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Where Star Wars The Last Jedi Pays Homage to The Matrix


Let me take you back to the summer of 1999. On my walks to school on garbage day I would rummage through the recycling of my neighbors in hopes of finding and collecting every Phantom Menace Pepsi can to decode the secret message. Here's the secret message, so.tou don't look like a bum: "Anakin breaks free, but may face new enslavement.

One menace is destroyed, but another lurks nearby. The Jedi triumph but their future is clouded." Some characters were only on certain Pepsi products, like Jar Jar and Darth Maul on Mountain Dew and there was also a gold Yoda can. I was looking for the four Diet Pepsi and four Pepsi One characters like Boss Nass and C3P0. Fast forward to May 19th when Episode I is finally released, and I figure out the secret messag