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 …

We most likely think of Inquisitors as powerful and fierce. After all, we typically think of them as the pursuers of the Jedi, evildoers without a conscience. Yet, being an inquisitor was actually awful because they had to go against their former selves and subsume their identity beneath the Empire.  Being an Inquisitor Was Terrible …

As we have probably recognized, the Jedi Order consisted of a diverse range of members. We may think first of humans like Obi-Wan, but we just as quickly think of Yoda from an unknown species. We also have Jedis from such groups as Twi’leks and Kel Dors. Yet, we have even rarer Jedi species than …

Perhaps we believed that when Anakin turned into Vader, he had reached the peak of his suffering. But that would be a mistaken viewpoint. Palpatine tortured Vader even further and to a point beyond what had originally happened on Mustafar. Through the comics, we get an impression of extreme physical and mental torture.  How Did …

Late last month, news broke about a movie featuring Ben Solo. Adam Driver revealed that Steven Soderbergh and he pitched Lucasfilm on the film, The Hunt for Ben Solo. But Disney decided not to move forward with the project, even though it had a complete script. This seems like a poor decision for several reasons, …

While we may think that Dark Troopers are the strongest Imperial droids, they aren’t. KX-series droids are stronger and sturdier because of how they were designed. They also benefit from filming aspects that make them more imposing.  How KX Droids and Dark Troopers Are Built KX Droids are designed to be stronger than Dark Troopers. …

If you’ve ever played, or at least watched, the scene where Galen Marek, a.k.a. Starkiller, meets Yoda on Dagobah in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, you probably remember how simple it looked. Yoda guides him toward the dark side cave, helping him see a vision that points him toward his destiny. But what most …

This is one of those questions that keeps coming back to me: should Grand Admiral Thrawn have been the main villain of the sequel trilogy instead of Emperor Palpatine? The Rise of Skywalker dragged Palpatine back with almost no setup on screen. Meanwhile, sitting right there in the toolbox, you’ve got Thrawn: the guy who, …

We all know Order 66 — the day the clones turned on their Jedi generals and everything fell apart. But what if I told you there were other orders? Ones that never made it into the movies. Hidden in the same list was Order 37, a command the Republic hoped it would never have to …