We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar

Join two queer 30-somethings as they read (and occasionally watch) the Star Wars Legends oeuvre in publication order! They discuss the merits of the old extended universe and enjoy (or don't enjoy!) the writing of these pulpy sci-fi novels. And, eventually, they will talk about Dash Rendar. https://anchor.fm/s/103c173a8/podcast/rss https://linktr.ee/sophiagoodnight

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We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar is a bi-weekly podcast where two queer 30-somethings read every pre-Disney Star Wars Extended Universe (or "Legends") novel in publication order! Find us anywhere below!

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here's a sheet with our entire projected episode list!

This isn't all guaranteed; some things may be cut, and there are at least 2 things we're considering adding. And obviously if we run out of buffer the schedule will get hinky!

Highlighted in Green means we've released the episode, highlighted in Yellow means we've recorded it :)

We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar Episode List

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You Were Brief And Rather Incoherent (Dark Force Rising)

Well gang, this may be the last episode of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar you ever listen to. Not because we're ending, we're not gonna stop for at least 11 years. No, it's because Vhrischtka and Jakhe Ph’eyke kind of hated Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn. We'll respect you if you don't want to follow us any longer. But the characters are uncompelling and don't believe in anything, the story is grounded in racism and sexism, and Timothy Zahn is no Steven Erikson. 

Topics of discussion include WOE.BEGONE, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Radiata Stories, taxation on exotic biomolecules, Joruus Peterson, Kerobos Lord Satan, Skyewalkers: A Clone Wars Story, Dengar (again), hardcore crinbid fanatics, cool birds, novels about the military draft.

Editors note in case it's unclear: The reason that the treatment of aliens by a text can be racist is because aliens are a racialized Other and it reflects the author and society's consideration of racialized Others, not because it's specifically racist against, say, the Noghri.

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Arcing Like A Gray Rainbow (Heir To The Empire)

Season Two of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar is here, as Ecumenical Datte and Liturgical Moruss begin our campaign to make enemies of the entire Star Wars fandom by not liking Heir To The Empire by Timothy Zahn very much! Reading an actual novel was truly a balm after the absolute slog that was the Ewoks, but, well, unfortunately it's racist and the character writing is mostly flat. We do absolutely love Mara Jade though! Where'd this noir femme fatale come from anyway?! Return in two weeks to be even further alienated by our thoughts on the second entry in the trilogy, Dark Force Rising.

[penny-anna]

anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

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Let me demonstrate my answer for you:

That's it. That's my answer. Endor.

Please just take a look at Han's face right after witnessing 3po float. The man just had his entire worldview blown to smithereens.

[whetstonefires]

that's so funny. that means he accepted Vader deflecting a blaster bolt with his hand as just something freaky government cyborgs can do, and stuck by Luke for multiple years as he tried to figure this Force stuff out, and just treated it like your friend getting really really into neopaganism to cope with a loss.

like yeah kid good job with the witching. i'm certain it will be more useful against your enemies than your sharpshooting. no i do not think your witchcraft is supplementing your aim but i'm not gonna argue about it.

[penny-anna]

yeah Luke was like 'I heard Ben Kenobi's voice in my head telling me how to blow up the Death Star :)' and Han was like 'kind of an unusual coping mechanism but I'm not gonna argue with him'

[davetheshady]

thanks to carbonite han not only misses learning about luke's training montage on dagobah, he's also half-blind during their whole escape on tatooine. luke's out there force-kicking henchmen with his gucci boots and doing flips and shit and han can't see a goddamn thing. now on endor luke's yeeting threepio with the power of his mind and han's just like 'the last time we hung out i had to stuff him in a tauntaun sleeping bag'.

[bogwitch-extraordinaire]

@softness-and-shattering I hate you I hate you I hate you

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We Will Speak No More Of This Now (Ewoks Comic)

Sweet release has come for us. Season One of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar is over, and we're done with the Ewoks era of Star Wars – or at least, we will be after this episode. Hosts Nerdley and Fungo discuss the Ewoks Comics, including the three short stories published in the UK exclusive Ewoks Annual. Well, technically. We spend more time discussing the overall problem with the Ewoks era than we spend discussing the specific problems with this comic. Which are plentiful, by the way. To sum it up, we're angry about children's media being so disrespectful of children. You need to write to the top of the audience's intelligence!

Topics of the day include: Complementarianism, Georgism, Franchisification, Dooni the Baby Foonar, Animism, Bifrost, Amphibia, Half-Life Full-Life Consequences, Ace of the Royal Flush Gang, The Lack Of Clowns

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omg if i was an oracle i would be LYYYYYINGGGG

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it's everyone's favorite cartoon rabbit, Jax!

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Will Our Trials Never End (Droids (1986))

Welcome back to the penultimate episode of the Ewoks era of We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar! Afit & Tifa are here for the Droids comic (1986) and it's. well. Better than the tv show. There's some mild fun to be had here. The low point is a retelling of A New Hope starring the droids that completely sidesteps the obvious premise of Artoo and Threepio Are Dead to instead feature moles. Then, Afit & Tifa completely sidestep talking about it to discuss how cute Dodogama is. We have to get our yaoi somewhere! That's. Not related to Dodogama. sorry.

In two weeks we'll be finishing out the Ewoks era with the Ewoks comic books! In the meantime, find us at the link above or anywhere podcasts are found! Our RSS feed is also in our pinned post!

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Did the English do something wrong

They ship reylo and are very annoying about it

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Dark Force Rising contains the ultimate Star Wars sentence

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1st Anniversary Mini-Ep

Can you believe we've been doing We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar for a full year? Well, sort of. 26 episodes. That's 52 weeks. The real anniversary is in another week. Look I counted it the way I wanted to! Join your hosts for a brief conversation on how the project is going, a recap of our rankings so far, and a little bit on the future of the podcast!

Here's to the next ten and a half years.

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Eat Worms And Die, Stranger (Ewoks Season 2)

Oh god. no. Join Lezchee Lordyke and Wheytlae for. Christ. We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar's discussion of Ewoks Season 2. This one was rough, gang. A show that really typifies the problems with Saturday morning cartoons. What a struggle. I can't wait to stop thinking about this. Wheytlae alleges someone is a psychopomp, as is their wont. We disavow the Pugs. Why was this show so racist. Nothing mattered. There was a robot which was almost nice?

Find the episode at the link above or in your favorite podcasting app; we also have an RSS feed!

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Time for a new We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar!

Join Spoom and Ladel again for the back half of Omnibus A Long Time Ago… Volume 5 as we close out the Star Wars Marvel Comics with issues 97-107! After a brief stopoff to discuss Droids… again… and roast James Hurley, we get to how much we enjoyed these issues! We've got some problems of course, but we do love Marvel Horseshit. Do you think Mary Jo Duffy likes Go Nagai?

Find it at the link above, or anywhere you get podcasts! Our RSS feed is also in our pinned post!3

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Star Wars has three types of guy: Fump Geezgo from the Womflee system, Stabba Badguyman, and Chris

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Happy May the 4th to this, somehow my most popular original post of all time! In celebration here's some more examples of the Guy Types:

Wam Lufba the Yuzzum, Morally Evil, and Wade

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Isn't That Just A Little Bit Grandiose? (Omnibus A Long Time Ago... Vol 5 Pt 1)

May The Fourth Be With You! In the latest We Have To Talk About Dash Rendar, join Spoom and Ladel as we discuss the first half of Omnibus A Long Time Ago… Volume 5, Issues 86 - 96 of the original Marvel Star Wars run. This was mostly fun! The parts that weren't really pissed us off though. There's even an echo of Splinter of the Mind's Eye Leia… But also a full refusal of her? Truly the Marvel comics are a land of contrasts. 

You can find us at the link above, or on any podcast app! We also have an RSS feed if you're cool like that.

[mallowmaenad]

every original trilogy star wars alien is some guy whose clearly wearing a halloween mask and a burlap sack over a turtleneck or something named Sneedle "The Buster" Minns and are from the plant Malabron

every prequel trilogy star wars alien is a cgi grasshopper in a rice hat named Badzzo Che'et'li and are from the planet Larando

every sequel trilogy star wars alien is a brown and grey space pirate whose mouth is either too close or too far away from their other facial features and has a gross mustache and they wear full plate armor and their name is Vargundi Kreshk and are from the planet Carchit Baan

[indigosfindings]

the kessel run has always had something very strange going on. a racecar driver character who is established as a liar & is currently actively trying to impress someone because he desperately needs money says "you havent heard of me? i finished the bloobus 5000 in under 3 hectares" & this is somehow parsed as (i) the bloobus 5000 is a real thing, (ii) it actually is measured in hectares, & (iii) this driver actually finished it in under 3 hectares