Everyone knows the image: Anakin crawling up the lava bank on Mustafar, burning alive while Obi-Wan walks away. Then we cut to Coruscant, medical droids swarm in, the black armor closes, and Darth Vader takes his first breath through the mask. It’s brutal, but the movie moves fast. We don’t really sit with what actually …
When I was a kid, like a lot of Star Wars fans, I spent way too much time arguing over which Jedi was stronger. Yoda vs everyone, Mace vs Obi-Wan, that kind of thing. Now a canon story has quietly settled one of those debates for me: it shows that Qui-Gon Jinn is actually more …
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 …
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 …
As reported late last month, Disney spent over $700 million on both seasons of Andor. That amount made the show the most expensive Star Wars production yet. While we may think that’s too much money on a television series, the exact opposite is true. It was worth spending that much on Andor to make the …
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 …