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136 - Anakin Didn't Need a Lightsaber, He Needed Therapy

No Dumb Questions

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The Power in Groups in Prequels

"There's such an interesting narrative about this, this tension between empire and republicanism," he says. "What i find most fascinating and almost not baffling, but because i'm like, i just watch the s, it's on my head." The prequels are being told from the narrative of an eventual emperor, writes David Bianculli. But there's a kind of fairness to that voice as well, which is why they're so good at making people feel bad for what they think they believe in - even if you don't agree with it.

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