When you go back and rewatch the Original Trilogy, one thing really stands out. In A New Hope, Imperial officers don’t seem too worried about Darth Vader. Some even roll their eyes at his “sorcerer’s ways.” But by the time we get to The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, the mood is …
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For most of the Empire, Darth Vader was more machine than man. The armor, the breathing, the mask—they were all anyone ever saw. But there was one battle where things went differently. In the middle of fire and rubble, a single stormtrooper came face-to-face with something no one in the ranks was supposed to see. …
In General Grievous (2005) comic, he was tearing through the Outer Rim with his droid armies when he hit a Republic cruiser carrying a whole clan of Jedi Initiates kids still a couple of years away from becoming full Padawans. After cutting down the Jedi Master on board, Grievous found a room packed with young …
I’ve always thought of the Emperor’s Royal Guards as silent statues in red armor. They stood in the shadows, never speaking, never moving unless ordered. But there was a time when two of them stepped forward and followed Darth Vader into danger. Their story began with an explosion inside the Emperor’s throne room (took place …
I came across a thread the other day where people were debating Luke’s exile on Ahch-To. He calls it “the most unfindable place in the galaxy,” but then there’s this whole “map to Luke Skywalker” plot in The Force Awakens. At first glance it feels like a contradiction. So I dug into it more, and …
When Anakin Skywalker gave his life to save Luke on the Death Star, he returned to the light for one final moment. Luke saw his father’s true face and spirit before he passed, but Leia never had that chance. Only shortly before his death did Anakin even realize Leia was his daughter. Afterward, as a …
When people think about the Jedi, they usually picture Coruscant. After all, that’s where the Jedi Temple stood for thousands of years, right in the galaxy’s beating political heart. But here’s the curious part: in all of Star Wars lore, we can only name a few Jedi who were actually born on Coruscant, like Qui-Gon …
As a kid, Tarkin got tossed into the planet’s lethal forests by his uncle with a cold send-off: “Either you kill, or—” and then he was on his own. Those hunts left him with a body mapped by scars and a mind tuned to survive. From then on, he measured worth the same way the …
There’s a moment after Endor that always leaves me wondering. What happens when Luke comes back, not just as the hero who faced the Emperor, but carrying with him the body of Darth Vader? Thanks to an incredible comic by supertaliart, we actually get to see how that could play out. Although it is just …
Katee Sackhoff, who many know as Bo-Katan Kryze in The Mandalorian, recently shared how hard it was for her to step into the role — and how it nearly pushed her out of acting for three years. On her podcast The Sackhoff Show, while talking with her Battlestar Galactica co-star Tahmoh Penikett, she admitted that …