With the recent celebration of the 40th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, I thought it would be worthwhile to take a look at the most iconic line from the film. As Darth Vader gains the upper hand in his battle with Luke Skywalker on Cloud City, he reveals the truth about Luke's father: "No, [...]
Admiral Gial Ackbar was a hero of the Rebellion who gained cult status amongst many Star Wars fans for his utterance of the line, “It’s a trap!” in Return of the Jedi. But in-universe, what was Ackbar up to following the Battle of Endor? Let’s take a look at what we know from canon material. [...]
Star Wars Adventures recently returned for a second season, and I'll be exploring more about that in future articles. They're slowly rolling out new episodes on the Star Wars Kids Youtube channel each week, and they're pretty cool. But one in particular stood out to me so far, and it's the one about General Leia [...]
The Rise of Skywalker novelization was recently released, and author Rae Carson did an incredible job at capturing the film in writing, while adding tons of fun details, helpful insights, and exciting answers. It's a great read, and I highly recommend it. I'll be breaking down plenty of stuff from it in the coming days, [...]
The Rise of Skywalker released early on digital home media, and with it came lots of bonus content! Most prominently was a feature-length documentary, The Skywalker Legacy, focusing on the making of the film, with a recognition of the saga that came before it. I am utterly fascinated by the making of Star Wars films [...]
Over the last few months, we've been learning the story of Ben Solo's fall to the dark side in The Rise of Kylo Ren, the excellent four-part comic miniseries written by Charles Soule and illustrated by Will Sliney. The fourth and final issue was recently released, and it shows us Solo finally giving into the [...]
Whenever a new Star Wars film is released, a Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm story group is published. And I rarely say anything is a "must read," but these Visual Dictionaries fit the bill: they are always among my most anticipated Star Wars publications, and they provide a wealth of fun tidbits [...]
The recent issue of the main Star Wars comic line, Star Wars #3, continued to explore the aftermath of The Empire Strikes Back. In this issue of the series, written by Charles Soule, we see Lando Calrissian, Luke Skywalker, and Leia Organa travel back to Cloud City, with three different purposes in mind. Luke is [...]
The Rise of Skywalker paid tribute to Leia Organa in a really cool way, forever immortalizing her as a Force ghost, as she is now one with the Force - along with her brother, Luke Skywalker, and her son, Ben Solo. But we've actually seen Leia use the Force in all but one of her [...]
The Star Wars sequel trilogy concluded recently with The Rise of Skywalker, and I'm hoping that means that Lucasfilm will slowly but surely begin to fill in the gaps of the trilogy by more storytelling. None of this is a criticism of the way they've handled things, because of course there are going to be [...]
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