When I first saw Vader rip that transport out of the sky in Obi-Wan Kenobi, it immediately made the ending of Rogue One feel strange. In the show, he walks out onto a landing pad and drags a ship back down with the Force; in the movie, he cuts through a corridor of Rebels, reaches …
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When I first saw that in The Old Republic trailer, it felt like it broke the rules. We’ve seen Jedi block blaster bolts and even absorb Force lightning, but grabbing a lightsaber with your bare hand feels like a different level. And it’s not just her—on Mortis, the Father does almost the same thing with …
We’ve all kind of accepted that Yoda’s species is one of those Star Wars mysteries we’re never meant to solve. Lucas kept it blank on purpose, the Databank just says “Unknown,” and even now with Yaddle and Grogu around, nobody at Lucasfilm is slapping an official species name on them. But inside the Star Wars …
In Andor, money is always something you can hold. Cassian is forever trying to scrape together enough credits, Luthen pays him with a heavy case on the table, and the Aldhani mission is literally about stealing sector payroll packed into crates in an Imperial vault. For a regime that can throw Star Destroyers across the …
The shows keep telling us the same thing: being Mandalorian is a creed. Anyone can be brought in as a foundling. Din Djarin wasn’t born on Mandalore. Sabine Wren’s family were nobles from Clan Wren, not a separate “Mando species.” Over and over, the story says it’s about culture, not blood. But when you actually …
Starkiller is one of those Star Wars characters who never really leaves the conversation. A lot of us first met him in The Force Unleashed as Darth Vader’s secret apprentice—the guy tearing through stormtroopers, dueling Jedi in hiding, and dragging a Star Destroyer out of the sky. For a long time, it felt natural to …
The Clone Wars only last about three years in-universe. Geonosis kicks things off in 22 BBY, and by 19 BBY the Republic is gone, the Empire is born, and the Jedi are almost extinct. On paper, Palpatine could have triggered Order 66 much earlier. The clones already have their inhibitor chips, the contingency orders are …
On one side you’ve got Palpatine flipping through four Jedi Masters in his own office. On the other, The Clone Wars shows him later on Mandalore, casually pulling out two red lightsabers and tearing through Maul and Savage. It’s natural to look back at Revenge of the Sith and think: hang on, why didn’t he …
If you ask most people who Anakin Skywalker “hated,” they’ll probably say Obi-Wan, maybe Mace Windu, maybe even the Jedi Council as a whole. But if we really look at his story and the way he talks about certain people, there’s someone else who clearly sits at the very top of that list. So who …
Tarkin and Vader have one of those quietly interesting dynamics in Star Wars. They speak to each other like peers, not like a mad sorcerer and a terrified bureaucrat. On the Death Star, Tarkin orders Vader to stand down, and Vader actually listens. That only really works if Tarkin understands who he’s dealing with. By …