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Interview with The High Republic Authors | Season of the Force 2025 4K
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Mar 30, 2025
Authors Charles Soule, Cavan Scott, & George Mann talk about writing 'Star Wars: The High Republic' at the 2025 Season of the Force media preview in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland. Don't miss Daps Magic's official weekly YouTube show Geeks Corner here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAF91C7183BAB676B Visit Daps Magic: https://dapsmagic.com Join Our Patreon Community: https://patreon.com/dapsmagic Daps Magic was created by a very special group of Disney Fans who had a dream for a place on the internet where people young and old could share their love of Walt Disney and his legacies in a safe and fun atmosphere.
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[Music]
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I am here at the season of the forest
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kickoff event and I would love to hear
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all about the high Republic books we
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have in front of us including the new
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one so could you tell me each who you
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are and uh uh my name is Charles Soul
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I'm one of the high Republic uh authors
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I've written the first novel in the high
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Republic light of the Jedi back in 2021
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which I really enjoyed thank you very
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much I'm glad to hear it I liked it too
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and then I have Charles of the Jedi
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coming in June which is the final novel
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uh which will wrap the whole Saga up
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with working out for years and years so
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and my love hi I'm Kevin Scott um I've
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been working on the hor public since the
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beginning novels audios animated
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episodes and lots of comics mainly the
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Marvel Run which is the final runs
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happening right now for the Jedis very
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near the end I'm George man I joined a
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little bit later than these guys um but
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I've been working through um various
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different phases writing lots of
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different Books and Comics and audio
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books and you have a new book out soon
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right or is it out it's out tears of the
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nameless yeah tears of the nameless tell
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us about it
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it's oh it's quite dark book it's uh
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it's kind of the um The Dark Night of
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the Soul before you know the before the
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end um so it's kind of the couple of the
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Jedi the younger Jedi reath and Amo
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going on a mission to try and figure out
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what's really going on and and how
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they're going to work out how to stop
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the nameless and and the blight and um
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and facing up to kind of the darkness
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that's out there mhm um just to to
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briefly for those at home don't really
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know how the high Republic works the
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high Republic has many many uh books and
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stories and comics and audio dramas
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within it Each of which stand on their
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own you can pick up any one of them and
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read a great story from start to finish
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but together they make up like a
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multi-chapter multi-year story that's
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just enormous uh it's like the Star Wars
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saga itself all the stories you've read
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all these different pieces fit into the
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bigger history and so we five or six
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years ago set out to build a very deeply
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interconnected set of stories that would
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tell one large story while also make
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sure that every book within it was
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incredibly cool and awesome on its own
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so every comic every audio thing every
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novel they're all amazing so T the
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nameless is George's latest one but you
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could pick up any of them and have an
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amazing time well one of the things I
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really appreciated with them too is you
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have different authors doing different
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books yeah and so they each have a
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slight different perspective and voice
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that's coming out of them could you talk
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a little bit about what that's like to
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create a bigger picture story that
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Interlink but also being true to
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yourself as an author which really
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excites and to be honest I mean when we
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started with the original five and then
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it's grown to the The Wider group we've
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all learned from each other as well
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because each PE person came with their
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own background their own style their own
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you know talents and strengths and so
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it's been great and some of the best
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moments have been when we've had to come
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together and had strous conversations
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sometimes about things um but out of out
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of those conversations the most exciting
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ideas have happened um and it's been and
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it's it's a proper team we've become a
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family of writers and writing you're on
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your own so often so to do something
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like this has been spectacular and there
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there's loads of room for creativity
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within framework that we we build
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there's kind of fixed points in the
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storytelling that we know we have to hit
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but we don't necessarily kind of dictate
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to people how they have to get the
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characters to that point so you can kind
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of bring yourself to those books that
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you're writing and and like Charles said
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it's you're aiming to tell a great story
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within the framework of that one book
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people can pick up and read and you're
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getting to a point where you're handling
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off the characters to the next person in
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the AL those characters tell the rest of
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the story so it's it's been a great
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experience a really collaborative
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experience and it's also the added group
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member the fifth Beetle it's the fans
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have been reading it because their
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response is is is shaped as well some of
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the stories we've got a character laor D
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who Charles introduced in the first
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novel in like the Jedi and she's really
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grown on her own and I've had the
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pleasure of writing her the last couple
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of years and the response from the the
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fans has been amazing and so when you
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start seeing that you know how fans are
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responding to a character it does
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inspire you as well it get you know gets
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you excited and think well what else can
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we do so as George says we've had we've
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given ourselves the freedom to let it
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grow beyond our original plans as well
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so when you come up with a new character
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is that the individual author is it
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someone from lucas films that says hey
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we'd like this is it kind of a
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all that's cool yeah I mean there's
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there's we will we will hear from Lucas
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film talking about ways that we might
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connect the high Republic with elements
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of larger storytelling for example those
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High Republic books that intersect with
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that too where we are standing right now
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um in in Galaxy's Edge but it's it's
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always about thinking about the way that
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the story We Tell is part of the larger
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gigantic Star Wars story um but also
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again everything is very like the
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emotional beats have to stand and work
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on their own the characters have to live
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and breathe on their own um and it's
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been really spectacular because you know
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we we've gotten to steer essentially a
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Star Wars Trilogy I mean kind more but
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like like a huge Star Wars saga within
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the publishing world and and things like
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the Acolyte and video games and young ji
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Adventures um that we just kind of made
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up one day it's really it's really a
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spectacular feeling because we've all
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loved Star Wars since we really L I'm
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sure most of the people watching this
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have too and to be able to contribute it
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to it so meaningfully is as
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Aston that is very cool uh getting
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started was that overwhelming exciting
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exhilarating yes terrifying everything
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you can imagine yeah I mean it was the
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original five of us were sitting in
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Skywalker Ranch going how have we got
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into Skywalker Ranch it was like you
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know it was incredible they must have
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made a mistake yeah exactly but that
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just that environment mean that place is
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is created to create and so that was
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yeah that was the beginning of all but
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again then when new people came in it
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just all got bigger everything got
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bigger everything got more excited so
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it's been been phenomenal and there was
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still a part of me going well I'm just a
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little 10-year-old kid from from the UK
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what am I doing here um but that feeds
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into it because you know these
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characters matter to us and they matter
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to other people and it it goes you know
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that actually is a point I would make
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which is that the way the thing that
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feels different now versus the beginning
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is that the beginning we were you know
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working in a vacum right we're creating
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this thing that we were very proud of
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but we didn't know how if was going to
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work how was going whatever but now with
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these last stories which we're in as we
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speak to you we're in the last wave of
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stories coming out like between now and
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June the last things will happen and
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we're writing this and putting these
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things out in a world where a high
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Republic is extremely well known and
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well loved and characters like people
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have expectations for how those
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characters are going to be or treated
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and we we have all of that in our heads
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because we're paying attention but we
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also know that we need to do the things
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with and to and for those characters
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that are write the best for the story so
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I so the the nerves that I feel with
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draws to the Jedi coming out in June
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they're very different than the nerves I
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felt with play to the Jedi because now
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people already know what we're doing and
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like they want the endings they want uh
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but I think we did a great job I think
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everybody really did and I think it's
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going to land really well and it's only
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the beginning a lot of ways that's
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that's awesome okay final question first
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Star Wars memory for each of you um mine
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was reading the Marvel Comics and a
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green rabbit turning up and my life was
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never never the same again love it mine
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was being in the cinema with my
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grandfather at the age of four watching
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Empire Strikes Back and seeing rdt going
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scen and like that was it yeah mine was
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also Empire Strikes Back in the theater
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the the moment when you first see the
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the adats kind of through the macro
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binoculars kind of looming in out of the
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snow you're like uh-oh this is going to
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be trouble and it was trouble it sure
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was love it to this yes is thank
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goodness thank you guys thank you thank
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you
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