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 …

Star Wars fans were surprised when Sabine became a Padawan in the Ahsoka series. The last time we had seen this character was on Rebels as a Mandalorian warrior. Having her start training under Ahsoka led to fans questioning whether this was the right move. Recently, the senior writer and executive producer of Rebels expressed …

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 …

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 …