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Episode 487: Todd James Pierce!

28 Saturday Aug 2021

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Episode 487 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s show, I talk to Disney historian Todd James Pierce about how Covid-19 and the home streaming of entertainment might affect the future of visual storytelling, plus we discuss his current historical work on Disney Legend John Hench.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Ward Kimball

Three Years in Wonderland

NOTES

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Check out Todd’s site and podcast, The Disney History Institute.


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The Lists #36: Star Wars Movies Ranked

29 Sunday Dec 2019

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The Lists #36 by John King

Star Wars Movies Ranked, from Best to Worst

Having just seen The Rise of Skywalker, which made me miss the contributions of Michael Arndt, but was mostly pretty okay, here are The Drunken Odyssey’s current ranking of the Star Wars filmography.

The Drunken Odyssey Star Wars

  1. The Empire Strikes Back
  2. A New Hope
  3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  4. The Force Awakens
  5. The Return of the Jedi
  6. The Rise of Skywalker
  7. Solo: A Star Wars Story
  8. Attack of the Clones
  9. The Phantom Menace
  10. Revenge of the Sith
  11. Troops
  12. The Star Wars Holiday Special
  13. The Star Wars Holiday Special (Again)
  14. Hitting Yourself in the Head with a Hammer
  15. The Last Jedi

Please disagree with me in the comments below, though you’ll be wrong.


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John King (Episode, well, all of them) holds a PhD in English from Purdue University, and an MFA from New York University.

Episode 384: Galaxy’s Edge Review, with Todd James Pierce!

14 Saturday Sep 2019

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Episode 384 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, I talk with creative writer and Disney historian Todd James Pierce about the new developments in role-play storytelling that were and perhaps still are planned for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios park at Walt Disney World.

Episode 384 Art

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According to the end of the line cast member outside Oga’s Cantina, you can’t see all three of Batuu’s suns, but you could certainly feel them, on a day called Heatstroke-in-the-Shade.

Galaxy's Edge Gunner Score

My score as a gunner, on a later visit to Smuggler’s Run.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

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Check out Todd James Pierce’s site and podcast, Disney History Institute.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame Cover


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Episode 293: A Star Wars Roundtable (Happy Life Day!)

23 Saturday Dec 2017

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Episode 8, Porgs, Rian Johnson, Star Wars, The 1978 Christmas Special, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi

Episode 293 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 293

In this week’s episode, Tod Caviness, Julian Chambliss, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, and Jared Silvia join me in a roundtable discussion of the Star Wars Christmas Special of 1978 and maybe got a few other topics in there as well.

Star Wars roundtable


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Episode 258: A Star Wars Roundtable!

04 Thursday May 2017

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Dianne Turgeon Richardson, George Lucas: A Life, Julian Chambliss, Kevin Hutchinson, Rogue One A Star Wars Story, The Force Awakens, Tod Caviness

Episode 258 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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In this week’s episode, Julian Chambliss, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Tod Caviness, and Kevin Hutchinson join me in a roundtable discussion of Star Wars. We talk about the questionable genius of George Lucas, the role of Disney in anticipating the needs and desires of the SW audience, the imposition of romance in war narratives, and the profound role of play in our development of self. A lot of beer was drunk. We made fun of each other.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

George Lucas A Life

Rogue One Blu RayThe Force Awakens Blu Ray

Check out Kevin Hutchinson’s podcast, Nerding Out About.


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Buzzed Books #42: Star Wars: Bloodline

28 Tuesday Jun 2016

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Buzzed Books #42 by Chuck Cannini

Claudia Gray’s Star Wars: Bloodline

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When Death Star II exploded over the skies of Endor and those cannibal teddy bears sang and danced in triumph, Return of the Jedi’s ending brought a sense of finality to the Star Wars saga. The Empire had lost. A rebel alliance seemed unnecessary.

“Unfortunately, that’s not the galaxy we live in,” thought Princess Leia in Claudia Gray’s Star Wars: Bloodline.

No more chases through asteroid fields.

No more being chained to a giant space slug as a sexual slave.

Leia now attends formal ceremonies memorializing her sacrifices and victories that younger generations care little about. She’s a front-line soldier, but in a battle on the Senate floor. Both political parties, Centrists and Populists, refuse to cooperate or compromise with each other’s conflicting ideologies in the New Republic. When a growing cartel threatens a distant planet, Leia would rather risk a blaster bolt to the face from a criminal than endure more pointless bickering between stubborn bureaucrats.

After all, as Leia pointed out, “How long had it been since somebody in the Senate had stood up and actually offered to do something useful?”

Star Wars: Bloodline has action-driven plot featuring underworld kingpins, dangerous politicians, and Imperial loyalists, but the real and far more memorable story Claudia Gray tells is about Princess Leia herself. Every action, every thought, reminds her of the past, and the ghosts who haunt it: a crime boss who resembles Grand Moff Tarkin, a Twi’lek who also toughed Hoth’s frigid snow, and an unlikely ally who recalls traumatic memories of Darth Vader, who is Leia’s greatest secret of all.

As implied on the novel’s cover, Vader’s potential influence looms behind Leia as though the cover is exposing her private thoughts. She’s got some daddy issues. I don’t know why. Darth Vader is everyone’s idealized parent.

In Bloodline, Leia reflects on all these family memories, adding new layers to her character that more literary-minded Star Wars fans will crave. All those hours of running and gunning for the Rebel Alliance in the forests of Endor left little time to process Luke Skywalker’s revelations. Well now Leia’s had twenty-four years to think about her bloodline. Her therapists are narrowed down to her weird monk-like brother who she made out with and Han Solo.

In chapter thirteen, Leia is asked why she chose to not become a Jedi like her brother.

“Surely I’ve known few people who would make a finer Jedi Knight than you.”

Leia inclined her head in gratitude for the compliment, but she could not answer right away, because she could not tell the full truth. The Force was too important a subject to be shared lightly, even with Tai-Lin, her ally and friend. Her safe, sensible, and, as far as it went, honest reply: “My duty has always been here, in the work of creating a new and better government.”

Leia fights for the unthinkable with a plan to unite the two-party system. There’s also this little inconvenience called the First Order threatening this fledgling democracy. Readers can understand why Leia refuses to mention the whole “my daddy is Darth Vader” thing.

The 332 page-long question Bloodline asks is what happens if the entire galaxy–and Leia’s unaware son–learns the truth?

Claudia Gray has written not just a memorable Star Wars novel; she has written a memorable novel.

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 Chuck Cannini

Chuck Cannini loves Star Wars. He loves Star Wars so much that he graduated with salutatorian honors and a B.F.A. in Creative Writing for Entertainment just so he could sound smart while he talked about Star Wars. He would love to talk about Star Wars with you.

 

Episode 204: Star Wars Day Bonus Episode

04 Wednesday May 2016

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Episode 204 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I throw myself into the Star Wars universe from a writer’s perspective.

Darth and John

NOTE: This show was not authorized by Lucasfilm or any other company.

NOTES

Learn more about Marcia Lucas’s influence on 2.5 of the early Star Wars films here.


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The Curator of Schlock #114: Ewoks (The Battle for Endor)

11 Friday Dec 2015

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The Curator of Schlock #114 by Jeff Shuster

Star Wars: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

(Not to be confused with The Battle of Endor)

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Was the world asking for another Ewoks movie? No! But we got one anyway. The movie starts with Cindel (Aubree Miller) and Wicket (Warwick Davis) walking through the grassy meadows of the moon Endor. I’m about one minute into this thing and Wicket is already eroding my last nerve. Part of the problem is Wicket can basically speak English now. Oh, and his lips move in this version. I think they gave him new eyes too and they creep me out because they’re dead like doll’s eyes. Cindel and Wicket having a conversation about how Cindel needs to leave with her family and go to human school. Wicket says all she needs to know how to do is eat gumdrops or something.

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Well, it looks like Cindel won’t be going back to school anytime soon since the Ewok village is being invaded by an army of Orcs with lasers. They murder Cindel’s mother and brother.

What is this? Game of Thrones!

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The Orcs kidnap a sleuth of Ewoks, burn the Ewok village to the ground, steal a magic spaceship battery from Cindel’s dad, and then shoot Cindel’s dad in back as he’s trying to escape. By the way, Cindel’’s dad is played by the same guy who played the principal in The Breakfast Club. Anyway, he tells Cindel that he’ll always be with her. Really? You’re bleeding out, dude.

Cindel gets kidnapped by the Orcs, obviously, and shoved into a cage with some Ewoks. She and Wicket manage to escape. They end up trapped in a cave somewhere.

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Wicket fights a pterodactyl. The pterodactyl flies off with Cindel in its clutches. Wicket flies off after in a hand glider he builds, or discovers?

At this point I wonder if I have the flu.

Soon they befriend a giant rabbit-type critter that can run really fast like those vampires on True Blood. He brings him back to a hut in the middle of the forest. Cindel figures the three of them can live there for the rest of their lives.

You know, I don’t know how we went from Peter Cushing blowing up whole planets with his giant space station to talking teddy bears and jackrabbits! By the way, Jean Marsh plays an evil sorceress who is helping the Orc King try and solve the riddle of the star cruiser battery.

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The Orc King keeps going on about how he wants “More power!” Dude, it’s basically a car battery. Nothing to get excited about there unless he’s trying to juice up his power tools like Tim “The Toolman” Taylor.

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Did I mention that Wilford Brimley is in this? The Quaker Oats guy. He shows up at the hut, which we learn is his house, and he is quite the grumpy Gus. He kicks Wicket and Cindel out and proceeds to berate the jackrabbit, I think.

Cindel and Wicket bake some berry pies. I stopped watching at that point.

I’m sure the film ended with Wicket getting trapped in a wicker cage and set on fire. Cindel probably challenged the Orc King to mortal combat and drive a dagger through his skull. With their king defeated, Cindel becomes their Queen. You keep what you kill.

Five Things I Learned from Star Wars: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

  1. There’s no point in trying to save your parents. George Lucas will just kill them off in the sequel.
  2. Wilford Brimley has no place in a Star Wars movie. (There, I said it.)
  3. Ewoks can overstay their welcome in the nexus of popular culture.
  4. Alien jackrabbits depress me.
  5.  The Chronicles of Riddick is better than Star Wars.

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Jeffrey Shuster (episode 47, episode 102, episode 124, and episode 131) is an MFA candidate at the University of Central Florida.

The Curator of Schlock #113: The Ewok Adventure

04 Friday Dec 2015

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Burl Ives, Caravn of Courage, Ewoks, George Lucas, Olivia Wilde, Star Wars, Tron, Tron Legacy

The Curator of Schlock #113 by Jeff Shuster

Star Wars: The Ewok Adventure: The Caravan of Courage

It’s Willow with Ewoks.

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Hey, I bet you guys didn’t know that I was once a huge Star Wars fan. I bought the toys whenever I could afford them, could hum every note of the score, and had the dialogue from Episode IV: A New Hope memorized word for word. But then something happened…I TURNED SIX YEARS-OLD! Yeah, Return of the Jedi came and went out of the theaters and I moved on to other movies like Disney’s TRON. You know, that series we’re not getting a finale to!

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Why should Disney make TRON 3 when they can just release a new Star Wars movie each year? That’ll will keep the nerds happy. Maybe they’ll get around to TRON 3 when Olivia Wilde turns 80. I’m not bitter or anything.

Of course, people tend to forget that George Lucas put out another Star Wars movie back in 1984, Star Wars: The Ewok Adventure: The Caravan of Courage. This was a made-for-TV affair, but my interest was still piqued.

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Except that whole Ewok part in that they were my least favorite part of Return of the Jedi because they were cuddly teddy bears. Corporations kept pushing cute things on me when I was child: Rainbow Brite, Herself the Elf, Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony, Cabbage Patch Kids, and, of course, Care Bears. I liked monsters! Like the Rancor Monster that Luke Skywalker mercilessly butchered in Return of the Jedi. And then I got subjected to alien teddy bears! I’m not bitter or anything.

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Anyway, Star Wars: The Ewok Adventure: The Caravan of Courage is about a human family that crashes their star cruiser on the planet of Endor. The mom and dad get kidnapped by a giant ogre. Cut to some Ewoks including Wicket, the one Warwick Davis played in Return of the Jedi. At least, I assume this is the same Wicket from Return of the Jedi. The movie doesn’t reference Return of the Jedi at all. I assume this move takes place after Jedi since the Ewoks don’t want burn the little girl they find alive. Her name is Cindel and she’s played by Aubree Miller. She has an older brother named Mace (Eric Walker) who starts shooting at the Ewoks with his blaster. He figures the Ewoks must have kidnapped them, and Ewoks don’t speak any English further complicating the situation.

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At least we in the audience know what’s going on because Burl Ives narrates the whole thing, explaining the intricacies of Ewok society (just like he did for Reindeer society in Rudoplph the Red-nosed Reindeer).  For instance, there’s a special tree that provides a special sap that the Ewoks use to cure all of their ills. Oh, and before going on a quest, the village mystic will bestow gifts on the adventurers that are the totems of ancient Ewok warriors. And wouldn’t you know, the tribe decides to send a band of Ewok warriors to help the kids save their parents and kill the giant troll. They also run into some fairies and fight a giant spider at some point. The whole affair is like a prototype Willow, but without Val Kilmer. I’m not bitter or anything.

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Five Things I Learned from Star Wars: The Ewok Adventure: The Caravan of Courage

  1. Burl Ives commands authority with every syllable he utters.
  2. Ewoks can talk without having to move their mouths.
  3. Sometimes a stupid rock is not a stupid rock, but a valuable tool that’s vital to your quest.
  4. Ewok priestesses wield dark, magical powers.
  5. Sometimes happy endings aren’t so bad.

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Jeffrey Shuster (episode 47, episode 102, episode 124, and episode 131) is an MFA candidate at the University of Central Florida.

Like a Geek God #12: Geek Bulletin (Star Wars Episode VII)

17 Sunday Nov 2013

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Like a Geek God #12 by Mark Pursell

Geek Bulletin: Star Wars Episode VII

Pertinent details regarding the development of Star Wars Episode VII have been thin on the ground. Academy Award-winner and Star Wars scholar and lecturer Michael Arndt was announced as the screenwriter early in the process, as his treatment for a new set of movies in the Star Wars universe was part of Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm and its attendant properties in October 2012. Not long after, Disney announced J.J. Abrams had been selected for directorial responsibilities. And…for a long time, that was kind of it.

J.J. Abrams

Until now. After a year of relative silence on the Episode VII development front, details emerged in late October that Arndt and his script had been set aside in favor of a script by Abrams himself, with an assist from Empire Strikes Back scribe Lawrence Kasdan. This was confirmed in an official announcement on starwars.com on October 24 and again on November 7 (along with an official release date of December 18, 2015, with shooting slated to begin this coming spring at Pinewood Studios in England).

Questions arose immediately. As a lauded screenwriter whose movies (Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3) are very much tapped into our present cultural moment, and also as a nigh-professional Star Wars geek, Michael Arndt seemed a perfect choice to shape a new generation of Star Wars stories. His exit, after a seemingly peaceful year of development work, nonplussed many. What’s telling is how quickly the powers-that-be behind Episode VII attempted to forestall any negative spitballing by the armchair quarterbacks of the blogosphere (such as yours truly). The starwars.com official announcement on October 24 contained a pleasantly vague statement from producer Kathleen Kennedy, in which she praised Arndt for “bringing us to this point.” Then, Abrams, speaking with deadline.com on November 7, said that the change had to do with the “time frame” and getting them “where we need to be and when we needed to be”, implying that bringing in Lawrence Kasdan was going to make this possible.

How also pleasantly vague. (I won’t link you to the unsubstantiated rumors from over the summer about Abrams being unhappy with Arndt’s script. Oh wait, I guess I just did).

Look. We all know that developing a new entry in a high-profile, high-pressure franchise is no picnic. I’ve already written at length on this very blog about the troubled production histories of hot-property franchise installments. This kind of behind-the-scenes drama usually has to do with money. Executives fixate so desperately on the potential dollars to be earned that they attempt to reverse engineer a hit, working backwards from their desired box office revenue, with the result often ranging anywhere from muddled to unwatchable. Which is why Disney’s hiring of someone like Michael Arndt to write Episode VII—a man who is a proven storyteller of grit and substance and who has an emotional investment in the franchise—was a good move, and a positive sign that the people holding the purse strings in this situation had their hearts in the right place, that the intention was, after all, to make a good movie.

Michael Arndt, with hardware.

Michael Arndt, with hardware.

But now, a year after an initial treatment from Ardnt was already in place, a year in which a full script was produced and presented, Abrams and Kasdan are starting from scratch?

Not all is right in Whoville. But I don’t think it’s a money problem. I think it’s a nostalgia problem.

Yes, The Empire Strikes Back fan in all of us got excited when we saw Lawrence Kasdan’s name attached to the screenplay. I mean, he’s half the reason that Empire is as good as it is (along with Irvin Kershner’s direction). He’s also written some other excellent screenplays over the years (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Body Heat, The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist).

Lawrence Kasdan on the set of Dreamcatcher

On the other hand, we haven’t seen much from him during the last twenty years, and what we have (Mumford, Dreamcatcher) has been less than stellar. One might view his suddenly prominent and powerful inclusion in the Episode VII creative team as a move of desperation on Abrams’s part, a potentially-misguided attempt to recreate the franchise’s past glory rather than fashioning a new, forward-thinking vision which recaptures the wonder and thrills of the original trilogy without being mired in the past.

Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Mark Hammill

Abrams’s decision to tap Kasdan as co-writer sniffs of nostalgia rather than an objective decision about the best and most-relevant creative vision for an Information Age Star Wars trilogy. And nostalgia has done nothing but lead Abrams down a rabbit hole of mediocrity for the last decade. Super 8, largely a paean of nostalgia to Abrams’s own childhood and to the ‘70s movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind that informed him, fizzles out rather badly in its third act; his Star Trek reboots, whose indisputable visual panache were arguably the reason he was selected to helm Episode VII, are not particularly memorable or well-crafted.

Who knows how it will come out in the end? We are two full years away from seeing Episode VII in its entirety (if it sticks to its current production schedule). That’s a lot of time. And it’s not like Abrams or Kasdan are completely untalented. One would hope that, given the challenge of crafting a new entry in the most popular film franchise of all time, they would square their shoulders, dig deep, and show the world what they are truly, creatively capable of. But shakeups like this after such a long period of development are rarely a positive sign. I feel a disturbance in the…well, you know.

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Mark Pursell is a lifelong geek and lover of words.  His publishing credits include Nimrod International Journal, The New Orleans Review, and The Florida Review, where he also served as poetry editor.  His work can most recently be seen in the first volume of the 15 Views of Orlando anthology from Burrow Press.  He currently teaches storytelling and narrative design for video games at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.

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