Mos Eisley Happy Hour - Return of the Jedi
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A long time ago on a Podcast in Essex... It’s 1983, Microsoft launch Word and McDonalds unleash the McNugget; plumber’s nightmare Dennis Nilsen is arrested and jailed; and Children’s ITV begins. Our Star Wars watch-through concludes the original trilogy with “Return of the Jedi”. So take care not to shut your Rancor in the door; realise that the Empire really can’t get the staff these days; sing along to 90s alternative rock classics with the Ewoks; and wonder who nicked Anakin’s harmonica. • Watch (or more likely re-watch) to avoid spoilers, and join us. FEATURES STRONG LANGUAGE. APOLOGIES FOR ANY SOUND QUALITY ISSUES -CURRENT QUARANTINE MEASURES MEANT WE HAD TO RECORD THIS EPISODE REMOTELY.
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AdamGood evening, everyone, and welcome to the Mos Eisley Happy Hour!
LeeYeah.
AdamYeah. Thank you, Cheers.
AdamAnd um, yes, tonight we are covering Return of the Jedi.
AdamMy name is Adam, I am joined by Lee.
LeeHello.
AdamChris.
ChrisHello.
AdamAnd Wesley.
UnknownHey, ho!
AdamOh!
AdamThe full-bodied Kermit.
AdamAnd um, it's official.
AdamAnd um, yes, we are, as as I say, we are here to cover, uh, 1983's Return of the Jedi.
AdamI think that obviously, you know, we've gone past the heights of Empire Strikes Back. I'm not sure that this is going to be, uh, not as easy to score. So, uh, certainly last time where it was 44, let's let's we not forget, 44 out of 40.
AdamThat it scored.
AdamSo, you know, so it's actually four better than its own polling mechanism, which is quite incredible.
AdamUm, so yes, um, and um,
AdamYes, I mean, it's, I actually, this is the first one I ever saw at the cinema.
UnknownHmm.
AdamUm, and I was five.
UnknownOh.
AdamSo, yeah, it's quite a, it's quite a memorable one.
AdamI also then had it on a really dubby pirate video.
LeeYeah, that's where I first saw it.
AdamYeah, so a lot of the, a lot of the bits like the music like in the throne room would make your feelings rattle. It was just so bassy.
AdamAnd I'm like.
AdamUm, which I can't help but feel added to the effect.
UnknownYeah.
LeeSee, for me, when I saw it on pirate, um, a relative of mine had already seen it at the cinema, so when it come to my, to watch it at the pirate, they lied to me. They said that, um, when the inevitable happens to Vader and he takes his mask off, uh, you see all this blood and all his face falls out and everything like that, and I didn't want to see that as a five-year-old child.
LeeSo I turned away, so for many years I never saw what happened. I never saw Vader's true face.
UnknownHuh.
ChrisSo for me, I just remember this with this film being the thing when I realized that I totally didn't understand adults at all.
ChrisUm, because the same as you guys, I remember my dad coming home from work with a pirate copy of it and going, it was like the middle of the week or whatever, and he was like, I've got Return of the Jedi. And I was so excited. He was like, we'll watch it at the weekend. And I was like, why is it in your hand and not in the machine right now? What do you mean we're waiting till the weekend?
ChrisYeah, and at that point I was like, do you know what, I'm I'm writing adults off. You're all idiots. I don't know what's wrong with any of you.
AdamSo I had a funny one with this as well because this was the only one that I didn't have on tape for practically forever, possibly until, you know, some video release, might be 1997 one.
AdamBut yeah, so this was like the weird one that I just, I was like, oh, I'm going to get to watch Return of the Jedi with my friends' house, because I'd seen Star Wars and I watched back loads. But it's like this was just, what happens in this one? You know, it's just so different somehow.
AdamUm, but yeah.
AdamIt's that wrap up as well when you've you're waiting for that resolution.
