Nov 6, 2014
For this, the first episode of Season 3 of The
Chauncey DeVega Show,
I decided to reach back to the first guest on the first episode of
the podcast series from almost two years ago.
Bill the Lizard is my heterosexual life partner (to quote Kevin
Smith). He is also a great friend of the site and possesses a
masterful intelligence and knowledge of all
things Star
Wars. In our first conversation for Season
One,
Bill and I discussed the (then) new announcement that JJ Abrams
would be making Star
Wars Episode VII,
the challenges of that project, the Prequels, and the rebooting of
the Expanded Universe.
In our newest conversation we discussed what is known
aboutStar Wars Episode VII (which now has a title "The
Force Awakens"),
to be "spoiler free" or not, what The
Force Awakensmust
do in order to be a compelling and exciting Star
Warsmovie,
space opera and Guardians
of the Galaxy,
why the newGodzilla movie
is a hellish monstrosity of the first order, and if a person's love
of the character Groot should be a barometer for the goodness of
their soul.
Bill the Lizard and I also played a game of "yeah or nay" regarding
what characters from the Original Trilogy and Expanded Universe
should make an appearance in Star
Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.