Thought Theater

**The Thought Theater** is a YouTuber and intellecutal who was covered on EFAP, then came onto the show as a guest.

## History

### Introduction to the Intellecutal

Thought Theater made a memorable first impression in EFAP 78, where the gang took a look at his video *"***Why I LOVED Rise of Skywalker : A Response to EVERYBODY***"*. While commenting on how his channel banner described the channel as "An Intellectual Approach to Film," Rags ended up noticing that he had spelled it "Intellecutal." The gang found this spelling hilarious, but later realized the true intellecutal nature of the word intellecutal.

you remember when you were allowed to like things? how we talked about movies instead of fighting over them? in the past, debates felt genuine, civil and controlled, unlike today. twitters now is like Call of Duty lobby. almost 100% of the humanity of the discussion is cast out. we get so caught up with what art feels to us that we forget the people involved. its blessing and a curse since we get invested in the emotion in the film and feel for the characters. characters are humans since they are written by human, affected by those peoples lives, art is an extension of a human spirit. no matter how poorly executed, it contains part of their spirit.

he likes The Last Jedi, he also likes The Rise of Skywalker, a lot. watched them four times and found perspective

there is no bad blood between two people means that they are fantastic movie directors and respect humanity behind the canvas of the screen.

his not saying that fans are being "pathetic little twitter weasels" that are turning the discussion into a whine fest

rey had great heroes journey, itt was simple but it worked, her mentor is han solo. her journey mirror new hope as they are inherently cyclical

the last jedi first looks to be reys journey, but its not, as rey already had a mentor. luke is literally a legend, and the movies is his heroes journey, saying its okay that our heroes fail and okay to see our pedestals shatter. heroes are humans just like us. roles are reverse, while we thought it was luke mentoring rey its rey mentoring him

when rey finds out that she is nobody, her perspective of the force changes. luke also becomes nobody in the film.

ending of the film is perfect, since luke is the same as he began, nobody looking at the sunset

it was hard for him to be excited about the rise of skywalker as people in twitter were telling him to hate it. why cant people accept the movies as pieces of art and that art affects us? why do people say that it morally apprehensible to like TROS

he tends to be forgiving movie goer and he shakes his head when he sees 2 hour videos bashing movies

macguffin search was awesome, as there was character building and action. Endgame had macguffins so why is Rise of Skywalker treated like its bad to have them?

the last jedi great because it says its great that you don't have to be from force lineage to have force powers, but jj ruined it. good movies have characters that go trough things that shook them to their core, but rise of skywalker ruined it by destroying the "it doesn't matter where you come from" message

only internal conflict rey can have is her lineage.

visually it looked like rey defeated Palpatine easily, but it wasn't external struggle, it was internal struggle of rey confronting her evil lineage.

Kylo Ren is prodigy of Darth Vader

Palpatine being voice in his head is blow to Kylo Rens mind

rise of skywalker is about kylo forging his own path outside of Palpatine's control, he had to become what Rey believed

he just wants us to love star wars

### The M & T Double-Retrospective

> "I get a flood of comments calling me an Intellecutal, and I was like, 'what the hell is going on?' and then I got semi-pissed off that nobody had told me in a year - because yes, that has been there, MauLer, for something like a year"
>
>

Thought Theater (T for short) came back onto EFAP 81 with Moriarty (M for short), another YouTuber who had been covered previously. Glib and Theo briefly joined for a conversation with M about DOOM Eternal, then the rest of the stream was dedicated to watching one of T's videos "**Why the MANDALORIAN is GENIUS**", and one of M's videos with him. Scrotums were also discussed.

added music to extend the running time, unfortunately the piano music makes the story seem somber when its not

talks about nostalgia, when you remember something as good since you liked it when you were younger. the okay boomer meme.

how do we differentiate healthy and unhealthy nostalgia?

mandalorian felt like the old starwars and the weight of the empires collapse was also felt, seeing what had happened when the dust cleared

stories were small and closed, while executed well.

mandalorian feels like he has had his own adventures and went trough trauma

macguffin being unseen in the first episode was good idea

baby yoda is taking something from past and rebirthing it to the future

he originally thought that mando was supposed to kill baby yoda

the show is flipping the past on its head

he had high hopes for the show, but 4th episode was bad and he stopped.

### The Second Spider War

Thought Theater came onto EFAP 112 to defend *The Amazing Spider-Man 2* alongside MarcusSpixru, with MauLer and Rags on the opposing team and Southpaw coming out a bit more in the middle. T and Marcus fought valiantly on TASM2's behalf, but by the end of the stream they realized the film was undefendable and ended up joining in on making fun of it with MauLer and Rags. Thought Theater stated at the end that he still likes the movie and has a lot of good memories with it, but acknowledges that it doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

## Trivia

* uses piano music
* star wars after sequels was a "fallen empire"

## Quotes

*"its no longer war against evil, its war against blood."*

"skywalker name means nothing if you don't do anything with it"

*"unspoken romance between kylo and reya and them being a force dyad is an exemplary of the power that the sheer will has over your outcome, they are drawn to each other because they stem from the same metaphysical roots"*

*"the kiss makes sense because their unspoken personal journey. Rey dies, so does palpatine. who revives her? Ben skywalker"*

*"rey becomes skywalker by virtue of ben skywalkers sacrifice"*

*"it all makes sense. i want us to grow beyond our preconceived notions"*