At the end of The Last Jedi, master met apprentice one last time, as Luke Skywalker appeared to Kylo Ren (a.k.a. Ben Solo) on Crait, stalling to give the Resistance enough time to escape. Luke told his former apprentice, "I'll always be with you. Just like your father." This prompted an outburst of rage from [...]
As Rey finds the Skywalker lightsaber in The Force Awakens, a series of flashback images appears, including a shot of Kylo Ren killing someone and then stepping toward the camera. People wondered what this meant about his possible relationship with Rey, but the movie didn't explain the sequence, nor did later films in the trilogy. [...]
While all the talk this week has, rightly and understandably, been about Adam Driver's Star Wars movie that Disney shot down, there was another part of Driver's interview with the Associated Press that went a bit under the radar. The AP story mentioned this: "Driver had undertaken the trilogy with an arc in mind for [...]
One of the very first things we learned about Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens was that he is the "master of the Knights of Ren", but that title will apparently be challenged in an upcoming story. In Charles Soule's Legacy of Vader comic series, set in-between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, [...]
For a man wanting to let the past die, Kylo Ren sure is obsessed with it. The troubled grandson of Darth Vader was conflicted, having both a reverence for his grandfather as well as a desire to disengage from his past entirely. It's in that turbulent period that Charles Soule's Legacy of Vader comic series [...]
One of the big mysteries of the Star Wars sequel trilogy was the identity of the sinister Supreme Leader Snoke, introduced in The Force Awakens as the shadowy leader behind the First Order. As the trilogy went on we learned more about him, but there are things that still remain unknown - especially about his [...]
When the preview pages for Legacy of Vader were released back in January, there was a panel in particular that created a lot of stir in the Star Wars fandom: images of Darth Vader killing Watto. It created a lot of discussion because, well, everything does with Star Wars fans online. But it turns out [...]
With Star Wars launching into the new Legacy of Vader comic series exploring Kylo Ren's character arc in-between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, we are taking a look at some other notable moments from his life that the films didn't explore. Today, we're looking at when Kylo first met the Knights of [...]
With Star Wars launching into the new Legacy of Vader comic series exploring Kylo Ren's character arc in-between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, we are taking a look at some other notable moments from his life that the films didn't explore. Today, we're looking at a time where Kylo defeated one of [...]
One of the best books to come out of the new Star Wars canon is Bloodline, written by the ever-excellent Claudia Gray. The book focuses on Leia Organa's political career six years prior to The Force Awakens when, with Leia presumed to be the next First Senator (the replacement to the role of Chancellor), the [...]
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