakens

Sam and Mark finish up Star Wars in chronological order, with Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens

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Star Wars: Holiday Special and The Empire Strikes Back – Episode 430

The Empire Strikes Back

Sam and Mark carry on Star Wars in chronological order, with the renown Holiday Special and The Empire Strikes Back

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Star Wars: Rogue One and A New Hope – Episode 429

Rogue One

Sam and Mark continue talk about Star Wars in chronological order, with Rogue One and its sequel A New Hope

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Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 18-22 – The Good The Bad And The Odd 427

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 2, episodes 18-22

Also, Mark’s new book, ‘X-Files Episode By Episode Season 1’ is now out on Kindle, go to our Books Page for more details, or direct to Kindle HERE

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Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) and Revenge of the Sith – Episode 426

Revenge of the Sith

Sam and Mark continue talk about Star Wars in chronological order, with Clone Wars (2003) and Revenge of the Sith

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Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 12-17 – The Good The Bad And The Odd 424

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 2, episodes 12-17

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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones – Episode 422

Attack of the Clones

Sam and Mark talk about Star Wars in chronological order, starting with The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones

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Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 07-11 – The Good The Bad And The Odd 420

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 2, episodes 7-11

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Clone Wars Season 2 Episodes 01-06 – The Good The Bad And The Odd 417

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam watch Clone Wars, Season 2, episodes 1-6

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens – The Good The Bad And The Odd 365

The Force Awakens

Mark and Sam spoil the hell out of The Force Awakens (but do give their opinions before the spoilers, with clear spoiler warnings before the spoiling starts)

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Star Wars: A New Hope – The Good The Bad And The Odd 362

Star Wars - A New Hope

Mark and Sam revisit the movie that started the most famous saga of our times, Star Wars.

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Clone Wars Season 1 – The Good The Bad And The Odd 361

Clone Wars

Mark and Sam have fun watching Clone Wars, Season 1.

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Return of the Jedi 4/5

Return of the Jedi

Fun to watch, and better than I remember it. I guess how much you enjoy this one may hinge on how much the ewoks grate on you. I like them. I find them charming, I like the tribal shennanegins and their primitive tech used to take down the empire forces (let’s ignore the hang-gliders though).

This really is a great movie, with the opening rescue taking the first act as a self-contained episode, setting up the finale as the main meat of the movie. But it’s a great first act.

The rest of the movie is in turns moving (Yoda’s finale scene as the ancient Jedi in his little hut), exciting (wow the speeder bike chase is great) and then splits into three threads of action that cuts together really well, though I think the emperor/luke/vader thread is the most enthralling one.

I do miss the old end music (why change it?), I thought Hamill in particular really delivered a great performance in this.

Revenge of the Sith 3.5/5

Revenge of the Sith

Rather enjoyable conclusion to the prequel trilogy, with some gaping flaws (Annakin turns to the dark side on some really dodgy-sounding arguments from Palpatine – I think the rationales used are fine, but the dialogue is weak), but some rather great bits too. The entire last two acts contain some great action and fight sequences, and is extremely dark (and the darkness of Annakin’s actions seem way too extreme a change for the weak-ish arguments used to change him to the dark side).

The last act does feel like a headlong rush to tick all the boxes of known Star Wars lore (Vader’s disfigruments caused by burning up in lava? Check. Obi Wan watching Luke from afar? check. etc etc), but it still works well – any slower would have been frustrating to watch.

I think I still enjoy Attack of the Clones more, but this was fun.

Star Wars: Clone Wars 4/5

Clone Wars

This is a review of both parts of the Star:Wars Clone Wars 2-D animated series.

This is fun, exciting and fresh, and the best Star Wars since the original trilogy.

Originally broadcast in 4 or 5 minute segments, this still works wonderfully as a single cut-together entity, almost entirely due to the canny filmmakers who wisely used cliffhanger devices between segments, thus providing the dramatic glue to allow the cut-together version to work well.

The animation is simple but very effective, the action is well choreographed and exciting (in Volume 1, there’s a battle between Mace Windu and, well, a droid army, that’s just fantastic), and it never flags. We get some important insight into Annakin’s journey, Yoda’s powers, and how General Grievous got where he got.

Thoroughly recommended, the crowning achievement to date of Star Wars, since Return of the Jedi.

Star Wars 2: Attack of the Clones 3.5/5

Attack of the Clones

Well, I think whenever Annakin is on screen in dramatic parts, it feels quite poor and drags by his mopey teenager persona, but there were two dramatic scenes I thought were decent. The first, the death-scene of Shmi Skywalker, was actually very good, and the second, where Annakin reveals what he did to the Sand People to Padme, was reasonable. The action parts are mostly fine as long as Annakin isn’t speaking.

On the other hand, I very much enjoyed the scenes where McGregor was present and not encumbered by the presence of Annie, as well as any scenes with Yoda, Mace Windu and Count Dooku. Particularly enjoyable parts were the fight between Obi-Wan and Django Fett, and the whole last act in fact (especially the fantastic fight between Dooku and Yoda).

Also good was Jar Jar was in this one much less than I remembered, thankfully.

I think, and I need to rewatch Revenge of the Sith to be sure, this is my favourite among the main prequel movies.

The Empire Strikes Back 5/5

The Empire Strikes Back

A magnificent, driving narrative, with solid dialogue, great lighting, editing, framing, visuals, acting, music, tone, mix of drama and comedy, spectacular special effects for 95% of the time, and adding a depth to the space-fantasy genre in movies that was entirely absent before it.

Contains great-must see moments, at a rate of, I dunno, 1 every 8 minutes it feels like.

Ridiculously good.

Star Wars IV: A New Hope 4.5/5

Star Wars IV: A New Hope

A real thrilling spectacle. It’s been 10 years or more since I last watched this, and I have to admit, I was excited about rewatching it. And yes, it easily lived up to the expectation and excitement. My favourite part is one of the quieter moments, where Vader declares ‘I find your lack of faith…disturbing.’ But there are a dozen of more really great moments, and the 2 hours whizzes by.

I enjoy Alec Guinness the most in this, I think, but Harrison Ford comes a close second.

Still thrills, all these years later.