Darth Plagueis Was Terrified of This Jedi… And It Wasn’t Yoda

The opening of A New Hope drops right into a high-stakes hunt. A massive Imperial Star Destroyer relentlessly pursues the Tantive IV, a small Rebel corvette, over the desert sands of Tatooine.  Active long-range hyperspace tracking was an impossible technology that wouldn’t be invented until decades later, and jumping to lightspeed was supposed to be …

Every Star Wars fan has that one storyline they still think about. Not because it was bad, but because it was left open for so long that it almost became painful. A character disappeared, a promise was never followed up, or a huge emotional moment was set up and then never properly resolved. And out …

When Kylo Ren first appeared in The Force Awakens, he had almost everything people usually connect with a Sith villain. He wore black. He carried a red lightsaber. He used the dark side. He served a mysterious master. And above all, he worshipped Darth Vader so much that he seemed desperate to become the next …

One of the weirdest things about Kylo Ren is that he spends so much time worshipping Darth Vader, when Vader himself would probably hate what Kylo was doing. Vader’s final act was saving his son and turning against Palpatine. Kylo knew the legend, but he seemed obsessed with only one part of it, the mask, …

After Darth Sidious defeated Maul on Mandalore, it looked like Maul’s war against the Sith was over. He had lost Savage Opress, lost control of Mandalore, and ended up as Sidious’s prisoner. But in Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir, Maul does not stay broken for long. Once his Mandalorian forces free him, Maul returns to …

When Rotta the Hutt first appeared in The Clone Wars, he was still just Jabba’s baby son. He was small, sick, and kidnapped during the war, which is why Anakin and Ahsoka had to bring him back to Jabba safely. But now that Rotta is returning in The Mandalorian and Grogu, he is clearly no …

In The Empire Strikes Back, the AT-AT drivers look familiar right away. Their helmets and chest boxes clearly feel related to the Imperial TIE pilots from A New Hope, but one detail is different. Instead of the life-support hoses connecting to the front of the helmet like a TIE pilot, the AT-AT driver’s tubes run …

In The Acolyte, the fight on Khofar is the first time we really see how dangerous Qimir is. A group of Jedi goes into the forest thinking they are hunting Mae’s master. But when he finally reveals himself, the fight turns into something completely different. One by one, trained Jedi are cut down by a …

In A New Hope, the Death Star is supposed to be the Empire’s greatest weapon. But Vader never seems impressed by it. When Admiral Motti brags about its power, Vader tells him that destroying a planet is still insignificant next to the Force. At first, it sounds like a simple Sith belief. But later stories …

D-O is one of the stranger little droids in The Rise of Skywalker. When Rey, Finn, and Poe find him on Ochi’s ship, he does not sound like R2-D2 or BB-8. He does not rely only on beeps, chirps, or full droid binary. Instead, he answers with tiny broken phrases, like “No thank you,” almost …