Happy quite belated Star Wars Day everybody. We recorded this episode on May 4th and it got delayed due to human error (this human), but its out before Kenobi drops next week so I'm happy with that. To celebrate the most Star Wars-y day of the year we delve into the various questions, what happened with The Phantom Menace? what went wrong? how badly has some of this stuff aged? has anything aged well about this movie? and how has the cultural reevaluation and reclamation of the prequel era by both those raised on it and those who have discovered new angles of perspective on it effected our views on this often reviled movie. We also discuss all the pre production gossip, all the hype this movie had and how this movie was overshadowed in some ways by the ACTUAL sci-fi game changer movie of 1999
