Podracing
Star Wars loves its rhyming poetry, so there’s something wonderful about Anakin and Luke sharing a past time in incredibly reckless vehicle joyrides. Luke might have been scoring bullseyes on womp rats in Beggar’s Canyon, but his dad was… participating in high-velocity death races on the regular? Oh, hell yes.
The remarkable poetry of it all aside, the Boonta Eve Classic is up there as one of the all-time Star Wars moments. The bounty of alien racers, the incredible designs of these spindly, rickety death traps zooming around at a million miles an hour, it’s still so fun and energetic to watch all these years later. And the sound of it all! Speaking of…
