Star Wars 3, the middle one. Rebellion's Build Call Host. And welcome to another episode of Ready, Rebellion Star Wars, for the entire time we host Happy Tocaderoa and with us on the other side of the screen, it's all T1, Kanoi, our top host and joining us today is Special Kess, it's making the jump from the chat to the Rebellion, it's our friend Alan Ching. Alan, how you doing today?
Hey, hey, hey, I'm doing real good. I'm right here in California and I'm all the way over here on the other coast but particularly we're stuck in a clicheing zone over here. So we're doing okay, yeah. Alright, I see that you have your high republic shirt, I forgot to wear mine today.
But you're representing because we will be talking about the island darners at some point today. But Otty, I'm not saying complaining about what's the Star Wars thing, we got nothing to talk about. There's a lot to talk about. Like Elsarmant, those Nile buoys just like shooting at everything.
Oh man, poor Elsarmant is attacking the stone wall. Didn't go as planned. I had marked that chapter because I remember when you tweeted about it chapter 41. And like when the chapter started I already knew like what was going to happen because I remember your tweet but like it was fun.
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It's something we gotta I'm trying to get more authors here. So we'll see how that goes. I would love to talk to George Mann and pick his brain because this book was crazy. Alright, we'll see.
Let me see what I can do. I'll send a few emails. If you're listening to this on the audio podcast, you also write interviews. Also fun when you guys are still listening over there.
Alright, Alan, how you doing again? Star Wars, you're always on the chat here today. I see the little pork family and of course, nov's is there with you representing the Harry public. Yes.
So we're talking a little bit before we started. But what we always want to learn from our friends and new friends that we get here. What's your Star Wars story? How do you get got into this fan down to that point where you're on Star Wars?
Really? Every day you're listening to podcast? You're here on the show now. What brought you to this galaxy?
Well, absolutely. So I grew up with the special edition on VHS. So that's the one that really got to me. So it just launched everything for me.
And then we got the sequels. We got the pod racing on MTV. And that was like a big thing on TRL. For some reason, that's just that whole sequence.
And then you're just like growing up and then you're all a sudden, you're seeing George Mann and bring it. That's part of my college experience. So that's the start of everything. The young kids out there.
TRL, total request live for you. What music video you wanted to see? That was a thing back in the late 90s, early 2000s. One of the things that I always joke when we're here and we see you on the chat.
You're always at Disneyland. I was posting from over there. Always having fun. How do you get there every day or seems like it every week?
And then you say you have something about this and that you wanted to share with us today? Absolutely. So anybody knows me? I grew up here.
So I've been to the parks a lot. Recently, I've had the I don't pass. Now changed to the key. So I'm there frequently.
Me and my husband both were both Disney adults. We were those insane people. I just love going to the park. So I remember when Galaxy Edge, I first opened up.
I wasn't able to get into it until after post-pandemic. So it was really, really awesome going back there, building your lightsaber, send it up in for the first time. So I love going into there all the time. And just the feeling of seeing everyone now compared to when I was a kid when I first.
We have grandma in Grogu here and stuff. You can see how much power, how much the whole that Star Wars has in. Just everybody now. So yeah, so with Disneyland, we have a lot of news coming up for the first time.
They announced their 2024 event calendar. And typically during four hours, they do the homemade a fourth meeting with you. So this year, they're doing a big, big event called Seasons of the Forest going from April 5th to June 2nd. So we will see the return of the first place mountain, the fantastic overlay on space mountain.
Just like rush around, seeing the ex fighters and all that fun stuff. There's maybe theme merch and food and special things that are happening for those two months. And big, big, big exciting things coming to Star Tours, the adventures continue. We got new sequences for the Star Tours.
We don't know just yet, but I'm hoping let's get something and or let's get something maybe even a soca. And then we're also getting fireworks over the galaxy edge. Well, we can always see the fire fires at night. It's a really great spot if you want to avoid all the crowds.
And so because there's a lot of open space over there. Now for the season of the forest, there's going to be fun music just for, I'm not sure if it's got the fun millions, but fun Star Wars music just for the fireworks and it's going to be fun. And then we're going to see the return of Disneyland after dark. So it's like there's going to be eight nights across for the after dark, which always sells out.
It's very fun to do. And there's going to be eight nights of that happening in April and May. Funny thing enough that May the fourth actually does not have a Star Wars after dark time, but usually they do something, but it may be just food and stuff. So that's everything it's reduced year is the way it looks like they're doing a lot of things.
I'm expecting that they're going to be like energizing like a lot of things because they really try hard with a soca coming out. They had walk around. They had Hera. They had a soca actor sort of walking around sports galaxy edge, which was fun.
I didn't get to see them because it's only like a short thing, but you know, Disneyland, I think probably because of the strikes and everything. They weren't able to do all the push that they normally do. So they're probably I'm a ticipate. They really tried to synergize a lot.
So you know, we hope that there's going to be a new Disney Quest show or something that's going to come out during that time. So I think you really like capture everyone that's going to be at Disneyland. They're going to be excited about whatever you show, animation or the new one coming out. But everyone in Disneyland, hey, Star Wars is doing so great over there.
You can you can see all of that. That's going to be very fun coming up in this coming season. So quick mention we lost unbreakable. So the ship.
But what you were saying, Alan reminded me of when I remember when Roan Chaset came out, my parents took me to Disney World, me and my siblings. We went to Disney World. And when we watched Revenge of the Sith in downtown Disney on opening day, but I remember that after that, like, I don't know if it was called Star Wars weekend or Star Wars. We got I don't remember because a while ago, but I do remember that like Star Wars took over Disney World.
And I remember that like when you got to the park, that security line, they were stormtroopers checking your bags and walking around. So that was pretty cool. I remember they had like Mickey with the Darth Vader helmet merch. And so that's pretty cool.
That's, you know, like every time Star Wars takes over anything, it's fun. So it'll be definitely like cool. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to go there, but it'll be cool to see the pictures and everything. So yeah, pretty awesome.
So okay, while we wait for I think we can jump on to some of the news, I guess. Hmm. What do you want to talk about, Alan? Well, there's a lot.
So let's jump on to the whole Mando season four is supposedly now a movie because that's, you know, from the things that I've heard the same thing that's like, I didn't read anything regarding the Mace Wind the book. So supposedly I, and when I read the Consvakian tells what the source was, supposedly their Mando season four might not be a Mando season four and it's supposedly on its way to become a movie. Before I even ask, like, how do you feel about this? Do you think this is a thing?
You know, this feels very interesting to me because this is the thing that I thought would have been much tighter, especially with, you know, Filoni's new role. He's supposed to be the CCO. He's not the one that's like, oh, if there's going to be a movie changed from like, if you're acting a bit burning on the new seasons going on, they have the roadmap already there. Filoni's not going to be just like, he's not the one to spearhead, change from a movie, because it seems weird to me.
I'm here. There we go. I've been watching and been guessing here for a couple of years and I have never seen you anywhere else. Where are you at?
I'm in my bedroom. I can't even hear me right. I can't hear you. No, you don't have your mic connected.
Okay. All right. Now, can you hear me now? I think it's better.
A little better. Yeah. There we go. Now now.
Yeah. We're already talking about the Raymouille. The man. Where are we?
Where are we actually? So I was asking on how. It's not standing. So my question, I asked the question because I don't think this is a thing.
I don't like this makes absolutely no sense to me. The Mando movie? Yeah. All right.
Give me one second because I got to do everything. Did you do anything? You don't have access to anything. No, don't complain.
You've never shown me the rules. You've never shown me the rules. You've never shown me the rules. You've never shown me the rules.
Let's start there. Anyway, I lost connection in my office. I'm in my bedroom. There's a jigsaw puzzle.
Dobs of we did almost one of years ago. I bet that my dogs are upset. I'm upset that she left. I bet my dogs might show up back there at some point.
Okay, I bet the solution. Come on. All right. So if you guys are ready, I'm not ready.
Let's start with Ann. Start with you. We're not going to do this again. Go on, Ellen.
Yeah. The Mando movie. The Mando movie. I mean, to that, and you can see at Disney, everyone wants to see the TV shows.
Everyone loves the merch. You have now seasonal, Grogu merch. Right now it's holiday. He's in the pram in Snow's thread.
You want people there want to buy the merch and it's so powerful. You see Grogu merch in the mainland. It's everywhere. It's everywhere.
So I don't see it. It doesn't make sense to be dead to the movie and taking off the Disney class. It doesn't make sense to me. I'll say like maybe like a Disney Plus movie, which I think we've all been waiting for it to happen and haven't seen.
I think maybe that could work. But like we just got three movies announced. Why wouldn't they have announced this one? Yeah.
And that's like my thing with this kind of discussion. Like this doesn't happen overnight. Like these are long conversations. These are big budget movies.
It's not like these things like here you go $500,000. $500 million. Go make a movie. We just have like two weeks of big Hollywood studios complaining about things being announced all over the island.
Make no sense. We're not wasting movies. We're making things thoughtfully. We're having people talk to each other.
So if this is a brand new movie that they decided, you know, this is not format that Lauren is not going to work as eight episodes. They just make a movie. It makes no sense like you said. But at the same time where I'm going, especially for the first movie to come back, it doesn't seem like Mando's that big draw.
Make an actual race guy walk a movie to make a small sense. But going to what Alan was saying that you see grandma's working with Grogo show. Maybe the leadership things. Grogo and Mandalorian are the in thing and so that has been a.
Stop what you're saying. Stop what you're saying. Stop what you're saying. I'm just trying to make a motion.
I will not get the sale. I will not take the sale. Dale is in the chat. Hi Dale.
I will not take this. Oh, he's Lander. Brandon is also in the chat. Hi, Brandon.
Okay, let's go. Before we come back in 2020, I'll show you every single button so you can take over the show. Please. Wait a second.
I can. I can share one of my speculative stories. I don't think it'll happen exactly how I wrote it. It's silly.
Okay. I want to hear that. I was being sarcastic. I want to hear that.
Okay. Sorry. To me again, this came out of nowhere. Jeff Nair is part of my convention that he's sources or whatever saying that season forward, which I've just started getting together right before it from.
Yeah, we'll get into it. This is in the book, a 10 story. We'll see them on the lower end. Yeah, now it's a movie.
Makes no sense. Unless this is actually the day for the movie that they're just moving forward and people have it confused with season four, then maybe I'll take that. So that's the thing because Jeff Nair, people don't usually like him, but he gets good school. Like he was the one who said they're announcing three movies and people laughed at him and literally next morning boom, three movies are coming.
So maybe his sources are confused. But this makes no sense because we're already getting a Mandalorian movie. Like that's the point of Dave's movie. Yeah.
So I don't know. I don't know. This is super weird. But I obviously made it like 10 minutes of this.
Where were you? When you heard this news where you like, yes, let's go. Cause I seen some people were excited for this kind of saying, oh, if they didn't have this story for eight episodes, yeah, let's make a movie. It makes sense.
But you're excited or you kind of on the fence like, I don't know what this is true or not. It just seems baffling to me because Mando clearly has the flagship. Did he question? And I don't see that much for that or losing it for a movie, which I don't see that there.
Yeah, it's like we go to kind of say, yeah, this is a TV show. Let's make a movie and then let's go back to bring it to a TV show. So once you make a big movie, I always kind of how to then bring it back to your. Yeah, just listening class.
Yeah. It's like it shows that turn into movies don't usually go great. So we'll see. Like if this is actually, I think that's happening.
I'm not going to be upset. But I don't know. I'm very skeptical about it. Like I don't think this would be smart for anything.
They always asking if we're on Discord. We are not as far as I know. We are. I use it.
We are on Discord. I don't know how to use it that much. And it's been saved for about a year. I haven't posted it.
I downloaded the Discord ones and I have no idea how to use it. So I deleted the app. It's I don't know. It's there.
So I'll break the you're the captain. Again. Okay. My last post actually December 16th, 2022.
I'm Brendan was my last person to reply to my comments. So thank you. All right. So did you guys went straight to the Mando news?
Yeah. All right. So let's talk about the actual movie news we were going to talk about. And it's my nose because I'm not on my computer.
So I have to take up. I mean, I'm confused. I met my computer but not the one I was to super my notes. So according to what am I to film and television industry, Alliance production services, the production list, the new race guy walking movie will start filming on April 7, 24.
While Star Wars news net says not so fast as they believe it won't be until at least the summer before production begins on the new movie. So my question was even if it starts in April or it starts in the summer, it's kind of the same. But I'm excited that finally, yeah, no, no, no, forget about that. It's not coming.
No, no, no, I find it very funny. Like not so fast. It's not April. It's June.
Also, I'll say this. This is classic American thing. Summer doesn't start at the same time everywhere. Like summer Puerto Rico starts like a month before it starts.
Come down. Well, it's if you take the summer solstice, or it's like the end of June almost, or it's like May when it starts getting hot. Alan, how do you feel about this? Oh, that's bad.
You know where it is. You don't know anything about what you know. Oh, God. No, I'm glad that they're getting to work on it.
You know, I've been like watching out, especially because we know that the sex delayed so much. So it's definitely going to like make whatever comes next in the world and I think that is a fantastic like choice. If this is the next movie coming out, I cannot be more pumped up. It is the right movie.
It's the first one. I, for me, it makes sense. I would have wanted it to be the last one of these three. Just built the hype, but I can't help but be excited.
Like right now. I'm getting excited. Sorry. Go ahead.
And just saying like the whole production started and gets me excited. Like I still remember like being at a stoplight and seeing Jay, Dave and suppose when they finished recording versus Skywalker and him saying like it feels impossible and we get the picture of the big three hugging. And for me, it's like somebody knows already. Someone knows what the next Star Wars story is.
I don't know. I got excited. It's this is I mean, if this is the next one coming and it's going to start shooting next couple of months, if it wasn't for this strike, again, blame the studios, there would have been like halfway through shooting or something. Like you said, someone knows the story.
It's there. And we could have been bracing for maybe a late 2025 release. Orinally, I believe what December 2025 and now they're saying summer or May 20, summer 2026. December 2026.
So that was my question. I think it's usually one year for filming for this type of movies. So another, so that's all of 2024 and all the year for post production. That's all of 2025.
Where do you think this falls or releases? May cause May star was mother. Let's go back to December. We're thinking that things have worked in the past.
And I wish I hope it's December. And there's a cat. I could see that maybe wanting to retake summer made a fourth. Like what's their date.
But for me, it's Christmas, the Star Wars time. Yeah. Was it for some weekends? Yes.
I felt like I was back in 2014. And I'm like, I can't remember around but my girlfriend already decorated everything for Christmas and it feels right to be talking Star Wars and reading this book in a that Christmas. I don't know if that's right. Well, you think Alan may or Christmas.
What do you want? Hey, I'm hoping for that Christmas. Right. Who are you out there with you?
Well, it's Terry. My. Looks like goose. From from Captain Marvel.
Yeah. He's not always boy. He's very fun. Is he a fucking.
We don't know. Not. He's not. I'm not.
that you know. That you know. All right, before we move to our next story, so we've talked a little bit here all the way for this Ray movie. It's been solo coming back.
How can they work that out? Let's keep that out for now. But do you think maybe Alan will start out as you first? You think we'll get Finn and maybe get the Jedi Finn that people have wanted to explore a little bit?
This is really why I'm super excited for this movie, especially because it's the really the time that we sort of get, you know, I'm Filipino. So I noticed that we need to see people, people succeed. So Finn to get his Jedi story and achieve that. That was keys and promise to us.
So I want to see Finn get it. I want to see Rose because of all that anti Asian. But everybody toward and Ray needs to get Ray is the one that's going to get the Jedi order of stuff because we saw it. So we just lose his order in that.
That's it. So this is the time to take that. Okay. I don't want to be like this sure about what I'm out to say, but I'm going to say like a very new thing.
I don't see a reality where they don't come back. And I'm a little hesitant to say that because I really do see a reality where he's like, nope, I'm not coming back. Yeah. But like I it's very hard for me to see the story and not see them like all of them coming very trained.
I was like, like all of them. So unless Ray is a supporting character to a story and not the character, that's like the only way I could be like, okay. Yeah, it's been already like Ray, they should really coming back. It's a Ray movie.
So I'm kind of very difficult at least this first one to not have her as the lead, maybe the follow-ups and I agree with the other. Yeah. All the way, how you set that up, if you set her up with good support in casting that first one, then kind of push her to the background a little bit and bring the other people for a second or third one. Works great.
So we're all in accordance that we're doing up until 10 11 12. I think so when she said I've already read read one, but I think they can be more. I think it is. And I might be hopefully works as a single story.
For some reason it doesn't pan out commercial and they say, you know what, it's not spent on 200 million on this, then whatever. But I hope that they at least approach those sectors to say, hey, we're writing these stories. You want to come back and if they say no, then great, but at least they will approach and they don't change the story. But to say now that we don't want to bring freedom road because that was too much of a chaos back in 2018, then that's a couple that we don't want to hopefully at least they asked.
They're saying I think John Boyega will definitely come back if he is a good Jedi. Yeah, basically the main character after his training. So I don't think like he'll be like, yeah, I only come back if it's my movie, especially if he's getting approached to to come to a Rey movie. Yeah, but I do think he'll be like very like, not, I got to see that script.
I want some things on my contract. Like I think he'll be I don't want to say difficult, but like maybe difficult. Um, like I don't think he'll be like, yes, yes, I'm going back. Let's do it.
I think he loves obviously working with Daisy really. I think that's a good relationship with a lot of people in my cat in the land, Kennedy. So I don't think that it's better to work in which I was, but I think something is all about this for giving a good, a good role. I don't want to be in the background again.
Again, and that depends how you saw those movies, but I think he comes back for a good role. And again, he's working at this job. So it makes sense. More than just like the script, I think he'll be like, no, what's the end game for my character?
Like, am I going to get fraged? Like what's what? What do you have in mind? Um, oh, we lost.
Now we lost Alan just as Mo is here saying hi to Alan. And I'm he's I don't know. I think he saw high. I'm just like, nope.
So not more. All right. I see you need to leave. But we'll still get a couple of topics before we get there.
All right. So while we wait for Alan to come back, let's jump to our next topic, which is Star Wars on TV 2024. It's almost there. But what's coming next?
We have no idea. So in a press release from Disney plus UK, only two Star Wars TV series of official leads that as premiering in 2024, the like, like, and skeleton crew, we briefly talked about this. Okay. I think last week there were some rumblings that maybe I could like us before skeleton crew, but we were still, I guess debating not debating about thinking that and the season two bad, bad season three visions.
Yeah. So the jailer all this was still coming up because there was supposedly five and now we're down to two. I'll say I think that has to be wrong because I'm pretty sure they said bad batch has summer 2024. Like I'm pretty sure we already heard that.
And like we talked last week, like the kindness are almost done with makes them the music. So the show is there. It doesn't make sense to push this for another another year. And I think this is a show that you shouldn't give it too much of a gap.
Like two years, I think it's too much way for bad batches on three people. I'm saying you don't might lose interest, but it's too far away. And we already got a trailer like it wasn't a regular one. Like a full trailer wasn't just like a teaser.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I think that's not like 100% pretty sure we're going to get that batch.
Yeah. So what about the others? And we just mentioned bad batch is do you have a chance again? If we got to put the strike in perspective, do you think you got down?
That's here. Well, now we lose out here at some point. Don't say so. I'm not concerned about and or not coming back.
That's only because again, just as you mentioned, like we can't lose the strikes perspective. I for me, it makes sense where to be the late like for 2025. And I don't really mind it. Like I don't mind not having five star wars show come up next.
Like I'm fine with three. And I think I'm right there with when I saw that report of yeah, five star with TV shows like man, this is too much. Like a star with a new star with every like two and a half months or something too much. I was always talking about this report and not report a press release.
I believe that Disney plus UK put out that only the actual only show the acolyte and skeleton through as premier in 2024. Do you think this matches maybe with what you would prefer or you kind of bomb that we're not getting seems like we might not be getting and those is on too bad basis on three. Some of those shows might be pushed to the following year. Yeah, so like I have their perspective that you know, especially because like you know I'm busy like lower.
So there's the city that's going to happen. Especially like a so I had a bunch of the merch in this one. It's in this need had a lot of figures and hoodies and stuff for them to put the acolyte and for them to put a skeleton crew, especially being a show that's in that kids because there's a lot of high republic is doing so well. Now it's not expecting more nubs to take over Disney and proper, but it's it's everywhere.
So they're having two shows to focus on. They have chance to get that mermaid out. If that puts more eyes and when you're wearing the shirts. No, no, no.
Oh, no. All right. So I think he makes sense. We've the years ago we're talking about how maybe star marketing was in the base and all the promotion material coming after the show with us.
Okay. They've kind of pushed a lot of the merchant. I saw the quick and if you want this need land and this need or you know, you know, land or kind of just keep up with the times is difficult to kind of run through all the merchants that's a couple of months just to bring acolyte and or skeleton crew, but that's kind of makes sense also just let's know it down a little bit have two or three shows and then push all that out there. Oh, they went away here.
Something official because hopefully the high republic show we're all waiting for the next episode on the star was YouTube channel to come out. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a trailer on announcement for the acolyte when it was shot. It could work as last time when they revealed Buriaga's fate was right before it also DJ like came out and it was doing the high. This is for this.
Yeah, this is what I think was bad but still and I think before that, I mean after that wasn't in a high republic show when they mentioned that some of the characters from the books were jumping to the high republic to the young adventure. Yeah, it's gonna make sense that they announced something with the high republic show. So it's coming people have been as happy with the next episode. It's gonna be in.
That'll be like a nice bomb because we know like what the next books are so that would be like a cool like just like a 30 second teaser like here you go boom. Yeah, even if it's whatever they show that celebration just give us that entire the potato camera when I say a 4k one. You see the camera because I remember you didn't want to see it. I saw it because it's a couple months ago and it's kind of tilted and all that the original camera I saw was like yes it didn't look great but it was awesome.
It's it is. So Alan, are you excited? You're a high republic fan. So you're excited for the acolyte for whenever we see official images and trailers and all that stuff.
Yeah, I missed out on seeing because you know it was exclusive to celebration Europe. So I've only seen shaky potato camera. I want to know what all the characters that we love and all the new ones that are gonna be because they it looks awesome. Yeah, I'm hoping we get all for instance or or yeah.
I love that how every time he shows up in a book the book goes into the goal of how weird this character is. Well, it's it's one of those things we always say or you always mention we talk about and or that's okay. Yeah, they don't read the books. They don't read all the stories of let me head like this is going from these.
Oh, like making connects or at least references that people might not get we talk about that who you might not get all the references from five doctors ago but it's too kind of a good not to mention of a work race or remember I just thought that for this record mentioned her master and I'm about to die. I'll be right back. We lost enough. I never got a chance to tell him about my visions.
Oh my God, I'm gonna die. He died 200 years ago. Oh, let's move on. We got to move on because this is too much.
So there was a nice surprise a couple of days ago and like two days ago, a new May's window book was announced. So yesterday both Tom Haller from Penguin Randall House senior editor and Del Rey Star Wars Twitter account announced a new book coming next year with the release of May's window. May's window de-glasses abyss. There's a long scene opposite one just going to read the last paragraph in 10 of all feelings fulfilling Qui Gons final wishes may travels to Milgatos and infiltrates the enemies of the sad but as the Jedi master investigation boundaries of the Jedi code challenging his belief and his relationships to the fourth itself.
He comes out August 6, 2024. People wanted more stories between Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. We're getting that other Jedi book with all the Jedi masters. And now we have this May's window for feelings Qui Gons final wish or final mission.
Alan, you may swing to fan. I use some of those that blame May's window for the follow the Jedi and for calling us Oka citizen. What do you follow on May's window in this book announcement? Hey, I can I like all the different perspectives out there.
I love San Jose Jackson. He's great. I remember seeing him in the cartoons when Gendy Tarnet was a good version of that. But it's very interesting that he's the one to get a final wish from Qui Gonshoon.
Give me really really really. Yeah, for the Jedi, Qui Gonshoon kind of reach at the end of his life in case I die, I want May's window to check this out. All these are we have this May's window book. Like I just forgot the name of the other Jedi masters books that's coming up.
We have a May's, the living force. Thanks. We don't have a May's window kind of comic series that's coming out. It's a lot of May's out there.
Are you surprised by these? Are you excited to read May's window stories? No. I saw your leaning back.
I saw your leaning. Let me pull this up. I thought you would know this. I I love San Jose Jackson.
I love this before my side. I don't like May's window. I hate that character. I hate you blame for me him and our art to blame for everything.
They're not to blame for everything. They are the embodiment of everything that was. And I do not like May's window. I know people love him and I'm excited for her once I get this book and I second and read it.
I will not be one of those. I will I look forward to listening to the radio rebellion. All right. I'm just going to read for everyone that might be listening to this on the earlier podcast.
They all said on the chat now we lost Oti, not to a connection issue, but his dining side. And I thought that's why I went to Allen first because I saw you kind of just leaning back and I thought it's not like I was going to find out to Allen first. Get some good conversation. I'm very excited for the living force.
I'm not excited for this book. And I got like I'm glad it's coming out. I'm just like, you know, I'm selective with the books. The books I'm reading.
This is not going to be right. I'm going to send it to my guy. It's for it to you. Here you go.
It's your responsibility. If someone like you was like, oh, they read it. Like you're going to like it. I'll read it.
But like not interested. And by the way, I just quick mentioned like I hate me. I do not blame him for the citizen. I think that was a very appropriate.
It's not. Oh, it's one of those similar to when I just heard the name Crimson rain that came out a couple of months ago. I wasn't going to go into the opportunity to get an advance copy. So of course I've enjoyed it.
So maybe it's the hopefully is the same. Yeah. You know I was trying to get my hands on on advanced radio copies. I don't like the Kindle thing.
That's why I jumped out of that. Like that. But if that's like the first one that Hey, you get to read it, I'll be like, thanks, but no things. Okay.
All these views do not reflect regular value views on us. No, no, no, my opinion is on my own. Well, it was a cool synopsis. But like Adam said, it's kind of weird that makes window is the guy that quiet on leaves a kind of death message.
If I die, make sure that makes window gets this. It's an interesting synopsis that they can explain this book. So they cover is pretty cool. We're going to give it at least for the cover is awesome.
I'll give it. I got it. It's like like I'm not like pinching myself. Oh, I just don't like the character.
Like I'm not going to best time. You guys out there in the chat. Do you like baseball window? Are you excited for this book?
And we're still waiting to hear Alan's speech. I mean, not as they all had a page I wanted to talk to do mentioned to say what that was. Do you want to know what's a great cover? This is a freaking great cover.
That's such a great cover that we are going to jump straight into it right now. And it's a spoiler review of the eye of darkness by George man. The return of the high Republic phase three trials of the Jedi. Oh my God, this book we enjoyed phase two.
We weren't the greatest fans. But as soon as we started like bandwidth right where we left it's been a year. But oh my God, it just straight up punching the face with that prologue. By the way, there's a recurring thing in the book like any time, Lena, so or Mark, or Gira's talking they always do the hand thing.
And it reminds me of me like every time I want to talk it, I always do like something like this. I I agree with what you said. I'm faced to was different. It was I think it was very on purpose.
Why it was different. This book makes a lot of sense of why they did what they did with face two. I still don't love like I sometimes think we should have started there. I don't know.
But this was an amazing return to form. I'm not sure I'm ready to rank or anything, but I just love every single second. I spent with this book and to answer what I was saying before we start recording this morning. This book has 67 chapters.
This morning, drum roll, I was in chapter 17. Oh my goodness. I sat in this for five hours reading the book and you know I do the audio book, but I was also taking notes. So I saw that.
No, it's another picture. I read it. I wasn't just like and I am very happy with this book. Alan, are you over the clouds like we are right now?
You're on the occlusion. So hopefully we can get you out by the end of this. I hope so. Yeah, before we get to it, I just want to like ask you to.
It's like, especially because like there's been this gap since the events of the fallen star, the weight of that event that was what closed out phase one and the fact that they decided to go back into phase two. How do you feel that that especially like we've had not only it been a year for these characters that we've missed so far, we've physically we've been hard and we've had to sit with the weight of where the galsies going to be for everybody. You know what? Yeah, you go first.
I go first. Okay. I just watch it for some weekends. Oh, sorry.
I feel it because even though I enjoy phase two and there's a lot of things that I love about it. The I think the point of it or most of the point was to kind of see the name less and how it kind of got to where we are now and how Mark and Rowie got to that point with his family and more than I think that could have been done in one big novel. You can cover most of that or long com experience. I think it was too much.
And even though there's some characters I did enjoy, it was not the same like coming back after a year again. I have since phase one and that with the falling star with like you said, and I just left off with that big gap that be calling our chest. I think it works because we feel just like different characters feel right now because I know that we also got that one year gap in the story is not like, oh, just fell down. Yes.
Let's go attack it now. Now it's no we've been suffering for a year. But also, you know, and the council said is throughout the book is yeah, we there's a big loss. The galaxy still moving.
There's still stuff that we need to do also. I know you want to go attack, but all these people still need help. I still got to manage the galaxy to the chancellor. So we're in that same spot, right?
We've been suffering this. So when we get them, I think we're right there with them. So I did enjoy that part is we and I know like phase three or the we keep talking. It's they're going to push this to late 2024.
So we got the next move doesn't come out to like March or something. So it's we need time. So I'm okay with it. I would comment we get a piece of read and what he's doing.
And I was like, oh, so that book's coming out. So I was like, wait, no, the next YA is in March and the person in the cover is Renestra. So I don't know when we're getting read. Anyway, so I have two sides of this.
My biggest issue with this book is something I'm pretty sure was intentional and it's that we don't get the characters together. Everyone's on their mission doing their thing and we rarely see them interact to the point that when they finally get together, when we finally start seeing those connections, the book ends literally. We're in spoiler. So the book literally ends when else are and like just finger starts.
So in that sense, I was like at the beginning, I was like, come on, like when are they going to be together? Like not just Avar and and Elsar, but like everyone, like we don't see Elsar and Bell talk like basically, except from that one scene. So so I first was like, come on, come on, come on. But then I realized like they're doing this on purpose.
And but on the other side, it was very interesting because we see all these characters in a very different state that we left them a year ago. And that was like surprising, but also fun, like figuring out where their head is at, like seeing Elsar second guess absolutely everything he's doing. Seeing Avar feel that she has to what's on for what she did. Seeing Bell like struggle not to divergent to revenge and you know, stick to the light side.
So that was very, very interesting for me. So we'll just be talking kind of jumping back and forth and I want to get your take on this. I know you're a huge standard geos fan also. That Avar that part of her feelings of duty for what for its tenants death for the full of Starler because she's like, I'm the Marshal of Starler because yesterday and took it because I'm going crazy following freaking.
Lorna D instead of being there helping out if I was there, I could have helped out. So now she's into the conclusion. So I'm trying to help road the answer. Let me take this grain of shipment and the shipment of grain to them and when she does that, like, okay, great.
What's the next one coming? No, this is it. All this is only going to last for a week. And it's like, it doesn't matter what I do.
It's not enough. And I love that freaking little. It was great. I just working.
What kind of thing have you seen? I mean, the book in general about Ava Grace, the hero of itself, broken down to this point. Yeah, no, I really like the perspective because especially because the reason why she's in that equation zone in the port point is because she got that confession with Elzar and like this common romance trope. I want these characters to talk and hash it out and they just need to talk it out.
But no, she she runs. She's she's the one that runs straight into dream. I is my duty. I'm supposed to be the hero.
I should have been there for a start like weekend, but this is my fall. And so that's the reason why she's on her own and that you feel that that way. But it's it's a classic like Romeo is romantic and you feel that you feel as a L's are very like hiding, sitting messages across the stars. Literally.
I love this idea. I teared up once in this book and it was when Port is like, no, no, I heard the messages. I'm listening. I was like, oh, it's not a name.
Yeah. I'm so I'm going to go ahead. I just quickly want to mention like and I want to hear your quickly your perspective on this. I know you're not a comic book guy.
And I was thinking like if you don't read the comics, basically the last time you saw your Chris was in Night of the Jedi, where she was like this pristine goddess. She shows up at the end of fun star and she fights with was selling a little bit at the beginning. But in the comics, she basically almost falls to the dark side like not this whole join me thing, but you know, keep trying to have to be like, what are you doing? She cuts off.
Lorna. Yeah, she almost learn a D and and she's also reeling from that in this book because she has to stay like I did all these horrible things and she's like, so I killed 900 people and now I need to say 900 people and I love how the audience like that's not how this works. Like, so you're right. I'm having to follow the comics, but I will get the new tie your comic line.