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In this week's episode, I take a look at the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter and Spring 2025. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebook versions of my anthologies at my Payhip store: JUNE25 The coupon code is valid through June 17, 2025. So if you need a new ebook this summer, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates   Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 252 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is May 23rd, 2025, and today we are looking at the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter and Spring 2025. We missed doing an episode last week for the simple reason that the day before I wanted to record, we had a bad thunderstorm that knocked down large portions of my fence, so my recording time was instead spent on emergency fence repair. However, the situation is under control, so hopefully we'll be back to weekly episodes for the immediate future. And now before we get to our main topics, let's have Coupon of the Week and then a progress update on my current writing projects.   So first up, Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebook version of all my short story anthologies at my Payhip store and that is JUNE25. As always, the coupon code and links will be available in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through June the 17th, 2025, so if you need a new ebook for this summer, we have got you covered.   And now an update on my current writing projects. Ghost in the Corruption is finished. It is publishing right now. In fact, I paused the publishing process to record this and so by the time this episode goes live, hopefully Ghost in the Corruption should be available at all ebook stores. My next main project now that Ghost in the Corruption is done will be Shield of Power and as of this recording I am 15,000 words into it. My secondary projects will be Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest and I'm 97,000 words into that, so hopefully that will come out very shortly after Shield of Power and I'll also be starting Ghost in the Siege, the final book in the Ghost Armor series as another secondary project and I'm currently zero words into that. So that is where I'm at with my current writing projects.   In audiobook news, Ghost in the Assembly (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is now out and should be available at all the usual audiobook stores so you can listen to that if you are traveling for the summer. Recording of Shield of Battle (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) is underway soon. I believe he's starting it this week, so hopefully we will have another audiobook in the Shield War series for you before too much longer. So that's where I'm at with my current writing projects.   00:02:17 Main Topic: Winter/Spring 2025 Movie Roundup   And now let's move on, without any further ado, to our main topic. Summer is almost upon us, which means it's time for my Winter/Spring 2025 Movie Roundup. As usual, the movies and streaming shows are listed in order for my least favorite to my most favorite. The grades are based upon my own thoughts and opinions and are therefore wholly subjective. With all of that said, let's get to the movies and our first entry is MacGruber, which came out in 2010 and in all honesty, this might be objectively the worst movie I have ever seen. The Saturday Night Live MacGruber sketches are a parody of the old MacGyver action show from the ‘80s. And so the movie is essentially the sketch stretched out to make a parody of an ‘80s action movie. It is aggressively dumb and crude. Its only redeeming feature is that the movie knows it's quite stupid and so leans into the stupidity hard. I'll say this in its favor, MacGruber has no pretensions that is a good movie and does not take itself seriously and then runs away hard with that fact. For that he gets a plus, but nothing else. Overall grade: F+   Next up is Down Periscope, which came out in 1996. Now the fundamental question of any movie is the one Russell Crowe shouted at the audience in Gladiator: “Are you not entertained?” Sadly, I was not entertained with Down Periscope. This wanted to be a parody of Cold War era submarine thrillers like The Hunt for Red October, I say wanted because it didn't really succeed. Kelsey Grammer plays Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge, an unorthodox US Navy officer who wants command of his own nuclear sub, but he's alienated a few admirals, which is not traditionally a path to career advancement in the military. Dodge gets his chance in a Navy wargame where he has to command a diesel sub against nuclear subs. Sometimes parodies are so good that they become an example of the thing they are parodying (Hot Fuzz and Star Trek: Lower Decks are excellent examples of this phenomenon). The trouble is that the movie takes itself too seriously and just isn't all that funny. A few funny bits, true, but not enough of them. In the end, this was dumb funny but didn't resonate with me the way other dumb funny movies like Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder did. Overall grade: D   Next up is Deadpool and Wolverine, which came out in 2024. Unlike Down Periscope, I was entertained with this movie, though both movies reside on the dumb funny spectrum. Deadpool and Wolverine is basically one long meta in-joke/love letter for the last 30 years of superhero movies. If you've seen enough of those movies, you'll find those movies funny, if occasionally rather tasteless. If you haven't seen enough of those movies, Deadpool and Wolverine will just be incomprehensible. The plot is that Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool gets pulled into some Marvel style multiverse nonsense. To save his universe from destruction, he needs to recruit a Wolverine since in his universe, Wolverine died heroically.   In the process, Deadpool stumbles across the worst Wolverine in the multiverse. Together they have to overcome their mutual dislike and attempt to save Deadpool's universe from destruction at the hands of a rogue branch of the Time Variance Authority. This means the movie can bring in a lot of cameos from past Marvel films. Hugh Jackman's performance really carries the movie on its back. Like I said, this movie is essentially one very long Marvel in-joke. I thought it was funny. I definitely think it can't stand on its own without having seen a sufficient number of the other Marvel movies. Overall grade: C   Our next movie is the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which came out in 2024. This is very loosely (with an emphasis on “very”) based on Operation Postmaster during World War II, when British Special Forces seized some Italian ships that had been supplying parts for German U-boats. It was entertaining to watch but it couldn't quite make up its mind tonally if it was a war thriller or a heist movie about Western desperados recruited into a crew. It kind of tried to do both at the same time, which killed the momentum. Like, the first parts of the movie where the protagonists take out a Nazi patrol boat and then free a prisoner from a base were good thriller stuff, but then the plot fused with the heist stuff and really slowed down through the middle forty percent or so. It was also oddly stylized with a lot of spaghetti western-style music that seemed out of place and some stuff just didn't make sense, like at the end after pulling off the mission, the protagonists were all arrested. That just seems bizarre since if anything, Winston Churchill and a lot of the British wartime leadership were enthusiastic about special operations and probably had too much confidence in the effectiveness of covert operations. So I did enjoy watching this, but I can see why it didn't make a lot of money at the box office. Overall Grade: C   Next up is The Gorge, which came out in 2025. This was a peculiar mix of science fiction, romance, and horror. For the romance part, perhaps shooting zombies together is a good idea for a first date. Before I dig into the movie, a brief rant. In one scene, a character is using a chainsaw with no protective gear whatsoever and she's not fighting zombies or anything in a situation where she has to pick up a chainsaw without preparing first. She's trimming branches to pass time. If you're using a chainsaw, at a minimum you want protective eyewear and headphones. Ideally you'd want chainsaw pants as well to reduce the chance of serious injury if you slip and swing the saw into your leg. Since I became a homeowner, I've used a chainsaw a number of times and believe me, you definitely want good eye and ear protection. This has been your public safety announcement for this movie review.   Anyway, loner former sniper Levi is approached by a high ranking intelligence officer giving him a mysterious job. He needs to guard a tower overlooking a mysterious mist-filled gorge for one year. On the other side of the gorge is another tower, guarded by an elite Lithuanian sniper named Drasa. Like Levi, Drasa has a fair bit of emotional damage and they're officially forbidden to communicate. However, they're both lonely and they soon start communicating over the gorge using telescopes and whiteboard messages. Eventually Levi gets emotionally close enough to Drasa to rig a zipline to cross the gorge and speak with her in person.   Unfortunately, it turns out the gorge is full of twisted creatures that storm out and attack and the job of the two snipers is to keep them contained. If Levi and Drasa want to save their lives, they'll need to unravel the dark secret within the gorge. This movie was interesting and I enjoyed watching it, but it falls apart if you think about it too much (or at all). Like the chainsaw thing I ranted about above. The entire movie runs on that sort of logic. That said, I appreciate how the filmmakers were trying something new instead of something like Deadpool and Wolverine. Additionally, this was an Apple+ movie and it's interesting how Apple's approach to streaming is to just make a whole bunch of random stuff that's totally distinct, from Ted Lasso to Mythic Quest to Severance to The Gorge. It's like, “we have more money than most countries, so we're going to make Ted Lasso because we feel like it.” Then again, Apple+ is apparently losing a billion dollars every year, so maybe they'll eventually change their minds about that approach. Overall Grade: B-   Next up is Click, which came out in 2006. Cross It's a Wonderful Life with A Christmas Carol and the comedic style of Adam Sandler and you end up with Click. Basically Sandler plays Michael Newman, a workaholic architect with a demanding boss and increasingly strained relationship with his wife and children due to his workload. In a fit of exasperation with his situation, he goes to Bed Bath and Beyond, where he encounters an eccentric employee named Morty (played entertainingly by Christopher Walken). Morty gives him a remote control that lets him fast forward through time, which Michael then uses to skip the boring and tedious parts of his life, but he overuses the remote and goes too far into the future and sees the disastrous results of his current life choices. Definitely a story used in A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life but effectively told and I was entertained (rather on the crude side, though). Overall Grade: B- Next up is Mr. Deeds, which came out in 2002. This was actually one of Adam Sandler's better movies, in my opinion. It was a remake of the ‘30s movie Mr. Deeds Goes To Town. In this new version, Sandler plays Longfellow Deeds, a popular pizzeria owner in a small New Hampshire town. Unbeknownst to Deeds, his uncle is the owner of a major media mega corporation and when he dies, Deeds is his legal heir. When the company's CEO and chief lawyer arrive at the pizzeria to inform him of this fact, Deeds goes to New York and soon finds himself involved in the CEO's sinister machinations. Yet he happens to rescue an attractive woman from a mugger, but there is more to her than meets the eye. The movie was funny and not as crude, well, not quite as crude as some of Sandler's other stuff. It had good story structure and several great lines, my favorite of which was “he was weak and cowardly and wore far too much cologne.”   Sandler's movies, in a strange way, are often very medieval. Like various medieval fables had a savvy peasant outwitting pompous lords, greedy merchants, and corrupt clergymen. The best Adam Sandler protagonist tends to be a good natured everyman who defeats the modern equivalent of medieval authority figures- evil CEOs, arrogant star athletes, sinister bureaucrats and so forth. Overall Grade: B     Next up is House of David, which came out in 2025 and this is basically the story of King David from the Bible told in the format of an epic fantasy TV series. Like if someone wanted to do an epic fantasy series about Conan the Barbarian, it could follow the same stylistic format as this show. And of course Conan and David followed a similar path from adventurer to king. Anyway, if one were to pick a part of the Bible from which to make a movie or TV series, the story of David would be an excellent choice because David's life was so dramatic that it would hardly require any embellishments in the adaptation. The story is in the Books of First and Second Samuel. King Saul is ruling over the Israelites around 1000 BC or so, but has grown arrogant. Consequently, God instructs the prophet Samuel to inform Saul that the kingdom will be taken away from him and given to another. God then dispatches Samuel to anoint David as the new king of Israel. David is a humble shepherd but then enters Saul's service and undertakes feats of daring, starting with defeating the giant Goliath and leading Saul's troops to victory and battle against Israel's numerous enemies. (The Iron Age Middle East was even less peaceful than it is now.) Eventually, Saul's paranoia and madness gets the best of him and he turns on David, who flees into exile. After Saul and his sons are killed in battle with the Philistines. David returns and becomes the acknowledged king after a short civil war with Saul's surviving sons and followers.   If Saul's fatal flaw was his arrogance of pride, David's seems to have been women. While the story of David and Bathsheba is well known, David nonetheless had eight wives (most of them at the same time) and an unknown but undoubtedly large number of concubines. Naturally David's children from his various wives and concubines did not get along and David was almost deposed due to the conflicts between his children. Unlike Saul and later David's son Solomon, David was willing to repent when a prophet of God informed him of wrongdoing and to be fair to David, monogamy was generally not practiced among Early Iron Age Middle Eastern monarchies and dynastic struggles between brothers from different mothers to seize their father's kingdoms were quite common, but enough historical digression.   Back to the show, which covered David's life up to the death of Goliath. I thought it was quite well done. Good performances, good cinematography, excellent battles, good set design and costuming, and a strong soundtrack. All the actors were good, but I really think the standout performances were Stephen Lang as Samuel, Ali Sulaman is King Saul, Ayelet Zurer as Saul's wife Queen Ahinoam, and Davood Ghadami as David's jerkish (but exasperated and well-intentioned) eldest brother Eliab. Martyn Ford just looks extremely formidable as Goliath. You definitely believe no one in their right mind want to fight this guy.   Making fiction of any kind based on sacred religious texts is often tricky because no matter what you do, someone's going to get mad at you. The show has an extensive disclaimer at the beginning of each episode saying that it is fiction inspired by the Bible. That said, House of David doesn't really alter or deviate from the Biblical account, though it expands upon some things for the sake of storytelling. Queen Ahinoam is only mentioned once in the Bible as the wife of Saul, but she has an expanded role in the show and is shown as the one who essentially introduces Saul to the Witch of Endor. Goliath also gets backstory as one of the “Anakim,” a race of giants that lived in Canaan in ancient times, which is something that is only mentioned in passing in the Old Testament. Overall, I enjoyed the show and I hope it gets a second season.   What's interesting, from a larger perspective, is to see how the wheel of history keeps turning. In the 1950s and the 1960s, Biblical epics were a major film genre. The 10 Commandments and Ben Hur with Charlton Heston are probably the ones best remembered today. Eventually, the genre just sort of ran out of gas, much the way superhero movies were in vogue for about 20 years and began running out of steam around 2023 or so. Like, I enjoyed Thunderbolts (which we're going to talk about in a little bit), but it's not going to make a billion dollars the way Marvel stuff often did in the 2010s. The wheel just keeps turning and perhaps has come back around to the popularity of Biblical epics once more. Overall Grade: A   Next up is Chef, which came out in 2014. I actually saw this back in 2021, but I watched it again recently to refresh my memory and here are my thoughts. I quite liked it. It's about a chef named Carl Casper, who's increasingly unhappy with his work after he gets fired over a Twitter war with a writer who criticized his cooking. Carl is out of options and so he starts a food truck and has to both rediscover his love of cooking and reconnect with his ex-wife and 10-year-old son. In Storytelling: How to Write a Novel (my book about writing), I talked about different kinds of conflict. Carl's conflict is an excellent example of an entirely internal conflict. The critic is an external enemy, but he's basically the inciting incident.   Carl's real enemy is his own internal conflict about art versus commerce and a strained relationship with his son. I recommend the movie. It was rated R for bad language, but there's no nudity or explicit sexual content and honestly, if you've ever worked in a restaurant kitchen or a warehouse, you've heard much worse in terms of language. The movie also has an extremely valuable lesson: stay off social media when you're angry. Overall Grade: A     Next up is Thunderbolts, which came out in 2025 and I thought this was pretty good, both very dark and yet with quite a lot of humor to balance the darkness. Former assassin Yelena Belova has been working as a mercenary for the sinister director of the CIA, Valentina de Fontaine (now there's a villain name if there ever was one). Yelena has grown disillusioned with her life and career and is suffering from increasing depression since she never really dealt with the death of her sister. Valentina promises her one last job, only for Yelena to realize that Valentina decided to dispose of all her freelance contractors at once, which includes US Agent and Ghost (previously seen in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Antman and the Wasp). In the process of escaping Valentina's trap, Yelena stumbles across a mysterious man who identifies himself as Bob, who has no memory of how he got there, but shows increasingly unusual abilities. Yelena wants to deal with Valentina's betrayal, but it turns out one of Valentina's science projects has gotten out of control and is threatening the world. The movie was well constructed enough that it didn't rely too heavily on previous Marvel continuity. It was there, but you probably wouldn't be lost without it. It almost feels like Marvel looked at the stuff they did the last couple of years and said, okay, a lot of this didn't work, but makes great raw material for new things. It helped that the central conflict was in the end, very human and about the characters, not stopping a generic villain from getting a generic doomsday device. Overall Grade: A   Next up is The Hound of the Baskervilles, which came out in 1988. This is a movie length episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes television series, which had Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson. The plot deals with Sir Henry Baskerville, the American heir to an English manor set in the Windswept moors of Dartmoor. Apparently there's an ancestral curse laid over the Baskerville estate that manifests in the form of a spectral hound. Local rumors hold that the previous holder of the manor, Sir Charles Baskerville, was killed by the ghostly hound and many of the local people fear it. The local physician, Dr. Mortimer, is so worried about the hound that he comes to Sherlock Holmes for help. Holmes, of course, is skeptical of any supernatural explanation and soon becomes worried that an extremely subtle and sinister murderer is stalking Sir Henry.   Jeremy Brett's version of Holmes is, in my opinion, the best portrayal of the character and Edward Hardwicke's version of Watson is a calm, reliable man of action who sensibly takes a very large revolver with him when going into danger. Definitely worth watching, Overall grade: A   Next up is Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which came out in 2024. The 2020s have been a downer of a decade in many ways, but on the plus side, between Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog, people have finally figured out how to make good video game movies, so we've got that going for us. Sonic 3 was an excellent kids movie, as were the first two in the trilogy. In this one Sonic is living with Knuckles and Tails under the care of their human friends Tom and Maddy, but then a dark secret emerges. The government has been keeping a Superpowered hedgehog named Shadow in stasis and Shadow has broken out. It's up to Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails to save the day.   Meanwhile, Dr. Robotnik is in a funk after his defeat at Sonic's hands in the last movie, but then his long lost grandfather, Gerald Robotnik returns seeking the younger Dr. Robotnik's help in his own sinister plans. Keanu Reeves was great as Shadow (think John Wick if he was a superpowered space hedgehog in a kid's movie). Jim Carrey famously said he would retire from acting unless a golden script came along and apparently that golden script was playing Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his evil grandfather Gerald. To be fair, both the Robotniks were hilarious.   It is amusing that Sonic only exists because in the 1990s, Sega wanted a flagship video game character that won't get them sued by either Nintendo or Disney. It is also amusing that the overall message of the Sonic movies seems to be not to trust the government. Overall Grade: A   Next up is Paddington in Peru, which came out in 2024. This is also an excellent kids' movie. In this installment, Paddington has settled into London with the Brown family and officially become a UK citizen. However, he receives a letter from Peru that his Aunt Lucy has mysteriously disappeared into the jungle. Distraught, Paddington and the Browns set off for Peru at once. Adventures ensue involving mysterious lost treasure, a crazy boat captain, and an order of singing nuns who might not quite be what they appear. Anyway, it's a good kids' movie. I think Paddington 2 was only slightly better because Hugh Grant as the chief villain, crazy actor Phoenix Buchanan, was one of those lightning in the bottle things like Heath Ledger as the Joker in the Dark Knight. Overall Grade: A   Now for the two best things I saw in Winter/Spring 2025. The first of them is Andor Season Two, which came out in 2025. Star Wars kind of has an age range the way Marvel stuff does now. What do I mean by that? In the Marvel comics and some of the TV series like Jessica Jones, they get into some really dark and heavy stuff, very mature themes. The MCU movies can have some darkness to them, but not as much because they're aiming at sort of escapist adventures for the general audience. Then there are kid shows like Spidey and Friends that a relative of mine just loved when he was three. You wouldn't at all feel comfortable showing a 3-year-old Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but Spidey and Friends is just fine.   Star Wars now kind of has that age range to its stuff and there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you want to see a dark meditation upon human nature. Sometimes you need something kid friendly to occupy the kids you're babysitting and sometimes you just want to relax and watch Mando and Baby Yoda mow down some space pirates or something. All that said, Andor Season Two is some of the darkest and the best stuff that Star Wars has ever done. It successfully shifts genres from Escapist Pulp Space Fantasy to a gritty Political/Espionage Thriller. We in the audience know that the emperor is a Sith Lord who can use Evil Space Magic and wants to make himself immortal, but that fact is totally irrelevant to the characters. Even though some of the characters are high ranking in their respective organizations, this is essentially a “ground's eye” view of the Rebellion and life under the Empire.   In some ways, this is like Star Wars' version of Wolf Hall (which we're going to talk about shortly), in that we know how it ends already, but the dramatic tension comes from the harrowing emotional journey the characters undertake on the way to their inevitable destinations. Cassian Andor is now working for the nascent Rebellion under the direction of ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael. Mon Mothma is in the Imperial Senate, covertly funneling money to the Rebellion and realizing just how much the Rebellion will require of her before the end. Syril Karn, the ineffective corporate cop from Season One, has fallen in love with the ruthless secret police supervisor Dedra Meero, but he's unaware that Director Krennic has ordered Meero to manufacture a false flag incident on the planet Gorman so the planet can be strip-mined for resources to build the Death Star and Dedra has decided to use Syril to help accomplish it. All the actors do amazing jobs with their roles. Seriously, this series as actors really should get at least one Emmy. Speaking of Director Krennic, Ben Mendelson returns as Orson Krennic, who is one of my favorite least favorite characters, if you get my drift. Krennic is the oily, treacherous middle manager we've all had to deal with or work for at some point in our lives, and Mendelson plays him excellently. He's a great villain, the sort who is ruthless to his underlings and thinks he can manipulate his superiors right up until Darth Vader starts telekinetically choking him. By contrast, the villain Major Partagaz (played by Anton Lesser) is the middle manager we wish we all had - stern but entirely fair, reasonable, and prizes efficiency and good work while despising office drama. Unfortunately, he works for the Empire's secret police, so all those good qualities are in the service of evil and therefore come to naught. Finally, Episode Eight is one of the most astonishing episodes of TV I've ever seen. It successfully captures the horror of an episode of mass violence and simultaneously has several character arcs reach their tumultuous climax and manages to be shockingly graphic without showing in a lot of actual blood. Andor was originally supposed to be five seasons, but then Peak Streaming collapsed, and so the remaining four seasons were compressed down to one. I think that was actually to the show's benefit because it generates some amazing tension and there's not a wasted moment. Overall Grade: A+   Now for the second of my two favorite things I saw, and that would be Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, which came out in 2024, but I actually saw it in 2025. This is a dramatization of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall novels about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, who is King Henry VIII's chief lieutenant during the key years of the English Reformation. The first series came out in 2015, but the nine year gap between this and between the second series and the first series actually works quite well since Thomas Cromwell looks like he ages nine years in a single year (which may be what actually happened given how stressful working for someone like Henry VIII must have been). Anyway, in The Mirror and the Light, Cromwell has successfully arranged the downfall and execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry's previous queen. Though Cromwell is haunted by his actions, Henry still needs a queen to give him a male heir, so he marries Jane Seymour. Cromwell must navigate the deadly politics of the Tudor Court while trying to push his Protestant views of religion, serve his capricious master Henry, fend off rivals for the King's favor, and keep his own head attached to his shoulders in the process. Since Cromwell's mental state is deteriorating due to guilt over Anne's death and the downfall of his former master Cardinal Wolsey and Henry's a fickle and dangerous master at the best of times, this is an enterprise that is doomed to fail. Of course, if you're at all familiar with the history of Henry's reign and the English reformation, you know that Cromwell's story does not have a happy ending. Rather, Wolf Hall is a tragedy about a talented man who didn't walk away from his power until it was too late and he was trapped. Anyway, in my opinion, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light was just excellent. All the performances were superb. Mark Rylance is great as Cromwell and has some excellent “WTF/I'm SO screwed” expressions as Cromwell's situation grows worse and worse. Bernard Hill played the Duke of Norfolk in the first series, but sadly died before Series Two, so Timothy Spall steps in and he does an excellent job of channeling Hill's portrayal of the Duke as an ambitious, crude-humored thug.   Damien Lewis is amazing as Henry VIII and his performance captures Henry's mixture of charisma, extreme vindictiveness, and astonishing self-absorption. The real Henry was known for being extremely charming even to the end of his life, but the charm was mixed with a volcanic temper that worsened as Henry aged and may have been exacerbated by a severe head injury. Lewis's performance can shift from that charm to the deadly fury in a heartbeat. The show rather cleverly portrays Henry's growing obesity and deteriorating health by having Lewis wear a lot of big puffy coats and limp with an impressively regal walking stick.   Overall, I would say this and Andor were the best thing I saw in Winter/Spring 2025. I wouldn't say that Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is an accurate historical reputation. In real life, Cromwell was rather more thuggish and grasping (though far more competent than his rivals and his master) and of necessity the plot simplifies historical events, but it's just a superb historical drama. Overall Grade: A+ As a final note, I should say that of all the 2024 and 2025 movies mentioned here, the only one that actually saw in the theater was Thunderbolts, and I hadn't actually planned to see it in theaters, but a family member unexpectedly bought tickets for it, so I went along. Which I suppose is the movie industry's biggest problem right now. The home viewing experience is often vastly superior to going to the theater. The theater has the big screen and snacks, but at home you can have a pretty nice setup and you can pause whatever you want, go to the bathroom, and you can get snacks for much more cheaply. That's just much more comfortable than the movie theater.   Additionally, going to the theater has the same serious problem as booking a flight in that you're an enclosed space with complete strangers for several hours, which means you're potentially in a trust fall with idiots. All it takes is one person behaving badly or trying to bring their fake service dog to ruin or even cancel a flight, and the theater experience has much of the same problem, especially since the standards for acceptable public behavior have dropped so much from a combination of widespread smartphone adoption and COVID. The difference between the movie industry and the airline industry is that if you absolutely have to get from New York to Los Angeles in a single day, you have no choice but to book a flight and hope for the best. But if you want to see a movie and are willing to exercise some patience, you just have to wait a few months for it to turn up on streaming. I'm not sure how the movie industry can battle that, but sadly, it is much easier to identify problems than to solve them.   So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe, stay healthy, and see you all next week.

On this episode Dom and Hannah return at long last to join Ben as they discuss the third episode arc of Andor Season Two. They're joined by good friend King Tom Chansky from The Sith List podcast to fully process the emotionally heavy events of the episodes, including the Ghorman massacre and Mon Mothma's intense escape from the Imperial Senate. Plus, did K-2SO's introduction meet expectations? Was Bix utilized properly? Are the year-long gaps between arcs really working? And how exactly does one swim in snow?? Tune in for all that and so much more! Join the Star Wars Underworld Network DiscordSubscribe on YouTube Subscribe on Spotify Subscribe and Review on Apple Podcasts Facebook: www.facebook.com/swunderworld Twitter: @TheSWU Email: swunderworld@gmail.com

The Andor Report is here. The third block of the second and final season has already been heralded as a masterpiece by many. Covering important moments in Star Wars history like the Ghorman Massacre and Mon Mothma's speech to the Imperial Senate, the episodes already connect profoundly to real-life history and present-day politics in the unflinching style so often seen in Andor. Let's dive in with Joseph Scrimshaw, Jennifer Landa, and Ken Napzok on The Andor Report.From the minds of Ken Napzok (comedian, host of The Napzok Files), Joseph Scrimshaw (comedian, writer, host of the Obsessed podcast), and Jennifer Landa (actress, YouTuber, crafter, contributor on StarWars.com) comes the ForceCenter Podcast Feed. Here you will find a series of shows exploring, discussing, and celebrating everything about Star Wars. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Listen on TuneIn, Amazon Music, Spotify, and more!Follow ForceCenter!Watch on YouTube!Support us on PatreonForceCenter merch!All from ForceCenter: https://linktr.ee/ForceCenter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What to Expect Before the Star Wars Series ReturnsMatthew and Alex talk about everything we need to know for Andor Season 2! The new season will bridge the gap between the first season and Rogue One, showing the evolution of the Rebellion during a crucial five-year period.Matthew and Alex reflect on what made Andor Season 1 such a groundbreaking addition to Star Wars storytelling — its mature themes, complex moral questions, and unprecedented quality of writing and acting. The hosts discuss how Season 1 presented a more "adult" version of Star Wars that wasn't afraid to explore the moral complexities of rebellion and resistance.What loose threads from Season 1 might Season 2 address?One of the major talking points is how Season 2 might resolve storylines introduced but not concluded in Season 1. The hosts discuss the possibility of exploring Cassian's search for his sister — including a fan theory that Kleya, Luthen's assistant, might actually be Cassian's long-lost sister. They also wonder if we'll learn more about Cassian's feelings regarding his adoption by Maarva.How will Mon Mothma's story progress?The hosts speculate on Mon Mothma's storyline, particularly regarding the potential arranged marriage of her daughter to secure funding for the Rebellion. They note how Season 1 explored themes of tradition across different cultures, and how this might continue to play a role as Mon Mothma navigates her responsibilities to both family and revolution.What other Star Wars characters might appear in Season 2?Will Orson Krennic's role expand as the show moves closer to the Rogue One timeline?How might the show depict the formation of the Rebel Alliance from disparate resistance cells?What role might Bail Organa play in Season 2?Could characters from other Star Wars media like Rebels make appearances?Will we see how Cassian meets K-2SO?How might the show depict Emperor Palpatine and the Imperial Senate?The hosts conclude by expressing optimism about the new season while acknowledging the high bar set by Season 1. They note that the series creators had planned for exactly two seasons from the beginning and took their time with production, both factors that bode well for maintaining quality. While they acknowledge some nervousness about expectations, their excitement for the continuation of what they consider one of the best Star Wars properties—and one of the best television shows in general—is evident. **************************************************************************This episode is a production of Star Wars Generations, a The Ethical Panda Podcast and part of the TruStory FM Entertainment Podcast Network. Check our our website to find out more about this and our sister podcast Superhero Ethics.We want to hear from you! You can keep up with our latest news, and send us feedback, questions, or comments via social media or email.Email: Matthew@TheEthicalPanda.comFacebook: TheEthicalPandaInstagram: TheEthicalPandaPodcastsTwitter: EthicalPanda77Or you can join jump into the Star Wars Generations and Superhero Ethics channels on the TruStory FM Discord.To learn more about co-host Erin and her incredible cosplay check out her Instagram, LadyTanoCreates.Want to get access to even more content while supporting the podcast? Become a member! For $5 a month, or $55 a year you get access to bonus episodes and bonus content at the end of most episodes. Sign up on the podcast's main page you can even give membership as a gift!You can also support our podcasts through our sponsors:Purchase a lightsaber from Level Up Sabers run by friend of the podcast Neighborhood Master AlanUse Audible for audiobooks. Sign up for a one year membership or gift one through this link.Purchase any media discussed this week through our sponsored links.

On this episode, Hannah and Chris — along with Dominic and Ben who make unexpected appearances — dive into the newly revealed second trailer for Andor season 2. They examine all the big moments, including Dedra Meero being force choked (or is it a panic attack?), some stunning Imperial Senate scenes (is that Palpatine?), and lots of moments from a new planet (could it be Dantooine?). They also discuss some of the latest news, including a new VR experience revealed, Ahsoka season 2 appears to be in production, and a rare public appearance from George Lucas. Plus, the Star Wars stories that most affected us, unfair critiques from across generations, and remembering Clive Revill. Tune in for all of that and so much more! Join the Star Wars Underworld Network DiscordSubscribe on YouTube Subscribe on Spotify Subscribe and Review on Apple Podcasts Facebook: www.facebook.com/swunderworld Twitter: @TheSWU Email: swunderworld@gmail.com

In the ninth episode of Season 20 of Star Wars: In a Galaxy, Eli and Jacob watch and discuss the ninth episode of Andor: A Star Wars Story, "Nobody's Listening!".Among their discussion:– What happened on Level 2? – Cassian Andor becoming a Rebel.– Emotional walls in Imperial prison.– RIP Ulaf.– No one cares in the Imperial Senate either– Keeping Up with the Mothmas!– Rebel women supporting Rebel women!– Imperial torture is another level of messed up. – Syril being an enormous creep. – Anto Kreegyr might be screwed...The next episode of Star Wars: In a Galaxy will release on March 14, 2025.Follow our upcoming guest on BlueSky: @thataldendiaz.bsky.socialFollow us on BlueSky, Instagram, and Threads: @InaGalaxyPod/@inagalaxypod.bsky.appFollow our spinoff trivia show on BlueSky: @inagalaxytrivia.bsky.socialFollow Eli everywhere:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/_ochifan327⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple and Spotify! It really helps!You can email us at swinagalaxy@gmail.com

In this episode of Dark Side Divas we discuss The Star Wars Rebels episode "Secret Cargo" (s3e18). The Empire is hunting Mon Mothma after she openly condemned The Emperor on the floor of the Imperial Senate. Grand Admiral Thrawn decides to use one of his new toys to stop our heroes. Will Mothma make it to her meeting? How do the Divas feel about this episode? Listen and find out! Also if you want to find our swag store, other social media accounts, or our Patreon, select our Linktree:https://linktr.ee/darksidedivas

A *permanent* or *baneful* aristocracy - despite federalist assurances to the contrary - with senators mostly serving for life - that's what many anti-federalists warned we'd get with the structure of the federal Senate. The post The Imperial Senate: Anti-Federalist Warnings first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

On today's episode of The Guest Awakens, I am joined by one of my favorite people in the fandomsphere: Nicky Kumar, co-host of the Imperial Senate podcast and a frequent contributor to Casterly Talk, a Game of Thrones podcast that also covers other fantasy franchises such as Lord of the Rings and Willow. Today we'll be discussing what we love about this amazing era to be a geek, an era in which we are blessed with a plethora of sci-fi/fantasy properties that bring us such joy! Join us for the journey! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pageturnerstheywerenot/message

The Cavalry has Arrived! As the days of the Republic begin turning to nothing more than memories, clones to begin to further question the Empire they are serving under. As the Imperial Senate tirelessly debates the Defense Recruitment Bill, Senator Chuchi and the Bad Batch must take serious risks to expose the truth of what really happened on Kamino. Join Isabella and Ruby as they look deeper into The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 7 "The Clone Conspiracy" & 8 "Truth and Consequences", discussing Palpatine's manipulations continuing on past the Clone War, the reasons why the Empire is retiring clones to make way for stormtroopers, the mystery surrounding Captain Rex and his actions during these dark times, Darth Vader waiting in the shadows, Clone Force 99's growing dynamic, and so much more! Look out for new SWORR The Bad Batch reviews every Tuesday! Follow Us On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starwars_old_republic_radio/ !!SPOILER WARNING!! SPOILERS FOR THE BAD BATCH SEASON 2 EPISODES 1 ("Spoils of War"), 2 ("Ruins of War"), 3 ("The Solitary Clone"), 4 ("Faster"), 5 ("Entombed"), 6 ("Tribe"), 7 ("The Clone Conspiracy"), AND 8 ("Truth and Consequences")!! Being a Star Wars podcast we freely talk about every movie/show including: Every Movie, The Clone Wars, Rebels, The Bad Batch S1, The Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tales of the Jedi, and Andor.

Darth Amin and producer Darth Cornpuzzle take a field trip to the Imperial Senate with a double dose of Bad Batch that amps up the political intrigue considerably. Is the Bad Batch better without Clone Force 99 at the center of the story? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Darth Amin and producer Darth Cornpuzzle take a field trip to the Imperial Senate with a double dose of Bad Batch that amps up the political intrigue considerably. Is the Bad Batch better without Clone Force 99 at the center of the story? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In today's episode, we recap the Bad Batch S2-EP 7&8, discussing the Clone, Conspiracy, and Consequences. The Imperial Senate is pushing to recruit Imperial citizens, but Senator Riyo Chuchi is fighting for the clones' rights. When a clone trooper is murdered, she investigates and uncovers Rampart's sinister plot. The Bad Batch joins Rex and Chuchi to retrieve evidence and confront Rampart. They retrieve the data and present it before the Senate, leading to Rampart's arrest. However, the Imperial recruitment bill is still passed. Echo decides to stay with Rex while Chuchi vows to continue fighting for the clones. Join us to see if these episodes live up to the Star Wars hall of fame and hear some news from the Star Wars universe. Don't miss it! We hope you enjoy today's show. If you liked the show, please give a five-star rating on whatever platform you use to consume your content. It really does help. If possible, share it with your friends and family. It would be greatly appreciated. And don't forget to subscribe to the show. That way you will be notified every time we release a new episode. As always, thank you for spending your time listening to this podcast. For anyone that would like to be a guest on the show, or has any questions about the show. Please do not hesitate to email us. We would love to hear from you. Follow us on our Social Media for more great content. LightSaber Radio Contact Info You can leave us a voicemail at (314) 877-8288 Website www.swaacast.com Social Medias https://linktr.ee/lightsaberradio The story, art, and characters therein are the property of whoever holds the copyright to this material. We do not claim ownership of the source material. This podcast was produced for noncommercial use, to be enjoyed by ourselves, fellow fans, and the original creators as a tribute to Star Wars. Please support the official release. #starwars #starwarspodcast #starwarsfan #themandalorian #maythe4thbewithyou #starwarscelebration #thebadbatch #starwarsday #starwarsvisions #lightsaber #starwarrebels #kenobiTrailer #starwarrebels #starwarsnews #andor #theacolyte #ahsoka --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lightsaber-radio/message

In the Imperial Senate, Rampart pushes for the passing of a bill authorizing the military recruitment of Imperial citizens, meaning that the clones will be officially discarded. Senator Riyo Chuchi, who defends the clones' fundamental rights, is approached by clone trooper Slip, whose friend Cade was murdered on Rampart's orders when he defied the official version of Kamino's destruction by a storm disaster. Chuchi begins to investigate Rampart's conspiracy, alerting the admiral, who sends an assassin after Slip. Just as Chuchi tries to convince Slip to testify, the assassin kills him. Before Chuchi can suffer the same fate, she is rescued by Rex, whom Slip has summoned for help, but the assassin - a clone - kills himself as he is questioned.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Andor's second 3-episode arch came to a dramatic close this week as the Imperial heist we have all been waiting for was finally executed. Was it a complete success? No. But the “heroes” did come out with a decent chunk of change, striking a blow against the galactic villains; “vulnerable to manipulation” my butt. The win came at a cost though, with key members of the team not reaching the the finish line. Leading up to that climax, the episode did a great job building suspense, with eerily beautiful music paired with stunning visuals as the titular “eye” was finally visualized. Ending with a surprising twist, and a peak at the Imperial Senate, there was plenty to enjoy. Overall, it doesn't get much better than this, but there's still plenty of episodes left to be proven wrong.

Andor's second 3-episode arch came to a dramatic close this week as the Imperial heist we have all been waiting for was finally executed. Was it a complete success? No. But the “heroes” did come out with a decent chunk of change, striking a blow against the galactic villains; “vulnerable to manipulation” my butt. The win came at a cost though, with key members of the team not reaching the the finish line. Leading up to that climax, the episode did a great job building suspense, with eerily beautiful music paired with stunning visuals as the titular “eye” was finally visualized. Ending with a surprising twist, and a peak at the Imperial Senate, there was plenty to enjoy. Overall, it doesn't get much better than this, but there's still plenty of episodes left to be proven wrong.

In this episode Tim and I discuss everything from behind the scenes to plot details and the implications of this series on future Star Wars projects. So be sure to tune into this one and strap in for another great episode. Leave your thoughts in the polls and response tabs. Also to be featured on the next episode leave us a voice message with either feedback, ideas, or just your comments about a topic and we will include it into our next episode --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anythingeverythingpod/message

Save up to 60% off your Babbel subscription when you go to https://babbel.com/starwars! Will we see any connections to Star Wars Rebels in Andor? Will we see Emperor Palpatine in the Imperial Senate? These questions and more answered in this week's Q&A! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ANDOR TRAILER BREAK DOWN! On this episode, Dominic, Ben, and Chris take a deep dive on the new trailer for Andor that was released this week.  They discuss the tone of the trailer and how the series could explore the various types of rebels that make up the Rebel Alliance.  They also look at how the Imperial Senate could be portrayed and the roles that Mon Mothma and Luthen Rael.  And they talk about how Cassian's backstory could force us to re-examine the Republic's war in the clone wars (building on what The Clone Wars series began).  Plus, what does the release date change mean for The Bad Batch and Tales of the Jedi, what sort of Imperial Agents will we see on the series, and how will this series intersect with Star Wars Rebels.  All this and much more!   Subscribe to Hoth Off The Press on Substack!   Support The SWU on PatreonBuy an SWU T-shirtWebsite: www.starwarsunderworld.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/swunderworld Twitter: @TheSWU Subscribe and Review on iTunesEmail: swunderworld@gmail.com Voicemail: 1-410-989-1138

ANDOR TRAILER BREAK DOWN! On this episode, Dominic, Ben, and Chris take a deep dive on the new trailer for Andor that was released this week. They discuss the tone of the trailer and how the series could explore the various types of rebels that make up the Rebel Alliance. They also look at how the Imperial Senate could be portrayed and the roles that Mon Mothma and Luthen Rael. And they talk about how Cassian's backstory could force us to re-examine the Republic's war in the clone wars (building on what The Clone Wars series began). Plus, what does the release date change mean for The Bad Batch and Tales of the Jedi, what sort of Imperial Agents will we see on the series, and how will this series intersect with Star Wars Rebels. All this and much more!Subscribe to Hoth Off The Press on Substack!

In his final paper, Brutus takes on the structure and power of the Senate. He found one part he really liked, but the rest - predicted it would turn into a permanent aristocracy of sorts, with senators mostly serving for life. The post The Imperial Senate: Antifederalist Brutus No. 16 first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away. No no no , the other senate... Something about the infrastructure then - Not a single Star Destroyer in sight. Alright, there's a definite Star Wars theme going on here... TK421 has left his post and we're going to dive in to whats going on right now, what you can do and how...   So, let's make the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs and yes, Han shot first!

There's plenty packed in this hour long episode, everything from The Bad Batch episode 10 review down to general star wars chat and discussion. The High Republic wave 2 has launched. And we get into a bit regarding the politics of the Empire, Anakin's place in the story and how the Imperial Senate works with a single guy in charge. Let's get into it.   Stay subscribed to STAR WARS ESCAPE POD for more Bad Batch reviews, general discussion and more, all ad-free just the way you like it. You can help us out by sharing this show, subscribing for free, hitting 4 stars on iTunes and dropping a review. You can also help others at World Vision and be a hero to kids who have nothing. Check the link below: https://donate.worldvision.ca/collections/donations --------- Voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/starwarsescapepod Discord: https://discord.gg/KucPjer Twitter: @SWEscapePodcast Email: swescapepodcast@gmail.com

Enter my mind, and view the universe through the eyes of a bipolar autistic psychopath who is a compulsive intuitive and see your own reflection as a victim the crime of the century.The deafening silence of an undeniable pandemic reversal in India and the Global Medical Intellectual Authoritariansim driven by the profit interest of the Pharmaceutical Industrial complex bent on selling us bio-engineered vaccines that could be rotting in our ovaries, in lieu of a natural occurring Nobel prize winning medicinal derivative that has been used to cure parasitic infections, zika virus, denge virus, and the swine flu.  And,  in April-May 2021, it decisively routed the COVID-19 pandemic in 3 weeks in Dehli, curing 97% of their infections in the span of 3 weeks.  A medicine that is in the public domain, universally accessible, cheap, and one of the safest medicines known when taken at the direction of a physician.And when it did, the silence was broken and the pharmaceutical industrial complex sounded the alarm to quell the response and demand for Ivermectin as a cure, especially for those who couldn't access vaccines . . . and Ivermectin was universally decried by the FDA, the CDC, The WHO, and Big Pharma--the Empire of the Global Intellectual Mental Authoritarian Regime of financial exploitation . . . with only a Rebel Alliance of 10 world renowned elite medical operators in the field, the Front Line COVID Critical Care Alliance, relying on their wits, experience, and reputations continue their attempts to overthrow the Empire.And tragically, the Jedi Master of the FLCCC, testified before the Imperial Senate in Octover 2020, and gave them the miracle cure on a silver platter, that Ivermectin was the miracle cure . . . which has been crushed, discredited, and suppressed to make way for dangerous, patented, new, expensive therapeutics, that are likely spreading mutant variations like the Delta Strain of COVID-19 as we speak.

Enter my mind, and view the universe through the eyes of a bipolar autistic psychopath who is a compulsive intuitive and see your own reflection as a victim the crime of the century.The deafening silence of an undeniable pandemic reversal in India and the Global Medical Intellectual Authoritariansim driven by the profit interest of the Pharmaceutical Industrial complex bent on selling us bio-engineered vaccines that could be rotting in our ovaries, in lieu of a natural occurring Nobel prize winning medicinal derivative that has been used to cure parasitic infections, zika virus, denge virus, and the swine flu.  And,  in April-May 2021, it decisively routed the COVID-19 pandemic in 3 weeks in Dehli, curing 97% of their infections in the span of 3 weeks.  A medicine that is in the public domain, universally accessible, cheap, and one of the safest medicines known when taken at the direction of a physician.And when it did, the silence was broken and the pharmaceutical industrial complex sounded the alarm to quell the response and demand for Ivermectin as a cure, especially for those who couldn't access vaccines . . . and Ivermectin was universally decried by the FDA, the CDC, The WHO, and Big Pharma--the Empire of the Global Intellectual Mental Authoritarian Regime of financial exploitation . . . with only a Rebel Alliance of 10 world renowned elite medical operators in the field, the Front Line COVID Critical Care Alliance, relying on their wits, experience, and reputations continue their attempts to overthrow the Empire.And tragically, the Jedi Master of the FLCCC, testified before the Imperial Senate in Octover 2020, and gave them the miracle cure on a silver platter, that Ivermectin was the miracle cure . . . which has been crushed, discredited, and suppressed to make way for dangerous, patented, new, expensive therapeutics, that are likely spreading mutant variations like the Delta Strain of COVID-19 as we speak.

Hello! Welcome to a very special bonus episode of Pint, Camera... Action! It's May the fourth be with you time so the boys are bringing to you the 1999 prequel to the original trilogy Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace. This film is set before the original movies in a galaxy far far away and features an all star cast which includes, Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid and returning Star Wars icons Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker. We meet two Jedi knights, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi as they aim to broker a peace deal with the antagonistic Trace Federation who aim to take control of the peaceful world of Naboo. As the situation becomes unstable the Jedi knights escape from Naboo with the Queen and try to bring her before the Imperial Senate in order to broker a peace treaty. However, first they must cross the galaxy and overcome a variety obstacles, characters whilst avoiding a mysterious Sith Lord who aims to prevent them from achieving their goals by any means necessary. All the while, the Jedi knights come accross a young boy who they believe is special to the Force which causes issues of its own. The boys investigate the true story of how Brexit happened, how would Jedi's cope with being Bailiffs and random characters who needlessly appear in movies with terrible accents. Because we love you all (and we kept drinking) this very special episode is split into two parts! Grab your lightsaber, channel the force… it's time for Pints, Camera… Action!

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we'll begin.THIS WEEK: Nicky and Clare are joined by Reed Devany, as they once again dive into Del Rey's novel ‘Thrawn Ascendancy – Chaos Rising'.Contact Us: Tweet us @impsenatepod or e-mail us at imperialsenatepodcast@gmail.com.Website: www.imperialsenatepodcast.comSupport us on patreon: www.patreon.com/TheImperialSenatePodcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we’ll begin. THIS WEEK: Nicky and Clare are joined by Reed Devany, as they once again dive into Del Rey’s novel ‘Thrawn Ascendancy – Chaos Rising’. Contact Us: Tweet us @impsenatepod or e-mail us at imperialsenatepodcast@gmail.com. Website: www.imperialsenatepodcast.com Support us on patreon: www.patreon.com/TheImperialSenatePodcast

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we'll begin.THIS WEEK: Nicky and Clare are joined by Reed Devany, as they dive into Del Rey's novel ‘Thrawn Ascendancy – Chaos Rising'.Contact Us: Tweet us @impsenatepod or e-mail us at imperialsenatepodcast@gmail.com.Website: www.imperialsenatepodcast.comSupport us on patreon: www.patreon.com/TheImperialSenatePodcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we’ll begin. THIS WEEK: Nicky and Clare are joined by Reed Devany, as they dive into Del Rey’s novel ‘Thrawn Ascendancy – Chaos Rising’. Contact Us: Tweet us @impsenatepod or e-mail us at imperialsenatepodcast@gmail.com. Website: www.imperialsenatepodcast.com Support us on patreon: www.patreon.com/TheImperialSenatePodcast

A lecture by Amy Russell (BSR; Durham)

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we’ll begin. THIS WEEK: Nicky and Clare dive into Del Rey’s novel ‘Resistance Reborn’. Contact Us: Tweet us @impsenatepod or e-mail us at imperialsenatepodcast@gmail.com. Website: www.imperialsenatepodcast.com Support us on patreon:  www.patreon.com/TheImperialSenatePodcast

It's The Star Wars Underworld's annual Boxing Day special!  This year, Dominic, Chris, and Ciaran discuss The Rise of Skywalker with Iraj Dowlatshahi of The Sith List podcast, Graham Hancock of Brick Fanatics, Steele Saunders of the Steele Wars podcast, Charlie Ashby of The Imperial Senate podcast, Corey Van Dyke of Kessel Run Transmissions, and Ben Hart of The Star Wars Underworld podcast.  They get into the highs and lows of the film, including Rey's lineage, the death fake-outs, the voices of the past, the final scene, Lando's return, and Palpatine's role.  All this and much more! Support The SWU on Patreon Buy an SWU T-shirt Website: www.starwarsunderworld.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/swunderworld Twitter: @TheSWU Subscribe and Review on iTunes Email: swunderworld@gmail.com Voicemail: 1-410-989-1138

It's The Star Wars Underworld's annual Boxing Day special! This year, Dominic, Chris, and Ciaran discuss The Rise of Skywalker with Iraj Dowlatshahi of The Sith List podcast, Graham Hancock of Brick Fanatics, Steele Saunders of the Steele Wars podcast, Charlie Ashby of The Imperial Senate podcast, Corey Van Dyke of Kessel Run Transmissions, and Ben Hart of The Star Wars Underworld podcast. They get into the highs and lows of the film, including Rey's lineage, the death fake-outs, the voices of the past, the final scene, Lando's return, and Palpatine's role. All this and much more!

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we'll begin. THIS WEEK: Nicky and Clare are diving into Del Rey's novel ‘Thrawn: Treason' in this week's edition of ISL.

Our Patreon bonus episode on how to reform the EU. First we discuss the much touted Macron reform and then explain why they're lazy. The we have our own list of short and long term noodlings. This is the first of our bonus episodes supported by our generous Patreon supporters, unlocked after a month behind the cruel capitalist paywall - but what are you gonna do about it? Support us on Patreon! WE HAVE A T-PUBLIC STORE what a fashionable way to support our podcast We now have a website that you can find here! Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEurope If you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us out Also, have you considered Matteo Renzi? Reform Europe Describe your idea for how to reform the EU If you think Macron is an asshole, maybe you can do better? Pappa Macron's Vision: Everyone remembers his fun letter: https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2019/03/04/for-european-renewal.en But there were positions before this, mostly economic... Generally it was a two speed Europe including: EU finance minister. Establish a joint eurozone budget. Institute a body tasked with overseeing bloc-wide economic policy. Yeah cool that was early 2018. Then we had his EU campaign open letter to Europe stuff: https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2019/03/04/for-european-renewal.en We talked about this in a previous episode (https://previouslyineurope.simplecast.com/episodes/cryptographically-secure-renaissance-7b5cf31d) Politico had a pretty clear summary that wasn't written in prose (https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-europe-renaissance-vs-reality/) AKK in response to Macron said some shitty things Mostly about migration, protecting borders. Also getting rid of the Strasbourg parliament and taxing EU officials. You know the big ticket reforms... https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-successor-akk-responds-to-emmanuel-macrons-vision-for-europe/a-47840072 Manu want input from citizens apparently Or so he says. Once the new executive is in place he thinks everyone should get together and somehow get input form citizens too to work out priorities for the next 5 years so here we go... https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-elections-2019/news/macron-wants-a-convention-to-reform-europe/ Some actual reforms maybe? Short Term (1 commission cycle) Make transparency register mandatory End tax havens… possibly a common corporation tax minimum Change migration policy. Stop: Deportation to unsafe territories Don’t spend money on exporting prevention to foreign powers Maybe reparations for the colonial holdings? Change framework in a way that the focus of the EU in terms of migration isn’t for migration control, but for international development Fix the Euro - See European Spring section, both short and long EU election reform: Put the EU parties on the voting ballots as well as the local party Get rid of the parliament “groupings” because they’re really just parties. The requirement for speaking time and funding in the parliament can just be bumped down to the party level, don’t make them separate. This both makes it more similar to systems they’re familar with but also is less stupid. Council of the EU and the European Council Name change! Just European Senate: 2 seats per country, 1 permanent (appointed like a cabinet position). Other is head of state With proxy voting for obvious reasons Fixes the confusion, means there’s someone actually on the ground who can give heads of state a skinny Long Term Welcome in refugees Citizens assemblies to assist in drafting a better EU constitution - i.e. a democratic constitutional convention Get rid of Strasbourg Probably long term to figure out what to do with the building and not annoy current French President EU commission is more complicated Our idea would be for Prime Minister styley and make it an actual parliament. Not like that stupid French parliament. Commission President is elected and approved by the new Imperial Senate. I am the Senate… Commissioners are doled out sort of like they are now. Figure out a way to make national voting allowed for EU ex-pats...

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then we'll begin. THIS WEEK: The Senate dusts off Dark Horse's last published Star Wars story, the canon TCW story ‘Son of Dathomir' & reviews the heck out of it.

THIS WEEK: Charlie, Nicky and Clare talk through all the latest Disney+ show news, potential leaks and sperm, obviously. ALSO: We still haven't managed to play Geonosis yet.

THIS WEEK: The entire Senate comes together to discuss their excitement over Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones) joining ‘The Mandalorian'. ALSO: Charlie and Kristen geek out over Tony Shalhoub.

Leia Organa, a Force-sensitive human female, was a princess of Alderaan, a member of the Imperial Senate, a leader of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, a member of the Galactic Senate, and general of the Resistance. Alderaan, located in the Core Worlds, was a terrestrial planet covered with mountains.  You can connect with us on Instagram, Twitter, or email the show at RebelsRebelsPod@gmail.com. For a limited time, if you leave us an iTunes review, we will randomly select one reviewer to podcast with us on a bonus episode! You pick the topic.  You can also now head over to our Big Cartel to order yourself a "Space Oddity" pin.

THIS WEEK: Nicky and Clare discuss their excitement at Diego Luna returning to Star Wars, as well as new Battlefront II content! ALSO: Did someone say Resistance Chat?

Welcome to episode 56.1 of Starships, Sabers, and Scoundrels: Burning Seas. On this Scoundrels Special Edition, Dennis and Darth Taxus dive into the recent issues of Darth Vader and discuss the "Burning Seas" story arc. The Emperor grows tired of the galaxy speaking with multiple voices and seeks the elimination of the Imperial Senate so that only his voice dictates the will of the Empire. However, making such a change isn't so easy. Therefore, he sends an Imperial fleet to Mon Cala to make an example of the rebellious planet. In addition, he senses the influence of the Jedi in Mon Cala's affairs. Naturally, he sends Darth Vader and his Inquisitorious to handle the situation. Indeed, there is a Jedi involved. Dennis and Darth Taxus discuss whether this Jedi lives up to the Jedi ideal. Or, has this Jedi adopted methods the Jedi Council would frown on? What are the motives of this Jedi, and do the ends justify the means? Plus, what memories does returning to Mon Cala surface for Darth Vader? In addition, what do these stories say about Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin's relationship? Finally, Tarkin has interesting thoughts on what it means to be an Empire. Thanks for tuning into episode 56.1 of Starships, Sabers, and Scoundrels: Burning Seas. Social Media, Email, and More Find the show on Twitter at @SCubedPod. Dennis Keithly can be followed @DJKver2, Darth Taxus is @DarthTaxus, and Jay Krebs is @JoyceKrebs. Starships, Sabers, and Scoundrels is also on Facebook, which you can find here. SCubedPod thrives on listener feedback. Therefore, Dennis, Taxus, and Jay would love to read your email on the show. To reach them, email the show at SCubedPod@RetroZap.com. For instance, have an opinion on Star Wars comics, Rebels, or the comics? We want to hear it. Also, have a question about some Star Wars detail? Send it to us! It doesn't have to be Star Wars. Starships, Sabers, and Scoundrels T-Shirts can be purchased here. Finally, Dennis, Taxus, and Jay would appreciate an iTunes review for the show. Thank you.

On this episode, Dominic, Ben, and Chris, are joined by StarWars.com contributor Tyler Weshause and The Imperial Senate podcast co-host Kristin Bates to discuss the Star Wars Rebels episodes "The Occupation" and "Flight of the Defender".  They discuss how these episodes tie in with other Star Wars media, how Lothal has evolved over the course of the series, and what these episodes tell us about where Ezra's head is and where he might be headed.  All this and much more! Website:  www.starwarsunderworld.com Support The SWU on Patreon Facebook: www.facebook.com/swunderworld Twitter: @TheSWU Subscribe and Review on iTunes Email: swunderworld@gmail.com Voicemail: 1-410-989-1138 Listen live Thursdays at 9pm EST on Channel 1138

On this episode, Dominic, Ben, and Chris, are joined by StarWars.com contributor Tyler Weshause and The Imperial Senate podcast co-host Kristen Bates to discuss the Star Wars Rebels episodes "The Occupation" and "Flight of the Defender". They discuss how these episodes tie in with other Star Wars media, how Lothal has evolved over the course of the series, and what these episodes tell us about where Ezra's head is and where he might be headed. All this and much more!

"Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones." (Part 1 of 2.) - Against the advice of our doctors, we’re back with more prequels. This time it’s “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones.” With three different opening statements, our podcast is about as bureaucratic as the Imperial Senate. We also discuss R2’s incompetence as a security system, ponder Anakin’s puzzling pick-up lines (and haircut), sympathize with the boring job of the Jedi, and question the plight of the Fett family and the clone troopers. (Part 1 of 2.) Host Jason Snell with John Siracusa, Steve Lutz, Serenity Caldwell, Dan Moren and Monty Ashley.