Star Wars has been celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of The Phantom Menace this year, and as part of that commemoration StarWars.com recently published an interview with Ian McCaig, a concept artist who helped bring the movie to life. It's a great read, but McCaig also revealed a pretty massive plot twist that [...]
Tales of the Jedi was released today, giving us a series of six animated shorts centered around two Jedi who leave the Order: Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku. This will be part one of two in my review of Tales of the Jedi, as this will focus on the three episodes about Dooku. To read [...]
When Qui-Gon Jinn finally showed up in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, it wasn't a surprise - but it was glorious. Jinn appeared in the show's final scene as a Force ghost, completing a season-long arc of Obi-Wan trying (and failing) to communicate with his long-dead master. Jinn discovered a way to return from the netherworld [...]
A brand new Star Wars animated shows is coming, called Tales of the Jedi, and entering this year's Celebration we knew almost nothing about it. That changed on Saturday when Dave Filoni pulled back the curtain on the series, giving us a good idea of what to expect. Here's what we learned: The show is [...]
Expectations for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, which premieres in a month, are incredibly high. It features the long-awaited return of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, and fans are hopeful that it might also mark the return of Liam Neeson as well. Neeson portrayed Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace, playing Obi-Wan's master, and it was [...]
StarWars.com today announced some news that has me REALLY excited, as a series of book announcements were made for what is coming in 2022, including a book about Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian as well as another one about Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. In all, four books were announced. Brotherhood, a story about Obi-Wan [...]
In a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Liam Neeson said that he hasn't been approached for the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series that is currently filming and said he won't be in it. "I heard Ewan McGregor was going to do a series," Neeson said when asked if he would be in it. "No, I [...]
On Tuesday, Kristin Baver's biography of the Skywalkers and the Star Wars saga, Skywalker: A Family at War, was released. I'm only a few chapters into it, but so far it's great - and others who are further along have pointed out something very interesting. At one point, Baver writes this about Obi-Wan Kenobi communing [...]
Rose Tico once said that we're going to win not by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love. That wisdom is pertinent for Star Wars fans; amidst seemingly incessant criticism, I want to spend time actually liking Star Wars. I love all Star Wars, so in this series, I'll walk through each [...]
Dave Filoni understands Star Wars on an incredibly deep level, having learned personally from George Lucas and since going on to do some amazing storytelling. He branched out of animation to work on the live-action series The Mandalorian, on which he is an executive producer, director, and writer, and he has worked very closely with [...]
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