At one point he drills through 20 meters in the time it takes to say 3 words. Unless there's meant to be dead air there, that's hella fast.

It's just, at one point they get called to come back immediately, then they just keep doing what they would have done anyway. In fact, they drill through an extra 200 meters of rock then they intended too. Which they do fast enough that I wonder why they didn't just drill it in the first place. Maybe if they decided to toss aside safety practices and attempt something much faster but really risky after they get the call?

Oh, and here's a punny title suggestion: "This is just a drill"

I think we're on. I'm going to be late, but even at most it shouldn't be more than an hour. Feel free to do some nefarious plotting while you wait

Now I feel like an ass

I'm good for this week too.

We on for today?

I had it in my mind that we were skipping all of May, I forgot we were going to play tomorrow. I know Toby is gone for the weekend. I can probably do tomorrow if we want, but I have a cold, so I wouldn't mind skipping either. Any other thoughts?

I was going to write a whole thing here to better articulate my point but then I didn't. The core is that both these films are about journeys. ESB tells a strong compelling emotional story that causes our characters we care about to grow and change, AotC goes through the some the same motions but the only character that has any arc is Anakin and his is shallow. The actually journey that's taking place is the decent of the Republic into war. Maybe that works for you but I don't enjoy The West Wing either.

The only emotions displayed by Obi-Wan in this movie are confusion and annoyance. He goes about his quest like it's just another job and his reaction to even the clone army is basically "well that's fucking weird, moving on." His whole story has no emotion to it and just happens to show up at places that move the plot along while doing something mostly unrelated.

Except that Obi-Wan just ignores and dismisses all this information so it's actually just an excuse to talk to the audience 'cause George doesn't know how to show is these things instead.

It's not a reasonable arc, but at least it is one. No one else in this movie has any kind of growth. Hell, Padme manages to fall in love without it having any kind of impact on her character.

More like awkward stumbling around because suddenly everyone for got how to fight, but sure.

Saying this scene is better than the factory scene isn't a very high bar for it to clear. Just because this is better than watching Jabba take a shit doesn't mean it's good.

Sure that's Obi-Wan's reason to fight Jango, but my point was what's the scriptwriters reason to have them fight here? Sure it pays off some tension between them, but the dogfight scene above Geonosis does that better. It exists purely to be an action beat and the fact that you could cut it and nothing would feel missing says a lot.

Could be I'm remembering wrong, haven't seen it in a while. Remind me, what interesting happens at Kamino? I recall: 1) lots of talking to set up the plot of the next movie, 2) one of the least interesting fight scenes in Star Wars. On Geonosis I remember: Obi-Wan spying on a meeting, 2) Obi-Wan gets capture and monologued at, 3) silly factory scene, 4)more talking? some kind of trial? might have been a deleted scene, 5) Awww, Padme and Anakin are in love, 6) buddy cops are back together, 7) finally the jedi show up. On further review, this movie is only interesting when Anakin and Obi-Wan are together, which they aren't for most of the movie. Their dynamic is the only interesting thing happening, everything else is just to set up for the next movie.

*bump*

How we doin' on this, then?

Just saw this, thought it was interesting:

So, Boter and Spiro wont be available next week, so the next time we play will be May 1st. After that I will be in Belize for 3 weeks, so the next time after that will be the 29th.

Thanks everybody. Y'all are like my internet family, and having your support means a lot. So again, thanks. 

I'm going to have to cancel for this Sunday. My sister died last night and I just can't