276: The Greatest Treasure of the Sith

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

We've done it: we've brought on Rob Zacny -- host of (among many other things) A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast -- to dissect and attempt to make sense of the rules of technology in the Star Wars universe. Join us as we consider questions such as: What exactly is it that comes out of a lightsaber? Is there a bathroom in the X-wing? How many Imperial officers does it take to fire a giant laser? Does hyperspace make any sense at all? And is there room in this podcast to discuss droid liberation? (At least that last question has a definitive answer: yes, of course.)

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0:00.0	Do you ever wonder what would happen if voice casting changed?
0:03.2	You know, for example, James Earl Jones's voice in Star Wars is Darth Vader.
0:06.9	It's pretty iconic, right?
0:08.2	Sure.
0:08.8	At the same time, Frank Oz as Yoda, equally iconic, I think.
0:13.3	It's, you know, two characters defined by their voices.
0:15.6	Close, close, but, okay, I'm not going to sit here and do a ranking of Vader and Yoda, but go on.
0:21.8	But so my question is, what do you think would have happened if they cast Frank Oz as Vader and James Earl Jones as Yoda?
0:27.1	You know, we might not be doing the podcast we're about to do if that had been the case to be perfectly frank.
0:31.4	I mean, Oz. Look, he, Vader gets on that spaceship at the beginning of Star Wars and he chokes that guy out and he says,
0:38.6	you know,
0:38.9	the plans where are the,
0:40.1	I'm not doing a Yoda voice.
0:41.8	For sure.
0:42.3	But he says,
0:42.8	the plans,
0:43.6	where are they?
0:44.6	It works.
0:45.5	It would be weird.
0:46.3	It's an alien voice.
0:47.6	They might have been better off sticking with David Prousas acting if that
0:50.9	were the case.
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