Bill, Ted and Ahsoka’s Excellent Adventure on Assembly of Geeks

This week’s Assembly of Geeks episode “Bill, Ted and Ahsoka’s Excellent Adventure” is posted. From the shownotes:

Clone Wars is on Netflix?  EXCELLENT! *Air guitar riff* As Star Wars fans indulge in The Lost Missions, the Assembly gathers to celebrate…until Merchman makes a shocking Clone Wars revelation.  The only thing that could distract everyone from that is a time traveling phone booth!  Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure turns 25 and as a result, a lot of geeks feel old.  However, that doesn’t stop us from revisiting four other geek films that are also celebrating the anniversary.

With Clone Wars on everyone’s mind, we look back on what a most triumphant character Ahsoka Tano has been for Star Wars and how the series impacted the Star Wars universe as a whole.  We’ll also discuss reactions to the latest Gotham casting and the new Transformers 4 trailer. Finally, as opposed to discussing the Oscars we hand out our own Geek Oscar awards to Best Geek Character, Best Geek Sequel, Biggest Geek Disappointment & Best Geek Movie. Join the adventure and remember…Joan of Arc is still not Noah’s wife.

It is always fun to talk about The Clone Wars with friends, and the release of the Lost Missions on Netflix provided a great opportunity. We reminisced about movies like Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, one of my favorites. The Geek Awards were a challenge to consider and finally choose just one winner per category. Some of my winners were Catching Fire and Thor: The Dark World, with a lot of appreciation to other movies like Gravity, Pacific Rim and Iron Man 3.

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Tricia Barr took her understanding of brand management and marketing, mixed it with a love of genre storytelling, and added a dash of social media flare to create FANgirl Blog, where she discusses Star Wars, fandom, and the intersection of women within Star Wars fandom. She is co-author of Ultimate Star Wars and Star Wars Visual Encyclopedia from DK Publishing, a featured writer for Star Wars Insider magazine with numerous articles on the Hero's Journey. Her FANgirl opinions can be heard on the podcasts Hyperspace Theories and Fangirls Going Rogue. Tricia Barr's novel, Wynde, won the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Ebook. She was also part of Silence in the Library's successful all-female creator science fiction and fantasy anthology Athena's Daughters, which is available now. For excerpts and tales of her adventures in creating a fictional universe, hop over to TriciaBarr.com.