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 …
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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 …
All dark side users usually have a lightsaber. We may think of Vader and Maul as prominent examples of Sith who possessed lightsabers. Even Palpatine had one, actually two. Yet, Snoke didn’t have one–why is that? The reasons boil down to his hatred of the Jedi and knowledge of the dark side. Snoke Didn’t Have …
Kenobi-era fans mostly know Wullf Yularen as Anakin’s no-nonsense admiral in The Clone Wars. Original Trilogy fans know him as the white-uniformed ISB officer sitting at the Death Star conference table in A New Hope. Same face, same mustache, but a completely different job. Somewhere between the end of the Clone Wars and the start …
Owen and Beru’s deaths are one of those Star Wars moments we all know by heart: Luke sees the smoke, runs back to the homestead, and finds the only family he’s ever known burned in the sand. The film never shows us how that order was given, or what Vader actually knew about the people …
When the Separatists launched their massive assault on Kamino in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, it looked like a major strategic threat. After all, Kamino was where every clone in the Grand Army of the Republic was born, the very heart of the Republic’s military power. Losing it could’ve crippled the war effort entirely. So …
After rescuing Leia from the Empire, Luke and Han Solo end up trapped in a garbage compactor. The walls are closing in, water’s rising, everyone’s panicking, and Han does the most Han thing possible: he pulls out his blaster and shoots the door. Instead of blowing it open, the bolt slams into the metal and …
When Jango drops a seismic charge in Attack of the Clones, most of us just sit there and enjoy it. Slave I flies low through the asteroid field, a flat disc falls out the back, there’s a brief pause, and then a blue wave snaps out and slices rocks clean in half while Obi-Wan tries …