Ash, almost all of that stuff either comes from the director's commentaries or is more appropriate to a director's commentary. I feel like the point of a fan commentary is less to discuss the "behind-the-scenes" background and more to discuss how the story, characters, and setting fit together as well as the personal reactions about what works for one panelist and doesn't work for another.

I think it's great when a panelist has worked on the movie and DOES have behind-the-scenes stories, but that's quite secondary. I do like talk about theme and motifs (and the example of the cloud motif hinting that the Rainmaker looms in the future is a good one).

It sounds like you just really liked the movie and didn't care that the plotting is clunky (which is fair) and so got impatient that the panelists kept saying the screenplay wasn't tight. I care about stuff like that and agreed with the panel, so I liked the episode.

I believe you mean "Yippee kiyay, melon farmer."

Just imagine when Kevin Bacon's horrible secret gets out! That's dude's connected to EVERYONE!

/keep watching the skies

I completely agree that we've had plenty of Jedi stories now. Obviously, we should be exploring more podracing.