Slave I

But IG-88, IG-88 was not my stopgap.

Boba Fett, and particularly Slave 1 was the real issue.

Yeah.

Why they making me fight a spaceship? I'm a man.

forgotten what's going on.

On the subject of sound design, Slave 1, like

the grungy...

Is it even better than

But yeah, R2 just chuckling as he menaces the bounty hunters.

That is my favourite piece of

sound design is R2's laugh.

I love it.

I'm going to throw one more Robot Chicken reference because it's so hilarious.

Just a brief little skit, but both him and Boba Fett are looking at the Slave I, and he's like, I gotta say, Boba Fett, that is one hell of a ship.

Not too crazy about the name, though.

Yeah, well, obviously.

He had concepts in mind, but no solid structure.

He knew the story would be darker, would explore more mature themes and relationships, and would continue to explore the nature of the Force.

He intended to fund the production independently using the $12 million profit from Star Wars to invest in bigger ambitions outside of Star Wars, and directing the movie wouldn't allow him the freedoms he wanted.

So he decided he wouldn't direct a sequel.

It was shortly after this, in March 1978, that Leigh Brackett died of cancer at the age of 62.

Lucas was aware she was terminally ill when he hired her, and post her death supported her family financially.

Mandated to deliver a fifth of the script every other week, Kasdan began his rewrite, focusing on developing character relationships and psychologies.

He completed the third draft by early August.

set number 10 and I did order them okay so I do have from 10 to 1 from least important to the most important that 1% of Lego but number 10 barely making the cut is actually a set that's sitting right behind me right now if you're looking at YouTube right now you can look and see oh obviously not obvious.

I have Slave 1 sitting behind me, and it is the UCS 2000, what, 16 version of the UCS Slave 1.

It is an incredible set, but it's not that one, friends.

It's actually set 10186, the UCS General Grievous.

The ship that Jubal's in barely seems big enough for him, let alone two people.

It's very Boba Fett-esque, like Slave 1.

Yeah.

And he was going to take Simon and River in this little ship with him?

Early spaceship.

Jimmy, you called it out earlier.

There's a resemblance to Slave 1 from Star Wars.

Yeah.

But first, let's see what's in the secret compartment today.

Oh, it's Boba Fett, noted owner of a ship called Slave 1, and apparently a ballet dancer.

That's a fine approximation of ballet music.

Thank you, Stan.

Well, thank you for listening to the last episode of Blindspots and Second Thoughts.

[laughs] I'm sad that as we're ending our relationship we can-

Yeah

... no longer [laughs] record this podcast.