Top 10 Star Wars Characters

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Geekcast Radio. This is episode 85 and this is

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Okay. In this episode we will be counting down

our top 10 favorite characters both hero and

villain in the galaxy far far away Now this is

I don't know if this is gonna kick off, but this

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folks before we get into the countdown proper

apparently we have list stuff to go over. Oh,

don't be so excited. Yeah, I mean, whenever we're

doing one of these lists, it always makes sense

to kind of go over our criteria first, how we

formed our list, and kind of what's the background

there for the formation of it. So, I mean, some

of the lists that we do in this countdown series

will be more about like the best or what we think

is, you know, the greatest this or the greatest

that. For me, with the characters, I'm going

100 % personal. favorites. So my list is all

about my personal favorite characters. They could

be main characters, they could be good, they

could be bad, they could be minor, they could

be... Now let me ask you this. Are we just doing...

Just the film franchise. Okay. Just the film

franchise. We're not counting the Expanded Universe

and the books and this that and the other because

then there'd just be too many characters to choose

from. And for... Entertainment purposes a lot

of our audience might not be familiar with some

of those More obscure characters or some of the

characters from the books, but most people have

seen the six films So we want to keep it kind

of accessible to everybody But yeah, there's

there's not much criteria in mind Like I said,

it could be somebody that appeared in one scene.

It could be the most major character in the whole

franchise so Not much criteria for this one But

I will say that when we get to some of these

other lists I will be kind of trying to pull

my personal bias out of some of those and actually

picking what I think are the best this or that,

but we'll get to those later. I do want to preface

this with a quick honorable mention, even though

we're not including them. I do have to point

out, if anyone is reading the Darth Vader Marvel

comic series right now, they introduced in that

series two evil versions of C -3PO in R2 -D2.

They are Triple Zero and BT -1. Just imagine

The most just imagine C3po and R2 but evil and

it is just so friggin awesome Anyone that's not

reading the Darth Vader series right now written

by Karen Gillian with art by Salvatore Larocca

You really should be reading it because those

two droids are awesome. Nice Alright number 10,

sir. What do you got? All right, like I said

Part of my criteria means they don't necessarily

need to be the most major character. This is

just, for me, a personal favorite. Now, one thing

George Lucas has done throughout all six films

is he definitely has tried to direct these films

more so towards the kids. Even though some of

it is more mature, some of it might be more aimed

at all different types of audiences, there's

still that overarching feeling that he was trying

to make these films enjoyable for... the children.

And he throws lots of different characters throughout

the six films in for that sole reason, some of

which are epic fails and some of which are more

successful. And that's where I'm kind of going

with my number 10. I remember when I saw these

films for the first time as a child that I really

enjoyed this species of characters and I wanted

to see more of that. Now I can see how maybe

a lot more mature adult that minded people would

say that, oh, these characters are silly, they're

stupid, they're not needed, whatever. But I enjoy

them, and I enjoy the whole scene with them at

Endor, and that is the Ewoks, and I'm specifically

obviously going with Wicket as my number 10 character.

I don't understand why everyone hates the Ewoks.

I'll take the Ewoks over. Jar Jar Binks clan

or a lot of other things that we see throughout

the series. So I mean, I can understand why people

hate the cartoon series droids and Ewoks because

that was a really bad cartoon series. I can understand

that. But I mean, the with the the wickets. Wow.

The miniature walks. Yeah. That whole scene is

just fun, come on, regardless. It is. They're

riding speeders, they're hitting each other.

I mean, when that one Ewok bites it, man, that's

about the closest I come to crying in all of

Star Wars right there. Yeah, I mean the Ewoks

are just awesome and sadly I didn't think to

put them on my list Well, I supplied that for

you. So you got a chance to mention them. I think

they're fun I think it's a good attempt of Lucas

to actually put throw in the more childlike character

So I'll give them kudos for that. I like the

Ewoks in general I like the the movies with the

Ewoks in them after you know, the spin -off type

of films And I like Wicked so number 10 Wicked.

What's your number 10? My number 10, and people

are probably gonna kill me for this, is the Emperor.

That's not bad. I like the Emperor a lot. In

which phase of his life? The only phase that

matters. When he's old and crusty? Well, okay,

since you asked that, I have to admit, and I've

said this, we've done... In all said total for

the film specifically we've done five and a half

hours of coverage on movie we can review so For

me personally when it comes to the Emperor where

he was the most awesome was the fight with mace

window in revenge of the Sith and When he's old

and crusty in return of the Jedi. Yeah He's definitely

the most intimidating characters one of the most

powerful characters that we come across in the

film franchise up to this point so I can see

why you would put him or why people would put

him on the list and The other reason this is

just absolutely silly This isn't the reason why

I put him at number 10 because I do really enjoy

the Emperor But I have obviously more characters

that I enjoy a little bit more than him, but

I have to mention The people over at Rovio Games

did an amazing thing when they started doing

Angry Birds Star Wars 2. Now I know a lot of

people out there don't care for the Angry Birds

games, that's fine. But you have to admit, hearing

the actual Emperor, there's a behind the scenes

video, I'll put it in the post. There's a behind

the scenes video of the actor going into the

Rovio studios and actually recording lines. He's

the only... Angry Birds character as Emperor

Pig that has ever actually spoken any lines because

any of those characters they just make animal

noises and it was just absolutely amazing but

specifically for this countdown episode 3 when

he when Palpatine eventually fully becomes the

Emperor from the lightning strike and the whole

fight with Mace Windu and then later when you

know when he's sitting in the chair looking very

very omnipresent and like you want this don't

you boy You know, you know that that you know

that whole thing right there number ten for me

the Emperor What about number nine for you, sir?

All right nine again. I'm going with somebody.

That's not really seen too much and I kind of

like this character more like when When this

character is initially seen then later on but

I think it's interesting that it took so many

episodes to get a character that could change

forms and I just like the mystery behind the

character. I like the seems like someone that's

a formidable foe. I'm going with Zam Wasel from

the prequel trilogy and the changeling so to

speak with that starts off looking like a girl

goes into some creepy little monster as he's

he or she or it is trying to obviously collect

that bounty. And I just think it's a cool character.

We don't have an abundance of changeling. Characters

in this franchise. So I think it adds an interesting

twist to it. And you know, she had some cool

skills You talk about the one that went after

Padme, right? Yep. Okay. I just want to make

sure that Changes that her face changes into

like a monster and it's kind of freaky Right.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I just think it's a

it's just more of a minor character But I thought

there was enough mystery behind the character

where you were interested to see like more about

that You like well what else has this? individual

been able to do, how did they get the reputation,

kind of in the same line of a lot of the more

bounty hunters that you see throughout the franchise

where you're like, well, let's learn more about

that character. Absolutely. What about you for

number nine? Number nine for me is the pirate

himself, the one that took really good care of

the Millennium Falcon, Lando Calrissian. I can

see a lot of people hating him too. See, here's

the thing about Lando. I wish, I know we'll never

get it now, but I really wish they would have

eventually done some sort of buddy cop animated

series or buddy cop TV special or something with

him and Han, because I love the way the two of

them interact in Empire. you know absolutely

love it and I love the way they turn Lando into

somewhat of a hero because by Jedi he ends up

being you know a general and and everything else

and I just I just really love him and honestly

Every time I see Billy Dee Williams in anything,

I just love the guy. He's just amazing. He was

a good counterplay to Han Solo, that's for sure.

He was. He absolutely was. I mentioned earlier

with my honorable mention there for the Marvel

comic series, Marvel is doing amazing things

with the comics for Star Wars right now. They

have the main ongoing for Star Wars. They have

the ongoing for Darth Vader. They had a five

-issue miniseries for Princess Leia. They had

a five -issue miniseries for Lando. And starting

soon, they're going to have a five issue mini

-series for Chewy as well. But Lando... Well,

Leia, yeah. I read the first two and a half,

three issues. It was okay. It wasn't... I don't

know, whatever. Spoiler alert for my list. She's

not going to show up. Well, okay. For me though,

Lando, you know... It's one of those things where

the character is amazing, but I also have to

talk about Billy Dee Williams because, and this

is, you're gonna just throw me under the bus

for this. I'm ready. A few years ago, I forget

how old the series is, it only lasted one or

two seasons, there was a series, General Hospital

Night Shift. And you watched this. Okay, shut

up, just let me speak here, okay? So, hey, I

grew up watching Soaps with my grandparents,

so just shut the hell up. All right, so I was

never really a big fan of the regular General

Hospital soap opera, but I thought the ass, because

most of the stuff they show on the main soap

opera is during the day and everything else,

so I thought the interesting thing with the Night

Shift series was, that it shows you what happens

at night when all the main characters are essentially

gone. They have a few main characters. They have,

well, one of the janitors comes out, starts whistling

a tune, lo and behold, it's an old Billy Dee

Williams. And I'm like, oh my God, that is so

amazing. Absolutely love it. I think also what

it does is it adds somebody to the series that,

at least for an extended amount of time, adds

an element of not quite knowing. if someone's

gonna be good, if someone's gonna be bad, if

you can trust them, what their motives are, et

cetera, to a greater extent than you ever get

with Han Solo. It's more believable that this

guy could screw you over, could end up being

bad, so obviously everybody knows how it turns

out, but I think in the moment, you're not quite

sure what to think if you're supposed to be rooting

for him, rooting against him, so I like that

element that it adds to that film. Absolutely,

and my favorite part about Lando in Empire is...

When he's mumbling to himself about this isn't

the deal I signed up for and then Vader has that

you know famous line Right, you know pray that

I don't alter this deal any further, you know,

I mean just amazing. Yep, so What is your number

eight, sir? Well, you can't have a list of Star

Wars characters in which you don't include some

type of droid, because obviously droids play

a big part in this franchise. And you've got

to go with one that's been in every single film,

which means everybody knows I'm talking about

one of two. And it should be pretty clear, folks.

R2 -D2 is the one that's on my list, not C -3PO.

Number eight, though? Number eight, R2 -D2. I

like R2 -D2. He shows up in every film. He does

a lot of cool things. He just adds it adds that

elements, you know without ever actually speaking

but with his beeps and bloops and stuff like

that He has some mad skills in the prequel trilogy

That's for sure that you weren't even aware of

but just I think my favorite scene for r2 and

entire franchise and what really earns him a

spot on my list is the scene on Dagobah between

r2d2 and Yoda Like that is just so great. You

get such an insight into R2 -D2's personality

there Even better than I think his interactions

with C -3PO when he's pushing him into things

or doing this that and the other like I just

love how he and Yoda interact with the stick

and with different You know different things

like that. So I love R2 -D2 This is just a sign

of how great this franchise is and how many great

characters are involved that he's all the way

down at number eight But I think there's seven

better characters, but R2 -D2 is my number eight

I'll have to talk about Archie way later. No

problem. What's your number eight, sir? Number

eight? Even though you're not going to put her

on your list, I'm going to put her on mine. Oh,

Lord, please don't. Okay, we have to talk about

Leia. Come on. Just a little kiss. She would

be on my top ten worst characters. Oh, come on.

I hate Leia. She choked Jabba the Hutt. She's

the only person that can... He can't move. He's

a big fat slob. He couldn't put up much of a

fight there. Like most mob bosses, they have

other people do their dirty work. So I don't

know. I mean Leia is just Her feistiness is what

gets me in I take Padme over Leia. Oh my god,

you you have a screw loose folks. She's cute

That wasn't a cracker heroin that's subjective,

but anyway wasn't drugged up during the shoot

Okay, so My point with putting Leia at number

eight is that she's not like we don't ever really

get to see her as a royal princess except for

that one scene at the end where she's giving

out awards which whatever. But like because Alderaan

got blown up we don't ever really ever see her

as the princess part of the character. We see

her as the rebel warrior for the most part. I

take princess Vespa over Leia. Oh my god. Yes,

that I won't argue with on that one. But I'm

just saying that Leia has her moments and she

has some damn good lines. I mean, how many people

can call Han Solo a scruffy looking nerf herder

and get away with it? Not a lot. What's your

number seven? All right going to number seven

man just seems wrong naming these people already,

but Characters out there. I guess it's one of

the ones that I would be interested to read that

miniseries. I got to go with the hairy one Chewbacca

He's just funny. I talked about Lando being the

counter punch to Han Solo I mean, obviously Chewbacca

is the greatest counter play with with Han Solo

to just love the presence love the height You

know, he represents this huge character, another

character like R2 -D2 that's not really talking

in a way that we can tell, even though Han can

understand him. But all the different funny elements

that he has, but also the physicality of him,

I just really liked his character and he's just

a large Ewok. So obviously I like those guys.

Yeah, I mean, Chewie is awesome. I've got, you

know... Chewie is the... Chewie and Han are the

better duo out of Chewie and Han and C -3PO and

R2. Don't get me wrong. I love C -3PO and R2's

exchanges, but the way that Han interprets Chewie

and responds to him is just, you know, the whole

scene in episode four, you know, when he's like,

you know, Here, Chewie, let me put these on you.

Okay, Han, you put those on him. That whole scene.

And he's such a loyal friend. Oh, God, yes. I

mean, the scene when he comes up in Jedi, when

he comes up out of the AT -AT, it's like, just

wow. Not the AT -AT, what's the other? It's AT

-ST. Yeah, whatever the hell. Scott Walker. The

Walker thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely loves

Chewie. Like I said, he'll come up later for

me though. What's your number seven then? Number

seven. I'm going to talk about him as the entire

character. Okay. So I like both versions, but

I wasn't sure if I was going to like both versions

because as we all know, the original trilogy

came before the prequels and I've said this before.

I've always been weirded out when watching Star

Wars because episode four, even as a kid, I'm

like, okay, so where's episodes one through three?

What's going on here? You know what I mean? Just

that thing. And I understand and whatever else

when it's a discussion for another day, but Obi

-Wan Kenobi. I'll bounce off this with you because

it's my number six. Okay. Obi -Wan Kenobi, specifically

in the original trilogy, old Ben, Sir Alex Guinness.

absolutely kicked ass in every line that he gave

in every action that he did up until the fact

that Vader killed him. He would be in my list

too if we were doing if we were doing a list

of the best actors to appear in the franchise.

He would make my top 10 easily. He's probably

one of the best actors to appear in the original

trilogy Just every he every time he's on screen

and opening his mouth. You are like good Fixed

on you're like every word you're just waiting

for because of the way He presents the way he

talks the way he acts You're just glued to the

scene and you're waiting everything that he's

gonna say because it has so much weight behind

it It's like he's not someone that's gonna talk

a lot and when he talks you want to know what's

going on and just that whole scene when he Turns

his lightsaber off basically And let's bait or

take him out is just ridiculous like he is great

in the entire original trilogy. I will say that

I didn't like him as much in episode one. Okay,

well, wait a second here. Okay, just wait one

second. With Sir Alec Guinness, like you said,

you know, he doesn't even need to say that much.

All he needs to say is, these are not the druids

you're looking for. Move along. You know what

I mean? Right. But yeah, I mean, absolutely.

And I'll say this, this is the reason why I said

I'm going to talk about him as an entire character.

Yes. Sir Alec Guinness is amazing and when I

heard the the news or when I saw the news well

saw the news back then because the internet wasn't

that big in 1999 wasn't that huge as it is today

when I saw the news about Ewan McGregor gonna

be playing a young Obi -Wan I was like no that

doesn't seem like good enough casting to me and

for the first film for Phantom Menace I absolutely

like That that movie is Qui -Gon until Qui -Gon

dies like that movie had Obi -Wan's there. That's

all it's all it is I mean obviously Obi -Wan

comes into you know his own in in Attack of the

Bones and Revenge of the Sith and all that stuff

and whatever else but yeah in in Phantom Menace

I didn't really care for him where I really enjoyed

him was when he got that fire in him in episode

3 yeah Well and and to I think you McGregor is

a great actor and you know, I think that's fine

for that role I think just the way that he's

kind of just in the background or the way that

he doesn't quite hold the same type of awe and

Inspiring type performance like we get from mr.

Guinness It's the only reason why he'd falls

all the way to number six. Otherwise, it'd be

even higher, but I agree I do love him in episode

3 I love him almost in the entirety and especially

in the last 30 minutes like that is some of my

favorite Obi -Wan Kenobi in the whole thing as

far as Ewan McGregor's performance So I think

just because of episode one and two he falls

a little bit for me But he's still number six

because he's still a great character throughout

the entire thing. He's still kind of that that

tie that kind of connects everything with, you

know, with Vader, with Luke, with everything

throughout the prequels and the original trilogy.

So he's just a great character overall and I

like the hermit aspect of him and the kind of

the just that. awe -inspiring intelligence that

you know he has from all these different years.

So, yeah, I agree. Number six for me, which means

it's right back to you for another one. All right.

Number six for me is Yogurt. Oh, I'm sorry. Wrong

movie. It is the other pirate himself, Han Solo.

I love Han. He's awesome. Number six. Yeah, number

six. I question things about you. Oh, it's gonna

go a little bit further later. But Han, I love

Han. I know he shot first, but I still want to

think that Greedo shot first. I know Han shot

first. I don't want to start that argument. I

just don't understand why people find that such

a fascinating debate. Really. I like the way

that... He tells his story and the way that he

talks with Luke and everything else in episode

four I like the way that they meet him I like

the way that we find him in the aspect of he

needs to get out of this debt and Them paying

him for safe travel to Alderaan is gonna help

him as well as them When they eventually obviously

get Captured by the Empire that the fact that

you know he can hide them in there smuggling

vessels below the whatever the Millennium Falcon

Yeah, absolutely dig on and really where I kind

of dig on a little bit more is that After he

gets freed from carbonite, I mean Harrison Ford

being able to play a blind man. That's just awesome

Yeah, no comment Number five, sir. All right

for number five. I'm kind of going likewise with

my number six. My number six is Obi -Wan Kenobi

number five I'm going with the other hermit that

had to wait out until there was another opportunity

to strike and that is of course the brilliant

Frank Oz as Yoda It just doesn't get much better

than that from the way he performs and the original

trilogy to his flipping cartwheeling light -sabering

craziness in episode two You can't go against

someone who speaks like he does and someone with

the knowledge that he does the you know basically

one of the best Jedi ever and I don't know how

you could not any top ten list of characters

from the film franchise that doesn't include

Yoda somewhere on there is an epic fail So he

is my number five All right, my number five is

Chewbacca. All right. My number seven is your

number five not too far apart. No, I Like I said

before I love Chewie. I love everything he does.

I love the way he interacts with Han and everybody

else I love his character progression over the

three films and I'm specifically meaning the

original trilogy I know he showed up a couple

of times in the prequels when Yoda went to Kashyyyk,

but Obviously, you know, Chewie's Time to Shine

was in four, five, and six. And just seeing some

of his reactions and it's just, you know, more

power to Peter Mayhew for doing and being able

to act out that role so well. Yeah, and obviously

I'm in agreement since I had him only a couple

spots lower on my list so Chewbacca gets a double

appearance on our list which means I'm up to

my number four and my number four and my number

three if I catch any flack probably that's where

it's gonna be for having these two individuals

this high but gosh darn it they are awesome and

I think everybody will agree with how awesome

my number four is, and then everybody will have

the same complaint that we didn't get to see

more of him, and my number four is actually from

the prequel trilogy, and that would be, yes,

he's this high, folks, it's Darth Maul. He is

the absolute best part of episode one, and where

they messed up with the prequel trilogy was not

having him. throughout at least two if not three

movies because killing him off so quick I get

the point and I get how it was done and I'm not

saying that it's bad as far as Qui -Gon same

type of thing that Obi -Wan later does etc etc

etc but if they could have done something different

to have him last there's a great youtube video

out there about i think it's titled something

about like what episode four should or what episode

one should have been or what episode two and

what episode three should have been and the guy

is a genius with his commentary on that and he

has an excellent optional storyline for darth

maul but the the double -ended lightsaber the

look of him the you know everything about him

was super intimidating super epic and i just

wish we would have got a little bit more about

him obviously i guess and if you want to the

animated rowdy does return in a cemented form

I guess but I don't know I just I just wish they

would have done more but for the the little time

he's on there he almost is enough to save episode

one unfortunately he's not but he's the best

part of that movie so he has to make my list

absolutely all right number four for me oh boy

use the force Luke Let go, Luke. It's Luke Skywalker.

Now, his characterization from episode four to

episode six is a vast improvement because episode

four, you've got him, you know, hey, all right,

I got one. Don't get cocky, kid. More like episode

four, you have him and then you just have to

insert a whiner complaint over and over and over

and over and over again. Yeah, yeah. I don't

want to do that. but Let's face it. There's no

way episode 4 emo Luke Skywalker is more It is

worse than what the entirety of episode 2's love

story was But Luke Skywalker absolutely loved

him in return of the Jedi when he becomes a full

-on Jedi and basically kicks ass and basically

just Talks Jabba down and everything else absolutely

loved that I like him in episode 6, but I know

he's supposed to be the main character of this

whole franchise and that's my favorite franchise

ever, but I've never liked him. I've always liked

everybody else more outside of Leia. I do like

him better than Leia. I do like him in episode

6 and kind of where he ends up, but man, he is

annoying in episode 4. and part of episode five

uh so he's not going to be on my list but uh

but i guess he's the main character of the story

so i suppose he's supposed to be loved i just

i just never have loved him i think mark hamill

is a better voice actor than an actor may the

floss be with you okay what's your number four

my number four was darth maul um for my number

three i'm gonna go almost the identical character

is the same same situation with darth maul everybody

loved him but he went out too soon and that's

Boba Fett my number three the best bounty hunter

there I think this is almost purely based on

the design the character design whoever did the

character design for Boba Fett should be awarded

some type of medal because that is why people

love him is the look is the design is the whole

thing he's got a freaking jetpack that he can

fly around yes it doesn't end up doing them so

serving them so well. But but just that whole

bounty hunter story like that's instantly when

everybody was hearing about like, oh, they're

going to do all these spinoff films that are

going to give you a better look at this person

or that person. That was one of the first names

on everybody's tongue was I want to see that

I want to see a spinoff movie on Boba Fett. I

want to see. What well, you know how he got the

reputation as being one of the best bounty hunters

in the galaxy So, I mean it's it's just a cool

character. He's always been one of my favorite

characters There's always one of my favorite

action figures. So Boba Fett is my number three.

I don't care if people say that's too high I

Never cared for the character in the basis of

the films because I felt the character did nothing

at all and stand there and look menacing He's

good at that though Since I read I'll have to

put this in the show notes episode 66 of the

pullback we did Django and Boba Fett and Boba

Fett is dead when Dark Horse had the had the

comics it basically tells the tale of Django

and Boba as a family and That's where I really

learned to appreciate Boba Fett within the Star

Wars universe But inside the films, I just can't.

He gets eaten by the friggin' Sarlacc people.

Or does he? I mean, he couldn't even... The rogue

prequel films or rogue separate films are probably

gonna be from a different timeline before he

dies, not after. They're not gonna go to the

animated room? They're not gonna bring him back

as, you know, a friggin' walking dead zombie

or some stupid crap like that. Did you see what

he came back in the animated show? No. Which

animated show did he come back in? Clone Wars

Clone Wars. Yeah, I haven't even watched a single

episode of Clone Wars I've got to eventually

but I just I know what's your number three then

smartass I Can't even I can't even do the theme

song for him, but you know Darth Vader people

Darth Vader Absolutely love James Earl Jones

is the voice of Darth Vader. I know everybody

goes on I know you know about your number one

and your number two now No, you don't. Edit.

No, you don't. I can write them down for you.

No, you don't. All right. Continue. You have

no idea. Uh, Darth Vader. I absolutely love James

Earl Jones as the voice. I know everyone talks

and talks and talks about David whatever the

guy that's actually in the suit. I don't care.

Whatever the hell his name is. I don't care.

I don't care if he caused all kinds of controversy

for George Lucas and what I don't even give a

crap about that crap. Let's face it, Darth Vader

was James Earl Jones. I mean... And the suit.

Well, yeah. I mean, you know what I mean, though.

Without that suit, he's not as successful. Well,

true. I mean, you know, you really can't have

the guy, you know, force choke somebody when

he's not in the suit. But just the fact of him

force choking people, the fight with Luke in

Empire... The fact that he turns against his

master in Jedi and finally gets some sort of

resemblance of what he used to be back, just

absolutely love him. And again, I know what we're

supposed to be talking about in the context of

the films, but I do have to reference the comics.

The Darth Vader series that Marvel has going

right now takes place... After the events of

episode four before we get to Empire. So the

story that they're telling in that comic is basically

After he failed like what you know, how is he

gonna make his comeback to reach the events of

Empire? And it's just absolutely amazing All

right my number Man, all the way up to number

two. My number two is an individual that you

had way too low on your list. It should have

been much higher, and that is the best good character

in the entire... Franchise and that is Harrison

Ford himself on solo. It's my damn screen name.

Are you? It came close but it's number two, I

mean Harrison Ford adds so much again one of

the better actors to appear in the franchise

as well his charisma his wit his humor his dialogue

his Ability to put the princess in her damn place

His His maturity that helps you deal with the

whiny little Brett of Luke Skywalker during the

whole series makes it palatable, I guess, but

just everything about him. He's freaking the

pilot of the damn Millennium Falcon. Are you

freaking kidding me right now? How can you not

put him on your list? He's easily the best. He's

on my list. I'm saying, how could someone not

put him on their list? And how could you not

put him higher? But he is by far my favorite.

good character. He's my favorite hero of the

entire franchise. Han Solo too. I'll admit my

number two... I already have it written down

by the way. It's four letters. Are you sure?

Are you sure? Four characters. My number two

at first, he never was going to be this high

because at first I absolutely loathed the character

when we met him in Return of the Jedi. But he

grew on me and once we saw him in the prequels

it was like, oh wow, this old dude can kick some

ass. None other than Yoda. And you said I didn't

know with it. You don't know what my number one's

gonna be. Yeah, it's also four characters. They're

both four characters. I absolutely love Yoda.

He's... He's just so like everybody imitates

him. Yeah, everybody imitates Frank Oz. Everybody

does tries to do it their own Yoda impression

You know and I know a lot of people a lot of

die -hard Star Wars fans like us I wasn't like

this. I thought it was cool as hell I know a

lot of people hated the fact that they put a

lightsaber in his hand and had him jumping around

That's parts of that movie I thought that was

awesome. I mean it got a little bit crazy at

a couple points but it was still awesome. It

was awesome because we hadn't like obviously

Jedi had already been out for years and years

and years and we basically saw him at the end

of his life and that's why I love the prequels

specific to the characters that were in the original

trilogy seeing like my biggest problem with A

New Hope is is how did we get to this point?

I wanna, you know, oh, your father fought in

the Clone Wars. Well, I wanna see the damn Clone

Wars. I don't, you know, I don't, you know what

I mean? So that's one of the reasons why I absolutely

love Revenge of the Sith. You know, the other

two films I can take or leave, especially the

first film I can definitely leave, but for me,

where my Star Wars enjoyment, Starts story wise

is episode 3 to episode 6 and obviously episode

7 whenever it comes out but for Yoda just He

kicks major ass. Yeah, absolutely Can't can't

fault you too much for that. I mean there's number

five for me number two for you It's not too far

off that so drum roll for number one. What do

you got? All right, I said that Hansel was my

favorite good character, which means obviously

my number one is my favorite evil character You

already talked about him. It was not high enough

on your list And that is of course the the tie

that binds the entire thing together and that's

Darth Vader It's easy. It's it's one of my favorite

characters one of my favorite action figures

I had that little carrying case that was his

head Did you see the Did you see you can now

bathe in Darth Vader's tears The reason being

here is obviously this is the thematic resonance

of the entire series of Him starting as an innocent

little kid, but dealing with the fact that he

has more power more Of the ability to harness

the force and you know, etc than anybody else

He's strong enough to out to do take over the

Emperor his Force choking and stuff like that

the intimidation factor how much power he has

at the epic epicenter of episode three and what's

coming afterwards when when he can just go crazy

and just kill everybody um and then obviously

go in full circle to where he is the one that

does kill the emperor that restores the balance

um regardless of how much you want to say luke

is the chosen one it was darth vader it was it

was anakin skywalker who was the one that no

i completely agree with that i'm just saying

that with luke Like his progression to well,

I'm not saying anything against that I'm just

saying like people that are like Oh Luke is the

one that saved everything or saved the universe.

No, it was it was Darth Vader And just everything

his suits his look his design just like Boba

Fett was it was awesome and on point James Earl

Jones as the voice was great and I don't even

care how much people hate on Hayden Christensen,

I think Those last again those last 20 to 30

minutes of Revenge of the Sith just show you

so much about that character and everything that's

going on and I Love Darth Vader. He's the only

one that could possibly beat Han Solo and watching

it watching these any kid under the age of like

anybody from like 7 to 15 That watches Star Wars

for the first time. I'm talking about episode

4 When you see Darth Vader and you see him walking

down the hall with this cape and everything else

and you see what how he treats his Generals and

admirals and whatnot. It's just like instantaneous

Attachment to that franchise and that character

and he's my number one Absolutely the The only

time I didn't like Hayden Christensen is an episode

like The only problem I have is much better than

Jake Lloyd Okay, well no fault to the kid I guess

but What I'm saying is my one like I love Hayden

Christensen as Anakin when he's dealing with

Obi -Wan and all that stuff in in episode 2 It's

just a love story episode and I know people give

him a hard time too because some of the whininess

of his dialogue and whatnot But it's the exact

same thing we get with Luke folks. Yeah, it runs

in the family Anyway, what is your number one?

It's four characters. My number one. Can anybody

guess? And it's my number one. One of the only

reasons why he got number one is because of something

that everyone says he should have never been

able to do. But it was a moment that I thought...

we would never ever see and it was just so damn

awesome. My number one is R2 -D2 simply because

he ended up flying in the prequel trilogy. There's

so many things that R2 does in the overall span

of the films but... I didn't know what to expect.

Like, we knew C -3PO and R2 in the original trilogy.

We knew what happened. We knew all about R2's

interactions, and he's obviously the more sensible

one, the one that's gonna push 3PO into the danger

and instead of running from the danger or anything

else. I didn't know what to expect out of R2

in the prequels. And when we learned that in

the time where, you know, during the war, he

was able to fly... Oh my god, that's just so

awesome. I mean, anyone that says that R2D2 flying

is not awesome has got to screw loose. Yeah,

I will give you this. He is the best character

to appear in all of the films. Alright folks,

that's gonna do it for... Let's real quick go

down the list because I want to hear all of them

in its entirety so people can see your choices

of the 10 most popular characters that appear

in the films. Well, they're not the... There

might there are favorites. I know I'm just saying

list your ten your ten characters the Emperor

Lando Leia Obi -Wan Han Chewie Luke Darth Yoda

and R2. All right, so you'd left c3po off the

list Of course mine was wickets. Zan was so r2d2

Chewbacca Obi -Wan Kenobi Yoda Darth Maul Boba

Fett Han Solo and Darth Vader No, not at all.

Um, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be

back in a moment telling you what's coming up

next in the next episode. You stuck -up, half

-witted, scruffy -looking nerf herder! Pokey

religions and ancient weapons are no match for

a good blaster at your side, Kevin. All right,

folks, we are back, and what I'd like to know,

and I'm sure Kevin would like to know, is how

you guys would make your own personal favorite

top 10 Star Wars character list. So here's what

you can do. When this episode comes out, mark

in the comments. What's your number ten through

number one favorite good or evil character would

be from these six Star Wars films and Maybe when

we get to the next episode episode 86 We will

go over some of them in the beginning of the

show of the next episode of the podcast So anyone

wants to interact and make their own countdown

for favorite Star Wars characters go ahead and

do that mark it in the post Put it in the comments

for this episode and also let us know which one

of us came up with the better list Alright so

coming up next We're gonna be doing an episode

86 of geek cast radio our top 10 favorite scenes

and or moments You want to define that for the

people? It's just, you know, when you're watching

those six films, what are your favorite little

bits? Your favorite moment? Sometimes it may

be a couple moments put together which would

make it more of like a favorite scene. Just favorite

things that happen. Your favorite events or any

individual moment is kind of how it is. So a

little loose definition, but it should provide

for... Variety I would be surprised if we have

as much crossover as we do Did on this one obviously

because there's gonna be a lot of different moments

that may resonate for some people may not for

others Maybe a dramatic moment may be a funny

moment. So that's what we're gonna be kind of

breaking down on that next one Absolutely So

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