****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker brought back Emperor Palpatine from the dead, and here's how they did it: in the opening crawl. It was nothing more elaborate than that, and we didn't really get any further explanation in the film, but the opening crawl [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** In The Rise of Skywalker, director J.J. Abrams decided to give further backstory to Rey's family. This led to the major reveal that Rey is actually a Palpatine, the granddaughter of the feared Emperor. When Rey and Luke Skywalker talk on Ahch-To, it [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker gave us one last chance to see Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa, and it was beautiful. But there was one thing in particular that was a pretty major reveal: Leia actually trained as a Jedi briefly under Luke [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker recently released, and the late Carrie Fisher reprised her role as General Leia Organa one last time, thanks to previously unused footage and the wonders of ILM. J.J. Abrams has previously called Leia "the heart of this story", and in [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker saw the return of Lando Calrissian to the Star Wars saga, and it was awesome to see Billy Dee Williams on screen again as the iconic character. He had an important role too, but it seems like something very [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker is intended to be the end of the nine-chapter Skywalker saga. The film put a ton of effort into attempting to establish this satisfying ending, and it paid off in plenty of ways. In just one example, Rey ends [...]
Star Wars Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker, officially released on Friday, with Thursday previews the day before! I have seen it several times already, and wanted to wait to write this review until after I had gotten multiple viewings in. This post will include only the faintest of spoilers, and nothing that you wouldn't [...]
The Rise of Kylo Ren, a comic mini-series written by Charles Soule and drawn by Will Sliney, is a very highly-anticipated look at Ben Solo's descent to the dark side. The series promises to give us a look at Ben Solo, Luke Skywalker, Snoke, and the Knights of Ren. The first issue of the comic, [...]
With The Rise of Skywalker coming THIS WEEK, I thought it might be helpful to give a brief rundown on what we know of the new characters in the film - similar to what we did in looking at the new planets. So here's your primer of what to know about the newcomers before you [...]
There are a ton of TV spots for The Rise of Skywalker that have been released, and I've been trying to keep up with them all. Thankfully, Star Wars has been officially releasing a lot of them, which makes it easy, but they haven't officially released all of them online. But Zcure1 on Twitter has [...]
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